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Julian Agyeman

@julianagyeman.bsky.social

Critical urban planning professor @ Tufts UEP. From Yorkshire UK, living in Cambridge MA, USA. Originator of the concept of #justsustainabilities. Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment. Website: julianagyeman.com

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ethnographic research in eThekwini Municipality reveals the complexities and nuances of waste player relationship dynamics. We identify alternative realities 'humane encounters', between waste pickers, residents, the city, and the waste pickers themselves. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ubuntu on the street(s): relationships and relationship(ing) dynamics among waste players in Glenwood, Durban, South Africa

The South African waste management ecosystem is characterised by competition and rivalry between the formal and informal sectors. Although this dynamic has been widely documented, it is too often p...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Drawing on reflective practice, documentary review and the authors’ long-term involvement, the article considers how social and community farming can improve relationships between differing religious, political and ethnic communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Common ground: peacebuilding through social and community farming in Northern Ireland

This practice review considers social and community farming as similar approaches to connecting society with farming and farming with society in Northern Ireland. It outlines how both processes cre...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · last wk.

Together the reality is that the climate crisis and the housing crisis are both converging in American homes – and together they are exacerbating unaffordability. Housing affordability and climate action reinforce one another when designed together. #justsustainabilities nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Housing Stability Is Good Climate Policy

Op-ed: The climate and housing movements often frame their goals as being in competition. But housing affordability and climate action reinforce one another when designed together.

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Mercator projection is rooted in western stereotypes. “You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare,” says a petition on Change.org for the #CorrectTheMap campaign www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Adopting a governance network perspective, this paper examines the structural features, actor configurations, and quality of multi-actor interactions that influence the collaborative performance of urban food strategies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sustaining collaboration in urban food strategies: a governance network analysis

Urban food strategies are considered instrumental for mobilising public, private, and civil society actors in collectively building more just and sustainable urban food systems. However, the govern...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Mis-belonging”, procedural exclusion within the climate-resilient city.acts as a driver of maladaptation. By relying on technocratic planning, overlooking the housing/economic precarities these groups face adaptation policies risk reproducing their vulnerability www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Intersectional perceptions of climate justice: young women and gender-diverse perspectives and experiences of procedural justice in Aotearoa New Zealand

Extreme weather events in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand) have exposed the urgent need for inclusive climate adaptation. However, the specific experiences of young women and gender-...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4w ago

“I’m struck by a significant fact: the very reason I can be known as the Black Farmer is because I am such a rarity that it makes me readily identifiable.” 99.7% of British farmers who responded to a government survey self-described as white. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why am I called The Black Farmer? Because there are so few of us in Britain. I’d like that to change | Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

Running a farm is tough – TV’s Clarkson’s Farm shows that – but I know many minorities would love the chance. And we would all benefit, says farmer and businessman Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcoming immigrants is city-building. Every city has a corridors of vacant storefronts that officials want to revitalize. The answer will come from a family looking for an entry point into the market and a place where their children can grow up with opportunity www.planetizen.com/features/138...

Can immigrant entrepreneurs save Main Street?

As millions of small businesses face ownership transitions, cities trying to revive commercial corridors may be overlooking one of their best sources of new investment: immigrant entrepreneurs.

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · last mo.

Clean Air Clubs and Mask Blocs – a mutual aid practice for sharing masks – are offering free masks and air purifiers from their “lending libraries” to help their local communities stay safe from wildfire smoke and monitor air quality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke

Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · last mo.

In 2005, about 7.5% of the UK’s front gardens were paved; by 2025 that had risen to 55%, according to Royal Horticultural Society estimates. Those hard surfaces absorb heat during the day and then slowly release the heat overnight. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/au...

Weatherwatch: Paving over front gardens is leading to hotter nights

Changing paved areas to grass and planting trees can reduce urban heat island effect by as much as 1C, study shows

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · last mo.

A global cycling success story, Bogotá's 10m people record nearly 900,000 bike trips each day – the highest in Latin America. Yet women accounted for only 28% of Bogotá’s daily bicycle trips in 2023. “Our goal is to move from a 30–70 split to 50/50 parity.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers

With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There is a lack of a transparent articulation of intergenerational environmental justice (IEJ) in domestic environmental policy underscoring the need for more systematic attention to be given to how IEJ is integrated into domestic environmental policy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Intergenerational environmental justice in Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental policy

Decisions made today will profoundly impact the lives of present young people and future generations, including with irreversible biodiversity loss and climate change. It raises questions of how in...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I lived in Brixton and can see the changes over time. “We want to make this people over profit. This is much more than a commercial space for us. Brixton has a huge cultural legacy, but it also has a resistance history. And people are coming out for that.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dropping on August 6, Damian White and Nicholas Pevsner's book 'Designing the Just Transition: Design: Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures' is the latest book in my Bloomsbury 'Just Sustainabilities' series www.bloomsbury.com/us/designing...

Designing the Just Transition

Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist backlash on…

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Climate inequality in France is growing, with low-income, suburban housing estates suffering the worst from heatwaves. About 66% of French people struggle to tolerate the heat in their homes. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘It’s like a furnace’: French struggle with heat-trap homes as climate inequality grows

Many of France’s buildings are not designed for hot weather – and low-income housing estates are suffering the worst

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The increase in size, which makes people more likely to be killed in a crash and increases emissions that hurt lungs and heat the planet has progressed at a roughly steady rate for 2.5 decades even as family sizes have fallen, Transport & Environment (T&E) found www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds

Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000

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In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 3mo ago

Juneteenth marks freedom. But freedom was never accompanied by land, reparations or the wealth stolen through slavery and its aftermath. In this 2020 piece, @julianagyeman.bsky.social and Kofi Boone make the case for a Black commons as one path toward.

Black People Own Less of the U.S. than 100 Years Ago. A ‘Black Commons’ Could Help Reverse the Trend

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"It’s often small-scale farmers, farmers of color, Black farmers that make sure that these foods that are culturally significant to us are available, that we grow them, that we share them....make sure that these food histories are maintained and celebrated." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto

Okra holds a special place in many African-descended communities, and a Canadian farmer with Jamaican roots is growing a very old variety

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Riders have taken close to 23,000 fare-free trips each weekday on the 3 routes. The cost saving for riders for fare-free services: 26% reported saving at least $20 per month, with savings often going toward groceries, emergency funds, and other household expenses. bostonnewsroom.com/2026/06/11/m...

MBTA Extends Fee-Free Bus Routes Through End of Year

Passengers on MBTA bus routes 23, 28, and 29 will continue to ride free through the end of this year as an extension of Boston’s fare-free bus service. The routes...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Three key benefits of CE are inked by the concept of trust: CE organisations often serve as “trusted intermediaries”; CE organisations are well placed to engage with marginalised communities and CE organisations can link locals to those in positions of authority. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From the “just transition” to the “trust transition”: rethinking justice in community energy projects

While there has been much interest in community energy (CE) within policy and academia, political interest and support have fluctuated in most European countries, depending on the political orienta...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

While maturing/interconnected, there is a need for further research to ensure that bioeconomy and circular economy transitions do not reproduce structural gender inequalities and instead foster more inclusive and sustainable development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring the nexus of bioeconomy, circular economy, and gender: A systematic literature review

Bioeconomy and circular economy are gaining more prominence as sustainable production paradigms, but their relationship with the gender dimension has traditionally been underexplored. This article ...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interesting. This, to my US friends, is a beautiful area that many US celebrities like Ellen de Generes, Tom Cruise, Beyoncé and Jay-Z are either living in, or are looking. The free market won’t provide a solution to food inequality. Could they help? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘Absolutely beautiful’ but no shops for miles: the Cotswolds’ rural food deserts

Deep-rooted problems of food inequality are hidden behind area’s affluence and beauty

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Future research should moved beyond scalar framings alone. A decolonial lens can offer critical insights into how green agendas in the Global North reproduce global inequalities and help reframe socio-environmental justice within a planetary perspective. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The green city under scrutiny: a scalar and decolonial scoping review on the green city critique

This paper reviews a decade of critical scholarship on the development of the “Green City” in the Global North, examining how these critiques address socio-environmental justice, spatial scales, an...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Minimum lot size regulations contribute to segregation not solely through income but also voluntary choices made by different racial groups. Smaller requirements can foster greater inclusivity and reduce the extent of racial segregation from housing policies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Land Use Policy and Racial Segregation

Land use policies, though seemingly race-neutral, can inadvertently contribute to racial segregation. Our study focuses on examining the impact of minimum lot size regulations on the likelihood of et...

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Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Super excited about the latest book in my @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #justsustainabilities series "Designing the Just Transition: Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures" by Damian White and Nicholas Pevzner. Preorder now! www.bloomsbury.com/us/designing...

Designing the Just Transition

Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist backlash on…

bloomsbury.com

Julian Agyeman@julianagyeman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Houston has just 16 transit vehicles per 100k people via its bus and light rail system compared to 118 in Paris – a city with a similar population that has embraced cycling and walkability. Detroit has 8, Indianapolis 7 and Oklahoma City has just 6. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit

With most major European cities well served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn

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