Urban metabolism is being redesigned. Focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead, this article investigates how new landscape interventions reveal some urban processes while obscuring others. By Ben Platt, Zuhri James 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
Zuhri James
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PhD student from Hackney blog: https://zuhrijames.wordpress.com
The final talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @profgillian.bsky.social (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 19th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
The penultimate talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @maanbarua.bsky.social (@camunigeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 5th May, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
"Diasporic culture and social media: Interpreting the cuy TikTok phenomenon" new in cultural geographies from Martin Saps and @zuhrijames.bsky.social was lucky to see a version of this presented at the @digicologies.bsky.social conference last month journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
📢 Now in Early View: The Aesthetics of Urban Metabolism: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility By Ben Platt & Zuhri James 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
The third talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by Charlotte Lemanski (@camunigeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 24th February, 12:30–14:00, Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
The second talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @ayonadatta.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 10th February, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social) Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Delighted to share this new seminar series @benaplatt.bsky.social, Debangana Bose and I have organised, featuring six wonderful speakers @camunigeography.bsky.social @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Urban Multiplicities@urbanmulti.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnnouncing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social Charlotte Lemanski @princeguma.bsky.social @maanbarua.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social
📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
From reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and even a sort of memetic fiction born out of a niche internet subculture, here are The London Magazine’s Best Books of 2025. thelondonmagazine.org/the-best-boo...
The Best Books of 2025 - The London Magazine
The best books of 2025 as chosen by our contributors, from reissued classics, theory and art criticism to poetry, fiction, biography and more.
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I wrote about London, psychogeography and Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social October / November issue. Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr... Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
I wrote about Thamesmead for Failed Architecture. failedarchitecture.com/between-arch...
Between Architectural Monstrosity and Speculative Utopia - Failed Architecture
Thamesmead is a town in south-east London that has long occupied an ambiguous place within the cultural imagination. Whilst perhaps most recently asso...
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New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...
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New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Mark your calendars for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series! @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).
Our October / November 2025 issue is out now! Cover image by Sandra Blow, cartoon by Dan Sperrin. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
The Infrastructural Geographies Easter Term Seminar Series. Final two talks will be given by Caixia Mao and @amoorelouise.bsky.social (@geogdurham.bsky.social). All welcome! Has been a real pleasure co-convening the group this year with @laszlocseke.bsky.social & @maanbarua.bsky.social !
'Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis' @zuhrijames.bsky.social examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project. Link to paper: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...
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"Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation," a special issue of Social Text edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western, is now available. View the full TOC: buff.ly/H08Sm55 Buy this issue: buff.ly/JbS0MnO
A chapter from my MPhil which I completed last year under the supervision of @natura-urb.bsky.social is out now in @tibg.bsky.social ! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
A chapter from my MPhil which I completed last year under the supervision of @natura-urb.bsky.social is out now in @tibg.bsky.social ! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
My essay on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction is in the new issue of the @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social Thanks to the editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Essay | Cusk, Experimentalism and the Limits of Autofiction by Zuhri James - The London Magazine
'Avant-garde, experimental art is still a terrain largely reserved for white artists.' Zuhri James explores the limits of Rachel Cusk's autofiction.
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Featuring: @zuhrijames.bsky.social on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction. @patrickchristie.bsky.social on Brixton and Goeff Dyer’s The Colour of Memory. Tony Roberts on Raymond Aron and post-war France. Read this and more here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
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A ventilation shaft north of Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock reminding me of a quote from Ballard: 'Is it a model for some strange psychological state... What effect does using these buildings have on us? Are the real myths of this century being written in terms of these huge unnoticed structures?'
