#urbangeography — Public Fediverse posts

Taiwan is famous for convenience stores on nearly every corner. But when adjusted for population, the pattern becomes more interesting.

The east coast has a higher convenience store density than southern Taiwan, and Matsu reaches an extraordinary 132 stores per 100,000 people due to its very small population base. 🇹🇼

#Taiwan #DataVisualization #Cartography #urbangeography

Assessing urban thermal comfort: a multi-model analysis of European cities over two decades

This study examines changes in summer thermal comfort across 12 European cities in 2000, 2010, and 2020 by…
#Europe #EU #Cities #Climatesciences #Ecology #environment #Environmentalsciences #European #general #Geography #Sustainabledevelopment #towns) #UrbanEcology #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #Urbanism
https://www.europesays.com/europe/35236/

More than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.

In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.

#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps

More than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.

In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.

#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps

More than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.

In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.

#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps

More than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.

In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.

#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps

More than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.

In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.

#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps

Impacts of nature-inclusive urban development on well-being and fairness perceptions

WWF Living Planet Report 2022 – Building a Nature-Positive Society (WWF, 2022). Simkin, R. D., Seto, K. C.,…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Cities #CivilEngineering #countries #Developmentstudies #Environmentalstudies #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/599211/

Impacts of nature-inclusive urban development on well-being and fairness perceptions

WWF Living Planet Report 2022 – Building a Nature-Positive Society (WWF, 2022). Simkin, R. D., Seto, K. C.,…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Cities #CivilEngineering #countries #Developmentstudies #Environmentalstudies #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/599211/

Impacts of nature-inclusive urban development on well-being and fairness perceptions

WWF Living Planet Report 2022 – Building a Nature-Positive Society (WWF, 2022). Simkin, R. D…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Cities #CivilEngineering #Countries #Developmentstudies #environment #Environmentalstudies #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #Towns #UK #UnitedKingdom #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/524288/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/429195/ Impacts of nature-inclusive urban development on well-being and fairness perceptions #Cities #CivilEngineering #countries #DevelopmentStudies #Éire #Environment #EnvironmentalStudies #IE #Ireland #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(incMegacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology

The trade-off between microbial functionality and evolutionary flexibility under urbanization

Oke, C. et al. Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sustain. 1, 11 (2021…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Cities #CivilEngineering #countries #Evolutionaryecology #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #Urbanecology #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/536134/

The trade-off between microbial functionality and evolutionary flexibility under urbanization

Oke, C. et al. Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sustain. 1, 11 (2021…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Cities #CivilEngineering #countries #Evolutionaryecology #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #Urbanecology #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/536134/

The trade-off between microbial functionality and evolutionary flexibility under urbanization

Oke, C. et al. Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sust…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Cities #CivilEngineering #Countries #environment #Evolutionaryecology #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #Towns #UK #UnitedKingdom #Urbanecology #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/471755/

The trade-off between microbial functionality and evolutionary flexibility under urbanization

Oke, C. et al. Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sustain. 1, 11 (2021).…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #Cities #CivilEngineering #Countries #Evolutionaryecology #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #Urbanecology #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/531556/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/381356/ The trade-off between microbial functionality and evolutionary flexibility under urbanization #Cities #CivilEngineering #countries #Éire #Environment #EvolutionaryEcology #IE #Ireland #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #UrbanEcology #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(incMegacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology

Satellite view of the Great Black Canyon and the surrounding Moss Plains in Concrete County.

#urbangeography
#moss

https://www.europesays.com/ie/299686/ Stress-testing the cascading economic impacts of urban flooding across 306 Chinese cities #Cities #CivilEngineering #ClimateChangeImpacts #countries #economics #Éire #Environment #EnvironmentalEconomics #EnvironmentalImpact #IE #Ireland #NaturalHazards #Regions #Science #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #towns) #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.Megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

New post on infrastructure, fishing, and the links between land and sea. Jointly published by NiCHE and The Metropole:

https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

https://themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #environment #EnvHist #EnvHums #BritishHistory #fish #Infrastructure #fishing #history #histodons

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

New post on infrastructure, fishing, and the links between land and sea. Jointly published by NiCHE and The Metropole:

https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

https://themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #environment #EnvHist #EnvHums #BritishHistory #fish #Infrastructure #fishing #history #histodons

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

New post on infrastructure, fishing, and the links between land and sea. Jointly published by NiCHE and The Metropole:

https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

https://themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #environment #EnvHist #EnvHums #BritishHistory #fish #Infrastructure #fishing #history #histodons

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

New post on infrastructure, fishing, and the links between land and sea. Jointly published by NiCHE and The Metropole:

https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

https://themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #environment #EnvHist #EnvHums #BritishHistory #fish #Infrastructure #fishing #history #histodons

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

New post on infrastructure, fishing, and the links between land and sea. Jointly published by NiCHE and The Metropole:

https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

https://themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #environment #EnvHist #EnvHums #BritishHistory #fish #Infrastructure #fishing #history #histodons

🏔️ How high is your community?

Using the MRDEM-2024 elevation model, I mapped the average elevation for each Calgary community.
The result clearly shows how the city “steps down” from the western uplands toward the Bow and Elbow River valleys in the east and south.

🔹 The highest areas — around Tuscany, Rocky Ridge, and Cougar Ridge — rise over 1,240 m above sea level.
🔹 The lowest zones — Shepard, McKenzie Towne, and parts of the southeast — drop to about 1,000 m.

It’s a great reminder that Calgary’s landscape still reflects its glacial past — a city built on terraces, slopes, and ancient river plains.

#Calgary #Alberta #Geography #Geospatial #QGIS #OpenData #UrbanGeography #DataVisualization #Topography #Geomorphology #Canada #DEM

Returning here to share an article I recently published in Urban History. I argue for a deeper, more playful engagement between urban historians and the environmental humanities if we are to address the ecological crises of our times. 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/urban-history-as-urgent-work-an-argument-for-disciplinary-promiscuity/5F09F423B1EAB5C89F3F1BC46D6DCBD4 #environment #EnvHum #Anthropocene #UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #History #OpenAccess

How to build a better city - Think
“What we prioritize in our cities impacts how we work, live and play. In this episode, host Krys Boyd talks to three experts about creating a walkable city, how zoning codes are quietly shaping your daily life, and the ways that urban green spaces can promote biodiverse wildlife.” #UrbanPlanning #UrbanLandscape #Architecture #UrbanGeography #Zoning
https://think.kera.org/2025/10/08/how-to-build-a-better-city/

Rewriting São Paulo’s urban narrative through community gardens with Claudia Visoni https://www.allforgardening.com/?p=1394972 #cities #CivilEngineering #countries #garden #gardening #GardeningIreland #Regions #SustainableArchitecture/GreenBuildings #Towns #UrbanEconomics #UrbanGeography/Urbanism(inc.Megacities #UrbanStudies/Sociology

OnlineFirst - "BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning" by @emdupuis:

#coastalresilience #climatechange #climatecrisis #criticalgeography #urbangeography #criticalsustainability #infrastructure #sustainability #cities #water #sealevelrise #geosky

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251351478

Untapped New York explores the forgotten islands that surround NYC - nearly thirty named islands that most people, including native New Yorkers, don't even know exist. The article examines eleven islands united by themes of abandonment and obscurity, many once inhabited by individuals or institutions, but now erased from public memory. #UrbanGeography #AbandonedPlaces #NYC #Islands #ForgottenHistory #Geography
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-abandoned-islands-near-nyc/?ref=daily-newsletter

I remain a believer in state-based interventions. In many ways they're indispensable.

However, when the state gets captured by nefarious interests, it is important to remember that non-state organizing remains real and powerful throughout history.

Community ownership is a great example. And community land is enormously important.

https://placesjournal.org/article/community-land-trusts-and-civic-empowerment/

#CLTs #CommunityLandTrusts #CommunityOwnership #Geography #UrbanGeography #Planning

OnlineFirst - "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder:

#urbangovernance #problematization #urbananimals #historicalgeography #urbangeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241281227

OnlineFirst - "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder:

#urbangovernance #problematization #urbananimals #historicalgeography #urbangeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241281227

OnlineFirst - "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder:

#urbangovernance #problematization #urbananimals #historicalgeography #urbangeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241281227

OnlineFirst - "An analytical framework to understand the problematization of urban (historical) animals" by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder:

#urbangovernance #problematization #urbananimals #historicalgeography #urbangeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241281227

Wow! 🥳🎊 I received a copy of a book we wrote a chapter for with @tuomo and Hanna-Mari Pienimäki.

It's one thing to see one's own work published on a website, but another feeling when you can hold it in your hand.

If you're interested in #multilingualism #sociolinguistics #UrbanStudies and #LinguisticLandscapes check out this book. Relevant also for #UrbanGeography #HumanGeography #GIScience and #multimodality 🤓

The #OpenAccess book is available here: https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/e/10.21435/sflin.24/

I have a chapter in this new volume: Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North (eds Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj), alongside a whole bunch of wonderful colleagues and thinkers. Happy to help out anyone who needs my work but doesn't have institutional access
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46954-1

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #Sudan #Khartoum #Omdurman #KhartoumNorth #BritishEmpire #colonialism

I have a chapter in this new volume: Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North (eds Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj), alongside a whole bunch of wonderful colleagues and thinkers. Happy to help out anyone who needs my work but doesn't have institutional access
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46954-1

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #Sudan #Khartoum #Omdurman #KhartoumNorth #BritishEmpire #colonialism

I have a chapter in this new volume: Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North (eds Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj), alongside a whole bunch of wonderful colleagues and thinkers. Happy to help out anyone who needs my work but doesn't have institutional access
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46954-1

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #Sudan #Khartoum #Omdurman #KhartoumNorth #BritishEmpire #colonialism

I have a chapter in this new volume: Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North (eds Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Høghøj), alongside a whole bunch of wonderful colleagues and thinkers. Happy to help out anyone who needs my work but doesn't have institutional access
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46954-1

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #Sudan #Khartoum #Omdurman #KhartoumNorth #BritishEmpire #colonialism

Podcast interview with my colleague, and all around good guy, Damon Scott, about his new book.

#urbangeography #queerhistory #sanfrancisco

https://newbooksnetwork.com/damon-scott-the-city-aroused-queer-places-and-urban-redevelopment-in-postwar-san-francisco-u-texas-press-2024

2024 is set to be quite an intense work year for me, quite a few exciting things going on! These will crop up in future posts but for now I'll just that there will be history work coming on: colonial urban planning and military landscapes; fish and fishing in the history of the built environment; history of infrastructures. There'll also be interdisciplinary discussion of watery agency. As a still recovering twitter addict, I'll still be trying to learn more mindful ways of using social media without either becoming obsessed with it or dropping off completely. Let's see how all this goes!

#History #Infrastructure #InfrastructuralHistory #research #UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #CoastalHist #EnvHum #histodons

At this #Christmas time, if you are interested in the intersection around #DigitalCitizenship #DatafiedState #Technopolitics #DigitalIdentity #AI #Blockchain #Emancipation #FoundationalEconomy #Democracy #DigitalGeography #PoliticalGeography #UrbanGeography #DataMigration #ChatGPT #DAOs #Metaverse #DataCooperatives
Here my #Book published by Emerald Publishing #AcademicChatter
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/emerging-digital-citizenship-regimes/?k=9781803823324&fbclid=IwAR01Ze9ndHzyWyKdqbUmG8QAny99VIg_-CwgfBSmz-2azfvp7OEpJkD517U @anthropology @economics @politicalscience @sociology @politicaltheory

🚨 🚨 My final #PhD paper:

“Capturing urban diversity through languages: long-term changes in multilingual residential neighbourhoods in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area”

with Olle Järv, @tuuli & @tuomo is OUT NOW in Population, Space and Place! Find the paper from here: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2717

@digigeolab

#UrbanGeography #Segregation #Integration #UrbanDiversity #GIScience #Multilingualism

Call for Papers EXTENDED to 20 October, EAUH 2024 Cities at the Boundaries. I'm co-chairing Main Session M11 Borders Infrastructures and Places in the Modern City:

This session explores the urban dimension of infrastructural development over the last two-hundred and fifty years, both in terms of how infrastructures have transformed cities and how urban dynamics have shaped infrastructure. This brings together histories of matter, energy and people to produce entangled histories of cities as environments.

For full details follow this link https://eauh2024ostrava.osu.eu/main-session/ and click on session M11

#UrbanHistory #History #Infrastructure #Borders #Cities #Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory #InfrastructuralHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #geography #UrbanGeography #EAUH2024

Thanks for an inspiring workshop ahead of my upcoming #MSCA @EC_REA research project, @barbaralaa, @ulrich_leth, and Alec Hager #PlatzFürWien #WirMachenWien #Radlobby, and my fantastic supervisor @[email protected] @univienna

I gained eye-opening insights into how #urban #cycling #activists choose certain roles for their public and media presence. This is at the core of my research that will start early 2024 @fedibikes @mastobikes #cycling @geography #socialanthropology #urbangeography @ethnography

Book delivery!

Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question
By #TomSlater

Been wanting to read this one for a while too. So many books to catch up on now that that pesky dissertation is behind me.

#UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #urbanism #SpatialJustice #UrbanGeography

New book day!

I've been looking forward to reading this one for a while.

Going all city: Struggle and survival in LA's graffiti subculture
By Stefano Bloch @StefanoBloch
https://www.goingallcity.com/

#graffiti #UrbanGeography #CulturalGeography #LosAngeles #Subculture

I just submitted my abstract for the #PhilosophyOfTheCity interdisciplinary conference in Brooklyn this fall.

Looking forward to reconnecting with fellow philosophers of the city. My last in-person conference with them was Detroit in 2019.

Check out the call for papers. Deadline is May 1.

#urbanism #cities #philosophy #AcademicConference #UrbanPlanning #UrbanGeography #UrbanPhilosophy

https://www.potcrg.org/conference?fbclid=IwAR34hFLn1XSfTHV4DwoNuWleZWNV3qjmT3Mes9o5xDaeXE1JfOmOb-MobOk

New publication notice!

Very excited to see my chapter in this collection finally come out.

"Assimilation City: Inclusive Planning and Histories of Exclusion"

In Canadian Readings of Jewish History: From Knowledge to Interpretive Transmission

#JewishStudies #CriticalPlanning
#UrbanGeography #AcadmicPublishing
#AcWri

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9003-8#gallery

🎇#AAG2023🏙️ Corollary

Emeging #DigitalCitizenship Regimes' heuristics interpreting how nation-states' rescaling (not eroding) in #Europe occurs stemming from/resulting in drivers/outcomes in #CityRegions

#DigitalGeography
#PoliticalGeography
#UrbanGeography

https://t.co/ZUV191RuLx

@anthropology @sociology @politicalscience @geography