#urbanstudies — Public Fediverse posts

I'm very much looking forward to sharing this research and to the discussions that will follow. 🌿📜🎶

#UrbanCreativity #StreetArt #StreetPoetry #Haiku #LiteraryStudies #FanStudies #UrbanStudies #CulturalHeritage #ConferenceLife #AcademicLife #Research #Utrecht #JacobVanEyck #PublicHumanities

For UCL's 200th birthday, the 16th UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction annual conference explores 'Cities of the future: Risks, resilience and reimagination'.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/events/2026/jun/16th-ucl-risk-disaster-reduction-annual-conference
In person, 24 June 0900-1800, UCL's east London campus at Stratford.
 
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #UrbanStudies #cities #UCL

How mystical dances shape urban spaces and collective memories in Tunisia—from Sufi zawiyas to modern stages. Souad Matoussi in conversation with Julius Dihstelhoff on "Blog for Transregional Research" ⬇️

#Mysticism #UrbanStudies #Tunisia #CollectiveMemories #History

https://trafo.hypotheses.org/65612

Check out this open urbanisation dataset covering 16 countries in Sub-Saharan #Africa and the #Caribbean - with Degree of Urbanisation level 1 classifications and full documentation.

Useful for research, development planning, geospatial analysis and policy work.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.13130/RD_UNIMI/YFNFZC

#OpenData #GIS #UrbanStudies #DevelopmentData #DEGURBA

I wrote a little essay about how essays are better than star-ratings -
#Coffee #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #Tokyo #Japan #UrbanStudies
https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/the-coffee-shop-that-shall-remain-nameless/

Phys.org: New database enables comparative archaeological and historical urbanism. “…a team led by researchers from the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanisation (DLU) at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology have designed and launched URBank—a global hub for aggregating and analyzing urban data. URBank is hosted at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and […]

Home ownership is a false promise in Canada
#Canada #Housing #HomeOwnership #Renters #Economy #HousingCrisis #Inequality #PublicPolicy #UrbanStudies #Montreal #Quebec #AffordableHousing #TenantsRights #HousingJustice #SocialPolicy #RealEstate #Property
https://the-14.com/home-ownership-is-a-false-promise-in-canada/

I wrote a little essay about kids these days -
#Tokyo #Japan #UrbanStudies #UrbanPlanning #PublicSpace
https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/do-this-dont-do-that/

Open Call für (re)searching urbanity, 19.–21. Juni 2026, Berlin:

"Unter dem Titel „(un)learning urbanity“ lädt das Symposium zu kritischen, interdisziplinären Beiträgen ein, die vermeintlich selbstverständliche urbane Normen, Praktiken und Imaginationen hinterfragen."

Vielfältige Einreichungen (auf Deutsch oder Englisch) aus Forschung, Praxis, Kunst und Aktivismus sind willkommen.

Frist: 22. Feb 2026

Details: https://researching-urbanity.org/language/en/open-call-2026/

#Stadtforschung #UrbaneZukunft #UrbanStudies #UrbanFutures

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ The #Social Quality of #Public #Space. Integration, Strategy, Subjectivation

🔗 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003584834

#environment #SocialSciences #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon

The slides for my talk this morning on how #urbanstudies are represented in the #Wikimedia ecosystem are up on #Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17956551 .

#openscience #oer

I wrote a tiny essay about the lack of garbage cans in Tokyo #UrbanStudies
https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/common-trash/

Another reason why understanding how #multilingualism and socio-economic opportunities are distributed across urban space. A lot of my research has been about exploring these aspects from a geographical perspective.

The link is in Finnish, but the title roughly says "Large-scale study: Linguistic competencies are linked to slowing down the aging of the brain."

Keeping my fingers crossed for positive funding decisions 🤞🎓🔎

#UrbanStudies #Geography #Sociolinguistics
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000011627100.html

🏙️ Workshop "Commodification in Contemporary Urbanization: Global Dynamics and Local Resistances" 📍 Lima, Peru | 15–17 Oct 2025 | 🇬🇧🇪🇸 English–Spanish hybrid workshop 👉 ow.ly/gFS950XaPW0 Supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. #UrbanStudies #HousingCrisis #LandCommodification

🏙️ Workshop "Commodification in Contemporary Urbanization: Global Dynamics and Local Resistances" 📍 Lima, Peru | 15–17 Oct 2025 | 🇬🇧🇪🇸 English–Spanish hybrid workshop 👉https://ow.ly/gFS950XaPW0 Supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. #UrbanStudies #HousingCrisis #LandCommodification

#CFP

Groove the City – Move the Streets
3rd International Conference of the Urban Music Studies Scholars’ Network

📍 Vienna, Austria
📅 17–19 September 2026

Exploring music, sound & the street as stages for performance, protest, mobility & urban transformation. Interdisciplinary, global & practice-based contributions welcome.

Deadline: 05/10/2025

https://www.mdw.ac.at/ikm/events/groovethecity/

#UrbanStudies #Musicology #Ethnomusicology

Pretty cool to be reading the section on "The Polis" in the City Reader (I am doing some catchup/ broader reading on urban classics more generally for my new job) while cruising through the same waters and seeing the same mountainuous terrain that the classical sources quoted in the section describe 😎🤓.

#urbanstudies #ferrytravelgreece #staygrounded #Ferrytravel

Wie können bei der Umgestaltung von 🏬 Quartiersstraßen möglichst viele Zielgruppen beteiligt werden? In dem 🎬 Video-Kurs mit sechs Modulen + Zusatzmaterialien werden innovative Lösungen mit den Studierenden entwickelt.

Wir finden: Eine wahre 💍 #OER-Perle 👉
https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/collections?id=27f62e4d-d9bd-4cc0-91b8-af395f7b5145

#OERde #CCLde #hochschuldidaktik #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #openscience #bildung #urbanstudies #stadtplanung