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Brian Rosa

@brianrosa.bsky.social
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Geographer at Universitat de Barcelona. Papá, fotógrafo, santsenc dels EUA. brianrosa.net

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Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona (PEMB) @pemb.cat · 10/10/2025
📢 Avui hem presentat un informe jurídic que conclou que limitar la compra d’habitatge només per a residència habitual en zones tensionades és legalment viable. 🚫 Aquesta mesura pot ser clau per frenar l’especulació.  T'ho expliquem🧵⤵️ 🔗 f.mtr.cool/oihjjlxspk
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
What happened next Jack?
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 08/10/2025
"The Hole" is becoming the first place in the five boroughs where the New York City government will offer to buy flood-prone homes from homeowners — proactively, instead of in response to a disaster.
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They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'
The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Feeling this jacobin.com/2025/10/port...
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The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right
The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia tha...
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xapo 🇵🇸 @xapo.portland.cat · 01/10/2025
Demà al carrer.
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
As of tomorrow I am on strike, joining various faculty and student unions. Not how I wanted to start, a few weeks into working at the UB. We must stand up to Israel and I, as a US citizen, am especially implicated. Several who were kidnapped last night are from Cat, including former mayor Ada Colau.
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
One of the most fascinating interviews I have done (w/Javier Tébar). Vallejo’s life story is incredible and, as a retired trade union leader, he remains involved in orgs focused on democratic memory. This clip is about the idea of solidarity and deindustrialization. youtube.com/watch?v=JKHw...
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Interview with Carles Vallejo
YouTube video by Slow Memory COST Action
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A Blackstone subsidiary does the most energy efficient retrofits of residential buildings in Spain (among private companies). That means a lot of benefit from EU subsidies. Blackstone is also the largest private residential landlord in Spain. *scratches chin*
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Well that’s it, after a kid, leaving a tenure-track job in New York, and three postdocs, as of this week I am a professor again. It hasn’t been easy, but I am really happy to have landed at the Universitat de Barcelona!
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I’ve seen the proofs (have a small bit on platform-mediated short-term rentsals) and this is going to be a total banger pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
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Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity
Madeleine Hamlin and Carlos Delclós This book is both a resource and a provocation: it supports critical reflection, interdisciplinary dialogue, and coalition-building, while inviting readers to think...
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hay más Tecnocasas en Barcelona que Dunkin Donuts en Boston
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
www.currentaffairs.org/news/trump-i...
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Trump is What Happens When You Give a Landlord Power
He wants to “own” Gaza and Greenland, and he treats immigrants like tenants he can evict at will. The rent-seeking class created Trump, and now he’s governing as America's landlord in chief.
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hey
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Raise salaries, lower rents! Big housing demo tomorrow in Barcelona
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Ranjani Srinivasan, the Columbia grad student whose visa was revoked forcing a "self deportation", was scheduled to present their research at the AAG. This is an outrageous attack on our colleague and on geographic thought. Share and sign the statement below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Statements of Support for Columbia University PhD Student Ranjani Srinivasan From Geographers, Planners, and Other Academics of Conscience
In what follows, we circulate two statements directed at two parties (Columbia University's GSAPP and Geography and Planning professional associations). We delineate which portions of text are common ...
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Awesome day speaking with some of the smartest people I could think of about just transitions and housing policy in Catalonia and the Spanish state. Very cool to invite people you admire into a room and think together.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator. Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long. Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...
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Jordi @jordimagrinya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Jovent amb les coses clares, conscients del racisme al que viuen sotmesos, conscients de que lluitar junts i sense complexes és el millor camí. El jovent de Salt, un exemple. No esteu sols. 1/2
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
BRUTAL youtu.be/_basz2j4_OE?...
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SVETLANA - I❤️BCN
YouTube video by SVETLANA
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Entire board of Journal of Architectural Education resigns after their forthcoming issue on Palestine was withdrawn www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Horizons in the Housing Struggle
We are living through a polycrisis, a multidimensional, interlinked series of capitalism's structural problems emerging worldwide. Unfolding genocides, wars and armed conflicts, Western democratic mod...
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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣 JOB ALERT PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de Deadline: 28 March 2025. More info here: www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po... Do get in touch with any questions!
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Estrella Cruz-Mazo @ecruzmazo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
En el contexto del Proyecto VIVIENDIGNA buscamos candidatos/as para hacer una tesis doctoral. Se agradece difusión! Más info abajo👇
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Bet you didn’t know I could be so quanti (title is in Spanish but article is in English) estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/es...
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Vista de El legado de la pandemia de COVID-19 sobre la movilidad residencial en las principales ciudades españolas: Patrones espaciales y socioeconómicos | Estudios Geográficos
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Initiative on Cities @buoncities.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📢 The IOC is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate! 🔖 Conduct original research on urban studies. Publish and present your research while gaining exposure in the field. Mentorship from renowned urbanist and IOC Director Loretta Lees! ⏰ April 1, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET 🔗 bu.edu/ioc/hiring
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Jaime Palomera @jaimepalomera.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Si algo nos enseña la historia de la humanidad es que la vivienda solo se ha convertido en un derecho real cuando la gente se ha movilizado a gran escala. El 5 de Abril será un día muy importante, que puede durar años.
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Alright, I can't say yet how active I'll be here, but I'm done posting on the other site.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Aquí, amb Dimitrios Panayotopoulos, reflexió sobre la teoria del 'terrain vague' d'Ignasi de Solà-Morales, reterritorializándola dins de la 'reconstrucció' de Barcelona, ​​​​la cultura visual i la interminable obsesió dels urbanistes amb els 'buits urbans'. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the terrain still vague? Reconsidering indeterminate spaces
Wastelands, urban voids, interstices: especially since the 1990s, there has been a proliferation of terminologies projected on (supposedly) empty urban spaces by designers, scholars, and artists. T...
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
15 years and two doctoral theses in the making! Here we try to reterritorialize Ignasi de Solà-Morales' concept of the terrain vague within the "reconstruction" of Barcelona in the 80s and 90s, intervening into the never-ending discourse around urban voids. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the terrain still vague? Reconsidering indeterminate spaces
Wastelands, urban voids, interstices: especially since the 1990s, there has been a proliferation of terminologies projected on (supposedly) empty urban spaces by designers, scholars, and artists. T...
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Really glad to see this full Special Issue out. A lot of great stuff here, rekindling the idea of insurgent heritage as a way to understand public history and memory politics. See @jofhistgeog.bsky.social thread for more great articles and Stephen Legg's introduction.
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Now that it's official, I'm very pleased to announce that I will be joining the inimitable team at www.bcnuej.org starting in April. I'll be working on a project analyzing the impacts of the European Green Deal on (re)producing housing inequalities in Catalonia and beyond.
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Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
I'll be participating in this exciting online symposium with the Universities of Manchester and Kyoto. My comments will be some overarching observations on infrastructural adaptation, displacement, and gentrification in different cities (hence the grandiose title). Nov. 29th.
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