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Ed Wall

@eddwall.bsky.social
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Professor of Cities and Landscapes / Landscape Architect, author, and editor, including The Landscapists (Wiley/AD) / www.projectstudio.co.uk/about

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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks Dave 🙏🏼 lnkd.in/p/eTmZr_gT
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If you don't know Ed Wall .... well, you should. I just re-read one of his most recent books ... and it reminded me why. In short, Ed DGAF. The merger of EDAW into AECOM spawned the careers of…...
If you don't know Ed Wall .... well, you should. I just re-read one of his most recent books ... and it reminded me why. In short, Ed DGAF. The merger of EDAW into AECOM spawned the careers of some...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Beautiful walkshop around Deptford and Greenwich with the brilliant Günther Vogt!
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Join us tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-pos...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Join us on Tuesday!
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The parallels with anti-Apartheid protests in the 1980s are so clear.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Excited to have nine small drawings from my recent book, Architecture for Warfare, featured in the Drawing Thinking exhibition in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery. The exhibition opens on Thursday at 5:00pm. Come along! /// More about the book here www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Join us, on Tuesday
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Urban Theory Lab (UTL) @urbantheorylab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Urban Theory Lab's website is back in action after a little (5 year!) hiatus: urbantheorylab.net Please do stop by and have a look around ....
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“Epic ... the definitive text of the war” Days of Love and Rage by Anand Gopal reviewed in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/b...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Last few days of the Call for Entries for the European Prize for Public Space 2026, organised by Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB): www.publicspace.org. Super proud to be supporting through the prize's Board of Experts. / #publicspaceprize2026 #cities #publicspace
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Yes, we have a book launch next Wednesday at the AA Bookshop. Please come!
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Just out, the collective nature of landscape: www.routledge.com/Collective-L... #landscape #justice #architecture
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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Mustafa Suleyman & Bill Gates on Today, BBC Radio 4 - asked what benefits #AI could bring to healthcare, Gates’ second suggestion was that ‘it could help explain your bill’. We don’t have ‘bills’ in the UK for healthcare, but thanks for being honest about the direction of travel.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
"Today, some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes... The tools to help them survive, rebuild and eventually return home already exist. But they require time, cooperation, trust and a desire to invest in peace rather than war." Filippo Grandi www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
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Opinion | I’ve Been the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for a Decade. This Is the Crisis I See.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Architecture for Warfare came out this week. While much of my writing speculates optimistically at the possibilities of landscape and architectural practice, this research funded by the Graham Foundation, examines some of the limits. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Thanks Will for sharing 🙏🏼 www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Great news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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New leader says Unison will end support for ‘destructive’ Labour right wing
Blunt remarks indicate UK’s largest union may be on collision course with Wes Streeting and Labour more widely
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Brilliant Humanitarianism series on e-flux. @eflux.bsky.social @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social @alucidwake.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Humanitarianism - e-flux
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Rocks, Dornoch Beach, October 2025
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants. No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry My piece www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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Geert Wilders didn’t lose the Dutch election - he had already won
Dutch politics has been transformed by 20 years of hateful speech about foreigners
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/10/2025
Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,344
Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Outrun rhe sea… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea
As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life. In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
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Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing. Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We can add to this mix the proliferation of private ICE detention facilities and speculative Gaza redevelopment and border tech (I wrote about an earlier era back in 2018:) and and and…
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All Eyes on the Border
Materialized in steel and concrete, patrolled and “performed” by state apparatuses and sensing technologies, the border is charged by the politics of recognition.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/10/2025
UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.
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‘Another Nakba’: UN expert says Gaza recovery will take generations
UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
There is so much wrong with this: “Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts…” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The theft of public land for their 5th home:“The Waleses are relocating…” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #righttoroam #publicspace
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‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone
Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Summer reading pair, with insights on the digital from both Shannon Mattern and Steve Kennedy!
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Cover, done!
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is landscape. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found
In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Do you want to talk about rent control? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London?
£6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or wo...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If there is a “coalition of the willing” supporting Ukraine, is there a “coalition of the unwilling” who have agreed to look away from the destruction of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank? www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...
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‘Coalition of the willing’ agrees key parts of post-ceasefire operations and plans to ‘step up’ support to Ukraine – Europe live
UK prime minister accuses Putin of ‘turning his back on peace’ and says allies will offer more support for Ukraine
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Something else that has been abandoned to the brutality of private equity… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms
Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
What does a human rights lawyer have to do to just become a lawyer? Nothing. Just do nothing.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Stories as old as the hills - but still urgent and relevant: “Power hides by setting us against each other. This is never more true than in the countryside, where the impacts of an extreme concentration of ownership and control...” By @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
While all eyes are on Iran… “Dozens of aid seekers among 82 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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Dozens of aid seekers among 82 people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Palestinians seeking aid continue to be killed near distribution sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Keir Starmer on preemptive wars: “The mere fact that ____ [fill in the blank] has a capacity to attack at some unspecified time in the future is not enough.” www.theguardian.com/politics/200...
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Keir Starmer: Sorry, Mr Blair, but 1441 does not authorise force
Keir Starmer: The attorney general has a tricky task in defending the legal basis for war.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Let’s not forget this. Still killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks
At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Let’s not forget this. Still killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks
At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Every time I read the news, I keep being reminded why I stopped voting for Labour when they led the UK to war in Iraq. A Labour UK government again complicit in war crimes. @UKLabour @FloEshalomi
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A new satellite imagery analysis by Dr. He Yin of Kent State University shows that nearly all of Gaza's crops, tree cover and grassland have been damaged in Israel's invasion — devastation that some have said should be prosecuted as "ecocide.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"[T]he bargain at the heart of the British Civil Service is that we sign up to deliver the policies of the Government of the day wholeheartedly, within the limits imposed by the law and the Civil Service Code," www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Civil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over Gaza - BBC News
More than 300 Foreign Office staff had raised concerns about potential UK "complicity" in Israel's conduct in Gaza.
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“Kidnapped in International Waters” www.democracynow.org/2025/6/9/mad...
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“Kidnapped”: Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg & Others in Int’l Waters
Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the Madleen, were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinian...
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“not necessarily fully backed by evidence” : a very British way of saying that the government is lying www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Natural England chair rejects ministers’ claim that nature blocks development
Exclusive: Tony Juniper, who will oversee nature restoration fund, says claims ‘not fully backed by evidence’
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Series of sketches for coming book on architecture and warfare to be published later this year by Jovis. Support by the Graham Foundation. / #architecture #military #warfare #conflict #book #grahamfoundation /
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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
‘The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture’ / www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux
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