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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Last week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 : how resilient cities of the future should look like, looking at the water-energy-land nexus. A memorable 2 day workshop at #WIUT the International University of Westminster in Tashkent

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Leaders of the future in Tunisia, an #icesco capacity building programme organised with the Ministry of Education and Youth in Tunis, 🇹🇳, 19-20 Jan 2026, great energy from the South!

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

UK-Brazil exchange on research and international cooperation in São Paulo 🇧🇷 part week. A great ESRC workshop to develop future collaborations with @luzne.bsky.social and colleagues from Caxias do Sul

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

‘Get to know the realpolitik of cities and planning’… the final message of Anacláudia Rossbach @un-habitat to all students in a packed lecture theatre today in Paris, at the 2025 Urban School inaugural lecture at Sciencepo sciencespo.fr/fr/evenements/…

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/07/2025

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.

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France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says

The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Sweden and Belgium’s call to respect the role of advisory bodies like @icomos.bsky.social and #IUCN speaks volumes about the current state of the Committee, where recommendations from these advisory bodies are often overturned by member states. Paris, 13 July 2025.

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's been quite something to attend one of the sessions of the WHC @unesco.org 47 COM and witness the discussions on new World Heritage Site nominations.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/06/2025

Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

"[D]evelopment finance is most needed where investors least want to go." You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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The chimera of private finance for development

A fashionable idea has yet to fulfil its promises

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It’s already one week ago but the workshop UOW-UIR in Rabat was successfully completed! Working on urban health and urban conservation to prevent further displacement and demolition!

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Foresight in Bahrain 🇧🇭 can we imagine a future based on alternative system of mobility in the Gulf? Signs of change but still a long way to go .. great to be back for the Prime Minister Fellowship Programme on Urban Sustainability

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

About to finish the international conference for the post-earthquake of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey 🇹🇷 . Thanks to the scientific committee to give me the honour of the keynote on ‘Post-disaster Urban Futures and the role of Culture in Building Resilience’

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025” 🗓️02 April 2025 ⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT 📍Zoom ✏️Register for 06:00: :https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AQCX7Aj7RDmPADCiwLTfWg ✏️Register for 15:00: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Memories of last week at the Jaime Lerner Foundation with a group of enthusiastic people, glad to be supporting the newly launched chair in memory of the most influential planner of our time #jaimelerner. In Curitiba, 🇧🇷 with great women: Ariadne Daher and Ilana Lerner! 💕

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last week we concluded a series of workshops in Caxias do Sul, 🇧🇷, funded by #ESRC on post-disaster preparation, exploring, with local gov, business, and communities, how to enhance collaboration and assess vulnerabilities. Pictures: anticipatory and participatory tools in action @luzne.bsky.social

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Just arrived in Caxia do Sul, Brazil 🇧🇷 for the International Week on Resilience, looking forward to work with UCS, the local government and local communities on post disaster recovery after the devastating flooding of May 24, with @luzne.bsky.social 💫

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

NEW: What makes BLUESKY the new “IT” place for Urbanists? It’s pretty significant that the American Planning Association is putting this out there to its huge membership. I was interviewed for it, as was @mitchellsilver.bsky.social & others. Please share! @bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...

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What Makes Bluesky the New ‘It’ Space for Urbanists

Planners are turning to the up-and-coming platform, as well as other social media, to expand their reach and increase community engagement.

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LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with?

The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The UK Government has aligned with Trump and refused to sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration. It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1 @markscott-ucd.bsky.social

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“There is no escaping our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations—our economic obligations—and our political obligations as the single largest counter to the adversaries of freedom,” -- John F. Kennedy newrepublic.com/article/1910...

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The Death of USAID: These People Are out of Their Freaking Minds

The world’s richest man and its most powerful one have killed the one government agency that does the most to support the world’s most vulnerable people. There will be consequences.

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Positive vision from the UK Chancellor on growth prospects. But to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" we need to understand what made SV successful in the first place. It was not just reducing barriers but decades of strategic, decentralised and entrepreneurial public investments. 1/13

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"Before he died on Dec 29, Carter would go on to work on more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries. His backing helped transform Habitat for Humanity into a household name. Over the decades it has helped 62 million people build or renovate their homes...." epaper.ajc.com/html5/reader...

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Tue, 01/07/25

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

"[L]earning from planners facing pressing challenges in different places, no matter how imperfect their attempts may be – can still be regenerative for planning practice itself." @giulioverdini.bsky.social review www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10....

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UN-Habitat UNI @unhabitat-uni.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Much awaited results of the US and Canadian study of planning school climate action education! Bravo Elisabeth Infield Mark Seasons and Ward Lyles! "Teaching climate change planning: fostering hope while building capacity" - doi.org/10.1080/0269... @climateaction4cities #planningeducation 1/4

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Teaching climate change planning: fostering hope while building capacity

Preparing planners to effectively engage with climate change poses vexing multi-level challenges for instructors across content, pedagogy, and relationships. There exists an urgent need, and demand...

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

⏩How can we shift from correcting market failures to shaping collective goals? IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social outlines a framework to help redesign our economics around the common good in order to tackle global grand challenges. ✍️Read the paper here: buff.ly/3t0bnQ9

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/12/2024

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that now leads Syria, has ruled the city of Idlib for years. Residents say they imposed some strict laws, but also heeded some complaints and improved public services. nyti.ms/3BzNJy3

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 13/12/2024

Communities, individuals and entrepreneurs around the world are stepping up with innovative #ClimateAction – updated online features are here: www.unep.org/interactives...

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“What missions are designed to achieve are what governments ought to be doing, but very often don’t do” PM Mia Mottley speaking at the Vatican, before our event, which featured a message from Pope Francis, on the need for a new Economics of the #CommonGood. Watch the film: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtFI

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UN-Habitat UNI @unhabitat-uni.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Habitat's University Network Initiative is on Bluesky: UNHabitat-UNI.bsky.social We are UN-Habitat's bridge to academia advancing research and capacity building for sustainable development.

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE -- a pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI -- sign up / save the date / share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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SAVE THE DATE- GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 30/10/2024

We are now accepting applications for the next round of USF Seminar Series Awards funding! 🏙️ The deadline is 17th February 2025, and you can read more about the call on our website. 📢 Please share 📢 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/semi...

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Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"The final deal, agreed in Azerbaijan, will see developed countries pay $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries mitigate the impact of climate change." www.dw.com/en/cop29-wor...

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COP29: World agrees to $300bn deal for developing countries – DW – 11/23/2024

The final deal, agreed in Azerbaijan, will see developed countries pay $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries mitigate the impact of climate change.

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

5th Annual Meeting of the Academic Advisory Board of Union for the Mediterranean #ufm discussing education for the Euro-Med Region and knowledge exchanges. Discovering meantime urban regeneration in Brussels. With colleagues from Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Lybia, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco

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Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments @globaltaskforce.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

✨ #Listen2Cities At launch of the Call to deliver An efficient Local and Subnational Loss and Damage Response 🗣️"We request parties to recognize the role of LRG in addressing climate justice, particularly in climate-vulnerable urban and rural areas"

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Architects for #Gaza. Join us at the School of Architecture & Cities, University of Westminster #UoW 19 November 2024 … ‘Practices of Resilience / Practices of Hope’ #palestine

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

WUF12 is behind us, with lots of memories. Here the panel I chaired on ‘Urban Conservation and traditional buildings skills in Southern Med Countries” #egypt #morocco #jordan #palestine

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Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Time to move from X. Just after WUF12. Not a case.

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