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Jean-Paul Addie

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Associate Prof of Urban Studies @ Georgia State University | Editor of UAA's 'Rights to the City' book series

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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The City of Atlanta paid attention to the challenge of nighttime governance during the 2026 World Cup, launching a nightlife ambassador program to de-escalate conflict and provide safety escorts in the city's entertainment districts: www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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Atlanta boosts security, launches "nightlife ambassadors" ahead of FIFA World Cup at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
With the FIFA Men's World Cup set to kick off Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta officials unveil enhanced safety plans.
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Atlanta's hotels weren't fit to bursting during the World Cup... www.ajc.com/business/202...
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Atlanta hotel occupancy dipped this summer during World Cup, new data show
Fewer hotel rooms were taken during this summer when Atlanta hosted eight matches of the FIFA World Cup than in the same period a year ago.
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Atlanta doing sporting mega events again: www.theguardian.com/football/vid...
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'Less than human': how unhoused people in Atlanta are being treated during the World Cup – video
“This is what happens when you apply these incredibly violent economic forces to these cities … it's happened at every World Cup I've been to,” explains our chief sports writer, Barney Ronay.
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Wendy Nicholls @drwendynicholls.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Do you see time or feel it? This piece on time-space synesthesia made me think how differently we all experience time mentally. And whether the visual grid of a Teams calendar has quietly reshaped how we conceptualise it... www.popularmechanics.com/science/a712... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSkyUK
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Some People Can ‘See’ Time, Thanks to a Hidden Superpower—And It’s Quietly Shaping Their Perception
This trait could shed light on the mysteries of human perception. Does it live within you?
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Now Open Access: Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society by @robkitchin.bsky.social, published by Polity Books. The link is not that prominent on the publisher website; head to the red oval as per image below. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Urban(izing) University Strategic Planning: An Analysis of London and New York City" by Jean-Paul D. Addie, UAR 55(6), 2019.
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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Article Forum 1: Ayona Datta presents a dialogue on “distant time” and temporal power — weaving together temporal justice and the urban. Commentaries by Rob Kitchin, Jean-Paul D. Addie, Gillian Rose, Anu Sabhlok, and D. Asher Ghertner.
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium is happening 14 May 2026 at Georgia State University. The theme: "Atlanta from the Margins". See the CFP here: atlantastudies.org/2025/12/17/c...
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CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2026
Call for Proposals 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium Atlanta from the Margins May 14, 2026 • Georgia State University • Atlanta, Georgia FEATURING KEYNOTES BY BRIAN GOLDSTONE & AUGUSTUS WOOD Ultim...
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Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies
This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Check out this collection - a great opportunity to dig into the @uaanews.bsky.social archives and explore how scholars from a variety of disciplinary and geographic vantage points have engaged with the right to the city
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How have the @uaanews.bsky.social's Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City debated and advanced the #RightToTheCity? Find out in my editorial review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association
The “right to the city” is a powerful political slogan with intuitive emotional appeal. Originating from the writing of Henri Lefebvre, the concept has gained both remarkable traction and profound ...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The political, institutional, and technological limits of infrastructural regionalism on Europe's high-speed rail network: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross-border rail travel
For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Cocktail time in the cubicles! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests
Creative studio says financial districts deserted in working-from-home shift could host revitalised nightlife sector
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"Sometimes big infrastructure is necessary, but at all times it is a threat to democracy. This is why governments should approach it with caution and scepticism. Instead, they act as hucksters for corporate boondoggles." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them? | George Monbiot
The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Pleased to see Infrastructural Times on the bookshelf, especially w/chapters by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social, and Schindler & Kanai exploring temporalities connected to the BRI and Chinese-led global infrastructure development. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
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Infrastructural Times
Infrastructural Times - Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds; This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between tempor...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The politics & temporalities of infrastructure collapse/repair: Don't rush into fixing Germany “because that would fuel inflation but not produce real value or better bridges... analyse where the investment... [& don't] promise more than it’s possible to deliver” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?
Bridge collapses caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Something of a primer for "Extended Mobility and the City as a Commons" by Lucia Capanema and Romulo Orrico - forthcoming in the @uaanews.bsky.social Rights to the City book series: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘Avenue of Death’: the Rio motorway where stray bullets, botched raids and resilience collide
Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itself
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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Check out my reflections on NOIR's session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion at the @regstud.bsky.social annual meeting this month. cc @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jpaddie.bsky.social www.noir-rsa.com/post/inclusi...
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Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation: Reflections on NOIR’s contribution to RSA 2025
Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...
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Jen Nelles @jen-nelles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So much fun today @regstud.bsky.social 2025 co-chairing a NOIR session on infrastructural regionalism and inclusion with @mrglassphd.bsky.social featuring some excellent presentations on innovation districts, Auckland, and freight rail in Brazil.
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The City Institute @cityinstitute.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This spring marks a turning point for us at @yorkuniversity.bsky.social as @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake retire after 30+ yrs shaping critical urban scholarship. To honour them, we’re launching 2 endowment funds for early scholars💥. If you've been inspired by them: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
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Honouring the work of Roger and Linda - The City Institute at York University (CITY)
Dear  all, This spring marks a significant moment for the CITY Institute at York University and for critical urban scholarship.   Professors Roger Keil and Linda Peake, two long term forces behind CIT...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Infrastructure out of time www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners
Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Suburbia as sprawl, apotheosis of neoliberal society&space: "The aesthetic of Trumpism is sprawl–which had already infected the [US] long before the Maga movement ... Perhaps there is something authentic to suburban sprawl... But as everyday life [it's] deadening" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst
I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thanks @fennaimara.bsky.social for the very generous review of Infrastructural Times in Space and Polity! Paperback version coming soon from @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
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Infrastructural Times
Infrastructural Times - Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds; This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between tempor...
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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Today is bleak, but (via Engels) socialist politics means we (still) live in a rare era of world-historic possibility to abolish poverty & deliver freedom to all. MLK asserted similar w/, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let's keep fighting.
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"State as Auteur" is an incisive, provocative paper. I had the exciting opportunity to engage @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social's argument in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social and my commentary, "Time and the State in Digital Society", is out now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Time and the state in digital society - Jean-Paul D. Addie, 2025
In this commentary, I argue that while the digitalizing state mobilizes the anticipatory imaginary of network time, its own temporal ontology remains anchored i...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
What a treat from @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Santa! I had a great conversation about #IntfrastructuralTimes w/ @fennaimara.bsky.social, Himnashu Burte & Hanna Baumann: lots of insights & food for thought. Check out the podcast & the book, too! @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social
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Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New - if not first - article in Dialogues on Digital Society: "State as Auteur" by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social exploring timing - the synchronising of disparate events - as a mechanism of state craft in Kenya's digital transformations. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College! See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th! atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...
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Michael Glass @mrglassphd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Call for Abstracts: join us in Porto at #RSA25 for our special session on inclusive infrastructures and the dynamics of regional transformation. Details below... @jpaddie.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social @pillnj.bsky.social
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨We're recruiting a new Director of the Urban Studies Institute at GSU. This is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit in the heart of downtown #Atlanta! I'm chairing the search so reach out if you have Qs & please share widely: facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5053
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Director and Professor of the Urban Studies Institute
Director and Professor -Urban Studies InstituteThe Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University invites applications for the next Director of the Urban Studies Institute (USI). Qu...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn" - Driving the infrastructural region... www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...
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‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn
Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of i...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Georgia State is going to be undertaking some rapid university-led urban development over the next two years, aimed at creating a 'true college town downtown' (rather than a true #urban university... 🤔) news.gsu.edu/magazine/cre...
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Creating A True College Town Downtown
With a historic $80 million gift, Georgia State will embark on an ambitious campus transformation to integrate its downtown footprint and create vibrant, people-centered spaces for students and the ci...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Now out in Urban Studies: @mrglassphd.bsky.social & I question how infrastructural #futures are understood and materialized by key planning stakeholders in southwest Pennsylvania & make the case for ‘seeing like a region’ when examining infrastructural change journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism - Michael R Glass, Jean-Paul D Addie, 2024
The potential of infrastructure ‘as a solution’ is currently at the forefront of American political consciousness. Historic levels of investment in infrastructu...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Now with an official home in the Journal of Urban Affairs, check out mine and Kevin Ward's commentary on the *state* of #urban research, where we argue (amongst other things) that the location where we perform and write urban studies matters. Eprints here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6GAP2...
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
How are the changing dynamics of American urbanization impacting the landscape of post-secondary education? And how might #CommunityColleges support more inclusive & just urban futures? I've some thoughts in New Directions for Community Colleges, out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
More blue sky #NOIR thinking!
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Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds - co-edited with @mrglassphd.bsky.social @jen-nelles.bsky.social - is out April 23 and available to order from @brisunipress.bsky.social now! Check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructu...
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Infrastructural Times
Infrastructural Times - Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds; This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between tempor...
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