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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Dark cities - new article, British Journal of Criminology, looking at the relationship between normless space of finance, politics, law, and the illicit finance economy and its darkening influence on the urban social domain: tinyurl.com/6hw2t8vn

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Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

📢Just arrived: Crime, Space and Place New Geographical Perspectives by Tim Hall and Richard Yarwood “Responds incredibly well to student needs... a very welcome addition for courses.” - @qurbanist.bsky.social www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... #criminology #socialgeography

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A statement of condemnation of the domicide in Gaza from the global housing studies community, please use this link to read and sign. Your name will not be shown publicly. Please share the link, and the existence of the statement itself: forms.gle/uruHL2hwn7xq...

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Professor Beth Perry @itsbethperry.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Another fascinating duo of guests joining us on this episode to discuss @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's rise in #NYC and whether we need a #wealthtax on the super rich Thanks @katiepruszynski.bsky.social and @qurbanist.bsky.social Listen to #urbanradar now ...

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A reminder that this live event on the global capitalist class is at 4pm tomorrow at the University of Sheffield. All welcome. This particular event in our series will not be recorded.

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Bert Russell @bertrussell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We don’t need to increase productivity. We need to abolish socially unproductive work. That’s the starting point for improving social well-being.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Richard Littlejohn mostly lives in a gated mansion in Florida. Andrew Neil mostly lives in Grasse in the South of France.

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Keir Starmer hands out excellent prospective book titles to critical sociologists too eagerly - Island of Strangers: Emulation, Inequality and Despair in British Politics perhaps.....

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This is the Labour MP for Pendle & Clitheroe who hilariously believes in "a very powerful higher education lobby" (that will be why thousands of university staff are being made redundant this year presumably). With 'friends' like this who needs Farage & Badenoch as enemies?

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Its hard to fathom the logic of senior management going to ground and avoiding discussion with its own professional association. Dialogue is always the answer and the easiest means of dissipating anxiety over institutional change.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Three years since Fortress London hit the bookshops. Still in love with this front cover. No idea why we changed it for the paperback

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lecture 3 of Urban Riches, with Katie Higgins, 18 June at 4pm. Details in the attached image, cutting-edge global study from one of the core urban riches team, please share. We hope to circulate a live link in due course.

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Professor Beth Perry @itsbethperry.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One for the diary. Another inspiring discussion from the Urban Riches team planned for June ... @invisiblemapper.bsky.social @qurbanist.bsky.social

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Trumps attack on the elites - Rufo has frequently denounced what he calls the left’s “ideological capture” of America’s universities...said his goal was to change the way the federal government funds universities “in a way that puts them in an existential terror”

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The canary in the mine? This excellent interview a must-watch for academics looking at the Columbia university horror-show, fascism arrives noisily but not all are noticing. Deportation is the start. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgx2...

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America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Word of the day is ultracrepidate - to criticize beyond the sphere of one's knowledge (Chambers Thesaurus, 5th edition).

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Eva Gajek @evagajek.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Felix Römer and I take a deep dive into the term and concept of wealth in Docupedia —worth a read! docupedia.de/zg/gajek_roe...

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Reichtum | Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Even the cards can be against you...

A "no trumps" hanging sign used by card game players in an antique shop window.

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It is an unfortunate sign of where we are that, in an attention economy, hiding your humanity becomes a winning strategy.

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Festival of Social Action is a series of public events being organised by Change Lab, an initiative being run within Sheffield Student Union. Event list: shorturl.at/72XK0 I will be speaking on Jets, Planes, and Rocketmobiles 25th March, free registration here - shorturl.at/Z2Afb

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Festival for Social Action

Welcome to the Festival of Social Action, a week of collaborative events to inspire people to get involved and drive positive change in their local communities. All of the events are free and open to...

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Spent a while last night picking out the planets in the beautiful clear sky, but after a while the most striking thing was quite how many starlink satellites there are. That guy is really taking over everything.

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

So the makers of the 'Trump Gaza' video are bemused that their work was broadcast by Trump 'out of context', leaving many questions still unanswered about the purpose of the video - www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

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'Trump Gaza' AI video creators say they don't want to be the president's 'propaganda machine'

Co-creators Solo Avital and Ariel Vromen said they’re not sure how their video made its way to the president and that the video was meant to be satirical.

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A real-estate president's AI vision of the future of Gaza. From horror, $$$$ This did not possibly seem to be credible, but now reported on Sky here: news.sky.com/story/trump-...

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In ten minutes a day Democracy Now's daily briefing has made me feel more informed (also depressed, angry and upset) than any other in recent years. Wonderful really. www.youtube.com/@DemocracyNow

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is a viewer-supported independent, global weekday news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The show is broadcast on more than 1,500 TV, radio and i...

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is half an hour well spent, I have been looking at a lot of stuff lately about the loss of ability to read and focus, this video considers rising acceptance of content selected for us by platforms. Thought-provoking and useful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

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Algorithms are breaking how we think

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Despite my love of cinema I have ended Amazon prime and all subscriptions, not having ordered anything online for years felt like some kind of excuse. Inspired by a colleague, doing something that collectively could be highly destructive to the mad high cultists.

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Word of the week - revanchism (and likely the next four years).

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

With Yixin (Eason) in the lead, our paper on the invisible dwellers of public space is formally out.

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New report - an incisive and disturbing read: essential to understand the relationships between growth-led development, housing and local communities From @invisiblemapper.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @adamleaver.bsky.social in @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social & School of Management

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

One of the unexpected things about having a social sciences PhD in the U.K. from 15 years ago is how often the Marxist reading list authors now pop up in British media explaining why universities need to make huge cuts (while they take home huge V-C and similar salaries).

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We're delighted to be formally launching Sheffield Urbanism next week with a series of public events (alongside internal workshops to cook up future plans...) All of the below are open to the public, see below for details on how to sign up!

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If anyone here is on X, please get off it, don't buy a Tesla and indeed engage in any other small act that may help to defang the great amplifier of hatred. There are no academic, commercial or social reasons left to be on X. X'it now.

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Carl Lee @drcarllee.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Planning permissiion has been granted for what will be Sheffield's tallest building - 40 floor (430 flats) co-living project by Manchester developers Oppidan www.constructionenquirer.com/2024/01/16/g...

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Go-ahead for 40-storey Sheffield co-living tower

Green light to demolish former Primark in Sheffield city centre

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Next week, David Dodman of the Institute for Housing & Urban Development Studies at Erasmus Uni will give a public talk for Sheffield Urbanism: ‘(Urban) Infrastructures, informalities and Climate Policies' Tues 28 Jan Sign up below! In person - tinyurl.com/mfcr3rjj Online - tinyurl.com/ycytun9z

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(Urban) Infrastructures, informalities and Climate Policies - IN PERSON

David Dodman, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, University of Rotterdam

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

When Elon Musk says how excited he is to take Doge (coin) to Mars, does he realise that no consumers actually live there?

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Tom Goodfellow @goodfellowtom.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Looking forward to this, as part of our week celebrating the launch of @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social later this month!

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The next public event as part of the Urban Riches group sees our Sheffield launch of Isaac Rose's excellent analysis of Manchester - The Rentier City. All are very welcome! Registration for this free public event in Sheffield here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch: Isaac Rose's 'The Rentier City '

Book Launch: Isaac Rose's 'The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis’, Channing Hall, Sheffield City Centre

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

FTSE 100 CEO gets more in less than 3 days than average worker pay for a yr. Median CEO pay £4.22m, 113 times average worker. Nothing to do with performance. Shareholder objections ignored. Need worker-elected directors on boards. Let workers vote on exec pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year

Bosses to hit milestone on third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of £1,298, says High Pay Centre

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

City capture, pol capture, social capture. An end of year wrap-up...

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Machinedrum - Human energy (2017) - playing out the final work day of 2024... Shut down imminent, gmail extracted from phone, books selected, brain on standby.

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Book talk coming up in Sheffield for Isaac Rose’s 'Rentier City' - a public event on the housing crisis and new finance in Manchester and Sheffield, w/ Sheff Tenants Union + org by the UI/Urban Riches (@qurbanist.bsky.social) Jan 30th, 6.30 (Venue TBC) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch: Isaac Rose's 'The Rentier City '

Book Launch: Isaac Rose's 'The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis’, Off Campus Venue to be confirmed

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Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I just pasted some non-bold text into another part of a word document which then appeared in bold. It is 2024.

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