Global Corridor newsletter #12
"Bomb/Blockade/Bypass" is focused on the emerging geographies of the infrastructural blockade and attempts at establishing bypass infrastructures.
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...
Bomb/Blockade/Bypass: How the War on Iran turned into an Infrastructure War
Excited to participate in this GlobalCORRIDOR event organised by Catherine Ngahu in Nairobi. Join us in person/online for some great talks on global infrastructure projects in East Africa on Tues 26th May
biea.ac.uk/events/globa...
We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....as part of our ERC funded project
This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment.
globalcorridor.eu/atlas
The website features work out of the project inc publications, events + multi-media presentations based on new theory + emerging results from fieldwork across multiple urban + infrastructural sites in Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Italy, Pakistan, Uganda.
globalcorridor.eu
You can also read in-depth about the design, data collection and visualisation process undertaken as part of making the Atlas in the latest GlobalCORRIDOR Substack newsletter -
globalcorridor.substack.com/p/globalcorr...
More like displacement pressure later on across inner city neighbourhoods as we demonstrate with data in this report // sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...
This has been (and remains) a massive collective effort from a range of brilliant partners, collaborators, researchers, tech/designers + others. It has been truly wonderful to work with such a inspiring group of scholars, and shows what proper academic practice looks like.
We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc
'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study'
geography.org.uk/resources/po...
I have a new short piece out in Environment and Planning A journal
'The multipolarity and geo-politics of climate finance'
A response to Bryant and Webber's (amazing) book: Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
These resources for A level students and teachers consider urban change in Manchester, UK, and include a guided urban walk around the city centre to explore the nature of this regeneration.
Today, online lecture. Open to all
"Reapproaching extended urbanization in the Brazilian Amazonia" by Roberto Monte-Mor
sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
This online keynote is the opening keynote lecture in the Sheffield Urbanism programme. It is supported by Urban Institute in partnership with the University of Manchester (Global Development Institut...
