Airbnb sets property values. Google Maps creates and destroys retail corridors. Uber redraws urban mobility.
These platforms don't describe cities. They reconstruct them.
A new layer of the city's anatomy — no architect, no plan.
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Ukraine's Embassy in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg raised formal concerns over the scheduled performance of Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko at the Luxembourg Philharmonic on 15 June 2026
Netrebko has publicly supported Russia's President Vladimir Putin
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Just stumbled on this very interesting 1984 David Harvey lecture recorded by the Torsten Hägerstrand-Anne Buttimer Dialogues project. They recorded hundreds of these with people they considered relevant to human geography and distributed internationally as VHS tapes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC5_...
The newest issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (@globalenvironment.bsky.social) is guest edited by PhD candidate Lijuan Klassen & RCC Director Christof Mauch!
It brings an environmental humanities perspective to planetary health: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current
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The CEO of Volvo is on record as saying that if someone invented the car today and tried to get government approval it would fail. A 2 ton box that would probably be used to move only 1 person but collectively they would kill over 3000 people worldwide a day. Puts it into prospective.