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When vacancy is normalised and access is criminalised, “property” is doing political work. CITY’s new editorial, by @SJBurgum takes trespass seriously as a window onto urban life.
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Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability
S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil
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Imposing immobility and making mobility: an infrastructural reading of Beijing’s impactful but ineffective temporal mode of COVID governance
Liqiao Luo
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New cartographies of heterotopic posturban cities in S. B. Divya's Machinehood (2021)
Chakshu Gupta & Isha Malhotra
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Inherited obligations and architectures of debt: reimagining futures for Kingston, Jamaica
Valeria Guzmán Verri
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Plural commons: translation as a relational practice
Beatrice De Carli, Ana Méndez de Andés Aldama, Emre Akbil, Jakleen Al-Dalal'a ,Maria Alexandrescu, Esra Can, Doina Petrescu & Lara Scharf
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The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR.
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A proposal for a Sensory Archive: a participatory, digital evidence base of what violence affecting young people looks, sounds and feels like, beyond conventional metrics.
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#UrbanStudies #YouthJustice #ParticipatoryResearch
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Philanthropy as Plunder
Bill Gates doesn’t donate to save the world, he invests to own it. By capturing seed banks, gutting global protections, and weaponising “net zero,” land becomes collateral and life becomes property. This isn’t climate action; it’s enclosure, updated for empire.
“It’s a land grab.” Watch till the end…
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Forum on Climate change and urban agrarian solidarities.
From food, water, and energy to social reproduction, the forum asks: how do we move from urban agrarian opposition to political solidarity?
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Really looking forward to @mona_fawaz's lecture hosted by @CITYanalysis and @LSEsociology! Catalina Ortiz will be the discussant, I'll be chairing. 6:30pm on 2 March in Alumni Theatre in LSE's Cheng Kin Ku Building lse.ac.uk/sociology/even…
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🏙️ CITY Annual Lecture 2026
Planning amid division: the politics of the public in Beirut
Lecture by Prof Mona Fawaz (AUB)
Discussant: Catalina Ortiz (UCL)
Chair: Dr David Madden (LSE)
Mon 2 March 2026, 6.30pm to 8pm, LSE
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As the genocide in Gaza grows obscured and muted, the evidence of apartheid practices keeps mounting: see the latest UN report exposing Israel’s asphyxiating regime on Palestinians in the West Bank.
I await the day the ICC issues indictments for apartheid.
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“It’s just that all of these Caribbean resorts look exactly the same to me. It’s just a random beach.”
“Oh I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You sit at your laptop, and you select… I don’t know, that all-inclusive resort for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what cookie-cutter consumerist hotel your parents made you go to.
But what you don’t know is that hotel isn’t just all-inclusive, it’s not Ixtapa, it’s not Zihuatanejo. It’s actually Cancún. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in the late 60s, Mexico ran a huge trade deficit with the US. They were industrializing rapidly, importing machinery and materials that had to be paid for in dollars. Then I believe it was INFRATUR, wasn’t it, that actually spent months building a computer model, feeding data to an IBM 360 to analyze Mexico’s entire coastline, evaluating climate, beach quality, accessibility, and development costs.
Then they identified Cancún as a strategic tourism development zone, deliberately modeled on postwar Mediterranean resort economies. By the mid-1990s, major U.S. and European hotel chains standardized the all-inclusive resort model there. That model was then replicated, refined, and exported across the Caribbean.
Eventually, that choice filtered down through Expedia algorithms, airline bundle deals, and trickled on down into some TikTok’s influencer video which you no doubt watched in bed doom scrolling. However, Cancún represents billions of dollars in coordinated state planning, private capital, labor arbitrage, and tourism dependency. Tens of thousands of jobs. Entire regional supply chains.
And it’s sort of comical that you think you simply picked "a random beach" when in fact you’re sipping a piña colada at a resort selected for you by the Mexican federal government’s years-long optimization process… from a bunch of random beaches.”
Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi
Cancun is not my cup of tea, but boy is it an incredible success story of engineering: the Mexican government engineered a tourist hotspot custom-built to attract American dollars, from a place that had nothing in 5 short years. In the late 60s, Mexico ran a huge trade deficit with the US. They were industrializing rapidly, importing machinery and materials that had to be paid for in dollars. Tourism offered a solution, a way to earn foreign currency using assets Mexico already had: beaches, climate, and ancient ruins. They actually spent months building a computer model, feeding data to an IBM 360 to analyze Mexico’s entire coastline, evaluating climate, beach quality, accessibility, and development costs. The computer selected Cancun #1, a remote sandbar that had a population of 3 people during the 1970 census. The 2nd option was Ixtapa. Cancuns location was perfect: turquoise water, white sand, ideal weather, and proximate to all of the eastern seaboard, the largest concentration of Americans enduring brutal winters and seeking affordable beach escapes. Hawaii was already popular for folks on the west coast but Cancun offered what Hawaii couldn’t: a winter getaway without the 12+ hour flight, and a much cheaper experience. The Caribbean location and dry season from November to April aligned perfectly with when East Coasters most desperately wanted sun. The government invested over $100 million in infrastructure, building an international airport, roads, utilities, and dredging lagoons. They built the hotel zone for foreigners and downtown Cancun for workers, all in 5 years They marketed Cancun aggressively to Americans, positioning it as a safe, convenient Caribbean alternative with better prices than anywhere else. Hotels catered explicitly to American tastes with English-speaking staff, American brands (Hyatt, Hilton etc) familiar food options, and all-inclusive packages. The genius was creating a place where Americans could feel like they’d “been to Mexico” without experiencing much of Mexico at all - you could go to a Hilton, speak English, eat burgers and hot dogs, pay in dollars, but get to say you went abroad. At the time, “going abroad" was often seen as something for the wealthy or the adventurous. For many Americans, especially those from the interior who don’t travel internationally often (as you see on the map) a Cancun vacation counts as cultural exploration, a stamp in the passport that feels adventurous while remaining completely comfortable and affordable. You didn’t need a passport to go there until 2007, which was helpful too. The whole thing worked brilliantly, beyond their expectations. They started the project in 1970 and welcomed the first guest in 1975. By 1980, Cancun had grown to a half million tourists and a population of 34,000 supporting tourism. Cancun is EXACTLY what Mexico designed it to be: a dollar-extraction machine that turns American desire for easy, safe “foreign” travel into billions of dollars flowing to Mexico. —- This story from the New York Times in 1972 was a good read: Mexico had a young Harvard-trained head of INFRATUR spearheading the program nytimes.com/1972/03/05/arc…
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You are not describing history.
You are describing the American bedtime story about history.
Let me remind you what actually happened on our soil, not in your textbooks.
North Vietnam did not "invade" South Vietnam.
Vietnam was one nation that foreign powers divided on paper and expected us to accept the way a prisoner accepts the shape of his cell.
There is no "North Vietnamese people" and "South Vietnamese people."
There is only one Vietnamese people separated by a imaginary line drawn by outsiders.
You talk about 1954 as if the partition was destiny.
It was not.
The Geneva Accords mandated free and fair elections in 1956, so the Vietnamese could reunify peacefully.
Eisenhower’s own intelligence admitted Hồ Chí Minh would win by 80 percent.
That is why the United States blocked the elections.
That is why your puppet regime was installed.
That is why the country was carved in two to prevent democracy, not defend it.
You call our president Hồ Chí Minh a "brutal scourge."
Your CIA called him "the George Washington of Vietnam."
The only thing dangerous about him was that he wanted a Vietnam not ruled by France, Japan, or America.
But let us talk about the Gulf of Tonkin, since you think "the rest is history."
There was no second attack.
There was no assault on the Turner Joy.
There was only American radar chasing ghosts in a storm, and a White House searching for the excuse it needed to unleash a war it had already decided to fight.
McNamara admitted it.
The NSA declassified the evidence.
Your own navy officers testified the incident never happened.
Yet from that lie came three million Vietnamese dead, eight million tons of bombs, Agent Orange burned into our soil and our DNA, entire provinces turned into moonscapes.
And you still recite this story as if the United States came to rescue us from ourselves.
Let me be very clear:
America did not enter Vietnam to "help" South Vietnam.
America entered Vietnam to prevent the independence of a country that refused to kneel to Western power.
The people who fought the United States were not foreign invaders.
They were farmers defending the same land their ancestors defended for over 2,000 years against the Han, the Tang, the Song, the Mongols, the Ming, the Qing, the French, and the Japanese.
We were not fighting for communism.
We were fighting for Vietnam.
And we won.
That is the part your version always forgets.
You lost a war you cannot psychologically accept losing, so you rewrite it as a morality play where America tried to save a "good" Vietnam from a "bad" one.
There was no good Vietnam and bad Vietnam.
There was only Vietnam
And the empire that tried to break it.
The rest is not history.
The rest is denial.
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The United States military entered Vietnam to help south Vietnamese from the brutal scourges of communism in north Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, who decided to invade and overtake south Vietnam. Initially, U.S. involvement was limited to military aid and advisory support following the partition of Vietnam after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. The pivotal moment came in August 1964, when two U.S. destroyers, the Maddox and the Turner Joy, stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin, reported being attacked by North Vietnamese forces. And the rest is history.
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⛔️ CRIMINAL.
Every Palestinian is a terrorist for the Israeli army, starting with 8 and 11 year old children. This is the genocide logic which the so-called ‘ceasefire’ has not changed one inch. States must impose an ARMS EMBARGO and sanctions on Israel, not empty 'peace plans'.
Assal Rad@AssalRad
An incredible community note for the “most moral army in the world.”
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The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
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A special moment.
Thank you Baroness Burt of Solihull for addressing links we identify in our research + book btw domestic abuse (DA), debt, and homelessness + for calling on gov to ensure that DA survivors are not disqualified from social housing by debt accrued through DA
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