@Citiesandstuff

interested in all sorts of things about cities, traffic, public space, and exercise ... @citiesandstuff.bsky.social

 london, uk (mostly)
Joined May 2015
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(1/13) Interested thinking about how human geographers work with the spoken word in their research? Then you’ll find this special section in Area @RGS_IBG useful rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.…

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📢New paper published as part of upcoming #AreaJournal Special Section 'Inside the Notebook': 'Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago' by @dadelos_s (@ULagosOficial). #OpenAccess ✍️ doi.org/10.1111/area.12932
Title and abstract for 'Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago' by Soledad Martínez in Area.

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Author's colourful handwritten fieldnotes.

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🔊New paper published as part of upcoming #Areajournal Special Section 'Inside the Notebook' by @DrLaytonJ (@icstudiesuk): 'Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park'. doi.org/10.1111/area.12926
Title and abstract for 'Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park' by Jack Layton in Area.

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📣New paper published in #AreaJournal by @Tatiana_Thieme (@UCLgeography) as part of the upcoming Special Section 'Inside the Notebook': 'The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood'. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/area.12922
Title and abstract for 'The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood' by Tatiana A. Thieme in Area.

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Sketch of Kibichoi base in Huruma, Nairobi. 2016.

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So this is happening this evening. If you're in London come along. Should be fun and there's cake afterwards!
UCL Geography@UCLgeography11 Dec 2023
🔍Curious how urban fitness can impact the way our cities are formed? Join us for @Citiesandstuff #InauguralLecture on 13th December 🏙️

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So I'm doing this inaugural lecture thing next week and you should all totally go to it.
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🤸‍♂️🏃‍♀️🚴‍♂️ Cities are bustling hubs of activity! People are climbing, running, cycling, swimming, dancing, and more. In @Citiesandstuff's #InauguralLecture, he'll explore how social researchers unravel the intricate connection between city life and these activities.

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🌆 Event Alert! Join us on 13 December, 6:15pm for "Kinaesthetic Cities: Public Spaces and Everyday Practices of Sport and Fitness" @Citiesandstuff's #InauguralLecture. Explore the intersection of city life and physical fitness in urban spaces! #UrbanGeography

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'The results indicate a wide array of affective experiences related to place and suggest how enabling places for people with diverse needs and preferences may be conceptualised.' - @vivekaguzman (@RCSI_Irl) et al. in recent #areajournal special section orlo.uk/zbOok
Title and abstract for ‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing- in- place in Ireland during COVID- 19' by Viveka Guzman, Ronan Foley, Frank Doyle, and Maria Pertl in Area.

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They very kindly did a review forum of my book on greenspace experience and everyday practice in Social and Cultural Geog. Thanks to @profgpw @DrJennyA @davidbissell and @DrCecilyMaller for saying nice (also v insightful) things! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…

The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental Estrangement in Everyday Life, by Russell Hitchings. London:...

Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2024)

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"No serious work ever started out with a theory" RIP Howie Becker journals.sagepub.com/doi/epd…
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Moral decline is an illusion – we’re no more badly behaved than our ancestors | Torsten Bell theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Moral decline is an illusion – we’re no more badly behaved than our ancestors | Torsten Bell

New research has found that the good old days were nothing of the sort

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'More could be said about different ways of handing the issues that surface when we turn to some of our most popular ways of working with talk in human geography.' - Russell Hitchings & @Citiesandstuff (@UCLgeography) in recent #areajournal special section orlo.uk/jKDvx
Title and abstract for 'Working with the spoken word: A candid conference conversation and some original ideas' by Russell Hitchings and Alan Latham in Area.

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(12/13) All of the papers are open access. And the papers should be really helpful for teaching budding social researchers.
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(13/13) With thanks to Big Phil Emmerson @PhilEmmerson and Sarah M Hall @Sarah_M_Hall for their editorial nous! And all of your experts who reviewed and improved the papers!
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