@JP_Addie

Associate Prof of Urban Studies @urban_gsu Not here. Here: @jpaddie.bsky.social

 USI@GSU, Atlanta, GA
urbaninstitute.gsu.edu/profile/jean-paul-addie/
Joined February 2012
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🚨 Book announcement! 🚨 Our @NOIR_RSA edited book, Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds, will be out April 23 and is now available to order now from @BrisUniPress: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk…
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🚨We're recruiting a new Director @urban_gsu: this is a great opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary urban studies unit, housed in a top policy school @aysps in the heart of downtown #Atlanta! See/share the job post here & reach out if you have Qs: facultycareers.gsu.edu/posti…
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The position might of interest to folks connected to @UAAnews @theAAG @ISA_RC21 @regstud @BlackGeogs @ASAnews @The_ACSP @ComUrbASA @APSAtweets @ABSociologists @socwomen @NCOBPSTweets & readers of @urbgeog @USJ_online @CITYanalysis @CiCoJournal @IJURResearch - thanks for sharing!
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GSU Geosciences@GSUGEOS23 Oct 2024
A huge kudos goes out to GEOS alum and current @urban_gsu PhD student Ryan Pardue (MS ’23), who recently published his first scholarly paper in @economyandspace, co-authored with @kyjts! 👏🥳👏 Check it out at the link below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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GSU Geosciences@GSUGEOS21 Oct 2024
Please join us and our colleagues @urban_gsu for another co-sponsored colloquium presentation this Thursday at 3pm. We’ll be joined by @jostehlin of @GES_UNCG, who will be presenting his work on the political economies and political ecologies of urban highway renewal!
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Come talk infrastructuring regions with us in Detroit #AAG2025 @NOIR_RSA
NOIR (RSA Network on Infrastructural Regionalism)@NOIR_RSA4 Oct 2024
If you're working on urban and regional infrastructure and are planning on heading to Detroit for the #AAG2025, please consider submitting an abstract to our @NOIR_RSA session on Infrastructuring Regions: Border, Corridors, Networks
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Amy Lamé has stepped down as London’s night czar – and nightlife could be poorer for it | Ed Gillett

She was derided as toothless and overpaid – but often by right-wingers with a broader motive. Rather than cheer her departure, let’s advocate for London’s vibrant culture

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My article 'Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’ @DialoguesHG Through planning archives of Shimla, India, I conceptualise how temporal ordering of a colonial state is reflected in postcolonial imaginaries of smart urban futures doi.org/10.1177/204382062412…

Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’ - Ayona Datta, 2026

Recent geographical scholarship has mainly focussed on the disjunctures between linear and cyclical time in urban development. This paper proposes a notion of d...

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Looking forward to discussing this Dialogue with our grad students next week @urban_gsu
DialoguesinUrbanResearch@DialoguesinR12 Sep 2024
Read @RossBeveridge5 and Phillipe Koch on urban democracy. Amazing commentaries from Julie-Anne Boudreau, David Imbroscio, @kurtiveson, @peggy443 and Warren Magnusson. A big thank you from DiUR. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Seeing democracy like a city - Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch, 2024

Urbanisation is changing landscapes, social relations and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanisation is also changing the ways democracy is understood an...

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I can't help but think @MicheleAcuto has something to do with this... Leaves Melbourne and the spiders get dumber. Is @networkedcities planning an arachnid #night class? theguardian.com/environment/…

Light pollution is shrinking the brains of city-dwelling spiders, study says

Research into juvenile garden orb weaving spiders in Melbourne shows light reduced their ability to climb and hunt

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“Every time a politician says they want more economic growth, we need to ask: growth of what and for whose benefit?” theguardian.com/environment/…

‘These ideas are incredibly popular’: what is degrowth and can it save the planet?

The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring

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Cross-border infrastructural regionalism @NOIR_RSA theguardian.com/world/articl…

Like ‘using Lego blocks’: record-breaking tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany takes shape

Tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe

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"Infrastructures are central to processes of state formation." In our latest issue, @DRMcCarthy1 writes about the politics of technological design in International Relations. The article is #OpenAccess, so be sure to have a read! 📄👉 buff.ly/3yuzhpD
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By focusing on incremental and #LongRangePlanning, @mrglassphd.bsky.social and @JP_Addie assess #infrastructure as material and political objects of analysis that often delineate the socio-spatial parameters of collective infrastructural imaginaries ow.ly/5XZb50SNJKI
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Through a case study of the #SouthwestPennsylvania Commission, @mrglassphd.bsky.social and @JP_Addie question how #InfrastructureFutures are understood and materialised by the region’s central planning stakeholders ow.ly/5XZb50SNJKI #RegionalGovernance #MPOs
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We make the case for ‘seeing like a region’ when examining infrastructural change, as infrastructure systems regularly transcend the boundaries of urban space and hence become enmeshed in the goals of broader constituencies and interests. 2/
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Our analysis demonstrates how solutions proffered by urban infrastructure are confounded by regional dynamics, but also identify regional approaches that might foster equitable futures within the spatial envelopes created through 'infrastructural regionalism' 3/
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New paper with Michael Glass now out in @USJ_online! Through a case study of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, we question how infrastructural #futures are understood and materialized by the region’s central planning stakeholders... 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban...

The potential of infrastructure ‘as a solution’ is currently at the forefront of American political consciousness. Historic levels of investment in infrastructu...

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"Abramson was tasked with finding ways to make Georgia State feel a little less like a downtown and more like a college town" ... news.gsu.edu/magazine/the-gs…

The New, Blue Campus Connector

The GSU Blue Line, a new 3.7-mile marked walking path, will connect the campus, create distinctive quads, build a better sense of place and, ultimately, become a destination in itself at Georgia...

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Snuggle up with a cute and cozy global pathogen! What moment of late-stage capitalism is this, @rkeil …?
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