
Senior Lecturer @unimelb @msdsocial | Counter-cities, small cities, migration, care & infrastructure. Migrant Australian 🇦🇺, roots in Bangladesh 🇧🇩.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined June 2015
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Ash Alam retweeted
New research by @TheBigNA & @urbanmargin sheds light on how increasingly standardised production and consumption by an increasingly varied profile of residents are reconciled in the symbolic (re)enchantment of #suburbanism as a way of life
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Ash Alam@urbanmargin15 Dec 2024
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New article alert 👏
@TheBigNA & I analyse how growth area migrant suburbs and suburban lives are produced, mediated and consumed!
#suburb #Migrants
#Melbourne
@MSDSocial
Open access link: doi.org/10.1177/004209802412…
Ash Alam retweeted
New #OpenAccess article by @TheBigNA and @urbanmargin: The (re)enchantment of #suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne's outer suburbs
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#ExtendedUrbanisation #suburbanisation
Ash Alam retweeted
Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History
UHPH 2024, University of Sydney, July 11-13, 2024
Get into this conference I'm organising with the cool history crew.
antipodes.city/2023/11/07/re…
Ash Alam retweeted
Great to start the year by reflecting on #urbanresilience: I loved this no-frills #podcast chat with Lukas Petridis for our new @networkedcities @cityofmelbourne “City Resilience in Melbourne” miniseries, chatting #pandemics, #urbanheath & symbolic power
open.spotify.com/episode/1Sw… – at Melbourne, Victoria
Ash Alam retweeted
Do you love to hug a tree? 🌲🤗
@uowresearch & @UniMelb geographers have analysed @cityofmelbourne's 'email a tree' data.
Results may influence future urban policies and projects that aim to gauge public sentiments.
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@GeogResearch @WileyGeoAnthro
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Replying to @ACRN_SOAC @urbanmargin @iain_white @urbanizationist @UPRJournal @drtonymatthews @victoriauninews
So this is the view from @victoriauninews of #Wellington - WOW!
Came UP the *mountain* to the campus so I know exactly where the building that the conference is being held is.
#SOAC23 #SOAC2023 #Wellington #NZ #Aotearoa
Ash Alam retweeted
Not long until the start of #SOAC23 in #Wellington.
We kick off 2moro with #PhD/#ECR symposium.
#20yrs 2003-2023
#UrbanStudies #CityMatters #NZ
@urbanmargin
@iain_white
@CityByrne
@urbanizationist
@UPRJournal
@drtonymatthews
@Planographer
@Wellington_NZ
@victoriauninews
Ash Alam retweeted
🚨 Event alert!
Call for paper abstracts by 11 Dec for international symposium @Sydney_ADP
Join us for this event on 16 Feb 2024. @AnnaGawlewicz @SophiaMaalsen
Working on #HousingPrecarity #Migration #MarginalisedCommunities?
Some brilliant folk incl. @SophiaMaalsen @zahra_nasreen (among others) & I are organising a symposium 🤓
WHEN: 16 Feb 2024
WHERE: @Sydney_Uni 🇦🇺
Interested? Check the CFP 👇 & send us an abstract by 11 Dec 🤗
Ash Alam retweeted
Some happy news, amidst the grim world we live in. I am very happy to share that my first manuscript 'Unfolding Spatial Movements in The Second- Hand Book Market in Kolkata' - is finally coming out in December.
routledge.com/Unfolding-Spat…
Ash Alam retweeted
Big congratulations to #MPlan candidate Mollie Keaney who has handed in her #thesis two days early! Well done, Mollie. Mollie’s research is entitled “Ecological Connectivity in the Densifying City - Strategies for Enhancement”. #urbanplanning
#ecologicalplanning
#cityplanning
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We had a couple of farewell events for our wonderful colleague Dr Ash Alam @urbanmargin this week as he prepares to head to Melbourne. Here he is at the #MPlan celebrations, reminiscing over the year & awarding prizes sponsored by DCC. Thanks to Emerging Planners for the nibbles
Ash Alam retweeted
We’re really excited about our AusMob 2023 Symposium on Challenging Mobilities, 30 November 2023 @UniMelb! Come and join us 🤩 Free registration here: ausmob.com.au/symposium-2023
Ash Alam retweeted
Congrats Jon, this looks great! @InvisibleMapper – at Turin, Piedmont
‘The Infrastructural South’ is published + now out w/ @MITPress
You can buy it (or ask your library to) but also freely read it through the amazing @MITPress Open Access platform
You can find it here 👉mitpress.mit.edu/97802625468…
Enjoy 🙏
Ash Alam retweeted
Hey mob come and do a PhD @westernsydneyu
$50k scholarship available. I’d be particularly thrilled to take on a few new students. I can supervise Indigenous studies, education, sexuality/gender, human geography.
Details on how to apply are in the link.
westernsydney.edu.au/schools… – at Sydney, New South Wales
Ash Alam retweeted
‘The Infrastructural South’ is published + now out w/ @MITPress
You can buy it (or ask your library to) but also freely read it through the amazing @MITPress Open Access platform
You can find it here 👉mitpress.mit.edu/97802625468…
Enjoy 🙏
Ash Alam retweeted
Views on Urbanisation: Comparing the Global North and South 6:00pm Tomorrow 🗣️
Featuring: @MaxHolleran @Lata1319 @CrystalLegacy1
📍Woodward Conference Centre, Law Building (106)
No Registration Required: go.unimelb.edu.au/h8gs
Ash Alam retweeted
Come and work with us at UNSW! The Cities Institute is hiring an Associate Director First Nations and 2 x Scientia Fellows (focus areas: city infrastructure and city wellbeing).
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Ash Alam retweeted
Wonderful to get my copies of Homelessness published by @politybooks . Love that the paperback is out and affordable. Check it out politybooks.com/search?s=Hom… @BethWatts494 @ColvinKate @lifecourseAust @HASSUQ
Ash Alam retweeted
Social & Cultural Geography is looking for a new book review editor to join our wonderful editorial team🤩! Full details here: go.unimelb.edu.au/o77s







































