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Affect In the City (AFFINITY): The Emotional Dimensions of Urban Justice. Posting updates and lit reviews on philosophy, cities & affect. MSCA/YUFE4Postdocs EU-funded project (25-28) 📍Antwerp/Madrid Views my own: @lopezcantero.bsky.social #philsky

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"A single public space is never going to be able to support the common activities of too many people . . . What matters is whether an urban environment has a rich infrastructural network of public facilities that support an abundance of different activities." Good stuff from Jack Layton ⚽

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

SUVs can be considered what is known as a “hostile scaffold”: an element of the environment that negatively affects one’s cognitive and affective processes. For example, it can make pedestrians afraid (specially children) and feel out of place in streets, which now belong to monster cars #philsky

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent paper, and great empirical counterpart to David Jenkins argument on gentrification as an unjust multi-level productive process (w a more fine-grained taxonomy of gentrif regimes). As a bonus, it focuses on Luxembourg—also v useful since philosophy of housing can be a bit too US-centric

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Classifying 15-minute Cities: A review of worldwide practices * By Teixeira F. J. & al * In Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Volume 189, November 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

As a philosopher of cities AND love, I cannot wait to read all the articles! May also be of interest to my friends at @clsrleeds.bsky.social #philsky

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone into #cartography, #transit, #design or #rail #transport #history should check this out. One of the foremost #schematic concepts to influence todays #map & #diagram designers. (Reposting this a bit late from Joe Brown’s excellent BlueSky thread - also worth adding if you have not already).

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Raises really interesting questions about how we value our shared social and cultural infrastructure and how we manage the tensions of urban spaces.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Currently reading this report by Prof @alisonstenning.bsky.social on the connection between street play & loneliness, which I will definitely use for my work in progress on proximity and affective scaffolding for the Moral Psychology of Loneliness collection #philsky playingout.net/wp-content/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Currently on my commute listening to this ⬇️ Intrigued by their view of the commons as requiring a “community of action giving meaning to these spaces”, so places like gated communities are not commons, but neither are cafes, streets or parks by themselves #philsky open.spotify.com/episode/6bsb...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Back on the other place, I developed a thread about how pieces on child poverty were regularly illustrated with images of children playing in their neighbourhoods, yet play (deprivation) rarely features in mainstream discussions of child poverty. Here’s another example.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

In year 1 I will (re-)read a lot of stuff on cities and affect. This is a v new topic in phil, but there is a lot to explore from other areas of phil & other disciplines. I will be sharing my readings here as “AFFINITY lit review” short threads, but here is an overview of what is coming! #philsky 🚶🏽‍♀️🌇

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Hello Bluesky! Here is a brief description of the project. In the next 3 years, I will explore topics like community, loneliness, home, or self-narration in connection with urban affective justice.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments