• The rise of Youtube “street content”

• My new favourite public art in Manchester

• The economic foundation of Manchester’s revival is the city centre

• The utter banality of getting what you fantasise about

• On misidentifying aggregation dynamics as social norms

• Delivery robots as evocative objects

• “Are you the police?”, “No, we’re Youtubers”

• To work and to build, to connect, and create

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• We shall always linger on in our former houses

• The Sheer Entertainment Value of the City’s Sights, Sounds and Smells: Gilbert and George at the Heywood Gallery

• Why I find Manchester in 2025 architecturally depressing, but in an interesting way, in one photo

• On respect for what exists

• A poor lost and confused fox running down one of Manchester’s main shopping street in the middle of the day 😢

• The limp charade of Cambridge in the 2020s

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #103

• Gulls are urbanists, as fiercely identified with that status as any bearded gentrifier

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #97

• In late modernity the signposts established by tradition are now blank

• How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

• CfP: Sociology of the 1980s

• The end is where we start from

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• Current mood in AI generated images #63

• The institutional hole at the heart of Manchester

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Building local journalism around quality rather than quantity

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• Why does South Manchester monopolise the economic gains of the city’s growth?

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• On metronormativity

• The abandoned city

• From gated communities to moated communities

• Iain Sinclair on the self-importance of Cambridge

• The fortress city scenario 

• How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

• On the Street Where you Live: Bourdieusian analysis of socio-spatial hierarchy

• From “I’m alright, Jack” to “Fuck you, Jack”

• Why ask “why talk”?

• Queering the Creative City – Call for Papers

• The Fall – Way Round

• Money, Power and Opportunity in the Late Modern City, or, isn’t it a shame J G Ballard isn’t around to see this?