@giulioverdini
Urbanist | PhD | Associate Professor in Urban Planning University of Westminster, London | Co-coordinator Global South & East TG Group AESOP | Planners 4 Climate Action | Academic Advisor Union for the Mediterranean
“When you operate with such extraordinary violence, recklesness, lies and delusion, the results can be completely catastrophic” Jeffrey Sachs
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Last week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 : how resilient cities of the future should look like, looking at the water-energy-land nexus. A memorable 2 day workshop at #WIUT the International University of Westminster in Tashkent
Leaders of the future in Tunisia, an #icesco capacity building programme organised with the Ministry of Education and Youth in Tunis, 🇹🇳, 19-20 Jan 2026, great energy from the South!
Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon
ESRC Workshop 9-10 September 2025
Last day in Brazil
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UK-Brazil exchange on research and international cooperation in São Paulo 🇧🇷 part week. A great ESRC workshop to develop future collaborations with @luzne.bsky.social and colleagues from Caxias do Sul
‘Get to know the realpolitik of cities and planning’… the final message of Anacláudia Rossbach @un-habitat to all students in a packed lecture theatre today in Paris, at the 2025 Urban School inaugural lecture at Sciencepo sciencespo.fr/fr/evenements/…
Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.
Sweden and Belgium’s call to respect the role of advisory bodies like @icomos.bsky.social and #IUCN speaks volumes about the current state of the Committee, where recommendations from these advisory bodies are often overturned by member states. Paris, 13 July 2025.
It's been quite something to attend one of the sessions of the WHC @unesco.org 47 COM and witness the discussions on new World Heritage Site nominations.
Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx
"[D]evelopment finance is most needed where investors least want to go."
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It’s already one week ago but the workshop UOW-UIR in Rabat was successfully completed! Working on urban health and urban conservation to prevent further displacement and demolition!
Foresight in Bahrain 🇧🇭 can we imagine a future based on alternative system of mobility in the Gulf? Signs of change but still a long way to go .. great to be back for the Prime Minister Fellowship Programme on Urban Sustainability
About to finish the international conference for the post-earthquake of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey 🇹🇷 . Thanks to the scientific committee to give me the honour of the keynote on ‘Post-disaster Urban Futures and the role of Culture in Building Resilience’
The gates of Harvard University. The text reads: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W
Voices from the Ground, a new public #webinar series on solutions and best practices for sustainable tourism development by UN Tourism! Glad to be Keynote speaker!
🗓 9 April 2025
📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages
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A place worth visiting!
1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025”
🗓️02 April 2025
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✏️Register for 06:00: :https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AQCX7Aj7RDmPADCiwLTfWg
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Memories of last week at the Jaime Lerner Foundation with a group of enthusiastic people, glad to be supporting the newly launched chair in memory of the most influential planner of our time #jaimelerner. In Curitiba, 🇧🇷 with great women: Ariadne Daher and Ilana Lerner! 💕
Last week we concluded a series of workshops in Caxias do Sul, 🇧🇷, funded by #ESRC on post-disaster preparation, exploring, with local gov, business, and communities, how to enhance collaboration and assess vulnerabilities. Pictures: anticipatory and participatory tools in action @luzne.bsky.social
Just arrived in Caxia do Sul, Brazil 🇧🇷 for the International Week on Resilience, looking forward to work with UCS, the local government and local communities on post disaster recovery after the devastating flooding of May 24, with @luzne.bsky.social 💫
Now published open source💫:
‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’
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NEW: What makes BLUESKY the new “IT” place for Urbanists? It’s pretty significant that the American Planning Association is putting this out there to its huge membership. I was interviewed for it, as was @mitchellsilver.bsky.social & others.
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The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't.
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The UK Government has aligned with Trump and refused to sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration.
It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”
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Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social
Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1
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“There is no escaping our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations—our economic obligations—and our political obligations as the single largest counter to the adversaries of freedom,” -- John F. Kennedy
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Positive vision from the UK Chancellor on growth prospects. But to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" we need to understand what made SV successful in the first place. It was not just reducing barriers but decades of strategic, decentralised and entrepreneurial public investments. 1/13
"Before he died on Dec 29, Carter would go on to work on more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries. His backing helped transform Habitat for Humanity into a household name. Over the decades it has helped 62 million people build or renovate their homes...."
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