Jon Silver

Professor of Urban Geography | Deputy Director @Urban_Inst |

[The Urban Institute @Urban_Inst]

We are pleased to announce the launch of the GlobalCORRIDOR website which provides a repository of project work including publications from academic papers to public reports, films and events.

https://t.co/JNarfjBSHE

[Fatima Tassadiq @fatimatassadiq]

I am so thrilled that the GlobalCORRIDOR website is up! I have been working on this project since 2022.

The Atlas documents dozens of transnational infrastructure corridors across the world. Check out the website for our research articles, reports, podcasts & documentaries.

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

@vikkink Thanks for taking a look. We still have work to do but have started on the International North–South Transport Corridor (some data from Russian investments showing up).

https://t.co/MrZ4lOyywi

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

This has been (and remains) a massive collective effort from a range of brilliant partners, collaborators, researchers, tech/designers + others. It has been truly wonderful to work with such a inspiring group of scholars, and shows what proper academic practice looks like.

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

We are launching our GlobalCORRIDOR Atlas today, alongside our project website....

This beta version features dozens of corridors, hundreds of infrastructure projects, nearly a trillion dollars of investment.

https://t.co/G8D3B6vZVN

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

You can also read in-depth about the design, data collection and visualisation process undertaken as part of making the Atlas in the latest GlobalCORRIDOR Substack newsletter -

https://t.co/N76TmQx0ma

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

This is what Gaza will be like after 70% of its land is confiscated. More than two million people will be forced to live in what remains of it. Just imagine — they will be living among rubble, garbage, rats, rodents, and sewage water. If this situation continues, and political bets on regional changes that may never happen persist, I assure you that the plan for displacement and forced transfer, whether voluntary or by force, will move forward.

[GM Friends of Palestine @GMF_Palestine]

Manchester cafe owner says police tried to recruit him to spy on Palestine Action

Exclusive: Shams Sadiq says officers offered financial inducements and to turn a ‘blind eye’ to certain offences

https://t.co/Qpz9wiSdlz

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

I travelled to Qatar and hung out with and around the trilingual Palestinian pop phenomenon Saint Levant. This Guardian long read is about his story, but also the contemporaneous solidarity and policing of Arab culture since 2023.

https://t.co/ngEMrf1qLO

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Genocide.

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

In the absence of clarity we can also make an educated guess.

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

Burnham’s vision could be public subsidies for rentier capitalism (the mayor’s fund lent one developer £700m for skyscrapers) or it could be co-operative/mutualism and public ownership.

We simply don’t know at this stage and I think it would be useful to clarify

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

Is Manchester(ism) going to transform towns from Grimsby to Barnsley to Shrewsbury into one big expensive, unsustainable glass tower for rentier capitalism?

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

@djmuel_ Got it! but I think it needs spelling out for others on this thread :-)

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

Is Manchester(ism) going to transform towns from Grimsby to Barnsley to Shrewsbury into one big expensive, unsustainable glass tower for rentier capitalism?

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

@SiouxsieShoo @tonymc39 Read something !

https://t.co/glao7OwDas

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

@djmuel_ We should be pushing for public ownership not just control but yes the Bee Line is a massive step forward (and x10 better as a user)

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

@501mossy I just sit in the tower looking at the internet

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

Or is it going to own infrastructure assets like Manchester Airport or control public services like the Bee Line buses?

Hard to know at this stage and some clarity would be welcome

[Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael]

An Israeli unit's "homecoming" party featured a display of their well-documented annihilation of southern Lebanon's villages, met with cheers and laughter from crowds of soldiers, their relatives, and family members.

It is a scene impossible to see anywhere but Israel.