Alan Latham

interested in all sorts of things about cities, traffic, public space, and exercise ...
@citiesandstuff.bsky.social

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

(1/13) Interested thinking about how human geographers work with the spoken word in their research? Then you’ll find this special section in Area @RGS_IBG useful
https://t.co/Y6s6xUjCTf

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

📢New paper published as part of upcoming #AreaJournal Special Section 'Inside the Notebook':

'Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago' by @dadelos_s (@ULagosOficial). #OpenAccess ✍️

https://t.co/z0hc7Eh8GJ

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

🔊New paper published as part of upcoming #Areajournal Special Section 'Inside the Notebook' by @DrLaytonJ (@icstudiesuk):

'Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park'.

https://t.co/j2gPyQcdmy

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

📣New paper published in #AreaJournal by @Tatiana_Thieme (@UCLgeography) as part of the upcoming Special Section 'Inside the Notebook':

'The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood'. #OpenAccess

https://t.co/DuUp26DUnx

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

So this is happening this evening. If you're in London come along. Should be fun and there's cake afterwards!

[UCL Geography @UCLgeography]

🔍Curious how urban fitness can impact the way our cities are formed? Join us for @Citiesandstuff #InauguralLecture on 13th December 🏙️

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

So I'm doing this inaugural lecture thing next week and you should all totally go to it.

[UCL Geography @UCLgeography]

🤸‍♂️🏃‍♀️🚴‍♂️ Cities are bustling hubs of activity! People are climbing, running, cycling, swimming, dancing, and more. In @Citiesandstuff's #InauguralLecture, he'll explore how social researchers unravel the intricate connection between city life and these activities.

[UCL Geography @UCLgeography]

🌆 Event Alert! Join us on 13 December, 6:15pm for "Kinaesthetic Cities: Public Spaces and Everyday Practices of Sport and Fitness" @Citiesandstuff's #InauguralLecture.

Explore the intersection of city life and physical fitness in urban spaces! #UrbanGeography

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

'The results indicate a wide array of affective experiences related to place and suggest how enabling places for people with diverse needs and preferences may be conceptualised.' - @vivekaguzman (@RCSI_Irl) et al. in recent #areajournal special section https://t.co/Ee9jjo4ljZ

[Russell Hitchings @RussHitchings]

They very kindly did a review forum of my book on greenspace experience and everyday practice in Social and Cultural Geog. Thanks to @profgpw @DrJennyA @davidbissell and @DrCecilyMaller for saying nice (also v insightful) things!
https://t.co/PLBB1lae2S

[Rob Smith @Prof_Rob_Smith]

"No serious work ever started out with a theory"
RIP Howie Becker

https://t.co/O48qXxdypQ

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

@DrLaytonJ Maybe we should send them the paper? Politely, obviously.

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

Moral decline is an illusion – we’re no more badly behaved than our ancestors | Torsten Bell https://t.co/kx7QV5awvL

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

'More could be said about different ways of handing the issues that surface when we turn to some of our most popular ways of working with talk in human geography.' - Russell Hitchings & @Citiesandstuff (@UCLgeography) in recent #areajournal special section https://t.co/p8EHW1gZO0

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

(13/13) With thanks to Big Phil Emmerson @PhilEmmerson and Sarah M Hall @Sarah_M_Hall for their editorial nous! And all of your experts who reviewed and improved the papers!

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

(1/13) Interested thinking about how human geographers work with the spoken word in their research? Then you’ll find this special section in Area @RGS_IBG useful
https://t.co/Y6s6xUjCTf

[Alan Latham @Citiesandstuff]

(12/13) All of the papers are open access. And the papers should be really helpful for teaching budding social researchers.