Planning Against Property

To plan for people, we need to plan against property.

Now a collective reading group (on pause) ! Join via link in bio:

[Planning Against Property @notforproperty]

~ Restarting up this event brainstorming ~

What resources / speakers / topics would you want to see included for an event on property (/capitalist property relations), urban planning and abolition ?!

[Historical Materialism Journal @histmat]

HM Book Series forthcoming hardback
Panagiotis Sotiris: Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation: Reading Gramsci Today
https://t.co/Sy79E7aK0h

[Progressive City: Radical Alternatives @pcityradical]

Check out our latest by Olivia Cleveland, on how " ..sidewalks outside New York City’s (NYC) hospitals ... became places where the future of care, and the meaning of public space in the city, was being negotiated." https://t.co/v1zPKs4BTx

[Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space @MoRUSNYC]

ECHOES IN TOMPKINS
Saturday, June 6th at 5:00pm
Located at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Come and watch the documentary by Elizabeth Frickey on the music scenes of the Tompkins Square Park.

[Neil Gray @NeilGray00]

I'm leading a walk in Govan on development and gentrification for @geopoetic and the Centre for Human Ecology. Saturday 13 June. Meet 2pm Mary Barbour statue outside Govan subway. Register below 👇

[ACORN Islington @AcornIslington]

Every hour you’ve worked so far this year has been for your landlord.

Think that’s unfair? Join us today: https://t.co/gjbxz7NUOD

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

'Everything we’re doing is too small, too slow, and too late.. we’ve just been accumulating vacant properties
There's a sense we are literally building empty homes and certainly not building the homes that Londoners need’
London empties up 138% in a decade
https://t.co/JVSiYLv1Ti

[Disablement, Work, & Free Time Under Capitalism @DisPrecWork]

Disability, Rest, and Free Time in the UK
Questionnaire https://t.co/2X03Op4c8d
🟠available as an online form and as a downloadable Word Doc file
🟠submit written responses or upload audio files to each section
🟠collectives can use it for discussion at internal members' meetings

[ISA-RC21 @ISA_RC21]

Entangled Urban Inequalities PGR / ECR Conference.
University of Sheffield, 1st July 2026. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday 8th June 2026. To apply, please complete the conference application form here https://t.co/YnOIphiXuy #urban #sociology

[MAS Context @MASContext]

"Little by little, the cities we inhabit become increasingly privatized." #whOWNSpace http://t.co/tQ9ifneXzb

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) @JUAurban]

NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Layers of neglect: Tracing the historical, political, and social roots of Grenfell. https://t.co/frHuF0nT8d @tandfhss @UAAnews

[CounterPunch @NatCounterPunch]

How the Yellow Vests attempted to rebuild the urban periphery of Paris. https://t.co/wrJYwimI5T

[The Funambulist @TheFunambulist_]

The following excerpts are drawn from the essay of the same name, published in @BostonReview's Fall 2025 issue, reproduced here with the generous authorization of the author and her editor. Panashe Chigumadzi argues that “apartheid” has become the dominant framework through which

[Autonomous Tenants Union Network @atun_rsia]

Join us on Sunday, May 31 for a presentation by Lucas Poy, co-editor of Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions Across the World!
Register at https://t.co/sU4P0YKb9T

The book is open access & a PDF is available here: https://t.co/hxk29ZHPmS

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

Anyone here a fan of Red Vienna?

I've got a HUGE collection of historic images from the socialist city (https://t.co/YCZGl1HDEG) and a giant collection of 280 translated texts from the period (https://t.co/47FaHxTpTx).

Enjoy ;)

[Feminist City @feminiscity]

Bringing together some inspiration from the internet… can we have another “Marxism for Infants” ?! Seems like there’s so much potential in starting from this viewpoint of life/care/learning 🐣

[The Funambulist @TheFunambulist_]

We turn to Noor Nieftagodien, whose work engages with various spatial and temporal scales of township politics. This allows us to talk about the 1976 Soweto Uprising in relation with its urban and historical contexts: how the township (and within it, the migrant workers’ hostels)

[UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @IIPP_UCL]

🎤 Developing City Capabilities to Deliver Public Value

Delivering meaningful change requires dynamic capabilities. This session will explore the Public Sector Capabilities Index.

📆 June 16 | ⏳ 16-17:00 GMT | Senate House, London

➡️ Register here: https://t.co/CJrk2mttCH

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

🚨 PANEL EVENT

The New Laws of Capitalism: @KatharinaPistor & @hettieveronica in conversation with @DantonsHead

📍 October Gallery, London, WC1N 3AL
🗓️ 2 June
⏰ 7-8PM

Register to attend 🔗👇
https://t.co/U9FPiCMJbS

[isaac @_isaacrose]

Since it is topical; here is some stuff I wrote / spoke about regarding Manchester and its economic model.

An interview with @InvisibleMapper for @Metropolitics_

https://t.co/8fi9TJm8Vm