On a rare visit to Swansea University Bay Campus today I came across a display of one of my photographs: “favela painting” in Rio de Janeiro from 2015.

Review work for Agenda Press has led to the arrival of 3 books so far to read over the rest of the summer: 2 on World Cities; 1 on the works of Doreen Massey. Looking forward to also receiving an edited book on ‘The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities’.

News Article: CityNews Bookshelf: Exploring Vancouver, fifth edition | CityNews Vancouver

Review work for Oxford University Press has led to the arrival of 5 books to read over the summer: 2 on Skyscrapers; 2 on City Planning and French Philosophy; and 1 on Artificial Intelligence which I am getting very interested in both philosophically and in thinking about how AI changes the futures of global cities.

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I spent Saturday in Cambridge buying far too many books. The postmodern architecture was a delight:

I also liked this symbol of a kind of apocalyptic living in the fragments Frankensteinian ecology:

“One: I am a Welshman;

Two: I am a drunkard;

Three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women”

The Telegraph: How Tuesday to Thursday workers are changing London skyscrapers (telegraph.co.uk)

Interesting observations confirming my thesis (Smith, 2021) of more skyscrapers in leading global cities post-pandemic, but only because of the types of skyscrapers needed.