‘Urban planning in the context of no net land take: towards a new planning paradigm in Europe?’, by Joel Idt, Camille Le Bivic, and Romain Melot is the Featured Article from Town Planning Review 96.4. Read it Open Access.
A ‘European before the European Union’? Studying and remembering early medieval missionaries in the 20th and 21st centuries
Michel Summer, author of Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739), discusses the notion that the early medieval missionary Willibrord was a European before there was a united Europe, and questions how modern categorisations from the 19th and 20th centuries are applied to the medieval period. On 26 September 2024, Pope Francis paid a … Continue reading
British Society in Crisis by Neville Kirk
Britain experienced continual crises from the 1970s to Brexit in 2016. Neville Kirk's new publication British Society and its Three Crises: From 1970s Globalisation, to the Financial Crash of 2007-8 and the onset of Brexit in 2016 is an innovative and comprehensive study which pays special attention to three combined crises: the development of neo-liberal … Continue reading
Fighting Racism, American Soccer and European Resistance: Lilian Thuram talks to Sports Illustrated
In a recent interview originally published in Sports Illustrated, Thuram discusses his involvement with America's growing initiative, Black Players for Change and European football's ongoing struggles with racism.
The Bright Side of Modernity
In this exclusive commentary, Coletta revisits the central ideas explored in her book, Decadent Modernity, discussing the bright side of modernity, analysing the complexities and contradictions of our fast-changing world and the idea of ‘Latin America’ as a geo-political region.
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