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Writings
These are links to my publication in books, popular magazines and academic journals. Below this, you will find my blog.

Understanding and evaluating transdisciplinary art-science innovation beyond economic value
Publication with Technovation Journal

The Historical Coproduction of Knowledge and Politics in the Circular Economy
Publication with Nature + Culture Journal

The Myth of Sisyphus and Carbon Capture Removal
Article published with Resilience.org

Analysing the Circular Economy as a Myth. Semiotics
Dialogues for Degrowth. Publication with Edward Elgar

Spatial Impacts of Economic Growth
Publication with University of Vigo

Sustainability is Not a Problem for Technology to Fix
Article with TELOS Magazine

Letter. The Future of the Anthropocene?
Letter published by The Economist

Vertical Taxis. Is it Worth Privatising the Sky?
Article published with The Conversation ES.
English version available here: https://www.sofiagreaves.online/post/vertical-aerospace
English version available here: https://www.sofiagreaves.online/post/vertical-aerospace

Kandinsky and the Circular Economy
Article published by ReTrace

The Ancient City and the Modern City in Italy 1860-1914
Phd thesis with the University of Cambridge

Epidemic Urbanism. Cholera, the Roman Aqueduct, and Urban Renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860–1914
Publication with Intellect

Roman Planning as a Model for Urban Modernity in Liberal Naples
Publication with Oxbow Books

Ildefonso Cerdà and the Eixample Grid Plan: to be or not to be Rome (1858)
Publication with Oxbow Books

Decolonising the Roman Grid
Publication with Oxbow Books
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Nuclear bee hives
Short poems written about the Deliberative Democracy festival at the Joint Recent Centre, Ispra, 2022.
Sofia Greaves
Oct 21, 20227 min read


Vertical Taxis. The future?
The social implications of Vertical helicopters and technological mobility changes via Vertical Aerospace
Sofia Greaves
Feb 1, 202212 min read


Eiffel Tower Economy
Standard ‘clock time’, was introduced in the late nineteenth century. The system was consolidated at the International Conference for...
Sofia Greaves
Oct 16, 20216 min read


Post-doct @ Prospera: 'Imagine a New Society'
After researching ideal cities of the nineteenth century, I became obsessed with the idea that there must also be ideal cities in present...
Sofia Greaves
May 7, 20216 min read


The Degrowth City?
We need to put Degrowth and Urbanisation together The phrase ‘without growing’ seems to imply stasis, or ‘inactivity’. This impression...
Sofia Greaves
Feb 3, 20218 min read


Cities as Palimpsests?
Many cities have classical origins, because in the ancient Greco-Roman world, founding, building, talking about and destroying cities was...
Sofia Greaves
Dec 16, 20202 min read


Development and utopia
I remember being taught in geography that Gross Domestic Product could reveal which nations were 'developed'. UK and USA were at the top...
Sofia Greaves
Dec 6, 20202 min read


Cheese-grater year
Some people know that I see the year as a cheese grater. It’s not clear why this happened, but it has a very specific shape. January sits...
Sofia Greaves
Nov 14, 20203 min read


Classics & UN Urban Agenda
'Cities can be leaders in building a culture of sustainability. But this is futile if the economic model does not change. The world is...
Sofia Greaves
Oct 9, 20209 min read
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