This paper explores activist organisations in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries that advocate for climate justice in the name of Just Transition. Just Transition, a segment of the climate justice movement, emphasises the need for those workers who will be most affected by a transition to a green economy - construction workers - to participate in the formation of the policies that will affect them. The paper makes the point that architects must recognise their role in the construction industry and hence participate in Just Transition advocacy. It explores the different organisations, in both the construction and architecture industries, that promote a Just Transition, examining the varied methods, targets, and scales of advocacy. It points out distinctions in these groups according to how far the group goes in linking Just Transition advocacy to a critique of capitalism’s call for continued growth and development. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of targeting local policymakers versus more global and systemic power brokers as well as the varied effectiveness of groups that identify as agitators, non-profit organisers, or NGOs. At the end, the author reconsiders some of the assumptions that were used in creating the ‘effectiveness’ hierarchy imposed on the listing of organisations that the paper describes and speculates on the various ways a person can be called to action in the name of Just Transition.

Through a discussion of a place awaiting development this article asks: what is ecologically and culturally at stake in the production of large-scale, suburban housing? Examining a case study of a proposed 2,700-unit development in North Tyneside, UK, the article offers a multi-narrative account of the various political-economic, ecological, and cultural landscape factors at risk in these processes of building. The paper develops an approach which links a political-economy perspective - through a focus on the political and economic drivers and processes of housing development - to a micro-focus on affect and place attachment. Drawing on diary entries, ecological surveys, policy analysis, creative responses, interviews, and prose, the article highlights the cultural meaning the proposed development site holds for local people, and the importance of well-maintained arable environments for protecting biodiversity. The paper urges the need to rethink value and care in the production of housing, to get a better deal for both human and more-than-human nature.

The famous Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani (d. 1348), a basic source of information about his city and Europe, composed a detailed and overlooked account of a civil war among the Ḥafṣids, a North African Muslim dynasty, an event known primarily through the writings of Villani’s famous contemporary Ibn Khaldūn, an eyewitness. Villani’s account reveals a nuanced understanding of the social and cultural fabric of the Ḥafṣid Tunis that, paired with Ibn Khaldūn’s description, provides insight into Christian and Muslim Mediterranean perceptions. Villani viewed the conflict not as a faraway affair among nonbelievers but as emblematic of the universal effects of internecine family strife.