Latest Urban Studies news 08/04/24

Created: 8 Apr 2024, 2:27 p.m.
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New issue out now

The April 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 5) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here.

Articles include:

Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India debates paper by Gautam Bhan

Gautam Bhan argues that operational modes of delivering social protection need specific attention in scholarly debates.

Theorising the causal impacts of social frontiers: The social and psychological implications of discontinuities in the geography of residential mix by Aarti Iyer and Gwilym Pryce

Drawing on insights from cognate disciplines, Aarti Iyer and Gwilym Pryce develop a theory of social frontier impacts that articulates their potential importance in limiting and shaping contact between neighbouring communities.

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Heterogeneous neighbourhood effects on the educational attainments of native Norwegian and immigrant-descendant female and male young adults by Anna Maria Santiago, George C Galster and Lena Magnusson Turner

Anna Santiago et al examine how cumulative childhood exposures to family and neighbourhood contexts influence the educational attainments of young adults, paying special attention to how these determinants vary by gender and immigrant status.

The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure by George Kiambuthi Wainaina and Bernhard Truffer

Wainaina and Truffer identify the missing link between infrastructure delivery and livelihood improvement as lying in the appropriation process, i.e. the uptake and embedding of infrastructures into the daily practices of residents.