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Hot Climates in Urban South Asia: negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in Karachi
13th September 2023
In their latest special issue article, Soha et al place workers' search for shade in ... Read More
Book review forum: Infrastructure
reviewed by Regan Koch, Austin Kocher and Sarah Klosterkamp
23rd August 2023
Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law reviewed by Regan Koch, Austin Kocher and Sarah Klosterkamp with ... Read More
Book review: Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia
reviewed by Patrick Wakely
22nd August 2023
Patrick Wakely reviews Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia (Yap Kioe Sheng) Read More
Book review: Neoliberal Urban Governance: Spaces, Culture and Discourses in Buenos Aires and Chicago
reviewed by Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn
18th August 2023
Book review of Neoliberal Urban Governance (Carolina Sternberg) reviewed by Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn Read More
Book review: Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations
reviewed by Christoph Lueder
16th August 2023
Unsettled Urban Space (Viderman et al, eds) reviewed by Christoph Lueder Read More
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
14th August 2023
Read the blog post summarising Richard Crisp et al's debates paper, which addresses a substantive ... Read More
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
reviewed by Ellen Munley Mulcahy
10th August 2023
Book review of University City (Laura Wolf-Powers) reviewed by Ellen Munley Mulcahy Read More
Book review: Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia
reviewed by Ayyoob Sharifi
9th August 2023
Book review of Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia (Agatino Rizzo and Anindita ... Read More
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective
reviewed by Toddy Aditya and Rahmayati Rahmayanti
8th August 2023
Book review of IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective (Sathiyaraj ... Read More
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change
reviewed by Eka Wulan Safriani and Yani Yani
4th August 2023
Book review of Urban Planning for Climate Change (Barbara Norman) reviewed by Eka Wulan Safriani ... Read More
Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers: How cities use civic capital to compete in high-technology markets
3rd August 2023
How do latecomers enter high-technology markets? In three very different ways. Ornston et al describe ... Read More
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab
3rd August 2023
Cecilie Sachs Olsen and Merlijn van Hulst introduce the Urban Drama Lab as a new ... Read More
Book review: Crime and Fear in Public Places: Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
reviewed by Lars Marcus
2nd August 2023
Book review of Crime and Fear in Public Places reviewed by Lars Marcus Read More
A performing arts centre for whom? Rethinking the architect as negotiator of urban imaginaries
31st July 2023
Inge Goudsmit, Maria Kaika and Nanke Verloo interpret architecture as the result of negotiating urban ... Read More
Internal other: Re-imagined class in urban spaces
City of Shadows reviewed by Sankar Varma
27th July 2023
Sankar Varma reviews City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore (Supriya RoyChowdhury) Read More
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
reviewed by Giulia Belloni
25th July 2023
Guilia Belloni reviews John Lorinc's 2022 book, 'Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit ... Read More
Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces
24th July 2023
How does a city express ideas and currents of thinking like libertarianism? Atkinson and O’Farrell’s ... Read More
Carceral connections: The role of policing in the management of public housing in New York City
20th July 2023
By examining police as collaborators within public housing policy, Rodriguez uncovers the entanglement of law ... Read More
Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India
18th July 2023
Who really owns our cities? A new study by Meher Bhagia and Mallika Bose dives ... Read More
The Right to the Smart City in the Global South: A research agenda
14th July 2023
New blog post by Alizadeh Tooran and Deepti Prasad puts forward a research agenda ‘the ... Read More
Book review forum: How Cities Learn
7th July 2023
Book review forum of "How Cities Learn" including author response Read More
Book review: Urban Development in China Under the Institution of Land Rights
reviewed by Mahalaya Chatterjee
4th July 2023
Book review of Urban Development in China Under the Institution of Land Rights (Jieming Zhu), ... Read More
Book review: Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People. Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain
reviewed by Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
20th June 2023
The local multiplier of income support paid in a complementary currency: Comparative evaluation in the city of Barcelona
15th June 2023
Results from Roca et al's new study show that the local impact of public income ... Read More
How does exposure to diverse community leaders influence urban political engagement in a divided city?
1st June 2023
How do community leaders in divided cities influence group members’ attitudes toward engagement in local ... Read More
Cycling equity and the city
31st May 2023
New blog post develops competing hypotheses on how the effect of education on cycling differs ... Read More
Book review essay: City, Climate, and Architecture; Coping with Urban Climates
reviewed by Noa Levin
17th May 2023
Book review essay of 'City, Climate, and Architecture' and 'Coping with Urban Climates' Read More
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance
Blog post by Aisha Sobey
9th May 2023
In this new paper Aisha Sobey considers the embedded control in the construction of smart ... Read More
Book review symposium: [Un]Grounding
reviewed by Joe Blakey, Matina Kapsali and Nicola Guy
4th May 2023
Book review forum of "[Un]Grounding" including author response Read More
Book review: Curtain up: City diplomacy in global migration governance
reviewed by Daniel Pejic
3rd May 2023
Book review of Curtain up: City diplomacy in global migration governance (Janina Stürner-Siovitz) Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 2/5/23
2nd May 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
reviewed by Benjamin Bansal
28th April 2023
Book review of Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Jorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds, and Studiolab) Read More
Book review: Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England
reviewed by Frank Moulaert
27th April 2023
Book review of Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England (Patsy Healey) reviewed by ... Read More
Gentrifying with family wealth: Parental gifts and neighbourhood sorting among young adult owner occupants
25th April 2023
New blog post by Wouter Van Gent, Rik Damhuis and Sako Musterd investigates whether receiving ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 24/4/23
24th April 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: Wake Up, This Is Joburg
reviewed by Denise L. Lim
19th April 2023
Book review of "Wake Up, This Is Joburg" (Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis) reviewed by ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 17/4/23
17th April 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review forum podcast: The Surrounds
13th April 2023
A conversation about The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture by AbdouMaliq Simone on ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 11/4/23
11th April 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Writing to Publish Workshop
5-day residential workshop for Indian urban studies scholars in India
4th April 2023
5-day residential workshop for Indian urban studies scholars in India Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 3/4/23
3rd April 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities
reviewed by Keith Pezzoli
30th March 2023
Book review of Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities (Wheeler ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 27/03/23
27th March 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Double book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment
reviewed by Tariro Kamuti
24th March 2023
Double book review of Urban Gardening as Politics and Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment Read More
How buses alleviate unemployment and poverty
Blog post by Fei Li and Chris Wyczalkowski
23rd March 2023
Blog post by Fei Li and Chris Wyczalkowski on how buses alleviate unemployment and poverty Read More
Citizen security and urban commuting in Latin America
Blog post by Lucía Echeverría, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina
22nd March 2023
New blog post by Lucía Echeverría et al: Citizen security and urban commuting in Latin ... Read More
Book review: Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism
reviewed by Fanghao Chen
21st March 2023
Book review of Urban Informal Settlements (Yannan Ding) Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 20/03/23
20th March 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: In-betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
reviewed by Eric Denis
16th March 2023
Book review of In-betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 13/03/23
13th March 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice
reviewed by Ilse van Liempt
8th March 2023
Book review of Making Home(s) in Displacement (Beeckmans et al) reviewed by Ilse van Liempt Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 06/03/23
6th March 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning
reviewed by Margherita Tess
1st March 2023
Book review of Marco Amati's 'The City and the Super-Organism' Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 27/02/23
27th February 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book review: Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes
reviewed by Junxi Qian
21st February 2023
Junxi Qian reviews Fulong Wu's 2022 book: Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 20/02/23
21st February 2023
Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More
Book Review: Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis
reviewed by W Dennis Keating
16th February 2023
W Dennis Keating reviews Katherine Einstein, David Glick and Maxwell Palmer's 2019 book: Neighbourhood defenders: ... Read More
Urban commoning, degrowth and parks in Asia
Blog post by Manisha Anantharaman and Marlyne Sahakian
14th February 2023
New blog post from Manisha Anantharaman and Marlyne Sahakian studies how people use practice parks ... Read More
Storage as infrastructure: Water and electricity storage by households in Nairobi
Blog post by Moritz Kasper
2nd February 2023
New blog post by Moritz Kasper on 'Storage as infrastructure: Water and electricity storage by ... Read More
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods
reviewed by Verónica Hendel
27th January 2023
Verónica Hendel reviews Oosterlynck, Verschraegen, and van Kempen's book, Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and ... Read More
Book review: Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
reviewed by Evelyn Ravuri
25th January 2023
Evelyn Ravuri reviews Mike Amezcua's 2022 book: Making Mexican Chicago: From postwar settlement to the ... Read More
Book review: Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City
reviewed by Alexandros Daniilidis
25th January 2023
Joy White's memoir and urban ethnography - Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City ... Read More
Care Commons: Infrastructural (re)compositions for life sustenance through yet against regimes of chronic crisis
Blog post by Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
25th January 2023
Novel organising modes for social provision from the grassroots are creating new care spaces and ... Read More
Book Review: Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban Walls
reviewed by Christophe Davis
20th January 2023
Book Review of Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban Walls (Michael Tsangaris) by Christophe Davis Read More
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies
reviewed by Juliet Davis
17th January 2023
Book review of Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies (edited by Angelika Gabauer, ... Read More
Book review: Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto
reviewed by Rebecca Heimel
13th January 2023
Book review of Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto reviewed by Rebecca Heimel Read More
Changes in psychosocial wellbeing over a five-year period in two predominantly Black Pittsburgh neighbourhoods: A comparison between gentrifying and non-gentrifying census tracts
Blog post by Alexandra Mendoza-Graf
11th January 2023
Alexandra Mendoza-Graf et al provide insights on differences in wellbeing outcomes for residents from a ... Read More
Special Sessions on Publishing in Urban Studies
10th January 2023
Webinars on turning your dissertation into a book and publishing in international journals. Read More
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island
Blog post by Danny Marks
9th January 2023
What political and economic processes cause Bangkok to be much hotter than surrounding areas? Why ... Read More
How the built quality of urban areas can impact our mental well-being: A case study of adolescents
Blog post by Adrian Buttazzoni
4th January 2023
Taking the urban environment-adolescent mental health relationship from the abstract to the real: A multi-site ... Read More
Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2023
Dimensions of Urban Development Politics: Transcalarity, Circuits, Territories
23rd December 2022
Details of this year's Urban Studies annual lecture. Read More
Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city
Blog post by Barbara Brollo and Filippo Celata
21st December 2022
Brollo and Celata on the short-term city: where the density of temporary stayers is considerably ... Read More
What Makes a Caring City?
Blog post by Angelina Kussy, David Palomera and Daniel Silver
21st December 2022
Blog post by Angelina Kussy, David Palomera and Daniel Silver on their paper: The Caring ... Read More
Book review: Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City
reviewed by Nathan Olmstead
20th December 2022
Book review of Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End ... Read More
Book review: Detain and Deport: The Chaotic US Immigration Enforcement Regime
reviewed by Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman
13th December 2022
Book review of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic US Immigration Enforcement Regime (Nancy Hiemstra) reviewed ... Read More
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies
reviewed by Aleem Mahabir
7th December 2022
Aleem Mahabir reviews Narendar Pani's 2022 book: 'The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies'. Read More
Book review: Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco
Reviewed by Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman
2nd December 2022
Book review of Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Eduardo ... Read More
Book review: Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey
reviewed by Gülşah Aykaç
1st December 2022
Book review of Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey (Elise Massicard) reviewed by ... Read More
The ‘medical city’ and China’s entrepreneurial state: Spatial production under rising consumerism in healthcare
Blog post by Xuanyi Nie
30th November 2022
Xuanyi Nie studies the medical city in China and reconceptualises the roles of the state ... Read More
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese Rural Migrant Families: The Role of Changing and Persistent Family Norms
Blog post by Shuangshuang Tang, Jing Zhou, Oana Druta and Xin Li
28th November 2022
Tang, Zhou, Druta and Li use interview data to examine how the changing and persistent ... Read More
Home-made blues: Residential crowding and mental health in Beijing, China
Blog post by Xize Wang and Tao Liu
16th November 2022
Using survey data from residents in Beijing, China, Xize Wang and Tao Liu find that ... Read More
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes
Blog post by Kevin KH Tsang
1st November 2022
Kevin Tsang explores the cultural significance of replacement bus services during three London Tube strikes ... Read More
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela
Blog post by Adrian Bua and Jonathan S Davies
21st October 2022
New blog post by Adrian Bua and Jonathan S Davies analyses the new municipalist struggle ... Read More
Urban ARC 2023 and Ninth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS
19th October 2022
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will host the ninth edition of the Annual ... Read More
Social mix and the city: Council housing and neighbourhood income inequality in Vienna
Blog post by Tamara Premrov and Matthias Schnetzer
23rd September 2022
Blog post by Tamara Premrov and Matthias Schnetzer studies whether the broad provision of council ... Read More
Book review: Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul
reviewed by Laam Hae
16th September 2022
Book review of Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in ... Read More
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore
Blog post by Shin Bin Tan
15th September 2022
Blog post by Shin Bin Tan explores Singapore’s residential de-segregation policy and how it might ... Read More
Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality
reviewed by Glenn Houlihan
14th September 2022
Book Review of Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality (Sean Dinces) reviewed ... Read More
Book Review: Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy
reviewed by Alessio Kolioulis
13th September 2022
Book review of Managing Cities at Night (Michele Acuto, Andreina Seijas, Jenny McArthur, and Enora ... Read More
Book review: Deindustrializing Montreal
reviewed by Richard Harris
9th September 2022
Richard Harris reviews Steven High's 2022 book, Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled histories of race, residence and ... Read More
Book review: Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City Circa 1968
reviewed by Alexandros Daniilidis
8th September 2022
Alexandros Daniilidis reviews the 2018 book, Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968. Read More
Book review: Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
reviewed by Evelyn Ravuri
7th September 2022
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz's 2019 Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City is reviewed ... Read More
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability
Blog post by Siddharth Sareen and Katinka Wågsæther
7th September 2022
Can new municipalist movements, centred on democratically transforming the local economy and state, advance urban ... Read More
Book review: The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
reviewed by Eva Cilman
1st September 2022
Book review of The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City ... Read More
Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2022
21st Urbanization and Grand Challenges for Global Sustainability
12th August 2022
Details of this year's Urban Studies annual lecture. Read More
Book review: Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums
reviewed by Elizabeth Chatterjee
11th August 2022
Book review of Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums ... Read More
Book review: The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe
reviewed by Estelle Broyer
9th August 2022
Book review: The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe ... Read More
Book review: Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
reviewed by Ted Rutland
4th August 2022
Book review of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing (Akira Drake ... Read More
Book review: Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Contemporary Cities Plan
reviewed by Federico Camerin
2nd August 2022
Book review of Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Contemporary Cities Plan (Davide Ponzini) reviewed ... Read More
Book review: How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
reviewed by Taylor Harris Braswell
29th July 2022
Book review of How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and ... Read More
Do financial models reshape un-cooperative cities? On urban founder’s profit and collaborative-communicative planning in times of austerity
Blog post by Jeroen Klink
20th July 2022
New blog post by Jeroen Klink: Do financial models reshape un-cooperative cities? On urban founder’s ... Read More
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice
Reviewed by Jennifer L Rice
14th July 2022
Book review of Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice ... Read More
Mesoamerican Urbanism: Indigenous Institutions, Infrastructure, and Resilience
Blog post by David M. Carballo, Gary M. Feinman, and Aurelio López Corral
13th July 2022
New blog post by David M. Carballo, Gary M. Feinman, and Aurelio López Corral on ... Read More
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb
Blog post by Martin Sarnow and Norma Tiedemann
11th July 2022
New blog post by Martin Sarnow and Norma Tiedemann: Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? ... Read More
Climate change and informality as defining features of African urbanisation
Blog post by Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
27th June 2022
New blog post by Brandon Finn and Patrick Cobbinah: Climate change and informality as defining ... Read More
Book review: Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums and Class Relations in Urban Morocco
Reviewed by Federica Duca
16th June 2022
Book review of Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums and Class Relations in Urban Morocco (Koenraad Bogaert) ... Read More
Urban water governance as policy boosterism: Seoul’s legitimation at the local and global scale
Blog post by Ricardo Martinez
1st June 2022
Ricardo Martinez brings together studies on legitimacy in international studies and urban policy mobilities to ... Read More
Making Cities through Migration Industries
Blog post by Nir Cohen, Tatiana Fogelman and Henrik Lebuhn
30th May 2022
Guest Editors Cohen et al's introduction to the forthcoming special issue explores the significance of ... Read More
Pursuing Dreams in an Asian Global City: Does Host Language Proficiency Matter for Asian Minorities?
Blog post by Jin Jiang and Hon-Kwong Lui
27th May 2022
Jiang and Lui find that Asian migrants pursuing dreams in Asia’s global cities do not ... Read More
Does the neighbourhood of the dwelling and the real estate agency matter? Geographical differences in ethnic discrimination on the rental housing market.
Blog post by Billie Martiniello and Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
11th May 2022
Martiniello and Verhaeghe discuss the effect of the local context on ethnic discrimination on the ... Read More
Book review: Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City
Reviewed by Corey R Johnson
10th May 2022
Book review of Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City (Derese G ... Read More
Book review: Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities
Reviewed by Ebru Kamaci Karahan
6th May 2022
Book review of Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities (edited by Anitra Nelson ... Read More
Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon
reviewed by Jonas Hagmann
5th May 2022
Book review of War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon (Sara Fregonese) Read More
Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus
Blog post by Bradley Rink
3rd May 2022
New blog post by Bradley Rink highlights the myriad ways that urban public space on ... Read More
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures
Blog post by Tankut Atuk and Susan L Craddock
3rd May 2022
New blog post by Susan Craddock and Tankut Atuk takes a critical analytical approach to ... Read More
Book review: The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements
reviewed by Rosie Levine Hampton
29th April 2022
Book review of The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements (Kimberley Kinder) reviewed by Rosie ... Read More
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban
reviewed by Andrea Urbina-Julio
27th April 2022
Book review of A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the ... Read More
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America
reviewed by Sören Scholvin
22nd April 2022
Book review of Metropolitan Governance in Latin America (Alejandra Trejo Nieto & Jose L Niño ... Read More
Book review: The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
reviewed by Luisa G Melo
20th April 2022
Book review: The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (Jaime Amparo ... Read More
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence
reviewed by Simone van de Wetering
14th April 2022
Book review of The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence ... Read More
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives
reviewed by Mara Ferreri
12th April 2022
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Matthew Thompson) reviewed by ... Read More
Book review: Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability
reviewed by Paulo Anciaes
7th April 2022
Book review of Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability (Paul ... Read More
Migrant Worker Recreational Centres, Accidental Diversities and New Relationalities in Singapore
Blog post by Daniel P.S. Goh and Andrew Lee
6th April 2022
New blog post by Daniel P.S. Goh and Andrew Lee shows how such accidental diversities ... Read More
Book review: Subaltern Geographies
reviewed by Claudia Seldin
5th April 2022
Book review of Subaltern Geographies (Tariq Jazeel & Stephen Legg (eds)) reviewed by Claudia Seldin Read More
Translating the nation through the sustainable, liveable city: The role of social media intermediaries in immigrant integration in Copenhagen
Blog post by Tatiana Fogelman and Julia Christensen
4th April 2022
New blog post by Tatiana Fogelman and Julia Christensen examines how migrant bloggers in Copenhagen ... Read More
Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
reviewed by Giselle Mendonça Abreu
29th March 2022
Book review of Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India (Sai Balakrishnan) reviewed ... Read More
The Financialisation of Floor Space, Mumbai 1880–2015
Blog post by Sukriti Issar
15th March 2022
Issar's new blog post explores why do some cities have skyscrapers while others don’t and ... Read More
Interlocal interactions, municipal boundaries, and water and wastewater expenditure in city-regions
Blog post by Agustin Leon-Moreta and Vittoria Totaro
22nd February 2022
New blog post by Leon-Moreta and Totaro connects theories of boundary change with systems of ... Read More
The great theory debate on urbanisation in the Global South—and why it matters
Blog post by Gregory F. Randolph and Michael Storper
14th February 2022
Blog post by Gregory F. Randolph & Michael Storper: The great theory debate on urbanisation ... Read More
Book review: Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question
reviewed by Dallas Rogers
11th February 2022
Book review of Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question (Tom Slater) ... Read More
Hybrid state-capitalism in urban development: inside the black-box of infrastructural deal-making
Blog post by Chris Gibson, Crystal Legacy and Dallas Rogers
11th February 2022
Blog post by Chris Gibson, Crystal Legacy and Dallas Rogers: Hybrid state-capitalism in urban development: ... Read More
Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis of the outbreak and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
Blog post by Jinliao He and Yuan Zhang
10th February 2022
Blog post by Jinliao He and Yuan Zhang: Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis ... Read More
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany
Blog post by Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer and Sarah Carol
9th February 2022
Blog post by Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer and Sarah Carol on ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and ... Read More
Book review: Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America
reviewed by Irene Farah
1st February 2022
Book review of Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America (Alisha ... Read More
Building comparisons from policy links: slum upgrading in eThekwini and São Paulo
Blog post by Camila Saraiva
17th December 2021
A comparative analysis of the politics of slum upgraging in eThekwini and São Paulo: Camila ... Read More
Indian Urban Studies in the New Millennium
Blog post by Ashima Sood and Karen Coelho
17th December 2021
Karen Coelho and Ashima Sood's essay introduces a virtual special issue on urban studies in ... Read More
Francophone African literary representations of the Paris Metro
Blog post by Anna-Leena Toivanen
8th November 2021
New blog post by Anna-Leena Toivanen highlights the role of literature in elucidating the intertwinement ... Read More
Book review: Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike
reviewed by Jay Emery
27th October 2021
Book review of Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike (Diarmaid Kelliher) ... Read More
Book review: New Workplaces – Location Patterns, Urban Effects and Development Trajectories. A Worldwide Investigation
reviewed by Mina Di Marino and Thérèse Bajada
21st October 2021
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Book review: Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development
reviewed by Richard Harris
19th October 2021
Socialist Worldmaking: Urban Comparison in the Global Cold War
Blog post by Łukasz Stanek
13th October 2021
New study by Łukasz Stanek focuses on operative concepts employed by Soviet, Eastern European, African, ... Read More
Street markets, urban development and immigrant entrepreneurship: Unpacking precarity in Moore Street, Dublin
Blog post by Cristín Blennerhassett, Niamh Moore-Cherry, and Christine Bonnin
12th October 2021
Blennerhassett et al explores the experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs who have recently established ethnic enterprises ... Read More
Does social housing regeneration pay off? Lessons from the Glasgow Stock Transfer
Blog post by Meng Le Zhang, George Galster, David Manley and Gwilym Pryce
8th October 2021
The authors evaluate the causal effect of the 2003 Stock Transfer on employment in Glasgow. Read More
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4th October 2021
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27th September 2021
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Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better
reviewed by Robert K Whelan
21st September 2021
Book review of Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future ... Read More
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14th September 2021
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Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic
Blog post by Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis, Patty Doran and Mhorag Goff
10th September 2021
COVID-19 must cause a re-think in the kind of urban infrastructure needed to support vulnerable ... Read More
Delivering higher density suburban development: The impact of building design and residents’ attitudes
Blog post by Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Alan Mace, Jacob Karlsson, Nancy Holman and Davide Alberto Zorloni
7th September 2021
Latest research from Navarrete-Hernandez et al tests whether design can positively impact both the perception ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 07/09/21
7th September 2021
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Lockdown guidelines exposed the socio-spatial fragmentation between urban communities, mobile locations data show
Blog post by Terje Trasberg and James Cheshire
1st September 2021
Using data obtained from mobile applications, Trasberg and Cheshire analyse how the lockdown guidelines have ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 30/08/21
30th August 2021
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23rd August 2021
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Book review: Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance
reviewed by Don Mitchell
17th August 2021
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16th August 2021
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Book review: Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History
reviewed by Jialin Shi
12th August 2021
Book review of Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History (by A. K. ... Read More
Working the urban assemblage: a transnational study of transforming practices
Blog post by Catherine Durose, Mark van Ostaijen, Merlijn van Hulst, Oliver Escobar and Annika Agger
11th August 2021
New blog post by Catherine Durose et al: Working the urban assemblage: a transnational study ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 09/08/21
9th August 2021
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Extreme weather and urban rivers
Blog post by V. Chitra
6th August 2021
How are the changing metrics of extreme weather reshaping urban systems? V. Chitra explores this ... Read More
Book review: Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism
reviewed by Leon Rosa Reichle
5th August 2021
Book review of Susanne Soederberg's 'Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism' by ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 02/08/21
2nd August 2021
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Book review: Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India
reviewed by Debapriya Ganguly
27th July 2021
Book review of Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India by ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 26/07/21
26th July 2021
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20th July 2021
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Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla, and Monterrey
Blog post by Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, María Emilia Ismael Simental, Alberto Javier López Cuenca, Anne Kristiina Kurjenoja
20th July 2021
Do cultural agents through their projects create relations different from those enacted by the State ... Read More
On philanthropy and urban governance: setting a research agenda
Blog post by Pablo Fuentenebro and Michele Acuto
20th July 2021
Fuentenebro and Acuto highlight the value of a more 'global urban' outlook onto the landscape ... Read More
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13th July 2021
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Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?
Blog post by Stefan Jünger
12th July 2021
Latest study from Jünger provides evidence that certain indicators create distributional injustices in Germany. Read More
It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place
Blog post by Lucy Grimshaw and Lewis Mates
12th July 2021
New blog post illustrates the benefits of learning about local working class history and urban ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 05/07/21
5th July 2021
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Book review symposium: On Shifting Foundations
reviewed by Dave Featherstone, Amy Zhang, Ashok Kumar and Wenying Fu with an author response by Kean Fan Lim
2nd July 2021
Roundtable book review of On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in ... Read More
Cities in a post-COVID world
Blog post by Richard Florida, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper
28th June 2021
There will be winners and losers from COVID-19, but there is a window of opportunity ... Read More
How daily life in small homes changed during COVID-19
Blog post by Jenny Preece, Kim McKee, David Robinson and John Flint
28th June 2021
How has COVID-19 affected those living in small homes? Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 28/06/21
28th June 2021
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22nd June 2021
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14th June 2021
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Density and its futures: COVID-19, the city, and the politics of value
Blog post by Colin McFarlane
9th June 2021
McFarlane examines the relationship between ‘value’ and ‘population’ in the pandemic, and for how we ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 07/06/21
7th June 2021
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Book review: Urban Regeneration in the UK
reviewed by Benjamin Archer
2nd June 2021
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1st June 2021
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Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: Changes over time
by Renee Zahnow, Jonathan Corcoran, Anthony Kimpton and Rebecca Wickes
28th May 2021
New blog post examines the proposition that changes in the presence or arrangement of neighbourhood ... Read More
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24th May 2021
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Book review: Connecting People, Place and Design
reviewed by Stephen Muecke
19th May 2021
Book review of Connecting People, Place and Design by Angelique Edmonds and reviewed by Stephen ... Read More
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17th May 2021
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Book review: Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
reviewed by Judith Schnelzer and Yvonne Franz
13th May 2021
Book review of Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation (Frank Moulaert and Diana MacCallum) reviewed by ... Read More
Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle
Blog post by Alex Ramiller
11th May 2021
New analysis of scraped court records and building permit records finds evidence of evictions associated ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 10/05/21
10th May 2021
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Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalisation in Rio de Janeiro’s port area
Blog post by Abigail Friendly and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker
6th May 2021
In what was the largest slave traffic port in the Americas, hypermodern PPPs continue to ... Read More
Citizenship acquisition and spatial stratification: analyzing immigrant residential mobility in the Netherlands
Blog post by Christophe Leclerc, Maarten Vink and Hans Schmeets
5th May 2021
New blog post by Leclerc et al looks at the effect of naturalisation on migrants’ ... Read More
Book review: Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South
reviewed by Sylvia Croese
28th April 2021
Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South (Garth Myers) reviewed by Sylvia Croese Read More
Book review: Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur
Reviewed by Matthew Wilkinson
20th April 2021
Book review of Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur (Dolly Kikon & Duncan ... Read More
Book review: The Botanical City
Reviewed by Jan van Duppen
13th April 2021
Book review of The Botanical City (Matthew Gandy & Sandra Jasper (eds)) reviewed by Jan ... Read More
Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance?
Blog post by Roberto Ganau and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
1st April 2021
New blog post asks: Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance? Read More
Pupils’ Travel Distance to School in China: Geographical Context Matters!
Blog post by Lili Xiang, Myles Gould and John Stillwell
26th March 2021
Xiang et al find that pupils’ travel distance is not only influenced by their socioeconomic ... Read More
IIHS Urban Fellows Programme 2021-22
Applications close on 11 April 2021
25th March 2021
Applications for the IIHS Urban Fellows Programme August 2021 - May 2022 are open until ... Read More
Book review: The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates
by Becky Tunstall and reviewed by David Manley
17th March 2021
Book review of The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates ... Read More
Residential Parking Supply Has a Stronger Influence on Household Travel Choices Relative to a Neighbourhood’s Walkability and Access to Transit
Blog post by Adam Millard-Ball and Jeremy West
15th March 2021
Blog post by Millard-Ball and West studies housing lotteries in San Francisco and find that ... Read More
Book review: Everyday Resistance: French Activism in the 21st Century
Edited by Bruno Frère & Marc Jacquemain and reviewed by Cécile Gauthier
4th March 2021
Book review of Everyday Resistance: French Activism in the 21st Century (Bruno Frère & Marc ... Read More
Book review: Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics
Edited by Friederike Landau and reviewed by Mohamed Saleh
24th February 2021
Book review: Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s ... Read More
A broom to the head: ‘Cleaning Day’ and the aesthetics of emergence in Dakar
Blog post by Branwyn Poleykett
18th February 2021
New blog post by Branwyn Poleykett examines the Senegalese tradition of Set Setal as urban ... Read More
Book review: Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State
edited by Charlotte Lemanski and reviewed by Frances Brill
16th February 2021
Book review of Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State (Charlotte ... Read More
A New Measure of Urban Racial Segregation
Blog post by Jennifer Candipan, Nolan E. Phillips, Robert J. Sampson, and Mario Small
11th February 2021
Candipan, Phillips, Sampson and Small introduce the segregated mobility index (SMI) in their new blog ... Read More
Book review: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present
edited by Tim Bunnell & Daniel PS Goh and reviewed by Keng-Khoon Ng
5th February 2021
Book review of Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present (Tim Bunnell & Daniel ... Read More
Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case of Sustainable Sydney 2030
blog post by Martin Kornberger, Renate Meyer and Markus Höllerer
20th January 2021
New blog post from Kornberger et al on the long term effect of strategy: what’s ... Read More
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities
Blog post by Zengli Wang and Lin Liu
19th January 2021
Could gate controls reduce #crime in gated communities? New research shows that higher levels of ... Read More
Book review: Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London’s Towering Cityscape
by Günter Gassner and reviewed by Esther Leslie
13th January 2021
Book review of Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London’s Towering Cityscape (Günter Gassner) reviewed by ... Read More
Book review: CityMakers: Tribulations & Triumphs – A Saga of Heroic Struggles of the Homeless Residents in India
by Indu Prakash Singh and reviewed by Tanya Sharma
6th January 2021
Book review of CityMakers: Tribulations & Triumphs – A Saga of Heroic Struggles of the ... Read More
Book review symposium: Crisis Spaces: Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe
reviewed by David Featherstone, Óscar García Agustín, Sara González and Penny Koutrolikou with an author response by Costis Hadjimichalis
31st December 2020
Round table book review of Crisis Spaces by David Featherstone, Óscar García Agustín, Sara González ... Read More
Book review symposium: Cities and Social Movements
By Walter J Nicholls & Justus Uitermark and reviewed by Ross Beveridge, Virginie Mamadouh and Berna Turam
28th December 2020
Book review symposium: Cities and Social Movements reviewed by Ross Beveridge, Virginie Mamadouh and Berna ... Read More
Book review: The Mathematics of Urban Morphology
edited by Luca D’Acci and reviewed by Cui Liu
9th December 2020
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Book review: Sur le front de la métropole: Une géographie suburbaine de Los Angeles
by Renaud Le Goix and reviewed by William Kutz
1st December 2020
Book review of Sur le front de la métropole: Une géographie suburbaine de Los Angeles ... Read More
Neighbourhood accessibility and walkability of subsidised housing in shrinking US cities
Blog by Li Yin, Kelly Patterson, Robert Silverman, Laiyun Wu and Hao Zhang.
17th November 2020
Unlike general measures such as Walk Score, the accessibility-walkability index (AWI) described in this article ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 16/11/20
16th November 2020
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Not too close, not too far: urbanisation and life satisfaction along the urban hierarchy
Blog post by Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca
9th November 2020
Lenzi and Perucca investigate why people in large cities should be less satisfied compared with ... Read More
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9th November 2020
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Urban ARC 2021 and Seventh Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS
5th November 2020
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements has launched its annual PhD Workshop to be held ... Read More
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2nd November 2020
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19th October 2020
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12th October 2020
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Australia’s housing investor-activists
Blog post by Nicole Cook and Kristian Ruming
9th October 2020
Cook and Ruming explore the lengths to which home-investors go to protect their housing against ... Read More
Researching the local employment impacts of immigration: Which way now?
Free webinar based on Urban Studies paper
7th October 2020
Free webinar on the local employment impacts of immigration from the University of Sheffield Migration ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 05/10/20
5th October 2020
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Will urban giants – with high levels of education, income, and real property prices – dominate the future of cities?
Blog post by Daniel Broxterman and Anthony Yezer
30th September 2020
New blog post shows relative inequality in distribution of skilled workers across cities not increasing, ... Read More
USF Seminar Series Awards
2020 funding scheme now open
30th September 2020
The USF seeks to support up to eleven seminar series awards, in each case up ... Read More
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21st September 2020
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14th September 2020
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Agonistic Failures – Following Policy Conflicts in Berlin’s Urban Cultural Politics
Blog post by Friederike Landau
9th September 2020
New blog explores artist activism in Berlin through a lens of conflict rather than consensus ... Read More
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8th September 2020
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Book review: Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities
by Mary Lawhon, Lené Le Roux, Anesu Makina & Yaffa Truelove and reviewed by Julie Ren
4th September 2020
Book review of Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities (Mary Lawhon, Lené ... Read More
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31st August 2020
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24th August 2020
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Building new knowledge about natures, ecologies and sustainability: A review article
Book review essay by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
18th August 2020
Book review essay of Grounding Urban Natures, Urban Planet and Ecological Urbanism by Gerardo del ... Read More
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17th August 2020
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10th August 2020
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Book review: The Address Book. What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
by Deirdre Mask and reviewed by Richard Harris
7th August 2020
Book review of The Address Book. What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and ... Read More
Tweeting about downtown protected bike lanes
Blog post by Colin Ferster, Karen Laberee, Trisalyn Nelson, Calvin Thigpen, Michael Simeone and Meghan Winters
6th August 2020
Results from latest study by Ferster et al suggests there may be a cycle of ... Read More
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4th August 2020
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On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique
Blog post by Murtah Shannon, Kei Otsuki, Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag
31st July 2020
Shannon et al demonstrate the need for a better understanding of the manifold claims to ... Read More
Book review: Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia
by KC Ho and reviewed by Creighton Connolly
30th July 2020
Book review of Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia (KC Ho) reviewed by Creighton ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 27/07/20
27th July 2020
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Detroit Five Years After Bankruptcy
by Josh Roose, Tom Barnes and Bryan S. Turner
27th July 2020
New blog post explores how Detroiters accepted their city’s bankruptcy as a necessary evil and ... Read More
Real estate politicians in India: Land, Labour and Vote banks in the Global South
Blog post by Sai Balakrishnan and Narendar Pani
24th July 2020
Balakrishnan and Pani examine the rise of real estate politicians in India. Read More
Book review: About Star Architecture. Reflecting on Cities in Europe
Edited by Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Davide Ponzini & Alain Thierstein and reviewed by Alberto Vanolo
21st July 2020
Book review of About Star Architecture. Reflecting on Cities in Europe (Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Davide Ponzini ... Read More
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20th July 2020
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Book review: Urban Energy Landscapes
by Vanesa Castán Broto and reviewed by Madlen Kobi
16th July 2020
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13th July 2020
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7th July 2020
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Book review: Historical Maps and Classical Thoughts of Human Settlements in Chinese Cities
by Wang Shusheng and reviewed by Clifford Pearson
30th June 2020
Book review of Historical Maps and Classical Thoughts of Human Settlements in Chinese Cities (Wang ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 29/06/20
29th June 2020
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What makes you satisfied with your neighbourhood?
Blog post by Zachary Neal
25th June 2020
Can changes to a neighbourhood's built or social environment meaningfully improve residents' neighbourhood satisfaction? Read More
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22nd June 2020
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15th June 2020
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Book review: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work
edited by John Flint and Ryan Powell and reviewed by Keith Jacobs
12th June 2020
Book review of Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work ... Read More
Does immigration produce economic benefits during downturns?
Blog post by Xi Huang
10th June 2020
New blog investigates whether immigration enhanced economic resilience to the Great Recession for metropolitan areas ... Read More
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8th June 2020
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Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context
Blog by Morten Nielsen, Jason Sumich and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
8th June 2020
What is the history of the rapidly expanding phenomenon of enclaving and what are the ... Read More
Book review: City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water
by Sophie Watson and reviewed by Edward Wigley
4th June 2020
Book review of City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water (Sophie Watson) ... Read More
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1st June 2020
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Does the monocentric model work in a polycentric urban system? An examination of German metropolitan regions
Blog by Stephan Schmidt, Angelika Krehl, Stefan Fina and Stefan Siedentop
27th May 2020
New blog contributes to discussion of the monocentric model by testing its viability when applied ... Read More
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25th May 2020
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18th May 2020
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11th May 2020
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4th May 2020
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Book review: The Promise of Infrastructure
by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta & Hannah Appel and reviewed by Cynthia Browne
23rd April 2020
The Promise of Infrastructure (Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta & Hannah Appel) reviewed by Cynthia Browne: ... Read More
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20th April 2020
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Effects of the state’s informal practices on organisational capability and social inclusion: Three cases of city governance in Johannesburg
Blog by Li Pernegger
17th April 2020
New blog investigates what happens when state actors get creative when formal practices don’t fit ... Read More
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15th April 2020
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Book review: Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China
by Jun Zhang and reviewed by Pengfei Li
15th April 2020
Book review of Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in ... Read More
Do COVID-19 Restrictions on Activities Reduce Crime?
Blog by John F. McDonald and Steven Balkin
9th April 2020
Following on from their 1983 Urban Studies article, McDonald and Balkin consider the impact of ... Read More
Indigeneity across Borders: Rethinking Indigenous Belonging in the Urban Milieu
by Dana Brablec and Sibylla Warrington
27th March 2020
Summary of workshop discussing understanding indigeneity across difference without traps of cultural essentialism or ontological ... Read More
Urban Studies Online presents the Labouring Urban Infrastructures digital magazine
by Hanna Ruszczyk, Kathleen Stokes and Alejandro De Coss
26th March 2020
Labouring Urban Infrastructures is the collective work of eighteen postgraduate researchers and early career scholars ... Read More
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25th March 2020
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with our Editorial team if you have ... Read More
NYC's Tech Economy
produced by Alice Arnold and Sharon Zukin
24th March 2020
New video produced by Alice Arnold and the distinguished sociologist Sharon Zukin, for the publication ... Read More
Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2020 cancelled
18th March 2020
Professor Sharon Zukin’s Urban Studies Annual Lecture on 7th April 2020 has been cancelled due ... Read More
Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease: Demographic change, infrastructure and governance
by Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil and Harris Ali
17th March 2020
New blog considers how rapid urbanisation enables the spread of infectious disease, with peripheral sites ... Read More
Comparing urban resilience governance across cities
Blog by Mary Fastiggi, Sara Meerow and Thaddeus R. Miller
16th March 2020
Cities are increasingly focused on resilience, but what does this mean in practice? New blog ... Read More
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16th March 2020
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Towards a relational conception of the compact city
Blog by Kristin Kjærås
13th March 2020
Blog proposing a critical geography of how the compact city is produced. Read More
The financialisation of housing land supply in England
Blog by Quintin Bradley
11th March 2020
Blog researches the impact of accountancy practices intended to introduce market disciplines to public services, ... Read More
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9th March 2020
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2nd March 2020
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24th February 2020
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Mapping Gentrification and Displacement Pressure: An Exploration of Four Distinct Methodologies
by Benjamin Preis, Aarthi Janakiraman, Alex Bob, Justin Steil
21st February 2020
New blog from Preis et al compares the outcomes of four distinct efforts to map ... Read More
Book review: Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
By Lizabeth Cohen and reviewed by Andrew Riely
20th February 2020
Book review of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America ... Read More
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17th February 2020
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Estimating the local employment impacts of immigration
by Bernard Fingleton, Daniel Olner and Gwilym Pryce
14th February 2020
Fingleton, Olner and Pryce develop a new robust method for estimating the long run employment ... Read More
Book review: Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing, and Representing the City
Edited by Konstantinos Avramidis & Myrto Tsilimpounidi and reviewed by Emma Arnold
12th February 2020
Book review of Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing, and Representing the City (Konstantinos Avramidis ... Read More
‘Diversity’ in a gentrifying local shopping street in Amsterdam
by Emil van Eck, Iris Hagemans and Jan Rath
11th February 2020
New blog finds that policymakers whose actions promote commercial gentrification in a local shopping street ... Read More
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10th February 2020
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Book review: Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy
by Julia Nevarez and reviewed by Jonathan Davies
5th February 2020
Book review: Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy ... Read More
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3rd February 2020
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Book review: Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves
by George C Galster and reviewed by David Manley
30th January 2020
Book review of Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves (George C Galster) reviewed by David ... Read More
Investigating China’s Mid-Yangtze River economic growth region using a spatial network growth model
by Shuai Shi and Kathy Pain
29th January 2020
New blog sheds light on network effects by examining the ‘actual’ impact of network flows ... Read More
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27th January 2020
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Rigour and Rigour Mortis? Planning, calculative rationality, and forces of stability and change
by Iain White
23rd January 2020
New findings unsettle the planner and planning policy as the key agent able to change ... Read More
Book review: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities
edited by Henrik Ernstson & Erik Swyngedouw and reviewed by Enora Robin
22nd January 2020
Book review of Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities (Henrik Ernstson & ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 20/01/20
20th January 2020
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Greening: An innovative strategy for crime reduction
Blog by Jesenia M. Pizarro, Richard C. Sadler, Jason Goldstick, Brandon Turchan, Edmund F. McGarrell, Marc A. Zimmerman
17th January 2020
Pizarro et al assert that more greening lowers the crime rate within neighbourhoods. Read More
How did Cape Town become the Silicon Cape of Africa?
Blog by Andrea Pollio
14th January 2020
New blog on Making the silicon cape of Africa: Tales, theories and the narration of ... Read More
How did Cape Town become the Silicon Cape of Africa?
Blog by Andrea Pollio
14th January 2020
New blog on Making the silicon cape of Africa: Tales, theories and the narration of ... Read More
Book review symposium: The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
by Brett Christophers and reviewed by Kelly Kay, Alex Marsh, Laurence Murphy and Susan Smith, with author response by Brett Christophers
10th January 2020
Book review symposium of The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain ... Read More
‘The tiger’s leap’: The role of history in legitimating the authority of modern Chinese planners
Blog by Xin Feng and Kiera Chapman
9th January 2020
Is professionalism a coherent concept for urban planning? Feng and Chapman argue that it is ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 16/12/19
16th December 2019
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Latest Urban Studies news 09/12/19
9th December 2019
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What matters to complex commuting patterns in Beijing? Individual attributes vs spatial factors
Blog by Cecilia Wong, Wei Zheng and Miao Qiao
5th December 2019
What matters to complex commuting patterns in Beijing? Wong, Zhang and Qiao discuss individual attributes ... Read More
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2nd December 2019
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25th November 2019
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Latest Urban Studies news 18/11/19
18th November 2019
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Book review: Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
by Cho Mihye and reviewed by Harvey Chan
14th November 2019
Book review of Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul by Cho Mihye and ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 11/11/19
11th November 2019
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Submission Deadline Extended: The Sixth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS and Urban ARC 2020
7th November 2019
The deadline to submit applications for the sixth annual workshop at IIHS and the annual ... Read More
Book review: Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell
by Stuart Hodkinson and reviewed by Neil Gray
7th November 2019
Book review of Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell ... Read More
Informal politics and informal settlements – measuring the relationship across 200 cities
Blog by Chandan Deuskar
6th November 2019
New blog uses data from NYU and The V-Dem Institute to demonstrate a global correlation ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 04/11/19
4th November 2019
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Negotiating polyvocal strategies: re-reading de Certeau through the lens of urban planning in South Africa
Blog by Lauren Andres, Phil Jones, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Melgaço Lorena
31st October 2019
This new blog offers new insights into de Certeau’s ideas around strategies and power Read More
Book review: Athens and the War on Public Space: Tracing a City in Crisis
by Klara Jaya Brekke, Christos Filippidis & Antonis Vradis and reviewed by Maria-Nerina Boursinou
30th October 2019
Book review of Athens and the War on Public Space: Tracing a City in Crisis ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 29/10/19
29th October 2019
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How the past was NOT different
Blog by Scott G. Ortman
25th October 2019
In this new blog, Ortman asserts that urban scaling phenomena should be observable in ancient ... Read More
Book review - Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate
Edited by André Corrêa d’Almeida and reviewed by Julie T Miao
23rd October 2019
Book review of Book review of Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate (André ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 21/10/19
21st October 2019
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Book review: Resilience and Urban Disasters: Surviving Cities
edited by Kamila Borsekova & Peter Nijkamp and reviewed by Josephine Marion Zimba
17th October 2019
Book review of Resilience and Urban Disasters: Surviving Cities (Kamila Borsekova & Peter Nijkamp eds) ... Read More
Announcing Urban ARC 2020 and Sixth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS
16th October 2019
IIHS announces the sixth annual PhD Workshop from 13-15 January 2020, and the fourth edition ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 14/10/19
14th October 2019
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Politics of neutrality: Urban knowledge practices and everyday formalisation in Karachi’s waterscape
Blog by Usmaan Farooqui
9th October 2019
Blog looking at formalisation as an everyday process where the formal/informal dichotomy is produced through ... Read More
Latest Urban Studies news 07/10/19
7th October 2019
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3 reasons why urban integration isn’t that straightforward after all…
Blog by Rachel Macrorie and Simon Marvin, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
4th October 2019
Following their recent article, Bifurcated urban integration: The selective dis- and re-assembly of infrastructures, Dr. ... Read More
Book review - Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
edited by Ayse Çaglar & Nina Glick Schiller and reviewed by Susanne Urban
3rd October 2019
Book review of Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration edited by Ayse Çaglar ... Read More
Latest updates on Urban Studies 30/09/19
30th September 2019
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Book review - Interplaces: An Economic Geography of the Inter-Urban and International Economies
by Nicholas A Phelps and reviewed by Simone Franzi
24th September 2019
Book review of Interplaces: An Economic Geography of the Inter-Urban and International Economies by Nicholas ... Read More
Latest updates on Urban Studies 23/09/19
23rd September 2019
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Latest updates on Urban Studies 17/09/19
17th September 2019
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Ronan Paddison (1945–2019): An Appreciation of an Academic Life
13th September 2019
An Appreciation of Ronan Paddison Read More
Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our cities to fill the food gap
by Leonie Joubert with the Consuming Urban Poverty Team and reviewed by Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson
11th September 2019
urban studies, urban studies journal, USJ, urban blog, book review, Tomatoes Taxi Ranks, Running cities, ... Read More
Book review - Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
Edited by Jane Battersby & Vanessa Watson and reviewed by William G Moseley
11th September 2019
Book review of Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities edited by Jane ... Read More
Latest updates on Urban Studies 09/09/19
9th September 2019
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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 02/09/19
2nd September 2019
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The role of the state in China’s post-disaster reconstruction planning: Implications for resilience
Blog by Jiang Xu and Yiwen Shao
27th August 2019
Through studying China’s post-earthquake reconstruction planning, Xu and Shao argue in this new blog that ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 26/08/19
26th August 2019
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What is “hostile design,” and how should we study it?
Blog by Robert Rosenberger
19th August 2019
How do instances of hostile design at times work in accord with larger hostile agendas ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 19/08/19
19th August 2019
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Insurgent Planner: Transgressing the technocratic state of postcolonial Jakarta
Blog by Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri
14th August 2019
Blog seeking alternatives to democratic neoliberal development regimes in urban planning through insurgency. Read More
Infrastructure imaginaries: The politics of light rail projects in the age of neoliberalism
Blog by Kristian Olesen
12th August 2019
New blog critically discusses how light rail projects are embedded in infrastructure imaginaries in Aalborg, ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 05/08/19
5th August 2019
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Book review - The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress
edited by Harvey Molotch & Davide Ponzini and reviewed by Leslie Sklair
1st August 2019
Book review of The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress (Harvey ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 29/07/19
29th July 2019
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Book review - Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History
by Iain Borden and reviewed by Jack Layton
23rd July 2019
Book review of Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History (Iain Borden) reviewed by Jack ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 22/07/19
22nd July 2019
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Book review: Cities in the Urban Age. A Dissent
by Robert A Beauregard and reviewed by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
19th July 2019
Book review of Cities in the Urban Age. A Dissent (Robert A Beauregard) reviewed by ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 16/07/19
16th July 2019
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Ronan Paddison 1945 - 2019
10th July 2019
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our former Editor-in-Chief and ... Read More
ANNOUNCEMENT: Doctoral Student Essay Competition 2019
10th July 2019
Urban Studies Journal & the Urban China Research Network - Doctoral Student Essay Competition 2019 Read More
Housing abandonment in shrinking cities of East Asia: Case study in Incheon, South Korea
Blog by Youngmee Jeon and Saehoon Kim
9th July 2019
New blog proposes a comprehensive and meaningful theoretical framework to explain five paths of housing ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 08/07/19
8th July 2019
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Book review: Rent and Its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle
Edited by Neil Gray and reviewed by Ana Drago
26th June 2019
Book review of Rent and Its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle (Neil Gray) reviewed ... Read More
Latest Updates on Urban Studies 24/06/19
24th June 2019
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Who Is the “Smart” Resident in the Digital Age? The Varied Profiles of Users and Non-Users in the Contemporary City
Blog by Tali Hatuka and Hadas Zur
20th June 2019
New blog explores the levels of participation in digital municipal platforms to assess: the normative ... Read More
Book review: Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal
Authored by Rosalind Fredericks and reviewed by Jenny McArthur
13th June 2019
Book review of Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Rosalind Fredericks) reviewed ... Read More
Institutional Change and Diversity in the Transfer of Land Development Rights in China: The Case of Chengdu
Blog by Chen Shi and Bo-sin Tang
6th June 2019
Blog examining the institutional changes and the implications in land production and development arising from ... Read More
Workshop: Infrastructural Reading
Tuesday 4 June 2019, City University London
29th May 2019
Infrastructural Reading day-long workshop at City University London on 4 June 2019 Read More
An Investigation of Migrants’ Residential Satisfaction in Beijing
Blog by Yu Chen, Yunxiao Dang and Guanpeng Dong
17th May 2019
Blog exploring the factors influencing migrants’ residential choices in Beijing, in particular focusing on urban ... Read More
Book review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In
Authored by Roger Keil and reviewed by Nitin Bathla
7th May 2019
Book review of Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In (Roger Keil) ... Read More
The onshore urban impacts of offshore property investors
Blog by Rex McKenzie and Rowland Atkinson
30th April 2019
Blog exploring the grounded impact of international wealth chains on housing markets in London Read More
Do Gentrifying Neighbourhoods Have Less Community? Evidence from Philadelphia
Blog by Joseph Gibbons, Michael S Barton and Timothy T Reling
20th March 2019
Blog argues for the need to advance research on the association of gentrification with local ... Read More
Four types of urban austerity: public land privatisations in French and Italian cities
Blog by Félix Adisson and Francesca Artioli
19th March 2019
Blog develops an analytical model that tackles this question using the intergovernmental system and local ... Read More
Megaprojects and the limits of ‘green resilience’ in the global South: Two cases from Malaysia and Qatar
Blog by Agatino Rizzo
12th March 2019
Blog argues that if we are to reboot the current planning policies in the South ... Read More
Institutional change and divergent economic resilience: Path development of two resource-depleted cities in China
Blog by Xiaohui Hu and Chun Yang
6th March 2019
Blog exploring different modes of institutional change are useful to explain regionally divergent industrial path ... Read More
Urban Innovation Hotspots: How innovative firms locate within cities
Blog by Christian Rammer, Jan Kinne and Knut Blind
5th March 2019
Blog investigates the microgeographic environment of innovative firms in Berlin. They find that such firms ... Read More
Book review: Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
Authored by PJ Hudson and reviewed by William Conroy
22nd February 2019
Book review of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (PJ Hudson) reviewed ... Read More
Book review - New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam Through Built Environment in Turkey
Authored by Bülent Batuman and reviewed by Gülşah Aykaç
15th February 2019
Book review of New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam Through Built Environment ... Read More
Book review - Water, Technology and the Nation-State
Edited by Filippo Menga & Erik Swyngedouw and reviewed by Lucy Goodman
7th February 2019
Book review of Water, Technology and the Nation-State (Menga & Swyngedouw) reviewed by Lucy Goodman Read More
Double book review: The Nocturnal City
Authored by Robert Shaw, reviewed by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard and Ilse van Liempt
31st January 2019
Double book review of The Nocturnal City (Robert Shaw) reviewed by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard and ... Read More
The nexus between innovation and well-being across the EUS space: what role for urbanisation?
Blog by Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca
30th January 2019
New blog studies the underexplored relationship between innovation and wellbeing in a spatial perspective and ... Read More
Book review - The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements
Authored by Lester R Kurtz & Lee A Smithey and reviewed by Kristi Andrasik
24th January 2019
Book review of The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements authored by Lester R Kurtz ... Read More
The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA
Blog by Andrew EG Jonas, Andrew R Goetz and Sylvia Brady
23rd January 2019
New blog on the importance of local political conditions in PPP contracts and the role ... Read More
Book review - Building a Capable State: Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Authored by Ian Palmer, Susan Parnell & Nishendra Moodley and reviewed by Laurence Piper
16th January 2019
Book review of Building a Capable State: Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Ian Palmer, ... Read More
Book review - Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Authored by Royce Hanson and reviewed by Nicholas A Phelps
9th January 2019
Book review of Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest (Royce Hanson) reviewed by Nicholas ... Read More
Urban Mobility and Diversity: an interdisciplinary perspective on contrasting patterns of minority settlement in Jerusalem and Stockholm
Blog by Jonathan Rokem and Laura Vaughan
8th January 2019
Blog exploring Geographies of Ethnic Segregation in Stockholm: The Role of Mobility and Co-Presence in ... Read More
Book review - Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns
Edited by Eric Denis & Marie-Hélène Zérah and reviewed by Gregory F Randolph
3rd January 2019
Book review of Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns ... Read More
Linking Muslim youth in Madrid and Paris
Blog by Cecilia Eseverri Mayer
18th December 2018
Blog showing how the lack of clear, strict State integration directives in San Cristóbal (Madrid) ... Read More
Spatial Patterns and Driving Forces of Uneven Dual-track Urbanisation in Fujian Province: An Approach Based on Employment Sectors
Blog by Lijie Lin and Jianfa Shen
7th December 2018
Blog exploring four area types based on employment structure (state-led urbanised areas, coastal developed areas, ... Read More
Transformative urbanism and reproblematising land scarcity in Hong Kong
Blog by Mee Kam Ng
6th December 2018
Blog reimagining the development of rural Hong Kong based on the principles of nature conservation ... Read More
Housing career disparities in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and locals in Nanjing
Blog by Can Cui
5th December 2018
A blog providing insights from Nanjing: how skilled migrants’ housing tenure and location change over ... Read More
Book review - Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities
Authored by David Bissell and reviewed by Debbie Hopkins
23rd November 2018
Book Review of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (David Bissell) reviewed by ... Read More
Book Review - Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the City in São Paulo
Authored by Lucy Earle and reviewed by Bianca Tavolari
16th November 2018
Book Review of Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the ... Read More
Bringing urban space back in: A multilevel analysis of environmental inequality in Germany
Blog by Tobias Rüttenauer
13th November 2018
Blog comparing the level of environmental inequality between cities. Read More
Exploring the significance of domestic investment for foreign direct investment in China: A city-network approach
Blog by Shuai Shi, Ronald Wall and Kathy Pain
7th November 2018
Blog exploring the relationship between DI and FDI cross-territorial capital flows reshaping China’s economic geography ... Read More
Functional responsibilities of municipal government: Metropolitan disparities and instruments of intergovernmental management
Blog by Agustín León-Moreta
1st November 2018
Blog exploring what determines the functional service responsibilities of municipal government. A local public economies ... Read More
Neighbourhood Effects in Cross-Atlantic Perspective: A Longitudinal Analysis of Impacts on Intergenerational Mobility in the United States and Germany
Blog by Junia Howell
25th October 2018
Blog comparing neighbourhood effects on intergenerational mobility in the US and Germany. The paper underscores ... Read More
Book review - Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Authored by Marc Matera and reviewed by Ben Gowland
24th October 2018
Book review of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Marc ... Read More
Current Debates in Urban Theory from A Scale Perspective: Introducing A Scenes Approach
Blog by Daniel Silver, Cary Wu, Terry Clark and Rima Wilkes
18th October 2018
Blog on the theory of urban “scenes” as a candidate for incorporating and synthesizing diverse ... Read More
Neighbourhood Effects and Beyond: Explaining the Paradoxes of Inequality in the Changing American Metropolis
Blog by Robert J Sampson
8th October 2018
Blog challenging dominant policy perspectives on urban racial inequality through a unifying framework highlighting neighbourhood ... Read More
Book review - Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future Perspectives
Edited by Poonam Sharma & Swati Rajput and reviewed by Federico Cugurullo
3rd October 2018
Book review of Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future Perspectives (Poonam Sharma & ... Read More
Book Review - Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
Authored by Miriam Meissner and reviewed by Simon Ferdinand
26th September 2018
Book review of Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth ... Read More
Identification and Quantification of Urban Space in India: Defining Urban Macro-Structures
Blog by Joan Perez, Giovanni Fusco and François Moriconi-Ebrard
20th September 2018
Blog identifying and quantifying current levels of urbanisation in India: a new methodology maximising the ... Read More
Book review - The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Authored by Paul Dobraszczyk and reviewed by Pablo Arboleda
19th September 2018
Book review of The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay (Paul Dobraszczyk) ... Read More
An empirical approach to urban land monopoly: A case study of Barranquilla, Colombia
Blog by Nestor Garza and Colin Lizieri
18th September 2018
Blog that explores spatial and temporal land price changes to separate the “pure” effect of ... Read More
Housing Tenure of Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in France
Blog by Arthur Acolin
14th September 2018
Blog exploring if France can develop targeted policies to address the homeownership gap for children ... Read More
Imagining the future suburb
Blog by Cameron Johnson, Tom Baker and Francis L. Collins
13th September 2018
Blog exploring imaginations of post-suburbia: Suburban change and imaginative practices in Auckland, New Zealand Read More
Causes of urbanisation and counter-urbanisation in Zambia: Natural population increase or migration?
Blog by Owen Crankshaw and Jacqueline Borel-Saladin
12th September 2018
Blog addressing urbanisation and counter-urbanisation causes in Zambia by examining employment trends: from economic decline, ... Read More
Book review: Gentrifier
Authored by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch & Marc Lamont Hill and reviewed by Aysegul Can
12th September 2018
Book review of Gentrifier (John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch & Marc Lamont Hill) reviewed by ... Read More
Between Authoritarian Governance and Urban Citizenship: Tree-Felling Protests in Hanoi
Blog by John Gillespie and Nguyen Hung Quang
7th September 2018
Blog exploring how tree-felling protests disrupted the Hanoi's government’s expectations about who can participate in ... Read More
Book review - The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite
Authored by Alessandro Busà and reviewed by Catalina Neculai
5th September 2018
Book review of The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the ... Read More
Book review - City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy
Edited by Jeffrey Hou & Sabine Knierbein and reviewed by Naomi Adiv
31st August 2018
Book review of City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking ... Read More
Book review symposium - Key Thinkers on Cities
Edited by Regan Koch and Alan Latham and reviewed by Heather McLean, CS Ponder, Felipe Magalhães and Lauren Wagner
29th August 2018
Four commentaries on Key Thinkers on Cities Read More
Immigration and House Prices under Various Regional Economic Structures in England and Wales
Blog by Jiazhe Zhu
24th August 2018
Blog exploring the housing practices of immigrants in England and Wales in different types of ... Read More
‘Pray for Transit’: Seeking Transportation Justice in Metropolitan Atlanta
Blog by Alex Karner and Richard Duckworth
23rd August 2018
A blog exploring transportation Justice in Metropolitan Atlanta Read More
The potential of the urban data revolution for research on cities
Blog by Daniel Arribas-Bel
21st August 2018
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Book review - Austerity and Democracy in Athens: Crisis and Community in Exarchia
Authored by Monia Cappuccini and reviewed by Georgia Alexandri
20th August 2018
Book Review of Austerity and Democracy in Athens: Crisis and Community in Exarchia Read More
Book Review - New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
Authored by AM Simone & E Pieterse and reviewed by William Monteith
1st August 2018
Book Review of New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times (Simone and Pieterse) Read More
Understanding the role of life events on residential mobility for low-income, subsidised households
Blog by Ruoniu Wang, Rebecca Walter, Abdulnaser Arafat and Jie Song
22nd June 2018
Blog post examining the relationship between life events and residential mobility for low-income families in ... Read More
Spatial structure and labor productivity: Evidence from prefectures in China
Blog by Wan Li, Bindong Sun and Tinglin Zhang
6th June 2018
A blog examining evidence for the role morphological monocentricity plays in enhancing productivity in China Read More
The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning
Blog by Francesco Chiodelli
16th May 2018
A blog on corruption in the planning domain and the illicit side of urban development Read More
Mixed neighbourhoods and native out-mobility in the Oslo region: the importance of parenthood
Blog by Terje Wessel and Viggo Nordvik
9th May 2018
Are native parents in the Oslo area prone to leave neighbourhoods with a high share ... Read More
Diversity and migrant enterprise: beyond the economic dividend
Blog by Trevor Jones, Monder Ram, María Villares-Varela
30th April 2018
A blog exploring how migrant entrepreneurs contribute to economic development. Read More
Re-assembling sustainable food cities: An exploration of translocal governance and its multiple agencies
Blog by Dr. Ana Moragues-Faus
25th April 2018
A blog exploring the transformative potential of translocalism in the food system: the UK Sustainable ... Read More
A conversation about land rent, financialisation and housing
Book reviews with Manuel B Aalbers and Anne Haila
23rd March 2018
Manuel B Aalbers and Anne Haila discuss their respective recent books, 'The Financialization of Housing: ... Read More
‘Nice apartments, no jobs’: how former villagers experienced displacement and resettlement in the western suburbs of Shanghai
Blog by Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley and Sara González
2nd March 2018
A blog exploring how former villagers experienced displacement and resettlement in the western suburbs of ... Read More
Roadmaps to utopia: tales of the smart city
Blog by Alan-Miguel Valdez, Matthew Cook and Stephen Potter
13th February 2018
A blog building on previous work looking at various sustainable innovation experiments deployed in an ... Read More
The Built Environment and Trip Chaining Behavior Revisited: The Joint Effects of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and Tour Purpose
Blog by Liya Yang, Lingqian Hu and Zhenbo Wang
9th February 2018
A blog revisiting the built environment and trip chaining behaviour: the joint effects of the ... Read More
Addressing the determinants of built-up expansion and densification processes at the regional scale
Blog by Ahmed Mustafa, Anton Van Rompaey, Mario Cools, Ismaïl Saadi and Jacques Teller
7th February 2018
A blog addressing the determinants of built-up expansion and densification processes at the regional scale. Read More
Shrinking metropolitan area: Costly homeownership and slow spatial shrinkage
Blog by Masatomo Suzuki and Yasushi Asami
31st January 2018
A blog on costly homeownership and slow spatial shrinkage. Read More
Embodied geographies of liveability and urban parks
Blog by Gordon Waitt
1st December 2017
A blog on embodied geographies of liveability and urban parks. Read More
Urban Shrinkage Is Not Just a Phase… And That’s OK
Blog by Maxwell D. Hartt
20th November 2017
A blog exploring urban shrinkage Read More
Neighborhoods, local networks, and the non-linear path of the expiration and preservation of federal rental subsidies
Blog by Kathryn Howell
10th November 2017
A blog exploring neighborhoods, local networks, and the non-linear path of the expiration and preservation ... Read More
Capital gains as a driver of housing wealth inequality
Blog by Barend Wind & Lina Hedman
26th October 2017
A blog exploring capital gains as a driver of housing wealth inequality. Read More
The Monument Debate: A Good Use for Disorder
Blog by John Crossan
29th September 2017
A blog on the far right and the city. Read More
Beyond Unemployment: Informal Employment and Heterogeneous Motivations for Participating in Street Vending in Present-day China
Blog by Gengzhi Huang, Hong-ou Zhang, Desheng Xue
20th September 2017
A blog on informal employment and heterogeneous motivations for participating in street vending in present-day ... Read More
Gentrification 1.0: Urban Transformations in Late-Nineteenth-Century Berlin
Blog by Philipp Reick
20th September 2017
A blog on how contemporary theories of gentrification improve our understanding of past urban change. Read More
Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
Blog by Mary Lawhon
1st September 2017
A blog on heterogeneous infrastructure configurations Read More
Exclusion as Urban Policy: The Dutch ‘Act on Extraordinary Measures for Urban Problems’
Blog by Wouter van Gent et al.
29th August 2017
The Rotterdam Act forbids certain groups of poor residents from moving into particular neighborhoods. This ... Read More
Two hearts and a loan? Mortgages, employment insecurity and earnings among young couples in six European countries
Blog by Giulia M. Dotti Sani, Claudia Acciai
18th August 2017
A blog on home ownership in Europe Read More
Car Dependence and Housing Affordability: An Emerging Social Deprivation Issue in London?
Blog by Mengqiu Cao and Robin Hickman
15th August 2017
This paper investigates the combined problem of high car dependence and housing affordability – as ... Read More
Tenure change in London’s suburbs: Spreading gentrification or suburban upscaling?
Blog by Alan Mace, Antoine Paccoud
11th August 2017
This article looks at the distribution of social upscaling across London linked to changes in ... Read More
Work, Technology, The City, Violence
Blog - John Crossan
10th August 2017
A blog on the emerging 4th Industrial Revolution, including robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. Read More
Local Regeneration, Work-Based Learning and the Green Global Golden Age
Blog by John Crossan
7th August 2017
Blog post on local Regeneration, Work-Based Learning and the Green Global Golden Age Read More
