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Special Issue: Radical Verticality: Critical Explorations of High-Rise Urbanism

Volume 61/4 March 2024

Special Issue: Public Transport as Public Space

Volume 60/15 November 2023

Special Issue: Municipalist Strategy in Crisis?

Volume 60/11 August 2023

Special Issue: Urban Public Health Emergencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2): Infrastructures, Urban Governance and Civil Society

Volume 60/9 July 2023

Special Issue: Urban Public Health Emergencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic (1): Social and Spatial Inequalities in the COVID-city

Volume 60/8 June 2023

Special Issue: Urbanizing Degrowth: Towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for Future Cities

Volume 60/7 May 2023

Special issue: Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia-Pacific

Volume 59/16 December 2022

Special Issue: Making Cities through Migration Industries

Volume 59/11 August 2022

Special issue: Comparative methods for global urban studies

Volume 59/8 June 2022

Special issue: Infrastructural Stigma and Urban Vulnerability

Volume 59/3 February 2022

Special Issue: Big data in the city

Volume 58/15 November 2021

Special issue: Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms

Volume 58/7 May 2021

Special issue: Smart cities between worlding and provincializing

Volume 58/3 February 2021

Special issue: Transnational gentrification

Volume 57/15 November 2020

Special issue: Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

Volume 57/11 August 2020

Special issue: Environmental governance for urban resilience in the Asia-Pacific

Volume 57/7 May 2020

Special issue: New directions of urban studies in China

Volume 57/3 February 2020

Special issue: School segregation in contemporary cities: Socio-spatial dynamics and urban outcomes

Volume 56/15 November 2019

Special issue: Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus

Volume 56/11 August 2019

Special issue: Funding, financing and governing urban infrastructures

Volume 56/7 May 2019

Special issue: Transcending (in)formal urbanism

Volume 56/3 February 2019

Special issue: People and plans in urbanising China

Volume 55/7 May 2018

Special issue: Interrogating urban crisis: Governance, contestation and critique

Volume 54/9 July 2017

Special issue: Sex, consumption and the city

Volume 54/3 February 2017

Special issue: Financialisation and the production of urban space

Volume 53/7 May 2016

Special issue: Locating gentrification in the Global East

Volume 53/3 February 2016

Special issue: Producing and Consuming China’s New Urban Space: State, Market and Society

Volume 52/15 November 2015

Special issue: Urban revolutions in an age of global urbanism

Volume 52/11 August 2015

Special issue: Governing for urban resilience

Volume 52/7 May 2015

Special Issue: Geographies of the urban night

Volume 52/3 February 2015

Special issue: Explaining local governance ‘transformation’ through neoliberalism

Volume 51/15 November 2014

Special issue: City-region governance, 10 years on

Volume 51/11 August 2014

Special issue: Urban energy transitions: Places, processes and politics of socio-technical change

Volume 51/7 May 2014

Special issue: Commuting, migration, housing and labour markets: Complex interactions

Volume 51/3 February 2014

Special Issue: Cities, Conflict and State Fragility in the Developing World

Volume 50/15 November 2013

Special Issue: Planning ‘Smart’ City-regions in an Age of Market-driven Urbanism

Volume 50/11 August 2013

Special Issue: Cities, Urbanisation and Climate Change

Volume 50/7 May 2013

Special Issue: Young People’s Im/Mobile Urban Geographies

Volume 50/3 February 2013

Special Issue: Global Urban Frontiers? Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination

Volume 49/13 October 2012

Special Issue: Problematising Urban Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Endeavour

Volume 49/9 July 2012

Special Issue: Security and Surveillance at Sport Mega Events

Volume 48/15 November 2011

Special Issue: Property Rights in Transition

Volume 48/3 February 2011

Special Issue: Urban Networks and Network Theory

Volume 47/13 November 2010

Special Issue: The Changing Configuration of the World City Network

Volume 47/9 August 2010

Special Issue: Cities, Justice and Conflict

Volume 47/6 May 2010

Special Issue: Regulating Design: The Practices of Architecture, Governance and Control

Volume 46/12 November 2009

Special issue: Trajectories of the New Economy: Regeneration and Dislocation in the Inner City

Volume 46/5-6 May 2009

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