Latest Urban Studies news 01/11/21

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Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave by Lingyue Li, Surong Zhang, Jinfeng Wang, Xiaoming Yang, Lan Wang

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Li et al’s latest special issue paper argues that effective control of pandemics requires both a holistic package of urban governance strategies and locally adaptive governance measures.

Seeing the street through Instagram. Digital platforms and the amplification of gentrification by Irene Bronsvoort and Justus L Uitermark

Bronsvoort and Uitermark examine how representations on digital platforms reflect and shape urban change.

Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene by Stephanie Wakefield

A new study by Wakefield argues the need for Anthropocene critical urban theory, to consider urban forms and processes emerging via climate change and adaptation.

The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19 by Wei Zhai, Xinyu Fu, Mengyang Liu and Zhong-Ren Peng

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This latest Special Issue paper by Zhai et al considers the impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19.

New reviews on Urban Blog

Book review: Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike reviewed by Jay Emery “Just when the rich historical seams of the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike looked to be nearing exhaustion, Diarmaid Kelliher delivers a book hewn from sources beyond the British coalfields, in the streets, cultures and organising spaces of London… Overall, extensive and meticulous archival and Oral History research is weaved into a detailed, qualified and often empowering story of translocal and intersectional class solidarity and schism.”

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