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03 Jun 2024, 12:03 pm
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Latest Urban Studies news 03/06/24
New issue out now
The second June 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 8) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here.
Articles include:
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies? by Simon Marvin, Lauren Rickards and Jonathan Rutherford
Simon Marvin, Lauren Rickards and Jonathan Rutherford’s open access debates paper shows how urban controlled environment agriculture (CEA) selectively extends existing logics of urban and rural agriculture.
Rezoning a top-notch CBD: The choreography of land-use regulation and creative destruction in Manhattan’s East Midtown by Igal Charney
Igal Charney’s paper makes the case for the connection between making land use regulatory changes and the process of destruction and redevelopment.
New articles
Reimagining the urban through agency as healing justice: Stories from Kolkata and Chicago by Ritwika Biswas and Elizabeth L. Sweet
Biswas and Sweet highlight instances of women reclaiming urban spaces in their everyday lives through varied acts of their agency while also building a sense of community agency; ultimately leading towards healing justice.
Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation by Mukta Naik
Open access research paper by Mukta Naik shows how, despite low scalar positions on account of weak governance and informalised economies, smaller cities shape varied employment opportunities and generate spatially and temporally varied mobilities for domestic migrants.
The making of a global neighbourhood in China by Fanling Cheng, Zai Liang and Tao Xu
Cheng et al identify several factors contributing to the neighbourhood’s evolution, including immigrants’ market-driven rational choice, the local government’s multi-faceted service, and the bridging role of Chinese ethnic minorities
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities by Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam
New study by Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam uses a socio-spatial approach to analyse the intersection between religion and space in two Indian cities: Hyderabad and Mumbai.
‘Once you come, you are a Shenzhener’? Multifaceted and variegated sense of place among migrants in Shenzhen by Huimin Du
New study by Huimin Du sheds light on the complexity of sense of place and the nuances of belonging, attachment, identity, and home in contemporary Chinese urbanism.
Why mixed communities regeneration fails to improve the lives of low-income young people by Rana Khazbak
New open access article by Rana Khazbak examines the mechanisms through which the capabilities of low income young people are influenced by transforming their social housing estate into a mixed income community.
Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China by Jie Guo, Hong’ou Zhang and Yongchun Yang
Through the lens of local state leadership, this study by Jie Guo et al emphasises the heterogeneity of the state and enriches the understanding of state-led urban development.
Read the accompanying blog post here.
Places to be young: The dispossession of public space in Old Havana by Joanna Kocsis
In this open access article, Kocsis identifies how the spatial practices involved in the enactment of Old Havana’s new imaginary dispossess local youth of ‘backstage’ spaces for the work of identity formation, and changes the symbolic value of local youth to the reimagined Old Havana.
Targeting the centre and (least) poor: Evidence from urban Lahore, Pakistan by Hadia Majid and Mahvish Shami
New research by Hadia Majid and Mahvish Shami shows how electoral incentives in Pakistan are biased against programmatic public goods provision for the urban poor.
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation by Roberta Discetti and Diletta Acuti
In this open access paper, Roberta Discetti and Diletta Acuti are interested in ‘city food networks’ as a way in which cities are taking action to bring about positive changes in food systems.
Small is beautiful? Making sense of ‘shrinking’ homes by Phil Hubbard
In this open access critical commentary, Phil Hubbard suggests that the shrinking homes phenomenon shows the growing role of finance in the development of cities, suggestive of the way that developers are extracting maximum value from restricted urban sites in an era of planning deregulation.
Communities built on political trust: Theory and evidence from China by Yu Zeng and Shitong Qiao
Study by Yu Zeng and Shitong Qiao finds urban communities are based on political trust in authoritarian regimes, complicating the conventional view that such regimes repress civic engagement or manipulate civic organisations for social control.
New book review
Book review: Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations by reviewed by Chao Xie“Beibei Tang’s Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations delves into the hybrid space of urban neighbourhood governance in contemporary China.”
Read more book reviews on the Urban Studies blog.
