Latest Urban Studies news 05/02/24

New issue out now

The February 2024 (Volume 61, Issue 3) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here.

Articles include:

The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda debates paper by Tooran Alizadeh and Deepti Prasad

Tooran Alizadeh and Deepti Prasad put forward a research agenda ‘the right to the smart city in the Global South’ – through three lenses of expose, propose, & politicise, from a Southern critical perspective to produce a normative alternative vision for ‘just smart city’.

Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India by Meher Bhagia and Mallika Bose

Who really owns our cities? This study by Meher Bhagia and Mallika Bose dives into the financialisation of real estate and corporate land acquisitions in India to find the true extent of corporate influence and its impact on housing affordability.

New book reviews on Urban Blog

	Book review: Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere reviewed by Julian Molina “The book contributes to a substantial corpus of recent studies on urban, infrastructural and police violence.”
	Book review: The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition reviewed by Sören Scholvin “A new book by Pádraig Carmody, James Murphy, Richard Grant and Francis Owusu provides an insightful analysis of Africa’s urban geographies. The authors draft an innovative conceptual framework and discuss ways to overcome the various challenges that cities across the continent face.”
	Book review: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology reviewed by Ayushi Chauhan “The book offers an indispensable guide to the entangled human and non-human lives in the urban… It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, geography and urban studies, as well as South Asian studies generally.”

Read more book reviews on the Urban Studies blog.