Latest Urban Studies news 11/09/23

New issue out now

The September 2023 issue (Volume 60 Issue 12) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here. 

Articles include:

Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world by Davide Luca, Javier Terrero-Davila, Jonas Stein and Neil Lee

Has an urban-rural split in values developed across the world? And does this gap depend on the economic development of a country? Luca et al answer these questions using a large cross-sectional dataset covering 66 countries. 

Local inequities in the relative production of and exposure to vehicular air pollution in Los Angeles by Geoff Boeing, Yougeng Lu and Clemens Pilgram

Latest article from Boeing, Lu and Pilgram examines how vehicular air pollution exposure relates to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, using a Los Angeles, California case study.

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The conflictual governance of street experiments, between austerity and post-politics by Ersilia Verlinghieri, Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone and Luca Staricco

How can street experiments help reconfigure urban mobility? What lies behind their conflictual nature? New analysis of Torino Mobility Lab reveals the limits of interventions embedded in post-politics and neoliberal-austerity.