Latest Urban Studies news 11/12/23

Announcement: Special Issue Builder Webinars Initiative

The Urban Studies Special Issue Builder webinars (i.e., the Webinars Initiative) aim to assist prospective editors and authors in developing their Special Issue proposals at an early stage of topic development. Researchers interested in developing a Special Issue proposal are invited to apply to receive specialist technical and administrative support in recruiting and hosting webinars with prospective authors.

For further details and application process please see here.

Latest articles on OnlineFirst

Vertical Horizons: Dealing with luxury urban skies by Andrew Harris and Tom Wolseley

This article is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: Radical Verticality: Critical explorations of high-rise urbanism.

In their latest open access Special Issue article, Andrew Harris and Tom Wolseley posit that more multi-sited, creative and reflective approaches are required in efforts at levelling with the social and symbolic power of urban vertical luxification.

New metro and housing price and rent premiums: A natural experiment in China by Dongsheng He, Guibo Sun, Ling Li and Chris Webster

In their new study, Dongsheng He et al used a natural experiment to estimate the causal effects of the new metro interventions on housing premiums in Shenzhen, China.