First Published:
20 Apr 2020, 4:47 am
First Published:
20 Apr 2020, 4:47 am
by Li Pernegger
Pernegger presents three cases of contested urban governance from Johannesburg’s post-apartheid city administration.
Read the accompanying blog post here.
Critical Commentary: Reflections on five years of the Summer Institute in Urban Studies
by Kevin Ward, Timothy Bunnell
In the planning for SIUS2020, Ward and Bunnell reflect on what they’ve learnt from the previous four Summer Institutes in Urban Studies.
Debates Paper by Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil, S. Harris Ali
This paper is currently available free access for a limited period.
Connolly et al call for future research on the spatialities of health and disease to examine how extended urbanisation may influence possible outbreaks of infectious disease.
Read the accompanying blog post here.
by Zana Vathi, Kathy Burrell
Burrell and Vathi argue that a focus on material infrastructures is especially important in understanding how marginalised urban communities are affected by, and galvanised in response to change.
by David Bassens, Laura Gutierrez, Reijer Hendrikse, Deborah Lambert, Maëlys Waiengnier
Bassens et al argue that research on advanced producer services (APS) has so far been too single-mindedly focused on the networked dimensions of APS geographies.
Do COVID-19 Restrictions on Activities Reduce Crime?
by John F. McDonald and Steven Balkin
Following on from their 1983 Urban Studies article, Citizen Demand for Exposure to Street Crime, McDonald and Balkin consider the impact of reduced exposure on measured crime rate in this new blog based on their new article, The COVID-19 and the Decline in Crime.
Read more posts and book reviews on the Urban Studies blog.