First Published:
22 Jan 2024, 9:49 am
First Published:
22 Jan 2024, 9:49 am
The February 2024 (Volume 61, Issue 2) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here.
Articles include:
Federal ‘redlining’ maps: A critical reappraisal debates paper by Scott Markley
Scott Markley recasts redlining maps and their accompanying field notes as windows into the governing racial-spatial ideology of twentieth-century US real estate capital.
The impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth by Simon C Büchler, Dongxiao Niu, Anne K Thompson and Siqi Zheng
Büchler et al finds that human capital positively impacts urban population, house price, and wage growth in this open access article.
Navigating spatial inequalities: The micro-politics of migrant dwelling practices during COVID-19 in Antwerp Hannah Robinson, Jil Molenaar and Lore Van Praag
Robinson, Molenaar and Van Praag’s latest paper aims to understand the specific spatial challenges which migrants face in Antwerpen-Noord and Borgerhout during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Caring and commoning in political society: Insights from the Scugnizzo Liberato of Naples by Roberto Sciarelli
Roberto Sciarelli sheds new light on the caring practices organised through and within urban commons by using the theoretical lenses provided by subaltern studies,
reviewed by Vincenzo Maria Di Mino “The two volumes to be discussed in this text address, in different forms and ways, the multifaceted set of dynamics hinted at earlier straddling processes of social differentiation, disciplining and conflict dynamics. The scope of the latter, within the pages of these two mighty books, ranges from subcultures and folk traditions to the attempt to build a countervailing power from below through cooperation.” |
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Book review: The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century reviewed by Richard Harris “Most of us live in some sort of urban neighbourhood and want it to work well – to be, as Mallach and Swanstrom put it in The Changing American Neighborhood, ‘good’… They explore and document these ‘good’ neighbourhoods, tracing and explaining their fate and briefly suggesting ways they might be restored.” |
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Book review forum: Waiting Town reviewed by Sangeeta Banerji, VK Phatak, Llerena Guiu Searle and Laura Lieto with an author response by Lisa Björkman “One of this book’s many strengths is its ability to speak to many audiences and disciplines. This brief review forum, consisting of a collage of reflections from scholars and practitioners from varying disciplines, is a testament to this achievement. Contributors include geographers and anthropologists, in addition to urban planners from the Global North and South.” |
Read more book reviews on the Urban Studies blog.