Latest Updates on Urban Studies
14th Jan 2019
New issue out now
The February 2019 (Volume 56 Issue 2) of Urban Studies is now available online here.
Articles include:
Paradigm or paradox? The ‘cumbersome impasse’ of the participatory turn in Brazilian urban planning Critical Commentary by Abigail Friendly and Kristine Stiphany
Examining the interaction between policy areas established by right to the city, but realized through ongoing practices of autogestão.
The analysis of residential sorting trends: Measuring disparities in socio-spatial mobility Methodological Paper by Tal Modai-Snir and Pnina Plaut
This Methodological Paper develops a methodological framework designated to explore how changing mobility patterns translate into temporal and scale variations in residential sorting
If we are flâneurs, can we be cosmopolitans? by Bart van Leeuwen
Modern identity and world citizenship: opportunities and challenges.
Read the full table of contents here.
Latest articles on OnlineFirst
Transcending (in)formal urbanism by Michele Acuto, Cecilia Dinardi, Colin Marx
This article is part of the forthcoming Special issue: Transcending (in)formal urbanism
This Special Issue introduction argues for a dialogue across a diversity of disciplinary approaches with the goal of transcending the othering of informality for the benefit of a more inclusive urban theory contribution.
Thinking with and beyond the informal–formal relation in urban thought by Colin McFarlane
This article is part of the forthcoming Special issue: Transcending (in)formal urbanism
Borrowing alternatives from movements to ‘provincialising’ the informal-formal structure of thought, Colin McFarlane calls for a renewed interest in the potential, and limits, of the informal-formal inheritance in urban thought.
New posts on Urban Blog
Urban Mobility and Diversity: an interdisciplinary perspective on contrasting patterns of minority settlement in Jerusalem and Stockholm by Jonathan Rokem and Laura Vaughan
This blog follows two recent articles by Dr Rokem and Prof Vaughan:
Book reviews now available on Urban Blog
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Book review - Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest Authored by Royce Hanson and reviewed by Nicholas A Phelps Suburb not only vindicates “the thought that growth machine politics in the US, and perhaps elsewhere, has been suburban rather than urban but also that planning politics evolves as suburban communities themselves become more mature, complex, and urban” |