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Local Regeneration, Work-Based Learning and the Green Global Golden Age

Blog by John Crossan

7th August 2017

Blog post on local Regeneration, Work-Based Learning and the Green Global Golden Age Read More

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Work, Technology, The City, Violence

Blog - John Crossan

10th August 2017

A blog on the emerging 4th Industrial Revolution, including robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. Read More

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Tenure change in London’s suburbs: Spreading gentrification or suburban upscaling?

Blog by Alan Mace, Antoine Paccoud

11th August 2017

This article looks at the distribution of social upscaling across London linked to changes in ... Read More

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Car Dependence and Housing Affordability: An Emerging Social Deprivation Issue in London?

Blog by Mengqiu Cao and Robin Hickman

15th August 2017

This paper investigates the combined problem of high car dependence and housing affordability – as ... Read More

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Two hearts and a loan? Mortgages, employment insecurity and earnings among young couples in six European countries

Blog by Giulia M. Dotti Sani, Claudia Acciai

18th August 2017

A blog on home ownership in Europe Read More

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Exclusion as Urban Policy: The Dutch ‘Act on Extraordinary Measures for Urban Problems’

Blog by Wouter van Gent et al.

29th August 2017

The Rotterdam Act forbids certain groups of poor residents from moving into particular neighborhoods. This ... Read More

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Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations

Blog by Mary Lawhon

1st September 2017

A blog on heterogeneous infrastructure configurations Read More

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Gentrification 1.0: Urban Transformations in Late-Nineteenth-Century Berlin

Blog by Philipp Reick

20th September 2017

A blog on how contemporary theories of gentrification improve our understanding of past urban change. Read More

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Beyond Unemployment: Informal Employment and Heterogeneous Motivations for Participating in Street Vending in Present-day China

Blog by Gengzhi Huang, Hong-ou Zhang, Desheng Xue

20th September 2017

A blog on informal employment and heterogeneous motivations for participating in street vending in present-day ... Read More

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The Monument Debate: A Good Use for Disorder

Blog by John Crossan

29th September 2017

A blog on the far right and the city. Read More

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Capital gains as a driver of housing wealth inequality

Blog by Barend Wind & Lina Hedman

26th October 2017

A blog exploring capital gains as a driver of housing wealth inequality. Read More

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Neighborhoods, local networks, and the non-linear path of the expiration and preservation of federal rental subsidies

Blog by Kathryn Howell

10th November 2017

A blog exploring neighborhoods, local networks, and the non-linear path of the expiration and preservation ... Read More

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Urban Shrinkage Is Not Just a Phase… And That’s OK

Blog by Maxwell D. Hartt

20th November 2017

A blog exploring urban shrinkage Read More

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Embodied geographies of liveability and urban parks

Blog by Gordon Waitt

1st December 2017

A blog on embodied geographies of liveability and urban parks. Read More

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Shrinking metropolitan area: Costly homeownership and slow spatial shrinkage

Blog by Masatomo Suzuki and Yasushi Asami

31st January 2018

A blog on costly homeownership and slow spatial shrinkage. Read More

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Addressing the determinants of built-up expansion and densification processes at the regional scale

Blog by Ahmed Mustafa, Anton Van Rompaey, Mario Cools, Ismaïl Saadi and Jacques Teller

7th February 2018

A blog addressing the determinants of built-up expansion and densification processes at the regional scale. Read More

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The Built Environment and Trip Chaining Behavior Revisited: The Joint Effects of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and Tour Purpose

Blog by Liya Yang, Lingqian Hu and Zhenbo Wang

9th February 2018

A blog revisiting the built environment and trip chaining behaviour: the joint effects of the ... Read More

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Roadmaps to utopia: tales of the smart city

Blog by Alan-Miguel Valdez, Matthew Cook and Stephen Potter

13th February 2018

A blog building on previous work looking at various sustainable innovation experiments deployed in an ... Read More

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‘Nice apartments, no jobs’: how former villagers experienced displacement and resettlement in the western suburbs of Shanghai

Blog by Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley and Sara González

2nd March 2018

A blog exploring how former villagers experienced displacement and resettlement in the western suburbs of ... Read More

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A conversation about land rent, financialisation and housing

Book reviews with Manuel B Aalbers and Anne Haila

23rd March 2018

Manuel B Aalbers and Anne Haila discuss their respective recent books, 'The Financialization of Housing: ... Read More

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Re-assembling sustainable food cities: An exploration of translocal governance and its multiple agencies

Blog by Dr. Ana Moragues-Faus

25th April 2018

A blog exploring the transformative potential of translocalism in the food system: the UK Sustainable ... Read More

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Diversity and migrant enterprise: beyond the economic dividend

Blog by Trevor Jones, Monder Ram, María Villares-Varela

30th April 2018

A blog exploring how migrant entrepreneurs contribute to economic development. Read More

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Mixed neighbourhoods and native out-mobility in the Oslo region: the importance of parenthood

Blog by Terje Wessel and Viggo Nordvik

9th May 2018

Are native parents in the Oslo area prone to leave neighbourhoods with a high share ... Read More

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The illicit side of urban development: Corruption and organised crime in the field of urban planning

Blog by Francesco Chiodelli

16th May 2018

A blog on corruption in the planning domain and the illicit side of urban development Read More

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Spatial structure and labor productivity: Evidence from prefectures in China

Blog by Wan Li, Bindong Sun and Tinglin Zhang

6th June 2018

A blog examining evidence for the role morphological monocentricity plays in enhancing productivity in China Read More

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Understanding the role of life events on residential mobility for low-income, subsidised households

Blog by Ruoniu Wang, Rebecca Walter, Abdulnaser Arafat and Jie Song

22nd June 2018

Blog post examining the relationship between life events and residential mobility for low-income families in ... Read More

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Book Review - New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times

Authored by AM Simone & E Pieterse and reviewed by William Monteith

1st August 2018

Book Review of New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times (Simone and Pieterse) Read More

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Book review - Austerity and Democracy in Athens: Crisis and Community in Exarchia

Authored by Monia Cappuccini and reviewed by Georgia Alexandri

20th August 2018

Book Review of Austerity and Democracy in Athens: Crisis and Community in Exarchia Read More

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The potential of the urban data revolution for research on cities

Blog by Daniel Arribas-Bel

21st August 2018

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‘Pray for Transit’: Seeking Transportation Justice in Metropolitan Atlanta

Blog by Alex Karner and Richard Duckworth

23rd August 2018

A blog exploring transportation Justice in Metropolitan Atlanta Read More

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Immigration and House Prices under Various Regional Economic Structures in England and Wales

Blog by Jiazhe Zhu

24th August 2018

Blog exploring the housing practices of immigrants in England and Wales in different types of ... Read More

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Book review symposium - Key Thinkers on Cities

Edited by Regan Koch and Alan Latham and reviewed by Heather McLean, CS Ponder, Felipe Magalhães and Lauren Wagner

29th August 2018

Four commentaries on Key Thinkers on Cities Read More

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Book review - City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy

Edited by Jeffrey Hou & Sabine Knierbein and reviewed by Naomi Adiv

31st August 2018

Book review of City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking ... Read More

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Book review - The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

Authored by Alessandro Busà and reviewed by Catalina Neculai

5th September 2018

Book review of The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the ... Read More

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Between Authoritarian Governance and Urban Citizenship: Tree-Felling Protests in Hanoi

Blog by John Gillespie and Nguyen Hung Quang

7th September 2018

Blog exploring how tree-felling protests disrupted the Hanoi's government’s expectations about who can participate in ... Read More

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Book review: Gentrifier

Authored by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch & Marc Lamont Hill and reviewed by Aysegul Can

12th September 2018

Book review of Gentrifier (John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch & Marc Lamont Hill) reviewed by ... Read More

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Causes of urbanisation and counter-urbanisation in Zambia: Natural population increase or migration?

Blog by Owen Crankshaw and Jacqueline Borel-Saladin

12th September 2018

Blog addressing urbanisation and counter-urbanisation causes in Zambia by examining employment trends: from economic decline, ... Read More

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Imagining the future suburb

Blog by Cameron Johnson, Tom Baker and Francis L. Collins

13th September 2018

Blog exploring imaginations of post-suburbia: Suburban change and imaginative practices in Auckland, New Zealand Read More

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Housing Tenure of Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in France

Blog by Arthur Acolin

14th September 2018

Blog exploring if France can develop targeted policies to address the homeownership gap for children ... Read More

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An empirical approach to urban land monopoly: A case study of Barranquilla, Colombia

Blog by Nestor Garza and Colin Lizieri

18th September 2018

Blog that explores spatial and temporal land price changes to separate the “pure” effect of ... Read More

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Book review - The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay

Authored by Paul Dobraszczyk and reviewed by Pablo Arboleda

19th September 2018

Book review of The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay (Paul Dobraszczyk) ... Read More

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Identification and Quantification of Urban Space in India: Defining Urban Macro-Structures

Blog by Joan Perez, Giovanni Fusco and François Moriconi-Ebrard

20th September 2018

Blog identifying and quantifying current levels of urbanisation in India: a new methodology maximising the ... Read More

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Book Review - Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth

Authored by Miriam Meissner and reviewed by Simon Ferdinand

26th September 2018

Book review of Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth ... Read More

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Book review - Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Edited by Poonam Sharma & Swati Rajput and reviewed by Federico Cugurullo

3rd October 2018

Book review of Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future Perspectives (Poonam Sharma & ... Read More

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Neighbourhood Effects and Beyond: Explaining the Paradoxes of Inequality in the Changing American Metropolis

Blog by Robert J Sampson

8th October 2018

Blog challenging dominant policy perspectives on urban racial inequality through a unifying framework highlighting neighbourhood ... Read More

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Current Debates in Urban Theory from A Scale Perspective: Introducing A Scenes Approach

Blog by Daniel Silver, Cary Wu, Terry Clark and Rima Wilkes

18th October 2018

Blog on the theory of urban “scenes” as a candidate for incorporating and synthesizing diverse ... Read More

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Book review - Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century

Authored by Marc Matera and reviewed by Ben Gowland

24th October 2018

Book review of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Marc ... Read More

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Neighbourhood Effects in Cross-Atlantic Perspective: A Longitudinal Analysis of Impacts on Intergenerational Mobility in the United States and Germany

Blog by Junia Howell

25th October 2018

Blog comparing neighbourhood effects on intergenerational mobility in the US and Germany. The paper underscores ... Read More

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Functional responsibilities of municipal government: Metropolitan disparities and instruments of intergovernmental management

Blog by Agustín León-Moreta

1st November 2018

Blog exploring what determines the functional service responsibilities of municipal government. A local public economies ... Read More

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Exploring the significance of domestic investment for foreign direct investment in China: A city-network approach

Blog by Shuai Shi, Ronald Wall and Kathy Pain

7th November 2018

Blog exploring the relationship between DI and FDI cross-territorial capital flows reshaping China’s economic geography ... Read More

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Bringing urban space back in: A multilevel analysis of environmental inequality in Germany

Blog by Tobias Rüttenauer

13th November 2018

Blog comparing the level of environmental inequality between cities. Read More

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Book Review - Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the City in São Paulo

Authored by Lucy Earle and reviewed by Bianca Tavolari

16th November 2018

Book Review of Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the ... Read More

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Book review - Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities

Authored by David Bissell and reviewed by Debbie Hopkins

23rd November 2018

Book Review of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (David Bissell) reviewed by ... Read More

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Housing career disparities in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and locals in Nanjing

Blog by Can Cui

5th December 2018

A blog providing insights from Nanjing: how skilled migrants’ housing tenure and location change over ... Read More

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Transformative urbanism and reproblematising land scarcity in Hong Kong

Blog by Mee Kam Ng

6th December 2018

Blog reimagining the development of rural Hong Kong based on the principles of nature conservation ... Read More

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Spatial Patterns and Driving Forces of Uneven Dual-track Urbanisation in Fujian Province: An Approach Based on Employment Sectors

Blog by Lijie Lin and Jianfa Shen

7th December 2018

Blog exploring four area types based on employment structure (state-led urbanised areas, coastal developed areas, ... Read More

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Linking Muslim youth in Madrid and Paris

Blog by Cecilia Eseverri Mayer

18th December 2018

Blog showing how the lack of clear, strict State integration directives in San Cristóbal (Madrid) ... Read More

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Book review - Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns

Edited by Eric Denis & Marie-Hélène Zérah and reviewed by Gregory F Randolph

3rd January 2019

Book review of Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns ... Read More

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Urban Mobility and Diversity: an interdisciplinary perspective on contrasting patterns of minority settlement in Jerusalem and Stockholm

Blog by Jonathan Rokem and Laura Vaughan

8th January 2019

Blog exploring Geographies of Ethnic Segregation in Stockholm: The Role of Mobility and Co-Presence in ... Read More

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Book review - Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest

Authored by Royce Hanson and reviewed by Nicholas A Phelps

9th January 2019

Book review of Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest (Royce Hanson) reviewed by Nicholas ... Read More

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Book review - Building a Capable State: Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Authored by Ian Palmer, Susan Parnell & Nishendra Moodley and reviewed by Laurence Piper

16th January 2019

Book review of Building a Capable State: Service Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Ian Palmer, ... Read More

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The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA

Blog by Andrew EG Jonas, Andrew R Goetz and Sylvia Brady

23rd January 2019

New blog on the importance of local political conditions in PPP contracts and the role ... Read More

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Book review - The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements

Authored by Lester R Kurtz & Lee A Smithey and reviewed by Kristi Andrasik

24th January 2019

Book review of The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements authored by Lester R Kurtz ... Read More

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The nexus between innovation and well-being across the EUS space: what role for urbanisation?

Blog by Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca

30th January 2019

New blog studies the underexplored relationship between innovation and wellbeing in a spatial perspective and ... Read More

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Double book review: The Nocturnal City

Authored by Robert Shaw, reviewed by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard and Ilse van Liempt

31st January 2019

Double book review of The Nocturnal City (Robert Shaw) reviewed by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard and ... Read More

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Book review - Water, Technology and the Nation-State

Edited by Filippo Menga & Erik Swyngedouw and reviewed by Lucy Goodman

7th February 2019

Book review of Water, Technology and the Nation-State (Menga & Swyngedouw) reviewed by Lucy Goodman Read More

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Book review - New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam Through Built Environment in Turkey

Authored by Bülent Batuman and reviewed by Gülşah Aykaç

15th February 2019

Book review of New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam Through Built Environment ... Read More

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Book review: Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Authored by PJ Hudson and reviewed by William Conroy

22nd February 2019

Book review of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (PJ Hudson) reviewed ... Read More

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Urban Innovation Hotspots: How innovative firms locate within cities

Blog by Christian Rammer, Jan Kinne and Knut Blind

5th March 2019

Blog investigates the microgeographic environment of innovative firms in Berlin. They find that such firms ... Read More

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Institutional change and divergent economic resilience: Path development of two resource-depleted cities in China

Blog by Xiaohui Hu and Chun Yang

6th March 2019

Blog exploring different modes of institutional change are useful to explain regionally divergent industrial path ... Read More

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Megaprojects and the limits of ‘green resilience’ in the global South: Two cases from Malaysia and Qatar

Blog by Agatino Rizzo

12th March 2019

Blog argues that if we are to reboot the current planning policies in the South ... Read More

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Four types of urban austerity: public land privatisations in French and Italian cities

Blog by Félix Adisson and Francesca Artioli

19th March 2019

Blog develops an analytical model that tackles this question using the intergovernmental system and local ... Read More

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Do Gentrifying Neighbourhoods Have Less Community? Evidence from Philadelphia

Blog by Joseph Gibbons, Michael S Barton and Timothy T Reling

20th March 2019

Blog argues for the need to advance research on the association of gentrification with local ... Read More

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The onshore urban impacts of offshore property investors

Blog by Rex McKenzie and Rowland Atkinson

30th April 2019

Blog exploring the grounded impact of international wealth chains on housing markets in London Read More

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Book review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In

Authored by Roger Keil and reviewed by Nitin Bathla

7th May 2019

Book review of Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In (Roger Keil) ... Read More

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An Investigation of Migrants’ Residential Satisfaction in Beijing

Blog by Yu Chen, Yunxiao Dang and Guanpeng Dong

17th May 2019

Blog exploring the factors influencing migrants’ residential choices in Beijing, in particular focusing on urban ... Read More

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Workshop: Infrastructural Reading

Tuesday 4 June 2019, City University London

29th May 2019

Infrastructural Reading day-long workshop at City University London on 4 June 2019 Read More

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Institutional Change and Diversity in the Transfer of Land Development Rights in China: The Case of Chengdu

Blog by Chen Shi and Bo-sin Tang

6th June 2019

Blog examining the institutional changes and the implications in land production and development arising from ... Read More

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Book review: Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

Authored by Rosalind Fredericks and reviewed by Jenny McArthur

13th June 2019

Book review of Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Rosalind Fredericks) reviewed ... Read More

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Who Is the “Smart” Resident in the Digital Age? The Varied Profiles of Users and Non-Users in the Contemporary City

Blog by Tali Hatuka and Hadas Zur

20th June 2019

New blog explores the levels of participation in digital municipal platforms to assess: the normative ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 24/06/19

24th June 2019

Updates from Urban Studies journal and the latest urban news Read More

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Book review: Rent and Its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle

Edited by Neil Gray and reviewed by Ana Drago

26th June 2019

Book review of Rent and Its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle (Neil Gray) reviewed ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 08/07/19

8th July 2019

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Housing abandonment in shrinking cities of East Asia: Case study in Incheon, South Korea

Blog by Youngmee Jeon and Saehoon Kim

9th July 2019

New blog proposes a comprehensive and meaningful theoretical framework to explain five paths of housing ... Read More

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Doctoral Student Essay Competition 2019

10th July 2019

Urban Studies Journal & the Urban China Research Network - Doctoral Student Essay Competition 2019 Read More

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Ronan Paddison 1945 - 2019

10th July 2019

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our former Editor-in-Chief and ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 16/07/19

16th July 2019

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Book review: Cities in the Urban Age. A Dissent

by Robert A Beauregard and reviewed by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría

19th July 2019

Book review of Cities in the Urban Age. A Dissent (Robert A Beauregard) reviewed by ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 22/07/19

22nd July 2019

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Book review - Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History

by Iain Borden and reviewed by Jack Layton

23rd July 2019

Book review of Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History (Iain Borden) reviewed by Jack ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 29/07/19

29th July 2019

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Book review - The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress

edited by Harvey Molotch & Davide Ponzini and reviewed by Leslie Sklair

1st August 2019

Book review of The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress (Harvey ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 05/08/19

5th August 2019

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Infrastructure imaginaries: The politics of light rail projects in the age of neoliberalism

Blog by Kristian Olesen

12th August 2019

New blog critically discusses how light rail projects are embedded in infrastructure imaginaries in Aalborg, ... Read More

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Insurgent Planner: Transgressing the technocratic state of postcolonial Jakarta

Blog by Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri

14th August 2019

Blog seeking alternatives to democratic neoliberal development regimes in urban planning through insurgency. Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 19/08/19

19th August 2019

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What is “hostile design,” and how should we study it?

Blog by Robert Rosenberger

19th August 2019

How do instances of hostile design at times work in accord with larger hostile agendas ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 26/08/19

26th August 2019

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The role of the state in China’s post-disaster reconstruction planning: Implications for resilience

Blog by Jiang Xu and Yiwen Shao

27th August 2019

Through studying China’s post-earthquake reconstruction planning, Xu and Shao argue in this new blog that ... Read More

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Latest Updates on Urban Studies 02/09/19

2nd September 2019

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Latest updates on Urban Studies 09/09/19

9th September 2019

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Book review - Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

Edited by Jane Battersby & Vanessa Watson and reviewed by William G Moseley

11th September 2019

Book review of Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities edited by Jane ... Read More

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Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our cities to fill the food gap

by Leonie Joubert with the Consuming Urban Poverty Team and reviewed by Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson

11th September 2019

urban studies, urban studies journal, USJ, urban blog, book review, Tomatoes Taxi Ranks, Running cities, ... Read More

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Ronan Paddison (1945–2019): An Appreciation of an Academic Life

13th September 2019

An Appreciation of Ronan Paddison Read More

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Latest updates on Urban Studies 17/09/19

17th September 2019

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Latest updates on Urban Studies 23/09/19

23rd September 2019

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Book review - Interplaces: An Economic Geography of the Inter-Urban and International Economies

by Nicholas A Phelps and reviewed by Simone Franzi

24th September 2019

Book review of Interplaces: An Economic Geography of the Inter-Urban and International Economies by Nicholas ... Read More

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Latest updates on Urban Studies 30/09/19

30th September 2019

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Book review - Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration

edited by Ayse Çaglar & Nina Glick Schiller and reviewed by Susanne Urban

3rd October 2019

Book review of Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration edited by Ayse Çaglar ... Read More

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3 reasons why urban integration isn’t that straightforward after all…

Blog by Rachel Macrorie and Simon Marvin, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

4th October 2019

Following their recent article, Bifurcated urban integration: The selective dis- and re-assembly of infrastructures, Dr. ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 07/10/19

7th October 2019

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Politics of neutrality: Urban knowledge practices and everyday formalisation in Karachi’s waterscape

Blog by Usmaan Farooqui

9th October 2019

Blog looking at formalisation as an everyday process where the formal/informal dichotomy is produced through ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 14/10/19

14th October 2019

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Announcing Urban ARC 2020 and Sixth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS

16th October 2019

IIHS announces the sixth annual PhD Workshop from 13-15 January 2020, and the fourth edition ... Read More

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Book review: Resilience and Urban Disasters: Surviving Cities

edited by Kamila Borsekova & Peter Nijkamp and reviewed by Josephine Marion Zimba

17th October 2019

Book review of Resilience and Urban Disasters: Surviving Cities (Kamila Borsekova & Peter Nijkamp eds) ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 21/10/19

21st October 2019

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Book review - Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate

Edited by André Corrêa d’Almeida and reviewed by Julie T Miao

23rd October 2019

Book review of Book review of Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate (André ... Read More

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How the past was NOT different

Blog by Scott G. Ortman

25th October 2019

In this new blog, Ortman asserts that urban scaling phenomena should be observable in ancient ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 29/10/19

29th October 2019

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Book review: Athens and the War on Public Space: Tracing a City in Crisis

by Klara Jaya Brekke, Christos Filippidis & Antonis Vradis and reviewed by Maria-Nerina Boursinou

30th October 2019

Book review of Athens and the War on Public Space: Tracing a City in Crisis ... Read More

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Negotiating polyvocal strategies: re-reading de Certeau through the lens of urban planning in South Africa

Blog by Lauren Andres, Phil Jones, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Melgaço Lorena

31st October 2019

This new blog offers new insights into de Certeau’s ideas around strategies and power Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 04/11/19

4th November 2019

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Informal politics and informal settlements – measuring the relationship across 200 cities

Blog by Chandan Deuskar

6th November 2019

New blog uses data from NYU and The V-Dem Institute to demonstrate a global correlation ... Read More

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Book review: Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell

by Stuart Hodkinson and reviewed by Neil Gray

7th November 2019

Book review of Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell ... Read More

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Submission Deadline Extended: The Sixth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS and Urban ARC 2020

7th November 2019

The deadline to submit applications for the sixth annual workshop at IIHS and the annual ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/11/19

11th November 2019

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Book review: Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul

by Cho Mihye and reviewed by Harvey Chan

14th November 2019

Book review of Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul by Cho Mihye and ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 18/11/19

18th November 2019

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Latest Urban Studies news 25/11/19

25th November 2019

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Latest Urban Studies news 02/12/19

2nd December 2019

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What matters to complex commuting patterns in Beijing? Individual attributes vs spatial factors

Blog by Cecilia Wong, Wei Zheng and Miao Qiao

5th December 2019

What matters to complex commuting patterns in Beijing? Wong, Zhang and Qiao discuss individual attributes ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 09/12/19

9th December 2019

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Latest Urban Studies news 16/12/19

16th December 2019

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‘The tiger’s leap’: The role of history in legitimating the authority of modern Chinese planners

Blog by Xin Feng and Kiera Chapman

9th January 2020

Is professionalism a coherent concept for urban planning? Feng and Chapman argue that it is ... Read More

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Book review symposium: The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain

by Brett Christophers and reviewed by Kelly Kay, Alex Marsh, Laurence Murphy and Susan Smith, with author response by Brett Christophers

10th January 2020

Book review symposium of The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain ... Read More

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How did Cape Town become the Silicon Cape of Africa?

Blog by Andrea Pollio

14th January 2020

New blog on Making the silicon cape of Africa: Tales, theories and the narration of ... Read More

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Greening: An innovative strategy for crime reduction

Blog by Jesenia M. Pizarro, Richard C. Sadler, Jason Goldstick, Brandon Turchan, Edmund F. McGarrell, Marc A. Zimmerman

17th January 2020

Pizarro et al assert that more greening lowers the crime rate within neighbourhoods. Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 20/01/20

20th January 2020

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Book review: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities

edited by Henrik Ernstson & Erik Swyngedouw and reviewed by Enora Robin

22nd January 2020

Book review of Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities (Henrik Ernstson & ... Read More

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Rigour and Rigour Mortis? Planning, calculative rationality, and forces of stability and change

by Iain White

23rd January 2020

New findings unsettle the planner and planning policy as the key agent able to change ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 27/01/20

27th January 2020

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Investigating China’s Mid-Yangtze River economic growth region using a spatial network growth model

by Shuai Shi and Kathy Pain

29th January 2020

New blog sheds light on network effects by examining the ‘actual’ impact of network flows ... Read More

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Book review: Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves

by George C Galster and reviewed by David Manley

30th January 2020

Book review of Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves (George C Galster) reviewed by David ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 03/02/20

3rd February 2020

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Book review: Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy

by Julia Nevarez and reviewed by Jonathan Davies

5th February 2020

Book review: Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 10/02/20

10th February 2020

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‘Diversity’ in a gentrifying local shopping street in Amsterdam

by Emil van Eck, Iris Hagemans and Jan Rath

11th February 2020

New blog finds that policymakers whose actions promote commercial gentrification in a local shopping street ... Read More

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Book review: Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing, and Representing the City

Edited by Konstantinos Avramidis & Myrto Tsilimpounidi and reviewed by Emma Arnold

12th February 2020

Book review of Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing, and Representing the City (Konstantinos Avramidis ... Read More

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Estimating the local employment impacts of immigration

by Bernard Fingleton, Daniel Olner and Gwilym Pryce

14th February 2020

Fingleton, Olner and Pryce develop a new robust method for estimating the long run employment ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 17/02/20

17th February 2020

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Book review: Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

By Lizabeth Cohen and reviewed by Andrew Riely

20th February 2020

Book review of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America ... Read More

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Mapping Gentrification and Displacement Pressure: An Exploration of Four Distinct Methodologies

by Benjamin Preis, Aarthi Janakiraman, Alex Bob, Justin Steil

21st February 2020

New blog from Preis et al compares the outcomes of four distinct efforts to map ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 24/02/20

24th February 2020

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2nd March 2020

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9th March 2020

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The financialisation of housing land supply in England

Blog by Quintin Bradley

11th March 2020

Blog researches the impact of accountancy practices intended to introduce market disciplines to public services, ... Read More

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Towards a relational conception of the compact city

Blog by Kristin Kjærås

13th March 2020

Blog proposing a critical geography of how the compact city is produced. Read More

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Comparing urban resilience governance across cities

Blog by Mary Fastiggi, Sara Meerow and Thaddeus R. Miller

16th March 2020

Cities are increasingly focused on resilience, but what does this mean in practice? New blog ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 16/3/20

16th March 2020

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Extended urbanisation and the spatialities of infectious disease: Demographic change, infrastructure and governance

by Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil and Harris Ali

17th March 2020

New blog considers how rapid urbanisation enables the spread of infectious disease, with peripheral sites ... Read More

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Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2020 cancelled

18th March 2020

Professor Sharon Zukin’s Urban Studies Annual Lecture on 7th April 2020 has been cancelled due ... Read More

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NYC's Tech Economy

produced by Alice Arnold and Sharon Zukin

24th March 2020

New video produced by Alice Arnold and the distinguished sociologist Sharon Zukin, for the publication ... Read More

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COVID-19 update 

25th March 2020

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with our Editorial team if you have ... Read More

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Urban Studies Online presents the Labouring Urban Infrastructures digital magazine

by Hanna Ruszczyk, Kathleen Stokes and Alejandro De Coss

26th March 2020

Labouring Urban Infrastructures is the collective work of eighteen postgraduate researchers and early career scholars ... Read More

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Indigeneity across Borders: Rethinking Indigenous Belonging in the Urban Milieu

by Dana Brablec and Sibylla Warrington

27th March 2020

Summary of workshop discussing understanding indigeneity across difference without traps of cultural essentialism or ontological ... Read More

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Do COVID-19 Restrictions on Activities Reduce Crime?

Blog by John F. McDonald and Steven Balkin

9th April 2020

Following on from their 1983 Urban Studies article, McDonald and Balkin consider the impact of ... Read More

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Book review: Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

by Jun Zhang and reviewed by Pengfei Li

15th April 2020

Book review of Driving toward Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in ... Read More

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15th April 2020

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Effects of the state’s informal practices on organisational capability and social inclusion: Three cases of city governance in Johannesburg

Blog by Li Pernegger

17th April 2020

New blog investigates what happens when state actors get creative when formal practices don’t fit ... Read More

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20th April 2020

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Book review: The Promise of Infrastructure

by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta & Hannah Appel and reviewed by Cynthia Browne

23rd April 2020

The Promise of Infrastructure (Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta & Hannah Appel) reviewed by Cynthia Browne: ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 04/05/20

4th May 2020

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11th May 2020

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18th May 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 25/05/20

25th May 2020

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Does the monocentric model work in a polycentric urban system? An examination of German metropolitan regions

Blog by Stephan Schmidt, Angelika Krehl, Stefan Fina and Stefan Siedentop

27th May 2020

New blog contributes to discussion of the monocentric model by testing its viability when applied ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 01/06/20

1st June 2020

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Book review: City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water

by Sophie Watson and reviewed by Edward Wigley

4th June 2020

Book review of City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water (Sophie Watson) ... Read More

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Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context

Blog by Morten Nielsen, Jason Sumich and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

8th June 2020

What is the history of the rapidly expanding phenomenon of enclaving and what are the ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 08/06/20

8th June 2020

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Does immigration produce economic benefits during downturns?

Blog post by Xi Huang

10th June 2020

New blog investigates whether immigration enhanced economic resilience to the Great Recession for metropolitan areas ... Read More

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Book review: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work

edited by John Flint and Ryan Powell and reviewed by Keith Jacobs

12th June 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 15/06/20

15th June 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 22/06/20

22nd June 2020

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What makes you satisfied with your neighbourhood?

Blog post by Zachary Neal

25th June 2020

Can changes to a neighbourhood's built or social environment meaningfully improve residents' neighbourhood satisfaction? Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 29/06/20

29th June 2020

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Book review: Historical Maps and Classical Thoughts of Human Settlements in Chinese Cities

by Wang Shusheng and reviewed by Clifford Pearson

30th June 2020

Book review of Historical Maps and Classical Thoughts of Human Settlements in Chinese Cities (Wang ... Read More

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7th July 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 13/07/20

13th July 2020

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Book review: Urban Energy Landscapes

by Vanesa Castán Broto and reviewed by Madlen Kobi

16th July 2020

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20th July 2020

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Book review: About Star Architecture. Reflecting on Cities in Europe

Edited by Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Davide Ponzini & Alain Thierstein and reviewed by Alberto Vanolo

21st July 2020

Book review of About Star Architecture. Reflecting on Cities in Europe (Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Davide Ponzini ... Read More

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Real estate politicians in India: Land, Labour and Vote banks in the Global South

Blog post by Sai Balakrishnan and Narendar Pani

24th July 2020

Balakrishnan and Pani examine the rise of real estate politicians in India. Read More

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Detroit Five Years After Bankruptcy

by Josh Roose, Tom Barnes and Bryan S. Turner

27th July 2020

New blog post explores how Detroiters accepted their city’s bankruptcy as a necessary evil and ... Read More

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27th July 2020

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Book review: Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia

by KC Ho and reviewed by Creighton Connolly

30th July 2020

Book review of Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia (KC Ho) reviewed by Creighton ... Read More

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On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique

Blog post by Murtah Shannon, Kei Otsuki, Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag

31st July 2020

Shannon et al demonstrate the need for a better understanding of the manifold claims to ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 04/08/20

4th August 2020

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Tweeting about downtown protected bike lanes

Blog post by Colin Ferster, Karen Laberee, Trisalyn Nelson, Calvin Thigpen, Michael Simeone and Meghan Winters

6th August 2020

Results from latest study by Ferster et al suggests there may be a cycle of ... Read More

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Book review: The Address Book. What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

by Deirdre Mask and reviewed by Richard Harris

7th August 2020

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10th August 2020

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17th August 2020

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Building new knowledge about natures, ecologies and sustainability: A review article

Book review essay by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría

18th August 2020

Book review essay of Grounding Urban Natures, Urban Planet and Ecological Urbanism by Gerardo del ... Read More

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24th August 2020

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31st August 2020

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Book review: Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities

by Mary Lawhon, Lené Le Roux, Anesu Makina & Yaffa Truelove and reviewed by Julie Ren

4th September 2020

Book review of Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities (Mary Lawhon, Lené ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 08/09/20

8th September 2020

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Agonistic Failures – Following Policy Conflicts in Berlin’s Urban Cultural Politics

Blog post by Friederike Landau

9th September 2020

New blog explores artist activism in Berlin through a lens of conflict rather than consensus ... Read More

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14th September 2020

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21st September 2020

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USF Seminar Series Awards

2020 funding scheme now open

30th September 2020

The USF seeks to support up to eleven seminar series awards, in each case up ... Read More

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Will urban giants – with high levels of education, income, and real property prices – dominate the future of cities?

Blog post by Daniel Broxterman and Anthony Yezer

30th September 2020

New blog post shows relative inequality in distribution of skilled workers across cities not increasing, ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 05/10/20

5th October 2020

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Researching the local employment impacts of immigration: Which way now?

Free webinar based on Urban Studies paper

7th October 2020

Free webinar on the local employment impacts of immigration from the University of Sheffield Migration ... Read More

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Australia’s housing investor-activists

Blog post by Nicole Cook and Kristian Ruming

9th October 2020

Cook and Ruming explore the lengths to which home-investors go to protect their housing against ... Read More

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12th October 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 19/10/20

19th October 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 02/11/20

2nd November 2020

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Urban ARC 2021 and Seventh Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS

5th November 2020

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements has launched its annual PhD Workshop to be held ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 09/11/20

9th November 2020

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Not too close, not too far: urbanisation and life satisfaction along the urban hierarchy

Blog post by Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca

9th November 2020

Lenzi and Perucca investigate why people in large cities should be less satisfied compared with ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 16/11/20

16th November 2020

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Neighbourhood accessibility and walkability of subsidised housing in shrinking US cities

Blog by Li Yin, Kelly Patterson, Robert Silverman, Laiyun Wu and Hao Zhang.

17th November 2020

Unlike general measures such as Walk Score, the accessibility-walkability index (AWI) described in this article ... Read More

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Book review: Sur le front de la métropole: Une géographie suburbaine de Los Angeles

by Renaud Le Goix and reviewed by William Kutz

1st December 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 08/12/20

8th December 2020

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Book review: The Mathematics of Urban Morphology

edited by Luca D’Acci and reviewed by Cui Liu

9th December 2020

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Latest Urban Studies news 21/12/20

21st December 2020

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Book review symposium: Cities and Social Movements

By Walter J Nicholls & Justus Uitermark and reviewed by Ross Beveridge, Virginie Mamadouh and Berna Turam

28th December 2020

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Book review symposium: Crisis Spaces: Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe

reviewed by David Featherstone, Óscar García Agustín, Sara González and Penny Koutrolikou with an author response by Costis Hadjimichalis

31st December 2020

Round table book review of Crisis Spaces by David Featherstone, Óscar García Agustín, Sara González ... Read More

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Book review: CityMakers: Tribulations & Triumphs – A Saga of Heroic Struggles of the Homeless Residents in India

by Indu Prakash Singh and reviewed by Tanya Sharma

6th January 2021

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/01/21

11th January 2021

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Book review: Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London’s Towering Cityscape

by Günter Gassner and reviewed by Esther Leslie

13th January 2021

Book review of Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London’s Towering Cityscape (Günter Gassner) reviewed by ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 18/01/21

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Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities

Blog post by Zengli Wang and Lin Liu

19th January 2021

Could gate controls reduce #crime in gated communities? New research shows that higher levels of ... Read More

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Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case of Sustainable Sydney 2030

blog post by Martin Kornberger, Renate Meyer and Markus Höllerer

20th January 2021

New blog post from Kornberger et al on the long term effect of strategy: what’s ... Read More

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Book review: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present

edited by Tim Bunnell & Daniel PS Goh and reviewed by Keng-Khoon Ng

5th February 2021

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9th February 2021

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A New Measure of Urban Racial Segregation

Blog post by Jennifer Candipan, Nolan E. Phillips, Robert J. Sampson, and Mario Small

11th February 2021

Candipan, Phillips, Sampson and Small introduce the segregated mobility index (SMI) in their new blog ... Read More

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Book review: Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State

edited by Charlotte Lemanski and reviewed by Frances Brill

16th February 2021

Book review of Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State (Charlotte ... Read More

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A broom to the head: ‘Cleaning Day’ and the aesthetics of emergence in Dakar

Blog post by Branwyn Poleykett

18th February 2021

New blog post by Branwyn Poleykett examines the Senegalese tradition of Set Setal as urban ... Read More

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22nd February 2021

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Book review: Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics

Edited by Friederike Landau and reviewed by Mohamed Saleh

24th February 2021

Book review: Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 01/03/21

1st March 2021

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Book review: Everyday Resistance: French Activism in the 21st Century

Edited by Bruno Frère & Marc Jacquemain and reviewed by Cécile Gauthier

4th March 2021

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Residential Parking Supply Has a Stronger Influence on Household Travel Choices Relative to a Neighbourhood’s Walkability and Access to Transit

Blog post by Adam Millard-Ball and Jeremy West

15th March 2021

Blog post by Millard-Ball and West studies housing lotteries in San Francisco and find that ... Read More

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15th March 2021

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Book review: The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates

by Becky Tunstall and reviewed by David Manley

17th March 2021

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IIHS Urban Fellows Programme 2021-22

Applications close on 11 April 2021

25th March 2021

Applications for the IIHS Urban Fellows Programme August 2021 - May 2022 are open until ... Read More

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Pupils’ Travel Distance to School in China: Geographical Context Matters!

Blog post by Lili Xiang, Myles Gould and John Stillwell

26th March 2021

Xiang et al find that pupils’ travel distance is not only influenced by their socioeconomic ... Read More

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29th March 2021

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Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance?

Blog post by Roberto Ganau and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

1st April 2021

New blog post asks: Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance? Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 12/04/21

12th April 2021

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Book review: The Botanical City

Reviewed by Jan van Duppen

13th April 2021

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Book review: Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur

Reviewed by Matthew Wilkinson

20th April 2021

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Book review: Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

reviewed by Sylvia Croese

28th April 2021

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4th May 2021

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Citizenship acquisition and spatial stratification: analyzing immigrant residential mobility in the Netherlands

Blog post by Christophe Leclerc, Maarten Vink and Hans Schmeets

5th May 2021

New blog post by Leclerc et al looks at the effect of naturalisation on migrants’ ... Read More

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ARTEFACT

Blog post by Sylvain Chareyron, Laetitia Challe, Yannick L’Horty and Pascale Petit

6th May 2021

New blog post from Chareyron et al evaluates the effect on residential discrimination of an ... Read More

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Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalisation in Rio de Janeiro’s port area

Blog post by Abigail Friendly and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker

6th May 2021

In what was the largest slave traffic port in the Americas, hypermodern PPPs continue to ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 10/05/21

10th May 2021

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Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle

Blog post by Alex Ramiller

11th May 2021

New analysis of scraped court records and building permit records finds evidence of evictions associated ... Read More

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Book review: Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation

reviewed by Judith Schnelzer and Yvonne Franz

13th May 2021

Book review of Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation (Frank Moulaert and Diana MacCallum) reviewed by ... Read More

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17th May 2021

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Book review: Connecting People, Place and Design

reviewed by Stephen Muecke

19th May 2021

Book review of Connecting People, Place and Design by Angelique Edmonds and reviewed by Stephen ... Read More

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24th May 2021

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Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: Changes over time

by Renee Zahnow, Jonathan Corcoran, Anthony Kimpton and Rebecca Wickes

28th May 2021

New blog post examines the proposition that changes in the presence or arrangement of neighbourhood ... Read More

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1st June 2021

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Book review: Urban Regeneration in the UK

reviewed by Benjamin Archer

2nd June 2021

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7th June 2021

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Density and its futures: COVID-19, the city, and the politics of value

Blog post by Colin McFarlane

9th June 2021

McFarlane examines the relationship between ‘value’ and ‘population’ in the pandemic, and for how we ... Read More

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14th June 2021

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28th June 2021

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How daily life in small homes changed during COVID-19

Blog post by Jenny Preece, Kim McKee, David Robinson and John Flint

28th June 2021

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Cities in a post-COVID world

Blog post by Richard Florida, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper

28th June 2021

There will be winners and losers from COVID-19, but there is a window of opportunity ... Read More

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Book review symposium: On Shifting Foundations

reviewed by Dave Featherstone, Amy Zhang, Ashok Kumar and Wenying Fu with an author response by Kean Fan Lim

2nd July 2021

Roundtable book review of On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in ... Read More

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5th July 2021

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It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place

Blog post by Lucy Grimshaw and Lewis Mates

12th July 2021

New blog post illustrates the benefits of learning about local working class history and urban ... Read More

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Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?

Blog post by Stefan Jünger

12th July 2021

Latest study from Jünger provides evidence that certain indicators create distributional injustices in Germany. Read More

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13th July 2021

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On philanthropy and urban governance: setting a research agenda

Blog post by Pablo Fuentenebro and Michele Acuto

20th July 2021

Fuentenebro and Acuto highlight the value of a more 'global urban' outlook onto the landscape ... Read More

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Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla, and Monterrey

Blog post by Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, María Emilia Ismael Simental, Alberto Javier López Cuenca, Anne Kristiina Kurjenoja

20th July 2021

Do cultural agents through their projects create relations different from those enacted by the State ... Read More

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Book review: Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India

reviewed by Debapriya Ganguly

27th July 2021

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2nd August 2021

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Book review: Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism

reviewed by Leon Rosa Reichle

5th August 2021

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Extreme weather and urban rivers

Blog post by V. Chitra

6th August 2021

How are the changing metrics of extreme weather reshaping urban systems? V. Chitra explores this ... Read More

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9th August 2021

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Working the urban assemblage: a transnational study of transforming practices

Blog post by Catherine Durose, Mark van Ostaijen, Merlijn van Hulst, Oliver Escobar and Annika Agger

11th August 2021

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Book review: Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History

reviewed by Jialin Shi

12th August 2021

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Lockdown guidelines exposed the socio-spatial fragmentation between urban communities, mobile locations data show

Blog post by Terje Trasberg and James Cheshire

1st September 2021

Using data obtained from mobile applications, Trasberg and Cheshire analyse how the lockdown guidelines have ... Read More

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Haphazard Urbanization: Urban informality, politics and power in Egypt

Blog post by Deen Sharp

1st September 2021

In a critical reading of the first major study of #informality in Egypt, Sharp shows ... Read More

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7th September 2021

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Delivering higher density suburban development: The impact of building design and residents’ attitudes

Blog post by Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Alan Mace, Jacob Karlsson, Nancy Holman and Davide Alberto Zorloni

7th September 2021

Latest research from Navarrete-Hernandez et al tests whether design can positively impact both the perception ... Read More

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Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic

Blog post by Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis, Patty Doran and Mhorag Goff

10th September 2021

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14th September 2021

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Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better

reviewed by Robert K Whelan

21st September 2021

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Does social housing regeneration pay off? Lessons from the Glasgow Stock Transfer

Blog post by Meng Le Zhang, George Galster, David Manley and Gwilym Pryce

8th October 2021

The authors evaluate the causal effect of the 2003 Stock Transfer on employment in Glasgow. Read More

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Street markets, urban development and immigrant entrepreneurship: Unpacking precarity in Moore Street, Dublin

Blog post by Cristín Blennerhassett, Niamh Moore-Cherry, and Christine Bonnin

12th October 2021

Blennerhassett et al explores the experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs who have recently established ethnic enterprises ... Read More

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Socialist Worldmaking: Urban Comparison in the Global Cold War

Blog post by Łukasz Stanek

13th October 2021

New study by Łukasz Stanek focuses on operative concepts employed by Soviet, Eastern European, African, ... Read More

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Book review: New Workplaces – Location Patterns, Urban Effects and Development Trajectories. A Worldwide Investigation

reviewed by Mina Di Marino and Thérèse Bajada

21st October 2021

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Book review: Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike

reviewed by Jay Emery

27th October 2021

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Latest Urban Studies news 01/11/21

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Francophone African literary representations of the Paris Metro

Blog post by Anna-Leena Toivanen

8th November 2021

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Indian Urban Studies in the New Millennium

Blog post by Ashima Sood and Karen Coelho

17th December 2021

Karen Coelho and Ashima Sood's essay introduces a virtual special issue on urban studies in ... Read More

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Building comparisons from policy links: slum upgrading in eThekwini and São Paulo

Blog post by Camila Saraiva

17th December 2021

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Book review: Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America

reviewed by Irene Farah

1st February 2022

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Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany

Blog post by Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer and Sarah Carol

9th February 2022

Blog post by Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer and Sarah Carol on ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and ... Read More

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Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis of the outbreak and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Blog post by Jinliao He and Yuan Zhang

10th February 2022

Blog post by Jinliao He and Yuan Zhang: Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis ... Read More

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Hybrid state-capitalism in urban development: inside the black-box of infrastructural deal-making

Blog post by Chris Gibson, Crystal Legacy and Dallas Rogers

11th February 2022

Blog post by Chris Gibson, Crystal Legacy and Dallas Rogers: Hybrid state-capitalism in urban development: ... Read More

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Book review: Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question

reviewed by Dallas Rogers

11th February 2022

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The great theory debate on urbanisation in the Global South—and why it matters

Blog post by Gregory F. Randolph and Michael Storper

14th February 2022

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Latest Urban Studies news 14/2/22

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Book review: Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia

reviewed by Ayyoob Sharifi

9th August 2023

Book review of Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia (Agatino Rizzo and Anindita ... Read More

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Interlocal interactions, municipal boundaries, and water and wastewater expenditure in city-regions

Blog post by Agustin Leon-Moreta and Vittoria Totaro

22nd February 2022

New blog post by Leon-Moreta and Totaro connects theories of boundary change with systems of ... Read More

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The Financialisation of Floor Space, Mumbai 1880–2015

Blog post by Sukriti Issar

15th March 2022

Issar's new blog post explores why do some cities have skyscrapers while others don’t and ... Read More

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Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India

reviewed by Giselle Mendonça Abreu

29th March 2022

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Latest Urban Studies news 04/04/22

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Translating the nation through the sustainable, liveable city: The role of social media intermediaries in immigrant integration in Copenhagen

Blog post by Tatiana Fogelman and Julia Christensen

4th April 2022

New blog post by Tatiana Fogelman and Julia Christensen examines how migrant bloggers in Copenhagen ... Read More

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Book review: Subaltern Geographies

reviewed by Claudia Seldin

5th April 2022

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Migrant Worker Recreational Centres, Accidental Diversities and New Relationalities in Singapore

Blog post by Daniel P.S. Goh and Andrew Lee

6th April 2022

New blog post by Daniel P.S. Goh and Andrew Lee shows how such accidental diversities ... Read More

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Book review: Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability

reviewed by Paulo Anciaes

7th April 2022

Book review of Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability (Paul ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/04/22

11th April 2022

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Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives

reviewed by Mara Ferreri

12th April 2022

Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Matthew Thompson) reviewed by ... Read More

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Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence

reviewed by Simone van de Wetering

14th April 2022

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Latest Urban Studies news 19/04/22

19th April 2022

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Book review: The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

reviewed by Luisa G Melo

20th April 2022

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Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America

reviewed by Sören Scholvin

22nd April 2022

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Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban

reviewed by Andrea Urbina-Julio

27th April 2022

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Book review: The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements

reviewed by Rosie Levine Hampton

29th April 2022

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Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures

Blog post by Tankut Atuk and Susan L Craddock

3rd May 2022

New blog post by Susan Craddock and Tankut Atuk takes a critical analytical approach to ... Read More

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Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus

Blog post by Bradley Rink

3rd May 2022

New blog post by Bradley Rink highlights the myriad ways that urban public space on ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 03/05/22

3rd May 2022

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Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon

reviewed by Jonas Hagmann

5th May 2022

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Book review: Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities

Reviewed by Ebru Kamaci Karahan

6th May 2022

Book review of Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities (edited by Anitra Nelson ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 09/05/22

10th May 2022

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Book review: Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City

Reviewed by Corey R Johnson

10th May 2022

Book review of Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City (Derese G ... Read More

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Does the neighbourhood of the dwelling and the real estate agency matter? Geographical differences in ethnic discrimination on the rental housing market.

Blog post by Billie Martiniello and Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe

11th May 2022

Martiniello and Verhaeghe discuss the effect of the local context on ethnic discrimination on the ... Read More

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16th May 2022

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23rd May 2022

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Pursuing Dreams in an Asian Global City: Does Host Language Proficiency Matter for Asian Minorities?

Blog post by Jin Jiang and Hon-Kwong Lui

27th May 2022

Jiang and Lui find that Asian migrants pursuing dreams in Asia’s global cities do not ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 30/05/22

30th May 2022

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Making Cities through Migration Industries

Blog post by Nir Cohen, Tatiana Fogelman and Henrik Lebuhn

30th May 2022

Guest Editors Cohen et al's introduction to the forthcoming special issue explores the significance of ... Read More

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Urban water governance as policy boosterism: Seoul’s legitimation at the local and global scale

Blog post by Ricardo Martinez

1st June 2022

Ricardo Martinez brings together studies on legitimacy in international studies and urban policy mobilities to ... Read More

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Book review: Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums and Class Relations in Urban Morocco

Reviewed by Federica Duca

16th June 2022

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Latest Urban Studies news 20/06/22

20th June 2022

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Climate change and informality as defining features of African urbanisation

Blog post by Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah

27th June 2022

New blog post by Brandon Finn and Patrick Cobbinah: Climate change and informality as defining ... Read More

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27th June 2022

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Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb

Blog post by Martin Sarnow and Norma Tiedemann

11th July 2022

New blog post by Martin Sarnow and Norma Tiedemann: Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/07/22

11th July 2022

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Mesoamerican Urbanism: Indigenous Institutions, Infrastructure, and Resilience

Blog post by David M. Carballo, Gary M. Feinman, and Aurelio López Corral

13th July 2022

New blog post by David M. Carballo, Gary M. Feinman, and Aurelio López Corral on ... Read More

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Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice

Reviewed by Jennifer L Rice

14th July 2022

Book review of Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice ... Read More

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Do financial models reshape un-cooperative cities? On urban founder’s profit and collaborative-communicative planning in times of austerity

Blog post by Jeroen Klink

20th July 2022

New blog post by Jeroen Klink: Do financial models reshape un-cooperative cities? On urban founder’s ... Read More

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25th July 2022

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Book review: How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

reviewed by Taylor Harris Braswell

29th July 2022

Book review of How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 01/08/22

1st August 2022

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Book review: Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Contemporary Cities Plan

reviewed by Federico Camerin

2nd August 2022

Book review of Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Contemporary Cities Plan (Davide Ponzini) reviewed ... Read More

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Book review: Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing

reviewed by Ted Rutland

4th August 2022

Book review of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing (Akira Drake ... Read More

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8th August 2022

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Book review: The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe

reviewed by Estelle Broyer

9th August 2022

Book review: The Green City and Social Injustice: 21 Tales from North America and Europe ... Read More

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Book review: Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums

reviewed by Elizabeth Chatterjee

11th August 2022

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Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2022

21st Urbanization and Grand Challenges for Global Sustainability

12th August 2022

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Book review: The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

reviewed by Eva Cilman

1st September 2022

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Latest Urban Studies news 05/09/22

6th September 2022

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New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability

Blog post by Siddharth Sareen and Katinka Wågsæther

7th September 2022

Can new municipalist movements, centred on democratically transforming the local economy and state, advance urban ... Read More

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Book review: Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City

reviewed by Evelyn Ravuri

7th September 2022

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz's 2019 Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City is reviewed ... Read More

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Book review: Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City Circa 1968

reviewed by Alexandros Daniilidis

8th September 2022

Alexandros Daniilidis reviews the 2018 book, Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968. Read More

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Book review: Deindustrializing Montreal

reviewed by Richard Harris

9th September 2022

Richard Harris reviews Steven High's 2022 book, Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled histories of race, residence and ... Read More

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Book Review: Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

reviewed by Alessio Kolioulis

13th September 2022

Book review of Managing Cities at Night (Michele Acuto, Andreina Seijas, Jenny McArthur, and Enora ... Read More

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Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality

reviewed by Glenn Houlihan

14th September 2022

Book Review of Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality (Sean Dinces) reviewed ... Read More

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Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore

Blog post by Shin Bin Tan

15th September 2022

Blog post by Shin Bin Tan explores Singapore’s residential de-segregation policy and how it might ... Read More

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Book review: Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul

reviewed by Laam Hae

16th September 2022

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Latest Urban Studies news 20/09/22

20th September 2022

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Social mix and the city: Council housing and neighbourhood income inequality in Vienna

Blog post by Tamara Premrov and Matthias Schnetzer

23rd September 2022

Blog post by Tamara Premrov and Matthias Schnetzer studies whether the broad provision of council ... Read More

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Urban ARC 2023 and Ninth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS

19th October 2022

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will host the ninth edition of the Annual ... Read More

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Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela

Blog post by Adrian Bua and Jonathan S Davies

21st October 2022

New blog post by Adrian Bua and Jonathan S Davies analyses the new municipalist struggle ... Read More

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Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes

Blog post by Kevin KH Tsang

1st November 2022

Kevin Tsang explores the cultural significance of replacement bus services during three London Tube strikes ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 07/11/22

7th November 2022

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Home-made blues: Residential crowding and mental health in Beijing, China

Blog post by Xize Wang and Tao Liu

16th November 2022

Using survey data from residents in Beijing, China, Xize Wang and Tao Liu find that ... Read More

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Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese Rural Migrant Families: The Role of Changing and Persistent Family Norms

Blog post by Shuangshuang Tang, Jing Zhou, Oana Druta and Xin Li

28th November 2022

Tang, Zhou, Druta and Li use interview data to examine how the changing and persistent ... Read More

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The ‘medical city’ and China’s entrepreneurial state: Spatial production under rising consumerism in healthcare

Blog post by Xuanyi Nie

30th November 2022

Xuanyi Nie studies the medical city in China and reconceptualises the roles of the state ... Read More

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Book review: Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey

reviewed by Gülşah Aykaç

1st December 2022

Book review of Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey (Elise Massicard) reviewed by ... Read More

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Book review: Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco

Reviewed by Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman

2nd December 2022

Book review of Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Eduardo ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 5/12/22

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Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies

reviewed by Aleem Mahabir

7th December 2022

Aleem Mahabir reviews Narendar Pani's 2022 book: 'The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies'. Read More

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Book review: Detain and Deport: The Chaotic US Immigration Enforcement Regime

reviewed by Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman

13th December 2022

Book review of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic US Immigration Enforcement Regime (Nancy Hiemstra) reviewed ... Read More

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Book review: Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

reviewed by Nathan Olmstead

20th December 2022

Book review of Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End ... Read More

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What Makes a Caring City?

Blog post by Angelina Kussy, David Palomera and Daniel Silver

21st December 2022

Blog post by Angelina Kussy, David Palomera and Daniel Silver on their paper: The Caring ... Read More

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Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city

Blog post by Barbara Brollo and Filippo Celata

21st December 2022

Brollo and Celata on the short-term city: where the density of temporary stayers is considerably ... Read More

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Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2023

Dimensions of Urban Development Politics: Transcalarity, Circuits, Territories

23rd December 2022

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How the built quality of urban areas can impact our mental well-being: A case study of adolescents

Blog post by Adrian Buttazzoni

4th January 2023

Taking the urban environment-adolescent mental health relationship from the abstract to the real: A multi-site ... Read More

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Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island

Blog post by Danny Marks

9th January 2023

What political and economic processes cause Bangkok to be much hotter than surrounding areas? Why ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 9/1/23

9th January 2023

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Special Sessions on Publishing in Urban Studies

10th January 2023

Webinars on turning your dissertation into a book and publishing in international journals. Read More

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Changes in psychosocial wellbeing over a five-year period in two predominantly Black Pittsburgh neighbourhoods: A comparison between gentrifying and non-gentrifying census tracts

Blog post by Alexandra Mendoza-Graf

11th January 2023

Alexandra Mendoza-Graf et al provide insights on differences in wellbeing outcomes for residents from a ... Read More

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Book review: Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto

reviewed by Rebecca Heimel

13th January 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 16/1/23

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Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies

reviewed by Juliet Davis

17th January 2023

Book review of Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies (edited by Angelika Gabauer, ... Read More

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Book Review: Radical Communications: Rebellious Expressions on Urban Walls

reviewed by Christophe Davis

20th January 2023

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Care Commons: Infrastructural (re)compositions for life sustenance through yet against regimes of chronic crisis

Blog post by Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez

25th January 2023

Novel organising modes for social provision from the grassroots are creating new care spaces and ... Read More

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Book review: Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

reviewed by Alexandros Daniilidis

25th January 2023

Joy White's memoir and urban ethnography - Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City ... Read More

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Book review: Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification

reviewed by Evelyn Ravuri

25th January 2023

Evelyn Ravuri reviews Mike Amezcua's 2022 book: Making Mexican Chicago: From postwar settlement to the ... Read More

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Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods

reviewed by Verónica Hendel

27th January 2023

Verónica Hendel reviews Oosterlynck, Verschraegen, and van Kempen's book, Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 30/01/23

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Storage as infrastructure: Water and electricity storage by households in Nairobi

Blog post by Moritz Kasper

2nd February 2023

New blog post by Moritz Kasper on 'Storage as infrastructure: Water and electricity storage by ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 06/02/23

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Latest Urban Studies news 13/02/23

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Urban commoning, degrowth and parks in Asia

Blog post by Manisha Anantharaman and Marlyne Sahakian

14th February 2023

New blog post from Manisha Anantharaman and Marlyne Sahakian studies how people use practice parks ... Read More

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Book Review: Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

reviewed by W Dennis Keating

16th February 2023

W Dennis Keating reviews Katherine Einstein, David Glick and Maxwell Palmer's 2019 book: Neighbourhood defenders: ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 20/02/23

21st February 2023

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Book review: Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes

reviewed by Junxi Qian

21st February 2023

Junxi Qian reviews Fulong Wu's 2022 book: Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 27/02/23

27th February 2023

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Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning

reviewed by Margherita Tess

1st March 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 06/03/23

6th March 2023

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Book review: Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice

reviewed by Ilse van Liempt

8th March 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 13/03/23

13th March 2023

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Book review: In-betweenness in Greater Khartoum: Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution

reviewed by Eric Denis

16th March 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 20/03/23

20th March 2023

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Book review: Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism

reviewed by Fanghao Chen

21st March 2023

Book review of Urban Informal Settlements (Yannan Ding) Read More

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Citizen security and urban commuting in Latin America

Blog post by Lucía Echeverría, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

22nd March 2023

New blog post by Lucía Echeverría et al: Citizen security and urban commuting in Latin ... Read More

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How buses alleviate unemployment and poverty

Blog post by Fei Li and Chris Wyczalkowski

23rd March 2023

Blog post by Fei Li and Chris Wyczalkowski on how buses alleviate unemployment and poverty Read More

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Double book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment

reviewed by Tariro Kamuti

24th March 2023

Double book review of Urban Gardening as Politics and Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 27/03/23

27th March 2023

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Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities

reviewed by Keith Pezzoli

30th March 2023

Book review of Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities (Wheeler ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 3/4/23

3rd April 2023

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Writing to Publish Workshop

5-day residential workshop for Indian urban studies scholars in India

4th April 2023

5-day residential workshop for Indian urban studies scholars in India Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/4/23

11th April 2023

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Book review forum podcast: The Surrounds

13th April 2023

A conversation about The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture by AbdouMaliq Simone on ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 17/4/23

17th April 2023

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Book review: Wake Up, This Is Joburg

reviewed by Denise L. Lim

19th April 2023

Book review of "Wake Up, This Is Joburg" (Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis) reviewed by ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 24/4/23

24th April 2023

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Gentrifying with family wealth: Parental gifts and neighbourhood sorting among young adult owner occupants

25th April 2023

New blog post by Wouter Van Gent, Rik Damhuis and Sako Musterd investigates whether receiving ... Read More

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Book review: Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England

reviewed by Frank Moulaert

27th April 2023

Book review of Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England (Patsy Healey) reviewed by ... Read More

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Book review: Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

reviewed by Benjamin Bansal

28th April 2023

Book review of Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Jorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds, and Studiolab) Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 2/5/23

2nd May 2023

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Book review: Curtain up: City diplomacy in global migration governance

reviewed by Daniel Pejic

3rd May 2023

Book review of Curtain up: City diplomacy in global migration governance (Janina Stürner-Siovitz) Read More

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Book review symposium: [Un]Grounding

reviewed by Joe Blakey, Matina Kapsali and Nicola Guy

4th May 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 09/05/23

9th May 2023

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Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance

Blog post by Aisha Sobey

9th May 2023

In this new paper Aisha Sobey considers the embedded control in the construction of smart ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 15/05/23

15th May 2023

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Book review essay: City, Climate, and Architecture; Coping with Urban Climates

reviewed by Noa Levin

17th May 2023

Book review essay of 'City, Climate, and Architecture' and 'Coping with Urban Climates' Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 22/05/23

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Latest Urban Studies news 30/05/23

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Cycling equity and the city

31st May 2023

New blog post develops competing hypotheses on how the effect of education on cycling differs ... Read More

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How does exposure to diverse community leaders influence urban political engagement in a divided city?

1st June 2023

How do community leaders in divided cities influence group members’ attitudes toward engagement in local ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 05/06/23

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The local multiplier of income support paid in a complementary currency: Comparative evaluation in the city of Barcelona

15th June 2023

Results from Roca et al's new study show that the local impact of public income ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 19/06/23

19th June 2023

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Book review: Urban Development in China Under the Institution of Land Rights

reviewed by Mahalaya Chatterjee

4th July 2023

Book review of Urban Development in China Under the Institution of Land Rights (Jieming Zhu), ... Read More

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Book review forum: How Cities Learn

7th July 2023

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The Right to the Smart City in the Global South: A research agenda

14th July 2023

New blog post by Alizadeh Tooran and Deepti Prasad puts forward a research agenda ‘the ... Read More

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Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India

18th July 2023

Who really owns our cities? A new study by Meher Bhagia and Mallika Bose dives ... Read More

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Carceral connections: The role of policing in the management of public housing in New York City

20th July 2023

By examining police as collaborators within public housing policy, Rodriguez uncovers the entanglement of law ... Read More

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Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces

24th July 2023

How does a city express ideas and currents of thinking like libertarianism? Atkinson and O’Farrell’s ... Read More

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Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias

reviewed by Giulia Belloni

25th July 2023

Guilia Belloni reviews John Lorinc's 2022 book, 'Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit ... Read More

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Internal other: Re-imagined class in urban spaces

City of Shadows reviewed by Sankar Varma

27th July 2023

Sankar Varma reviews City of Shadows: Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore (Supriya RoyChowdhury) Read More

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A performing arts centre for whom? Rethinking the architect as negotiator of urban imaginaries

31st July 2023

Inge Goudsmit, Maria Kaika and Nanke Verloo interpret architecture as the result of negotiating urban ... Read More

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Book review: Crime and Fear in Public Places: Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities

reviewed by Lars Marcus

2nd August 2023

Book review of Crime and Fear in Public Places reviewed by Lars Marcus Read More

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Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab

3rd August 2023

Cecilie Sachs Olsen and Merlijn van Hulst introduce the Urban Drama Lab as a new ... Read More

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Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers: How cities use civic capital to compete in high-technology markets

3rd August 2023

How do latecomers enter high-technology markets? In three very different ways. Ornston et al describe ... Read More

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Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change

reviewed by Eka Wulan Safriani and Yani Yani

4th August 2023

Book review of Urban Planning for Climate Change (Barbara Norman) reviewed by Eka Wulan Safriani ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 7/8/23

7th August 2023

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Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective

reviewed by Toddy Aditya and Rahmayati Rahmayanti

8th August 2023

Book review of IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective (Sathiyaraj ... Read More

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Book review: Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia

reviewed by Ayyoob Sharifi

9th August 2023

Book review of Predatory Urbanism: The Metabolism of Megaprojects in Asia (Agatino Rizzo and Anindita ... Read More

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Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District

reviewed by Ellen Munley Mulcahy

10th August 2023

Book review of University City (Laura Wolf-Powers) reviewed by Ellen Munley Mulcahy Read More

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‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development

14th August 2023

Read the blog post summarising Richard Crisp et al's debates paper, which addresses a substantive ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 14/08/23

14th August 2023

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Book review: Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations

reviewed by Christoph Lueder

16th August 2023

Unsettled Urban Space (Viderman et al, eds) reviewed by Christoph Lueder Read More

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Book review: Neoliberal Urban Governance: Spaces, Culture and Discourses in Buenos Aires and Chicago

reviewed by Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn

18th August 2023

Book review of Neoliberal Urban Governance (Carolina Sternberg) reviewed by Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 21/08/23

21st August 2023

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Book review: Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia

reviewed by Patrick Wakely

22nd August 2023

Patrick Wakely reviews Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia (Yap Kioe Sheng) Read More

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Book review forum: Infrastructure

reviewed by Regan Koch, Austin Kocher and Sarah Klosterkamp

23rd August 2023

Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law reviewed by Regan Koch, Austin Kocher and Sarah Klosterkamp with ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 28/08/23

28th August 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/09/23

11th September 2023

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Hot Climates in Urban South Asia: negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in Karachi

13th September 2023

In their latest special issue article, Soha et al place workers' search for shade in ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 18/09/23

18th September 2023

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Book review: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities

reviewed by Teresa García Alcaraz

26th September 2023

Book review of The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities reviewed by Teresa García Alcaraz Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 02/10/23

2nd October 2023

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Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions

9th October 2023

In their latest study, Rachel Gallagher, Thomas Sigler and Yan Liu analyse land use conversion ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 16/10/23

16th October 2023

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Book review: Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth About the Past

reviewed by Ammar Azzouz

20th October 2023

Book review of Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth About the Past (Robert Bevan) ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 23/10/23

23rd October 2023

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Book review: Territorial Capacity and Inclusion: Co-creating a Public Space with Teenagers

reviewed by Diogo Guedes Vidal

24th October 2023

Book review of Territorial Capacity and Inclusion (Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Marluci Menezes, and Joana Solipa ... Read More

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Book review: Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons

reviewed by Taenaz Shakir

26th October 2023

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IIHS PhD Workshop and Urban ARC 2024

27th October 2023

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will host their Annual PhD Workshop from 8-10 ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 30/10/23

30th October 2023

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Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London

reviewed by Chris Hamnett

2nd November 2023

Chris Hamnett reviews Paul Watt’s book, Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and ... Read More

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Conceptualising ‘street-level’ urban design governance in Scotland

3rd November 2023

Robert Richardson conceptualises urban design policy implementation by developing theory on street-level bureaucracy. Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 06/11/23

6th November 2023

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For whom do we densify? Explaining income variation across densification projects in the region of Utrecht, the Netherlands

7th November 2023

What explains differences in household incomes across newly developed housing projects? Götze, Bouwmeester and Jehling’s ... Read More

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Book review: Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City

reviewed by Luisa G Melo

8th November 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 13/11/23

13th November 2023

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Book review: Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City’s Inhabitants in the 20th Century

reviewed by Alexandros Daniilidis

17th November 2023

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Latest Urban Studies news 20/11/23

20th November 2023

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Book review: Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria

reviewed by Sabine Ameer

30th November 2023

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Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for understanding conflicts in urban planning

4th December 2023

New blog post by Rico Herzog et al: Cities for Citizens! Public value spheres for ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 11/12/23

11th December 2023

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How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes

18th December 2023

Adam Millard-Ball and Purva Kapshikar find that voters in dense neighbourhoods with good public transit ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 18/12/23

18th December 2023

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Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art policies

20th December 2023

How do model cities emerge within policy-making processes? Noga Keidar and Daniel Silver develop the ... Read More

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Book review: Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context

reviewed by Laam Hae

3rd January 2024

Laam Hae reviews Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context (Stefan Kipfer) Read More

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Book review: The Great Urban Transition: Landscape and Environmental Changes from Siberia, Shanghai, to Saigon

reviewed by Muhammad Khairul, Nurul Fajri Saminan, and Yasmin Yasmin

4th January 2024

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Latest Urban Studies news 08/01/24

8th January 2024

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Book review: Les sauvages de la Civilisation: Regards sur la Zone, d’hier à aujourd’hui and The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina

reviewed by Vincenzo Maria Di Mino

15th January 2024

Double book review essay of Les sauvages de la Civilisation (J Beauchez) and The People’s ... Read More

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Book review: The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century

reviewed by Richard Harris

17th January 2024

Book review of The Changing American Neighborhood (Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom) reviewed by Richard ... Read More

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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

19th January 2024

Book review forum of Lisa Björkman's Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 22/01/24

22nd January 2024

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Informality through the state: How overregulation and tolerance shape informal land development in metropolitan Brazil

24th January 2024

New study by João Tonucci reveals how land development control, directly and indirectly, shapes informal ... Read More

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Hukou type, hukou place, and labour market vulnerability in Chinese megacities: The case of Beijing in the pandemic

29th January 2024

How do rural/urban and local/non-local hukou distinctions play different roles in shaping labour market vulnerability? ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 29/01/24

29th January 2024

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Book review: Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere

reviewed by Julian Molina

31st January 2024

Book review of Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere (Andre Pavoni and Simone Tulumello) reviewed by ... Read More

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Book review: The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition

reviewed by Sören Scholvin

1st February 2024

Book review of The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition (Carmody et al) ... Read More

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Book review: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology

reviewed by Ayushi Chauhan

2nd February 2024

Book review of Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology (Maan Barua) reviewed by Ayushi Chauhan Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 05/02/24

5th February 2024

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Book review: Urban Design Governance: Soft Powers and the European Experience

reviewed by Yueh-Sung Weng

6th February 2024

Book review of Urban Design Governance: Soft Powers and the European Experience (Matthew Carmona, Tommaso ... Read More

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Book review forum: Housing in the Margins

reviewed by Rachael Dobson, Nicholas Blomley, Allan Cochrane and Ryan Thomas Devlin

15th February 2024

Book review forum of Housing in the Margins reviewed by Rachael Dobson, Nicholas Blomley, Allan ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 19/02/24

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26th February 2024

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Book review: The Urban Rehabilitation of Post-Disaster Scapes

reviewed by Muhammad Rizal Pahleviannur

28th February 2024

Book review of The Urban Rehabilitation of Post-Disaster Scapes (Nerma Omićević and Bojana Bojanić Obad ... Read More

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Book review: Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions

reviewed by Gregory Bracken

29th February 2024

Book review of Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions (Abidin Kusno) reviewed by Gregory ... Read More

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Latest Urban Studies news 04/03/24

4th March 2024

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Accommodating ‘generation rent’: Unsettling dominant discourses on rental housing reform in Catalonia and Spain

5th March 2024

New blog post problematises the dominant discourses on the private rental sector that are challenging ... Read More

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