Latest Urban Studies news 03/07/23
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New issue out now
The July special issue (Volume 60, Issue 9): Urban Public Health Emergencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2): Infrastructures, Urban Governance and Civil Society of Urban Studies Journal is now available online.
Read the introduction to part two of our special issue on Urban Public Health Emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic by the Editors:
Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2: Infrastructures, urban governance and civil society by Yingling Fan, Scott Orford and Philip Hubbard
Read the full issue here.
Latest articles on OnlineFirst
The reproduction of informal settlements in Santiago: Housing policy, cycles of repopulation and the ‘politics of poverty’ as a regime of government by Valentina Abufhele Milad
Valentina Abufhele Milad analyses the persistence of informal settlements in Santiago, Chile, between 1990-2018.
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development by Céline Janssen, Tom A Daamen, and Wouter J Verheul
Open access study from Céline Janssen, Tom A Daamen, and Wouter J Verheul asks how we might better understand social sustainability implementation in urban development projects?
The impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth by Simon C Büchler, Dongxiao Niu, Anne K Thompson and Siqi Zheng
Simon Büchler, Dongxiao Niu, Anne Thompson and Siqi Zheng's latest article finds that human capital positively impacts urban population, house price, and wage growth.
New book reviews on Urban Blog
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reviewed by Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez "How does financial speculation with housing serve contemporary processes of urban capital accumulation and how does it affect everyday lives? How does mortgage debt shape subjectivities? How can these processes be disrupted? What are the emancipatory possibilities of collective resistance to indebtedness? Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People. Life and Struggle with Mortgage by Melissa García-Lamarca addresses these questions connecting wider processes of housing and life financialisation at the political–economic macro-level with lived experiences of people hit by mortgage debt as well as (ex-)bankers and former government employees in the Barcelona metropolitan region." |
Read more book reviews on the Urban Studies blog.
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