Latest Urban Studies news 05/09/22

Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2022

This year's Urban Studies annual lecture, 21st Century Urbanization and Grand Challenges for Global Sustainability, by Karen Seto is now available to watch on our YouTube channel here.

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Managing the non-integrationof transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisationand enclosure in Singapore by Brenda SA Yeoh and Theodora Lam

This paper is part of the forthcoming special issue: Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia.

New special issue study from Brenda Yeoh and Theodora Lam examines how enclavisation and enclosure work in tandem to reinforce the non-integration of low-waged transient migrants in the city.

A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan by Martina Bovo, Paola Briata and Massimo Bricocoli

This paper is part of the forthcoming special issue: Public Transport as Public Space.

New special issue study from Bovo, Briata and Bricocoli argues that the compressed and mobile space of public transport is an observation point to investigate everyday negotiations of difference in the city.

Digital media, friendships and migrants’ entangled and non-linear inclusion and exclusion by Tabea Bork-Hüffer

This paper is part of the forthcoming special issue: Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia.

New Special Issue study by Tabea Bork-Hüffer sheds light on the role of digital media and friendships in migrants' inclusion and exclusion.

Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system by Shaun Tyan Gin Lim, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco

This paper is part of the forthcoming special issue: Public Transport as Public Space.

Lim and Cacciafoco's special issue paper argues that place names are part of everyday multilingualism, or the linguistic dynamism when different linguistic groups occupy public spaces.

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Books available for review

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