Latest Urban Studies news 16/3/20

Annual Lecture 2019 paper out now

Urban Studies Annual Lecture 2019 paper To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries by AbdouMaliq Simone is now available online.

“Focusing on temporariness – not as a specific sector or set of practices but as a constellation of efforts to generate something of value – and drawing upon fieldwork across different sites in Indonesia, this lecture explores the new terrain of urban invention by poor, working and lower middle-class residents in the wake of its purported demise.”

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