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Small arrangements with self and others: A visual study of the everyday ordinary on Paris’s A train by Sandrine Wenglenski

This article is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: Public Transport as Public Space.

In a visual study on the Paris A train, Sandrine Wenglenski investigates the patterns of attention to others and the methods developed by individuals to cope with anonymous, everyday experience on public transport.

Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis by Hester Booi

Hester Booi's latest Open Access study investigates to what extent suburban residential areas are socio-economically changing using data on residential mobility from the metropolitan area of Amsterdam.

Scale and modularity in thermal governance: The replication of India’s heat action plans by Aalok Khandekar, Jamie Cross and Anant Maringanti

This article is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: Heat and the City: Thermal Control, Governance and Health in Urban Asia.

New special issue article from Aalok Khandekar, Jamie Cross and Anant Maringanti asks: What is the nature of thermal governance that urban heat action plans posit?

Hot climates in urban South Asia: Negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in Karachi by Soha Macktoom, Nausheen H Anwar and Jamie Cross

This article is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: Heat and the City: Thermal Control, Governance and Health in Urban Asia.

By paying attention to the ways that outdoor workers negotiate shade in Karachi, Soha Macktoom, Nausheen Anwar and Jamie Cross open up a wider spectrum of claims-making activity in South Asian urban climates for analysis.   

Read the accompanying blog post here.

In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia by Miza Moreau

This Open Access paper by Miza Moreau examines the interplay between informal and formal spatial practices in interstitial urban space; reappropriations as spatialised needs and desires with potential to instigate change.

Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities by Leon Wansleben and Nils Neumann

In this new article Leon Wansleben and Nils Neumann argue that municipally owned corporations occupy critical positions in climate change mitigation governance.

Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy by Song Hee Kang, Jae Seung Lee and Saehoon Kim

Song Hee Kang, Jae Seung Lee and Saehoon Kim examine the migration of young people to evaluate the economic impact of relocating public institutions on the balanced geography of economic activity across South Korea.