Latest Urban Studies news 20/11/21

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The city and the virus by Max Nathan

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic.

'Cities around the world are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic': Nathan writes on COVID-19 and the city in this special issue article.

Urban studies in India across the millennial turn: Histories and futures by Karen Coelho and Ashima Sood

Coelho and Sood's essay introduces a virtual special issue on urban studies in India that showcases a selection of articles from the journal.

Read the accompanying blog post: Indian Urban Studies in the New Millennium.

Disassembling connections: A comparative analysis of the politics of slum upgrading in eThekwini and São Paulo by Camila Saraiva

Special issue paper from Saraiva brings a fresh approach to comparative methods with a comparison that works creatively with the entangled spatialities of policy mobilities.

Read the accompanying blog post here.

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