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New issue out now

The November 2022 issue (Volume 59, Issue 14) of Urban Studies Journal is now available online. Read the full issue here.

Articles include:

Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates debates paper by Daniel Kudla

Debates paper from Kudla aims to provide an overdue reappraisal of the BID research and to orient future scholarship.

Seeing the street through Instagram. Digital platforms and the amplification of gentrification by Irene Bronsvoort and Justus L Uitermark

Using a case study of Javastraat, Amsterdam, Bronsvoort and Uitermark discuss digital platforms, representation and the amplification of gentrification.

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Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela by Adrian Bua and Jonathan S Davies

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Municipalist strategy in crisis?

Special issue article from Bua and Davies applies a regime-theoretic framework to analyse New Municipalist governance in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela.

Read the accompanying blog post here.

Books available for review

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