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Making power visible: Business improvement districts and creative placemaking in Washington, DC by Susanna F. Schaller, Aaron Howe, Coy McKinney and Sarah Shoenfeld

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: The New Private Urban Governance.

Schaller et al illustrate how business improvement districts in Washington, DC have driven gentrification citywide since the late 1990s.

The association between food insecurity and social capital under the lockdowns in COVID-hit Shanghai by Guanghua Han and Yida Zhai

Yida Zhai and Guanghua Han's study contributes to theoretical understandings of social capital through a dynamic perspective.

Re-measuring gentrification by devin michelle bunten, Benjamin Preis and Shifrah Aron-Dine

Latest article from bunten et al on the measurement of gentrification shows that a gap between house value and income percentiles predicts future income growth.

Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis by Laura Roth, Bertie Russell and Matthew Thompson

This article is part of the forthcoming special issue: Municipalist Strategy in Crisis?

Guest Editors Laura Roth, Bertie Russell and Matthew Thompson argue that new municipalism is a speculative hypothesis about how systemic transformation might be wrought through coordinated action at the urban or municipal scale.