Forthcoming Special Issues

FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES IN URBAN STUDIES

 

Making Cities through Migration Industries

Guest Editors: Nir Cohen, Tatiana Fogelman and Henrik Lebuhn

Papers include:

An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation by Tanya Zack and Loren B Landau

The interurban migration industry: ‘Migration products’ and the materialisation of urban speculation at Iskandar Malaysia by Sin Yee Koh

Internal migration industries: Shaping the housing options for refugees at the local level by Matthias Bernt, Ulrike Hamann, Nihad El-Kayed and Leoni Keskinkilic

Making ways for ‘better education’: placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry by Maggi WH Leung and Johanna L Waters

Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens by Mirjam Wajsberg and Joris Schapendonk

Urban ethnic enclaves and migration industries: The urban choices of mobile people by Hila Zaban

Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters by Suzanne E. Beech

‘Unpleasant’ but ‘helpful’: Immigration detention and urban entanglements in New Jersey, USA by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra

Translating the nation through the sustainable, liveable city: The role of social media intermediaries in immigrant integration in Copenhagen by Tatiana Fogelman and Julia Christensen

From global city makers to global city-shapers: Migration industries in the global city networks by Sakura Yamamura

 

Comparative Methods for Global Urban Studies

Guest Editor: Jennifer Robinson

Papers include:

Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice by Jennifer Robinson

A Posteriori Comparisons, Repeated Instances and Urban Policy Mobilities: What ‘Best Practices’ Leave Behind by Sergio Montero and Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War by Łukasz Stanek

Comparison and political strategy: Internationalism, colonial rule and urban research after Fanon by Stefan Kipfer

Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation by Shaun SK Teo

De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time: Seeing housing development from Palestine/Israel by Oded Haas

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

Beyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London by Jennifer Robinson, Fulong Wu, Phil Harrison, Zheng Wang, Alison Todes, Romain Dittgen and Katia Attuyer

Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons by J Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler

Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison by Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard

An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments by Niranjana R

A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation by Julie Ren

Tracing as comparative method by Astrid Wood

Constructing comparisons: Reflecting on the experimental nature of new comparative tactics by Frances Brill

 

Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities

across Asia

Guest Editors: Junjia Ye and Brenda Yeoh

Bodies of transnational island urbanism: Spatial narratives of inclusion/exclusion of Filipinas in Philippine islands by Arnisson Andre C Ortega

Bridging home and school in cross-border education: The role of intermediary spaces in the in/exclusion of Mainland Chinese students and their families in Hong Kong by Maggi WH Leung and Johanna L Waters.

Migrant worker recreational centres, accidental diversities and new relationalities in Singapore by Daniel PS Goh and Andrew Lee

 

Radical Verticality: Critical explorations of high-rise urbanism

Guest Editors: Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Michal Murawski,
Saffron Woodcraft and Katherine Zubovich

Papers include:

Light violence at the threshold of acceptability by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard

 

Public Transport as Public Space

Guest Editors: Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev, Wojciech Kębłowski and Jason Finch

Papers include:

On the move in the (post)colonial metropolis: The Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction by Anna-Leena Toivanen

Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus by Bradley Rink

 

Municipalist strategy in crisis?

Guest Editors: Matthew Thompson, Bertie Russell and Laura Roth

New institutions and the politics of the interstices. Experimenting with a face-to-face democracy in Naples by Mauro Pinto, Luca Recano and Ugo Rossi

From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space by Chiara Milan

 

Urbanizing degrowth: towards a radical spatial degrowth agenda for future cities

Guest Editors: Maria Kaika, Angelos Varvarousis, Hug March and
Federico Demaria

 

Long-Term Intergenerational Perspectives on Urban Sustainability Transitions

Guest Editors: Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl, Keir Strickland
and Stephan Barthel

 

Heat and the City: Thermal Control, Governance and Health in Urban Asia

Guest Editors: Gregory Clancey, Jiat-Hwee Chang and Simon Marvin

 

FORTHCOMING VIRTUAL SPECIAL ISSUES

 

Urban Public Health Emergencies and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Guest Editors: Scott Orford, Phil Hubbard and Yingling Fan

Papers include:

Beyond growth and density: Recentring the demographic drivers of urban health and risk in the global south by James Duminy

Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value by Colin McFarlane

Cities in a post-COVID world by Richard Florida, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper

Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception by Jenny Preece, Kim McKee, David Robinson and John Flint

Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London by Terje Trasberg and James Cheshire

Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets by Achilleas Psyllidis, Fábio Duarte, Roos Teeuwen, Arianna Salazar Miranda, Tom Benson and Alessandro Bozzon

Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic by Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis, Patty Doran and Mhorag Goff

Spatialising urban health vulnerability: An analysisof NYC’s critical infrastructure during COVID-19 by Gayatri Kawlra and Kazuki Sakamoto

Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya by Rahma Hassan, Teela Sanders, Susan Gichuna, Rosie Campbell, Mercy Mutonyi and Peninah Mwangi

Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave by Lingyue Li, Surong Zhang, Jinfeng Wang, Xiaoming Yang and Lan Wang

The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19 by Wei Zhai, Xinyu Fu, Mengyang Liu and Zhong-Ren Peng

The city and the virus by Max Nathan

New urban habits in Stockholm following COVID-19 by Ann Legeby, Daniel Koch, Fábio Duarte, Cate Heine, Tom Benson, Umberto Fugiglando and Carlo Ratti

Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis of the outbreak and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China by Jinliao He and Yuan Zhang

Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state–society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China by Zhilin Liu, Sainan Lin, Tingting Lu, Yue Shen and Sisi Liang

Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures by Tankut Atuk and Susan L Craddock

Population density and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Comparing the geography of different waves in the Netherland by Willem Boterman

 

For a full list of the Virtual Special Issues published in Urban Studies, please see here.