Forthcoming Special Issues
The following Special Issues and Virtual Special Issues are currently in production and will be published in Urban Studies Journal soon.
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
Towards weird verticality: The spectacle of vertical spaces in Chongqing by Asa Roast
‘Fall girl’: Vertical evacuation and the aesthetics of emergency by Peter Adey
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile by Megan Sheehan
Verticalities in comparison: Debates on high-rise construction in Izmir and Istanbul by Anlam Filiz
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
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan by Martina Bovo, Paola Briata and Massimo Bricocoli
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system by Shaun Tyan Gin Lim, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion by Louise Sträuli and Wojciech Kębłowski
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes by Kevin KH Tsang
Urban mobility infrastructures as public spaces: The uses of Sé subway station in downtown São Paulo by Cristiana Martin
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism by Teresa Franco
Municipalist strategy in crisis?
Guest Editors: Matthew Thompson, Bertie Russell and Laura Roth
Papers include:
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
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures by Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn and Kai Heron
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb by Martin Sarnow and Norma Tiedemann
The commonification of the public under new municipalism: Commons–state institutions in Naples and Barcelona by Iolanda Bianchi
Prefigurative legality: Transforming municipal jurisdiction by Amelia Thorpe and Bronwen Morgan
Bridging bureaucracy and activism: Challenges of activist state-work in the 1980s Greater London Council by Tim Joubert
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability by Siddharth Sareen and Katinka Lund Waagsaether
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario by Leandro Minuchin and Julieta Maino
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
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile by Emilia Arpini, Alexander Panez, Andrew Cumbers and Bethia Pearson
The caring city? A critical reflection on Barcelona’s municipal experiments in care and the commons by Angelina Kussy, David Palomera and Daniel Silver
Towards variegated ‘Peripheral Municipalisms’: The experience of Valparaíso and Recoleta, Chile by Fernando Toro and Hernán Orozco
When Bookchin faces Bourdieu. French ‘weak’ municipalism, legitimation crisis and zombie political parties by Vincent Béal, Nicolas Maisetti, Gilles Pinson and Max Rousseau
Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy by Sixtine Van Outryve
Long-Term Intergenerational Perspectives on Urban Sustainability Transitions
Guest Editors: Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl, Keir Strickland and Stephan Barthel
Papers include:
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience by David M Carballo, Gary M Feinman and Aurelio López Corral
Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future by Dan Lawrence, Michelle W de Gruchy, Israel Hinojosa-Baliño and Abdulameer Al-Hamdani
Heat and the City: Thermal Control, Governance and Health in Urban Asia
Guest Editors: Gregory Clancey, Jiat-Hwee Chang and Simon Marvin
Papers include:
Heat, cold and climatic determinism in China’s urban epidemics by Liz PY Chee, Dongxin Zou and Gregory Clancey
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island by Danny Marks and John Connell
Urban energy landscape in practice: Architecture, infrastructure and the material culture of cooling in post-reform Chongqing, China by Madlen Kobi
The birth of cool: Heat and air-conditioning in the history of Wuhan, 1950–2020 by Chris Courtney
The New Private Urban Governance: Vestiges, Ventures, and Visibility
Guest Editors: Randy K Lippert, Debra Mackinnon and Stefan Treffers
Making power visible: Business improvement districts and creative placemaking in Washington, DC by Susanna F. Schaller, Aaron Howe, Coy McKinney and Sarah Shoenfeld
Infrastructures as urban solutions? Critical perspectives on transformative socio-technical change
Guest Editors: Jochen Monstadt, Jonathan Rutherford and Olivier Coutard
Digitalization, Neighborhood Change and Urban Social Processes
Guest Editors: George Galster and Jan Üblacker
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
Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits by Miko Hucko
Vulnerability, neglect, and collectivity in Brazilian favelas: Surviving the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state’s necropolitics by Patricia Basile
Planning for social distancing: How the legacy of historical epidemics shaped COVID-19's spread in Madrid by Noel A Manzano Gómez
Compact living or policy inaction? Effects of urban density and lockdown on the Covid-19 outbreak in the US by Andy Hong and Sandip Chakrabarti
For a list of the Virtual Special Issues published in Urban Studies, please see here.
