Forthcoming Special Issues
The following Special Issues and Virtual Special Issues are currently in production and will be published in Urban Studies Journal soon.
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.