Forthcoming Special Issues

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

Underground urbanism in Africa: Splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria by Abidemi Agwor, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita and Paul G Munro

Urban development and long-term flood risk and resilience: Experiences over time and across cultures. Cases from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia by Duncan C Keenan-Jones, Anna Serra-Llobet, Hongming He and G Mathias Kondolf

Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal by Christian Isendahl, Nicholas P Dunning, Liwy Grazioso, Scott Hawken, David L Lentz and Vernon L Scarborough

Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time by TL Thurston and Claes B Pettersson

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

Scale and modularity in thermal governance: The replication of India’s heat action plans by Aalok Khandekar, Jamie Cross and Anant Maringanti

Hot climates in urban South Asia: Negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in Karachi by Soha Macktoom, Nausheen H Anwar and Jamie Cross

Urban heat islands and the transformation of Singapore by Yoonhee Jung

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

Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces by Rowland Atkinson and Liam O’Farrell

Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism by Shenjing He and Rong Cai

‘Security’ and private governance in São Paulo’s corporate centrality frontierby Gabriella DD De Biaggi

‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes by Julie Berg and Clifford Shearing

Moving through Toronto’s PATH: Assembling private urban governance by Debra Mackinnon, Stefan Treffers and Randy K Lippert

Infrastructures as urban solutions? Critical perspectives on transformative socio-technical change

Guest Editors: Jochen Monstadt, Jonathan Rutherford and Olivier Coutard

Papers include:

The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany by Helen Traill and Andrew Cumbers

Digitalization, Neighborhood Change and Urban Social Processes

Guest Editors: George Galster and Jan Üblacker

Papers include:

How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change by George C Galster

What’s in a name? Place misrepresentation and neighbourhood stigma in the online rental market by Ariela Schachter, John Kuk, Max Besbris and Lydia Ho

Place-oriented digital agency: Residents’ use of digital means to enhance neighbourhood change by Hadas Zur

Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?

Guest Editors: Antoine Courmont and Burcu Baykurt

Global corporate landlords and tenant struggles

Guest Editors: Lorenzo Vidal, Javier Gil and Miguel A Martinez

Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda

Guest Editors: Gareth Fearn, Güldem Özatağan and Ayda Eraydın

Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives

Guest Editors: Daniel Muñoz, Jamie Arathoon and Jennie Middleton

Manufacturing the Urban: Manufactured Housing and Manufactured Home Parks

Guest Editors: Zachary Lamb, Esther Sullivan and Andrew Rumbach

Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts

Guest Editors: Jonathan Corcoran and Rebecca Wickes

The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements

Guest Editors: Gabriela Debrunner, David Kaufmann and Justin Kadi

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