Forthcoming Special Issues
The following Special Issues and Virtual Special Issues are currently in production and will be published in Urban Studies Journal soon.
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
A contingent publicness: Entanglements on buses by Yogi Joseph and Govind Gopakumar
Small arrangements with self and others: A visual study of the everyday ordinary on Paris’s A trai by Sandrine Wenglenski
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
Mumbai’s differential verticalisation: The dialectic of sovereign and technical planning rationalities by Himanshu Burte
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
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
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
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
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
For a list of the Virtual Special Issues published in Urban Studies, please see here.