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Charming Street View of Historic Gothenburg, Sweden
Article

Defensive for whom? Rethinking value in urban public ...

A deep dive into Gothenburg’s Brunnsparken reveals how defensive urban design ...

Stefan Molnar and Karl de Fine Licht 25th February 2025
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Book Review

Book review: Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and ...

"Betting on Macau is one of the first comprehensive monographs about urban ...

Dennis Zuev 25th February 2025
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Making power visible: Business improvement districts ...

Schaller et al illustrate how Business Improvement Districts in Washington, DC ...

Susanna F. Schaller, Aaron Howe, Coy McKinney and ... 6th February 2025
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Article

From ‘poor devil’ to middle class? Navigating ...

New blog post on navigating resettlement and (in)formal reterritorialisation ...

José Rafael Nunez Collado 21st January 2025
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Book Review

Book review: The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven ...

Padraig R Carmody, James T Murphy, and Richard Grant, et al., The Urban ...

Patrick Brandful Cobbinah 25th November 2024
Book Review

Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, ...

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds), The Routledge Handbook of ...

Ekaterina Mizrokhi 20th November 2024
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Podcast

4. Walking the city with… Shenjing He and Chinese ...

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2nd September 2024
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Book Review

Book review: Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American ...

Daniel Campo, Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons, New ...

Frandica Panjaitan, Rizki Feroza Maruddani and ... 30th August 2024
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Book Review

Book review – Lessons from existing smart cities: ...

Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo, and Federico Caprotti (eds.), Inside ...

Sandra Jeppesen 30th August 2024
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Article

Familiar stranger encounters in everyday urban life: ...

Zahnow and Corcoran draw on a survey of 278 residents in Brisbane, Australia to ...

Renee Zahnow and Jonathan Corcoran 31st July 2024
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Book Review

Book review: Streets in Motion: The Making of ...

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, ...

Saeed Ahmad 26th July 2024
Figure 1. Physical characteristics of the selected gated communities in Zhanjiang, China.
Article

Invisible fish: Invisible citizens in the new Chinese ...

Yixin Liu and Rowland Atkinson reflect on their new article: Invisible fish: ...

Yixin Liu and Rowland Atkinson 25th July 2024