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Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New ...

Blog post on new article: Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New ...

Ali Riza Taskale 27th January 2025
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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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Vestiges, ventures, and visibility of the new private ...

New blog post introduces the November special issue: The new private urban ...

Randy K Lippert, Debra Mackinnon, and Stefan ... 7th November 2024
Background of blue world map showing lights of cities at night. White and yellow text reads: CRITICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN URBAN STUDIES: CALL FOR PAPERS. The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. In this inaugural call for papers, which focuses on armed conflict, the Journal invites both empirical and conceptual papers on the urbanisation of conflict and conflict-driven urbanisation. Visit urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers for details
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Call for Papers: The Urbanisation of Conflict and ...

Our fourth call in our Critical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studies Call ...

28th October 2024
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Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A ...

Ngai-Ming Yip and Yang Zheng discuss their paper: Self-governance of ...

Ngai-Ming Yip and Yang Zheng 17th October 2024
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Book review: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch, How Cities Can Transform Democracy, ...

Matthew Thompson 26th July 2024
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Book review: Streets in Motion: The Making of ...

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

Saeed Ahmad 26th July 2024
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Book Review

Book review forum: Politics and the Urban Frontier

Tom Goodfellow, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence ...

Côme Salvaire and Graeme Young with an author ... 30th May 2024
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Local state leadership: State-leading groups in ...

China’s urban development has been conceptualised as a state-led, capital-...

Jie Guo, Hong’ou Zhang, and Yongchun Yang 28th May 2024
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Accommodating ‘generation rent’: Unsettling ...

In contemporary urban areas, a growing ‘generation rent’ is finding ...

Lorenzo Vidal, Javier Gil, and Miguel A Martínez 5th March 2024
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Book review: Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, ...

, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023; 432 pp.: ISBN: 978-1-7936-3730-7, £...

Julian Molina 25th January 2024
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Informality through the state: How overregulation and ...

The relationship between the state and informal land development in Global ...

João Tonucci 24th January 2024