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Ronan Paddison, Former Editor in Chief
Ronan Paddison talks to us about the aims and scope of the journal, its development and future direction.
Urban ARC interviews
What are you most excited (or dismayed) by in Indian cities today? Who is writing about it? 9 urbanists reflect on these questions and the Indian urban condition at the Urban ARC 2023 in the following playlist on Urban Studies Journal's YouTube channel.
- Aditi Surie
- Anant Maringanti
- Aromar Revi
- Gautam Bhan
- Karen Coelho
- Lalitha Kamath
- Neha Sami
- Sudeshna Mitra
- Sushmita Pati
2023 Annual Lecture - Professor Jennifer Robinson
Professor Jennifer Robinson presents the 2023 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, "Dimensions of Urban Development Politics: Transcalarity, Circuits, Territories". This lecture was chaired by Doctor Karen Coelho at Urban ARC.
2022 Annual Lecture - Professor Karen Seto
Professor Karen Seto presents the 2022 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, "21st Century Urbanisation and Grand Challenges for Global Sustainability". This lecture was chaired by Professor Yingling Fan at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
Best Article 2021 - Romit Chowdhury
The editors are pleased to announce that there are two joint winners of the Urban Studies Best Article 2021. They wish to congratulate Gerhard Bruyns, Christopher Higgins and Darren Nel for the article "Urban volumetrics: From vertical to volumetric urbanisation and its extensions to empirical morphological analysis"; and Romit Chowdhury for The social life of transport infrastructures: Masculinities and everyday mobilities in Kolkata.
All eight shortlisted articles and the runner-up article are available open access for a limited period here.
2021 Annual Lecture - Professor Edward Glaeser
Professor Edward Glaeser presents the 2021 Urban Studies Annual Lecture "Cities in an Age of Pandemic".
Best Article 2020 - Dr Mary Lawhon and Professor Yaffa Truelove
The editors are pleased to announce that Dr Mary Lawhon, University of Edinburgh, and Professor Yaffa Truelove, University of Colorado Boulder, are the winners of the Urban Studies Best Article 2020 for their article, Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies.
All ten shortlisted articles are available open access for a limited period here.
Best Article 2019 - Professor Rachel Pain
The editors are pleased to announce that Professor Rachel Pain, Newcastle University, is the winner of the Urban Studies Best Article 2019 for her article, Chronic urban trauma: The slow violence of housing dispossession. All ten shortlisted articles are available open access for a limited period here.
Best Article 2018 - Joint Winners
The editors are pleased to announce that this year we have awarded three joint winners for the Urban Studies Best Article 2018.
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Mary Lawhon, David Nilsson, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson and Shuaib Lwasa for their article, Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations (Chinese translation available here)
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Emily Miltenburg and Tom van der Meer for their article, Lingering neighbourhood effects: A framework to account for residential histories and temporal dynamics (Chinese translation available here)
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Nicholas Phelps and Cristian Silva for their article, Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices. (Chinese translation available here)
All six shortlisted articles are available open access for a limited period here.
You can view the accompanying vodcast for Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations by Mary Lawhon, David Nilsson, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson and Shuaib Lwasa below:
You can view the accompanying vodcast for Lingering neighbourhood effects: A framework to account for residential histories and temporal dynamics by Emily Miltenburg and Tom van der Meer below:
You can view the accompanying vodcast for Mind the gaps! A research agenda for urban interstices by Nicholas Phelps and Cristian Silva below:
Best Article 2017 - Dr Evert Meijers and Dr Martijn Burger
The editors are pleased to announce that Dr Evert Meijers, Delft University of Technology, and Dr Martijn Burger, Erasmus University Rotterdam, are the winners of the Urban Studies Best Article 2017 for their article, Stretching the concept of ‘borrowed size’. All eight shortlisted articles are available open access for a limited period here.
2017 Urban Studies Annual Lecture - Professor Lily Kong & Orlando Woods
Professor Lily Kong presents the 2017 Urban Studies Annual Lecture, "The Ideological Alignment of Smart Urbanism In Singapore: Critical Reflections on a Political Paradox"
Professor Zhigang Li, Wuhan University
Professor Zhigang Li from Wuhan University discusses social spatial transformation of Chinese space
Professor Jiawen Yang, Peking University
Professor Jiawen Yang from Peking University discusses transportation issues in urban China
Professor Sun Sheng Han, University of Melbourne
Professor Sun Sheng Han at the University of Melbourne discusses economic and institutional restructuring in urban China
Professor Jie Chen, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Professor Jie Chen from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics discusses the issues of rapid urbanisation in China
Professor You Tien Hsing, University of California
Professor You Tien Hsing from the University of California, Berkeley discusses the great urban transformation in China
Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester
Professor Wong from the University of Manchester discusses the importance of data driven research in this series on the future direction of urban studies in China
Junxi Qian, University of Hong Kong
Professor Junxi Qian from the University of Hong Kong discusses the social and cultural transformation of Urban China
Anthony Yeh, University of Hong Kong
Professor Yeh discusses population growth and the Mega-city
Jennifer Robinson, University College London
Professor Robinson discusses the future of urban studies research in the next video in this series on the future direction of urban studies in China
Fulong Wu of University College London
Professor Fulong Wu, University College London discusses publishing Urban China Research in USJ
Ya Ping Wang, University of Glasgow
Professor Ya Ping Wang from the University of Glasgow discusses Chinese cities, sustainability and housing issues.
Chris Hamnett, King’s College London
Professor Hamnett discusses the phenomena of China’s urban experience in our latest video in the series.
John Logan, Brown University
Professor Logan discusses how the field of urbans studies in China has developed over the years in our fifth instalment in this series on the future direction of urban studies in China.
Donggen Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University
In the 4th video from this series on the Future Direction for Urban Studies in China, Professor Donggen Wang discusses his research on travel behaviour and the built environment in China.
Canfei He, Peking University
In the 3rd video from this fascinating series on Future Directions for Urban Studies in China, Professor Canfei He discusses the impact of industrialisation and air pollution in China.
Jiang Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Jiang Xu discusses the the future of urban studies and planning in China in our second instalment in this series of videos on Future Directions for Urban Studies in China
Shenjing He
Shenjing introduces and discusses Future Directions for Urban Studies in China.
David Adams
David discusses his article "Walking with the Ghosts of the Past: Unearthing the Value of Residents’ Urban Nostalgias", co-authored with Peter Larkham. The article was one of five articles shortlisted for the Urban Studies Journal's Best Article for 2016.
Best Article 2016 - Michael Storper
Michael discusses his article "Current debates in urban theory: A critical assessment", co-authored with Allen Scott. The article is Urban Studies Journal's Best Article for 2016.
Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London, 30th August to 2nd September 2016.
Author meets critics session: Planetary Gentrification (Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales)
2016 Urban Studies Annual Lecture - Jamie Peck
In 2016 the Urban Studies AAG lecture "Transatlantic City" was delivered by Prof. Jamie Peck and was chaired by Andrew Cumbers.
Reinventing public Spaces post January Revolution Cairo
Professor Mona Abaza from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology Psychology, and Egyptology at the American University in Cairo discusses her paper at the Public Lecture hosted by Urban Studies Journal at the University of Glasgow.
Antecedent cities
Dr Tim Bunnell of the National University of Singapore discusses his article “Antecedent cities and inter-referencing effects: learning from and extending beyond critiques of neoliberalisation” [Urban Studies 52(11)] which was voted by the Editors as the Urban Studies Journal Best Article for 2015.
Best Article 2013 - Ozan Karaman
Ozan Karaman, winner of the Urban Studies Best Article 2013, discusses his article, Urban Neoliberalism with Islamic Characteristics, which was published in December 2013 (vol. 50, 16: pp. 3412-3427). You can watch the video below, and click here to read the article.
Globalization as Reterritorialization: The Re-scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union
In 2013, to mark 50 years of Urban Studies, the Editors put together a Virtual Special Issue, bringing together articles from across the years. Fifteen articles were selected: the five most downloaded; the five most cited; and the five most important published prior to 1990 (as collectively decided by the Editors). These articles were made freely accessible on the Journal's website for six months during 2013 and readers were invited to vote for their three favourite articles.
Neil Brenner's article, "Globalization as Reterritorialization: The Re-scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union", was the clear favourite, with by far the most votes cast. The article, published in March 1999 (Volume 36/3), is one of Urban Studies' most highly cited articles.
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