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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#CiCoSept Thanks to @asanews.bsky.social for highlighting "Profit or Protection? Evictions and Housing Dynamics in Immigrant Neighborhoods," by Leung, Louis, Rangel and Desmond in their podcast series! Listen to Leung and Louis discuss the article here: journals.sagepub.com/page/cty/pod...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#CiCo25 Three weeks in and we're ready to debut #23 on our list! ‼️ 23rd in our list of top cited articles in the journal's history is Xuefei Ren's "Forward to the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai" ‼️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Forward to the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai

This article examines the role of historical preservation in the spatial restructuring of postindustrial cities through a detailed case study of Xintiandi, a preservation-based redevelopment project ...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#CiCoSept Have you read our September issue yet? We have four great articles, starting with Niamh Costello's "Hustling, Hassling, and Performing Compliance: Waiting for Homeless Housing in Los Angeles" Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Monday ☀️ It's time to announce the next paper in our countdown of the 25 (erm, 26) most cited papers in the journal's history! #CiCo25 Occupying #24 is..."Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Health: Context or Composition?" by Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky! tinyurl.com/rossmiro

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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Health: Context or Composition?

Does neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) have a significant positive effect on health over and above the personal and household socioeconomic status of the residents who live there, and, if it do...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're officially two months out from the deadline for submissions to present at our Emerging Scholars Conference in March! Grad students and postdocs, send us an extended abstract by November 15th for consideration. Submit here: tinyurl.com/cicoconf www.tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo

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Conference_CfS.docx

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will sh...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

City & Community is turning 25 in March '27. Stay tuned throughout the year for a few ways that we're celebrating this exciting milestone. Today, we want to introduce you to a fun project we did to celebrate the journal's anniversary—a compilation of the top cited articles in the journal's history.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

❗ Big news: Our September issue is now live! ❗ We have a lot of great things for you to read in this issue, which we'll be posting about in the coming days. Click the link below to check it out. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTY/curr...

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ICYMI in the run-up to ASA: @cicojournal.bsky.social is hosting a conference showcasing the future of urban sociology! 🌟Graduate students and postdocs, submit by 11/15. 🌟 tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo Senior folks, please share widely! @asanews.bsky.social #sociology #CUSS

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Who wore it better? (L)The carpet in the #ASA2026 Exhibit Hall (R) @cicojournal.bsky.social

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're having a birthday party for @cicojournal.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Grad students and postdocs, please submit your best urban sociology papers. Headed to #ASA26? Find me to get your City & Community sticker!!!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Heading to New York? Find us at ASA to get some City & Community swag!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To commemorate the journal's upcoming 25th anniversary, we are excited to announce the Emerging Scholars Conference—an opportunity for grad students and postdocs to showcase their work related to urban sociology—at Georgetown on April 23, 2027. Call for submissions: tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ How does the racial composition of everyday mobility patterns impact non-White arrest rates? New paper by @vachuska.bsky.social answers this question with unique smartphone tracking data from New York City. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Group Threat and the Policing of Mobility: Neighborhood Visiting Patterns and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates - Karl Vachuska, 2026

Research on group threat has identified the racial composition of neighborhoods as significant for understanding spatial variation in racial bias and discrimina...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ Do immigrant neighborhoods face the same eviction rates as non-immigrant neighborhoods? New paper by Leung, Louis, Rangel, and Desmond at the link below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The second book to round out our debut City Books section is Yuki Kato's Gardens of Hope!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In our June issue, we debuted our new format for highlighting books in urban sociology: City Books! 📚 To learn more, we go straight to the source, asking authors what's exciting, unusual, or even controversial about their book. We've gotten great answers we're excited to share with you.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In 1979, incarcerated men in NY analyzed the link between neighborhoods and incarceration, finding that 75% of NY prisoners came from 7 neighborhoods in New York City. In a new paper, Jessica Simes, Ronald Day, and Louisa Holaday take a new look at the geography of incarceration. bit.ly/4v5bjJt

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Can trees be poverty governance? In @elodieeg.bsky.social 's analysis of LA's TreePeople in the 90's, tree planting was positioned as crime prevention and personal responsibility to improve the economic and social condition of South Central LA. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy June 1st! ☀️ First up in our June issue is Jamie Lew's new article on how refugee families facing housing exploitation build alliances with other marginalized tenants, resisting housing inequality and expanding agency through grassroots interracial collaboration. Read more at the link below.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

⚠️ Our June issue is now live! ⚠️ In addition to a great set of articles, editors @annowens.bsky.social and @ordinarysquares.bsky.social introduce the new cover and the new City Books section, in which we highlight new books in urban sociology. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ever wonder about what makes some places more attractive to stage a protest than others? Sociology has an answer for that! Check out the free article "Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States" and companion podcast: bit.ly/4tyxCWs. @cicojournal.bsky.social

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Hannah Pullen-Blasnik @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My first solo-authored article is out in City & Community! I find that areas with one more residential development permit have 2.7% more low-level arrests in the following year, controlling for crime, calls for service, area demographics, and year effects. doi.org/10.1177/1535...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Technology is changing quickly, but we currently follow @sagepub.com's AI policy. We encourage both authors and reviewers to familiarize themselves with the appropriate use of AI in submission and review, available at the link below.

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Artificial intelligence policy

Sage recognises the value of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to help authors in the research and writing process. Sage welcomes developments in this area to enhance opportunities for ge...

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

You can get funds to help bring social science knowledge and methods to bear in addressing community-based problems. Apply for an ASA CARI grant! Must have PhD in sociology or be enrolled in PhD-granting sociology program. Deadline Aug. 28. bit.ly/3O58KCY.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

#FromtheArchives 10 years ago, CiCo published a special issue on residential segregation, asking authors to consider the role of segregation then and in the future. These essays, exploring racial stratification, opportunity, and urban transformation, are still highly relevant. Revisit here:

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#FromtheArchives Twenty years ago, CiCo readers were exploring power in cities through a series of papers in the March 2006 issue. These papers wrestle with how power functions in cities, who benefits most from it, and how we should study it. Revisit this fascinating issue at the link below.

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City & Community - Volume 5, Number 1

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

New in CiCo: Do college roommate assignments shape where we choose to live later in life? Matt Vogel, Samantha Friedman, and Stefan Ivanov find that students assigned a roommate of a different race or ethnicity are more than twice as likely to choose a diverse dorm room the following year!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New in CiCo: Using the 2020 George Floyd protests as a case study, Evan Ferstl finds that walkability is associated with higher protest frequency—both citywide and at the census tract level. A timely reminder about how the built environment can shape political action! See more at the link below.

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Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States - Evan Ferstl, 2026

Social movement scholarship on the emergence of protest has limited engagement with urban scholarship on the spatial production of social relations. Spatial cha...

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Sociology grad students and researchers—Register for the next ASA proseminar and get practical guidance on best practices for field interviewing from Allison Hurst @liberalartsosu.bsky.social. April 9 at 3 pm Eastern. Free to student members. bit.ly/40SwCRg

promo for student proseminar: techniques for conducting field interviews, april 9, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern with link https://bit.ly/40SwCRg and disclaimer: Free to student members. Available to non-members for a fee. Closed captioning available.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If you haven't already, check out the great papers in our March issue! First up, Jacob Lederman’s study of Detroit examines how two different urban coalitions used placemaking as a tool to bridge contradictory goals in favor of market-aligned development. Link below.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The final Associate Editor to introduce is Orly Clerge! Her work on race, migration, and cities makes her a great addition to the editorial team. She is also the author of The New Noir, an exploration of the making of Black diasporic suburbs. Welcome, Orly—we're thrilled to have you on the team!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The third Associate Editor we'd like to welcome is @jeremylevine.bsky.social! Jeremy's previous work on development established him as a leading voice on the role of nonprofits in urban governance, and his newer work looks at inequality in victim compensation law. We're thrilled to have him!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Another new feature we're excited to introduce is City Blocks🏙️ — highly-citable, short research notes that introduce new data, concepts, and methodologies to the study of urban life. If you have a small-scale contribution to make, see submission information below!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Jessica Simes (jtsimes.bsky.social) is joining CiCo as an Associate Editor! Her work examines how the carceral system shapes inequality and health. Her award-winning book, Punishing Places, uses spatial analysis to show how incarceration impacts communities. We’re honored to have her on the team!

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We'd love to review your article on sociological analyses of urban politics for @cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is at LA City Hall. Where are you enjoying our new issue? #CiCointheCity

The journal City & Community with its gorgeous new cover in front of LA's City Hall, a tall white building

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We love a good sociological analysis of transit and infrastructure here at @cicojournal.bsky.social - we'd be delighted to review your paper! Follow the journal to keep up on our journey! (Yes, there is a subway in LA...) #CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Over the next few days, we'll introduce our four new Associate Editors. First up: @philipgarboden.bsky.social, who studies supply-side housing market actors and policy. His work on landlords has shaped how we understand their role in housing markets and communities. We're lucky to have him!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We have a few new features we'd like to introduce starting with City Books—our new way of highlighting recently published books in urban sociology. You'll start to see these in issues over the next year, but in the meantime, let us know if you have a new book we should consider! Info below. 📚

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

You may have noticed that City & Community has a new look 😎 We took what we love about cities—connections, networks, public transit—and rendered them in Georgetown’s blue and grey and UCLA’s blue and gold. It’s just one of several exciting new changes you’ll see in the coming issues, so stay tuned!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

With our March 2026 issue, we can officially welcome @annowens.bsky.social and Brian J. McCabe as the new editors of City & Community! They are excited to continue publishing the impactful research that the journal is known for. Their editorial introduction highlights the exciting changes to come.

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Editorial Introduction - Brian J. McCabe, Ann Owens, 2026

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Join CiCo for the last webinar of the 2024 Fall Webinar Series! TODAY -- December 12, 1:30-3pm ET Great, but Now What? How to Handle R&Rs To register: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hi everyone! We are excited to be here! Please join us TOMORROW for the last webinar of the CiCo 2024 Fall Webinar Series! December 12, 1:30-3pm ET Great, but Now What? How to Handle R&Rs To register: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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