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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 17h

❗The deadline for our Emerging Scholars Conference is approaching❗ Are you a grad student or postdoc with work contributing to the study of cities and community life? Submit an extended abstract by 11/15 for consideration. Submit here: tinyurl.com/cicoconf @asanews.bsky.social

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whereas previous research on Mumbai's efforts to become a "global city" focused on the government's neoliberal reforms, this paper points to civil society organizations who act as agents of increased control over "unruliness" on the street. Revisit this paper at the link above!

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OnlineFirst Why are household surveillance technologies like Ring cameras so popular despite historic declines in crime? A new paper by @maxlubell.bsky.social answers this question using a geocoded dataset of Ring Neighbors posts. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sociologists—learn something new today! ASA’s journal podcasts provide quick insights into some of the latest sociological research. New episodes feature authors from ASR, @soceducation.bsky.social, @cicojournal.bsky.social, @jofhsb.bsky.social, @spquarterly.bsky.social. bit.ly/3LMjWqK

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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

This article considers the case of Xintiandi, two blocks of colonial-period Shanghainese tenements turned posh entertainment district by international developers and architects. Ren argues that this historical preservation serves development goals in Shanghai, a globalizing city.

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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

In this paper, Costello examines how homeless residents of Los Angeles navigate the wait for permanent housing in a highly constrained service system by developing strategies shaped by unequal resources. These strategies shape how they are seen and interacted with by street-level bureaucrats.

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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

This paper tackles the question of how we disentangle neighborhood socioeconomic status from an individual's SES. Using Illinois survey data, the paper finds that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood predicts physical impairment, but individual SES matters more. Revisit this paper at the link!

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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

Tune in next week for the next paper in the countdown. Any guesses for what will occupy the top spot in our list? Place your bets now!

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

In "Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community," Japonica Brown-Saracino shows how social preservationists limit displacement of old-time residents to maintain the authenticity of their chosen communities. Revisit this paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

For our 25th most cited article, we had a tie between two fantastic papers. In David Madden's "Revisiting the End of Public Space," NYC's Bryan Park is used as a case for studying the end of public space thesis. Revisit this paper below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Revisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the Public in an Urban Park

A case study of the renovation of New York City's Bryant Park, this article revisits the end of public space thesis. The renovated park signifies not the end of public space but the new ends to which....

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

From now until March, we'll be posting an article each week from the 25th most cited to the 1st most cited. This list wasn't easy to put together, and you can read more about our methodology below. An essay on this project by @ksmock.bsky.social will also appear in our December issue!

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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

With these considerations, we hope authors can improve their papers and be successful in the publication process. We are deeply grateful to our reviewers who make this possible! Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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

And finally, are the conceptual and theoretical frameworks sound, compelling, and appropriate to situate the findings in the literature?

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

Second, how interesting important or novel do you find this contribution? Third, is the methodological strategy sound, and are the findings convincingly supported by the data?

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

Rather than line-by-line edits, we ask reviewers to consider four key issues. First, what contribution does this article make to existing literature and debates in urban sociology? The expertise of our reviewers is critical for understanding the wide ranging contributions authors are making.

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

Kicking is off is a message from the editors to our wonderful current and future reviewers. If you've been invited to review recently, you may have noticed new guidance for reviewers. Our hope is that this guidance makes reviewing for us easier and improves the quality of reviews for our authors.

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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

On her method, Dr. Kato explained that she "used repeated interviews of the same individuals over more than a decade to follow the long-term trajectories of their aspirations, practice, and outcomes, as well as their own reflections on their journeys."

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

Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork with urban growers in post-Katrina New Orleans, the book examines their embrace of "prefigurative urbanism," a form of civic action oriented toward tangible, immediate outcomes as a way to enact alternative futures when in the midst of uncertainty.

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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

She analyzes public discourse and representations of gentrification in a wide-ranging set of media, from social media posts to sculpture. Doing so, she says, provides a portrait of the meaning of gentrification across American culture. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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

One of our first City Books is @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social's The Death and Life of Gentrification, which considers the changing meaning of gentrification and the implications of its use to describe a variety of urban processes.

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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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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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