With the FIFA Men's World Cup set to kick off Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta officials unveil enhanced safety plans.

Fewer hotel rooms were taken during this summer when Atlanta hosted eight matches of the FIFA World Cup than in the same period a year ago.

“This is what happens when you apply these incredibly violent economic forces to these cities … it's happened at every World Cup I've been to,” explains our chief sports writer, Barney Ronay.

This trait could shed light on the mysteries of human perception. Does it live within you?

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Call for Proposals 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium Atlanta from the Margins May 14, 2026 • Georgia State University • Atlanta, Georgia FEATURING KEYNOTES BY BRIAN GOLDSTONE & AUGUSTUS WOOD Ultim...

This essay explores how contemporary urban infrastructure is being conceptually and operationally extended into new domains. Across five key arenas—elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical an...

Explore the article collection: The Right to the City: Prospects and Provocations from the Journals of the Urban Affairs Association. Published in Journal of Urban Affairs.

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For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity

Creative studio says financial districts deserted in working-from-home shift could host revitalised nightlife sector

The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Bridge collapses caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure’

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itself

Jen Nelles (Oxford Brookes University)NOIR had a strong presence at RSA 2025, organizing a session on “Inclusive innovation and the dynamics of regional transformation” (SS23), organized by NOIR co-di...

Dear  all, This spring marks a significant moment for the CITY Institute at York University and for critical urban scholarship.   Professors Roger Keil and Linda Peake, two long term forces behind CIT...

Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion

I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst

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Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan

In this commentary, I argue that while the digitalizing state mobilizes the anticipatory imaginary of network time, its own temporal ontology remains anchored i...

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Director and Professor -Urban Studies InstituteThe Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University invites applications for the next Director of the Urban Studies Institute (USI). Qu...

Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of i...

With a historic $80 million gift, Georgia State will embark on an ambitious campus transformation to integrate its downtown footprint and create vibrant, people-centered spaces for students and the ci...

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