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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 02/10/2026

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(13) now out! Special Issue: "Royal Agency in Contemporary City Building in Southeast Asia" ✍ Edited by Jane M Jacobs & Ofita Purwani 📖 Read here: f.mtr.cool/xr4c1rbge7

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 25/09/2026

🗣️ NEW Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies Offering reflections and provocations, the Horizons 2024 Collective considers the many contradictions between their doctoral urban research, the colonial neoliberal university and the urban futures they envisage. @centre4cities.bsky.social

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 22/09/2026

Yangon’s Alley Garden Project is a cautionary tale of responsibilization, not under conditions of state and capital withdrawal but under increasing state engagement, as a new government tried to overcome decades-long authoritarianism after 2021. ✍️ Roberts #UrbanStudies

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 17/09/2026

What should #UrbanStudies focus on over the next decade? Which themes need more attention? How should the field evolve? What needs to change in how urban research is supported and communicated? Take our 10-question survey and join the conversation: f.mtr.cool/1tc3gu99lk

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/09/2026

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(12) (September 2026) out now! ✍️ Papers on urban #governance and #infrastructure, #justice and access, and non-human and future-oriented #urbanism. Includes a book review forum on #migration city diplomacy. 📖 f.mtr.cool/qq90od6uh8

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 12/08/2026

📢 NEW: #UrbanStudies 63(11) (August 2026) out now! ✍ Papers on #inequality and division, #governance and #infrastructure, and lived urban experience. Includes a critical commentary & book review forum. 📖 buff.ly/pfPWazX

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 07/08/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Drawing on ethnographic research with food delivery workers, @vageesh.bsky.social examines how roads generate both economic value and the hierarchies, conflicts, and vulnerabilities shaping gig workers' experience of urbanity. 📖 buff.ly/Ka5m4Ih

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 07/08/2026

📢 New Special Issue alert: #UrbanStudies 63(10) (August 2026) out now! 🏘️ "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks" ✍️ Edited by Zachary Lamb, Esther Sullivan & Andrew Rumbach 📖 Explore the issue here: buff.ly/KbpNHtF

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 30/07/2026

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Tümtürk et al. test Jane Jacobs' most neglected condition for urban #diversity, building age variation, using a new Temporal Fingerprint Matrix across three Dutch cities. Incremental development outperforms instant development for #retail. 📖 buff.ly/wtO1YCY

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 29/07/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Older adults do not experience #AgeFriendlyTransport equally. Ho-Yin Chan shows how #PrioritySeating and concessionary fares in #HongKong reflect socio-spatial inequalities and differing meanings of independence. 📖 buff.ly/FrkMNTP

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 06/07/2026

✍️ @rhaenschen.bsky.social 🔍️ #AI is increasingly integrated into urban #governance. This article analyses the case study of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights to ask how its membership affects cities’ AI policies. 📖 buff.ly/dZNkmWt

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 06/07/2026

✍️ Rani 🔍️ Based on a multi-sited ethnography in East #Delhi, this study argues that the word Khula is an empty signifier which allows to understand the area's #pathology in the context of the #dengue #epidemic. 📖 buff.ly/Jz5I4Nd

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 06/07/2026

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Pollard & Salvaire examine the coalitions underpinning #opposition to #housing #development across the #Paris metropolitan area, reveal a highly fragmented landscape of contention. 📖 buff.ly/Gerpui6

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 03/07/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ @aftp.bsky.social presents a method for reverse engineering landlords’ local strategies, applied to #Akelius, a global corporate #landlord whose French #housing portfolio has been reconstructed by cross-referencing open administrative datasets. 📖 buff.ly/4IqHjK6

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 03/07/2026

🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Zhai & Zhai develop Wildlife-Affective Urban #Design as a conceptual framework for examining how urban form shapes multispecies encounter through fear, curiosity, attachment, irritation, avoidance, and unequal exposure to harm. 📖 buff.ly/fPYuCue

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 03/07/2026

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Rovner & Talen 🔍️ Effective preservation-equity #policy requires context-specific strategies rather than universal approaches. 📖 buff.ly/C58he5Z

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 02/07/2026

🌍️ NEW in #Urban Studies ✍️ Nogueira et al. foreground the role of women’s #labour and collective organisation in bridging gaps in #food provision and acquisition and argue that food functions as #infrastructure. 📖 buff.ly/4JcJTvh

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 02/07/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Abdelmalek 🔍️ How is #SpatialJustice institutionally produced in Cairo? A mixed-methods analysis of waqf-based governance and gated #urbanism reveals measurable inequalities in access to urban services. 📖 buff.ly/GXOyznS

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 02/07/2026

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(9) (July 2026) ✍ Papers on #housing and residential dynamics, #land, #property, and #development finance, #neighborhood #inequality, social #stratification, and community #resilience, and methods/emerging themes in urban research. 📖 buff.ly/z0qQDuG

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 02/07/2026

🔓️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Cai and Tan argue that the relationship between #transit and #neighborhood change can vary across different zones and time periods within the urban area served by a transit line. 📖 buff.ly/AtmNbLJ

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/07/2026

✍️ 🔍️ Can suburban futures feel urban before they function that way? @katherineperrott.bsky.social explores how “urban vibes” shape vertical #suburbanization, #densification, and #value in the #Toronto region. 📖 buff.ly/aDHn8bW

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/07/2026

✍️ @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social and Ebbensgaard show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (in the case of #heat) or increase exposure (in the case of #sunlight) center the #elemental as a point of struggle for just #urban living and citizenship. 📖 buff.ly/kMvShgR

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/07/2026

🗣️ NEW #CriticalCommentary in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Rokem et al. investigate the resurgence of nationalist #politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that #cities are critical arenas in which contemporary #nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. 📖 buff.ly/R7ekbHo

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/07/2026

✍️ Naef 🔍️ Focusing on #Medellín, Colombia, this article examines the #resilience of #violence and the violence of resilience in the recovery of conflict-affected cities as a lens to rethink how #urbanization and #conflict mutually shape one another. 📖 buff.ly/sn0MT5i

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/07/2026

🏆️ Announcing the winners of the #UrbanStudies Podcast Grant 🎙️ 👉️ Of the 60 podcast proposals received, we have selected 3 outstanding winners: "Sensory Urbanism," "Strange City," and "The Urban Imagination." Congratulations! 🎉 🔗 Details on our website: buff.ly/ZiTEmLN

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 30/06/2026

✍️ In this article, Maclean explores how popular #markets and cultural #aesthetics challenge colonial binaries of #tradition versus #modernity, focusing on La Paz and El Alto during a period of #Indigenous political power and economic expansion (2006–2019). 📖 buff.ly/Q4b8UTR

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 30/06/2026

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 🔍️ Through ethnographic fieldwork in #Accra, @professor-andoh.bluesky.social uses hybrid #urbanism to examine how self-built #housing and unregulated #livelihoods are shaped by overlapping systems of #authority, #accountability, and spatial #regulation. 📖 buff.ly/ZDN2UAe

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 30/06/2026

🔓️ NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Fransen et al. analyse #digital #resilience practices (the everyday ways households respond to shocks through digital #technologies) and how repetitive digital practices form extra-legal rules in Mathare, #Kenya. 📖 buff.ly/ujJTd99

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 30/06/2026

❓️WHAT'S THE FUS? 🗣️ #UrbanStudies is launching The Future of Urban Studies (FUS), an initiative dedicated to reflecting on the current state of urban studies and imagining where it might go next. 🤝 Join the discussion! 🔍️ Details: buff.ly/ABXKuuk

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 24/06/2026

🏙️ #UrbanStudies Annual Lecture 2026 🎤 Michael Storper (LSE, UCLA) will present this year's annual lecture on the topic of "The Vanishing Urban Frontier" at RGS-IBG London. 📅 2 September 2026 | 4:30-6:15pm BST 📍 Education Centre, RGS Join us! Abstract here: buff.ly/EdGxI9y

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 23/06/2026

📚️ Two new #BookReviewForums in #UrbanStudies 🗣️ 👇️ Read them here: 📖 buff.ly/XXXHOpJ 📖 buff.ly/8Q4yYDG

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 22/06/2026

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Wang et al. 🔍️ This paper proposes the concept of the agency of #memory and a framework of the economisation of memory politics through a tracking study of the whole urban redevelopment process of Shibati, Chongqing, #China. 📖 buff.ly/l782n2k

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 22/06/2026

✍️ Andersen & Stirrup examine the often-overlooked urban presence of the #Métis people, one of three #Indigenous groups recognized in Canada’s 1982 Constitution Act, outside the geographical boundaries of #Canada and/or the Métis homeland, focusing on the #UK. 📖 buff.ly/gH6gkPh

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 22/06/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️🔍️ Erol & Foye examine the evolution of #wealth #inequalities across regions in #Britain, and in particular the role of house price #inflation, #homeownership and #mortgage debt in driving these wealth inequalities. 📖 buff.ly/oxrQnuF

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 19/06/2026

🔓️ #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Ahn & @kazepov.bsky.social investigate the #policy activities that shape and transform policy learning into concrete policy components through a series of interconnected, iterative stages of the policy cycle within urban policy mobility. 📖 buff.ly/kpYvCS5

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 19/06/2026

🔓️ #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Fried et al. 🔍️ #Tech #city institutions function as enacted assemblages shaped by individuals’ interstitial practices. 📖 buff.ly/6SmGXSQ

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 18/06/2026

✍️ Formanack & Young present a case study of a #community #mapping project in Lincoln, Nebraska to examine the influence of dominant cultural beliefs that consider manufactured home communities to be inherently poor, unsafe, and unhealthy on #housing policy and programs. 📖 buff.ly/mVoBfew

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 18/06/2026

🔓️ #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Randolph & Fotedar 🔍️ What are the firm-level norms and practices that shape the non-farm #economy in places witnessing #urbanization from within? 📖 buff.ly/p3pg71n

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 17/06/2026

🏆BEST ARTICLE PRIZE 2025 WINNER: 🥇 Nitin Bathla (buff.ly/DhulPNA) RUNNERS-UP: 🥈Maren Larsen (buff.ly/hK3mvRT) 🥉Donald McNeill & Andrea Connor (buff.ly/jHalttR) Congratulations! 🎉 👉 Check out the shortlist: buff.ly/jcFejbn #UrbanStudies

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 16/06/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Ramírez & Rojas 🔍️ In Santiago de Chile, #migrants access #income, #information, #housing and social ties through street vending; this enables incorporation while anchoring migrants within contested regimes of #informality and #irregularity. 📖 buff.ly/dremszq

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 16/06/2026

🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Reimagining Activity Spaces in Urban Contexts" ✍️ @erinyc.bsky.social & Santos 🔍️ How are older adults’ momentary assessments of informal #control in #outdoor public places associated with conditions of the surrounding #neighborhood and social setting? 📖 buff.ly/fquEpRI

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 16/06/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Feng et al. 🔍️ In Dali, #China, the central #state consolidates control over local development #politics, compelling local #governments to repurpose entrepreneurial tactics to implement central priorities. 📖 buff.ly/AhBMugS

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 03/06/2026

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(8) out now! ✍ This issue explores themes of urban #governance, #displacement, #belonging, and spatial #justice, from autocratization and informal urbanism to #gentrification, #green spaces, #solidarity economies, and arts-based reparative justice. 📖 Read here: buff.ly/JCvLa6G

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 02/06/2026

🔓️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Huang et al. 🔍️ In #China, children’s #travel distance is shaped by both individual-level factors and contextual-level determinants at both origins and destinations, with #hukou status as a key individual factor. 📖 buff.ly/AUKZEJm

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 01/06/2026

✍️ Horolets et al. 🔍️ In most #community #gardens, a linear historicity of #modernisation is perpetuated; project #temporalities often clash with the rhythms of vegetation, and soil is invisibilised and imported from elsewhere to deliver some of the promises gardens make. 📖 buff.ly/s7Ax7fV

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 29/05/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Sun et al. 🔍️ This study shows that #flood #zoning policies have no significant boundary effect on assessed value in coastal counties and positive effects in inland counties, after controlling for flood risk and unobserved amenities. 📖 buff.ly/au1eicK

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 25/05/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Kuyvenhoven simultaneously examines frequency of #moving and exposure to #neighbourhood #deprivation, and the association with completion of secondary #education for children born in socio-economically deprived neighbourhoods in #Amsterdam and #Stockholm. 📖 buff.ly/CXeQASa

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 22/05/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Grelle 🔍️ Migrant alternative infrastructures are emerging as grassroots responses to state-imposed (im)mobility regimes. This paper explores those infrastructuring practices and their overlooked diasporic dimension. #Diaspora #Mobility #Ethnography 📖 buff.ly/Xn7Il89

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 22/05/2026

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Y.-T. Kao 🔍️ In #Changhua City, #shopkeepers cultivate subsistence-based #solidarity that underpins experimental festive practices. These #festivities reinvent everyday spaces, leading to the emergence of a grassroots civic #infrastructure. 📖 buff.ly/ABOGGkt

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 21/05/2026

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Cubells 🔍️ Does the 15-minute #city (FMC) perpetuate social exclusion? This commentary critically examines the FMC through a #queer lens, asking whose ways of being are made liveable by current #planning frameworks and whose #futures are enabled. 📖 buff.ly/ZlvicmC

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