Deljana Iossifova

📢We have a whole range of thematic calls on highlight topics - please have a look here 💥https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rjar-thematic-calls/

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

📢Join me and the Journal of Architecture (RIBA) team as a Reviews Editor - you will develop a new section on critical reviews of the literature, books, exhibitions & events. Remote, ~2 hrs/week, £3k honorarium. Apply now! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

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📢 To celebrate the release of C.P. Pow: Selected Essays (2025), USF will dedicate one 2025 International Fellowship in his memory — for an urban scholar from or working in East & Southeast Asia.

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What makes a village beautiful? Listening to villagers in rural China’s revitalisation drive -> new paper with Yu Yan and Long Zhou on rural classification and community needs in Zhejiang Province 📝https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13467581.2025.2510612#d1e199

We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...

‘C.P. Pow: Selected Essays’ is now available through the Urban Studies Foundation. It includes some of Pow's most incisive and quietly radical work on the urban. I had the privilege of writing the introduction – a small gesture of respect for a scholar whose absence since 2021 is still deeply felt.

📢 Delighted to see The Journal of Architecture ranked Q1 in the latest SJR metrics 💥 As one of the leading international journals engaging critically with architecture and the built environment, we remain committed to publishing field-defining work.
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27 Feb, 10:00, join the USL PhD cohort for a review of their projects. Whitworth Hall, Keepers' Room.

Trump signs new executive order mandating Classical styles for federal architecture One of the two dozen or so new Trump Administration’s executive orders issued since assuming office includes a mandate for the restoration of an amalgam of classicism-inspired

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What is ‘urban health’?
We’ve given it some thought:

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Read (and critique!) our newest here:

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F1000Research Article: Defining Urban Health for Strategic Action. Read the latest article version by José Gabriel Siri, Jinhee Kim, Katherine Indvik, Evelyne de Leeuw, Carlos Dora, Franz Gatzweiler, Elsa Holm, Deljana Iossifova, Francisco Obando, Jean Simos, at F100...

Defining urban health for strategic action? A co-authored WHO strategy paper, just published, comments and reviews encouraged and very welcome. f1000research.com/articles/14-...

Tracing architecture through the entangled Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 29, No. 5-6, 2024)

New issue of @thejoa.bsky.social is out. Read our editorial: Tracing architecture through the entangled www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Picture of Molfetta harbour sea wall.

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🔔 Now accepting applications for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨
Submit your proposals before the deadline on 17th February 2025. Visit the USF website for more info!
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Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai - Purva Dewoolkar, Deljana Iossifova, Sitaram Shelar, Alison L Browne, ... In this paper, we use the notion of administrative precarity to refer to the vulnerability and insecurity experienced by marginalised and disadvantaged groups a...

🌟 Just out - Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai - new Urban Studies paper with Purva Dewoolkar, Sitaram Shelar, Ali Browne & Elsa Holm 🌟 Free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

China Water Network workshop Universities of Manchester & Melbourne: "Unsettling Water Politics? Digitalising Water in China and Beyond" on 3/12, 9am UK time, with guest speakers Qinghong Xu, Godfred Amankwaa, Caixia Man, Cecilia Alda Vidal, and Yuzong Chen. Zoooom: see QR code below 👇

PhD Symposium: Informality and Visual Mehtods in Urban Research Join us for a laid-back PhD Symposium exploring how visual methods can enhance urban research - it's gonna be informal and insightful!

If in Manchester, join Ziqiu Ren and others on 3/12 for the Informality and Visual Methods in Urban Research PhD Symposium! Innovative ideas and global perspectives on urban transformations with guest discussants Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
Register here: bit.ly/3B2Gkam

We are hiring! ✨ We're looking for two motivated co-editors for The Journal of Architecture. Help us drive excellence in architectural research. Apply now via the link below.

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Flyer with the Open Call by "Youth On The Move Performing Urban Space in the Global South" for "Doing Mobile Ethnography: Learning from the Other ‘Other’" an early-career scholars’ training Workshop in Urban Methodology. May 13-14th. Shanghai, 2024. (Credit: Youth on the move)

#USFSeminarSeries: 'Youth On The Move' invites applications for "Doing Mobile Ethnography: Learning from the Other ‘Other’", an early-career scholars’ training Workshop in Urban Methodology. May 13-14th, Shanghai, 2024. Deadline March 15th. ow.ly/c0fK50QJSb3

Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach - npj Urban Sustainability npj Urban Sustainability - Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach

New paper on assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach in @Nature_NPJ urban sustainability - open access www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New open access paper with Cecilia Alda-Vidal,
Ali Browne and Mary Lawhon on sanitation configurations in #Lilongwe journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Open access paper with the brilliant Qi Liu from our research on changing socio-metabolic practices in urbanising China is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Now online: Deserts Are Not Empty, Edited by Samia Henni - Book review by Ivan Lopez Munuera @BardArch
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📢 Materialised power and transitioning modernity: the architecture of Beijing Hotel, 1917–1974 - New paper by Yinrui Xie @unilincoln

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📢 Now online: Pastoral entrapment and the idyllic-carceral continuum - By Hanneke H. Stuit @UvA_Amsterdam

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