Urban Studies Journal

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✍️ Hudalah conceptualises #UrbanCorridors as emergent formations shaped by heterogeneous #materialities, unique histories, and multiple structuring forces, challenging dominant perspectives which often emphasise structural coherence and top-down governance.

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✍️ Purwani, Jacobs & Cairns

🔍 This article explores the role of #Indonesia’s royal house of #Yogyakarta in the development of #Ambarrukmo and how it challenges dominant, western-centric understandings of #city #building agency.

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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Royal Agency in Contemporary City Building in Southeast Asia"

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🔓 NEW #DebatesPaper in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Isaksson & Paulsson expand the conversation between the degrowth and sustainable mobility literatures by analysing the concept of “limits" in relation to key vectors of urban mobility: space, speed, and the body.

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✍️ Meng et al.

🔍 In #China, #residential #location preferences during the #COVID-19 pandemic did not shift uniformly but followed distinct temporal paths as the pandemic unfolded.

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🔓 NEW #CriticalCommentary in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Boyer et al.

🔍 This paper proposes a research agenda that supports the scaled development of “sufficiency shared housing,” or #housing options built for the sharing of functional space in a way that lowers total resource consumption.

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✍️ Chen & Liu

🔍 This paper examines how #Nairobi’s matatu system interacts with the emerging formal and transnational hegemony of #Chinese #infrastructure investments in #Kenya.

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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"

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✍️ @zhengli-huang.bsky.social

🔍 In #Kenya, the shift from government-to-government to a public-private-partnership #financing redistributes risks and responsibilities, yet it often reinforces inequalities in #infrastructure access.

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✍️ Cirolia et al.

🔍 #Telecommunication companies, having expanded far beyond traditional ambits, are playing a central role in urban speculation in #Mogadishu, aimed at both global and local audiences.

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🔓 NEW in our Special Issue "Ordinary Urban Speculations"

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🏙️ #UrbanStudies 64(4) is out now!

✍ Includes a Debates Paper, articles on urban #agglomeration, #youthification, concessionary #governance, land #financialisation, #housing, socioeconomic #segregation, #infrastructures and #temporalities, and more.

🔓 6 Open-Access papers!

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✍️@ckoenig.bsky.social et al.

🔍 In #Germany, foreign #minorities are more exposed to single and multiple environmental burdens than poor #residents. However, the magnitude of environmental #inequality varies markedly across cities.

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🏙️ #UrbanStudies 63(3) out NOW!

✍ Featuring the 2025 Annual Lecture paper, as well as articles on elderly #mobility, social and creative urban #infrastructure, patch #urbanism, township #economics, agonistic #planning, and #urbanisation, and a Critical Commentary.

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The Urban Studies Podcast Grant - Apply now! - Urban Studies In 2024, Urban Studies launched a pilot initiative to deliver a high-quality, first-of-a-kind podcast miniseries to explore the opportunities and challenges of podcasting for urban research. This has ...

Intriguing opportunity for a small grant (£10,000 ) in support of podcasting urban studies research from @urbanstudiesjournal.com! www.urbanstudiesjournal.com/podcast-grant/ The application isn't a huge lift (due 3/30).

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✍️ Bheemeshwar et al.

🔍 This article investigates the interplay between #housing segregation and school #segregation in major Indian cities, emphasising the broader implications for urban #equity.

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✍️ Yang

🔍 Some #PeripheralCities are repositioning themselves as #creative hubs by leveraging local #resources to attract creative talents, and cultural and creative industries strategies in such cities shape migrants’ #mobility and creative practice.

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🔍 Barchetta & @mathildaros.bsky.social develop the concept of agonistic temporalities to theorise the confrontations between municipal planning imperatives and more-than-human relations as inherently pluralistic and productive for the politics of planning the more-than-human city.

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🔓 NEW in our Special Issue "Temporalities of urban natures"

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🔓 NEW in our Special Issue "Inclusive circular cities"

✍️ Ruth et al. develop a typology of #community and charitable #reuse organisations that foregrounds the distinctive features that make them important actors in the #CircularEconomy.

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🔓 #NEW in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Stokols examines how certain urban districts and high-profile sites in #Singapore are conceptualized as “showrooms” for the #infrastructure and urban #technologies they aim to export around the world.

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🔓 NEW Debates Paper in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Cryer & Crankshaw

🔍 In 40 years, #London’s occupational structure has undergone an asymmetrical polarisation, with almost all #employment growth among high-income managerial, professional, associate professional and technical jobs.

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✍️ @schareyron.bsky.social

🔍 This study assesses the effect of #energy efficiency labels on the private #housing market using information on energy efficiency assessments of housing and #property transactions in #France between 2016 and 2021.

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✍️ Rao et al.

🔍 In Paris, #transport spaces demonstrate a strong capacity to transition into open-air markets within a multiscale, people-centred transport system.

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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"

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✍️ Sweeney

🔍 Under the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016, in England, devolved areas did not experience faster than expected growth in 2011-2022, and the estimated growth effect of #devolution was more favourable for already wealthy districts.

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🔓 #OpenAccess Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies

✍️ Plueckhahn & Smith

🔍 How are acts of #comparison, and lines of connection and difference, embedded in processes of living, knowing and transforming the #urban? What do comparative acts give rise to?

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✍️ Rose et al.

🔍 #Creativity can iterate alternative trajectories which embed #accessible #infrastructures and facilitate different ways of encountering, moving through and being in the #city.

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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives"

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🔓NEW #OpenAccess Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies

✍️🔍 Marvin & Zhang identify and critically reflect on three distinct modes through which urban life is cognitively enabled: #neurourbanism, consultancy-led cognitive #urbanism, and neurotechnical #governance.

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