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📢 #CallForPapers 📢
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretically ambitious work on #wildness, #domestication, #natality, and urban #vitality. This theme seeks new ways of thinking the #city as a field of forces shaping desire, encounter, and new forms of life.
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✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretically ambitious work on #wildness, #domestication, #natality, and urban #vitality. This theme seeks new ways of thinking the #city as a field of forces shaping desire, encounter, and new forms of life.
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @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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✍️ @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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February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @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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✍️ @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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February 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🔓NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ 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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✍️ 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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February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🔓NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ 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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✍️ 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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✍️ 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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February 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🔓 #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?
📖 buff.ly/oc28N1y
✍️ 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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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives"
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February 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🌍 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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✍️🔍 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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February 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🔓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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✍️🔍 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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🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Lu et al.
🔍 In Shanghai, private #housing #property rights underpin the emergence of a new framework of #neighbourhood #governance that deviates from traditional top-down approaches, while common property rights remain relatively superficial and fragile.
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✍️ Lu et al.
🔍 In Shanghai, private #housing #property rights underpin the emergence of a new framework of #neighbourhood #governance that deviates from traditional top-down approaches, while common property rights remain relatively superficial and fragile.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Lu et al.
🔍 In Shanghai, private #housing #property rights underpin the emergence of a new framework of #neighbourhood #governance that deviates from traditional top-down approaches, while common property rights remain relatively superficial and fragile.
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✍️ Lu et al.
🔍 In Shanghai, private #housing #property rights underpin the emergence of a new framework of #neighbourhood #governance that deviates from traditional top-down approaches, while common property rights remain relatively superficial and fragile.
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🏙️ NEW in our Special issue "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks"
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February 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
🏙️ NEW in our Special issue "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks"
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#UrbanStudies
🌍 NEW in our Special issue "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives"
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#UrbanStudies
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#UrbanStudies
February 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special issue "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives"
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Intergenerational housing strategies and social closure in Gangnam"
✍️ S. Choi
🔍 This study examines intergenerational #wealth transfer and #class reproduction strategies centered on Gangnam #housing.
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📃"Intergenerational housing strategies and social closure in Gangnam"
✍️ S. Choi
🔍 This study examines intergenerational #wealth transfer and #class reproduction strategies centered on Gangnam #housing.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Intergenerational housing strategies and social closure in Gangnam"
✍️ S. Choi
🔍 This study examines intergenerational #wealth transfer and #class reproduction strategies centered on Gangnam #housing.
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📃"Intergenerational housing strategies and social closure in Gangnam"
✍️ S. Choi
🔍 This study examines intergenerational #wealth transfer and #class reproduction strategies centered on Gangnam #housing.
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🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ A. Fenchouch
🔍 Real estate dynamics and ordinary urban fabric: exploring tactical adaptation, anticipation, and land transformations. #Informality #Densification #Algiers
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✍️ A. Fenchouch
🔍 Real estate dynamics and ordinary urban fabric: exploring tactical adaptation, anticipation, and land transformations. #Informality #Densification #Algiers
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February 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ A. Fenchouch
🔍 Real estate dynamics and ordinary urban fabric: exploring tactical adaptation, anticipation, and land transformations. #Informality #Densification #Algiers
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✍️ A. Fenchouch
🔍 Real estate dynamics and ordinary urban fabric: exploring tactical adaptation, anticipation, and land transformations. #Informality #Densification #Algiers
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🏙️ NEW Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies
✍️Luque-Ayala & Nieuwenhuis propose rethinking #fire as a shared, co-constitutive, agentic, and persistent presence demanding collective responsibility, adaptation, and novel ways of conceptualizing city–nature relationships.
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✍️Luque-Ayala & Nieuwenhuis propose rethinking #fire as a shared, co-constitutive, agentic, and persistent presence demanding collective responsibility, adaptation, and novel ways of conceptualizing city–nature relationships.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies
✍️Luque-Ayala & Nieuwenhuis propose rethinking #fire as a shared, co-constitutive, agentic, and persistent presence demanding collective responsibility, adaptation, and novel ways of conceptualizing city–nature relationships.
📖 buff.ly/WNW9IKL
✍️Luque-Ayala & Nieuwenhuis propose rethinking #fire as a shared, co-constitutive, agentic, and persistent presence demanding collective responsibility, adaptation, and novel ways of conceptualizing city–nature relationships.
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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Reimagining Activity Spaces in Urban Contexts"
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February 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Reimagining Activity Spaces in Urban Contexts"
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February 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
@ekafermin.bsky.social examines the opportunities and limits of land-value capture through the case study of the Naranjal Partial Urban Renewal Plan, a large-scale, municipally led intervention in a low-income neighbourhood of #Medellín.
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@ekafermin.bsky.social examines the opportunities and limits of land-value capture through the case study of the Naranjal Partial Urban Renewal Plan, a large-scale, municipally led intervention in a low-income neighbourhood of #Medellín.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
@ekafermin.bsky.social examines the opportunities and limits of land-value capture through the case study of the Naranjal Partial Urban Renewal Plan, a large-scale, municipally led intervention in a low-income neighbourhood of #Medellín.
📖 buff.ly/Q06HXDb
@ekafermin.bsky.social examines the opportunities and limits of land-value capture through the case study of the Naranjal Partial Urban Renewal Plan, a large-scale, municipally led intervention in a low-income neighbourhood of #Medellín.
📖 buff.ly/Q06HXDb
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 C. Zhang & Z. Zhang investigate whether and how urban #dwellers' well-being is influenced by spatially structured contextual #exposure within a localized area.
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✍️🔍 C. Zhang & Z. Zhang investigate whether and how urban #dwellers' well-being is influenced by spatially structured contextual #exposure within a localized area.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 C. Zhang & Z. Zhang investigate whether and how urban #dwellers' well-being is influenced by spatially structured contextual #exposure within a localized area.
📖 buff.ly/IfonrtA
✍️🔍 C. Zhang & Z. Zhang investigate whether and how urban #dwellers' well-being is influenced by spatially structured contextual #exposure within a localized area.
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Ortiz-Vilches & Ramond
🔍 Does perceived residential #reputation mediate the effect of #neighborhood context on neighborhood #cohesion, including residents’ sense of #belonging and #sociability? Does this effect vary across socioeconomic groups?
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✍️ Ortiz-Vilches & Ramond
🔍 Does perceived residential #reputation mediate the effect of #neighborhood context on neighborhood #cohesion, including residents’ sense of #belonging and #sociability? Does this effect vary across socioeconomic groups?
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February 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Ortiz-Vilches & Ramond
🔍 Does perceived residential #reputation mediate the effect of #neighborhood context on neighborhood #cohesion, including residents’ sense of #belonging and #sociability? Does this effect vary across socioeconomic groups?
📖 buff.ly/M58cuBq
✍️ Ortiz-Vilches & Ramond
🔍 Does perceived residential #reputation mediate the effect of #neighborhood context on neighborhood #cohesion, including residents’ sense of #belonging and #sociability? Does this effect vary across socioeconomic groups?
📖 buff.ly/M58cuBq
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?"
✍️ J. Gibbons utilises US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-driven #gentrification across the #USA.
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📃"Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?"
✍️ J. Gibbons utilises US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-driven #gentrification across the #USA.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?"
✍️ J. Gibbons utilises US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-driven #gentrification across the #USA.
📖 buff.ly/gntVqoq
📃"Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?"
✍️ J. Gibbons utilises US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-driven #gentrification across the #USA.
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🌍 NEW Issue: #UrbanStudies 63(2) - February 2026
✍️ From gender-sensitive #mobility and greening-led #gentrification to urban land markets, #ageing communities, and climate-focused urban political #ecology. Includes a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum!
📖 Explore the full issue here: buff.ly/2yM77OU
✍️ From gender-sensitive #mobility and greening-led #gentrification to urban land markets, #ageing communities, and climate-focused urban political #ecology. Includes a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum!
📖 Explore the full issue here: buff.ly/2yM77OU
January 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🌍 NEW Issue: #UrbanStudies 63(2) - February 2026
✍️ From gender-sensitive #mobility and greening-led #gentrification to urban land markets, #ageing communities, and climate-focused urban political #ecology. Includes a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum!
📖 Explore the full issue here: buff.ly/2yM77OU
✍️ From gender-sensitive #mobility and greening-led #gentrification to urban land markets, #ageing communities, and climate-focused urban political #ecology. Includes a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum!
📖 Explore the full issue here: buff.ly/2yM77OU
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ R. Tchoukaleyska examines the role of public spaces like farmers’ #markets in sustaining urban communities during the first two years of the #COVID-19 pandemic.
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✍️ R. Tchoukaleyska examines the role of public spaces like farmers’ #markets in sustaining urban communities during the first two years of the #COVID-19 pandemic.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ R. Tchoukaleyska examines the role of public spaces like farmers’ #markets in sustaining urban communities during the first two years of the #COVID-19 pandemic.
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✍️ R. Tchoukaleyska examines the role of public spaces like farmers’ #markets in sustaining urban communities during the first two years of the #COVID-19 pandemic.
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Mao et al. analyse the accumulation process of subjective #well-being from the activity episode level to the day level based on activity diary data collected from intercity #commuters in Zhongshan, #China.
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✍️ Mao et al. analyse the accumulation process of subjective #well-being from the activity episode level to the day level based on activity diary data collected from intercity #commuters in Zhongshan, #China.
📖 buff.ly/1IETDMp
January 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Mao et al. analyse the accumulation process of subjective #well-being from the activity episode level to the day level based on activity diary data collected from intercity #commuters in Zhongshan, #China.
📖 buff.ly/1IETDMp
✍️ Mao et al. analyse the accumulation process of subjective #well-being from the activity episode level to the day level based on activity diary data collected from intercity #commuters in Zhongshan, #China.
📖 buff.ly/1IETDMp
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"
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January 29, 2026 at 1:02 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"
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🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Fernandez et al. investigate the impact of #decarbonisation on #housing costs across tenures, drawing 2018-2023 registry data from Dutch households, with heating degree day-adjusted gas consumption as a proxy for decarbonisation.
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✍️ Fernandez et al. investigate the impact of #decarbonisation on #housing costs across tenures, drawing 2018-2023 registry data from Dutch households, with heating degree day-adjusted gas consumption as a proxy for decarbonisation.
📖 buff.ly/QloJ6HC
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Fernandez et al. investigate the impact of #decarbonisation on #housing costs across tenures, drawing 2018-2023 registry data from Dutch households, with heating degree day-adjusted gas consumption as a proxy for decarbonisation.
📖 buff.ly/QloJ6HC
✍️ Fernandez et al. investigate the impact of #decarbonisation on #housing costs across tenures, drawing 2018-2023 registry data from Dutch households, with heating degree day-adjusted gas consumption as a proxy for decarbonisation.
📖 buff.ly/QloJ6HC
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Liu & Lo re-theorize state #entrepreneurialism by considering how local governments and #chengtou companies adapt to the new context of unprecedented property market downturn and strict state regulations on land #financialization.
📖 buff.ly/VJoNpxU
✍️ Liu & Lo re-theorize state #entrepreneurialism by considering how local governments and #chengtou companies adapt to the new context of unprecedented property market downturn and strict state regulations on land #financialization.
📖 buff.ly/VJoNpxU
January 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Liu & Lo re-theorize state #entrepreneurialism by considering how local governments and #chengtou companies adapt to the new context of unprecedented property market downturn and strict state regulations on land #financialization.
📖 buff.ly/VJoNpxU
✍️ Liu & Lo re-theorize state #entrepreneurialism by considering how local governments and #chengtou companies adapt to the new context of unprecedented property market downturn and strict state regulations on land #financialization.
📖 buff.ly/VJoNpxU
📢 #CallForPapers 📢
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretically ambitious work on #wildness, #domestication, #natality, and urban #vitality. This theme seeks new ways of thinking the #city as a field of forces shaping desire, encounter, and new forms of life.
🔗 Details: buff.ly/kYiWElV
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretically ambitious work on #wildness, #domestication, #natality, and urban #vitality. This theme seeks new ways of thinking the #city as a field of forces shaping desire, encounter, and new forms of life.
🔗 Details: buff.ly/kYiWElV
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
📢 #CallForPapers 📢
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretically ambitious work on #wildness, #domestication, #natality, and urban #vitality. This theme seeks new ways of thinking the #city as a field of forces shaping desire, encounter, and new forms of life.
🔗 Details: buff.ly/kYiWElV
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretically ambitious work on #wildness, #domestication, #natality, and urban #vitality. This theme seeks new ways of thinking the #city as a field of forces shaping desire, encounter, and new forms of life.
🔗 Details: buff.ly/kYiWElV