Ang Liu's most recent article, “Financialization of Housing Production: Unveiling the Fake Equity in Urban China,” has been published in Economic Geography. The piece is available at doi.org/10.1080/0013....

GUS Director Mara Sidney and co-editor David Kaufmann's book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society will be published by U of Michigan Press in Mar 2026. The cover features a photo by Claudia Sinatra. Learn more at: press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob...

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Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️

Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.

New paper provides insights into how political decisions shape infrastructural priorities, and what it may take to integrate these segments into a more cohesive #UrbanInfrastructure in #Nairobi and indeed in other rapidly urbanising Southern cities
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📊 Monitoring policies might be the gateway you are missing to engaging with policymakers

🔍 Alexander Wolffhardt from the Migration Policy Group shares practical tips for #researchers on integrating monitoring into their work to drive change: loom.ly/60MIvJo