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📢 #CallForPapers 📢
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other.
@richardsondilworth.bsky.social
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✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other.
@richardsondilworth.bsky.social
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December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "NeurodiverCITY: Leveraging the potential for neurodiverse deliberation in urban life"
✍️ Tokarek et al.
🔍 Inclusive deliberative practices improve decision-making processes and contribute to more equitable and innovative urban environments.
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📃 "NeurodiverCITY: Leveraging the potential for neurodiverse deliberation in urban life"
✍️ Tokarek et al.
🔍 Inclusive deliberative practices improve decision-making processes and contribute to more equitable and innovative urban environments.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "NeurodiverCITY: Leveraging the potential for neurodiverse deliberation in urban life"
✍️ Tokarek et al.
🔍 Inclusive deliberative practices improve decision-making processes and contribute to more equitable and innovative urban environments.
📖 buff.ly/yNhE2Ii
📃 "NeurodiverCITY: Leveraging the potential for neurodiverse deliberation in urban life"
✍️ Tokarek et al.
🔍 Inclusive deliberative practices improve decision-making processes and contribute to more equitable and innovative urban environments.
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🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Ramiller examines the impact of entering and exiting #housing assistance on the #neighborhood context experienced by housing voucher recipients.
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✍️ Ramiller examines the impact of entering and exiting #housing assistance on the #neighborhood context experienced by housing voucher recipients.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Ramiller examines the impact of entering and exiting #housing assistance on the #neighborhood context experienced by housing voucher recipients.
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✍️ Ramiller examines the impact of entering and exiting #housing assistance on the #neighborhood context experienced by housing voucher recipients.
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🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Gautam Bhan
🔍 This written version of the 2025 Urban Studies Annual Lecture delivered in April 2025 at City Debates offers examples of the possible agendas and directions of southern urban theory.
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✍️ Gautam Bhan
🔍 This written version of the 2025 Urban Studies Annual Lecture delivered in April 2025 at City Debates offers examples of the possible agendas and directions of southern urban theory.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Gautam Bhan
🔍 This written version of the 2025 Urban Studies Annual Lecture delivered in April 2025 at City Debates offers examples of the possible agendas and directions of southern urban theory.
📖 buff.ly/CLRV8V7
✍️ Gautam Bhan
🔍 This written version of the 2025 Urban Studies Annual Lecture delivered in April 2025 at City Debates offers examples of the possible agendas and directions of southern urban theory.
📖 buff.ly/CLRV8V7
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Dynamics of (dis)integration: The impact of migration mobility on neighbourhood cohesion"
✍️🔍 Hartl et al. investigate the role of #migration trajectories, district-level turnover and demographic context in shaping residents’ perceived #cohesion.
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📃"Dynamics of (dis)integration: The impact of migration mobility on neighbourhood cohesion"
✍️🔍 Hartl et al. investigate the role of #migration trajectories, district-level turnover and demographic context in shaping residents’ perceived #cohesion.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Dynamics of (dis)integration: The impact of migration mobility on neighbourhood cohesion"
✍️🔍 Hartl et al. investigate the role of #migration trajectories, district-level turnover and demographic context in shaping residents’ perceived #cohesion.
📖 buff.ly/p60j6W4
📃"Dynamics of (dis)integration: The impact of migration mobility on neighbourhood cohesion"
✍️🔍 Hartl et al. investigate the role of #migration trajectories, district-level turnover and demographic context in shaping residents’ perceived #cohesion.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🏙️NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona"
✍️ Delclós et al. examine the emergence and contentious #politics of urban sanctuary in #Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ #government.
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📃"Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona"
✍️ Delclós et al. examine the emergence and contentious #politics of urban sanctuary in #Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ #government.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🏙️NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona"
✍️ Delclós et al. examine the emergence and contentious #politics of urban sanctuary in #Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ #government.
📖 buff.ly/7jJmZXZ
📃"Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona"
✍️ Delclós et al. examine the emergence and contentious #politics of urban sanctuary in #Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ #government.
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🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
🔍✍️ Using the #Yaffa Streets Project as a case study, Kapshuk & Zaban explore symbolic efforts by gentrifiers to address historical injustices through compensative memory making aimed at restoring erased #Palestinian legacies.
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🔍✍️ Using the #Yaffa Streets Project as a case study, Kapshuk & Zaban explore symbolic efforts by gentrifiers to address historical injustices through compensative memory making aimed at restoring erased #Palestinian legacies.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
🔍✍️ Using the #Yaffa Streets Project as a case study, Kapshuk & Zaban explore symbolic efforts by gentrifiers to address historical injustices through compensative memory making aimed at restoring erased #Palestinian legacies.
📖 buff.ly/lBW0y1p
🔍✍️ Using the #Yaffa Streets Project as a case study, Kapshuk & Zaban explore symbolic efforts by gentrifiers to address historical injustices through compensative memory making aimed at restoring erased #Palestinian legacies.
📖 buff.ly/lBW0y1p
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies 62(16) - December 2025
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Global corporate landlords and tenant struggles"
✍ Eds: Vidal, Gil & Martínez
🔍 This collection gives voice to #tenant struggles in the face of a #housing crisis embodied by the figure of the global corporate #landlord.
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SPECIAL ISSUE: "Global corporate landlords and tenant struggles"
✍ Eds: Vidal, Gil & Martínez
🔍 This collection gives voice to #tenant struggles in the face of a #housing crisis embodied by the figure of the global corporate #landlord.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies 62(16) - December 2025
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Global corporate landlords and tenant struggles"
✍ Eds: Vidal, Gil & Martínez
🔍 This collection gives voice to #tenant struggles in the face of a #housing crisis embodied by the figure of the global corporate #landlord.
📖 buff.ly/pUki6fu
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Global corporate landlords and tenant struggles"
✍ Eds: Vidal, Gil & Martínez
🔍 This collection gives voice to #tenant struggles in the face of a #housing crisis embodied by the figure of the global corporate #landlord.
📖 buff.ly/pUki6fu
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Liu et al.
🔍 This study extends the notion of invisible displacement from migration studies to gentrification to reveal the hidden forms of dispossession in authoritarian contexts.
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✍️ Liu et al.
🔍 This study extends the notion of invisible displacement from migration studies to gentrification to reveal the hidden forms of dispossession in authoritarian contexts.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Liu et al.
🔍 This study extends the notion of invisible displacement from migration studies to gentrification to reveal the hidden forms of dispossession in authoritarian contexts.
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✍️ Liu et al.
🔍 This study extends the notion of invisible displacement from migration studies to gentrification to reveal the hidden forms of dispossession in authoritarian contexts.
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🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "The business of densification: Institutions, actors, and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "The business of densification: Institutions, actors, and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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#UrbanStudies
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🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 In this study, Cerrada Morato examines suburban vulnerability as a multidimensional phenomenon—encompassing sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and residential factors—within a medium-sized Southern European metropolis.
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✍️🔍 In this study, Cerrada Morato examines suburban vulnerability as a multidimensional phenomenon—encompassing sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and residential factors—within a medium-sized Southern European metropolis.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 In this study, Cerrada Morato examines suburban vulnerability as a multidimensional phenomenon—encompassing sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and residential factors—within a medium-sized Southern European metropolis.
📖 buff.ly/B4w1Ly2
✍️🔍 In this study, Cerrada Morato examines suburban vulnerability as a multidimensional phenomenon—encompassing sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and residential factors—within a medium-sized Southern European metropolis.
📖 buff.ly/B4w1Ly2
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in our Special Issue "Urban transport as a social construct"
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#UrbanStudies
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November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in our Special Issue "Urban transport as a social construct"
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#UrbanStudies
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#UrbanStudies
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
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#UrbanStudies
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#UrbanStudies
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
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#UrbanStudies
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🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "Spatial planning for a popular circular economy"
✍️ Guibrunet et al.
🔍 This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities and that it can be enhanced through spatial planning.
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📃 "Spatial planning for a popular circular economy"
✍️ Guibrunet et al.
🔍 This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities and that it can be enhanced through spatial planning.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "Spatial planning for a popular circular economy"
✍️ Guibrunet et al.
🔍 This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities and that it can be enhanced through spatial planning.
📖 buff.ly/1vLEu1j
📃 "Spatial planning for a popular circular economy"
✍️ Guibrunet et al.
🔍 This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities and that it can be enhanced through spatial planning.
📖 buff.ly/1vLEu1j
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Ubarevičienė et al.
🔍Have residential #segregation levels continued to rise or have peaked in #Europe? Are there signs of desegregation?
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✍️ Ubarevičienė et al.
🔍Have residential #segregation levels continued to rise or have peaked in #Europe? Are there signs of desegregation?
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Ubarevičienė et al.
🔍Have residential #segregation levels continued to rise or have peaked in #Europe? Are there signs of desegregation?
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✍️ Ubarevičienė et al.
🔍Have residential #segregation levels continued to rise or have peaked in #Europe? Are there signs of desegregation?
📖 buff.ly/KdFAgo3
📢 #CallForPapers 📢
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other.
@richardsondilworth.bsky.social
🔗 Details: buff.ly/90uYw0o
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other.
@richardsondilworth.bsky.social
🔗 Details: buff.ly/90uYw0o
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📢 #CallForPapers 📢
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other.
@richardsondilworth.bsky.social
🔗 Details: buff.ly/90uYw0o
✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other.
@richardsondilworth.bsky.social
🔗 Details: buff.ly/90uYw0o
🏙️ NEW paper in our Special Issue "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks"
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#UrbanStudies
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#UrbanStudies
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🏙️ NEW paper in our Special Issue "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks"
Take a look 👇 🧵
#UrbanStudies
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#UrbanStudies
🌍 NEW paper in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
Take a look 🧵 👇
#UrbanStudies
Take a look 🧵 👇
#UrbanStudies
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌍 NEW paper in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
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#UrbanStudies
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 Xu & Warner explore shifts in US local government expenditure composition from immediately before, during and after the Great Recession, using panel models on all county areas in continental USA from 2007 to 2017.
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✍️🔍 Xu & Warner explore shifts in US local government expenditure composition from immediately before, during and after the Great Recession, using panel models on all county areas in continental USA from 2007 to 2017.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 Xu & Warner explore shifts in US local government expenditure composition from immediately before, during and after the Great Recession, using panel models on all county areas in continental USA from 2007 to 2017.
📖 buff.ly/zux6eG9
✍️🔍 Xu & Warner explore shifts in US local government expenditure composition from immediately before, during and after the Great Recession, using panel models on all county areas in continental USA from 2007 to 2017.
📖 buff.ly/zux6eG9
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @antoninm.bsky.social & DeVerteuil
🔍 City code changes and incentives make marginal civil-society groups responsible for #homelessness response even as they are increasingly controlled.
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✍️ @antoninm.bsky.social & DeVerteuil
🔍 City code changes and incentives make marginal civil-society groups responsible for #homelessness response even as they are increasingly controlled.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @antoninm.bsky.social & DeVerteuil
🔍 City code changes and incentives make marginal civil-society groups responsible for #homelessness response even as they are increasingly controlled.
📖 buff.ly/UEMX4Rr
✍️ @antoninm.bsky.social & DeVerteuil
🔍 City code changes and incentives make marginal civil-society groups responsible for #homelessness response even as they are increasingly controlled.
📖 buff.ly/UEMX4Rr
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism: Urban political ecology of China’s Flower Expo"
✍️ Xie & Den Hartog critically examine the 10th China Flower Expo as an emblematic case of #green state #entrepreneurialism in practice.
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📃"Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism: Urban political ecology of China’s Flower Expo"
✍️ Xie & Den Hartog critically examine the 10th China Flower Expo as an emblematic case of #green state #entrepreneurialism in practice.
📖 buff.ly/NhQwPd6
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism: Urban political ecology of China’s Flower Expo"
✍️ Xie & Den Hartog critically examine the 10th China Flower Expo as an emblematic case of #green state #entrepreneurialism in practice.
📖 buff.ly/NhQwPd6
📃"Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism: Urban political ecology of China’s Flower Expo"
✍️ Xie & Den Hartog critically examine the 10th China Flower Expo as an emblematic case of #green state #entrepreneurialism in practice.
📖 buff.ly/NhQwPd6
🌍 NEW article in #UrbanStudies
✍️ 🔍 Herbert et al. use 42 interviews with street-level bureaucrats in a mid-size US city to analyze how they interpret tent and vehicle encampments, and how they make decisions about #displacement.
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✍️ 🔍 Herbert et al. use 42 interviews with street-level bureaucrats in a mid-size US city to analyze how they interpret tent and vehicle encampments, and how they make decisions about #displacement.
📖 buff.ly/2ASLahW
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍 NEW article in #UrbanStudies
✍️ 🔍 Herbert et al. use 42 interviews with street-level bureaucrats in a mid-size US city to analyze how they interpret tent and vehicle encampments, and how they make decisions about #displacement.
📖 buff.ly/2ASLahW
✍️ 🔍 Herbert et al. use 42 interviews with street-level bureaucrats in a mid-size US city to analyze how they interpret tent and vehicle encampments, and how they make decisions about #displacement.
📖 buff.ly/2ASLahW
🔓#OpenAccess #UrbanStudies
✍️ @ulmkristina.bsky.social @oonamorrow.bsky.social @evdle.bsky.social Sanderson & @alecthor.bsky.social
🔍 Greater Sydney’s local governments embrace trust-based #PublicPolicy to share responsibility for #UrbanGardening in #PublicSpace.
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✍️ @ulmkristina.bsky.social @oonamorrow.bsky.social @evdle.bsky.social Sanderson & @alecthor.bsky.social
🔍 Greater Sydney’s local governments embrace trust-based #PublicPolicy to share responsibility for #UrbanGardening in #PublicSpace.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔓#OpenAccess #UrbanStudies
✍️ @ulmkristina.bsky.social @oonamorrow.bsky.social @evdle.bsky.social Sanderson & @alecthor.bsky.social
🔍 Greater Sydney’s local governments embrace trust-based #PublicPolicy to share responsibility for #UrbanGardening in #PublicSpace.
📖 buff.ly/xYT8iyI
✍️ @ulmkristina.bsky.social @oonamorrow.bsky.social @evdle.bsky.social Sanderson & @alecthor.bsky.social
🔍 Greater Sydney’s local governments embrace trust-based #PublicPolicy to share responsibility for #UrbanGardening in #PublicSpace.
📖 buff.ly/xYT8iyI