📢 NEW: #UrbanStudies 63(11) (August 2026) out now! ✍ Papers on #inequality and division, #governance and #infrastructure, and lived urban experience. Includes a critical commentary & book review forum. 📖 buff.ly/pfPWazX

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Drawing on ethnographic research with food delivery workers, @vageesh.bsky.social examines how roads generate both economic value and the hierarchies, conflicts, and vulnerabilities shaping gig workers' experience of urbanity. 📖 buff.ly/Ka5m4Ih

📢 New Special Issue alert: #UrbanStudies 63(10) (August 2026) out now! 🏘️ "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks" ✍️ Edited by Zachary Lamb, Esther Sullivan & Andrew Rumbach 📖 Explore the issue here: buff.ly/KbpNHtF

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Tümtürk et al. test Jane Jacobs' most neglected condition for urban #diversity, building age variation, using a new Temporal Fingerprint Matrix across three Dutch cities. Incremental development outperforms instant development for #retail. 📖 buff.ly/wtO1YCY

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Older adults do not experience #AgeFriendlyTransport equally. Ho-Yin Chan shows how #PrioritySeating and concessionary fares in #HongKong reflect socio-spatial inequalities and differing meanings of independence. 📖 buff.ly/FrkMNTP

✍️ @rhaenschen.bsky.social 🔍️ #AI is increasingly integrated into urban #governance. This article analyses the case study of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights to ask how its membership affects cities’ AI policies. 📖 buff.ly/dZNkmWt

✍️ Rani 🔍️ Based on a multi-sited ethnography in East #Delhi, this study argues that the word Khula is an empty signifier which allows to understand the area's #pathology in the context of the #dengue #epidemic. 📖 buff.ly/Jz5I4Nd

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Pollard & Salvaire examine the coalitions underpinning #opposition to #housing #development across the #Paris metropolitan area, reveal a highly fragmented landscape of contention. 📖 buff.ly/Gerpui6

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ @aftp.bsky.social presents a method for reverse engineering landlords’ local strategies, applied to #Akelius, a global corporate #landlord whose French #housing portfolio has been reconstructed by cross-referencing open administrative datasets. 📖 buff.ly/4IqHjK6

🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Zhai & Zhai develop Wildlife-Affective Urban #Design as a conceptual framework for examining how urban form shapes multispecies encounter through fear, curiosity, attachment, irritation, avoidance, and unequal exposure to harm. 📖 buff.ly/fPYuCue

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Rovner & Talen 🔍️ Effective preservation-equity #policy requires context-specific strategies rather than universal approaches. 📖 buff.ly/C58he5Z

🌍️ NEW in #Urban Studies ✍️ Nogueira et al. foreground the role of women’s #labour and collective organisation in bridging gaps in #food provision and acquisition and argue that food functions as #infrastructure. 📖 buff.ly/4JcJTvh

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Abdelmalek 🔍️ How is #SpatialJustice institutionally produced in Cairo? A mixed-methods analysis of waqf-based governance and gated #urbanism reveals measurable inequalities in access to urban services. 📖 buff.ly/GXOyznS

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(9) (July 2026) ✍ Papers on #housing and residential dynamics, #land, #property, and #development finance, #neighborhood #inequality, social #stratification, and community #resilience, and methods/emerging themes in urban research. 📖 buff.ly/z0qQDuG

🔓️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Cai and Tan argue that the relationship between #transit and #neighborhood change can vary across different zones and time periods within the urban area served by a transit line. 📖 buff.ly/AtmNbLJ

✍️ 🔍️ Can suburban futures feel urban before they function that way? @katherineperrott.bsky.social explores how “urban vibes” shape vertical #suburbanization, #densification, and #value in the #Toronto region. 📖 buff.ly/aDHn8bW

✍️ @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social and Ebbensgaard show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (in the case of #heat) or increase exposure (in the case of #sunlight) center the #elemental as a point of struggle for just #urban living and citizenship. 📖 buff.ly/kMvShgR

🗣️ NEW #CriticalCommentary in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Rokem et al. investigate the resurgence of nationalist #politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that #cities are critical arenas in which contemporary #nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. 📖 buff.ly/R7ekbHo

✍️ Naef 🔍️ Focusing on #Medellín, Colombia, this article examines the #resilience of #violence and the violence of resilience in the recovery of conflict-affected cities as a lens to rethink how #urbanization and #conflict mutually shape one another. 📖 buff.ly/sn0MT5i

🏆️ Announcing the winners of the #UrbanStudies Podcast Grant 🎙️ 👉️ Of the 60 podcast proposals received, we have selected 3 outstanding winners: "Sensory Urbanism," "Strange City," and "The Urban Imagination." Congratulations! 🎉 🔗 Details on our website: buff.ly/ZiTEmLN

✍️ In this article, Maclean explores how popular #markets and cultural #aesthetics challenge colonial binaries of #tradition versus #modernity, focusing on La Paz and El Alto during a period of #Indigenous political power and economic expansion (2006–2019). 📖 buff.ly/Q4b8UTR

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 🔍️ Through ethnographic fieldwork in #Accra, @professor-andoh.bluesky.social uses hybrid #urbanism to examine how self-built #housing and unregulated #livelihoods are shaped by overlapping systems of #authority, #accountability, and spatial #regulation. 📖 buff.ly/ZDN2UAe

🔓️ NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Fransen et al. analyse #digital #resilience practices (the everyday ways households respond to shocks through digital #technologies) and how repetitive digital practices form extra-legal rules in Mathare, #Kenya. 📖 buff.ly/ujJTd99

❓️WHAT'S THE FUS? 🗣️ #UrbanStudies is launching The Future of Urban Studies (FUS), an initiative dedicated to reflecting on the current state of urban studies and imagining where it might go next. 🤝 Join the discussion! 🔍️ Details: buff.ly/ABXKuuk

🏙️ #UrbanStudies Annual Lecture 2026 🎤 Michael Storper (LSE, UCLA) will present this year's annual lecture on the topic of "The Vanishing Urban Frontier" at RGS-IBG London. 📅 2 September 2026 | 4:30-6:15pm BST 📍 Education Centre, RGS Join us! Abstract here: buff.ly/EdGxI9y

📚️ Two new #BookReviewForums in #UrbanStudies 🗣️ 👇️ Read them here: 📖 buff.ly/XXXHOpJ 📖 buff.ly/8Q4yYDG

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Wang et al. 🔍️ This paper proposes the concept of the agency of #memory and a framework of the economisation of memory politics through a tracking study of the whole urban redevelopment process of Shibati, Chongqing, #China. 📖 buff.ly/l782n2k

✍️ Andersen & Stirrup examine the often-overlooked urban presence of the #Métis people, one of three #Indigenous groups recognized in Canada’s 1982 Constitution Act, outside the geographical boundaries of #Canada and/or the Métis homeland, focusing on the #UK. 📖 buff.ly/gH6gkPh

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️🔍️ Erol & Foye examine the evolution of #wealth #inequalities across regions in #Britain, and in particular the role of house price #inflation, #homeownership and #mortgage debt in driving these wealth inequalities. 📖 buff.ly/oxrQnuF

🔓️ #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Ahn & @kazepov.bsky.social investigate the #policy activities that shape and transform policy learning into concrete policy components through a series of interconnected, iterative stages of the policy cycle within urban policy mobility. 📖 buff.ly/kpYvCS5