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🎙️ New season out! 🎉
🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
Get your headphones in 🎧
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🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
Get your headphones in 🎧
👉 buff.ly/szmsiWV
Reposted by Urban Studies Journal
We describe the very important equity project of the Red Line Extension that will bring important benefits to the majority Black South Side but explain that future time benefits do not fully repair harms from decades of waiting. We draw from 132 interviews on the far South Side of Chicago.
🌍 NEW in Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.
buff.ly/LPWw6WE
#UrbanStudies
✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.
buff.ly/LPWw6WE
#UrbanStudies
January 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
We describe the very important equity project of the Red Line Extension that will bring important benefits to the majority Black South Side but explain that future time benefits do not fully repair harms from decades of waiting. We draw from 132 interviews on the far South Side of Chicago.
🌍 NEW in Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.
buff.ly/LPWw6WE
#UrbanStudies
✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.
buff.ly/LPWw6WE
#UrbanStudies
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🌍 NEW in Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.
buff.ly/LPWw6WE
#UrbanStudies
✍️ @kateontransport.bsky.social, @ansonstewart.com & G. Purifoye examine people’s experiences of #transit in #Chicago, including waiting and transfers, and how they connect to other parts of their lives.
buff.ly/LPWw6WE
#UrbanStudies
Reposted by Urban Studies Journal
A modest attempt to rethink if #planningpower makes any sense. What and where are the possibilities and limits of the concept? What if we think with the 2nd century Buddhist logician #Nagarjuna ? How else to think about #planning outside its limits? #decolonisingplanning
🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "Lion in a jungle or lion in a cage? Yojana beyond planning power and powerlessness in Bangalore, India"
✍️ @jaysun24.bsky.social proposes "Yojana" as a context-sensitive vernacular concept to better understand the practice of planning in India and beyond.
📖 buff.ly/xtl9BgM
📃 "Lion in a jungle or lion in a cage? Yojana beyond planning power and powerlessness in Bangalore, India"
✍️ @jaysun24.bsky.social proposes "Yojana" as a context-sensitive vernacular concept to better understand the practice of planning in India and beyond.
📖 buff.ly/xtl9BgM
January 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
A modest attempt to rethink if #planningpower makes any sense. What and where are the possibilities and limits of the concept? What if we think with the 2nd century Buddhist logician #Nagarjuna ? How else to think about #planning outside its limits? #decolonisingplanning
🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "Lion in a jungle or lion in a cage? Yojana beyond planning power and powerlessness in Bangalore, India"
✍️ @jaysun24.bsky.social proposes "Yojana" as a context-sensitive vernacular concept to better understand the practice of planning in India and beyond.
📖 buff.ly/xtl9BgM
📃 "Lion in a jungle or lion in a cage? Yojana beyond planning power and powerlessness in Bangalore, India"
✍️ @jaysun24.bsky.social proposes "Yojana" as a context-sensitive vernacular concept to better understand the practice of planning in India and beyond.
📖 buff.ly/xtl9BgM
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "Lion in a jungle or lion in a cage? Yojana beyond planning power and powerlessness in Bangalore, India"
✍️ @jaysun24.bsky.social proposes "Yojana" as a context-sensitive vernacular concept to better understand the practice of planning in India and beyond.
📖 buff.ly/xtl9BgM
📃 "Lion in a jungle or lion in a cage? Yojana beyond planning power and powerlessness in Bangalore, India"
✍️ @jaysun24.bsky.social proposes "Yojana" as a context-sensitive vernacular concept to better understand the practice of planning in India and beyond.
📖 buff.ly/xtl9BgM
🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives"
Take a look 👇 🧵
Take a look 👇 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives"
Take a look 👇 🧵
Take a look 👇 🧵
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies 63(1) - January 2026
✍️🔍 Check out our latest issue, featuring articles on a variety of topics and including a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum.
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✍️🔍 Check out our latest issue, featuring articles on a variety of topics and including a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum.
📖 buff.ly/sm61iqe
January 7, 2026 at 12:59 PM
🚨NEW #UrbanStudies 63(1) - January 2026
✍️🔍 Check out our latest issue, featuring articles on a variety of topics and including a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum.
📖 buff.ly/sm61iqe
✍️🔍 Check out our latest issue, featuring articles on a variety of topics and including a Debates Paper & Book Review Forum.
📖 buff.ly/sm61iqe
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Public transport as ‘political infrastructure’: The case of transit disruption in Hong Kong during an urban social movement"
✍️ He et al. examine the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in #HongKong on transit services.
📖 buff.ly/YJEq2Wq
📃"Public transport as ‘political infrastructure’: The case of transit disruption in Hong Kong during an urban social movement"
✍️ He et al. examine the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in #HongKong on transit services.
📖 buff.ly/YJEq2Wq
January 7, 2026 at 12:01 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"Public transport as ‘political infrastructure’: The case of transit disruption in Hong Kong during an urban social movement"
✍️ He et al. examine the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in #HongKong on transit services.
📖 buff.ly/YJEq2Wq
📃"Public transport as ‘political infrastructure’: The case of transit disruption in Hong Kong during an urban social movement"
✍️ He et al. examine the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in #HongKong on transit services.
📖 buff.ly/YJEq2Wq
🎄 The Urban Studies editorial office will be closed from 24 December to 4 January (inclusive).
We wish all our authors, reviewers and readers a very happy holiday season and look forward to connecting again in the new year! ✨
We wish all our authors, reviewers and readers a very happy holiday season and look forward to connecting again in the new year! ✨
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎄 The Urban Studies editorial office will be closed from 24 December to 4 January (inclusive).
We wish all our authors, reviewers and readers a very happy holiday season and look forward to connecting again in the new year! ✨
We wish all our authors, reviewers and readers a very happy holiday season and look forward to connecting again in the new year! ✨
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
🔍 Totry investigates the socio-spatial development of the #Palestinian town of #Sakhnin in Israel and examines the role of social institutions in shaping informal spatial organization.
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🔍 Totry investigates the socio-spatial development of the #Palestinian town of #Sakhnin in Israel and examines the role of social institutions in shaping informal spatial organization.
📖 buff.ly/1Y564Ev
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
🔍 Totry investigates the socio-spatial development of the #Palestinian town of #Sakhnin in Israel and examines the role of social institutions in shaping informal spatial organization.
📖 buff.ly/1Y564Ev
🔍 Totry investigates the socio-spatial development of the #Palestinian town of #Sakhnin in Israel and examines the role of social institutions in shaping informal spatial organization.
📖 buff.ly/1Y564Ev
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ In this study, Zhu & Hao introduce the concept of ‘progress displacement’ and examine how technological modernisation and governance improvement initiatives silently displace people from survival spaces.
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✍️ In this study, Zhu & Hao introduce the concept of ‘progress displacement’ and examine how technological modernisation and governance improvement initiatives silently displace people from survival spaces.
📖 buff.ly/bEmVbKL
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ In this study, Zhu & Hao introduce the concept of ‘progress displacement’ and examine how technological modernisation and governance improvement initiatives silently displace people from survival spaces.
📖 buff.ly/bEmVbKL
✍️ In this study, Zhu & Hao introduce the concept of ‘progress displacement’ and examine how technological modernisation and governance improvement initiatives silently displace people from survival spaces.
📖 buff.ly/bEmVbKL
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ McClintock et al. characterize the everyday #governance of “solidarity #greenhouses” in #Montreal and examine the conditions that mediate their emergence and success within twin contexts of #austerity and entrepreneurial #urbanism.
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✍️ McClintock et al. characterize the everyday #governance of “solidarity #greenhouses” in #Montreal and examine the conditions that mediate their emergence and success within twin contexts of #austerity and entrepreneurial #urbanism.
📖 buff.ly/SrTrAcB
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ McClintock et al. characterize the everyday #governance of “solidarity #greenhouses” in #Montreal and examine the conditions that mediate their emergence and success within twin contexts of #austerity and entrepreneurial #urbanism.
📖 buff.ly/SrTrAcB
✍️ McClintock et al. characterize the everyday #governance of “solidarity #greenhouses” in #Montreal and examine the conditions that mediate their emergence and success within twin contexts of #austerity and entrepreneurial #urbanism.
📖 buff.ly/SrTrAcB
December 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🎙️ New season out! 🎉
🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
Get your headphones in 🎧
👉 buff.ly/szmsiWV
🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
Get your headphones in 🎧
👉 buff.ly/szmsiWV
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🎙️ New season out! 🎉
🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
Get your headphones in 🎧
👉 buff.ly/szmsiWV
🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
Get your headphones in 🎧
👉 buff.ly/szmsiWV
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ de Raphélis & Mallet clarify the so-called ‘continental European nightlife’ in a French city when British #cities were adopting 24-hour-city policies, and how it has evolved since.
📖 buff.ly/aG27zG1
✍️ de Raphélis & Mallet clarify the so-called ‘continental European nightlife’ in a French city when British #cities were adopting 24-hour-city policies, and how it has evolved since.
📖 buff.ly/aG27zG1
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ de Raphélis & Mallet clarify the so-called ‘continental European nightlife’ in a French city when British #cities were adopting 24-hour-city policies, and how it has evolved since.
📖 buff.ly/aG27zG1
✍️ de Raphélis & Mallet clarify the so-called ‘continental European nightlife’ in a French city when British #cities were adopting 24-hour-city policies, and how it has evolved since.
📖 buff.ly/aG27zG1
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements"
✍️ Asibey & Cobbinah
🔍 This study examines de-greening urbanism within the context of social imaginaries in informal settlements, focusing on Kumasi (Ghana).
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📃"De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements"
✍️ Asibey & Cobbinah
🔍 This study examines de-greening urbanism within the context of social imaginaries in informal settlements, focusing on Kumasi (Ghana).
📖 buff.ly/4tsHBka
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃"De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements"
✍️ Asibey & Cobbinah
🔍 This study examines de-greening urbanism within the context of social imaginaries in informal settlements, focusing on Kumasi (Ghana).
📖 buff.ly/4tsHBka
📃"De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements"
✍️ Asibey & Cobbinah
🔍 This study examines de-greening urbanism within the context of social imaginaries in informal settlements, focusing on Kumasi (Ghana).
📖 buff.ly/4tsHBka
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Godwin Dube seeks to determine the financial impacts of the 2016 South African #amalgamations using the difference-in-differences approach with municipal panel data.
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✍️ Godwin Dube seeks to determine the financial impacts of the 2016 South African #amalgamations using the difference-in-differences approach with municipal panel data.
📖 buff.ly/Ld7aZpq
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Godwin Dube seeks to determine the financial impacts of the 2016 South African #amalgamations using the difference-in-differences approach with municipal panel data.
📖 buff.ly/Ld7aZpq
✍️ Godwin Dube seeks to determine the financial impacts of the 2016 South African #amalgamations using the difference-in-differences approach with municipal panel data.
📖 buff.ly/Ld7aZpq
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ González-Cuatianquis et al.
🔍 How do interpersonal and territorial #inequalities shape life satisfaction across European cities?
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✍️ González-Cuatianquis et al.
🔍 How do interpersonal and territorial #inequalities shape life satisfaction across European cities?
📖 buff.ly/kDn0KhK
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ González-Cuatianquis et al.
🔍 How do interpersonal and territorial #inequalities shape life satisfaction across European cities?
📖 buff.ly/kDn0KhK
✍️ González-Cuatianquis et al.
🔍 How do interpersonal and territorial #inequalities shape life satisfaction across European cities?
📖 buff.ly/kDn0KhK
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia"
Take a look 🧵 👇
#UrbanStudies
Take a look 🧵 👇
#UrbanStudies
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia"
Take a look 🧵 👇
#UrbanStudies
Take a look 🧵 👇
#UrbanStudies
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Barinaga, @eduardiniz & Ocampo introduce the notion of 'standardized malleability’ to describe how #cities adopt a uniform monetary infrastructure while adapting #policies to local contexts.
📖 buff.ly/3lAEkPj
✍️ Barinaga, @eduardiniz & Ocampo introduce the notion of 'standardized malleability’ to describe how #cities adopt a uniform monetary infrastructure while adapting #policies to local contexts.
📖 buff.ly/3lAEkPj
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Barinaga, @eduardiniz & Ocampo introduce the notion of 'standardized malleability’ to describe how #cities adopt a uniform monetary infrastructure while adapting #policies to local contexts.
📖 buff.ly/3lAEkPj
✍️ Barinaga, @eduardiniz & Ocampo introduce the notion of 'standardized malleability’ to describe how #cities adopt a uniform monetary infrastructure while adapting #policies to local contexts.
📖 buff.ly/3lAEkPj
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.
📖 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.
📖 buff.ly/yNhE2Ii
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.
📖 buff.ly/yNhE2Ii
🔓 #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.
📖 buff.ly/44puc6y
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.
📖 buff.ly/44puc6y
✍️ Ramiller examines the impact of entering and exiting #housing assistance on the #neighborhood context experienced by housing voucher recipients.
📖 buff.ly/44puc6y
🌍 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
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.
📖 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.
📖 buff.ly/p60j6W4
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.
📖 buff.ly/p60j6W4