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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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🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
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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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📃 "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.
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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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🔓 #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?
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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
🔗 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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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🏙️ NEW paper in our Special Issue "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks"
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🌍 NEW paper in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
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#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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✍️🔍 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🔓#OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
"Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021"
✍️ Coulter & Paccoud
🔍Leasing space through the private rented sector enables the continued gentrification of Inner London boroughs.
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"Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021"
✍️ Coulter & Paccoud
🔍Leasing space through the private rented sector enables the continued gentrification of Inner London boroughs.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔓#OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
"Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021"
✍️ Coulter & Paccoud
🔍Leasing space through the private rented sector enables the continued gentrification of Inner London boroughs.
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"Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021"
✍️ Coulter & Paccoud
🔍Leasing space through the private rented sector enables the continued gentrification of Inner London boroughs.
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🏙️NEW article in our Special Issue on "The business of densification: Institutions, actors and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🏙️NEW article in our Special Issue on "The business of densification: Institutions, actors and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The business of densification: Institutions, actors and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The business of densification: Institutions, actors and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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📃"Liberal cities in autocratizing states: Scholarly pathways and a research agenda"
✍️ N. Avni
🔍 This article explores the growing phenomenon of liberal cities operating within increasingly autocratising national regimes.
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📃"Liberal cities in autocratizing states: Scholarly pathways and a research agenda"
✍️ N. Avni
🔍 This article explores the growing phenomenon of liberal cities operating within increasingly autocratising national regimes.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
📃"Liberal cities in autocratizing states: Scholarly pathways and a research agenda"
✍️ N. Avni
🔍 This article explores the growing phenomenon of liberal cities operating within increasingly autocratising national regimes.
📖 buff.ly/qKYPLnd
📃"Liberal cities in autocratizing states: Scholarly pathways and a research agenda"
✍️ N. Avni
🔍 This article explores the growing phenomenon of liberal cities operating within increasingly autocratising national regimes.
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "From dreams to high-risk housing navigation: Aspirations and strategies of university-educated young people"
✍️ Tangi Pui Chi Yip
🔍 Hong Kong's university-educated young people pursue homeownership through risky strategies as stable pathways disappear.
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📃 "From dreams to high-risk housing navigation: Aspirations and strategies of university-educated young people"
✍️ Tangi Pui Chi Yip
🔍 Hong Kong's university-educated young people pursue homeownership through risky strategies as stable pathways disappear.
📖 buff.ly/49PBY33
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📃 "From dreams to high-risk housing navigation: Aspirations and strategies of university-educated young people"
✍️ Tangi Pui Chi Yip
🔍 Hong Kong's university-educated young people pursue homeownership through risky strategies as stable pathways disappear.
📖 buff.ly/49PBY33
📃 "From dreams to high-risk housing navigation: Aspirations and strategies of university-educated young people"
✍️ Tangi Pui Chi Yip
🔍 Hong Kong's university-educated young people pursue homeownership through risky strategies as stable pathways disappear.
📖 buff.ly/49PBY33
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Fasoro, Chisholm, Howden-Chapman & Pierse
🔍 In New Zealand, education and health outcomes for social housing tenants are similar or slightly better when they have lived in areas with more concentrated social housing.
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✍️ Fasoro, Chisholm, Howden-Chapman & Pierse
🔍 In New Zealand, education and health outcomes for social housing tenants are similar or slightly better when they have lived in areas with more concentrated social housing.
📖 buff.ly/ydsZbr7
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Fasoro, Chisholm, Howden-Chapman & Pierse
🔍 In New Zealand, education and health outcomes for social housing tenants are similar or slightly better when they have lived in areas with more concentrated social housing.
📖 buff.ly/ydsZbr7
✍️ Fasoro, Chisholm, Howden-Chapman & Pierse
🔍 In New Zealand, education and health outcomes for social housing tenants are similar or slightly better when they have lived in areas with more concentrated social housing.
📖 buff.ly/ydsZbr7
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 Xiaobo Su & Kean Fan Lim examine state-led venture capital investments as an urban developmental tool for urban industrial upgrading.
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✍️🔍 Xiaobo Su & Kean Fan Lim examine state-led venture capital investments as an urban developmental tool for urban industrial upgrading.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔓 #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
✍️🔍 Xiaobo Su & Kean Fan Lim examine state-led venture capital investments as an urban developmental tool for urban industrial upgrading.
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✍️🔍 Xiaobo Su & Kean Fan Lim examine state-led venture capital investments as an urban developmental tool for urban industrial upgrading.
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📄 "The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona"
✍️ Masi & Rodó-Zárate
🔍 How do overlapping oppressions related to #gender, #race, #class, and #migration status shape urban experiences?
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📄 "The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona"
✍️ Masi & Rodó-Zárate
🔍 How do overlapping oppressions related to #gender, #race, #class, and #migration status shape urban experiences?
📖 buff.ly/VRuKHCE
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📄 "The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona"
✍️ Masi & Rodó-Zárate
🔍 How do overlapping oppressions related to #gender, #race, #class, and #migration status shape urban experiences?
📖 buff.ly/VRuKHCE
📄 "The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona"
✍️ Masi & Rodó-Zárate
🔍 How do overlapping oppressions related to #gender, #race, #class, and #migration status shape urban experiences?
📖 buff.ly/VRuKHCE
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
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November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
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🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements"
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#UrbanStudies
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#UrbanStudies
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements"
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#UrbanStudies
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📄 "Where has Bish Vegas gone? The Auckland Project, post-secular urban restructuring and evangelical philanthrocapitalism"
✍️ @saskiawarren.bsky.social
🔍 How does place-based #philanthropy exploit economic vulnerability for urban cultural transformation?
📖 buff.ly/oAz1yam
📄 "Where has Bish Vegas gone? The Auckland Project, post-secular urban restructuring and evangelical philanthrocapitalism"
✍️ @saskiawarren.bsky.social
🔍 How does place-based #philanthropy exploit economic vulnerability for urban cultural transformation?
📖 buff.ly/oAz1yam
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
📄 "Where has Bish Vegas gone? The Auckland Project, post-secular urban restructuring and evangelical philanthrocapitalism"
✍️ @saskiawarren.bsky.social
🔍 How does place-based #philanthropy exploit economic vulnerability for urban cultural transformation?
📖 buff.ly/oAz1yam
📄 "Where has Bish Vegas gone? The Auckland Project, post-secular urban restructuring and evangelical philanthrocapitalism"
✍️ @saskiawarren.bsky.social
🔍 How does place-based #philanthropy exploit economic vulnerability for urban cultural transformation?
📖 buff.ly/oAz1yam