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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 19d

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

#UrbanStudies seeks submissions for a Special Issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice, exploring how cities confront the #climate crisis, #risk, and #inequality.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 1d

✍️ Morioka & @jlcidell.bsky.social

🔍 Do the afterlives of rail #infrastructure further existing environmental injustices or do they create new inequalities via environmental #gentrification?

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 1d

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 1d

🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies

✍️ @simoneveglio.bsky.social analyses the impacts of #BuenosAires' logistical and neo-extractive infrastructures, social conflicts through materiality and #temporality, and the making of the flammable city.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 4d

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies

📃 Effects of urban rail transit expansion on the mobility of the elderly: Findings from Singapore

✍️ Zhu & Diao

🔍 Urban rail line investment may benefit the #elderly, leading to improved #mobility, #accessibility to services/opportunities, and #walkability

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 4d

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies

📃 "Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment"

✍️ Qiao et al. employ the theoretical lens of state entrepreneurialism to examine the governance of Xuanwu Silicon Alley in Nanjing, China.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 5d

🔓 NEW in #UrbanStudies

📃 "Patch urbanism: Towards an integrated theoretical framework for examining spatial and temporal dynamics in the Asian rice belt"

✍️ Hawken & Isendahl examine the concept of patch #urbanism in the context of Southeast Asia’s desakota landscapes.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 5d

📃 "Young adulthood and the city: Exploring the micro-foundations of youthification"

✍️ Shani & Bar-Haim

🔍 Shared understandings of young adulthood operate as cultural mechanisms linking individual choices to stable social patterns.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 6d

📃 "Firm innovation in developing countries: Effects of urban agglomeration and global value chain integration"

✍️ Oguguo, Liouka & Deligianni

🔍 What is the effect of #UrbanAgglomeration and global value chain integration on #FirmInnovation in developing countries?

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 6d

📃 "Sovereign spectacles: Absolutism and architecture in the urban development of Brunei"

✍️ Khalid & Nor

🔍 How do monarchies influence urban design and development? A case study of #Brunei.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 6d

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Royal Agency in Contemporary City Building in Southeast Asia"

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 7d

📃 "Towards addressing transportation planning’s contradictions: The unified theory for transportation planning based on the capabilities approach"

✍️ M. Sweet

🔍 This article proposes a unified theory for #transportation planning based on the capabilities approach.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 7d

📃 "Disrupted spaces, adaptive lives: Unequal impacts of Hanoi’s first urban railway lines"

✍️ Kee & Turner

🔍 This study examines how #Hanoi’s first two urban #railway lines have disrupted the lives and #livelihoods of local residents.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 7d

🏙️ NEW articles in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 7d

📃 "The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China"

✍️ Pellegrini & Chen investigate #densification as an #urbanregeneration tool in China’s state–market development.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 7d

🏙️ 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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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 11d

🚨 #UrbanStudies Vol. 62, Issue 13 (October 2025) out now!

✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?"

Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt

This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 13d

📃 "Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements"

✍️ Tshabalala et al.

🔍 Off-grid electricity imaginaries reshape #energy access and urban citizenship in #CapeTown.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 13d

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 14d

📄"Extreme heat vulnerability of manufactured housing in arid urban environments"

✍️ Stoker et al.

🔍 Municipalities should promote the planting of more #vegetation around #ManufacturedHousing units where there is a risk of extreme #heat exposure.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 14d

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Manufacturing the Urban: Manufactured Housing and Manufactured Home Parks"

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 15d

✍️ Krigsholm, Puulstinen & Falkenbach examine how municipalities strategically apply value capture instruments to pursue #LandUse interests in densifying cities.

#governance #planning #development

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 15d

🏙️ 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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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 18d

📄 "Doing transit infrastructure otherwise: Arts in Transit, the Southwest Corridor"

✍️ Rebecca Heimel

🔍 Boston’s 1980s Arts in Transit project shows the potential for engagement with, and agency through, #infrastructure.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 18d

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 19d

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies

📄 "Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea"

✍️ Yu-Ri Kim

🔍 This paper examines the evolution of daylife by drawing on fieldwork data from South Korea's partner dance scene.

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