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#CiCo25 It's Monday, which means it's time to reveal #19 on our list of the journal's top cited articles of all time! It's @zraresearch.bsky.social's "Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism"!

Published in 2022, this paper argues that gentrification needs to be understood as a racialized process. A neighborhood's exposure to gentrification depends on the neighborhood's racial composition, because the investment decisions of homeowners, developers, investors, appraisers, and other

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housing market actors assign value in ways informed by race. To understand where and when gentrification takes place, we need to consider how valuation works within racial capitalism. Read more from this great paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sociology grad students + post docs! ASA celebrates 25 years of City & Community with an Emerging Scholars Conference at Georgetown Uni. on April 23. Submit extended abstracts on work that contributes to the study of cities & community life by Nov 15! @cicojournal.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4swjDBT

#CiCoSept Our September issue included four new City Books — our new way of featuring books coming out in our field. Up first, we asked Chase Billingham about his new book, All-American City: Bluster, Boom, and Bust in Wichita.

agenda that could promote a 'boring urbanism' more oriented toward supporting the basic infrastructure at the foundation of the urban lived experience for most residents of smaller cities. This proposal could provide the basis for lively debates

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about urban economic development strategy in small and midsized cities across the United States." Read more about Dr. Billingham's book here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

We asked, "What part of your book could start a debate at a dinner party?" "For residents of small and midsized cities, the key question worth debating is, 'What kind of place do we want this city to be?' In pursuit of new investments, jobs, visitors, and residents, cities strive to provide

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leisure and lifestyle amenities similar to those found in larger and more dynamic metropolises, but the result often ends up flattening the urban landscape, diminishing local character and making all places come increasingly to resemble one another. In the book’s conclusion, I advocate for a policy

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Thank you for spotlighting our research! Indeed, our analysis uncovered widespread systemic racial discrimination much more so that individual prejudice. That quote, "Riding the Stagecoach to Hell," is from an employee who knew racism in mortgage lending led to a bad place, and they were right.

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#CiCo25 Up next... #20 on our list of top cited articles in the journal's history is "Riding the Stagecoach to Hell: A Qualitative Analysis of Racial Discrimination in Mortgage Lending" by Doug Massey, @jakerugh.bsky.social, Justin P. Steil, and Len Albright! tinyurl.com/citycom20

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By 2010, research indicated that mortgage lending discrimination had taken place in the U.S. housing boom that preceded the Great Recession—but the evidence was indirect. In this paper, the authors use qualitative evidence to directly link subprime mortgage lending to racial discrimination.

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The authors ultimately find that structural racism was present in 76% of the passages they studied, implying that racial discrimination was widespread in the institutions that distributed these loans. Read more from this fascinating paper at the link above!

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The ASA journal City & Community is 25 years old! We’re marking this anniversary with an Emerging Scholars Conference at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027, and invite graduate students and postdocs to submit extended abstracts for consideration. @cicojournal.bsky.social

bit.lyConference_CfS.docxTo commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will showcase research by the next generation of urban sociologists in conversation with established sch...

journals.sagepub.comThe Location of Culture: The Urban Culturalist Perspective - Michael Ian Borer, 2006The majority of research in urban sociology tends to favor the study of urbanization, the development and growth of cities, over urbanism, the way of life in ci...

#CiCo25 #21 on our list of the journal's top cited articles argues that urban sociology should pay more attention to urbanism... It's Michael Ian Borer's "The Location of Culture: The Urban Culturalist Perspective"! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/...

How should sociologists study culturally significant urban places? And how do people uses places as part of their cultural repertoires? Revisit this article at the link above to read through Borer's six-part framework for understanding culture-place relationships in cities.

❗The deadline for our Emerging Scholars Conference is approaching❗ Are you a grad student or postdoc with work contributing to the study of cities and community life? Submit an extended abstract by 11/15 for consideration. Submit here: tinyurl.com/cicoconf @asanews.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.comGuardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space, and Middle‐Class Activism in Mumbai<link href='#en1'><sup>1</sup></link>This article examines the new phenomenon of “citizens’ groups” in contemporary Mumbai, India, whose activities are directed at making the city's public spaces more orderly. Recent scholarship on Mumb...

#CiCo25 It's Monday, which means it's time to debut #22 on our list of the journal's top cited articles. *drumroll please* #22 is...Jonathan Shaprio Anjaria's "Guardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space, and Middle-Class Activism in Mumbai" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Whereas previous research on Mumbai's efforts to become a "global city" focused on the government's neoliberal reforms, this paper points to civil society organizations who act as agents of increased control over "unruliness" on the street. Revisit this paper at the link above!

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#OnlineFirst Why are household surveillance technologies like Ring cameras so popular despite historic declines in crime? A new paper by @maxlubell.bsky.social answers this question using a geocoded dataset of Ring Neighbors posts. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

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Sociologists—learn something new today! ASA’s journal podcasts provide quick insights into some of the latest sociological research. New episodes feature authors from ASR, @soceducation.bsky.social, @cicojournal.bsky.social, @jofhsb.bsky.social, @spquarterly.bsky.social. bit.ly/3LMjWqK

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#CiCoSept Thanks to @asanews.bsky.social for highlighting "Profit or Protection? Evictions and Housing Dynamics in Immigrant Neighborhoods," by Leung, Louis, Rangel and Desmond in their podcast series! Listen to Leung and Louis discuss the article here: journals.sagepub.com/page/cty/pod...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comForward to the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing ShanghaiThis article examines the role of historical preservation in the spatial restructuring of postindustrial cities through a detailed case study of Xintiandi, a preservation-based redevelopment project ...

#CiCo25 Three weeks in and we're ready to debut #23 on our list! ‼️ 23rd in our list of top cited articles in the journal's history is Xuefei Ren's "Forward to the Past: Historical Preservation in Globalizing Shanghai" ‼️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This article considers the case of Xintiandi, two blocks of colonial-period Shanghainese tenements turned posh entertainment district by international developers and architects. Ren argues that this historical preservation serves development goals in Shanghai, a globalizing city.

#CiCoSept Have you read our September issue yet? We have four great articles, starting with Niamh Costello's "Hustling, Hassling, and Performing Compliance: Waiting for Homeless Housing in Los Angeles" Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In this paper, Costello examines how homeless residents of Los Angeles navigate the wait for permanent housing in a highly constrained service system by developing strategies shaped by unequal resources. These strategies shape how they are seen and interacted with by street-level bureaucrats.

tinyurl.comNeighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Health: Context or Composition?Does neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) have a significant positive effect on health over and above the personal and household socioeconomic status of the residents who live there, and, if it do...

21 Sept

Happy Monday ☀️ It's time to announce the next paper in our countdown of the 25 (erm, 26) most cited papers in the journal's history! #CiCo25 Occupying #24 is..."Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Health: Context or Composition?" by Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky! tinyurl.com/rossmiro

21 Sept

This paper tackles the question of how we disentangle neighborhood socioeconomic status from an individual's SES. Using Illinois survey data, the paper finds that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood predicts physical impairment, but individual SES matters more. Revisit this paper at the link!

tinyurl.comConference_CfS.docxTo commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will sh...

15 Sept

We're officially two months out from the deadline for submissions to present at our Emerging Scholars Conference in March! Grad students and postdocs, send us an extended abstract by November 15th for consideration. Submit here: tinyurl.com/cicoconf www.tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo

City & Community is turning 25 in March '27. Stay tuned throughout the year for a few ways that we're celebrating this exciting milestone. Today, we want to introduce you to a fun project we did to celebrate the journal's anniversary—a compilation of the top cited articles in the journal's history.

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In "Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community," Japonica Brown-Saracino shows how social preservationists limit displacement of old-time residents to maintain the authenticity of their chosen communities. Revisit this paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tune in next week for the next paper in the countdown. Any guesses for what will occupy the top spot in our list? Place your bets now!

From now until March, we'll be posting an article each week from the 25th most cited to the 1st most cited. This list wasn't easy to put together, and you can read more about our methodology below. An essay on this project by @ksmock.bsky.social will also appear in our December issue!

onlinelibrary.wiley.comRevisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the Public in an Urban ParkA case study of the renovation of New York City's Bryant Park, this article revisits the end of public space thesis. The renovated park signifies not the end of public space but the new ends to which....

For our 25th most cited article, we had a tie between two fantastic papers. In David Madden's "Revisiting the End of Public Space," NYC's Bryan Park is used as a case for studying the end of public space thesis. Revisit this paper below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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❗ Big news: Our September issue is now live! ❗ We have a lot of great things for you to read in this issue, which we'll be posting about in the coming days. Click the link below to check it out. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTY/curr...

And finally, are the conceptual and theoretical frameworks sound, compelling, and appropriate to situate the findings in the literature?

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With these considerations, we hope authors can improve their papers and be successful in the publication process. We are deeply grateful to our reviewers who make this possible! Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Rather than line-by-line edits, we ask reviewers to consider four key issues. First, what contribution does this article make to existing literature and debates in urban sociology? The expertise of our reviewers is critical for understanding the wide ranging contributions authors are making.

Second, how interesting important or novel do you find this contribution? Third, is the methodological strategy sound, and are the findings convincingly supported by the data?

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Kicking is off is a message from the editors to our wonderful current and future reviewers. If you've been invited to review recently, you may have noticed new guidance for reviewers. Our hope is that this guidance makes reviewing for us easier and improves the quality of reviews for our authors.

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17 Aug

ICYMI in the run-up to ASA: @cicojournal.bsky.social is hosting a conference showcasing the future of urban sociology! 🌟Graduate students and postdocs, submit by 11/15. 🌟 tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo Senior folks, please share widely! @asanews.bsky.social #sociology #CUSS

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To commemorate the journal's upcoming 25th anniversary, we are excited to announce the Emerging Scholars Conference—an opportunity for grad students and postdocs to showcase their work related to urban sociology—at Georgetown on April 23, 2027. Call for submissions: tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo

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10 Aug

Who wore it better? (L)The carpet in the #ASA2026 Exhibit Hall (R) @cicojournal.bsky.social

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6 Aug

We're having a birthday party for @cicojournal.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Grad students and postdocs, please submit your best urban sociology papers. Headed to #ASA26? Find me to get your City & Community sticker!!!

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6 Aug

Heading to New York? Find us at ASA to get some City & Community swag!

5 Aug

journals.sagepub.comGroup Threat and the Policing of Mobility: Neighborhood Visiting Patterns and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates - Karl Vachuska, 2026Research on group threat has identified the racial composition of neighborhoods as significant for understanding spatial variation in racial bias and discrimina...

30 July

⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ How does the racial composition of everyday mobility patterns impact non-White arrest rates? New paper by @vachuska.bsky.social answers this question with unique smartphone tracking data from New York City. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...