Urban Studies Journal

What should #UrbanStudies focus on over the next decade? Which themes need more attention? How should the field evolve? What needs to change in how urban research is supported and communicated? Take our 10-question survey and join the conversation: https://f.mtr.cool/1tc3gu99lk

A look back at the Future of Urban Studies (FUS) Singapore Workshop, held in collaboration with the SMU Urban Institute. Scholars across disciplines and geographies gathered to reflect on the questions, institutions and emerging forms of knowledge shaping the #FutureOfUrbanStudies.

During Spain’s #housing bubble, rising property values turned mortgagors into “leveraged homevoters” who restricted land supply, suggesting that high prices drive restrictive zoning, rather than the reverse. @jm-tubio.bsky.social  @santiagolagop.bsky.social  @patriciosafe.bsky.social #UrbanStudies

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(13) now out! Special Issue: "Royal Agency in Contemporary City Building in Southeast Asia"  ✍ Edited by Jane M Jacobs & Ofita Purwani 📖 Read here: https://f.mtr.cool/xr4c1rbge7

🗣️ NEW Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies Offering reflections and provocations, the Horizons 2024 Collective considers the many contradictions between their doctoral urban research, the colonial neoliberal university and the urban futures they envisage.  @centre4cities.bsky.social

Yangon’s Alley Garden Project is a cautionary tale of responsibilization, not under conditions of state and capital withdrawal but under increasing state engagement, as a new government tried to overcome decades-long authoritarianism after 2021. ✍️ Roberts  #UrbanStudies

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(12) (September 2026) out now! ✍️ Papers on urban #governance and #infrastructure, #justice and access, and non-human and future-oriented #urbanism. Includes a book review forum on #migration city diplomacy. 📖 https://f.mtr.cool/qq90od6uh8

New paper in @urbanstudiesjournal.com on urban density in Asia. I argue for a focus on the everyday life of densities through two lenses: material provisioning and the politics of crowds. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📢 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

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🏙️ 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

In a new article published in @urbanstudiesjournal.com, I examine the investment and management strategy of Akelius, one of the few global corporate #landlords active in France. To do this, I cross-referenced public databases to identify its network of real estate companies and their holdings. 1/7

🌍️ 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

🗣️ 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

🏆️ 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

🌍️ 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

🏙️ 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