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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.
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🚶 The #UrbanStudies #podcast miniseries "Walking the City With…" returns with peer-reviewed urban scholarship – literally on the streets.
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🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @adrianbua.bsky.social
🔍 This article analyses the conditions for the electoral #consolidation of social movement-led left #coalitions in Spanish cities after 2015, underscoring the importance of political-institutional factors.
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✍️ @adrianbua.bsky.social
🔍 This article analyses the conditions for the electoral #consolidation of social movement-led left #coalitions in Spanish cities after 2015, underscoring the importance of political-institutional factors.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @adrianbua.bsky.social
🔍 This article analyses the conditions for the electoral #consolidation of social movement-led left #coalitions in Spanish cities after 2015, underscoring the importance of political-institutional factors.
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✍️ @adrianbua.bsky.social
🔍 This article analyses the conditions for the electoral #consolidation of social movement-led left #coalitions in Spanish cities after 2015, underscoring the importance of political-institutional factors.
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🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @msaps.bsky.social addresses #religion as a structural factor shaping socio-economic #urbanchange by examining the spatial #clustering of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) #Jews in London and New York.
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✍️ @msaps.bsky.social addresses #religion as a structural factor shaping socio-economic #urbanchange by examining the spatial #clustering of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) #Jews in London and New York.
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January 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in #UrbanStudies
✍️ @msaps.bsky.social addresses #religion as a structural factor shaping socio-economic #urbanchange by examining the spatial #clustering of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) #Jews in London and New York.
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✍️ @msaps.bsky.social addresses #religion as a structural factor shaping socio-economic #urbanchange by examining the spatial #clustering of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) #Jews in London and New York.
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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"
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January 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"
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🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
📃"Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport"
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📃"Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport"
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January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
📃"Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport"
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📃"Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport"
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🔓 NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
🔍 Song proposes community-based arts and cultural organizing as avenues for reparative #justice research that moves away from damage-centered #narratives toward desire-based accounts.
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🔍 Song proposes community-based arts and cultural organizing as avenues for reparative #justice research that moves away from damage-centered #narratives toward desire-based accounts.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies
🔍 Song proposes community-based arts and cultural organizing as avenues for reparative #justice research that moves away from damage-centered #narratives toward desire-based accounts.
📖 buff.ly/mgecOIw
🔍 Song proposes community-based arts and cultural organizing as avenues for reparative #justice research that moves away from damage-centered #narratives toward desire-based accounts.
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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Temporalities of urban natures"
📃"Temporal and spatial detachment as care: An ethnography of urban nature conservation policies at Lake Müggelsee, Berlin"
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📃"Temporal and spatial detachment as care: An ethnography of urban nature conservation policies at Lake Müggelsee, Berlin"
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#UrbanStudies
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Temporalities of urban natures"
📃"Temporal and spatial detachment as care: An ethnography of urban nature conservation policies at Lake Müggelsee, Berlin"
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#UrbanStudies
📃"Temporal and spatial detachment as care: An ethnography of urban nature conservation policies at Lake Müggelsee, Berlin"
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#UrbanStudies
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in our Special Issue "The urbanisation of conflict and conflict urbanisation"
📃 "From non-settlement to political settlement: The types of urban conflict agreement"
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📃 "From non-settlement to political settlement: The types of urban conflict agreement"
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January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in our Special Issue "The urbanisation of conflict and conflict urbanisation"
📃 "From non-settlement to political settlement: The types of urban conflict agreement"
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📃 "From non-settlement to political settlement: The types of urban conflict agreement"
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#UrbanStudies
🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
📃 "Risk en route: Women’s mobility and exposure to gender-based violence in public spaces in Curitiba, Brazil"
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📃 "Risk en route: Women’s mobility and exposure to gender-based violence in public spaces in Curitiba, Brazil"
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#UrbanStudies
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
📃 "Risk en route: Women’s mobility and exposure to gender-based violence in public spaces in Curitiba, Brazil"
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#UrbanStudies
📃 "Risk en route: Women’s mobility and exposure to gender-based violence in public spaces in Curitiba, Brazil"
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#UrbanStudies
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Shabani et al.
🔍 Gendered #solitude, intergenerational #memory, and emotional #infrastructures serve as affective anchors shaping place #attachment among older adults.
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✍️ Shabani et al.
🔍 Gendered #solitude, intergenerational #memory, and emotional #infrastructures serve as affective anchors shaping place #attachment among older adults.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Shabani et al.
🔍 Gendered #solitude, intergenerational #memory, and emotional #infrastructures serve as affective anchors shaping place #attachment among older adults.
📖 buff.ly/MqCKnaj
✍️ Shabani et al.
🔍 Gendered #solitude, intergenerational #memory, and emotional #infrastructures serve as affective anchors shaping place #attachment among older adults.
📖 buff.ly/MqCKnaj
🏙️ NEW paper in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
📃 "Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach"
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📃 "Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach"
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January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🏙️ NEW paper in our Special Issue "Reimagining activity spaces in urban contexts"
📃 "Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach"
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📃 "Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach"
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🌍 NEW paper in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🌍 NEW paper in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"
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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"
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January 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Infrastructural Encounters: Disability in Urban Lives"
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🚨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.
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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.
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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
🌍 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