CITY

CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

When vacancy is normalised and access is criminalised, “property” is doing political work. CITY’s new editorial, by @SJBurgum takes trespass seriously as a window onto urban life.

https://t.co/BygWUFSKUD

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

City 30.1-2:

Beyond “should they stay, or should they go?”

Knippenberg & Davids examine how contested colonial statues are managed in Flanders, showing how heritage governance is often reactive, cautious and shaped by institutional inertia.

Read here:

https://t.co/c8Yz5bQ21e

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

City 30.1-2

Abinsha Joseph and Smita Jha

Anchoring the city in time and space: an architectural exploration of the processual city in Jai Undurti’s Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel

https://t.co/HK37tmwfOv

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Mexico City and all federal authorities must uphold the right to protest for all groups and families demonstrating during the World Cup.

Groups have been campaigning for the search and identification of their disappeared loved ones for years - work that is a legitimate form of human rights defense. This must be recognized, respected and protected. Guaranteeing the right to protest is an obligation of the Mexican State.

Events surrounding the World Cup must point to humanity, not cruelty.
#HumanityMustWin

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

New in City: René Kreichauf examines New York City’s “migrant crisis” and argues that emergency governance has produced a “punitive market sanctuary”, where care and shelter are tied to austerity, labour exploitation and migrant “self-sufficiency”.

https://t.co/bJBzEKSaPS

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

New in City: Nicoletti, Beaulieu, Madi & Rutland examine police ‘co-response’ teams in Montréal as public relations, expanded repression and domestic counter-insurgency.

https://t.co/VA4wf9gVof

Image: Jonalongnose/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

Peer review is never only procedural. In a new City article, Hisham Abusaada & Abeer Elshater ask how urban research journals might move beyond epistemic purity and practise review as epistemic care.

DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2026.2633811

#UrbanStudies #PeerReview

[Neil Gray @NeilGray00]

"Spatial weapons for the working class". First short review of my forthcoming book, Take Over the City, courtesy of @DonnaHaragay @CITYanalysis

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

New in City: Alina Bezlaj’s “Sensing regeneration in a working-class Dublin suburb.”

Article examines how regeneration, social housing and changing experiences of heat reshape residents’ sense of home, community and symbolic displacement.

https://t.co/36pdRnSiKf

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

New in City: “Redefining urban liveability through community voices: insights from Kumasi’s informal settlements” -Gagakuma, Mejía, R Ichii & Guevara.

A sharp challenge to Western centric liveability metrics, grounded in residents’ voices from Kumasi.

https://t.co/qhyoK2OOrH

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thiago Á. & Saif A. have been kidnapped, mistreated, arbitrarily detained, to punish them and crush the growing solidarity movement against Israel's genocide in Palestine. Do not let it happen!
Demand their freedom and freedom for all Palestinian hostages!
#FreeThiago #FreeSaif

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

New free access article in City:

Claudia Gabriela Reta examines housing relocation in metropolitan Buenos Aires, showing how policies of “inclusion” remake home, belonging and urban citizenship through informality and emotional governance.

Read here:

https://t.co/qHl8TubyDQ

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

This Thursday at LSE, London: Japonica Brown-Saracino will discuss her forthcoming book The Death and Life of Gentrification.

With Zheng Wang and Romola Sanyal as discussants, chaired by Hyun Bang Shin.

Free registration: https://t.co/7YsH85CoJ0

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

Open Access in City:

“Thinking through material incompletion” asks what unfinished urban spaces do—across Lobito, Zurich & Delhi—and how they make room for speculation, care, tinkering and urban otherwise.

https://t.co/0NKKLowW6p

#UrbanStudies

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

The founding editor of CITY, Bob Catterall, passed away on 30 July 2025.

In CITY 30.1–2, Anna Richter, Ulises Moreno-Tabarez, Andrea Gibbons, Michael Edwards, Lila Leontidou and Paul Watt offer short reflections and memories in Bob’s honour.

Read here:

https://t.co/5xR23kWXNP

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

City 30.1–2 is out.

The cover takes us to La Llorada in Azoyú, Guerrero: an annual procession where two sides of a small city meet in the rain for a day of atonement, grief, joy, reconciliation, and wilful tears.

More from our 30th anniversary issue in the weeks to follow.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔹NBC: We saw people living in severe poverty in Havana. Is it time to take responsibility and change the Cuban system? Why not follow China or Vietnam which have embraced one-party rule while also embracing market economies?

🇨🇺 President Díaz-Canel: We study their models closely. But they were under sanctions for about a decade. Cuba has faced more than 60 years of blockade.

That is the difference. They were able to develop once restrictions eased. Cuba has not had that opportunity. We are an island 90 miles from the United States, under constant pressure.

When China and Vietnam began their development, they started from less favorable conditions than Cuba has today. So the real question is: lift the blockade and see what Cuba can do. If we have achieved this much under pressure, what could we achieve without it?

If Cuba is truly weak, as some claim, then why has the United States spent decades trying to isolate and undermine it? Why not let it fail on its own? The answer is clear.

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

Original Articles

Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability

S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil

https://t.co/tNL6oGSfhQ

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Original Articles

Imposing immobility and making mobility: an infrastructural reading of Beijing’s impactful but ineffective temporal mode of COVID governance

Liqiao Luo

https://t.co/gWaDYAjpg8

[CITY @CITYanalysis]

Original Articles

New cartographies of heterotopic posturban cities in S. B. Divya's Machinehood (2021)

Chakshu Gupta & Isha Malhotra

https://t.co/eGvQEuBXHP