Urban Studies Journal

Urban Studies Journal – publishing ground-breaking contributions across the full range of social science disciplines.

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📢 #UrbanStudies 63(7) out now!

The Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct" explores #transport systems as #socialconstructs that are produced through and actively reproduce #power relations.

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✍️@onur_tumturk et al. test Jane Jacobs' most neglected condition for urban diversity, building age variation, using a new Temporal Fingerprint Matrix in 3 Dutch cities. Incremental development outperforms instant development for retail.

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✍️ Older adults do not experience #AgeFriendlyTransport equally. @TommyHYChan shows how #PrioritySeating and concessionary fares in #HongKong reflect socio-spatial inequalities and differing meanings of independence.

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🔍️ #AI is increasingly integrated into urban #governance. This article analyses the case study of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights to ask how its membership affects cities’ AI policies.

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🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Cities as global actors in international politics: Patterns, processes, and impacts"

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🔍️ Based on a multi-sited ethnography in East #Delhi, this study argues that the word Khula is an empty signifier which allows to understand the area's #pathology in the context of the #dengue #epidemic.

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🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Health Equity"

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✍️ Pollard & Salvaire examine the coalitions underpinning #opposition to #housing #development across the #Paris metropolitan area, reveal a highly fragmented landscape of contention.

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✍️ Peris applies a method for reverse engineering landlords’ local strategies to #Akelius, a global corporate #landlord whose French #housing portfolio has been reconstructed by cross-referencing open administrative datasets.

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✍️ Zhai & Zhai propose Wildlife-Affective Urban #Design as a framework for examining how urban form shapes multispecies encounter through fear, curiosity, attachment, irritation, avoidance and unequal exposure to harm.

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🔍️ Effective preservation-equity #policy requires context-specific strategies rather than universal approaches.

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✍️ 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.

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🔍️ 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.

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📢 #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.

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✍️ 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.

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✍️ 🔍️ Can suburban futures feel urban before they function that way? Katherine Perrott explores how “urban vibes” shape vertical #suburbanization, #densification, and #value in the #Toronto region.

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🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures"

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✍️ Ramakrishnan & Ebbensgaard show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (to #heat) or increase exposure (to #sunlight) center the #elemental as a point of struggle for just #urban living and citizenship.

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🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Temporalities of Urban Natures"

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✍️ Rokem et al. investigate resurgent nationalist #politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that #cities are critical arenas where contemporary #nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested.

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🔍️ Focusing on #Medellín, Colombia, Naef examines the #resilience of #violence and the violence of resilience in the recovery of conflict-affected cities as a lens to rethink how #urbanization and #conflict mutually shape one another.

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🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation"

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