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What should #UrbanStudies focus on over the next decade?
Which themes need addressed? 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: f.mtr.cool/ru2t92ha7s
A look back at the Future of Urban Studies (FUS) Singapore Workshop, 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.
✍️ Tubío-Sánchez et al.
#PoliticalEconomy #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: f.mtr.cool/xr4c1rbge7
🗣️ NEW Critical Commentary in #UrbanStudies
The Horizons 2024 Collective asks themselves: how can doctoral students hotwire the #university for more care-fully just urban #futures?
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
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📢 #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.
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🎖️Well-deserved Honourable Mention for @alirizataskale in the 2025 SFRA Innovative Research Award for "Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140" (f.mtr.cool/j7yf6d4fo8 #UrbanStudies 2025) and its merger of science fiction studies, economics and urban theory.
It was announced at the Science Fiction Research Association's 2026 conference at Michigan State University and published in SFRA Review 56.3: f.mtr.cool/w94qcydmly
💡Check out Ali's blog post to read more about what his paper does and why it matters: f.mtr.cool/hopd3vq1eo
📢 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.
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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Drawing on ethnographic research with food delivery workers, @waahgish examines how roads generate both economic value and the hierarchies, conflicts, and vulnerabilities shaping gig workers' experience of urbanity.
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📢 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
✍️@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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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ 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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🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Cities as global actors in international politics: Patterns, processes, and impacts"
Take a look 👇️🧵
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✍️ Haenschen
🔍️ #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 "Urban Health Equity"
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✍️ @shwetaRkhatri
🔍️ 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 #UrbanStudies
✍️ 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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🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ 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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