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🔍️ Cramer-Greenbaum examines the financial underpinning and resultant urban #streetscapes for three #housing developments built in #Zurich in 2009-2012 to reveal housing financialization’s effect on the production of urban #sociality at the micro scale.
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✍️ Through the case of #Redfern, @kirrakee.bsky.social demonstrates how contemporary urban #planning and #property regimes reproduce the erasure of #Aboriginal #sovereignty, restricting #mobility, #belonging and cultural continuity.
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🔓️ NEW in our Special Issue "Indigenous urban studies: Creative urban futures, resistant histories, indigenist subjects"
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✍️ @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social et al. discuss the changing relationship between #housing, #finance and #state through a global comparative perspective, adopting an urban statecraft lens to examine affordable housing production.
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✍️ Zou et al. employ survey research with #migrant volunteers in #Shenzhen to collect data on their role identity, place attachment, job crafting, perceived institutional support, and social capital, revealing a cross-scale relationship.
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✍️ Li et al. examine the formulation of city-regions in post-reform #China under state entrepreneurialism, identifying three types of city-regional #imaginaries that constitute the #Yangtze River Delta city-region.
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✍️ @iselinhe.bsky.social
🔍️ How do #housing construction and #densification policies influence ongoing #gentrification processes at a metropolitan scale in Oslo, #Norway?
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✍️ Ling & Sun
🔍️ This article examines the evolving dynamics of state #entrepreneurialism amid the ongoing restructuring of urban #governance in #China, focusing on the Shenzhen Qianhai Pilot Zone.
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✍️ Marvin repositions the indoor–outdoor threshold as a neglected yet vital site of #climate #governance in urban studies, developing the concept of hybrid urban socio-natures.
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✍️ @ashtonindc.bsky.social
🔍 Our beliefs about who has a right to exist in our public rights of way are socially constructed through an ideology of #car #supremacy used in public meetings to prevent our #streets from being safe, accessible, and equitable for all road users.
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🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Transport as a Social Construct"
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✍️ @samsonkristine.bsky.social et al. explore the entangled, multi-layered #temporalities of Amager Commons, a high #biodiversity zone close to central #Copenhagen, and how these might offer possibilities for new relationships with urban environments.
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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Temporalities of Urban Natures"
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✍️ @cristiancantir.bsky.social
🔍 US cities reacted to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine by maintaining or cutting sister-city ties, with both sides reinterpreting the role’s expectations around #communication and promoting #peace.
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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "Cities as global actors in international politics: Patterns, processes, and impacts"
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✍️ Shtern
🔍 This article examines the #strategies of shared society #organisations in #Jerusalem in the post-Oslo era (2005–present), a period characterised by the absence of political #negotiations.
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✍️ @elliferrari.bsky.social develops the notion of care-time to describe how everyday #proximity and sustained #attention shape #streetgardens as liminal spatio-temporal domains.
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✍️ Evans examines how municipal regulators and local politicians navigated the ambiguous boundaries between #property, #shelter, and #land during the onset of the #COVID19 pandemic in #Toronto, #Canada.
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📢 #UrbanStudies 63(5) (April 2026) out now!
From post-pandemic legacies to post-secular urban #restructuring, urban #gardening, #housing, urban citizenship and public #transport as political infrastructure.
🔓 7 open-access articles, including 1 Debates Paper.
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✍️ Liang & Zou
🔍 This article proposes the concept of the “digital fix” to articulate urban #transformation toward #smartcities as a new form of fix beyond the spatial fix.
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🌍 NEW #CriticalCommentary in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Betschart & Hagmann
🔍 How do urban #transformation specialists assess the relationship between temporary uses and urban #security? This commentary critically reflects on the current state of specialized knowledge.
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✍️ 🔍 Kazak et al. investigate the auditory environment of Raheny, #Dublin, and its relation with older adults' well-being and social participation, highlighting the importance of integrating #soundscape considerations into the broader framework of age-friendly urban #planning.
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🔓 NEW in our Special Issue "Urban and Ageing Population"
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✍️ Bossuyt et al.
🔍 This article interrogates how temporary #housing in the #Netherlands is shaped by informal #governance, arguing that such practices enable a new state-led paradigm that transforms housing from place-bound infrastructure into modular, relocatable assets.
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🌍 NEW in our Special Issue "The business of densification: Institutions, actors, and outcomes in the transformation of urban settlements"
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✍️ Steil et al. highlight how several dimensions of contemporary #emergency medical services training and standards in the #USA emerged from civil rights struggles, focusing on #FreedomHouse and its legacy, tying them together with shifts in urban #planning and #policy.
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🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Health Equity"
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✍️🔍 Wudineh & Lika Magento examine the impact of corridor #development projects and associated #displacement on business #enterprises in #AddisAbaba, highlighting significant impacts, including financial losses, revenue declines, and high relocation costs.
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✍️ Jianxian Wu
🔍 This study investigates whether the #AI pilot cities initiative, launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2019, reduces overtime in #Chinese #government offices.
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