Discover the shifts in #UrbanPolitics in Calgary, Alberta since the post-war period, when the city abandoned its previous electoral system in favour of new single-member majoritarian ward-based politics.

Read more in Urban History Review 54.1: bit.ly/uhr541d University of Calgary

Read more of Russell Arben Fox's review of All-American City: Bluster, Boom, and Bust in Wichita mittelpolitan.substack.com/p/chase-billinghams-all-...

📚 Learn more about the book: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640928/

#WichitaKansas #BookReview #UrbanPolitics #UPKansas

Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized | Polity: Vol 58, No 1 Over the last three decades, urban cities and their residents have faced precarity. In the face of late capitalism, several metropolitan cities across the nation but particularly in Michigan, namely D...

Meghan E. Wilson's "Betting on Black" explores how Detroit's emergency managers prioritize fiscal stability over public goods for marginalized communities. She shows how race shapes risk calculation and drives inequality.
Read it: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#Capitalism #UrbanPolitics

[5/5] Les véritables tensions spatiales concernent surtout les espaces sans mixité. D’un côté des quartiers relégués, de l’autre des quartiers riches très homogènes. Ce "séparatisme territorial" pèse davantage sur la cohésion que la diversité sociale elle-même. #geography #socialmix #urbanpolitics

Chapter Review - Ethnicity, Nationalism and Nation-Building - Stratheia An analysis of how ethnicity and nationalism shaped Pakistan’s politics, focusing on Sindh, MQM, and state responses.

The MQM emerged from exclusion and economic competition—but reliance on violence ultimately weakened its cause and credibility.
#MQM #PoliticalViolence #UrbanPolitics
stratheia.com/chapter-revi...

Governing with nature: towards transformative change? | Professor Harriet Bulkeley 6.30pm Wed 11 Feb | Harriet Bulkeley | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

🌳 What does it mean to govern with nature, and can this approach deliver transformative change?

This talk will look at how nature‑based solutions are reshaping urban governance and what this means for climate action, justice, and cities.

#LSEEvents #ClimateChange #UrbanPolitics

BasisPointInsight.com - BJP’s Mumbai Strategy Faces Its Biggest Test Yet by Amitabh Tiwari The BMC election is a high-stakes battle shaping Mumbai’s future, pitting BJP–Shinde against the Thackerays amid shifting demography and alliances. by Amitabh Tiwari, BasisPointInsight.com

2/3 With changing demographics, a split Shiv Sena and a fragmented opposition, the outcome will signal where Mumbai’s politics is headed next. Is it still about identity and inheritance, or about coalition arithmetic and control of the city’s vast resources?

#UrbanPolitics #Mumbai

Dark Concrete by Kimberley Johnson | Paperback | Cornell University Press Dark Concrete is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. Although the national and international dimensions of the Black Power...

🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights

Learn more here ⬇️

https://ow.ly/ljY050XlP8w

Astoria, le New York populaire de Zohran Mamdani La victoire du nouveau maire de New York, le 4 novembre, est aussi celle de son quartier du Queens, Astoria, dont il a fait la matrice de son programme. Ce district cosmopolite en proie aux difficulté...

[1/8] Nicolas Chapuis analyse Astoria, quartier populaire du Queens, comme matrice politique du maire Zohran Mamdani. Le reportage montre comment trajectoires sociales, habitat et mobilisations locales façonnent un projet urbain progressiste. #geography #urbanpolitics #gentrification #NewYork

Progressive Urban Electoral Politics: Coalition Building and Electoral Breakthrough in the 2025 New York City Mayoral Race

This paper by Badawi analyzes how Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral victory was achieved through coalition-building and "transformative incrementalism." Supports new strategies for progressive urban governance. spkl.io/63326A9d1O #UrbanPolitics #Progressive #ElectoralStrategy

Dark Concrete by Kimberley Johnson | Paperback | Cornell University Press Dark Concrete is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. Although the national and international dimensions of the Black Power...

🏙️ DARK CONCRETE by Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States—from expectations to practices. #UrbanPolitics #History #CivilRights

Learn more here ⬇️

https://ow.ly/ljY050XlP8w

Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian

[8/8] Le récit dévoile une géographie sociale désolante où précarité, vide commercial et gouvernance fragile forment un terrain idéal pour l’évitement fiscal. T. Ball dit continuer "pour rire", symbole d’un système où les marges du droit redessinent l’usage urbain.
#geography #urbanpolitics #London

Law and Order or Political Theater? Trump’s Federal Crackdown in 5 Cities In 2025 Americans wake up to the sound of helicopters in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.

open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...

#Trump2025 #ICEraids #NationalGuard #PoliceMilitarization #CivilLiberties #LawAndOrder #PoliticalTheater #ImmigrationEnforcement #UrbanPolitics #SurveillanceState

Interweaving Fragmentation and Resilience: Political Spectacle, Technological Disruption, and the Cultural Impulse to Mend in a World Under Pressure From the Open Culture Blog.

Cities are under siege yet remain democracy’s frontline. As national politics collapses into spectacle & apathy, mayors, repair schemes & cultural projects keep agency alive. The future may be stitched not in parliaments but in neighborhoods. #UrbanPolitics open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Events | Dr. Marion Orr View a schedule of Dr. Marion Orr’s upcoming and past public events, including book talks and lectures on topics such as urban politics, race, and the biography of Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

The full schedule of remaining tour dates is available here: marionorr.com/events/.

#BlackPoliticalLeadership #AmericanPoliticalHistory #RaceAndPolitics #UrbanPolitics #CoriolisClient

The book draws on extensive archival research to reveal how he operated as a consummate power broker to his founding of the Congressional Black Caucus, and so much more.

#AfricanAmericanPolitics #UrbanPolitics #PublicPolicyScholar #FrancisRollinFellowship #LegislativeHistory

OnlineFirst - "Post-entrepreneurial cities? Runaway housing costs and the humanitarian turn in urban governance" by Marc Doussard:

#housing #incomeinequality #rentiercapitalism #urbanpolitics #Covid19

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Redirecting

📢 New Publication
Our new study with Noam Brenner and published in Cities (#openaccess), explores how urban political participation and identity shape attitudes toward immigrants in Berlin, Paris, and Barcelona.Full article here:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

#migration #cities #urbanpolitics #research

Check out the link for more information on the application, and contact @nataliasbueno.bsky.social for questions on the position!

#urbanpolitics #localpolitics #jobs

Why Have Yuppies Turned to Socialism in the 21st Century?
#Yuppies #Socialism #ProfessionalManagerialClass #Neoliberalism #EliteOverproduction #UrbanPolitics #DSA #EconomicAnxiety #ClassStruggle #PoliticalShift

#FlipTheTable #AuthenticityWins #MiddleEastPolicy #JewishVoices #MuslimVoices #NewYorkers #PoliticalVision #CorporateDonors #CentristStruggle #ProgressiveMovement #UrbanPolitics #MamdaniWin

#FlipTheTable #AuthenticityWins #MiddleEastPolicy #JewishVoices #MuslimVoices #NewYorkers #PoliticalVision #CorporateDonors #CentristStruggle #ProgressiveMovement #UrbanPolitics #MamdaniWin

#NewYorkers #ManAboutTown #Election2025 #FearVsHope #UrbanPolitics

📢 Calling all Urban & Local Politics scholars! Have news to share? Send your updates—new pubs, job openings, events & more—for the July newsletter via DM or via apsaurban@gmail.com by Friday, June 6. Help highlight the great work happening in our field!🏙️📰 #UrbanPolitics #APSA2025

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New #OpenAccess special issue article by @jluger.bsky.social and Miklós Dürr: The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches

buff.ly/AproZDW

#UrbanPolitics #illiberalism #UrbanGovernance

کراچی میں سیاسی گرما گرمی پھر عروج پر، بیانات، ملاقاتیں اور واپسی کی خبریں توجہ کا مرکز

مزید پڑھیے: www.aaj.tv/news/30453710/

#AajNews #Karachi #Politics #PowerPlay #StatementsAndMeetings #PoliticalHeat #UrbanPolitics #PTI #PPP #MQMPakistan

Know someone who deserves recognition? Nominate them today! Self-nominations are welcome.

Details for each award in the thread below. ⬇️

Check out the section website for more details and committee member emails: connect.apsanet.org/s13/

#UrbanPolitics #APSA2025 #Awards

APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2025

Reminder: Deadline is Today!⏰
Join us in Vancouver for #APSA2025

✨Submit your proposals here: convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/aps...

We look forward to your contributions and submissions to the Urban and Local Politics Section. 🏙️ #UrbanPolitics