ANNOUNCEMENT
Call for Papers: Operationalizing Southern Urbanism(s) in Uncertain Times
We invite contributions that creatively and ambitiously deploy the contemporary and diverse imperatives and impulses of southern urbanism.
Deadline for extended abstract & outline submission: 1 August 2026
Deadline for paper submission: 15 January 2027
Details hereInhabiting digital spaces: An informational right to the city for mobility justice
This article investigates how the right to the city can be broadened to include the appropriation of digital spaces to produce ‘lived’ transportation spaces.
The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood
This open access study sheds light on how former residents learn to relate to the symbolic baggage of having once lived in a ‘notorious’ German neighbourhood.
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world
This open access paper responds to calls for radical experimentation in urban theory in the context of the material and psychological upheavals of the Anthropocene.
Best Article Video Playlist
Watch a selection of our past best article winners discuss their prize-winning papers on our YouTube channel.
Follow us @urbanstudiesjournal for more video content.
Annual Lecture
Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Urban Studies Annual Lecture.
View our past annual lectures here.
Annual Lecture Video Playlist
Watch a selection of our past annual lectures on our YouTube channel.
Follow us @urbanstudiesjournal for more video content.