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Making power visible: Business improvement districts ...

Schaller et al illustrate how Business Improvement Districts in Washington, DC ...

Susanna F. Schaller, Aaron Howe, Coy McKinney and ... 6th February 2025
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Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New ...

Blog post on new article: Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New ...

Ali Riza Taskale 27th January 2025
Book cover: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace
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Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and ...

Lutfun Nahar Lata, Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood ...

Lipon Mondal 21st January 2025
Aerial view of a city. Book cover of "Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City".
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Book review: Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, ...

Philipp Demgenski, Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage ...

Hangli Zeng 10th January 2025
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Book review forum: Pandemic urbanism: Infectious ...

S Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, and Roger Keil, Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious ...

Ranabir Samaddar, Susannah Bunce, Chiara ... 9th January 2025
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The Spectre of Growth in Doughnut Economics

New blog post on: The spectre of growth in urban transformations: Insights from ...

Benedikt Schmid 6th January 2025
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Exploring the horizontal tensions of complex smart ...

New blog post by Desirée Enlund and Katherine Harrison discusses their recent ...

Desirée Enlund & Katherine Harrison 13th December 2024
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Vestiges, ventures, and visibility of the new private ...

New blog post introduces the November special issue: The new private urban ...

Randy K Lippert, Debra Mackinnon, and Stefan ... 7th November 2024
Background of blue world map showing lights of cities at night. White and yellow text reads: CRITICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN URBAN STUDIES: CALL FOR PAPERS. The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. In this inaugural call for papers, which focuses on armed conflict, the Journal invites both empirical and conceptual papers on the urbanisation of conflict and conflict-driven urbanisation. Visit urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers for details
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Call for Papers: The Urbanisation of Conflict and ...

Our fourth call in our Critical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studies Call ...

28th October 2024
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Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A ...

Ngai-Ming Yip and Yang Zheng discuss their paper: Self-governance of ...

Ngai-Ming Yip and Yang Zheng 17th October 2024
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Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in ...

Raja & Larsson discuss their paper: Have City Deals delivered higher ...

Sanjay I Raja and Johan P Larsson 4th October 2024
Guangzhou Buildings behind Trees. China
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Examining collaborative planning processes and ...

How does collaborative planning unfold in China? Xiaomeng Zhou et al present a ...

Xiaomeng Zhou, Yanliu Lin, Jochen Monstadt, ... 27th July 2024