GUS Director Mara Sidney and co-editor David Kaufmann's book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society will be published by U of Michigan Press in Mar 2026. The cover features a photo by Claudia Sinatra. Learn more at: press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob...

A new interesting article by Malte Wehr, Michael L. Wicki, Stefan Wittwer and @kaufmada.bsky.social is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Beyond NIMBY-ism: rethinking acceptance of housing densification in a direct democratic renters society". Enjoy it here: tinyurl.com/4jj9udtf

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

New article published in @urbanstudiesjournal.com We analysed 𝐰𝐡𝐨 was displaced due to housing redevelopment and 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 displaced people moved (location and housing type) We analyzed a data set of geo-coded individual-level data on all 1.5 million residents in the Zurich region Findings below 👇

📄 "Municipal approaches to suburban densification: Understanding the role of planners’ interest and agency" ✍️ Cornelia Roboger 🔍 What is the role of planners’ interest and agency in shaping suburban #densification policies and outcomes? 📖 buff.ly/OlhhbCp

***There is the book cover*** ...for our forthcoming book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society, co-edited with @marasidney.bsky.social and published by University of Michigan Press. Book page: lnkd.in/e8zWBwUq Hardcover, softcover, open access — we’ve got it all

Super late to the party, but I’m not sure if (a) it is still going on, (b) it was ever a party, or (c) I really missed it