🚨NEW #UrbanStudies Volume 62(15) (November 2025) SPECIAL ISSUE: "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda?" ✍ Editors: G. Özatağan, G. Fearn & A. Eraydin 🔍 Focus on authoritarian neoliberal #urbanism, urban #governance transformation & sociopolitical change.

This is happening this week on 6-Nov at 4 pm at LSE, a book launch seminar for People-led Development in Hanoi (Routledge, 2026). For more details, see below 👇

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That’s us! With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others ! Viva multilingual geographies viva!

New LSE Geography seminar with the Urban Salon on 6-Nov, 4pm, featuring Hoai Anh Tran (Malmö University) presenting her new book, "People-led Development" in Hanoi, w/ discussants, Hanh-An Trinh and @maranogueira.bsky.social. Event details and registration on this page: www.lse.ac.uk/events/peopl...

🌍 New IJURR Spotlight On: Counting the City 🌆 How are big data and computational methods reshaping urban research? This collection explores the promises and perils of datafication in understanding cities—bridging ethics, politics, and imagination. 👉 tinyurl.com/yc6333xa

Parlez-nous de…Guerre, exils intérieurs et extérieurs au Viêt Nam dans la littérature 📅 1er oct. 2025, 17h-19h 📍 La Parenthèse – Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon Avec la participation de Thuân, Doan Cam Thi & François Guillemot Rencontre culturelle co-organisée avec la BDL bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social

Découvrez le programme du Séminaire de recherche de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (UMR 5062) pour pour le premier semestre de l’année universitaire 2025-2026. En visioconférence, inscription en ligne : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio... Programme détaillé : iao.cnrs.fr/manifestatio...

Ho CHi Minh City's expansion highlights challenge of state reform https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/ho-chi-minh-city-s-expansion-highlights-challenge-of-state-reform

New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you would like a sneak peek at our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, have a look at some of the commentaries that have come out already in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS

Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess. Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 @uclgeography.bsky.social

#NewReadingMaterial #RPVBooks I never saw myself as an urban studies scholar until i started studying informal water provision and now I am interested in so much more than that. This book looks like it will be a great read.

Hanoi becomes new retail battleground as 7-Eleven, GS25 move in https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Hanoi-becomes-new-retail-battleground-as-7-Eleven-GS25-move-in

New paper on density - asking how residents experience everyday densities as 'resource', 'threshold', & imaginary of the urban future. Open access. Such a pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues in Dar es Salaam on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

L’équipe de Parenthèses et 3 des auteurs de « Quand la Chine parle », venus présenter l’ouvrage au public vendredi dernier pour un moment d’échange passionnant.

Tomorrow is a historic day for Vietnam, when 63 provinces/cities will be merged into 34 & the district level of government will be eliminated nationwide. This photo essay shows workers changing signage at gov't buildings & provincial borders to reflect the new names. vnexpress.net/cac-tinh-tha...

🌍 L’Institut Convergences Migrations accueillera la 22e conférence annuelle de l’IMISCOE. Cette conférence internationale aura pour thème « Décentrer les études sur les migrations ». 📅 Du 1er juillet au 4 juillet 🕣 De 8 h 30 à 14 h 30 📍 Campus Condorcet En savoir plus👉 swll.to/yq1pB2

Présentation de l'ouvrage "Quand la #Chine parle". 👉 Librairie Parenthèses : le 4 juillet à 18h (parentheses-hk.com/soiree-chine...) 👉 Alliance Française de Jordan : le 5 juillet à 15h (afhongkong.org/community/ev...)

Pour notre dernière série de la saison, Cultures Monde va s’intéresser la semaine prochaine à 4 deltas et à leurs enjeux 💥 Delta du Danube : au rythme de la guerre 🏜️ Delta du Nil : la conquête du désert 🛢️ Delta du Niger : infiltrations pétrolières 🌾 Delta du Mékong : la submersion des rizières

New open access book – Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – published by Polity Books. 413 key terms defined & described. Also available as a paperback or hardback. To download or buy visit the publishers website: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China, a book edition Good to see the release of this copy, a republication edition of our journal special issue with the same title: w/ Yimin Zhao and Sin Yee Koh. It was a pleasant surprise when Taylor & Francis reached out in mid-November 2024 with a proposal…

Everyday infrastructures enable, mediate, and shape the architecture of urban living, sustaining routines of dwelling, inhabitation, and survival and forming the norm in daily rhythms for majority populations beyond linear temporalities of urban life. 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/ever...

Gentrification in Poland and East Germany shows how urban change in post-socialist contexts shares patterns—yet also diverges from 'western' norms and from each other. Rather than one model, the region reveals multiple trajectories. 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/post...

Hello, stranger? How attraction trumps interaction in ‘new’ public space by Sverre Bjerkeset buff.ly/e9j1aQ2 #SocialInteraction #EntrepreneurialCity #UrbanEthnography