🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📃 Effects of urban rail transit expansion on the mobility of the elderly: Findings from Singapore ✍️ Zhu & Diao 🔍 Urban rail line investment may benefit the #elderly, leading to improved #mobility, #accessibility to services/opportunities, and #walkability 📖 buff.ly/SyFEAkn

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📃 "Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment" ✍️ Qiao et al. employ the theoretical lens of state entrepreneurialism to examine the governance of Xuanwu Silicon Alley in Nanjing, China. 📖 buff.ly/ZEpWWhw

🔓 NEW in #UrbanStudies 📃 "Patch urbanism: Towards an integrated theoretical framework for examining spatial and temporal dynamics in the Asian rice belt" ✍️ Hawken & Isendahl examine the concept of patch #urbanism in the context of Southeast Asia’s desakota landscapes. 📖 buff.ly/LZkkBFb

📃 "Young adulthood and the city: Exploring the micro-foundations of youthification" ✍️ Shani & Bar-Haim 🔍 Shared understandings of young adulthood operate as cultural mechanisms linking individual choices to stable social patterns. 📖 buff.ly/cZaTa2l

📃 "Firm innovation in developing countries: Effects of urban agglomeration and global value chain integration" ✍️ Oguguo, Liouka & Deligianni 🔍 What is the effect of #UrbanAgglomeration and global value chain integration on #FirmInnovation in developing countries? 📖 buff.ly/gZkiwyo

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Royal Agency in Contemporary City Building in Southeast Asia" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW articles in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🚨 #UrbanStudies Vol. 62, Issue 13 (October 2025) out now! ✍️ Special Issue "Google, a stakeholder in local governance?" Guest editors: Antoine Courmont & Burcu Baykurt This collection explores how #Google has become a key actor in local #politics and urban environments. 📖 buff.ly/veREgdw

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Manufacturing the Urban: Manufactured Housing and Manufactured Home Parks" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea" ✍️ Yu-Ri Kim 🔍 This paper examines the evolution of daylife by drawing on fieldwork data from South Korea's partner dance scene. 📖 buff.ly/nwA8Ess

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 #UrbanStudies seeks submissions for a Special Issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice, exploring how cities confront the #climate crisis, #risk, and #inequality. Details & deadlines 👉 buff.ly/aAt8CVG

🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct" 🔍✍️ New research focused on #caregivers in #Chile by Tiznado-Aitken et al. goes beyond basic trip counts and digs into the real lived experience of #CareMobility. 📖 buff.ly/KDRT6MP

🌍 NEW in #UrbanStudies 📃 "Urbanization and social change in rural India" ✍️ Nijman et al. 🔍 #Urbanisation is affecting household dynamics and #class structures in rural #India. 📖 buff.ly/TmkoPwZ

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Home–neighbourhood: A material–affective infrastructure for the creative city" ✍️ @nicoletcook.bsky.social et al. explore the centrality of #home as a locus for creative work and as material–affective #infrastructure sustaining creative production. 📖 buff.ly/oSAwNsq

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Place, proximity and platform: The settlement system geography of Taobao village formation in China, 2014–2020" ✍️ Zhang et al. 🔍 How do urban proximity and provincial borders shape #Taobao village formation? 📖 buff.ly/O87BsbF

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ Introduction to #UrbanStudies Special Issue "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda" ✍️ Özatağan et al. 🔍 Authoritarian neoliberal urbanism reshapes cities to secure power amid local contradictions. 📖 buff.ly/i5d4zep

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Township economics: How the market structure of the informal economy impacts the recirculation of secondhand tires in South Africa" ✍️ Theodore et al. 🔍 In #SouthAfrica, informal #recycling #economies sustain #livelihoods but remain small-scale. 📖 buff.ly/PWAxLSU

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Royal Agency in Contemporary City Building in Southeast Asia" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🗣️ NEW #CriticalCommentary in #UrbanStudies 📘 "My city or my planet? Rethinking the EU cultural policy toward planetary heritage and planetary senses of belonging " by @aaceska.bsky.social 🔍 #Heritage should foster planetary #belonging to face planetary threats. 📖 buff.ly/UAghZIx

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "City diplomacy and high export values: Evidence from US metro areas" ✍️ Haddad et al. 🔍 City #diplomacy increases metro area exports by billions of dollars, with mid-sized cities benefitting the most from their international engagement. 📖 buff.ly/KgWU62Z

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies "Measuring city relationship strength beyond total counts: A multidimensional framework for distinguishing prominence from interdependence and significance" ✍️ Wang Tongjing 🔍 New framework for intercity/regional relationships. buff.ly/36hM5hC

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies "Embodied infrastructures and the spatial imagination of mobilities: ‘Following’ street waste-picker bodies within and among critical urban waste networks of Johannesburg" ✍️ J. Goeiman 🔍 Street waste-picker mobilities reveal slow infrastructural violence. buff.ly/dCrLOsh

🔓 NEW #OpenAccess paper in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Estrangement, embodiment and entanglement: Putting agonistic planning into practice through Urban Drama Labs" ✍️ Sachs Olsen et al. 🔍 Applied theatre can turn urban conflict into a tool for participatory governance. 📖 buff.ly/YLmVfxd

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Urban Transport as a Social Construct" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Manufacturing the Urban: Manufactured Housing and Manufactured Home Parks" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🚨 #UrbanStudies Volume 62, Issue 12 (September 2025) out now! ✍️ Featuring articles on #zoning, #gentrification, smart urbanism, #governance, postcolonial urbanisation, and colonial legacies. 📖 Read the full issue: buff.ly/QJU9US9

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing" ✍️ T. Zhu & X. Zhu call for making #habitability central to #urbandevelopment to counter inclusive growth’s dependence on #capital accumulation. 📖 buff.ly/TQfGAx1

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Housing affordability and rent control: The case of elderly renters" ✍️ Bian, Chen & @hanchenraphael.bsky.social 🔍 In NYC, rent stabilization mainly benefits long-term #elderly #renters, leaving unstable renters disadvantaged. 📖 buff.ly/KiGZovN

🚨 #UrbanStudies Volume 62, Issue 11 (August 2025) out now! ✍️ Featuring articles on #housing, #gentrification, #resettlement, #urbanmobilityinjustice and #publicspacedesign. 📖 Check it out! buff.ly/UgkyYZo

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 📄 "Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing" ✍️ Meng Xu 🔍 This ethnographic account of a Beijing mall shows how malls function as social infrastructure fostering sociability. 📖 buff.ly/hmHhury

🌍🔓 NEW #OpenAccess article in #UrbanStudies 📃 "Feeling metropolitan: A framework for place attachment in metropolitan regions" ✍️ @marionatf.bsky.social highlights the role of spatial consciousness in shaping attachment at the metropolitan scale. 📖 buff.ly/HKZV9Ks

🏙️ NEW articles in our Special Issue "Google, a Major Stakeholder in Local Governance?" Take a look 👇 🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Google, a Major Stakeholder in Local Governance?" 📃 "Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development" ✍️ Carr & Madron 🔍 The #Google #DataCentre project in #Luxembourg reveals dynamics of post-political urban #governance. 🔗 buff.ly/79cedQA

🏙️ NEW articles in our Special Issue on "Global Corporate Landlords and Tenant Struggles" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

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🚨 #UrbanStudies Volume 62, Issue 10 (August 2025) out now! 📘 Articles on #UrbanGovernance, #Sustainability, #Smartification & more ✍️ Includes a debates paper, critical commentary & book review 📖 buff.ly/ny9j4md

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW articles in our Special Issue on "Authoritarian Neoliberal and Illiberal Urbanisms: Towards a Research Agenda" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🗣️ URBAN STUDIES ANNUAL LECTURE 2025 On 16 April 2025, Professor Gautam Bhan presented the 2025 Annual Lecture, “New Directions for Southern Urban Praxis,” at the City Debates conference in Beirut. 👉 Watch the recording: buff.ly/1NjcmO6 #UrbanStudies #UrbanResearch

🏙️ NEW articles in our Special Issue on "Global Corporate Landlords and Tenant Struggles" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies "Greater centralization, increased marketization? Evidence from China’s primary urban land market" ✍️ Zhang et al. 🔍 Centralising China's urban land market improves market-based resource allocation and market performance. 📖 buff.ly/DJlaoDj

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies "The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods" ✍️ Quinton et al. 🔍 Green factors draw high-income households to both urban and suburban areas. 📖 buff.ly/dZRWJhs