When vacancy is normalised and access is criminalised, “property” is doing political work. CITY’s new editorial, by @samburgum.bsky.social takes trespass seriously as a window onto urban life. doi.org/10.1080/1360...

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

City con @ijurresearch.bsky.social y UAGro invitan a: 🎙️ Seminario “Espectralidades Afroindígenas” Ponente: Dra. Madelaine Cahuas Comentarista: Dra. Maribel Nicacio Gonzalo 🗓️ 24 oct 2025 | ⏰ 14:00–16:00 (CDMX) | 💻 Zoom: qrcd.org/9DmX | Lecturas: qrcd.org/9J3x

City (Vol. 29, Issues 3–4): Ulises Moreno-Tabarez, “Errantric solidarities: on reading Apartheid Remains between Guerrero and Durban.” A review of Sharad Chari’s Apartheid Remains: Historical and Material Remains of Revolution and Resistance in Durban. 🔗 doi-org.lse.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/1360...

Now published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory and Action. Towards a Crisis of Resilience? Eight takes on a Troubling Concept. This one was two years in review, so delighted to see it out there. @city-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gramsci between the city and sea [Book Review] Johan Pries City, Vol. 29, 2025 Issue 3–4, pp. 684–687 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Gramsci between the city and sea [Book Review] Johan Pries City, Vol. 29, 2025 Issue 3–4, pp. 684–687 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Replace the M8: voices and visions on the future of an urban motorway in Glasgow Andrew Hoolachan and Peter Kelly Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Art, plants, and urban climate adaptation Stefan Koderisch, Maciej Kowalewkski, Marek Ostrowski, Anna Zadrożna Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Design as prompt: experiments in pluriversal politics and southern urban practice Anu Sabhlok et al. Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Logistics as method: design and pluriversal politics in Rosario Leandro Minuchin Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Living in and with ruins: decolonising spatial pedagogies for the Global South Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat and Petros Phokaides Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Hybrid pedagogies for knowledge coproduction, trans-local solidarity and collective action Natacha Quintero González Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations Hanna Hilbrandt and Julie Ren Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Higher education ecosystems in the global South: possibilities for pedagogic disruption towards urban equality Ruchika Lall et al. Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Habitation counter-stories: Thinking from the autoconstructed basti – Cheeta Camp, Mumbai Purva Dewoolkar and Lalitha Kamath Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

📣 Article alert! New, excellent piece on a citizen-led campaign to replace an inner-city motorway in Glasgow 🛣️ from our own @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social & Peter Kelly, who leads the group ‘Replace the M8' 👏 Read #FreeAccess in @city-journal.bsky.social now 💪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dirty research: A call towards decolonial urban knowledge production Tanzil Shafique Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Pics from our guided walk in Birmingham yesterday as part of the City-Grand Union Fringe … thanks to everyone who came and esp. the fabulous speakers ❤️

Pics from our guided walk in Birmingham yesterday as part of the City-Grand Union Fringe … thanks to everyone who came and esp. the fabulous speakers ❤️

Careful obstruction: Rethinking urban knowledge formations from a protest site in India Srilata Sircar, Raktim Ray, Opaque Paiker Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Accusations of academic extractivism in Chile’s historical poor neighborhoods: root causes and alternative practices Javier Ruiz-Tagle et al. Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

At RGS? Come on by. We're here.

Decolonising urban knowledge(s): An ordinary imperative in extraordinary times Catalina Ortiz, Penny Tavlou, Marina Siqueira, Giulia Testori Volumen 29. 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Voices of protest and the right to the city in the context of overtourism. Reflections from the historic city of Chania, Crete (Greece) Yiannis Zaimakis & Marina Papadaki Volumen 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Meritocracy from below: Dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood Anthony Miro Born Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Inquilab at the edge of the city: Encountering capital and citizenship in Seelampur Amulya Anita Gurumurthy et al. Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Violence against Istanbul and strategies for resistance Aysegul Can Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Friction-free and the creation of contactless and robotised delivery infrastructure Noel Chung Volume 29, 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Forging unity, marking distinction: Mumbai’s middle-class tenants’ struggles for defending rent control in the post-liberalisation era Paankhi Agrawal Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

How urban decorum works: Territorial othering in Italian cities Cristina Mattiucci and Anke Schwarz Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Good news, everyone! City's Issue 29.3-4 is out. Editorial: Spanglish city limits -Ulises Moreno-Tabarez Yes, it's fully in Spanglish; meant to spark up convo re: upcoming RGS panel on Urban Omissions: Untranslated Concepts and Debates in Urban Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Extremely generative review «Urban Methods for the Pluriverse» of my book Researching Otherwise by #IndivarJonnalagadda in @city-journal.bsky.social. Read here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Outreach with @streetskitchen.bsky.social this morning 🫧 #theremaybebubblesahead #heartisaweaponsizeofafist #solidaritynotcharity @bcusociology.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @city-journal.bsky.social

What does a city become when it strives to be frictionless? This new paper on friction-free cities in @city-journal.bsky.social documents how delivery platforms’ ongoing pursuit of smooth urban flows gives rise to contactless, robotised infrastructure and spaces of avoidance: doi.org/10.1080/1360...

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods: doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Honoured to have ben entrusted to write up my thoughts on Sharad Chari's wonderful "Gramsci at sea" for @city-journal.bsky.social alongside Moreno-Tabarez review of Chari's other new book, "Apartheid remains". Both books are outstanding, although in very different ways... doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Original Articles Sharing social reproduction in a housing commons: the case of La Borda in Barcelona Santiago del Río Volume 29, 2024 - 1-2 doi.org/10.1080/1360... From City , 29 (1–2), Pages 7–27

Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 1-2 is OUT. Check it: Editorial There is no alternative to creating an alternative: critical urban studies in the authoritarian moment David Madden doi.org/10.1080/1360... From City Original Article, Pages 1-6

If you loved Small Axe as much as I did, you'll probably enjoy this paper from @city-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK Andy Inch, J. Slade, S. Brownill, G. Ellis, M. Howcroft, D. Humphry, L. Leeson, G. O’Hara, F. Sartorio & G. Robbins doi.org/10.1080/1360... from City 28.5-6 Original Article, Pages: 681-704

Version city: Small Axe, London and the archive Gareth Millington & Miranda Armstrong doi.org/10.1080/1360... from City 28.5-6 Original Article, Pages 659-680

ICYMI: Original Articles It is ‘more than just about building houses’: collaborating towards a housing commons in Leeds Neil McKenna, Paul Chatterton & Andrew Wallacee doi.org/10.1080/1360... from City 28.5-6 Original Article, Pages 611-636

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

CfP RGS-IBG AC2025, Uni of Birmingham (26-29.8.2025) Session title: Urban Omissions: Untranslated concepts & debates in urban studies We welcome contributions on overlooked urban debates, concepts, & movements in English-language urban studies journals cityjournal.online/call-for-pap...

ICYMI: Issue 28.5-6 has been out for a bit! While we gear up for the next release, dive into our standout editorial by Alexander Tarr: "Cities, Computation, and Capitalism. cityjournal.online/journals/cit...

"Memories in the Water: A Testimony from Xochistlahuaca" – In our latest #CoastalCommons video-blog, four voices—a child, a young woman, an adult woman, and a trans woman—share memories and *affects* tied to the rivers of Costa Chica. @urbanstudiesfoundation.org cityjournal.online/memories-in-...