📢We have a whole range of thematic calls on highlight topics - please have a look here 💥https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rjar-thematic-calls/

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

📢Join me and the Journal of Architecture (RIBA) team as a Reviews Editor - you will develop a new section on critical reviews of the literature, books, exhibitions & events. Remote, ~2 hrs/week, £3k honorarium. Apply now! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

📢 To celebrate the release of C.P. Pow: Selected Essays (2025), USF will dedicate one 2025 International Fellowship in his memory — for an urban scholar from or working in East & Southeast Asia. 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/u7KN50VOxlH

What makes a village beautiful? Listening to villagers in rural China’s revitalisation drive -> new paper with Yu Yan and Long Zhou on rural classification and community needs in Zhejiang Province 📝https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13467581.2025.2510612#d1e199

We're in fundraising mode at @cityinstitute.bsky.social to secure endowment funds to honour the inspiring work of our dear colleagues and CITY's former Directors @rkeil.bsky.social and Linda Peake. Please contribute if you can - those in 🇨🇦 will get a tax receipt: donate.yorku.ca/site/Donatio...

‘C.P. Pow: Selected Essays’ is now available through the Urban Studies Foundation. It includes some of Pow's most incisive and quietly radical work on the urban. I had the privilege of writing the introduction – a small gesture of respect for a scholar whose absence since 2021 is still deeply felt.

📢 Delighted to see The Journal of Architecture ranked Q1 in the latest SJR metrics 💥 As one of the leading international journals engaging critically with architecture and the built environment, we remain committed to publishing field-defining work. www.scimagojr.com/journalsearc...

27 Feb, 10:00, join the USL PhD cohort for a review of their projects. Whitworth Hall, Keepers' Room.

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What is ‘urban health’? We’ve given it some thought: www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

Read (and critique!) our newest here: f1000research.com/articles/14-...

Defining urban health for strategic action? A co-authored WHO strategy paper, just published, comments and reviews encouraged and very welcome. f1000research.com/articles/14-...

New issue of @thejoa.bsky.social is out. Read our editorial: Tracing architecture through the entangled www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to all of our 1,000 new followers on BlueSky! 🦋 If you think that your network is interested in urban studies funding opportunities and scholarship, will you re-share this post and help us grow further? You can follow us at our verified BlueSky account here: @urbanstudiesfoundation.org 🌇

🔔 Now accepting applications for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨ Submit your proposals before the deadline on 17th February 2025. Visit the USF website for more info! 👉 ow.ly/9Wxn50Ug4zQ #USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies

AzuKo (azuko.org) works to end housing poverty, provide safe water & sanitation, and support women to lead better lives. Please support them - until 10 December, your donation will be doubled! Only five days left, do good this holiday season 🙏https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002TPXM5AAP

🌟 Just out - Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai - new Urban Studies paper with Purva Dewoolkar, Sitaram Shelar, Ali Browne & Elsa Holm 🌟 Free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

China Water Network workshop Universities of Manchester & Melbourne: "Unsettling Water Politics? Digitalising Water in China and Beyond" on 3/12, 9am UK time, with guest speakers Qinghong Xu, Godfred Amankwaa, Caixia Man, Cecilia Alda Vidal, and Yuzong Chen. Zoooom: see QR code below 👇

If in Manchester, join Ziqiu Ren and others on 3/12 for the Informality and Visual Methods in Urban Research PhD Symposium! Innovative ideas and global perspectives on urban transformations with guest discussants Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer. Register here: bit.ly/3B2Gkam

We are hiring! ✨ We're looking for two motivated co-editors for The Journal of Architecture. Help us drive excellence in architectural research. Apply now via the link below. jobs.architecture.co...

#USFSeminarSeries: 'Youth On The Move' invites applications for "Doing Mobile Ethnography: Learning from the Other ‘Other’", an early-career scholars’ training Workshop in Urban Methodology. May 13-14th, Shanghai, 2024. Deadline March 15th. ow.ly/c0fK50QJSb3

New paper on assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach in @Nature_NPJ urban sustainability - open access www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New open access paper with Cecilia Alda-Vidal, Ali Browne and Mary Lawhon on sanitation configurations in #Lilongwe journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Open access paper with the brilliant Qi Liu from our research on changing socio-metabolic practices in urbanising China is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Now online: Deserts Are Not Empty, Edited by Samia Henni - Book review by Ivan Lopez Munuera @BardArch www.tandfonline.com/...

📢 Materialised power and transitioning modernity: the architecture of Beijing Hotel, 1917–1974 - New paper by Yinrui Xie @unilincoln www.tandfonline.com/...

📢 Now online: Pastoral entrapment and the idyllic-carceral continuum - By Hanneke H. Stuit @UvA_Amsterdam www.tandfonline.com/...

📢 Comfort in a castle: adaptation due to long-term residency in a historic monument - New paper by Mattias Legnér @uppsalauni www.tandfonline.com/...

🌟Editors’ Choice🌟 Free access to Martin Hershenzon’s article ‘The environmental semantics of rural and urban architecture standards in British Mandate of Palestine, 1920–1940’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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