The Urban Studies Journal has issued a call for papers for a special issue on “Operationalizing Southern Urbanism(s) in Uncertain Times,” inviting contributions that show what it means to operationalize southern urbanism 2.0 today. Abstracts are due Aug. 1. #urbanism #urbanplanning

This weekend I (Ray) attended the Bioregional Regeneration Bay Delta unConference Spring ‘26 and folks highly recommended watching The Aqueduct Between Us to learn about the struggles LA (and California at large) have with water. #urbanism #urbanplanning #RegenerativeDesign #WaterResilience

The DAAD EPOS Scholarship offers a fully funded master’s degree in sustainable development management in Germany for students from developing countries. Recipients receive 992 euros monthly, plus insurance and travel allowances. Apply by June 1, 2026. #urbanism #urbanplanning #Scholarship #DAAD

New research uses AI to reveal that shared rental listings in LA County frequently employ exclusionary language based on personal characteristics, behaviors, and lifestyles, making it harder for diverse groups to access affordable housing. #urbanism #urbanplanning #AffordableHousing #FairHousing

The Centre for Public Impact is hiring acity lead for Latin America to support city innovation programs with public servants across the region, with preference for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. Apply by May 11. #urbanism #urbanplanning #CityInnovation #PublicImpact #LatinAmerica

The European Community Land Trust Network and The Good Economy Partnership are hosting an online launch of Community Land Trusts in Europe: State of the Sector Report, exploring CLT impacts and pathways to scale. May 27. #urbanism #urbanplanning #CommunityLandTrust #AffordableHousing

University of Reading is hiring a critical human geographer with experience teaching quantitative and/or mixed methods. £47,389-£54,893 salary. Apply by May 13. #urbanism #urbanplanning #HumanGeography #QuantitativeGeography #AcademicJobs

Washington, D.C.’s Metro is considering automating its Red Line trains, which would be the first driverless subway in the US. #urbanism #urbanplanning #WMATA #RedLine #DriverlessTrains

Modern language accessibility means knowing when to translate “community engagement” into “pls we are BEGGING you” 🚌😭 #urbanism #publictransit #samtrans

The City of Toronto is hiring 21 municipal construction inspectors to oversee roads, sidewalks, bikeways and utility infrastructure across the city. $44.64-$48.88 hourly rate. Apply by May 11. #urbanism #urbanplanning #CivilEngineering #PublicWorks #TorontoJobs

New York City secured a historic $31 million judgment against landlords of two Bronx apartment buildings over long-standing issues like broken elevators and rat infestations. #urbanism #urbanplanning #HousingJustice #Bronx #TenantRights

The Urban Studies Foundation is offering fully funded international fellowshipsfor early-to-mid-career urban scholars from the Global South to support 3-9 month visiting sabbaticals and publishable research. Apply by July 6. #urbanism #urbanplanning #GlobalSouth #UrbanStudies

Transform Transport launched an interactive 15-minute city score Europe map, visualizing walkability and accessibility to essential services across 786 urban areas. (Thanks Ming) #urbanism #urbanplanning #15MinuteCity #Walkability #UrbanMobility

Humankind is offering a “Mastering Urban Mobility Change“ course for city makers and practitioners to learn frameworks and methodologies for accelerating human-centric urban mobility transitions and engaging communities. The four-session online course costs €250. May 20. #urbanism #urbanplanning

Issue 68 is out now! New LA Subway Station, Crackdown on Landlords, and Water Rights urbanismnow.substack.com/p/68-new-la-... #urbanism #urbanplanning

LA opened its first new subway station in 25 years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #urbanism #urbanplanning #LAMetro #PublicTransit #Subway

The European Community Land Trust Network and The Good Economy Partnership are hosting an online launch of Community Land Trusts in Europe: State of the Sector Report, exploring CLT impacts and pathways to scale. May 27. #urbanism #urbanplanning #CommunityLandTrusts #CLT #AffordableHousing

Urban Design Lab is hosting a five-day online GIS Masterclass on mapping, spatial analysis and QGIS workflows for urban planning and design. May 4-8. #urbanism #urbanplanning #GIS #QGIS #UrbanDesign

KU Leuven is hiring a full-time research professor in landscape and urbanism to lead research on landscape architecture, design and socio-ecological challenges. Starting grant of €110,000 available. Apply by Sept. 1. #urbanism #urbanplanning #LandscapeArchitecture #AcademicJobs #KULeuven

The University of Vienna’s Department of Economic Sociology is hiring two doctoral researchers, with one position focused on work, welfare and social cohesion and the other on institutional change, crisis and climate change. Contracts up to four years. Apply by May 31. #urbanism #urbanplanning

University of Reading is hiring two lecturers in human geography. A critical human geographer with experience teaching quantitative and/or mixed methods. Apply by May 13. A critical human geographer to teach core human geography concepts and qualitative methods. Apply by May 24. #urbanism

Copenhagen utilized value capture and land development strategies to fund its massive metro expansion entirely without public tax money. The video is an awesome dive into why #urbanism #urbanplanning #Copenhagen #PublicTransit #ValueCapture

The City of Toronto is hiring 21 municipal construction inspectors to oversee roads, sidewalks, bikeways and utility infrastructure across the city. $44.64-$48.88 hourly rate. Apply by May 11. #urbanism #urbanplanning #TorontoJobs #ConstructionJobs #Infrastructure

Challenger Cities speaks with The Bentway CEO Ilana Altman about how Toronto turned the space beneath the Gardiner Expressway into a vibrant public realm, showing how cities can retrofit active infrastructure without waiting for demolition. #urbanism #urbanplanning #TheBentway #Toronto #PublicSpace

The Centre for Public Impact is hiring acity lead for Latin America to support city innovation programs with public servants across the region, with preference for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. Apply by May 11. #urbanism #urbanplanning #LatinAmerica #Innovation #PublicService

The Urban Studies Foundation is offering fully funded international fellowshipsfor early-to-mid-career urban scholars from the Global South to support 3-9 month visiting sabbaticals and publishable research. Apply by July 6. #urbanism #urbanplanning #UrbanStudies #GlobalSouth #Fellowship

Vermont is breaking ground on its first neighborhood-scale geothermal project as part of an affordable housing development that will use a cost-effective, all-electric system to heat and cool homes, providing a blueprint for decarbonized new construction. #urbanism #urbanplanning #affordablehousing

SurUrbano speaks with Priscila Coli Rocha about how criminal organizations shape Rio de Janeiro’s peripheries, arguing that criminal governance is central to city-making and deeply entangled with planning, infrastructure and the state. #urbanism #urbanplanning #criminalgovernance #riodejaneiro

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is hiring an organizing director to lead tenant organizing, support tenant associations and connect building-level campaigns to broader housing justice and policy fights. $101,300 salary. #urbanism #urbanplanning #HousingJustice #TenantRights

Sightline Institute is hiring a lead researcher, housing and cities to advance pro-housing policy and zoning reform across Cascadia, with a focus on Washington state. $106,000-$125,000 salary. #urbanism #urbanplanning #HousingPolicy #ZoningReform #Cascadia

A Guardian opinion piece argues cities from Barcelona to Paris show how women leaders have advanced safer, greener, more inclusive public spaces by prioritizing care, mobility and access over car-dominated planning. #urbanism #urbanplanning #InclusiveCities #SustainableMobility #WomenInLeadership

Housing Accelerator Fund is hiring an asset managerto oversee its affordable housing loan portfolio and support permanent lending as the San Francisco Bay Area CDFI scales its impact. $115,000-$135,000 salary. #urbanism #urbanplanning #AffordableHousing #CDFI #AssetManagement

New research examines feminist public spaces in Montreal and Montevideo, showing how alliances among civil society, municipal feminists and urban professionals can reshape public space through feminist urbanism. #urbanism #urbanplanning #feministurbanism #inclusivedesign #genderperspective

Fix Hudson Link is seeking two volunteers, an open source lead (US-based) and an advocacy lead (New York-based), to help run its campaign to improve public transportation. #urbanism #urbanplanning #PublicTransit #CivicTech #TransitAdvocacy

MIT researchers have produced the first citywide map of pedestrian activity in New York City, revealing how much walking has been overlooked in transportation planning and making a stronger case for funding safer, people-first streets #urbanism #urbanplanning #walkability #pedestriansafety #nyc

The latest issue of Urbanism Now is out! #67: Neighborhood Geothermals, Feminist Public Spaces, and NYC Pedestrian Activity This includes 12 all new job opportunities and many other great resources! urbanismnow.substack.com/p/67-neighbo... #urbanism

Eurocities is hiring a project officer in Barcelona to support its citizen science and science-based urban policy work through the CitiObs Horizon Europe project. €29,600 salary. Apply by May 6. eurocities.eu/project-offi... #urbanism #urbanplanning #CitizenScience #HorizonEurope #hiring

The annual Jane’s (Jane Jacobs) Walk festival is bringing free, community-led walking conversations to hundreds of cities worldwide to foster neighborhood connection and discovery. Happening in many cities including SF. May 1-3, 2026. (Thanks chip) #urbanism #urbanplanning #JanesWalk #Community

A fully funded PhD position is available through the interdisciplinary C4Land graduate school, a collaboration between the University of Melbourne and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. #urbanism #urbanplanning #PhDPosition #Sustainability #ClimateChange

HKU’s Department of Urban Planning and Design is seeking a professor on tenure terms to join an inter-disciplinary team working across urban planning and urban studies, with a start date in January 2027. Apply by May 29. #urbanism #urbanplanning #AcademicJobs #UrbanStudies #HKU

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy seeks aconsultant to evaluate its Africa programfocused on land-based financing, municipal fiscal health and climate-responsive urban development. $60,000 budget. Apply byMay 22. #urbanism #urbanplanning #Africa #LandPolicy #ClimateAction

The University of Amsterdam is hiring two PhD students for HOU-EQUAL, a new Vidi project examining how housing systems shape inequality across societies, from macro-level dynamics to household-level outcomes across five countries. €3,059-€3,881 salary. Apply byMay 25. #urbanism #urbanplanning

The National Housing Crisis Task Force is hiring a summer research assistant to support its National Housing Agenda across seven policy areas, from regulatory reform to housing finance. Part-time, remote, $30-$40/hour. Apply by May 8. #urbanism #urbanplanning #housingpolicy #housingcrisis

OTIS is hiring a transportation grants coordinator to coordinate and write cross-departmental state and federal grant applications, aiming to improve transportation systems throughout the city. #urbanism #urbanplanning #transportation #hiring #grants

Aalborg University is offering a PhD stipend in architectural research focused on urban social resilience, building heritage and adaptive reuse. Full-time position starting Aug. 15 in Aalborg. Apply by May 5. #urbanism #urbanplanning #ArchitecturalResearch #AdaptiveReuse #SocialResilience

MIT’s Sustainable Urbanization Lab is seeking a postdoctoral associate to conduct empirical research on resilience and innovation in urban, housing and commercial real estate sectors. Apply by May 1. #urbanism #urbanplanning #SustainableCities #RealEstateResearch #PostdocJobs

Riley Waltz built a cool tool to see how many people are riding Amtrak right now. #urbanism #urbanplanning #Amtrak #Rail #Trains

Streetscapes has a new video out on how The Dutch city of Groningen successfully transformed its downtown from a car-dominated landscape into a thriving, pedestrian-friendly space by implementing a radical 1977 traffic circulation plan that restricted through-traffic. #urbanism #urbanplanning

Auburn, Alabama, has overhauled its zoning for transit corridors, banning single-story strip malls and implementing height-based regulations to encourage higher-density development. (2 minutes) #urbanism #urbanplanning #ZoningReform #TransitOrientedDevelopment #SmartGrowth

99% Invisible has a great episode about how Co-op City in the Bronx, the world’s largest housing cooperative, provides affordable living for ordinary people, despite its complex history of union organizing, urban renewal, and resident strikes. (43 minutes) #urbanism #urbanplanning