To commemorate the journal's upcoming 25th anniversary, we are excited to announce the Emerging Scholars Conference—an opportunity for grad students and postdocs to showcase their work related to urban sociology—at Georgetown on April 23, 2027. Call for submissions: tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo

⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ How does the racial composition of everyday mobility patterns impact non-White arrest rates? New paper by @vachuska.bsky.social answers this question with unique smartphone tracking data from New York City. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Group Threat and the Policing of Mobility: Neighborhood Visiting Patterns and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates - Karl Vachuska, 2026

Research on group threat has identified the racial composition of neighborhoods as significant for understanding spatial variation in racial bias and discrimina...

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⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ Do immigrant neighborhoods face the same eviction rates as non-immigrant neighborhoods? New paper by Leung, Louis, Rangel, and Desmond at the link below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The second book to round out our debut City Books section is Yuki Kato's Gardens of Hope!

In our June issue, we debuted our new format for highlighting books in urban sociology: City Books! 📚 To learn more, we go straight to the source, asking authors what's exciting, unusual, or even controversial about their book. We've gotten great answers we're excited to share with you.

In 1979, incarcerated men in NY analyzed the link between neighborhoods and incarceration, finding that 75% of NY prisoners came from 7 neighborhoods in New York City. In a new paper, Jessica Simes, Ronald Day, and Louisa Holaday take a new look at the geography of incarceration. bit.ly/4v5bjJt

Can trees be poverty governance? In @elodieeg.bsky.social 's analysis of LA's TreePeople in the 90's, tree planting was positioned as crime prevention and personal responsibility to improve the economic and social condition of South Central LA. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Happy June 1st! ☀️ First up in our June issue is Jamie Lew's new article on how refugee families facing housing exploitation build alliances with other marginalized tenants, resisting housing inequality and expanding agency through grassroots interracial collaboration. Read more at the link below.

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⚠️ Our June issue is now live! ⚠️ In addition to a great set of articles, editors @annowens.bsky.social and @ordinarysquares.bsky.social introduce the new cover and the new City Books section, in which we highlight new books in urban sociology. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Ever wonder about what makes some places more attractive to stage a protest than others? Sociology has an answer for that! Check out the free article "Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States" and companion podcast: https://bit.ly/4tyxCWs. @cicojournal.bsky.social

My first solo-authored article is out in City & Community! I find that areas with one more residential development permit have 2.7% more low-level arrests in the following year, controlling for crime, calls for service, area demographics, and year effects. doi.org/10.1177/1535...

Technology is changing quickly, but we currently follow @sagepub.com's AI policy. We encourage both authors and reviewers to familiarize themselves with the appropriate use of AI in submission and review, available at the link below.

You can get funds to help bring social science knowledge and methods to bear in addressing community-based problems. Apply for an ASA CARI grant! Must have PhD in sociology or be enrolled in PhD-granting sociology program. Deadline Aug. 28. https://bit.ly/3O58KCY.

#FromtheArchives 10 years ago, CiCo published a special issue on residential segregation, asking authors to consider the role of segregation then and in the future. These essays, exploring racial stratification, opportunity, and urban transformation, are still highly relevant. Revisit here:

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#FromtheArchives Twenty years ago, CiCo readers were exploring power in cities through a series of papers in the March 2006 issue. These papers wrestle with how power functions in cities, who benefits most from it, and how we should study it. Revisit this fascinating issue at the link below.

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New in CiCo: Do college roommate assignments shape where we choose to live later in life? Matt Vogel, Samantha Friedman, and Stefan Ivanov find that students assigned a roommate of a different race or ethnicity are more than twice as likely to choose a diverse dorm room the following year!

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New in CiCo: Using the 2020 George Floyd protests as a case study, Evan Ferstl finds that walkability is associated with higher protest frequency—both citywide and at the census tract level. A timely reminder about how the built environment can shape political action! See more at the link below.

Places for Public Discourse: Walkability and Protest in the United States - Evan Ferstl, 2026

Social movement scholarship on the emergence of protest has limited engagement with urban scholarship on the spatial production of social relations. Spatial cha...

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Sociology grad students and researchers—Register for the next ASA proseminar and get practical guidance on best practices for field interviewing from Allison Hurst @liberalartsosu.bsky.social. April 9 at 3 pm Eastern. Free to student members. https://bit.ly/40SwCRg

If you haven't already, check out the great papers in our March issue! First up, Jacob Lederman’s study of Detroit examines how two different urban coalitions used placemaking as a tool to bridge contradictory goals in favor of market-aligned development. Link below.

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The final Associate Editor to introduce is Orly Clerge! Her work on race, migration, and cities makes her a great addition to the editorial team. She is also the author of The New Noir, an exploration of the making of Black diasporic suburbs. Welcome, Orly—we're thrilled to have you on the team!

The third Associate Editor we'd like to welcome is @jeremylevine.bsky.social! Jeremy's previous work on development established him as a leading voice on the role of nonprofits in urban governance, and his newer work looks at inequality in victim compensation law. We're thrilled to have him!

Another new feature we're excited to introduce is City Blocks🏙️ — highly-citable, short research notes that introduce new data, concepts, and methodologies to the study of urban life. If you have a small-scale contribution to make, see submission information below!

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Jessica Simes (jtsimes.bsky.social) is joining CiCo as an Associate Editor! Her work examines how the carceral system shapes inequality and health. Her award-winning book, Punishing Places, uses spatial analysis to show how incarceration impacts communities. We’re honored to have her on the team!

We'd love to review your article on sociological analyses of urban politics for @cicojournal.bsky.social! Here she is at LA City Hall. Where are you enjoying our new issue? #CiCointheCity

We love a good sociological analysis of transit and infrastructure here at @cicojournal.bsky.social - we'd be delighted to review your paper! Follow the journal to keep up on our journey! (Yes, there is a subway in LA...) #CiCointheCity #sociology #socsky

Over the next few days, we'll introduce our four new Associate Editors. First up: @philipgarboden.bsky.social, who studies supply-side housing market actors and policy. His work on landlords has shaped how we understand their role in housing markets and communities. We're lucky to have him!

We have a few new features we'd like to introduce starting with City Books—our new way of highlighting recently published books in urban sociology. You'll start to see these in issues over the next year, but in the meantime, let us know if you have a new book we should consider! Info below. 📚

You may have noticed that City & Community has a new look 😎 We took what we love about cities—connections, networks, public transit—and rendered them in Georgetown’s blue and grey and UCLA’s blue and gold. It’s just one of several exciting new changes you’ll see in the coming issues, so stay tuned!

With our March 2026 issue, we can officially welcome @annowens.bsky.social and Brian J. McCabe as the new editors of City & Community! They are excited to continue publishing the impactful research that the journal is known for. Their editorial introduction highlights the exciting changes to come.

Editorial Introduction - Brian J. McCabe, Ann Owens, 2026

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