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Where the sea touches the street, urban theory changes. In City 30.1-2, Dulce María Quintero Romero and Ulises Moreno-Tabarez argue that small coastal cities in Guerrero and Oaxaca are not margins, but vantage points for urban theory and justice. doi.org/10.1080/1360...

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City 30.1-2: Beyond “should they stay, or should they go?” Knippenberg & Davids examine how contested colonial statues are managed in Flanders, showing how heritage governance is often reactive, cautious and shaped by institutional inertia. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1360...

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Peer review is never only procedural. In a new City article, Hisham Abusaada & Abeer Elshater ask how urban research journals might move beyond epistemic purity and practise review as epistemic care. DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2026.2633811 #UrbanStudies #PeerReview

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New in City: Alina Bezlaj’s “Sensing regeneration in a working-class Dublin suburb.” Article examines how regeneration, social housing and changing experiences of heat reshape residents’ sense of home, community and symbolic displacement. doi.org/10.1080/1360...

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City 30.1–2 is out. The cover takes us to La Llorada in Azoyú, Guerrero: an annual procession where two sides of a small city meet in the rain for a day of atonement, grief, joy, reconciliation, and wilful tears. More from our 30th anniversary issue soon.

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In 2023–24, a London local authority team developed a proposal for a Sensory Archive: an all digital, participatory, qualitative evidence base documenting what violence affecting young people looks, sounds & feels like, grounded in young people’s own experiences: cityjournal.online/sensory-arch...

Despair and repair: a sensory archive | City Journal Online

In 2023-24, a team at a London local authority developed a proposal to create a ‘Sensory Archive’. The team included Ariana Markowitz and Abbie Ametewee,

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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

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People

“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

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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.