🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Tümtürk et al. test Jane Jacobs' most neglected condition for urban #diversity, building age variation, using a new Temporal Fingerprint Matrix across three Dutch cities. Incremental development outperforms instant development for #retail. 📖 buff.ly/wtO1YCY

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Older adults do not experience #AgeFriendlyTransport equally. Ho-Yin Chan shows how #PrioritySeating and concessionary fares in #HongKong reflect socio-spatial inequalities and differing meanings of independence. 📖 buff.ly/FrkMNTP

In a new article published in @urbanstudiesjournal.com, I examine the investment and management strategy of Akelius, one of the few global corporate #landlords active in France. To do this, I cross-referenced public databases to identify its network of real estate companies and their holdings. 1/7

🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Cities as global actors in international politics: Patterns, processes, and impacts" Take a look 👇️🧵 #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Health Equity" Take a look 👇️🧵 #UrbanStudies

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Pollard & Salvaire examine the coalitions underpinning #opposition to #housing #development across the #Paris metropolitan area, reveal a highly fragmented landscape of contention. 📖 buff.ly/Gerpui6

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ @aftp.bsky.social presents a method for reverse engineering landlords’ local strategies, applied to #Akelius, a global corporate #landlord whose French #housing portfolio has been reconstructed by cross-referencing open administrative datasets. 📖 buff.ly/4IqHjK6

🗣️ NEW #DebatesPaper in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Zhai & Zhai develop Wildlife-Affective Urban #Design as a conceptual framework for examining how urban form shapes multispecies encounter through fear, curiosity, attachment, irritation, avoidance, and unequal exposure to harm. 📖 buff.ly/fPYuCue

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Rovner & Talen 🔍️ Effective preservation-equity #policy requires context-specific strategies rather than universal approaches. 📖 buff.ly/C58he5Z

🌍️ NEW in #Urban Studies ✍️ Nogueira et al. foreground the role of women’s #labour and collective organisation in bridging gaps in #food provision and acquisition and argue that food functions as #infrastructure. 📖 buff.ly/4JcJTvh

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Abdelmalek 🔍️ How is #SpatialJustice institutionally produced in Cairo? A mixed-methods analysis of waqf-based governance and gated #urbanism reveals measurable inequalities in access to urban services. 📖 buff.ly/GXOyznS

📢 #UrbanStudies 63(9) (July 2026) ✍ Papers on #housing and residential dynamics, #land, #property, and #development finance, #neighborhood #inequality, social #stratification, and community #resilience, and methods/emerging themes in urban research. 📖 buff.ly/z0qQDuG

🔓️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Cai and Tan argue that the relationship between #transit and #neighborhood change can vary across different zones and time periods within the urban area served by a transit line. 📖 buff.ly/AtmNbLJ

🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Urban Imaginations and Urban Futures" Take a look 👇️🧵

🏙️ NEW in our Special Issue "Temporalities of Urban Natures" Take a look 🧵👇️ #UrbanStudies

🗣️ NEW #CriticalCommentary in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Rokem et al. investigate the resurgence of nationalist #politics through a global urban studies lens, arguing that #cities are critical arenas in which contemporary #nationalist projects are enacted, negotiated and contested. 📖 buff.ly/R7ekbHo

🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation" Take a look 🧵👇️ #UrbanStudies

🏆️ Announcing the winners of the #UrbanStudies Podcast Grant 🎙️ 👉️ Of the 60 podcast proposals received, we have selected 3 outstanding winners: "Sensory Urbanism," "Strange City," and "The Urban Imagination." Congratulations! 🎉 🔗 Details on our website: buff.ly/ZiTEmLN

🔓️ NEW in our Special Issue "Indigenous urban studies: Creative urban futures, Resistant histories, indigenist subjects" Take a look 👇️🧵 #UrbanStudies

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies 🔍️ Through ethnographic fieldwork in #Accra, @professor-andoh.bluesky.social uses hybrid #urbanism to examine how self-built #housing and unregulated #livelihoods are shaped by overlapping systems of #authority, #accountability, and spatial #regulation. 📖 buff.ly/ZDN2UAe

🔓️ NEW #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Fransen et al. analyse #digital #resilience practices (the everyday ways households respond to shocks through digital #technologies) and how repetitive digital practices form extra-legal rules in Mathare, #Kenya. 📖 buff.ly/ujJTd99

❓️WHAT'S THE FUS? 🗣️ #UrbanStudies is launching The Future of Urban Studies (FUS), an initiative dedicated to reflecting on the current state of urban studies and imagining where it might go next. 🤝 Join the discussion! 🔍️ Details: buff.ly/ABXKuuk

🏙️ #UrbanStudies Annual Lecture 2026 🎤 Michael Storper (LSE, UCLA) will present this year's annual lecture on the topic of "The Vanishing Urban Frontier" at RGS-IBG London. 📅 2 September 2026 | 4:30-6:15pm BST 📍 Education Centre, RGS Join us! Abstract here: buff.ly/EdGxI9y

📚️ Two new #BookReviewForums in #UrbanStudies 🗣️ 👇️ Read them here: 📖 buff.ly/XXXHOpJ 📖 buff.ly/8Q4yYDG

🌍️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Wang et al. 🔍️ This paper proposes the concept of the agency of #memory and a framework of the economisation of memory politics through a tracking study of the whole urban redevelopment process of Shibati, Chongqing, #China. 📖 buff.ly/l782n2k

🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Indigenous Urban Studies: Creative Urban Futures, Resistant Histories, Indigenist Subjects" Take a look 🧵👇️ #UrbanStudies

🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️🔍️ Erol & Foye examine the evolution of #wealth #inequalities across regions in #Britain, and in particular the role of house price #inflation, #homeownership and #mortgage debt in driving these wealth inequalities. 📖 buff.ly/oxrQnuF

🔓️ #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Ahn & @kazepov.bsky.social investigate the #policy activities that shape and transform policy learning into concrete policy components through a series of interconnected, iterative stages of the policy cycle within urban policy mobility. 📖 buff.ly/kpYvCS5

🔓️ #OpenAccess in #UrbanStudies ✍️ Fried et al. 🔍️ #Tech #city institutions function as enacted assemblages shaped by individuals’ interstitial practices. 📖 buff.ly/6SmGXSQ

🌍️ NEW in our Special Issue "Manufacturing the urban: Manufactured housing and manufactured home parks" Take a look 🧵👇️ #UrbanStudies