Latest Urban Studies news 11/03/24

Call for Papers: Critical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studies

The first theme in the Critical and Conceptual Advances in Urban Studies 2024 Call for Papers initiative is now open for submissions: Urban Transport as a Social Construct.

Visit urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers for details.

Latest articles on OnlineFirst

The politics of drains: Everyday negotiations of infrastructure imaginaries in Accra by Afra Foli and Justus Uitermark

In this open access paper, Foli and Uitermark unpack the infrastructural imaginary of urban residents in a neighbourhood in the northern periphery of Accra in Ghana, focussing on drainage.

Commuting to the urban tech campus: Tech companies’ and their elite workers’ co-production of South Lake Union, Seattle by Estelle Broyer

Estelle Broyer demonstrates how tech professionals commuting to neighbourhoods redeveloped for their work are contributing to their transformation into urban tech campuses in this open access article.

‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes by Julie Berg and Clifford Shearing

This open access article is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: The new private urban governance: Vestiges, ventures and visibility.

Julie Berg and Clifford Shearing note the influence of shifting harmscapes on the everyday reality and practices of security practitioners within changing socio-material contexts – notably the Anthropocene.

Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market by Helen XH Bao

New open access study by Helen XH Bao investigates whether behavioural interventions can reduce racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market.

Accommodating ‘generation rent’: Unsettling dominant discourses on rental housing reform in Catalonia and Spain by Lorenzo Vidal, Javier Gil and Miguel A Martínez

Lorenzo Vidal, Javier Gil and Miguel A Martínez identify and critically examine the main arguments used to challenge or limit pro-tenant measures in the PRS in Catalonia and Spain following the 2008 mortgage crisis in this open access article.

Read the accompanying blog post here.