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Volume 62, issue 4, 2025

(De)Financing remunicipalisation pp. 603-627

David A McDonald

The creative city’s swan song? The individualisation of the music scene in Bologna, UNESCO City of Music pp. 628-646

Sabrina Pedrini, Massimo Giovanardi and Raffaele Corrado

Unequal access to childcare in cities: Is equal public funding sufficient? pp. 647-664

Astrid Pennerstorfer, Dieter Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr

Migration across the urban hierarchy: Has China’s urbanisation transitioned from the primate city stage to the secondary city stage? pp. 665-681

Jun Wen, Sylvia JT Jansen, Harry van der Heijden and Peter J Boelhouwer

Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China? pp. 682-699

Xiaomeng Zhou, Yanliu Lin, Jochen Monstadt, Pieter Hooimeijer, Shifu Wang and Zheng Liu

The logistical governance of vertical commuting in the central business district pp. 700-716

Donald McNeill and Andrea Connor

Firm dynamics in urban neighbourhoods and innovation: A microgeographic analysis pp. 717-736

Charlotte Rochell

Navigating between resistance and unintentional collaboration: The role of left-wing grassroots associations in the tourist city pp. 737-753

Priscilla Santos, Daniel Malet Calvo and Jordi Nofre

From communal places to comfort zones: Familiar stranger encounters in everyday life as a form of belonging pp. 754-771

Renee Zahnow and Jonathan Corcoran

Racial capitalism in urban studies: From spaces of victimisation to spaces of benefit pp. 772-785

Jason Hackworth and Prentiss Dantzler

Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home pp. 786-797

Colin McFarlane, Ash Amin, Katherine Brickell, Erin McElroy, Saanchi Saxena, Michele Lancione, Colin McFarlane, Ash Amin, Katherine Brickell, Erin McElroy, Saanchi Saxena and Michele Lancione

Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace pp. 798-801

Lipon Mondal

Book review: Tremor pp. 801-804

Nirmal Kumar M and L. Kavitha Nair

Book review: Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China pp. 804-806

Ran Mei

Volume 62, issue 3, 2025

Towards intergenerational neutrality in urban planning and governance: Reflections on temporality in sustainability transitions research pp. 435-451

Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl, Keir Strickland and Stephan Barthel

Underground urbanism in Africa: Splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria pp. 452-468

Abidemi Agwor, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita and Paul G Munro

Urban development and long-term flood risk and resilience: Experiences over time and across cultures. Cases from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia pp. 469-486

Duncan C Keenan-Jones, Anna Serra-Llobet, Hongming He and G Mathias Kondolf

Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal pp. 487-506

Christian Isendahl, Nicholas P Dunning, Liwy Grazioso, Scott Hawken, David L Lentz and Vernon L Scarborough

Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience pp. 507-524

David M Carballo, Gary M Feinman and Aurelio López Corral

Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time pp. 525-542

Thurston Tl and Claes B Pettersson

Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future pp. 543-559

Dan Lawrence, Michelle W de Gruchy, Israel Hinojosa-Baliño and Abdulameer Al-Hamdani

A hima traditional ecological knowledge perspective of the sustainability goals in AlUla’s journey through time masterplan pp. 560-580

Abdulrahman Alshami, Martin Bryant and Andrew Toland

(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia pp. 581-599

Federica Sulas and Christian Isendahl

Volume 62, issue 2, 2025

‘I leave the everyday behind, everyday’: Sounds and spaces of the revanchist middle classes in Berlin’s Fünf Morgen Dahlem Urban village pp. 219-237

Christy Kulz

Reimagining the urban through agency as healing justice: Stories from Kolkata and Chicago pp. 238-254

Ritwika Biswas and Elizabeth L. Sweet

Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China pp. 255-272

Jie Guo, Hong’ou Zhang and Yongchun Yang

Places to be young: The dispossession of public space in Old Havana pp. 273-291

Joanna Kocsis

Communities built on political trust: Theory and evidence from China pp. 292-309

Yu Zeng and Shitong Qiao

Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements pp. 310-327

Herman Geyer

Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation pp. 328-346

Jose Carpio-Pinedo and Jesús López-Baeza

Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space pp. 347-366

Yixin Liu and Rowland Atkinson

Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden pp. 367-386

Fredrik W Andersson, Selcan Mutgan, Axel Norgren and Karl Wennberg

Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective pp. 387-403

Charles Williams and Mark Pendras

Book review forum: Pandemic urbanism: Infectious diseases on a planet of cities pp. 404-426

Ranabir Samaddar, Susannah Bunce, Chiara Camponeschi, David Wilson, S Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly and Roger Keil

Book review: Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City pp. 427-429

Hangli Zeng

Book review: Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies pp. 429-432

Gábor Patkós

Volume 62, issue 1, 2025

Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits pp. 3-30

Jennifer Robinson, Philip Harrison, Sylvia Croese, Rosina Sheburah Essien, Wilbard Kombe, Matthew Lane, Evance Mwathunga, George Owusu and Yan Yang

Infrastructural politics: A conceptual mapping and critical review pp. 31-51

León Felipe Téllez Contreras

Smart cities, virtual futures? – Interests of urban actors in mediating digital technology and urban space in Tallinn, Estonia pp. 52-68

Olli Ilmari Jakonen

Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities pp. 69-91

Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus pp. 92-108

Amparo Tarazona Vento

Discontent in the world city of Singapore pp. 109-126

Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Jessie PH Poon and Orlando Woods

‘Once you come, you are a Shenzhener’? Multifaceted and variegated sense of place among migrants in Shenzhen pp. 127-143

Huimin Du

‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation pp. 144-166

Roberta Discetti and Diletta Acuti

Why mixed communities regeneration fails to improve the lives of low-income young people pp. 167-186

Rana Khazbak

Small is beautiful? Making sense of ‘shrinking’ homes pp. 187-203

Phil Hubbard

Book review: The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition pp. 204-207

Patrick Brandful Cobbinah

Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities pp. 207-210

Ekaterina Mizrokhi

Book review: Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India: Right to Sell pp. 210-212

Pitri Yanti, Imanirrahma Salsabil and Asni Mustika Rani

Book review: Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies pp. 212-215

Andrew Littlejohn