Urban Studies

1964 - 2026

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Volume 63, issue 7, 2026

Urban transport as a social construct: Theory, evidence, and analytical threads pp. 1363-1374

Evelyn A. Blumenberg, Yingling Fan and Astrid Wood

Urban transport as a social construct: Reimagining transport’s role in urban studies pp. 1375-1395

Yingling Fan, Astrid Wood and Evelyn A Blumenberg

Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport pp. 1396-1415

Tim Schwanen, Debbie Hopkins and Ian Loader

Towards addressing transportation planning’s contradictions: The unified theory for transportation planning based on the capabilities approach pp. 1416-1437

Matthias Sweet

Analyzing transport politics through “critical momentsâ€: Conflict and power in the paradigmatic case of Seventh Avenue in Bogotá, Colombia pp. 1438-1458

Nanke Verloo and Andres Mauricio Galeano Salgado

Foreign infrastructure, local frictions: Contested mobility and social constructs of the Nairobi Expressway pp. 1459-1482

Cheng Chen and Ang Liu

Historical institutionalism for critical transport studies: The politics of private railways in Tokyo pp. 1483-1503

Yudi Liu

Disrupted spaces, adaptive lives: Unequal impacts of Hanoi’s first urban railway lines pp. 1504-1520

Michelle Kee and Sarah Turner

Americans meet congestion pricing: Reframing the equity debate around CBD tolling for auto-dependent countries pp. 1521-1540

Matthew Palm and Alainna Thomas

Doing transit infrastructure otherwise: Arts in Transit, the Southwest Corridor pp. 1541-1556

Rebecca Heimel

Mobility practices and the social construction of urban centralities in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Bogotá (Colombia) pp. 1557-1575

Eugênia Viana Cerqueira, Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto, Natalia Villamizar-Duarte, Daniela Antunes Lessa and César A. Ruiz

Risk en route: Women’s mobility and exposure to gender-based violence in public spaces in Curitiba, Brazil pp. 1576-1594

Agnes Silva de Araujo, Geisa Tamara Bugs, Joana Barros, Jaqueline Massucheto, Phâmela Alves and Flávia da Fonseca Feitosa

Social representation, self-identity and anticipated guilt in universal access: A constructivist approach to (non-)visible disabilities pp. 1595-1619

Ho-Yin Chan, Ka Ho Tsoi and Anthony Chen

Volume 63, issue 6, 2026

Between suburb and city: Conceptualising interplaces pp. 1113-1136

Wander Demuynck, Ben Derudder, Evert Meijers and Michiel van Meeteren

Spatial planning for a popular circular economy pp. 1137-1155

Louise Guibrunet, Emilio Bunge González, Moisés Hiram Martínez Ruiz, Clara P Orozco Pérez, Vania Alejandra Rodríguez Villalón and Daniela Torres Patiño

Digital municipal currencies as a new municipalist instrument for trans-local transformation: The case of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil pp. 1156-1177

Ester Barinaga, Eduardo Diniz and Juan Ocampo

Dynamics of (dis)integration: The impact of migration mobility on neighbourhood cohesion pp. 1178-1196

Jakob Hartl and Ina Mayer

Compensative memory making amidst conflict: Spatial memory and gentrification in Jaffa pp. 1197-1215

Yoav Kapshuk and Hila Zaban

Growth and flexibility at the margins? The voluntary sector and civil society in post-welfare Portland pp. 1216-1232

Antonin Margier and Geoffrey DeVerteuil

Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism: Urban political ecology of China’s Flower Expo pp. 1233-1251

Linjun Xie and Harry Den Hartog

NeurodiverCITY: Leveraging the potential for neurodiverse deliberation in urban life pp. 1252-1269

Agata Tokarek, Wojciech Ufel and Maja Grabkowska

De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements pp. 1270-1292

Michael Osei Asibey and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah

Unequal cities, unhappy lives? The role of interpersonal and territorial inequalities in shaping life satisfaction in European cities pp. 1293-1311

Crhistian Joel González-Cuatianquis, Alessandra Faggian and Paolo Veneri

A ‘continental European nightlife’? The evolution of nightlife venues and their stakeholders since the 1980s: Urban and rural dynamics around a French intermediate city pp. 1312-1330

Magali de Raphélis and Sandra Mallet

Municipal amalgamations and scale economies: Evidence from South Africa’s structural reforms pp. 1331-1347

Godwin Dube

Urban inequality: Theory, evidence, and method in Johannesburg pp. 1348-1360

Astrid Wood, Alan Mabin, Matthew McKeever, Nomonde Gwebu, Owen Crankshaw, Astrid Wood, Alan Mabin, Matthew McKeever, Nomonde Gwebu and Owen Crankshaw

Volume 63, issue 5, 2026

Beyond the professional–local knowledge dichotomy: Toward a new epistemology in urban planning pp. 869-890

Jesse Fox and Talia Margalit

Adaptive governance, hybrid temporary urbanism, and outdoor spaces: Post-pandemic legacies in New York and Toronto pp. 891-908

Lauren Andres, Shauna Brail, Emilia M. Bruck and Paul Moawad

Where has Bish Vegas gone? The Auckland Project, post-secular urban restructuring and evangelical philanthrocapitalism pp. 909-931

Saskia Warren

Urban gardening in public space: Policy approaches in Greater Sydney pp. 932-948

Kristina Ulm, Oona Morrow, Evelyne de Leeuw, David Sanderson and Alec Thornton

Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021 pp. 949-968

Rory Coulter and Antoine Paccoud

The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona pp. 969-985

Belén Masi and Maria Rodó-Zárate

Invisible displacement of residents: Rethinking ‘voluntary relocation’ in Beijing’s heritage-led regeneration pp. 986-1003

Dan Liu, Femke van Noorloos, Maggi W. H. Leung and Ajay Bailey

Entering and leaving housing assistance: Neighborhood trajectories of housing voucher recipients in the United States pp. 1004-1021

Alex Ramiller

From dreams to high-risk housing navigation: Aspirations and strategies of university-educated young people pp. 1022-1044

Tangi Pui Chi Yip

Public transport as ‘political infrastructure’: The case of transit disruption in Hong Kong during an urban social movement pp. 1045-1071

Sylvia Y. He, Xueying Chen, Ellen Shiau, Murat Es and Sui Tao

When penalties are framed as protections: Street-level bureaucrats and the expansion of homeless governance in the US pp. 1072-1089

Claire W. Herbert, Lesley Jo Weaver, Dylan J. Podrabsky and Emma Singleton

Contesting sanctuary: Urban citizenship and multilevel migration governance in Barcelona pp. 1090-1110

Carlos Delclós, Olatz Ribera-Almandoz and Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas

Volume 63, issue 4, 2026

A wider view of shared transportation: Assessing the socioemotional costs and benefits of sharing in and sharing out pp. 621-640

Julene Paul

Firm innovation in developing countries: Effects of urban agglomeration and global value chain integration pp. 641-663

Prince C Oguguo, Ioanna Liouka and Ioanna Deligianni

Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment pp. 664-681

Runze Qiao, Xuanyi Nie and Chye Kiang Heng

Young adulthood and the city: Exploring the micro-foundations of youthification pp. 682-699

Guy Shani and Eyal Bar-Haim

Pathways out of land financialization: Understanding transformation strategies of urban investment insolvency and crisis pp. 700-719

Shanshan Li, Haozhi Pan and Jie Chen

The flammable city: Infrastructure, temporalities, and social struggles in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires pp. 720-736

Simone Vegliò

Housing after redevelopment: Where and to what buildings do displaced residents move? pp. 737-755

Fiona Kauer, Elena Lutz and David Kaufmann

The association between social housing concentration and the education and health outcomes of social housing tenants: A cross-sectional study of over 200,000 people in New Zealand pp. 756-778

Ayodeji Fasoro, Elinor Chisholm, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Nevil Pierse

A comparative study of socio-economic segregation in European capital city-regions: From segregation to desegregation? pp. 779-803

RÅ«ta UbareviÄ ienÄ—, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Leandro Basílio Junior, ris BÄ“rziņš Mä, Kevin Credit, Diogo Gaspar Silva, Richard Harris, Kadi Kalm, Timo Kauppinen, Zaiga KriÅ¡jÄ Ne, Jorge Malheiros, Thomas Maloutas, David Manley, Sako Musterd, Oriol Nel·lo, Milena Nevanto, Ladislav Novotný, Martin OuÅ™ednÃ­Ä Ek, Sergio Porcel, Antonine Ribardière, Martin Å Imon, Maciej SmÄ™tkowski, Stavros Spyrellis, Magnus Strömgren, Wouter van Gent and Terje Wessel

Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China pp. 804-823

Xiaobo Su and Kean Fan Lim

Maintaining redistribution despite austerity: Spatial diversity in US local government expenditures 2007–2017 pp. 824-843

Yuanshuo Xu and Mildred E. Warner

Fragmented suburban landscapes: Rethinking vulnerability in southern Europe pp. 844-866

Lucia Cerrada Morato

Volume 63, issue 3, 2026

Still thinking from the south: A sequel from Beirut pp. 421-439

Gautam Bhan

Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing pp. 440-456

Meng Xu

Effects of urban rail transit expansion on the mobility of the elderly: Findings from Singapore pp. 457-483

Yi Zhu and Mi Diao

Patch urbanism: Towards an integrated theoretical framework for examining spatial and temporal dynamics in the Asian rice belt pp. 484-504

Scott Hawken and Christian Isendahl

Township economics: How the market structure of the informal economy impacts the recirculation of secondhand tires in South Africa pp. 505-523

Nik Theodore, Phillip Frederick Blaauw and Catherina Schenck

Estrangement, embodiment and entanglement: Putting agonistic planning into practice through Urban Drama Labs pp. 524-541

Cecilie Sachs Olsen, Krzysztof Janas, Lisa De Roeck, Barbara Koole, Cato Janssen, Merlijn van Hulst and Celine Motzfeldt Loades

Place, proximity and platform: The settlement system geography of Taobao village formation in China, 2014–2020 pp. 542-564

Jia Zhang, Nicholas A Phelps and Julie T Miao

Home–neighbourhood: A material–affective infrastructure for the creative city pp. 565-585

Nicole T Cook, Pauline McGuirk, Chris Gibson, Peta Wolifson, Chris Brennan-Horley and Andrew Warren

Urbanization and social change in rural India pp. 586-603

Jan Nijman, Robbin Jan van Duijne and Chetan Choithani

My city or my planet? Rethinking the EU cultural policy toward planetary heritage and planetary senses of belonging pp. 604-617

Ana Aceska

Volume 63, issue 2, 2026

Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge pp. 205-224

Anna Nikolaeva and S Shakthi

The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods pp. 225-243

Jessica Quinton, Lorien Nesbitt, James John Timothy Connolly and Elvin Wyly

Greater centralization, increased marketization? Evidence from China’s primary urban land market pp. 244-262

Yaoyu Zhang, Zhi Lin, Bo Wang and Hang Ren

Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea pp. 263-278

Yu-Ri Kim

Feeling metropolitan: A framework for place attachment in metropolitan regions pp. 279-296

Mariona Tomà S

Measuring city relationship strength beyond total counts: A multidimensional framework for distinguishing prominence from interdependence and significance pp. 297-317

Wang Tongjing

Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing pp. 318-336

Tianke Zhu and Xigang Zhu

Embodied infrastructures and the spatial imagination of mobilities: ‘Following’ street waste-picker bodies within and among critical urban waste networks of Johannesburg pp. 337-354

Johnathan Goeiman

City diplomacy and high export values: Evidence from US metro areas pp. 355-371

Mary Alice Haddad, Jennifer S Rose and Rishi Veer Bhagat

Housing affordability and rent control: The case of elderly renters pp. 372-394

Xun Bian, Ruoyu Chen and Hanchen Jiang

Book review forum: Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency pp. 395-418

Michele Acuto, Lorenzo De Vidovich, Greet De Block, Chiara Camponeschi, Stijn Oosterlynck, Manolis Pratsinakis, Yannis Tzaninis, Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Michele Acuto, Lorenzo De Vidovich, Greet De Block, Chiara Camponeschi, Stijn Oosterlynck, Manolis Pratsinakis, Yannis Tzaninis, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Maria Kaika

Volume 63, issue 1, 2026

Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance pp. 3-21

Creighton Connolly and Andrew Kythreotis

Understanding drinking-and-eating-together-spaces distribution in Madrid: A socio-spatial approach pp. 22-39

Francisco Javier Rueda-Córdoba

The hybridity of inclusive resilience: Organisational levels, tensions and fixes in Rotterdam pp. 40-58

Camilo Andres Benítez à Vila, Sofia Gil-Clavel and Samantha Copeland

Tranquillity amidst the bustle: Positive solitude and public open space design in high-density urban contexts pp. 59-75

Xia Bi, Yishui Fang, Caterina Villani, Izzy Yi Jian, Ka Yan Leung and Kin Wai Michael Siu

Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa pp. 76-97

Ding Fei

Residential vertical urbanisation: The intertwining of law and financialisation pp. 98-115

Susan Bright, Sarah Blandy and Fabiana Bettini

Cultural and institutional determinants in city-branding practices: Evidence from three Saudi cities pp. 116-136

Abdulrhman Alsayel, Martin de Jong and Jan Fransen

Resisting desperation for development: The power of community-based disruption in rewriting the culture of public–private redevelopment pp. 137-155

Meghan Z Gough and Kathryn Howell

On commonist urbanisation: Autonomy and centrality within and beyond the city pp. 156-172

à lvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders pp. 173-188

Sophie Watson and Emil van Eck

Book review forum Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore pp. 189-201

Michele Acuto, Maxime Decaudin, Adam Searle, Si Jie Ivin Yeo, Jamie Wang, Michele Acuto, Maxime Decaudin, Adam Searle, Si Jie Ivin Yeo and Jamie Wang