#Infrastructure and #politics are at the heart of urbanisation, urban life, the urban condition, and the making of cities. In this blog post León Felipe Téllez asks how is the term 'infrastructural politics' used and defined in urban studies?
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I am happy to see this overview on African urban studies by Sylvia Croese and Astrid Wood (she/her), following others in the same journal (Urban Studies) on China, India, Brazil and Latin America recently. Truly global urban scholarship learning from the insiders of each world region!

New research by Karen Chapple & Taesoo Song in Urban Studies Journal asks if gentrification restricts housing markets for low-income households, and finds low-income households in NYC & SF more likely to leave gentrifying neighbourhoods and less likely to enter them journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

How to plan and design apartments where air is both 'poison' and 'cure? Dr Sophie-May Kerr and I centre apartment-dwellers' experiences in Urban Studies, out now

New article by policy group members Ceri Hughes and Anne E Green

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New blog post by León Felipe Téllez: Infrastructural politics: A conceptual mapping and critical review
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In the Editorial to this VSI, I reflect with Astrid Wood (she/her) on the contributions of five decades of African urban scholarship published in Urban Studies Journal and highlight the ways in which it has shaped key fields of urban studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

A new paper by Christof Brandtner & Ana Gonzalez explores how cities express different symbolic and material resource needs, as well as means to acquire them, in their efforts to lead in #sustainability development. Read 'Green in Their Own Way' via Urban Studies Journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Special Issue Builder Webinars initiative: #UrbanStudies invites researchers interested in developing a #SpecialIssue proposal to apply to our new #webinar initiative. See our website for details: urbanstudiesonline.com/webinars/

Very happy to see this new paper with Ana Gonzalez out in Urban Studies Journal. We examined how cities fighting an uphill battle for sustainability search and find resources for their work. Thanks to the urban sustainability experts who shared their view & h/t USDN SSDN ICLEI etc

According to university research, 'AI urbanism' differs from smart urbanism, and post-smart urbanism has the potential to form 'autonomous cities' that transcend traditional #smartcities .
#governance #digital #platforms #smartmobility #urbanplanning #analytics #AI Univ of South Jersey

Introduction to forthcoming Virtual Special Issue by Astrid Wood (she/her) & Sylvia Croese highlights contributions made on #AfricanCities across the past 5 decades from Urban Studies journal and directs readers to ongoing challenges in African urban scholarship ow.ly/KWgR50RA4RH

New #BookReview of Anne Siebert's Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa reviewed by Zahrotul Firdaus and Eirene Tentua Routledge Books #UrbanAgriculture ow.ly/J1yA50RA52m

'New study by Amparo Tarazona Vento contributes to understanding the different
natures of #PopulistPolitics , and how they are mobilised at the local scale. #populism #IconicMegaprojects ' ow.ly/V90V50Ryhnv

'Based on a thematic analysis of interviews, Jakonen argues
that the potential of #DigitalTechnologies to dislocate functionalities from physical #UrbanSpace should be understood against the backdrop of local actors’ interests' ow.ly/CsCU50RygTs

New debates paper by León Felipe Téllez maps out key tendencies concerning the use of the notion of #InfrastructuralPolitics in urban studies and cognate disciplines ow.ly/tmoI50RA4GV

This paper by Gordon Tan et al contributes to thematic diversity by integrating the ‘left behind’ and world cities literatures through the lens of #discontent . #globalisation #CECA ow.ly/h8Si50Ryi6T

#Book review: The Urban Rehabilitation of Post-Disaster Scapes reviewed by Muhammad Rizal Pahleviannur ow.ly/Xmeo50RAouL Springer Nature