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THE MISSING PEOPLE OF STATE‐SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: Lived Experiences of Non‐Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility

Raffael Beier, 
  •  21 July 2025
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STATE-LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China

Ettore Santi, 
  •  21 July 2025
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‘FROM GHETTO TO HABITUS FACTORY’ ROMA CAMPS IN ITALY: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant's Theorization

Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo, 
  •  21 July 2025
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SUBSTITUTING FOR THE STATE: The Sovereignty Impacts of Diverse Citizens’ Off-grid Infrastructure Strategies in South Africa

Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti, Margot Rubin, 
  •  16 July 2025
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THE ILLUSION OF FLEXIBILITY: Housing Aspirations Across Generations in Brazil's Formal Market

Rafael Kalinoski, Mario Prokopiuk, 
  •  16 July 2025
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ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa

Andrea Pollio, Liza Rose Cirolia, Jack Ong'iro Odeo, 
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STRUGGLING WITH THE DIGITAL NOMAD: Transnational teleworkers as the new ‘creative class’ in the urban marketplace?

Jorge Sequera, 
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RE-SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium-Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France

Solène Le Borgne, 
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CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low-Income Cape Town post Covid-19

Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira, 
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HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang

Giorgia Mascaro, 
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CLIMATE-JUST HOUSING: A Socio-spatial Perspective on Climate Policy and Housing

Sören Weißermel, Rainer Wehrhahn, 
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URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)

Lluís Frago, Alejandro Morcuende, 
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CITY OF NON-EQUIVALENTS: Making, Maintaining and Disrupting Customary Attachments to Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu

Jennifer Day, 

REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests

Casper Bruun Jensen, Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, 
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URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)

Lluís Frago, Alejandro Morcuende, 
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RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City

Emilia Lewartowska, Isabelle Anguelovski, Emilia Oscilowicz, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Helen Cole, Galia Shokry, Carmen Pérez-del-Pulgar, James JT Connolly, 
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INFORMALITY AS THE UR-FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur- in Urban Studies

Kim Dovey, 
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STRUGGLING WITH THE DIGITAL NOMAD: Transnational teleworkers as the new ‘creative class’ in the urban marketplace?

Jorge Sequera, 
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HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’

Jochen Monstadt, Katherine Saltzman, 
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URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco-Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

Jenny Pickerill, Tendai Chitewere, Natasha Cornea, Joshua Lockyer, Rachel Macrorie, Jan Malý Blažek, Anitra Nelson, 
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STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona

Nicolás Palacios Crisóstomo, David Kaufmann, 
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ZONING AND THE ‘RIGHT’ CITY: The Challenges of Zoning in the Global South and Possibilities for Unzoning Informality

Herman Geyer, 
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‘BEST FOR FOODIES’: Food, Digital Media and Planetary Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Fernando J. Bosco, 
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