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RISING VOICES in #UrbanStudies

We invite early-career scholars to propose original Critical Commentaries on the #FutureOfUrbanStudies.

Selected contributors will receive editorial support and join a related podcast.

🔗 Apply: https://f.mtr.cool/gc7c8btoe0
November 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Maastricht University (@maastrichtu.bsky.social) is hiring:
Associate or Full Professor of Philosophy and the City

#professor #philsky #urbanstudies
November 2, 2026 at 7:40 AM
natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "Techno-optimism in Swachh Bharat: Caste, technologies, and the political ecology of waste management" by Pallavi Gupta:

#PoliticalEcology #DalitEcology #Caste #SwachhBharat #IndianRailways #UrbanStudies #UrbanWaste #PlasticBottles

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October 28, 2026 at 5:20 PM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre is hiring:
Postdoc Position in Public Toilet Governance, Social Infrastructure and Inclusive Cities

#postdoc #urbanstudies #humangeography
October 31, 2026 at 11:06 PM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre is hiring:
Postdoc Position in Public Toilet Governance, Social Infrastructure and Inclusive Cities

#postdoc #urbanstudies #humangeography
October 31, 2026 at 11:06 PM
buzmedia.bsky.social
Clocks fell back on Halloween weekend, and the safety arithmetic splits drivers from pedestrians

#UrbanStudies #SocialScience
Clocks fell back on Halloween weekend, and the safety arithmetic splits drivers from pedestrians
Streetsblog
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November 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
urbanstudiesjournal.com
How should cities govern AI systems that perceive, decide and coordinate beyond human and institutional scales? Gulliver Urbanism reframes this challenge through scale asymmetry and temporal dignity. #AIUrbanism

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/v3sowsacar

#UrbanStudies
November 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
urbanstudiesjournal.com
How well do #Türkiye’s #activeageing policies align with the WHO Age-Friendly Cities model? In this study, M. Keskin examines capacity and development of ageing policies in Türkiye, highlighting main gaps in urban implementation and monitoring.

#UrbanStudies
November 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
buzmedia.bsky.social
Bangladesh's climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

#UrbanStudies #SocialScience
Bangladesh's climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them
Mongabay
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October 29, 2026 at 5:47 AM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📢 Upcoming seminar: ‘Topographies of memory and reconstruction: The case of Syria’

🗓 4 November 2026 | 17:00–18:30 (GMT+2)
📍 Online via Zoom
🗣 In Arabic, with simultaneous interpretation into English

🔗 Register: zurl.co/Z1cty
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/gq6BF

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF
Event tile for the seminar ‘Topographies of memory and reconstruction: The case of Syria’, the fifth session in the series ‘Urbicide in Gaza: Spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance’, with speakers Dr Himmat Zoubi and Dr Ammar Azzouz. Event tile with details of the seminar: 4 November 2026, 17:00–18:30 GMT+2, online via Zoom, in Arabic with simultaneous interpretation into English. It includes a short description of the session, in which Dr Ammar Azzouz explores reconstruction through the Syrian experience.
November 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
🔔 New on the #USFBlog: ‘The festive city in the making: Reading West Africa’s December festivals as urban infrastructure’ by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Michael Gameli Dziwornu.

🔗 Read here: zurl.co/QLn21
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/G2YCV

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #WestAfrica
Blog tile titled “The festive city in the making: reading West Africa’s December festivals as urban infrastructure”, by Dr Michael Gameli Dziwornu, with a USF Blog label and the USF logo. The background is a crowd in front of a large stage and lighting rig, lit in red, at Detty Rave in Accra. USF Blog quote tile on a grey background with the USF logo. The quote reads: “A queue outside a concert venue can seem like a small detail in a much larger event. Yet as people wait, wristbands are checked, barriers direct movement and security staff decide who can enter, the queue begins to shape the city around it. It organises access, labour, and movement. For a few hours, it becomes part of the urban infrastructure of celebration.”
October 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
🏙️ 'Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia': Special issue guest co-edited by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Ofita Purwani with Jane M Jacobs.

🔗 Read the special issue: zurl.co/Buxa5
👤 Ofita’s USF profile: zurl.co/JMMxb

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF
Graphic featuring the paper title "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" for the Urban Studies Journal special issue, guest edited by Jane M Jacobs and Ofita Purwani. Preview of the special issue paper by Jane M Jacobs and Ofita Purwani, featuring the opening abstract quote on how monarchies shape contemporary urbanisation in Southeast Asia.
October 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📢 Exciting news!

The Urban Studies Foundation welcomes twelve new International Fellows, our largest cohort to date. These scholars will advance urban research with host institutions around the world.

🔗 Meet the Fellows: zurl.co/Bn5ZY

#UrbanStudies #USFInternationalFellow #GlobalUrbanism #USF
Graphic announcing “Introducing twelve new International Fellows” in large black serif text on a translucent white panel, with the Urban Studies Foundation logo at the top left. Behind the panel is a photograph of a street in Oaxaca, Mexico, showing colourful blue and red houses with barred windows and a lamppost. A photo credit to Tyler Hewitt via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) appears at the bottom left.
October 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM
natureandspace.bsky.social
OnlineFirst - "The more-than-human right to the city: Urban belonging and the governance of street dogs in Türkiye" by Ayten Alkan:

#MoreThanHuman #RightToTheCity #AnimalGeographies #UrbanStudies #StreetDogs

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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“It’s a humane, people-centered, and compassionate portrait that deserves the attention of policy setters, housing activists, and local lawmakers.”—Eleanor J. Bader, The Turned Page Review buff.ly/md1u02o#Hous... #Homelessness #UrbanStudies #HousingPolicy
Review of Bulldozed by Jessie Speer
review by Eleanor J. Bader
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October 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Mangroves keep waves at bay. A new study helps scientists predict how

#BiodiversityandConservation #UrbanStudies
Mangroves keep waves at bay. A new study helps scientists predict how
A new study offers a model estimating how much energy mangroves strip from large storm waves, together with an online tool letting coastal specialists apply the estimate.
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October 18, 2026 at 10:47 AM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📢 New open access publication by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan in Antipode.

"From housing to infrastructure of racialisation: The politics of caste in smart housing interventions in India" 🇮🇳

🔗 zurl.co/jYWC8

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #India #Housing
Graphic tile with a light grey background displaying the paper's title and subtitle: "From housing to infrastructure of racialisation: The politics of caste in smart housing interventions in India" by Syeda Jenifa Zahan, with an arrow icon pointing right. Graphic tile featuring a preview of the first page of the paper alongside the selected quote: "This paper conceptualises housing as an infrastructure of racialisation in smart cities. With smart urbanism becoming central to urban governance, housing is emerging as a new geography of technological interventions in India."
October 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
rutgersupress.bsky.social
"Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments" Edited by Cortland Rankin and Brady Fletcher

www.rutgersuniversit...

#Warscapes #WarCulture #MilitaryHistory #UrbanStudies
October 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
urbanstudiesjournal.com
During Spain’s #housing bubble, rising property values turned mortgagors into “leveraged homevoters” who restricted land supply, suggesting that high prices drive restrictive zoning, rather than the reverse.

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#UrbanStudies
October 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
easlce.bsky.social
#academicjob: 2 3-years postdocs 'Tolerating Urban Animals. Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species' (UCPH)

Deadline: 20 October 2026

Info: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

#envhum #animalstudies #envhist #ethnology #socialsciences #postdoc #urbanstudies
Two Postdoctoral positions in Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
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October 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
🆕 New #USFblog post: “GeoHeat-SSA: A GeoAI decision-support platform for urban heat governance in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Dr Andrews Korah on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Ghana. 🇬🇭

🔗 Read here: zurl.co/sQ9wJ
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/wPsmf

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies
Title tile for the GeoHeat-SSA blog post, reading “GeoHeat-SSA: A GeoAI decision-support platform for urban heat governance in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with the author name Andrews Korah. The background is a colourful heat map of a dense urban area, with hotter zones in red and purple and cooler green areas. In the foreground, several people lean over a large printed heat map on a table. Image credit: Google Gemini. Quote tile with a grey background and a “USF Blog” label, plus the USF logo in the top right corner. The quote reads: “Many urban municipalities lack a centralised system to pinpoint heat hotspots and evaluate cooling interventions. GeoHeat-SSA bridges this gap by integrating satellite-derived surface temperatures, land cover patterns, and direct community knowledge.”
October 14, 2026 at 1:30 PM
buzmedia.bsky.social
Amman Design Week 2026 Returns with "Accumulations," Exploring the Layers of Place, Material, and Memory

#Architecture #UrbanStudies
Amman Design Week 2026 Returns with "Accumulations," Exploring the Layers of Place, Material, and Memory
ArchDaily
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October 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
rutgersupress.bsky.social
"Ordinary and Extraordinary Harms in the City: A Green Criminological Analysis" by Kajsa Lundberg

www.rutgersuniversit...

#UrbanStudies #Criminology #Environment
October 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📘 New special issue! Congratulations to former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Ofita Purwani, who guest co-edited the Urban Studies special issue "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" with Dr Jane M Jacobs.

🔗 zurl.co/fjGvM
👤 zurl.co/ti3QY

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation
Light blue graphic with a "Paper" label at top left and a small four-square logo at top right. Large text reads "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia", with the line "Special Issue, Urban Studies Journal" beneath. Text at bottom left reads "Guest Editors: Jane M Jacobs and Ofita Purwani". An arrow at bottom right points right. Light blue graphic with a "Paper" label at top left and a small four-square logo at top right. It shows the first page of the article "Neo-royal urbanisms: Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" from the journal Urban Studies, with the title, authors and abstract visible. Below the page, a quote reads: "It is clear from the articles in this special issue that monarchy in Southeast Asia is not merely a residual institution but rather one that is resilient and re-emergent. Furthermore, the city is not a mere contextual backdrop to this neo-royalism." The attribution below reads: "Neo-royal urbanisms: Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia, Jacobs and Purwani, 2026."
October 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
buzmedia.bsky.social
Benthem Crouwel revamps Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands

#Architecture #UrbanStudies
Benthem Crouwel revamps Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands
Dezeen
buzmedia.ir
October 6, 2026 at 10:47 AM