Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/00420980251410816
Andrés Luque-Ayala, Marijn Nieuwenhuis
This intervention outlines a new way of thinking about the growing entanglements between fire and urban life in the Anthropocene, calling for a dialogue between urban studies and elemental geographies as a conceptual lens that addresses the changing nature of nature in contemporary urban worlds. As wildfires increasingly impact cities—destroying infrastructure and property, displacing populations, and altering air quality across vast distances—fire emerges not only as risk and hazard but also as an elemental force reshaping the city’s political, material, and conceptual foundations. Our aim is twofold. First, we open a debate on an emerging urban condition of the Anthropocene where fire assumes a reinvigorated presence. Second, exploring analytical pathways for re-thinking cities on fire, we discuss connections between urban studies and elemental geographies—a growing subfield of cultural and political geography which engages with the elements as a way of thinking with Earth’s materialities. The resurgence of fire in the city, we contend, signals the growing presence of “elemental exposures” resulting from global environmental change and Anthropogenic climate and ecological emergencies. Following a review of fire scholarship within urban studies, we suggest an elemental rethinking of fire—not as a spatially distant or exceptional event but as a shared, co-constitutive, agentic, and persistent presence demanding collective responsibility and adaptation as well as novel ways of conceptualizing city–nature relationships. The resulting urban pyropolitics frames cities as dynamic, more-than-human sites of climate transformation and vulnerability, highlighting the unequal distribution of elemental exposure in the Anthropocene city and its racialized, gendered, and classed dimensions.
{"title":"Cities on fire: Towards an elemental urbanism in the Anthropocene","authors":"Andrés Luque-Ayala, Marijn Nieuwenhuis","doi":"10.1177/00420980251410816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251410816","url":null,"abstract":"This intervention outlines a new way of thinking about the growing entanglements between fire and urban life in the Anthropocene, calling for a dialogue between urban studies and elemental geographies as a conceptual lens that addresses the changing nature of nature in contemporary urban worlds. As wildfires increasingly impact cities—destroying infrastructure and property, displacing populations, and altering air quality across vast distances—fire emerges not only as risk and hazard but also as an elemental force reshaping the city’s political, material, and conceptual foundations. Our aim is twofold. First, we open a debate on an emerging urban condition of the Anthropocene where fire assumes a reinvigorated presence. Second, exploring analytical pathways for re-thinking cities on fire, we discuss connections between urban studies and elemental geographies—a growing subfield of cultural and political geography which engages with the elements as a way of thinking with Earth’s materialities. The resurgence of fire in the city, we contend, signals the growing presence of “elemental exposures” resulting from global environmental change and Anthropogenic climate and ecological emergencies. Following a review of fire scholarship within urban studies, we suggest an elemental rethinking of fire—not as a spatially distant or exceptional event but as a shared, co-constitutive, agentic, and persistent presence demanding collective responsibility and adaptation as well as novel ways of conceptualizing city–nature relationships. The resulting urban pyropolitics frames cities as dynamic, more-than-human sites of climate transformation and vulnerability, highlighting the unequal distribution of elemental exposure in the Anthropocene city and its racialized, gendered, and classed dimensions.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146098203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/00420980251398997
Manuel A. Santana Palacios
This paper capitalizes on the opening of Bogotá’s first urban gondola, locally known as TransMiCable, to examine the socially embedded character that shapes the adaptation of informal transportation markets to urban change. Drawing on GPS-assisted route mapping techniques, field observations, and semi-structured interviews with community leaders, informal transportation providers, and planners, findings reveal that the informal transportation market expanded following the opening of TransMiCable. New route associations were formed to connect the sprawling periphery with TransMiCable, and others reoriented their service toward the project. These adaptations were shaped by a complex interplay of social dynamics, including negotiations involving informal transportation, cooperative heads, neighborhood organizations, and the state, as well as a historical process of informal land development that continues to push the urban fringe outward. While informal transportation undeniably fills service gaps left by conventional public transit, as other scholars have long argued, this study underscores the social dynamics that, together with peripheral urbanization processes, shape how these markets emerge, adapt, and persist in cities in the Global South.
{"title":"Navigating the urban fringe: Socially embedded adaptation of informal transportation amid Bogotá’s urban gondola investment","authors":"Manuel A. Santana Palacios","doi":"10.1177/00420980251398997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251398997","url":null,"abstract":"This paper capitalizes on the opening of Bogotá’s first urban gondola, locally known as TransMiCable, to examine the socially embedded character that shapes the adaptation of informal transportation markets to urban change. Drawing on GPS-assisted route mapping techniques, field observations, and semi-structured interviews with community leaders, informal transportation providers, and planners, findings reveal that the informal transportation market expanded following the opening of TransMiCable. New route associations were formed to connect the sprawling periphery with TransMiCable, and others reoriented their service toward the project. These adaptations were shaped by a complex interplay of social dynamics, including negotiations involving informal transportation, cooperative heads, neighborhood organizations, and the state, as well as a historical process of informal land development that continues to push the urban fringe outward. While informal transportation undeniably fills service gaps left by conventional public transit, as other scholars have long argued, this study underscores the social dynamics that, together with peripheral urbanization processes, shape how these markets emerge, adapt, and persist in cities in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146098206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00420980251408931
Cristóbal Ortiz-Vilches, Quentin Ramond
This article examines whether perceived residential reputation mediates the effect of neighborhood context on neighborhood cohesion, including residents’ sense of belonging and sociability. Moreover, it analyzes whether this mediated neighborhood effect on local social cohesion varies across socioeconomic groups. Using data from the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (2018–2022), we apply moderated mediation models that allow us to examine jointly why and for whom neighborhoods influence social cohesion at the local level. Results indicate that neighborhood effects are mediated by residential reputations: an increase in neighborhood advantage is associated with better reputations that subsequently enhance neighborhood cohesion. We find evidence of full mediation, meaning that neighborhood socioeconomic status influences cohesion only through reputations. Then, we show that the size of the mediated neighborhood effect on local cohesion decreases with income, such that it becomes weaker among higher-income groups. Specifically, the latter are less affected by territorial stigma and maintain stronger affective bonds and local sociability in deprived areas, compared to lower-income groups. In the discussion, we highlight the continuing salience of social class in shaping the subjective experiences of spatial inequality and argue for more research on how neighborhood effect mechanisms operate differently across population subgroups.
{"title":"Explaining neighborhood effects on neighborhood cohesion: The varying influence of residential reputation by household income","authors":"Cristóbal Ortiz-Vilches, Quentin Ramond","doi":"10.1177/00420980251408931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251408931","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines whether perceived residential reputation mediates the effect of neighborhood context on neighborhood cohesion, including residents’ sense of belonging and sociability. Moreover, it analyzes whether this mediated neighborhood effect on local social cohesion varies across socioeconomic groups. Using data from the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (2018–2022), we apply moderated mediation models that allow us to examine jointly why and for whom neighborhoods influence social cohesion at the local level. Results indicate that neighborhood effects are mediated by residential reputations: an increase in neighborhood advantage is associated with better reputations that subsequently enhance neighborhood cohesion. We find evidence of full mediation, meaning that neighborhood socioeconomic status influences cohesion only through reputations. Then, we show that the size of the mediated neighborhood effect on local cohesion decreases with income, such that it becomes weaker among higher-income groups. Specifically, the latter are less affected by territorial stigma and maintain stronger affective bonds and local sociability in deprived areas, compared to lower-income groups. In the discussion, we highlight the continuing salience of social class in shaping the subjective experiences of spatial inequality and argue for more research on how neighborhood effect mechanisms operate differently across population subgroups.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"179 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00420980251410497
Erika Alejandra García Fermín
Land-value capture (LVC) has gained traction as a self-financing instrument for urban development. This article examines its opportunities and limits through a single case study, the Naranjal Partial Urban Renewal Plan, a large-scale, municipally led intervention in a low-income neighbourhood of Medellín. Anchored in Soja’s spatial justice, it advances a framework to identify LVC (in)justices across three dimensions: influence over spatial production, distribution of costs and risks, and the spatial allocation of socially valued resources. Case evidence shows that, in the absence of early public investment and sustained institutional–political support, LVC instruments generated revenue neither sufficient nor timely to fund infrastructure and social mitigation, ultimately shifting costs and risks onto vulnerable, lower-income groups.
{"title":"Land value capture in practice: Unpacking the experience of Naranjal through a spatial (in)justice lens","authors":"Erika Alejandra García Fermín","doi":"10.1177/00420980251410497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251410497","url":null,"abstract":"Land-value capture (LVC) has gained traction as a self-financing instrument for urban development. This article examines its opportunities and limits through a single case study, the Naranjal Partial Urban Renewal Plan, a large-scale, municipally led intervention in a low-income neighbourhood of Medellín. Anchored in Soja’s spatial justice, it advances a framework to identify LVC (in)justices across three dimensions: influence over spatial production, distribution of costs and risks, and the spatial allocation of socially valued resources. Case evidence shows that, in the absence of early public investment and sustained institutional–political support, LVC instruments generated revenue neither sufficient nor timely to fund infrastructure and social mitigation, ultimately shifting costs and risks onto vulnerable, lower-income groups.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1177/00420980251406003
Joseph Gibbons
The discourse on gentrification, which centers on reinvestment in disadvantaged communities, often focuses on the influx of White residents into low-income Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. However, scholarly opinions diverge on the attractiveness of communities of color to White gentrifiers. This study aims to address this debate by utilizing US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-driven gentrification across the United States. Our findings indicate that neighborhoods that are at least 50% Black and have experienced gentrification by middle- or upper-income Black residents are more likely to see subsequent White gentrification. However, this “priming” effect weakens as the share of Black residents increases. In contrast, predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, whether previously gentrified or not, have a chance of White gentrification. Only in neighborhoods with very high Hispanic populations does prior Hispanic gentrification significantly increase the likelihood of White gentrification.
{"title":"Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?","authors":"Joseph Gibbons","doi":"10.1177/00420980251406003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251406003","url":null,"abstract":"The discourse on gentrification, which centers on reinvestment in disadvantaged communities, often focuses on the influx of White residents into low-income Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. However, scholarly opinions diverge on the attractiveness of communities of color to White gentrifiers. This study aims to address this debate by utilizing US Census and American Community Survey data to identify the racial/ethnic factors influencing White-driven gentrification across the United States. Our findings indicate that neighborhoods that are at least 50% Black and have experienced gentrification by middle- or upper-income Black residents are more likely to see subsequent White gentrification. However, this “priming” effect weakens as the share of Black residents increases. In contrast, predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, whether previously gentrified or not, have a chance of White gentrification. Only in neighborhoods with very high Hispanic populations does prior Hispanic gentrification significantly increase the likelihood of White gentrification.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-28DOI: 10.1177/00420980251409936
Roza Tchoukaleyska
This article examines the role of public spaces like farmers’ markets in sustaining urban communities during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on research completed with the St John’s Farmers’ Market in Newfoundland, Canada, between 2020 and 2022, it demonstrates how a slow-growth economic model and cooperative governance structures effectively prepared the organization for the economic and social shocks of the pandemic. Through successive lockdowns and tightening of public health measures, the market used a range of techniques to provide a space for socially distant interactions, which included physical dividers and new modes of selling products alongside a restructuring of the organization’s operations. Into the later phases of the pandemic the St John’s Farmers’ Market was consistently identified as a place of community and belonging by research participants, which reflected the continuing importance of venues like farmers’ markets to the social life of cities. The article concludes by drawing lessons from this experience, with emphasis on the role of community-led development and the importance of community-owned assets in building urban resilience. In an instance where most public space literature captures the dimming of public space usage at the onset of COVID-19, this article demonstrates how such sites were re-imagined and ultimately re-opened, adding valuable perspectives on the rebuilding of urban public space in mid-sized cities.
{"title":"Building resilient communities: COVID-19 lessons from a resurgent farmers’ market","authors":"Roza Tchoukaleyska","doi":"10.1177/00420980251409936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251409936","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the role of public spaces like farmers’ markets in sustaining urban communities during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on research completed with the St John’s Farmers’ Market in Newfoundland, Canada, between 2020 and 2022, it demonstrates how a slow-growth economic model and cooperative governance structures effectively prepared the organization for the economic and social shocks of the pandemic. Through successive lockdowns and tightening of public health measures, the market used a range of techniques to provide a space for socially distant interactions, which included physical dividers and new modes of selling products alongside a restructuring of the organization’s operations. Into the later phases of the pandemic the St John’s Farmers’ Market was consistently identified as a place of community and belonging by research participants, which reflected the continuing importance of venues like farmers’ markets to the social life of cities. The article concludes by drawing lessons from this experience, with emphasis on the role of community-led development and the importance of community-owned assets in building urban resilience. In an instance where most public space literature captures the dimming of public space usage at the onset of COVID-19, this article demonstrates how such sites were re-imagined and ultimately re-opened, adding valuable perspectives on the rebuilding of urban public space in mid-sized cities.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/00420980251409128
Trisha Mehta
Urban planning faces increasing uncertainty as cities grapple with climate change, technological disruption, and widening social inequalities. While futures and foresight methods are widely used in strategic planning, their integration into urban studies remains limited. This paper examines how participatory foresight can enrich urban studies by integrating collective imagination into scenario planning. Using London’s mobility futures to 2050 as a case, it explores how structured foresight methods, including trend scanning, weak signal analysis, and participatory workshops, can generate scenarios that move beyond technocratic projections to embed governance, equity, and lived experience. Four scenarios, namely Symbiotic Progress, Innovation in Devastation, Regeneration Stagnation , and Business-as-Usual , demonstrate how collective imagination reshapes foresight outputs, challenging assumptions and highlighting tensions in London’s transport futures. The findings contribute empirically by showing how diverse publics alter scenario content, and conceptually by positioning participatory foresight as a framework for interrogating power and imaginaries in urban planning. The paper argues for embedding participatory foresight more systematically into urban scholarship and practice to navigate uncertainty and advance equitable, sustainable mobility futures.
{"title":"Imagining urban futures: Participatory scenario planning London’s mobility to 2050","authors":"Trisha Mehta","doi":"10.1177/00420980251409128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251409128","url":null,"abstract":"Urban planning faces increasing uncertainty as cities grapple with climate change, technological disruption, and widening social inequalities. While futures and foresight methods are widely used in strategic planning, their integration into urban studies remains limited. This paper examines how participatory foresight can enrich urban studies by integrating collective imagination into scenario planning. Using London’s mobility futures to 2050 as a case, it explores how structured foresight methods, including trend scanning, weak signal analysis, and participatory workshops, can generate scenarios that move beyond technocratic projections to embed governance, equity, and lived experience. Four scenarios, namely <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Symbiotic Progress, Innovation in Devastation, Regeneration Stagnation</jats:italic> , and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Business-as-Usual</jats:italic> , demonstrate how collective imagination reshapes foresight outputs, challenging assumptions and highlighting tensions in London’s transport futures. The findings contribute empirically by showing how diverse publics alter scenario content, and conceptually by positioning participatory foresight as a framework for interrogating power and imaginaries in urban planning. The paper argues for embedding participatory foresight more systematically into urban scholarship and practice to navigate uncertainty and advance equitable, sustainable mobility futures.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146056130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1177/00420980251407960
Gillian Rose
This article examines the implications for theorising the concept of the ‘urban imaginary’ in the context of digital visual culture. In digital visual culture, the vast majority of images are designed, circulated and displayed using software, data networks and screens of various kinds. The literature on urban imaginaries has long acknowledged that cities are mediated by images as much as by various kinds of other media, and significant attention has been given to specific visual media including films, documentary photography and maps. This remains the case when visual culture is digital. However, digital images have a particular techno-cultural materiality which also has implications for their co-constitution of the urban. In digital visual culture, visual imagery is dominated by animations, shaped in part by the affordances of computer graphics software. These images require screens and data networks to become visible, which also mediate the infrastructure of cities both materially and imaginatively. Moreover, onscreen digital visual content materialises as an ambient atmosphere projected across and between screens and gazes (human and not). This networked, screenic projection is now sufficiently pervasive to constitute a significant form of urban spatiality. Hence the paper proposes that in digital visual culture, visual urban imaginaries can no longer be theorised only as representations of an urban reality. Instead, onscreen images must be theorised as enacting a form of the urban itself, in three ways: in their visual content, in the material emplacement of their networked screens, and in their projection into and as urban space.
{"title":"Image, screen, projection: Conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture","authors":"Gillian Rose","doi":"10.1177/00420980251407960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251407960","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the implications for theorising the concept of the ‘urban imaginary’ in the context of digital visual culture. In digital visual culture, the vast majority of images are designed, circulated and displayed using software, data networks and screens of various kinds. The literature on urban imaginaries has long acknowledged that cities are mediated by images as much as by various kinds of other media, and significant attention has been given to specific visual media including films, documentary photography and maps. This remains the case when visual culture is digital. However, digital images have a particular techno-cultural materiality which also has implications for their co-constitution of the urban. In digital visual culture, visual imagery is dominated by animations, shaped in part by the affordances of computer graphics software. These images require screens and data networks to become visible, which also mediate the infrastructure of cities both materially and imaginatively. Moreover, onscreen digital visual content materialises as an ambient atmosphere projected across and between screens and gazes (human and not). This networked, screenic projection is now sufficiently pervasive to constitute a significant form of urban spatiality. Hence the paper proposes that in digital visual culture, visual urban imaginaries can no longer be theorised only as representations of an urban reality. Instead, onscreen images must be theorised as enacting a form of the urban itself, in three ways: in their visual content, in the material emplacement of their networked screens, and in their projection into and as urban space.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"293 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146056127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251412620
Alex Fernandez, Marietta Haffner, Marja Elsinga
The large-scale transformation of the housing stock towards net-zero energy has already mobilised substantial public and private investment and is set to accelerate in the coming decades. While many studies examine the effects of decarbonisation on rents and prices, less is known about cost-reducing benefits for households, how these gains are distributed across tenures and whether they ultimately improve affordability. These distributional questions are particularly salient in Western Europe where persistent unaffordability cleavages between homeowners and renters exist. This article investigates the impact of decarbonisation on housing costs across tenures. The analysis draws on registry data from Dutch households between 2018 and 2023, employing heating degree day-adjusted gas consumption as a proxy for decarbonisation. To estimate the impact of decarbonisation on costs, the article combines a matching procedure with a staggered diff-in-diffs design, followed by a series of distributional measures. Across these indicators, outright owners exhibit the largest relative reductions in housing costs, mortgagors the largest absolute reductions, private renters the smallest reductions, and social renters are in an intermediate position. These findings, when understood within the context of current decarbonisation policies, comprising subsidies for homeowners and cost-neutrality measures for tenants, point to the entrenchment of current unaffordability cleavages.
{"title":"Unequal rewards to decarbonisation: A diff-in-diffs approach to measuring housing costs across tenures","authors":"Alex Fernandez, Marietta Haffner, Marja Elsinga","doi":"10.1177/00420980251412620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251412620","url":null,"abstract":"The large-scale transformation of the housing stock towards net-zero energy has already mobilised substantial public and private investment and is set to accelerate in the coming decades. While many studies examine the effects of decarbonisation on rents and prices, less is known about cost-reducing benefits for households, how these gains are distributed across tenures and whether they ultimately improve affordability. These distributional questions are particularly salient in Western Europe where persistent unaffordability cleavages between homeowners and renters exist. This article investigates the impact of decarbonisation on housing costs across tenures. The analysis draws on registry data from Dutch households between 2018 and 2023, employing heating degree day-adjusted gas consumption as a proxy for decarbonisation. To estimate the impact of decarbonisation on costs, the article combines a matching procedure with a staggered diff-in-diffs design, followed by a series of distributional measures. Across these indicators, outright owners exhibit the largest relative reductions in housing costs, mortgagors the largest absolute reductions, private renters the smallest reductions, and social renters are in an intermediate position. These findings, when understood within the context of current decarbonisation policies, comprising subsidies for homeowners and cost-neutrality measures for tenants, point to the entrenchment of current unaffordability cleavages.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251387841
Hilal Alkan, Simay Çetin
This article explores how migrant gardeners from Turkey make homes and mediate experiences of displacement, settlement and belonging through multispecies collaborations with plants in urban contexts based on ethnographic research in Germany and the Netherlands. Our focus is on the temporal negotiations at play: how migrants navigate memories of past landscapes, adjust to present climatic and ecological conditions and cultivate aspirations for the future through the rhythms and materialities of plants. Here, plants serve not only as conduits of nostalgia but also as active companions in the everyday labour of homemaking. The sensory and laborious dimensions of gardening anchor migrants in embodied memories while also grounding them in new environments. Yet these processes are far from seamless. Migrants and plants face the challenges of adapting to unfamiliar seasons and changing climate conditions together, prompting inventive strategies to care for plants and sustain gardens across temporal and ecological disjunctures. In doing so, migrant gardening contributes to the transformation of urban natures – not only through the introduction of new plant species but also by reconfiguring urban spaces as sites of relational and affective life. We argue that these entangled human–plant temporalities reshape ‘home-city geographies’, revealing how migrants remake urban environments not only with and for human communities but in active and ongoing dialogue with more-than-human others in temporal registers.
{"title":"Aligning migrant–plant temporalities: Making homes in urban gardens","authors":"Hilal Alkan, Simay Çetin","doi":"10.1177/00420980251387841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251387841","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how migrant gardeners from Turkey make homes and mediate experiences of displacement, settlement and belonging through multispecies collaborations with plants in urban contexts based on ethnographic research in Germany and the Netherlands. Our focus is on the temporal negotiations at play: how migrants navigate memories of past landscapes, adjust to present climatic and ecological conditions and cultivate aspirations for the future through the rhythms and materialities of plants. Here, plants serve not only as conduits of nostalgia but also as active companions in the everyday labour of homemaking. The sensory and laborious dimensions of gardening anchor migrants in embodied memories while also grounding them in new environments. Yet these processes are far from seamless. Migrants and plants face the challenges of adapting to unfamiliar seasons and changing climate conditions together, prompting inventive strategies to care for plants and sustain gardens across temporal and ecological disjunctures. In doing so, migrant gardening contributes to the transformation of urban natures – not only through the introduction of new plant species but also by reconfiguring urban spaces as sites of relational and affective life. We argue that these entangled human–plant temporalities reshape ‘home-city geographies’, revealing how migrants remake urban environments not only with and for human communities but in active and ongoing dialogue with more-than-human others in temporal registers.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146042633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：