Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1177/00420980251399570
Martin Francisco Saps
Scholarship on urban change has taken race, class, and culture as competing interpretations through which to explain socio-economic change in urban neighborhoods. However, the literature has focused less on religion as a structural factor shaping this change. This article addresses this gap by studying the spatial clustering of Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews in London and New York—a group overlooked by urban scholars despite living near commonly studied sites of gentrification. Under the same structural forces of urban change, this “non-liberal” group actively works to secure space through political dealmaking and communal welfare networks which promote the interests of its members over those of outsiders. This account reveals how members benefit from the religious group’s strong internal welfare system and relationship with the state, despite also suffering from housing shortages and unaffordability. Bringing together literatures on race, class, religion, and housing, this article provides a new angle from which to examine how urban communities experience urban change in the gentrification nexus.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1177/00420980251405755
Adrian Bua
This article contributes to urban regime theory by analysing the conditions enabling the electoral consolidation of social movement-led left coalitions in Spanish cities after 2015. It uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to investigate combinations of economic and political factors influencing regime change across 18 cases. The analysis identifies civic capacity as a necessary condition and finds that no single factor is sufficient. Instead, consolidation results from particular combinations: in smaller cities, high representation in local councils and fiscal capacity compensate for hostile upper-tier governments; in larger cities, intergovernmental allies are more critical. Contrary to expectations, capital mobility plays only a small explanatory role, likely due to Spain’s intergovernmental fiscal transfers. These findings underscore the importance of political-institutional factors – especially civic mobilisation and multi-level alliances – for progressive urban governance.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1177/00420980251400557
Lily Song
Urban studies and planning researchers are increasingly investigating questions of reparative justice related to redressing racial harms of city making and creating more just urban futures. This critical commentary suggests community-based arts and cultural organizing as avenues for reparative justice research that moves away from damage-centered narratives toward desire-based accounts that emphasize people’s creative practices and illuminate processes of healing, reimagining, and remaking. Revisiting the history of Asian American reparations advocacy and drawing on urban studies and planning research by participatory researchers and artist activists embedded in Chinatown’s multigenerational social justice and cultural ecosystem, the article examines the emergence and role of arts practices within three community-led initiatives for reparative spatial justice. The analysis considers the role of key actors and groups involved with community-based art and cultural organizing efforts, different and overlapping functions of arts practices within community-based reparative justice work along with their facilitating factors and surrounding conditions. The concluding discussion reflects on how Chinatown reparative justice struggles can help reveal shared challenges with other reparations and reparative justice initiatives and generate mutual insights to address interrelated injustices.
{"title":"A case for arts-integrative research on reparative spatial justice: Learning from Boston Chinatown","authors":"Lily Song","doi":"10.1177/00420980251400557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251400557","url":null,"abstract":"Urban studies and planning researchers are increasingly investigating questions of reparative justice related to redressing racial harms of city making and creating more just urban futures. This critical commentary suggests community-based arts and cultural organizing as avenues for reparative justice research that moves away from damage-centered narratives toward desire-based accounts that emphasize people’s creative practices and illuminate processes of healing, reimagining, and remaking. Revisiting the history of Asian American reparations advocacy and drawing on urban studies and planning research by participatory researchers and artist activists embedded in Chinatown’s multigenerational social justice and cultural ecosystem, the article examines the emergence and role of arts practices within three community-led initiatives for reparative spatial justice. The analysis considers the role of key actors and groups involved with community-based art and cultural organizing efforts, different and overlapping functions of arts practices within community-based reparative justice work along with their facilitating factors and surrounding conditions. The concluding discussion reflects on how Chinatown reparative justice struggles can help reveal shared challenges with other reparations and reparative justice initiatives and generate mutual insights to address interrelated injustices.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145961789","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 : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1177/00420980251397384
Sarah Felix
Most research on care in more-than-human relations focusses on proximity, contact, attachment, and connectedness within communities. However, looking only at these aspects of interspecies care narrows the understanding of coexistence of more-than-human lives in cities. Based on such interrelations, the article suggests looking at ways of governing more-than-human life that helps regulate shared time, proximity and distance, attachment and detachment. It calls for the recognition of distance and detachment and their temporal dimensions as integral aspects of interspecies care in the urban context of species protection. This research focuses on lake Müggelsee in the city of Berlin, a site that is simultaneously characterized by intensive touristic use and species protection efforts. By examining reeds and black terns at lake Müggelsee as species targeted by conservation policies, the research highlights how more-than-human coexistence in this urban conservation area is characterized by an overflow of connectedness. Moreover, by conceptualizing spatio-temporal topologies of coexistence, the study investigates how conservation policies entangle with the rhythms, practices, and needs of more-than-human life at lake Müggelsee.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1177/00420980251403399
Tim Schwanen, Debbie Hopkins, Ian Loader
The link between urban transport and freedom has long been recognised in academic literature and is drawing renewed attention in controversies over initiatives to reduce car use within urban areas and flying between cities. This paper analyses how multiple conceptualisations of freedom from across the humanities and social sciences are, and can be, implicated in public contestations over urban transport. It suggests that individualised notions of freedom are commonly invoked by adversaries of car- and flight-curbing initiatives, a dominance that reflects prevailing histories of systems of automobility and aeromobility across the Global North. It also proposes that those initiatives can be understood as applications of Mill’s harm principle by the (local) state seeking to reconfigure the co-evolution of mobility freedoms and unfreedoms. Yet, the harm principle is ultimately inadequate as legitimation for interventions in urban transport on a climate-constrained planet given its grounding in individualised freedoms. The paper therefore elaborates a collective, dynamic and non-sovereign conceptualisation of mobility freedoms as a framework for changes to urban mobility systems from above and below. The paper concludes that harnessing freedom’s descriptive and performative capabilities can enrich analysis of urban mobility contestations and facilitate practical action to transform urban mobilities at times of climate emergency.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1177/00420980251400646
Emilian Berutti
This article examines urban conflict agreements, which are agreements between ordering actors addressing specifically urban areas affected by armed conflict. Drawing on and contributing to the literature on the urbanisation of conflict, it makes two contributions, first offering a new conceptualisation of urban conflict agreements, and second offering a theorisation of them through developing a typology. The article argues that urban conflict agreements which incorporate a greater number of participants in their processes and contain more comprehensive governance provisions are expected to demonstrate greater durability in their order-making processes than those agreements which do not incorporate all relevant actors in their processes, or which do not include comprehensive governance provisions. The article builds on a deductive and inductive methodology to identify four types of urban conflict agreements – non-settlements, political unsettlements, partial settlements and political settlements – and offers illustrative cases to indicate their unique characteristics.
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This study evaluates the place attachments of older adults in Hasht Behesht Park, Isfahan, using a qualitative approach and Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 19 participants aged 65–93. The research reveals that place attachment is a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing place identity, place dependence, nature bonding, and social bonding. Findings show that attachment is shaped not simply by duration of residence or physical access but also by embodied routines, sensory familiarity, and intergenerational memory embedded in the park’s evolving landscape. Ancient trees and heritage elements emerge as emotional and cultural anchors, fostering a sense of belonging, sustaining intergenerational memory, and enabling social connection—including with “familiar strangers.” Notably, social bonding and the need for solitude coexist, particularly within gendered and culturally specific dynamics. The interplay between natural and social bonds is especially significant in shaping place attachment, as older adults tend to form stronger attachments to places that better meet their diverse needs. Challenges such as restricted access, poor maintenance, noise, and overcrowding can disrupt these attachments. This article contributes by revealing how gendered solitude, intergenerational memory, and emotional infrastructures—such as ancient trees, heritage elements, and interactions with “familiar strangers”—serve as affective anchors that shape place attachment among older adults. It reframes urban green spaces as emotionally and socially embedded infrastructures, shaped by vernacular ethics of care and culturally specific dynamics, thereby challenging functionalist, Global North-centric models of age-friendly urban design.
{"title":"Sense of belonging and attachment in urban green spaces: A qualitative study of older adults in Isfahan, Iran","authors":"Amirhosein Shabani, Shima Taheri, Aura-Luciana Istrate, Ayyoob Sharifi","doi":"10.1177/00420980251396546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251396546","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluates the place attachments of older adults in Hasht Behesht Park, Isfahan, using a qualitative approach and Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 19 participants aged 65–93. The research reveals that place attachment is a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing place identity, place dependence, nature bonding, and social bonding. Findings show that attachment is shaped not simply by duration of residence or physical access but also by embodied routines, sensory familiarity, and intergenerational memory embedded in the park’s evolving landscape. Ancient trees and heritage elements emerge as emotional and cultural anchors, fostering a sense of belonging, sustaining intergenerational memory, and enabling social connection—including with “familiar strangers.” Notably, social bonding and the need for solitude coexist, particularly within gendered and culturally specific dynamics. The interplay between natural and social bonds is especially significant in shaping place attachment, as older adults tend to form stronger attachments to places that better meet their diverse needs. Challenges such as restricted access, poor maintenance, noise, and overcrowding can disrupt these attachments. This article contributes by revealing how gendered solitude, intergenerational memory, and emotional infrastructures—such as ancient trees, heritage elements, and interactions with “familiar strangers”—serve as affective anchors that shape place attachment among older adults. It reframes urban green spaces as emotionally and socially embedded infrastructures, shaped by vernacular ethics of care and culturally specific dynamics, thereby challenging functionalist, Global North-centric models of age-friendly urban design.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"173 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145955010","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 : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1177/00420980251400626
Agnes Silva de Araujo, Geisa Tamara Bugs, Joana Barros, Jaqueline Massucheto, Phâmela Alves, Flávia da Fonseca Feitosa
Sexual violence against women in public spaces remains a persistent and troubling societal issue. The daily rhythms of people’s routine activities offer important insights into when, where, and who may be most exposed to gender-based violence. This study proposes an exploratory spatio-temporal approach to investigate women’s potential exposure to gender-based violence in public spaces in Curitiba, Brazil, adopting an intersectional perspective that considers gender, education level, income, and age. Using sample data from Curitiba’s Origin-Destination survey, we analyze the associations between the spatio-temporal patterns of the ambient population and those of gender-based crimes. Our results reveal that the correlation between population flows and gender-based crime incidents varies throughout the day, with stronger associations during daytime hours, especially morning and afternoon, when movements typically relate to commuting between home, work, and other destinations. Findings show that young women, those from low-income groups, women with secondary education, and those relying primarily on walking or public transportation tend to be more exposed to gender-based violence throughout the day, especially during peak hours. High-incidence crime areas are more closely linked to women’s destinations than to their places of residence and tend to align with public transport hubs. We conclude with a discussion on the implications of these findings for public policy and research agendas.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1177/00420980251396008
Armita Kar, Fangda Zhang, Krista Wheeler, Harvey J. Miller, Jingzhen Yang
Teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk depends on where and how much they drive. Of the few published studies examining driving patterns and crash exposure, none focused on teen drivers, the highest crash risk group of all ages. This study used activity space measures to analyze everyday driving activities, resultant crash exposure, and associated factors for teen drivers aged 16–17. Using driving-related GPS-trajectory data collected from 76 teens for one month, we used a network-based activity space measure to categorize teens into three groups. We estimated each teen’s crash exposure by analyzing their travel frequency on specific roads and crash density on those roads for the broader young population. Lastly, we applied a cumulative link mixed model to assess the influence of demographic, road, and urban-social environmental characteristics on crash exposure and their variations across three driving activity-based teen groups. Our findings revealed that the geographic extent of teens’ everyday driving, measured through their activity space, varied extensively, resulting in varying crash exposure levels among them. The results suggested that teens’ exposure to crashes was associated with both the extent of their driving activity space and the road and urban environments in which they drive. Teens, who mostly drove within smaller geographic spaces experienced greater crash exposure while driving on primary roads and in poor neighborhoods compared to those driving extensively but mostly on highways. These findings have implications for urban planning and policymaking, identifying urban environments, particularly those crash-prone for teen drivers, and informing strategies to mitigate crash risks.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1177/00420980251393777
Mekarem Eljamal
As we continue to witness the unabating death and destruction of Palestinian lives and spaces, it would be easy to succumb to the bounds of expectations set by the dystopian world around us; however, Palestinians already offer us ways out of and through these unfolding dystopian realities. This article turns to these pathways presented and alluded to in the Palestinian speculative futures of Lyd and Palestine+100 , a science fiction documentary and an anthology of speculative fiction short stories, respectively. This article argues that the ways in which these speculative imaginaries engage with the context and enduring impacts of settler colonialism offer guiding principles for building desired urban futures. The enduring nature of settler colonialism in Palestine is often understood as the ongoing Nakba; Palestinian dispossession and displacement that was part of constructing the Israeli state in 1948 continues today through legal, infrastructural, and political maneuvers. Focusing on how the producers and authors of Lyd and Palestine+100 grapple with the fragmentation and erasure of the ongoing Nakba, what emerges is how these speculative futures are intimately tied to the present, not only through the dystopian elements but more significantly in the enactments of better worlds. In its eliminatory mission, a central component of settler colonialism is to destroy the capacity to imagine an Indigenous future; however, these speculative imaginaries echo the details of desired futures already being enacted in the present.
当我们继续目睹巴勒斯坦人的生命和空间不断遭到死亡和破坏时，我们很容易屈服于我们周围反乌托邦世界设定的期望界限；然而，巴勒斯坦人已经为我们提供了摆脱和穿越这些正在展开的反乌托邦现实的途径。这篇文章转向这些路径，分别在Lyd和巴勒斯坦+100的巴勒斯坦投机未来中呈现和暗示，一个科幻纪录片和一个投机小说短篇小说选集。本文认为，这些投机性想象与殖民主义的背景和持久影响相结合的方式，为构建理想的城市未来提供了指导原则。巴勒斯坦定居者殖民主义的持久性质通常被理解为正在进行的Nakba；1948年，巴勒斯坦人被剥夺和流离失所是以色列建国的一部分，通过法律、基础设施和政治手段，今天仍在继续。关注《Lyd and Palestine+100》的制片人和作者如何应对正在进行的Nakba的分裂和抹去，浮现的是这些投机的未来是如何与现在紧密联系在一起的，不仅通过反乌托邦元素，更重要的是通过更美好世界的制定。在其消灭任务中，移民殖民主义的一个核心组成部分是摧毁想象土著未来的能力；然而，这些推测性的想象与目前已经制定的期望未来的细节相呼应。
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