Urban Studies
Urban Studies is the leading international journal for urban scholarship. Since its inception in 1964, the journal has remained at the forefront of intellectual and policy debates on the city, and has hosted ground-breaking contributions from across the full range of social science disciplines. The Editors aim to maintain and extend the role of Urban Studies as the journal of choice for those working on the cutting edge of academic research about cities. We welcome all original submissions that further our understanding of the urban condition and the rapid changes taking place in cities and regions across the globe, whether from an empirical, theoretical, or a policy perspective.
In addition to research articles, Urban Studies publishes peer-reviewed critical commentaries, debate papers and book reviews besides a regular series of Special Issues. The journal is also committed to developing Social Media as the means of informing debates about the contemporary urban condition.
Urban Studies is published in association with Urban Studies Journal Limited.
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Urban Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal for urban scholarship. We welcome all original submissions that further our understanding of the urban condition and the rapid changes taking place in cities and regions across the globe. Contributions are welcome from across the full range of social science disciplines and are expected to advance empirical and theoretical knowledge of the urban from both positive and normative perspectives. Such contributions may be formatted in a variety of ways:
- As standard research articles of between 6,000 and 8,500 words.
- As debates papers of between 8,000 and 10,000 words.
- As critical commentaries of between 4,000 and 6,000 words.
- In the form of guest edited special issues, comprising 10-12 thematically related contributions (of any of the above noted types) supported by an editorial introduction of around 5,000 words and reflective commentaries of around 3,000 words.
The journal favours contributions which move beyond the profiling of specific cities or phenomena that are relevant only to single or an extremely limited number of locations. Rather the journal seeks contributions that focus on matters that are intrinsically urban in nature and studies into urban process and urban outcomes that, while grounded in specific locations, contribute to a wider urban theoretical and conceptual understanding.
Urban Studies, which is published in association with Urban Studies Journal Limited, is committed to assisting the greatest practical extent of knowledge mobilisation of the material it publishes, including through social media, blogging and its website https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/. The journal also publishes book reviews for relevant and significant new publications.
| Jon Bannister | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
| Michele Acuto | University of Bristol, UK |
| Yingling Fan | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Tony O’Sullivan | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Michele Acuto | University of Bristol, UK |
| Alison Bain | York University, Canada |
| Karen Coelho | Madras Institute of Development Studies, India |
| Shenjing He | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China |
| Lazaros Karaliotas | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Chris Leishman | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Markus Moos | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Scott Orford | Cardiff University, UK |
| Catalina Ortiz | University College London, UK |
| Ruth Harkin | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Marion Laughtland | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Julia Macbeth | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Hillary Angelo | University of California Santa Cruz, United States |
| Anthony Miro Born | The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Goethe University, Germany |
| Sarah Barns | RMIT University, Australia |
| Evelyn Blumenberg | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, USA |
| Himanshu Burte | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India |
| Vanesa Castán Broto | University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Liza Rose Cirolia | University Cape Town, South Africa |
| Patrick Cobbinah | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Agustín Cocola-Gant | University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Creighton Connolly | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Jason Corburn | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Sylvia Croese | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Jonathan Davies | De Montfort University, UK |
| Henrike Donner | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Heather Dorries | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Canfei He | Peking University, China |
| Phil Hubbard | King's College London, UK |
| Mo Hume | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Guillermo Jajamovich | Universidad De Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Lalitha Kamath | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India |
| Lily Kong | Singapore Management University, Singapore |
| Kerstin Krellenberg | Universitat Wien, Austria |
| Taibat Lawanson | University of Lagos, Nigeria |
| Anant Maringanti | Hyderabad Urban Lab Foundation, India |
| Evert Meijers | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Sergio Montero | University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada |
| Karin Pfeffer | University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| Deen Sharp | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Yong Tu | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Stephanie Wakefield | Life University, USA |
| Lan Wang | Tongji University, China |
| Heather Whiteside | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Rebecca Wickes | Griffith University, Australia |
| Japhy Wilson | Bangor University, UK |
| Astrid Wood | Newcastle University, UK |
| Lei Zhang | Old Dominion University, USA |
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