On April 20, 2022, City, in collaboration with Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research and Nuart Journal, hosted a roundtable discussion based on the Special Feature “Inscriptions of Crisis: Graffiti, Street ...

Off-cycle: Comparing model sustainable neighbourhoods in France and Canada Comparative case study research in two prototype model sustainable neighbourhoods, Fréquel Fontarabie in Paris (France) and Dockside Green in Victoria (Canada), ...

Governing cities as more-than-human entities: From the population of databases to the legibility of urban populations The field of urban studies has scrutinised digital technologies and their proliferation, but rather ...

The case of Booker T. Washington High School: How post-disaster urban growth produces environmental risks and racism In this article, I synthesize insights from urban growth machine and risk society ...

Visual criminology and lives lived in public space In January 2017, several homeless people gathered outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia. The gathering gained significant media attention and led ...

Improving local governance with citizen engagement? Quotidian participatory mechanisms in two middle-class districts in Lima, Peru Recent studies have focused on participatory innovations—implemented over the past three decades in cities ...

The strange case of earthquake risk mitigation in Istanbul As an aspiring global city, Istanbul is at the crossroads of capital, political struggle, and socioeconomic transformation. Unfortunately, Istanbul is also ...

Rethinking centrality: Extended urbanization in Istanbul In this paper, I tackle the center-periphery dynamics under planetary urbanization by focusing on Gebze, the gigantic industrial city just outside of Istanbul’s administrative ...

The art of care: Urban oppositional practices and the case of the Guerrilla Grafters Abstract: Building on emerging work that considers urban life and designs through the lens of care, ...

Our double Issue 25(1-2) will come out soon – online first versions are already available here. While we wait for the printers to do their thing, we have some news ...

Announcing new members of CITY’s editorial board As part of its commitment to collective leadership and regular renewal of ideas and energy, CITY is happy to welcome three new editors ...

Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) are at the forefront of anti-austerity direct action and below is the photo-essay featured in CITY’s Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts ...