founding editor: bob caterall
city: issue 30.1-2
editor: city editors
Anna Richter, David Madden, Debbie Humphry, Hanna Baumann, Lindsay Sawyer, Paroj Banerjee, Sam Burgum, Sharda Rozena, Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero, Ulises Moreno-Tabarez & Yimin Zhao
The founding editor of CITY, Bob Catterall, passed away on 30 July 2025. He is missed by many in the critical urban studies world and beyond. Here a few CITY contributors offer short reflections and memories in Bob’s honour.
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Introduction
In lieu of an Editorial
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Editorial addendum
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Commentaries
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Original Articles
Intergenerational <i>CITY</i>
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Thinking through material incompletion
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Megalopolis now: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta
published: 1996/1/30
Megalopolis now: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta
published: 1996/1
From housing to building community
published: 1996/6
From housing to building community A mirror and directive agency <sup>1</sup> of paradigm shift
published: 1996/6/30
Urban reorderings: informality, emotional governance, and the remaking of home in Buenos Aires
published: 2026/3/4
Redefining urban liveability through community voices: insights from Kumasi’s informal settlements
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Sensing regeneration in a working-class Dublin suburb
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Public relations, repression, and counter-insurgency: the overlapping functions of police ‘co-response’ teams in Montréal
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Dismantling urban sanctuary and the ‘migrant crisis’: the political economy of solidarity and providing support to asylum-seeking migrants in New York City
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Anchoring the city in time and space: an architectural exploration of the processual city in Jai Undurti’s <i>Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel</i>
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Beyond ‘should they stay, or should they go?’ The management of contested statues in Flanders from an evolutionary governance perspective
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From the littoral: Afro-Indigenous urbanisms in small coastal cities
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Rooted urbanisms: Ecosta Yutu Cuii, Afrouniversidad, and Afrodescendant struggles on the coast of Oaxaca
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Paths and patterns of the Nn’aⁿnncue Ñomdaa
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Roots and ruptures: the urbanisation of an Indigenous village
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Birds and brigades: Afro Mexican youth organising tourism and risk in San Marcos
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Turning off the phone and turning on the memory
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Resilience and rebirth: the struggle of the women of UIRA in post-Otis acapulco
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From Afro-descendant, more-than-human urban margins in Acapulco, Mexico
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Introduction: critical geographies of <i>everyday crisis</i>
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Countdown city: contingency as urban condition, hustle as exit, and everyday crisis in Seoul
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Variegated authoritarianization and housing crises: a comparative South-East perspective
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Ongoing crises in Beirut: resistance and resilience as everyday life
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Critical geographies of <i>everyday crisis</i>
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Big ugly lumps? (Counter)terrorism and the everyday atmospheres of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation
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What is an everyday crisis?
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Littoral urgencies: coastal borderlands, spectral infrastructures, and everyday crisis
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Mapping scraps and scraping along in Fikirtepe
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Situating quantitative methods in ongoing violence in the West Bank
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Despair and repair: using artistic methods to transform violence affecting young people in London
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No flat earth: today’s planet and its urban extensions
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Extending the dialogue on urbanisation
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Extended urbanisation in place: South Africa’s former apartheid era homelands
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Strange geographies
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Homescapes make the world
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Inhabiting the surrounds: urbanity, critique and speculative practice—a manifesto by the Turin-Lisbon 21
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Visibilizing the invisibilized: innate circular networks in Addis Ababa
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Racialized policing as urban growth strategyPolicing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation, Daanika Gordon. NYU Press, New York, 2022. $30 USD.
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Everyday politics against spatial injustice: an ethnographic approach to women's resistance in a southern European urban periphery
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Abandonment, stigmatisation, and securitisation in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire
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Rent gap thinking beyond gentrification: rent gap deflation in Havana, Cuba
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Tech-led gentrification as futurity
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Making the post-neoliberal city? Vallastaden and the limits and prospects of moderately heterodox initiatives to transcend hegemonic planning practices
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Critical spatial agency in public space: towards a framework for collaboration and contestation through curatorial spatial practice
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A new grand narrative of decline
published: 2021/11/2
Articulating the social forces of urban assemblages: social practices and their role in urban becoming
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Theorising the religion–city nexus: political economies and moral topographies
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Rebuilding post-blast Beirut: nonprofit urban governance, sectarian moralities, and emerging commons
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Revolutionary charitable foundations and politics of land acquisition and land conflict in peri-urban areas of Tehran
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Endowments and transnational networks: the urban politics of <i>al-jam'iyyat al-khayriya</i> in Kuwait
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Rhythms of resistance: temporality, urban informality, and the production of China’s peri-urban landscape
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<i>Municipal Kitchens</i> : an exhibition re-imagining food as a public service in cities
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Urban verticality revisited: mapping Chongqing’s layered realities
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The time beneath the concrete
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Spatial weapons for the working class
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Gentrification disguised as a progressive urban policy
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Book Reviews
Shadows on the wall: epistemic im/purity and the politics of peer review in urban research journals
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Special Feature
Introduction to the Special Feature. Coastal commons: Littoral urbanisms, Afro-Indigenous relations, and small coastal cities
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Scenes Sounds Action
Introduction to Marjaa: examining and representing violence, urbanisation and resistance through creative methods
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Making Marjaa: a conversation between Mayssa Jallad and Ely Dagher
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