(2021). The radical bookstore: Counter-space for social movements, by Kimberley Kinder. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). A new coast: Strategies for responding to devastating storms and rising seas, by Jeffrey Peterson. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Us versus them: Race, crime, and gentrification in Chicago neighborhoods, by Jan Doering. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Race and property: A book review essay. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Forever struggle: Activism, identity, & survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880–2018, by Michael Liu. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Cities of entanglements: Social life in Johannesburg and Maputo through ethnographic comparison, by Barbara Heer. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Prophetic city: Houston on the cusp of a changing America, by Stephen L. Klineberg. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the invocation of “social mixing” to camouflage the reduction of public housing through state-led gentrification processes. I focus on the use of social mixing in Israel to justify the privatization of public housing projects, transferring state assets to not-for-profit organizations. These organizations encourage middle-class families and students to relocate to disadvantaged

(2021). The great American housing bubble: What went wrong and how we can protect ourselves in the future, by Adam Levitin and Susan Wachter. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article looks at the mis-match between official discursive representations aimed at promoting Lisbon, the Portuguese capital city, as an international student hub and international students’ experiences. At a theoretical level, our work builds on the idea that re-branding a city’s image in terms of creativity, innovation and new technologies with a view to attract international students

(2021). The handbook of displacement, edited by Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton and Ayesha Siddiqi. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The life of North American suburbs: Imagined utopias and transitional spaces, edited by Jan Nijman. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT For 3 decades, U.S. federal housing policies have sought to increase access to socially diverse and high opportunity neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for low-income families. Absent from current discussions of the costs and benefits of socially mixed communities is the potential value that they may have to low-income families seeking to purchase their own homes. In this paper

ABSTRACT Previous research on suburban poverty has found evidence that the population growth of minorities in suburbs is associated with higher poverty rates. However, it has remained unclear whether the changing poverty rates result from a shifting population composition in suburbs, rising poverty rates among one or more groups, or a combination of these processes. Here I estimate the relative strength

ABSTRACT Focusing on the political aspects of sanctuary, this article offers a qualitative account of responses to the criminalization and long-standing racialized exclusion of immigrants. Fieldwork findings suggest that New York City’s New Sanctuary Coalition (NSC) did not screen immigrants to distinguish between the worthy/deserving and the undeserving, nor did it create a boundary between the host

ABSTRACT Processes of capital accumulation continue to play an important role in today’s cities around the world. The spatialization of neoliberal policies and projects generates its own contradictions, as well as resistances, in the form of urban social movements that can be interpreted and analyzed under the consideration of their constitution as social classes. The neighborhood of Poblenou, in Barcelona

(2021). Transit life: How commuting is transforming our cities, by David Bissell. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Special issue: Refugees and the City. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 43, Refugees and the City, pp. 739-739.

ABSTRACT Following the start of the Syrian civil war, the Mediterranean Sea gradually became a cemetery for refugees. As Europe closed borders and criminalized refugee rescue efforts, some gateway cities took on a new role of refugee protection and accommodation. These “cities of refuge” created safe havens for refugees while resisting Europe’s fear-inducing anti-immigrant regime and rising xenophobia

ABSTRACT We examine neighborhood housing vacancy patterns in the largest 200 metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2019, focusing especially on Sunbelt and Rustbelt metros, both hit hard by the 2007–2011 foreclosure crisis. We pay special attention to neighborhood “hypervacancy,” where large amounts of long-term vacant housing are most likely to impose negative impacts. We find that, in the Sunbelt, hypervacant

(2021). Gray to green communities: A call to action on the housing and climate crises, by Dana L. Bourland. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Many authors agree that gentrification in Latin America depends on the intervention of the state. However, for the renovation of large urban areas that have long lacked public attention, state intervention is a pivotal driver. This comparative analysis involved fieldwork analysis and short ethnographies in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Results show variations and some common threads, namely

(2021). Implementing city sustainability: Overcoming administrative silos to achieve functional collective action, by Rachel M. Krause and Christopher Hawkins. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city, by Aaron Shapiro. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Scenario planning for cities and regions: Managing and envisioning uncertain futures, by Robert Goodspeed. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Economic development practitioners often chase the next great idea to grow their economy, especially their downtowns. A project that many large cities have looked to as a panacea is the sports stadium. Smaller, mid-sized cities have also joined the stadium craze by poaching Minor League Baseball (MiLB) teams via flashy downtown stadium developments, often using the same playbook that large

(2021). Planning within complex urban systems, by Shih-Kung Lai. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Immigrant crossroads: Globalization, incorporation, and placemaking in Queens, New York, edited by Tarry Hum, Ron Hayduk, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. and Michael Alan Krasner. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Reframing the urban challenge in Africa: Knowledge co-production from the South, by Ntombini Marrengane and Sylvia Croese. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power, by Shoshana Zuboff. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The misunderstood history of gentrification: People, planning, preservation, and urban renewal, 1915–2020, by Dennis Gale. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Furthering fair housing: Prospects for racial justice in America’s neighborhoods, edited by Justin P. Steil, Nicholas F. Kelly, Lawrence J. Vale, and Maia S. Woluchem. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Airbnb, short-term rentals and the future of housing, by Lily M. Hoffman and Barbara Schimitter Heisler. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Fresh Kills: A history of consuming and discarding in New York City, by Martin V. Melosi. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Women generally feel more fearful than men. We study this so-called fear-gender gap, by contributing to a growing body of quantitative gender-sensitive research inspired by feminist theory. We depart from traditional quantitative fear of crime research that fails to examine how determinants of fear of crime impact women and men differently. We use a Dutch governmental survey, linked to neighborhood

(2021). The new noir: Race, identity, and diaspora in Black suburbia, by Orly Clergé. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Urban lowlands: A history of neighborhoods, poverty, and planning, by Steven T. Moga. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Whilst “spatiality” and “architecture” have become recognized as important dimensions of urban conflict, contemporary forms of power push our gaze toward symbolic landmarks such as Belfast’s “peace walls.” This paper uses Belfast as a case study to instead highlight the fundamental role occupied by “everyday” urban space and architecture. It reveals evidence of an undisclosed body of divisive

ABSTRACT This study is based on the principle that urban open spaces constitute the basic foundation for the formation of public life and it is a comparative study of the “space quality of streets.” The space quality of the streets is of crucial importance for cities. Accordingly, the content of this study consists of identifying and evaluating the “criteria” that will ensure the transformation of

(2021). Advanced introduction to cities, by Peter Taylor. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Preserving neighborhoods, by Aaron Passell. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The urban archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard: Contradiction and meaning in city form, by Abraham Akkerman. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Many scholars offer alternatives to Global North theories on urban governance, access to socioeconomic opportunities, and informality in the Global South. Yet, these alternative arguments have scarcely been applied to urban greenspace planning. Oftentimes, residents are characterized negatively as the cause of greenspace decline in African cities due to encroachment and/or vandalism. This

(2021). Know your price: Valuing Black lives and property in America’s Black cities, by Andre M. Perry. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article studies the spatial evolution of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Canada to investigate the path dependence process of corporate control geography. The analysis is based on network analysis and quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) regression models for transactions of more than C$5 million between 1994 and 2016. The results indicate that the geography of economic decision-making

ABSTRACT There has been growing interest in the urban affairs literature in investigating the role of the arts in the city because of its multifaceted potential to impact a place. To document central elements of the emerging debates on the arts and the city over the last 20 years, we examined key articles on the subject published in the Journal of Urban Affairs and highlighted their links with several

ABSTRACT Studies that focus on different urban governance structures, especially unitary states and semi-authoritarian regimes, are still lacking in the urban climate governance literature. This research aims to explain how climate change is governed under a unitary state structure, particularly focusing on how urban climate governance incorporates higher-level government policy and external stakeholders

ABSTRACT In shrinking cities, commercial district decline has mirrored other patterns of depopulation and deindustrialization. Uneven development has emerged as the prevailing spatial pattern for shrinking cities in recent decades. Cleveland’s Storefront Renovation Program (SRP) is a local historic preservation-based strategy focused on improving commercial corridors. In this paper, we investigate

(2021). Special Issue: Urban Economics. Journal of Urban Affairs: Vol. 43, Urban Economics, pp. 617-617.

(2021). Changing places: The science and art of new urban planning, by John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This paper asks: why, given the Australian city of Adelaide’s early intervention to embed a flagship arts festival, has it failed to develop as an arts city with a more democratized cultural terroir, with greater diversity and inclusion? We argue that part of the answer lies in the continuing influence of its flagship Adelaide Festival, which, from the beginning, was not of, and for, the entire

(2021). South Central is home: Race and the power of community investment in Los Angeles, by Abigail Rosas. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The man in the dog park: Coming up close to homelessness, by Cathy A. Small with Jason Kordosky and Ross Moore. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Philanthropic foundations have assumed more significant roles in city governance through traditional grantmaking to NPOs, funding governmental services, and becoming more active in crafting and implementing community interventions. This raises important questions related to governance, political agency, and democracy. Through case studies of targeted interventions in two Pittsburgh neighborhoods

ABSTRACT About half of the rental properties in the U.S. are owned by small- to medium-sized investors, many of whom enter the trade with little prior experience. This paper considers the factors that motivate these amateurs to purchase real estate in high-poverty neighborhoods—an investment that involves high levels of financial risk for the inexperienced. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 93 investors

(2021). The Routledge handbook of street culture, edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross. Journal of Urban Affairs. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The text aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of mechanisms behind artists’ spatial, in particular residential, choices. Moving beyond the usual focus on bohemians who cluster in artistic quarters, practice a particular lifestyle or represent a specific artistic discipline, we propose that artists’ residential strategies involve a complex process of balancing between the desired extent

ABSTRACT Applying a Markov switching model (MSM) to Las Vegas and Macao, this paper decomposes their business cycles of the casino hospitality industry into high and low growth states (HGS, LGS). Compared with Las Vegas, casino gaming in Macao is more volatile due to larger ups and downs in tourism flows, with HGS being far higher and LGS being much lower. Gaming hospitality in both travel destinations

ABSTRACT Tony Evans and Peter Hupe’s studies of discretion enable a practical analysis of the imaginative improvising required of diverse urban managers. Discretion “as granted” bounds the freedom but does not account for the complexity of context-responsive discretionary “uses.” Such responsive improvisation, no longer romanticized as spontaneous jazz, integrates careful judgments of listening, analysis

ABSTRACT Does recreational marijuana legalization have the potential to transform urban spaces? Using Denver’s “Green Mile” as a case study, this study explores the potential for marijuana legalization to encourage the creation of thematic urban spaces. More specifically, the analysis contributes to understandings of gentrification by suggesting that commodified vice (i.e., marijuana) can function