David Kaufmann

Scrutinising European land-use planning: Identifying the priorities and goals of building regulations The rapid growth and increasing complexity of European cities highlight the need for urban planning and governance in creating sustainable urban envir…

Local building regulations tend to be complex, case-specific and idiosyncratic. Is it possible to categorise them in a meaningful way without losing too much complexity and nuance?

Article led by Daniel Saakjans (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Global Urban Policy Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs...

GUS Director Mara Sidney and co-editor David Kaufmann's book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society will be published by U of Michigan Press in Mar 2026. The cover features a photo by Claudia Sinatra. Learn more at: press.umich.edu/Books/G/Glob...

A new interesting article by Malte Wehr, Michael L. Wicki, Stefan Wittwer and @kaufmada.bsky.social is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Beyond NIMBY-ism: rethinking acceptance of housing densification in a direct democratic renters society". Enjoy it here: tinyurl.com/4jj9udtf

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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This work is led by Fiona Kauer and also in collaboration with Elena Lutz

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We demonstrated the problematic effects of displacement, bc...
-(1) disproportionatly affects low-income residents
And they are more likely to move to
-(2) older buildings
-(3) lower-income neighbourhoods

These inequalities in moving patterns (2 & 3) are less prevalent for non-profit displacement

New article published in @urbanstudiesjournal.com

We analysed 𝐰𝐡𝐨 was displaced due to housing redevelopment and 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 displaced people moved (location and housing type)

We analyzed a data set of geo-coded individual-level data on all 1.5 million residents in the Zurich region

Findings below 👇

📄 "Municipal approaches to suburban densification: Understanding the role of planners’ interest and agency"

✍️ Cornelia Roboger

🔍 What is the role of planners’ interest and agency in shaping suburban #densification policies and outcomes?

📖 buff.ly/OlhhbCp

Big thanks to Claudia Sinatra for the awesome cover photo.

It includes 13 chapters from 17 authors: @raffaelebazurli.bsky.social @drmodonaghy.bsky.social
Imrat Verhoeven, Yue Zhang, Allison Bramwell, Meghan Wilson, Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch, Loren Landau, Kabiri Bule, Diane WongAnnika Hinze, James Smith, Eduardo Moncada, Jeffrey Paller

***There is the book cover***

...for our forthcoming book Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society, co-edited with @marasidney.bsky.social and published by University of Michigan Press. Book page: lnkd.in/e8zWBwUq

Hardcover, softcover, open access — we’ve got it all

hang in there

Super late to the party, but I’m not sure if (a) it is still going on, (b) it was ever a party, or (c) I really missed it