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Journal of European Urban Research Association (EURA) | Cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies | We publish original academic papers along with policy and practice papers

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The new issue (Vol. 19, Issue 1) of #JournalURP is out now. It features the Special Issue β€œCircular Cities: Motivations, Challenges and Prospects of Building Material Reuse in Urban Contexts” edited by Madlen Kobi, Adam Przywara & Elena Sischarenco.
Read more here: tandfonline.com/toc/rurp20/1...

19.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What can we learn from comparing recentralisation across Hungary, Poland, and Turkey? Take a look at our Editorial introducing the Special Issue on Local Governments and the Iliberal Turn by Hubert Heinelt.
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#Recentralisation #IlliberalRegimes #DiscursiveInstitutionalism

19.02.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can metropolitan authorities drive equitable, climate-aligned housing renovation? Take a look at our new policy article published by LucΓ­a Cerrada Morato & Rosina Vinyes-Ballbe.
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#MetropolitanGovernance #HousingRetrofit #UrbanVulnerability #Redistribution #Barcelona

19.02.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "Beyond the Garden: Sustainable and Inclusive Green Urban Spaces edited by Federica Dal Falco". Reviewed by Aura Asyda Larre & Bunga Artasya.
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19.02.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How can Organizational Learning Theory help local governments tackle recurring floods? Take a look at our new research article published by Kwame Asamoah & Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah.
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#FloodGovernance #OrganizationalLearning #AdaptiveCapacity #UrbanResilience #UrbanGovernance

19.02.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What comparative lessons can we draw about recentralisation in times of illiberal turn? Take a look at our new research article published by Hubert Heinelt & Marta Lackowska.
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#Recentralisation #IlliberalRegimes #DiscursiveInstitutionalism #IdeationalPower #LocalAutonomy

19.02.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What shapes the public perception of local development
during COVID-19 in croatia? Take a look at our new research article published by Sunčana SlijepčeviΔ‡ & Dubravka Jurlina AlibegoviΔ‡.
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#EconomicDevelopment #LocalDevelopment #Pandemic #Survey #Croatia

27.01.2026 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can abandoned buildings help drive the transition to a circular city? Take a look at our new research article published by Francesco Vettori.
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#CircularSociety #CircularCity #FoodNetwork #VoluntaryAssociation #Italy

13.01.2026 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What happens to everyday life when urban transformation unfolds quietly, parcel by parcel? Take a look at our new research article published by Gizem AksΓΌmer & Sinem SeΓ§er Sipahi.
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#Housing #SmallScaleRegeneration #UrbanTransformation #CommercialGentrification

05.01.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do urban plans really shape housing supply in Europe's largest cities? Take a look at our new policy article published by Mikel Berra-Sandin.
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#Housing #UrbanPlanning #UrbanAreas #EuropeanUnion #HousingPolicy

05.01.2026 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh by Tanzil Shafique". Reviewed by Anupreet Singh Tiwana.
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05.01.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "The AI City by WU Siegfried Zhiqiang". Reviewed by Fatih Eren.
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05.01.2026 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What does effective metropolitan governance look like for Ukraine's cities? Take a look at our new policy article published by Myroslav Kosheliuk.
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#Agglomeration #MetropolitanGovernance #Decentralization #Development #Ukraine

05.01.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do #narratives about the past shape the future of post-industrial towns? Take a look at our new research article published by MaruΕ‘a GoluΕΎa & David Bole.
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#IndustrialHeritage #NarrativeLegitimation #PostIndustrialUrbanTransformation #RelationalPlanning

05.01.2026 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What happens when "consent" becomes the state's tool for #gentrification? Take a look at our new research article published by Hossein Maroufi.
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#StateLedGentrification #RentGap #CoOptation #UrbanRenewal #Mashhad

19.12.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "Fragmenting cities: the state, territorial stigmatization and urban marginality by Troels Schulz Larsen & Kristian Nagel Delica". Reviewed by Basak Tanulku.
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19.12.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "Rethinking Spatial Inequality by Linda M. Lobao & Gregory Hooks". Reviewed by Diana Morales.
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10.12.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "The Routledge Handbook of Degrowth edited by Anitra Nelson". Reviewed by Giulia Belotti & Holly Caggiano.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...

10.12.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it actually possible to balance culture vs. profit in #waterfront #regeneration practices? Take a look at our new research article published by Jie Chen & Yiming Wang.
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#WaterfrontRegeneration #CulturalStrategies #EntrepreneurialRealities #Shanghai

10.12.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do cities respond when neighbourhood tensions rise around vulnerable EU migrants? Take a look at our new research article published by Jenny Kunhardt.
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#IntraEUMigration #SocialInclusionPolicy #Racism #Poverty #MigrationLedUrbanPolicyDevelopment

04.12.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do narratives and incremental measures drive local government (re)centralisation in Hungary? Take a look at our new research article published by GΓ‘bor Dobos, LΓ‘szlΓ³ KΓ‘kai & Ilona PΓ‘lnΓ© KovΓ‘cs.
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#Hungary #IlliberalRegime #LocalGovernment #Recentralisation #Clientelisation

01.12.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How is "urbanity" constructed and used in planning - both as a discourse and as a planning objective? Take a look at our new research article published by Tuomas Ilmavirta.
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#Growth #Regeneration #Neoliberalism #Urbanity #Depoliticisation

01.12.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What institutional changes are needed to unlock stronger urban-rural and cross-border cooperation? Take a look at our new practice article published by LukΓ‘Ε‘ NovotnΓ½.
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#CrossBorderCooperation #RuralHeritage #UmgebindeHouseRoute #InstitutionalBarriers #BorderTourism

01.12.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The new issue (Vol. 18, Issue 5) of #JournalURP is out now. It features articles and reviews by Eran Razin, Roberta Cucca, Ticiana Ponte, Alexandra Polido, Virginia Gamberini, Caroline Birkner, Sophia Leipert, Emine Koseoglu and many others.

Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurp20/1...

26.11.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the new #BookReview of "The legal and political geography of pluralism: Supporting diverse public and private spaces in contemporary cities by F. Chiodelli & S. Moroni". Reviewed by Carlos Nunes Silva.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...

26.11.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ A quick reminder that the deadline for abstracts for our upcoming Special Issue on #DataCentreUrbanism is coming up soon!

Deadline for abstracts: 30.11.2025
Notification of acceptance: 15.12.2025
Deadline for full contribution: 15.06.2026
Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

06.11.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Which illiberal recentralisation strategies have been employed by TΓΌrkiye's central government? Take a look at our new research article published by Evrim Tan & Irmak Γ–zer.
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#Recentralisation #Illiberalism #Turkey #DemocraticBacksliding #LocalGovernment

06.11.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Take a look at our new research article published by Rob Kitchin (@robkitchin.bsky.social) on data debates in urban development.
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#DataDebates #HousingData #Vacancy #HousingCompletions #DataPolitics #DataQuality

21.10.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What does wartime circularity look like? Take a look at our new research article published by Adam Przywara.
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#WartimeCircularity #CircularEconomy #AdaptiveReuse #MaterialSalvage #Solidarity #SupplyChains

10.10.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ Call for Papers!
Submit to our Special Issue on #DataCentre Urbanism

Deadline for abstracts: 30.11.2025
Notification of acceptance: 15.12.2025
Deadline for full contribution: 15.06.2026
Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

#CallForPapers #SpecialIssue

29.09.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0