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{"title":"Estimating a CPI-based regional price parity index for US cities","authors":"Steven Bond-Smith, Younghan Lee","doi":"10.1177/00420980261457721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261457721","url":null,"abstract":"Geographic price differences confound comparisons of economic performance across cities by conflating nominal urban advantages with real differences in well-being. Existing tools only partially address this problem: the Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes a Regional Price Parity (RPP) Index that represents relative price levels in US cities and states, but it is available only annually since 2008 and with a publication lag, limiting its usefulness for historical or high-frequency analysis. To address this measurement gap, we use the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 29 US cities to construct a CPI-based RPP, enabling consistent comparisons of urban economic performance over time at constant and comparable prices. We exploit standard price-parity properties using publicly available CPI data to estimate CPI-based RPPs at a higher frequency and over longer historical horizons. This results in a CPI-based RPP for any period with published CPI data, as far back as 1913 in some cities to the most recent observations. By separating nominal urban advantages from cost-of-living differences, the index allows researchers to reassess claims about urban well-being, affordability, and the real returns to agglomeration. We demonstrate the index by examining long-run regional price dynamics and comparing real per capita GDP and real per capita personal income across cities at constant and comparable prices.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148414754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wartime urban planning geovisualizations: The Russian authoritarian settler-colonial project and Mariupol’s reconstruction under occupation","authors":"Guénola Inizan, Sofia Gavrilova","doi":"10.1177/00420980261457867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261457867","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the visual projections of Mariupol’s reconstruction following the 2022 Russian siege and subsequent occupation, focusing on geovisualizations of the city’s future produced by both public and private Russian actors. The analysis builds on research on demolition and reconstruction in wartime, while moving beyond the dichotomy between war-time demolition and peace-time reconstruction. To approach this, the article draws on postcolonial studies, which highlight the erasure logics characteristic of settler colonialism, as well as urban studies that emphasize the key features of authoritarian Russian urban planning. The visual representations of Mariupol’s reconstruction reflect the intersection of these two perspectives, resulting in a form of wartime urban planning that is both colonial and authoritarian. The article is structured around three main sections: the theoretical framework, the methodological approach, followed by a detailed presentation of the context in which the geovisualizations of Mariupol were produced. The fourth section presents one of the main empirical findings: the identification of three dominant visual regimes in these geovisualizations—the comfort gaze, normalization through functionalization and technicization, and pervasive russification. Each of these contributes to the visual and representational dimension of the wartime urban planning implemented by the Russian authorities in Mariupol’s reconstruction.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148400967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban segregation and economic inequality in Sweden (1991–2017): A decomposition analysis","authors":"Matz Dahlberg, Sebastian Kohl, Che-Yuan Liang","doi":"10.1177/00420980261449589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261449589","url":null,"abstract":"This article bridges the gap between inequality and segregation research by introducing a method to decompose income segregation across spatial units, income groups, and income sources, applied to detailed full-population register data for Sweden from 1991 to 2017. Sweden’s sharp rise in income inequality—driven largely by capital income gains among top earners—has coincided with intensifying spatial sorting, especially within cities. We find that segregation is most pronounced at the neighborhood level, where income gaps exceed those between regions; regional segregation has risen by 5%, while neighborhood segregation has increased by 15%, entirely due to capital income segregation. Low-income families, disproportionately foreign-born, have become increasingly concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods, and high-income households have moved away—a pattern shaped by urbanization, immigration, and a shrinking rental housing supply. These trends appear driven less by changes in labor income taxation or welfare benefits than by lower taxation of capital income, wealth, and property, propelling the growing wealth concentration found in the inequality literature.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148400962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Framing justice in urban climate adaptation policy in 14 frontrunner cities","authors":"Eero Ketola, Sirkku Juhola, Janina Käyhkö","doi":"10.1177/00420980261461460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261461460","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly critical focus is being placed on how urban adaptation policies approach issues of justice. Adaptation has been shown to exacerbate existing inequities or create new ones. Framings of justice issues in adaptation policies affect what representations are ultimately translated into practice. This study contributes to the field of adaptation justice by offering a critical look into the way proposed frontrunner cities approach justice issues by employing a frame analysis on 14 urban adaptation policies for the concepts they use and centre the issues around, what issues they focus on and how, and the way justice issues are presented. The results show three frames used in the policy documents: (i) justice through protection, which focuses on protecting the citizens and their ability to adapt; (ii) justice through equity and participation, which stresses equitability in distribution and increased fairness in participation; and (iii) justice through transformation, which suggests that justice issues are more deeply rooted in social structures and systems. We argue that while not all adaptation actions have far-reaching justice consequences, adaptation policies and policymakers should make a cognisant effort to recognise and acknowledge how and what inequities affect the adaptation initiatives and processes, to achieve more just and equitable adaptation outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148400961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Surveilled urban futures: How AI shapes power, privacy, and participation in smart cities","authors":"Tan Yigitcanlar, Abdulrazzaq Shaamala, Raveena Marasinghe, Ke Liu, Sk Tahsin Hossain, Ying Xu","doi":"10.1177/00420980261461440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261461440","url":null,"abstract":"Urban AI is increasingly embedded in the governance of security, mobility, and everyday life through sensors, cameras, and algorithmic systems promoted under smart city agendas. While these technologies promise efficiency and protection, their rapid normalisation raises tensions between security, democratic accountability and individual freedom. This commentary critically examines AI-enabled urban surveillance as a contemporary mode of statecraft, arguing that dominant safety narratives often obscure deeper processes of behavioural regulation, data extraction and power consolidation within urban infrastructures. Drawing on examples from both democratic and authoritarian contexts, it shows how AI-driven monitoring can reshape citizenship, amplify inequality through algorithmic bias and erode privacy and autonomy. To address these challenges, the study advances a multi-level analytical framework tracing how smart city paradigms materialise as surveillance infrastructures, generate social consequences, and produce democratic tensions that diverge into care-oriented or control-oriented governance pathways. The commentary concludes that safeguarding urban freedom requires treating urban AI governance as a political project grounded in transparency, participation, civil liberties and democratic oversight, rather than a purely technical exercise.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148400960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Slipping through the gap: Modelling Akelius investment strategy in the Paris region","authors":"Antoine Peris","doi":"10.1177/00420980261457835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261457835","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for reverse engineering landlords’ local strategies, applied to Akelius, a global corporate landlord whose French housing portfolio has been reconstructed by cross-referencing open administrative datasets. The procedure combines a two-component count model identifying spatial investment choices with a fixed-effects model analysing rental pricing practices. Results show that Akelius market entry is structurally constrained by the availability of single-owner buildings and driven by recent price growth, while investment intensity concentrates in areas where housing prices are decoupled from household incomes, signalling strong appreciation expectations. Akelius ranks among the top 10% of most expensive rental managers in its areas of operation, quasi-systematically ‘gaming’ the rent control framework through rent supplements that justify rents exceeding legal caps. This case study illustrates how an investor emblematic of the second wave of financialisation has penetrated a market characterised by low corporate ownership and generally perceived as highly regulated.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Growing out of NIMBY? The uneven emergence of contentious coalitions in land-use conflicts across the Paris metropolis","authors":"Julie Pollard, Côme Salvaire","doi":"10.1177/00420980261456496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261456496","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the coalitions underpinning opposition to housing development across the Paris metropolitan area. Drawing on a database of 141 housing-related development conflicts (2017–2022), compiled through local press analysis and socio-spatial mapping, it analyzes how local mobilizations are distributed across the metropolitan territory and which actors participate in them. The findings reveal a highly fragmented landscape of contention. Most conflicts are driven by ultra-local coalitions linking neighborhood groups and local political actors, predominantly concentrated in socially mixed middle-class areas. Broader environmental coalitions do emerge, but they remain socially and spatially selective, concentrated in upper- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods endowed with greater symbolic and cultural resources. By articulating coalition-building processes with the socio-spatial characteristics of neighborhoods, the article demonstrates that the capacity of local mobilizations to connect with wider actors is unevenly distributed and shaped by metropolitan inequalities. It shows that territorially bounded struggles must be situated within metropolitan-scale patterns of mobilization. These findings also point to the need for greater analytical attention to the articulation between relational and territorial forms of structuring in contemporary land-use conflicts.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The uneven geography of historic preservation: A neighborhood typology for equity planning in Chicago","authors":"Melissa Rovner, Emily Talen","doi":"10.1177/00420980261454799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261454799","url":null,"abstract":"Historic preservation and equity goals often conflict in urban neighborhoods, creating policy dilemmas where heritage conservation may either support or undermine community stability and affordable housing. This article addresses three questions: How do preservation-equity dynamics vary across different urban contexts? What neighborhood types emerge when areas are clustered by preservation and market conditions? What context-specific strategies might promote both heritage conservation and social equity? Using Chicago as a case study, we apply k-medoids clustering analysis to eight variables measuring potentially significant historic resources, preservation designations, affordability, income, racial composition, demolition rates, and displacement vulnerability across census tracts. The analysis reveals six distinct neighborhood types, each with different preservation challenges and opportunities. Key findings expose systematic inequities in heritage recognition: affluent neighborhoods demonstrate “curated heritage” where preservation operates selectively alongside luxury redevelopment, while neighborhoods with the oldest housing stock—predominantly Hispanic and Black communities—achieve minimal preservation recognition despite rich architectural resources. Preservation rates correlate strongly with income and racial composition rather than building age or architectural significance, indicating that current preservation frameworks systematically devalue certain communities’ cultural heritage. Effective preservation-equity policy requires context-specific strategies rather than universal approaches: recognition and community engagement in under-served neighborhoods with significant historic resources; targeted subsidies and anti-displacement measures in gentrifying areas; and inclusive density policies in already-preserved affluent neighborhoods.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutional configurations of spatial justice in Cairo: Islamic urban governance and gated urbanism in comparative perspective","authors":"Houcine Abdelmalek","doi":"10.1177/00420980261453837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261453837","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how spatial justice is institutionally configured across urban regimes in Cairo through a controlled comparison of premodern Islamic <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Khiṭaṭ</jats:italic> – subdivisions structured by socio-religious and juridical principles – and contemporary gated communities. The study adopts a comparative analytical stance rather than seeking normative reconciliation. Drawing on GIS-based spatial analysis, archival reconstruction of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">waqf</jats:italic> endowments and 42 semi-structured interviews, the article explicitly foregrounds its mixed-methods design to ensure empirical grounding. The findings show measurable disparities in service density and access (3.2 vs 0.8 facilities per hectare; 1.8 vs 0.6 health facilities per 1000 inhabitants) and identifies patterned redistributive infrastructures linked to waqf endowments. The transition from moral oversight under the <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Muḥtasib</jats:italic> – responsible for <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">hisba</jats:italic> – to contractual governance in contemporary enclaves is examined through concrete institutional mechanisms of exclusion rather than abstract normative contrast. Rawlsian principles are used heuristically as analytical reference points without presuming hierarchy or equivalence between Islamic and liberal frameworks. The City of the Dead is analysed as a fully integrated empirical case supported by administrative records and spatial mapping, illustrating a hybrid configuration in which distinct regulatory rationalities intersect to produce measurable redistributive outcomes including 22% improvement in potable water access and 18% increase in primary school enrolment. Rather than proposing synthesis, the article situates Islamic and Rawlsian traditions as historically grounded rationalities whose institutional effects can be analytically compared. Conceptualizing spatial justice as an institutional configuration grounded in documented spatial effects, the study contributes to comparative urban theory and governance debates in fragmented metropolitan contexts.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the infrastructure of food to food as infrastructure in Brazil’s urban peripheries","authors":"Mara Nogueira, Gareth A. Jones, Aiko Ikemura Amaral","doi":"10.1177/00420980261454767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261454767","url":null,"abstract":"Infrastructural debates have examined how unequal, uncertain and fragmented service provision shapes the everyday lives of marginalised citizens, yet have largely overlooked the relations with food. In Brazil’s urban peripheries access to food is mediated by combinations of people as infrastructure, social infrastructures and infrastructures of care. Drawing upon fieldwork in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, this article makes two contributions. First, it maps what food geographies termed <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">food infrastructures</jats:italic> , the material and social infrastructures that shape food practices, foregrounding the role of women’s labour and collective organisation in bridging gaps in food provision and acquisition. Second, it argues that food itself functions as infrastructure—generating connections between people, spaces, and materials that support the reproduction of everyday life. By proposing the notion of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">food as infrastructure</jats:italic> , the article brings food practices into infrastructural debates and offers a framework for investigating food (in)justice in contexts of exclusion.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}