Journals, Urban Studies

Reconfiguring citizenship in times of crisis: (post)pandemic experiences from the urban South — IDPR special issue

This double special issue of International Development Planning Review examines how the COVID-19 pandemic reconfigured state–citizen relations and reshaped patterns of urban citizenship across cities in the Global South.

Heritage and Landscape

Building for the Atomic Age: 70 years since the Calder Hall reactors began generating electricity

Building for the Atomic Age: an industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry by Wayne Cocroft was published by Historic England and Liverpool University Press in February 2026. 2026 also marks 70 years since the Calder Hall reactors began generating electricity for the national grid.  This heavily illustrated book for the first time presents … Continue reading

Journals, Urban Studies

Sharing the good life: Colin Clark’s contributions to urban studies | Town Planning Review 97.1 Featured Article

The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR 97.1. ‘Sharing the good life: Colin Clark’s contributions to urban studies’, by Robert Freestone. This article will be Free to Read for a limited time.

books, open access, philosophy, Political Science, postcolonial studies, Religious Studies, Science, Sociology, Urban Studies

How do we make decisions about our health?

A new Open Access book from the British Academy argues that real-life decisions are made not solely in reference to biomedical epistemes, but also systems of embodied rationality, systems of reasoning and negotiations with power and authority that can be understood and articulated as rational while also experiential.