Informal rental housing is reshaping neighbourhoods across the global South. Drawing on research from Cape Town, this featured IDPR article explores how ‘soft densification’ can be better managed to support sustainable urban development. Free to read for a limited time.
The Virgin with the Laughing Child: technical and art-historical analyses of an enigmatic fifteenth-century terracotta sculpture | Sculpture Journal 35.2 Featured Article
Sculpture Journal launches a new Featured Article series with an interdisciplinary study of a fifteenth-century terracotta sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In “The Virgin with the Laughing Child,” Charlotte Hubbard and colleagues combine archival and scientific analysis to explore authorship, manufacture, and context. Free to read for a limited time.
Land price and the viability of delivering affordable homes on ‘rural exception sites’ in England | Town Planning Review 97.3 Featured Article
The editors of Town Planning Review have selected 'Land price and the viability of delivering affordable homes on ‘rural exception sites’ in England', by Nick Gallent, Andrew Purves, Phoebe Stirling and Iqbal Hamiduddin as the Featured Article from Volume 97.3. This article will be Free to Read for a limited time.
The necropolitics of informality: contested strategies of banishment, carceralisation and peripheralisation | IDPR 48.1-2 Featured Article
The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 48.1-2. ‘The necropolitics of informality: contested strategies of banishment, carceralisation and peripheralisation’ by Ilda Lindell and Zeferino Ugembe.
Galvanised, upskilled, exhausted? Evaluating planning capacity changes through neighbourhood plan-making in citizens, communities and intermediaries | Town Planning Review 97.2 Featured Article
The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR 97.2. Galvanised, upskilled, exhausted? Evaluating planning capacity changes through neighbourhood plan-making in citizens, communities and intermediaries, by Laura Pinzon-Cardona and Geoff Vigar. This article will be Free to Read for a limited time.
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