Recent publications

“The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies”, edited by Patrick Le Galès & Jennifer Robinson, was published in September 2023. Abstract The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. […]

We hereby signal the publication of a new article by Sukriti Issar entitled “Nuisance, Planning and the Common Law in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay” in the journal The Journal of Legal History, published in June 2023. Abstract The literature on the legal transfer of English property law to colonial South Asia has long focused on the agrarian context. Urban property and the built environment remain understudied. This article explores how the common law of nuisance found its way into the workings of a Committee of Buildings in late eighteenth-century Bombay. An analysis of the internal files of the Committee of Buildings […]

We hereby signal the publication of a new article by Sukriti Issar entitled “Nuisance, Planning and the Common Law in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay” in the journal The Journal of Legal History, published in June 2023. Abstract The literature on the legal transfer of English property law to colonial South Asia has long focused on the agrarian context. Urban property and the built environment remain understudied. This article explores how the common law of nuisance found its way into the workings of a Committee of Buildings in late eighteenth-century Bombay. An analysis of the internal files of the Committee of Buildings […]

We hereby signal the publication of a new article by Joost de Moor entitled “Introduction: What Moment for Climate Activism?” in the issue 122 of South Atlantic Quarterly. Extract Since late 2018, the world—Europe, Australia, and North America in particular—have seen a great wave of climate activism. Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Fridays For Future (FFF) in particular brought a large number of (new) climate activists into the streets, until the pandemic brought the mobilization to a halt. The contours of this mobilization have already been described elsewhere (de Moor et al. 2021). Here, we focus on understanding its significance, and […]

Nous vous signalons la parution d’un article de Charlotte Liotta, Vincent Viguié et Felix Creutzig intitulé “Environmental and welfare gains via urban transport policy portfolios across 120 cities” dans la revue Nature Sustainability. Abstract City-level policies are increasingly recognized as key components of strategies to reduce transport greenhouse gas emissions. However, at a global scale, their total efficiencies, costs and practical feasibility remain unclear. Here we use a spatially explicit monocentric urban economic model, systematically calibrated on 120 cities worldwide, to analyse the impact of four representative policies aimed at mitigating transportation greenhouse gas emissions, also accounting for their economic […]