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@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgOct 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

📢 New open access publication by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan in Antipode.

"From housing to infrastructure of racialisation: The politics of caste in smart housing interventions in India" 🇮🇳

🔗 zurl.co/jYWC8

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #India #Housing

Graphic tile with a light grey background displaying the paper's title and subtitle: "From housing to infrastructure of racialisation: The politics of caste in smart housing interventions in India" by Syeda Jenifa Zahan, with an arrow icon pointing right.Graphic tile featuring a preview of the first page of the paper alongside the selected quote: "This paper conceptualises housing as an infrastructure of racialisation in smart cities. With smart urbanism becoming central to urban governance, housing is emerging as a new geography of technological interventions in India."
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgOct 14, 2026, 1:30 PM

🆕 New #USFblog post: “GeoHeat-SSA: A GeoAI decision-support platform for urban heat governance in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Dr Andrews Korah on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Ghana. 🇬🇭

🔗 Read here: zurl.co/sQ9wJ
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/wPsmf

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Title tile for the GeoHeat-SSA blog post, reading “GeoHeat-SSA: A GeoAI decision-support platform for urban heat governance in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with the author name Andrews Korah. The background is a colourful heat map of a dense urban area, with hotter zones in red and purple and cooler green areas. In the foreground, several people lean over a large printed heat map on a table. Image credit: Google Gemini.Quote tile with a grey background and a “USF Blog” label, plus the USF logo in the top right corner. The quote reads: “Many urban municipalities lack a centralised system to pinpoint heat hotspots and evaluate cooling interventions. GeoHeat-SSA bridges this gap by integrating satellite-derived surface temperatures, land cover patterns, and direct community knowledge.”
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgOct 9, 2026, 11:00 AM

📘 New special issue! Congratulations to former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Ofita Purwani, who guest co-edited the Urban Studies special issue "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" with Dr Jane M Jacobs.

🔗 zurl.co/fjGvM
👤 zurl.co/ti3QY

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Light blue graphic with a "Paper" label at top left and a small four-square logo at top right. Large text reads "Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia", with the line "Special Issue, Urban Studies Journal" beneath. Text at bottom left reads "Guest Editors: Jane M Jacobs and Ofita Purwani". An arrow at bottom right points right.Light blue graphic with a "Paper" label at top left and a small four-square logo at top right. It shows the first page of the article "Neo-royal urbanisms: Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia" from the journal Urban Studies, with the title, authors and abstract visible. Below the page, a quote reads: "It is clear from the articles in this special issue that monarchy in Southeast Asia is not merely a residual institution but rather one that is resilient and re-emergent. Furthermore, the city is not a mere contextual backdrop to this neo-royalism." The attribution below reads: "Neo-royal urbanisms: Royal agency in contemporary city building in Southeast Asia, Jacobs and Purwani, 2026."
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgOct 7, 2026, 2:00 PM

🎨 Zine alert: Marammat (meaning "repair"), created with young participants in Hyderabad through a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards project, is featured at "JUGAAD: Absolute Improvisation".

🗓️ 9–10 October 2026
📍 SAC Art Amsterdam, Panamakade 200
🔗 zurl.co/sPqXX

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF

Square graphic with the label "EVENT" and the Urban Studies Foundation logo at the top. The title "Marammat zine" appears in large white text, followed by "Featured at 'JUGAAD: Absolute Improvisation'". The background is a dark, dense landscape of rubbish and discarded textiles, with two small red-and-pink illustrated figures of people picking through it, and curved white text reading, in Hinglish, "Apan sorting karte, tabhi yaha pahad nai banta. Sorting karna band kiye…". Credits at the bottom read: "Editor: Vanshika Singh. Photo: ©The Hindu | Design: Sreya Saraswatula". An arrow points right, indicating more slides.Grey square graphic with the label "EVENT" and the Urban Studies Foundation logo at the top. Text reads: "9-10 October 2026. SAC Art Amsterdam, Panamakade 200, Amsterdam, The Netherlands." In the lower right is the zine's cover: the word "Marammat" in bold blue type with the word for "repair" written in Persian/Arabic and Telugu script, plus a small list of English synonyms (repairing, mending, rectification, jugaad). Beneath it is a textured wall with hand-painted black lettering.
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgOct 6, 2026, 1:55 PM

🆕 New #USFblog post: "Vital grounds: Revaluing urban soils in the afterlife of mining"

Dr Anastasiya Halauniova on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Newcastle upon Tyne. 🌱

🔗 Read here: zurl.co/3BCU3
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/ySffE

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

Tile with the text "USF Blog", the title "Vital grounds: Revaluing urban soils in the afterlife of mining" and the author name Anastasiya Halauniova, over a photograph of a roadside construction site. A lorry stands behind a mound of excavated soil and orange safety netting, with large green trees and a blue glass tower behind. The USF logo is in the top right corner.Dark blue tile with the label "USF Blog" and the USF logo, and white text reading: "Soil remediation is not a process of returning soils to an imagined 'pristine' condition, a condition that may not be attainable, but a process through which new regimes of value, new forms of urban governance, and new multispecies relations are produced."
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgSep 18, 2026, 12:15 PM

📢 Call for Papers: "Urban polycrisis and creative storytelling: A feminist/and decolonial approach to urban pedagogies" — co-convened by USF International Fellows Dr Nian Paul and Dr Raina Ghosh at ISA 2027 in Gwangju, Korea. 🇰🇷

🗓️ Abstracts by 14 October 2026
🔗 zurl.co/IUIIV

#UrbanStudiesFoundation

Call for Papers graphic for "Urban Polycrisis and Creative Storytelling: A Feminist/and Decolonial Approach to Urban Pedagogies" by Nian Paul and Raina Ghosh, displayed in large text on a light grey background with the Urban Studies Foundation logo.Event details graphic for the "Urban Polycrisis and Creative Storytelling" CFP, showing congress dates (4–10 July 2027), abstract deadline (14 October 2026), location (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gwangju, Korea), language (English), and four guiding research questions on urban polycrisis, feminist/decolonial methods, creative storytelling, and experimental pedagogies. Light grey background with the Urban Studies Foundation logo.
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgSep 16, 2026, 12:00 PM

🔔 New #USFBlog post: "Withdrawing from the city: Co-researching social withdrawal in Osaka and Seoul"

Dr Didi Kyoung-Ae Han on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Osaka and Seoul. 🇯🇵🇰🇷

🔗 Read here: zurl.co/k3Fz7
👉 Learn more: zurl.co/yqqSR

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

USF Blog graphic for "Withdrawing from the city: Co-researching social withdrawal in Osaka and Seoul" by Dr Didi Kyoung-Ae Han, illustrated with pencil drawings of figures with Japanese text, on a white background with the Urban Studies Foundation logo. Drawing credit: Kumiko.Quote graphic from the USF Blog post "Withdrawing from the city", displaying the text: "Like canaries in a coal mine, withdrawing individuals are the first to sense in their bodies the overload that capitalist urban metabolism produces." Dark text on a light blue background with the Urban Studies Foundation logo.
@urbanstudiesfoundation.orgSep 7, 2026, 3:09 PM

📢 New open access publication by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan in Antipode.

"The production of carcerality in state-led redevelopment of informal settlements in Delhi, India" 🇮🇳

🔗 zurl.co/rHN6A

#UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #India #Housing #USF

A light blue graphic with a "PAPER" badge in the top left corner. Large text in the center reads: "The production of everyday carcerality in state-led redevelopment of informal settlement in Delhi, India." The author's name, "Syeda Jenifa Zahan," is in the bottom left, and a right-pointing arrow is in the bottom right.A light blue graphic showing a thumbnail of the academic paper "The Production of Everyday Carcerality in State-Led Redevelopment of Informal Settlement in Delhi, India" from the journal Antipode. Below the paper thumbnail is a large quote: "The conceptual framing of everyday carcerality provokes questions on intimate yet often invisible interconnections among housing, homing, and carcerality in geographies that are not prison, yet are connected to the logics and logistics of the punitive state and its deepening entanglements with capitalist extraction of land and housing value."