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Urban Studies

From urban ethnography and city leadership to sustainable cities and urban development, UCL Press has a wide range of open access books on topics of interest to scholars in urban studies. Readers might also be interested in exploring Architecture_MPS, a fully peer-reviewed, open access journal that addresses the growing interest in the social and political interpretation of the built environment, from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Urban Beauty

Matthew Carmona, Jingyi Zhu,

01 January 2027

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Planning Public Space in the Vertical City

Nir Mualam, James T. White,

01 November 2026

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City-Heat

Nick Rahier,

01 October 2026

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Rethinking Urban Entrepreneurialism

Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang,

01 September 2026

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Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities

Ashvin Devasundaram, Stamatis Zografos, Márcio Mattos, Zoe Holman,

25 March 2026

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University College London

Amy Spencer, Colin Thom,

11 February 2026

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Extra/ordinary Johannesburg

Lindsay Blair Howe,

22 January 2026

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Co-production of Knowledge in Action

Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,

15 September 2025

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Informational Peripheries

Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot,

04 August 2025

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Lahore in Motion

Ammara Maqsood, Chris Moffat, Fizzah Sajjad,

18 February 2025

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Disrupting the Speculative City

Amy Horton, Joe Penny,

24 September 2024

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Urban Informality and the Built Environment

Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx,

12 March 2024

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