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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.

Cover coming soon open access
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities

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

29 January 2026

Cover coming soon open access
Extra/ordinary Johannesburg

Lindsay Blair Howe,

01 December 2025

open access
Co-production of Knowledge in Action

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

15 September 2025

open access
Informational Peripheries

Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot,

04 August 2025

open access
Lahore in Motion

Ammara Maqsood, Chris Moffat, Fizzah Sajjad,

18 February 2025

open access
Disrupting the Speculative City

Amy Horton, Joe Penny,

24 September 2024

open access
Urban Informality and the Built Environment

Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx,

12 March 2024

open access
Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou,

27 February 2024

open access
‘Am I Less British?’

Doğuş Şimşek,

08 February 2024

open access
The Hipster Economy

Alessandro Gerosa,

23 January 2024

open access
Fake Gods and False History

Jonathan Galton,

23 November 2023

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