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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.

Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities
Ashvin Devasundaram, Stamatis Zografos, Marcio Mattos, Zoe Holman,
29 January 2026

Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,
15 September 2025

Urban Informality and the Built Environment
Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx,
12 March 2024