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UCL Press publishes high-quality research monographs and edited volumes, primarily for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Across 10 years of publishing growth, we have built particular strengths in Anthropology, Archaeology and Museum Studies, Architecture and the Built Environment, Comparative Literature, Education, History and Social Sciences. We are actively building our Law and Criminology lists and focusing new attention on our already vibrant publishing for History and Philosophy of Science. Informed by the principles and research interests at UCL, themes of social justice, community engagement, global networking and ‘disruptive thinking’ are characteristic in books across the subjects we publish. Interdisciplinarity is fostered and we encourage collaborations between scholars at different points in their career.

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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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Afterlives of Urban Cosmopolitanism

Magnus Marsden, Vera Skvirskaja, Paul Anderson,

01 February 2027

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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,

26 November 2026

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City-Heat

Nick Rahier,

06 October 2026

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Rethinking Urban Entrepreneurialism

Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang,

28 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

open access

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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Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou,

27 February 2024

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‘Am I Less British?’

Doğuş Şimşek,

08 February 2024

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