Check out the latest issue of Shelterforce (published by the National Housing Institute), which has a really interesting story on public housing demolition in Memphis, Tennessee by Kenneth M. Reardon, chair of city and r...

Check out this interesting new e-book by Adam Greenfield, Against the smart city (The city is here for you to use). From the publisher: From the smartphones in our pockets and the cameras on the lampposts to sensors in t...

FOUNDATION FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES 2014 ESSAY COMPETITION PRIZE FOR THE BEST ESSAY ON URBAN AND REGIONAL THEMES BY YOUNG AUTHORS In collaboration with the International Journal of Urban Regional Research and Wiley...

Forms of Life has a great interview with filmmaker Kelly Anderson here Anderson is the director of My Brooklyn, an excellent documentary about gentrification in Brooklyn and the fight by community groups to defend their ...

Don Mitchell (author of The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space as well as other great pieces) has just written a really wonderful biographical essay on the late Neil Smith. Check it out here...

An important new study by the the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund finds that gentrification is eroding historic Chinatown districts, driving out long term residents and more recently arrived immigrants. T...

Great interview at Jadaliyya with Nezar AlSayyad, Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, and Urban History at the University of California Berkeley, and current editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements...

From War on Want: Britons, Africans unite in urban struggles British campaigners and representatives from overseas social movements battling to win employment and housing rights in their cities join forces next month in ...