Based on presentations across two days as part of an Urban Studies Foundation-funded
seminar series, we elaborate a thematic agenda for considering the centrality of urban …

The political popularity of the 20-min city is a result of its perceived equal treatment of all
citizens, yet the ideal geography fails to consider the diversity of mobilities and needs of …

The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the surface the critical qualities of air–airflow,
ventilation, particulates etc.–in relation to the well-being of people living in high-rise …

The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant social disaster that radically affected the
paradigm of current urbanization and city-center living. Responses to the disaster varied …

As recently as fifty years ago, Melbourne's new suburban communities were constructed
with unpaved roads and lacked many basic services. Today they often come not just with …

After central business districts (CBD) emptied from COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and
widespread working-from-home, culture and creativity feature prominently within recovery …

Suburbs are at the forefront of urban change, with urban policy looking to increase the
density of suburban centres. Thus, the compact city has emerged as a dominant urban …

This paper challenges inherited twentieth-century assumptions of suburbia by teasing out
existing interrelationships between the city centre and its peripheries. This is done through a …

In March 2020, a Suburban Taskforce was established by Members of Parliament (MPs) in
the UK. This Taskforce argued that the experiences of suburbs in England were poorly …

This paper aims to map daily mobility to work and services within the suburban zone of
Prague and to explain temporal changes in the structuration of the suburban zone during the …