In the past 20 years, Political Science research has increasingly focused on urban and local
politics. We systematically review this literature and find that smaller cities are …

The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts
of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities in …

This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking
assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The …

There is growing scholarly attention to secondary and intermediary cities as their relevance
for global urban development is increasingly recognised. We call urban academics …

This paper explores water sharing and volunteering as lenses to investigate the social
relations, visions and aspirations moving water in Bafatá, a small city in Guinea-Bissau …

In this report, I explore recent work in urban geography to reflect on one of its pervasive
'thought-infrastructures': the global-local dialectic. This dialectic features as a prominent …

Urban areas mediate climate transformations and generate new forms of climate urbanism.
Looking at climate action in the twelve fastest-growing cities in China with under one million …

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Urban research is becoming more representative of multifaceted urban conditions, but even
a more inclusive urban lens often gravitates towards the metropolis. In this paper, I introduce …