Our September issue is live! We have a good combination of interdisciplinary research here and a wide range of geographic coverage. You can read our Editorial here:
It's live! Our first issue with interesting urban research and opinion from different parts of the world is here. We we want to send out a big THANK YOU to all the authors and the production team who made this happen.
As a journal that wants to publish global content, we are aware that researchers have to face many different structural barriers. Here
@MajoAlRiv
talks about some of them when doing urban research from and about the Global South:
Our first editorial talks about what we do and what we want to accomplish as a journal. We welcome all disciplines and methodologies (yes, including qual research!) that deal with urban problems.
As a new journal, people sometimes ask us what our scope and range are. As an interdisciplinary journal, we welcome submissions from any field. Here's an initial list of things we are interested in, but we are also open to topics outside these!
Our first issue will be live in about one hour. It's a great mix of different disciplines, voices and geographies. We will discuss each individually, but please take a look to the whole new site later today. Looking forward to your thoughts!
Although we are called Nature Cities, our content includes both environmental and human issues of cities. Politics is a key topic, and here Eduardo Marques from
@CEM_CMS
recounts the way urban scholars have understood politics and govts:
Our March issue is live! Segregation, in its many forms and consequences, is the common thread among articles this time. You can see the full issue here: .
Our new issue is out now! This time we discuss the importance of the nature in and of cities with texts from a wide range of disciplines. See our editorial here:
The importance of inequality in the way diseases are transmitted in urban areas was discussed during COVID.
@UrbanIntelLab
's article shows how much, and compared to the role of density, in US cities:
We are taking next week off, but it's never too late in the year to read our first published paper. It's about heat exposure and adaptation, written by researchers from
@ASUrbanClimate
. Our first full issue will come out Jan 11. See you in 2024!
Looking to publish?
Nature Cities welcomes submissions seeking to deepen and integrate basic and applied understanding of the nature of cities, including their roles, impacts and influences—past, present and future.
Find out more:
Amazing opening talk
@The_ACSP
#ACSP2023
by Dr. Antonia Darder! "Planning for the End of the World (As We Know It): Rethinking Practice for a More Just and Loving World." Darder: liberation comes "with them, not for them" solutions rise organically from and with communities.
Contagious diseases in cities involve a question about population density but also about how socioeconomic differences matter.
@Creighton88
discusses the relationship between density and inequality here:
@DrAnneMullen
Thank you! We are beyond excited to see it live now and reading about people's reaction. We look forward to having more discussions with urban scholars around the world!
We will tweet and share each article individually in the next few days. For now, please click through the issue, and we hope you find something that speaks to you!
@sergemont
@GuerreraCasas
¡Gracias por compartir el texto, Sergio! In the interview with
@MajoAlRiv
she talks about Ciclovía briefly as well. Please be sure to check that out as well!
Last day at the
@IGU_Geography
conference on urban resilience in Mexico City. Such an diverse group of scholars doing interesting things around the world!