📣 A new issue by Urban Matters journal: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure?

The brilliant work of our authors, showing in different ways how platforms increasingly operate as socio-technical infrastructures shaping urban life, governance, care, housing, and knowledge production.

Read the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/eAK5EuzX

#DigitalPlatforms #PlatformUrbanism #DigitalGeography #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure

Check out this open urbanisation dataset covering 16 countries in Sub-Saharan #Africa and the #Caribbean - with Degree of Urbanisation level 1 classifications and full documentation.

Useful for research, development planning, geospatial analysis and policy work.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.13130/RD_UNIMI/YFNFZC

#OpenData #GIS #UrbanStudies #DevelopmentData #DEGURBA

Phys.org: New database enables comparative archaeological and historical urbanism. “…a team led by researchers from the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanisation (DLU) at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology have designed and launched URBank—a global hub for aggregating and analyzing urban data. URBank is hosted at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and […]

Open Call für (re)searching urbanity, 19.–21. Juni 2026, Berlin:

"Unter dem Titel „(un)learning urbanity“ lädt das Symposium zu kritischen, interdisziplinären Beiträgen ein, die vermeintlich selbstverständliche urbane Normen, Praktiken und Imaginationen hinterfragen."

Vielfältige Einreichungen (auf Deutsch oder Englisch) aus Forschung, Praxis, Kunst und Aktivismus sind willkommen.

Frist: 22. Feb 2026

Details: https://researching-urbanity.org/language/en/open-call-2026/

#Stadtforschung #UrbaneZukunft #UrbanStudies #UrbanFutures

New in our electronic #collection:

➡️ The #Social Quality of #Public #Space. Integration, Strategy, Subjectivation

🔗 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003584834

#environment #SocialSciences #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon