Abstract
The Urban Studies Best Article is awarded by the editors to the author(s) of what they consider to be the most innovative and agenda-setting article published in a given year. Eleven articles were shortlisted by the editors from those published in print copy in 2021:
Bradley Q (2021) The financialisation of housing land supply in England. Urban Studies 58(2): 389–404.
Bruyns GJB, Higgins CD and Nel DH (2021) Urban volumetrics: From vertical to volumetric urbanisation and its extensions to empirical morphological analysis. Urban Studies 58(5): 922–940.
Chowdhury R (2021) The social life of transport infrastructures: Masculinities and everyday mobilities in Kolkata. Urban Studies 58(1): 73–89.
Ferm J, Clifford B, Canelas P and Livingstone N (2021) Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban: The case of permitted development in England. Urban Studies 58(10): 2040–2058.
Johnsen S, Watts B and Fitzpatrick S (2021) Rebalancing the rhetoric: A normative analysis of enforcement in street homelessness policy. Urban Studies 58(2): 355–371.
Ley D (2021) A regional growth ecology, a great wall of capital and a metropolitan housing market. Urban Studies 58(2): 297–315.
Nielsen M, Sumich J and Bertelsen BE (2021) Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context. Urban Studies 58(5): 881–902.
Pallagst K, Fleschurz R, Nothof S and Uemura T (2021) Shrinking cities: Implications for planning cultures? Urban Studies 58(1): 164–181.
Preis B, Janakiraman A, Bob A and Steil J (2021) Mapping gentrification and displacement pressure: An exploration of four distinct methodologies. Urban Studies 58(2): 405–424.
Shannon M, Otsuki K, Zoomers A and Kaag M (2021) On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique. Urban Studies 58(4): 733–749.
Vandecasteele L and Fasang AE (2021) Neighbourhoods, networks and unemployment: The role of neighbourhood disadvantage and local networks in taking up work. Urban Studies 58(4): 696–714.
The editors are pleased to announce that two of the shortlisted papers have been selected as joint winners of the Urban Studies Best Article for 2021. Our congratulations to the authors: Gerhard Bruyns, Christopher Higgins and Darren Nel for the article, Urban volumetrics: From vertical to volumetric urbanisation and its extensions to empirical morphological analysis; and Romit Chowdhury for The social life of transport infrastructures: Masculinities and everyday mobilities in Kolkata.
The editors also wish to congratulate Murtah Shannon, Kei Otsuki, Annelies Zoomers and Mayke Kaag for their article, On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique, which is the runner-up for the 2021 award.
These articles, along with the other shortlisted papers, are free to view on the Journal’s website.