Introduction to the urban ecologies open collection: A call for contributions on methods, ethics, and design in geographical research with urban animals by Catherine Oliver, Shruti Ragavan, Jonathon Turnbull, Anmol Chowdhury, Diane Borden, Thomas Fry, Sneha Gutgutia, Shubhangi Srivastava

“…We are interested in papers that explore urban geographies with animals from a range of different theoretical, methodological, and empirical locations and perspectives. …”
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Introduction to the urban ecologies open collection: a call for contributions on methods, ethics, and design in geographical research with urban animals by Oliver, C, Ragavan, S, Turnbull, J, Chowdhury, A, Borden, D, Fry, T, Gutgutia, S, Srivastava, S

“…We are interested in papers that explore urban geographies with animals from a range of different theoretical, methodological, and empirical locations and perspectives. …”

Cities of Rivers, Mountains, and Serpents: Non-Human Territorialities in Jaime Saenz and José María Arguedas by Christian Elguera

“…From this vantage point, “territorial writers” perceive urban geographies as territories in which different ethnic groups interact with powerful non-human entities or deities.…”
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Scooty girls are safe girls: risk, respectability and brand assemblages in urban India by Krishnan, S

“…In doing so, it unpacks the ways in which brand assemblages enliven the agency of commodities and participate in the disciplinary processes that shape gendered urban geographies of risk and respectability.…”

Postcolonial Cities as Spaces of Resistance and Contestation: The Cases of Yangon and Colombo by Alejandro Christian D. Soler

“…My primary objective is to demonstrate the way locals in Colombo and Yangon construct postcolonial urban geographies through seemingly mundane, daily acts and practices in the context of their interactions within the cities’ built, urban environments. …”
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Food Desertification: Situating Choice and Class Relations within an Urban Political Economy of Declining Food Access by Melanie Bedore

“…Understood as an urban political economy of declining food access, the food desert phenomenon reveals capital’s complex role in the promotion or violation of dignity through the urban geographies of acquiring food for oneself, family, or household. …”
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Post-, pre- and non-payment: Conflicting rationalities in the digitalisation of energy access in Kibera, Nairobi by Prince K. Guma, Jochen Monstadt, Sophie Schramm

“…Ultimately, we contend that this study of actors' conflicting rationalities in the deployment of digital prepaid electricity systems is an important contribution to studies of digital geography as it explains the complexities relating to digital interventions and offers critical perspectives on their hybrid outcomes and politics within contested urban geographies in the global South and elsewhere.…”
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Developing participatory tourism in Milan, Italy by Chiara Rabbiosi

“…Both these initiatives contribute to fostering new sets of images of Milan, and to legitimising new urban geographies from the bottom up. They also stimulate a reversal of the traditional hierarchy between tourists and residents. …”
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Regulate, replicate, and resist – The conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism by Graham, M

“…Platforms in the urban environment are reshaping urban geographies in fundamentally unaccountable ways. …”

The Housing Question a century and a half later: Notes from New York City by Jaime Jover

“…However, these issues are not unique to NYC; similar accounts can be found throughout urban geographies worldwide. We need to think locally and globally about the current housing question, improve cooperation across housing justice groups and social movements, and prompt a debate about ways to rethink the tenancy regime alongside the capitalist system that has proven incapable of providing housing for everyone.…”
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Developing a Citizen Social Science approach to understand urban stress and promote wellbeing in urban communities by Pykett, J, Chrisinger, B, Kyriakou, K, Osborne, T, Resch, B, Stathi, A, Toth, E, Whittaker, AC

“…The paper reviews the existing use of mobile psychophysiological or biosensing within urban environments—as means of ‘capturing’ the urban geographies of emotions. Methodological reflections are included on primary research using biosensing in a study of workplace and commuter stress for university employees in Birmingham (UK) and Salzburg (Austria) for illustrative purposes. …”

Young Families and High-Rise: Towards Inclusive Vertical Family Housing by Lia Karsten

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Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas by R. Patrick Bixler, Marc Coudert, Steven M. Richter, Jessica M. Jones, Carmen Llanes Pulido, Nika Akhavan, Matt Bartos, Paola Passalacqua, Dev Niyogi

“…Extreme heat, extended freeze, excessive precipitation, and/or prolong drought impacts neighborhoods disproportionately across heterogenous urban geographies. Underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized communities are more likely to bear the burden of increased exposure to adverse climate impacts while simultaneously facing power asymmetries in access to the policy and knowledge production process. …”
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Sacred Pathway, Devotional Praxis: Actors, <i>Aché</i>, and Landscape at the Sanctuary of Regla, Cuba by Paul Barrett Niell

“…In this way, water conjoins African diasporic histories of enslavement, labor, survival, resistance, daily life, and religiosity within Havana Bay, into which two urban geographies project. Regla historically served as a municipality for dockworkers and shipwrights and became an enclave for identity creation, civil association, and religious worship for people of African descent. …”
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China's Community Riders: Digital Labor, Delivery Logistics and Spaces by Lan, Xuan

“…With the rise of digital platforms, delivery workers using motor scooters (hereafter referred to as “riders”) have gained new prominence through providing essential mobility in urban geographies. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, food delivery riders have become a fixture of China’s streets by forming an instant, all-weather, community-based logistic network. …”
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Socioeconomic and livelihood impacts within Bangkok’s expanding metropolitan region by Gregory Gullette, Paporn Thebpanya, Sayamon Singto

“…Using ethnographic data collected among agrarian households in Samut Prakan province and among domestic migrant laborers in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR), the research considers the socioeconomic and ecological effects of peripheral areas’ tighter integration into expanding urban geographies. In effect, to what degree does urban development unfolding in the BMR improve people’s lives and, simultaneously, rework the dynamics of vulnerability and precarity experienced among those laboring in marginal spaces of the economy? …”
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Procesos de re escalamiento territorial en los asentamientos rurales del sur de Marruecos debidos a las nuevas tipologías de organización espacial humana. El caso de los oasis del... by Marta Colmenares Fernández

“…Palabras clave Re-escalamiento; áreas rurales Abstract Nowadays, the global conditions in which we live today give high importance to the fact that the urbanization geography exceeds the limits of the cities, metropolis or regions, to pervade every place of the planet. …”
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Associations between the fast-food environment and diabetes prevalence in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional study by Anna-Maria Ntarladima, MSc, Derek Karssenberg, ProfPhD, Maartje Poelman, PhD, Diederick E Grobbee, ProfPhD, Meng Lu, PhD, Oliver Schmitz, PhD, Maciej Strak, PhD, Nicole Janssen, PhD, Gerard Hoek, PhD, Ilonca Vaartjes, PhD

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