City 30.1–2 is out. The cover takes us to La Llorada in Azoyú, Guerrero: an annual procession where two sides of a small city meet in the rain for a day of atonement, grief, joy, reconciliation, and wilful tears. More from our 30th anniversary issue in the weeks to follow.

Reviews, City vol 30, issue 3-4: “Urban verticality revisited: mapping Chongqing’s layered realities” by Weijie Hu, on Ali Cheshmehzangi’s City Walks in Chongqing. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

Scenes Sounds Action, City vol 30, issue 3-4: “Municipal Kitchens: an exhibition re-imagining food as a public service in cities” by Hanna Baumann et al. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

Scenes Sounds Action, City vol 30, issue 3-4: “Rhythms of resistance: temporality, urban informality, and the production of China’s peri-urban landscape” by Shih-yang Kao & Xuefeng Wang. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

Endowments and transnational networks: the urban politics of al-jam’iyyat al-khayriya in Kuwait by Asseel Al-Ragam. How charitable organisations shape urban development through Donation-Funded Projects. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

Who controls land at the edge of Tehran? Mashayekhi, Dianati & Vaghefi show how revolutionary charitable foundations negotiate land and development in Ozun Tapeh, blurring public/private and formal/informal. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

Aid-driven urban commoning has limits. Harb, Dayekh, Atallah & Zoughaib show how nonprofit and faith-based actors rebuilt post-blast Beirut, and why sectarian, class and market boundaries constrain their projects. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

New in City: "Theorising the religion–city nexus" by Azadeh Mashayekhi & Hélène Thiollet. Religious institutions shape urban governance, from welfare to land and housing, in Beirut, Kuwait City and Tehran. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

New in City: "Articulating the social forces of urban assemblages" by Natalia Martini & Torik Holmes. It articulates social practices as the social forces of urban assemblages, applied to homelessness and urban energy demand. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

New in City: "Critical spatial agency in public space" by Elian Stefa & Alexandra Paio. Curatorial practice, read as spatial agency, shapes urban imaginaries and public life, mapped here through four modalities. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

New in City: Marcus Mohall introduces "moderately heterodox" initiatives as a lens on planning experiments short of radical change, and shows how they can still open cracks in hegemonic urban development. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

New in City: "Tech-led gentrification as futurity" by Mieko Tarrius. The article shows how narratives about tech-oriented urban "futures" shape gentrification in the present, with a look at Parc Extension, Montreal. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

New in City: García Pallas, Aalbers & Wijburg revisit rent gap theory through Havana, where market-oriented reforms have not produced gentrification but rent gap deflation. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…

Jamie Stevenson draws on 24 interviews to examine the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire and the state's response: abandonment, stigmatisation, and securitisation. Link: doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202… Keywords: Grenfell Tower, abandonment, stigmatisation, securitisation

Visibilizing the invisibilized: innate circular networks in Addis Ababa The research calls for more inclusive approaches that recognize existing urban practices. read here: doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202… #CityJournal #UrbanStudies #CircularCities #AddisAbaba

Good news everyone - City 30.3–4 is here!. Check it out here: tandfonline.com/toc/ccit20/3…

New review by Japhy Wilson: "Strange Geographies" explores how Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles reimagines the entire planet as an uneven urban terrain, from the Amazon to the North Sea. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202… #UrbanStudies

How can new perspectives reshape urban theory? Philip Harrison reviews Extended urbanisation: tracing planetary struggles. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202… #UrbanStudies #UrbanTheory #BookReview #city

Extending the dialogue on urbanisation by Shubhra Gururani examines Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles and its contribution to contemporary discussions on urbanisation beyond the metropolis. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202… #UrbanStudies #City

New review in City: Stefan Kipfer on Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles (Schmid & Topalović, eds., Birkhäuser 2023) grounding the planetary urbanisation debate in empirical fieldwork across 8 world regions. doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…