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. Nine articles were shortlisted by the editors from those published in print copy in 2023:
Born AM (2023) The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood. Urban Studies 60(3): 537–553.
Finlay J, Jang J, Esposito M, McClure L, Judd S and Clarke P (2023) ‘My neighbourhood is fuzzy, not hard and fast’: Individual and contextual associations with perceived residential neighbourhood boundaries among ageing Americans. Urban Studies 60(1): 85–108.
Giménez-Nadal JI, Echeverría L and Molina A (2023) Citizen security and urban commuting in Latin America. Urban Studies 60(13): 2585–2611.
Gray N and Kallin H (2023) Capital’s welfare dependency: Market failure, stalled regeneration and state subsidy in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Urban Studies 60(6): 1031–1047.
Lawhon M, Nsangi Nakyagaba G and Karpouzoglou T (2023) Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal. Urban Studies 60(1): 146–165.
Lee S and Wang S (2023) Impacts of political fragmentation on inclusive economic resilience: Examining American metropolitan areas after the Great Recession. Urban Studies 60(1): 26–45.
Mleczko M and Desmond M (2023) Using natural language processing to construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database. Urban Studies 60(13): 2564–2584.
Wiesel I, de Bruyn J, Meekes J and Chandrashekeran S (2023) Income polarisation, expenditure and the Australian urban middle class. Urban Studies 60(14): 2779–2798.
Wilson J (2023) Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world. Urban Studies 60(4): 718–733.
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 2023. Our congratulations to the authors: Anthony Miro Born, for The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood; and Japhy Wilson, for Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world.
These articles along with the other shortlisted papers are free to view on the Journal’s website.