The Study of Urban Geography and City Planning

This reprint of The Study of Urban Geography and City Planning consolidates a current cross-section of research published in Urban Science on today’s uneven and incomplete urbanization. Bringing together fourteen peer-reviewed contributions, it advances dialogue between critical urban social geography and city science while foregrounding equity, resilience, and governance. The portfolio spans programmatic syntheses, comparative case studies, and methodological advances. Reviews map the shift from segregation to fragmentation, examine place attachment in urban settings, and systematize ecological tools to reactivate vacant land. Empirical studies address renaturalization and social cohesion in Spain, state-led community gardening in China, pedestrian network continuity in Panama City, industrial corridors around Cape Town International Airport, retail desertification in Barcelona, links between population and football stadiums in Romania, and complex residential patterns among Southeast Asian Americans in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Policy-oriented papers explore degrowth-compatible zoning in Texas and non-linear relationships between urban density and municipal spending in the United States. Collectively, this reprint offers rigorous evidence and a critical perspective to inform equitable, resilient, and democratically governed urban futures.