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Current Urban Studies (CUS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement in the study of urban studies. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas…
Ronald McGill
On page 5 of the February 2020 issue of The Planner , the chair of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI’s) board of trustees presented the institute’s vision a nd mission for the next decade. Beyond its global vision, it is the mission that has technical…
Rogers Kweezi, Alex Barakagira
Recently some African cities have been scenes of high profile eviction campaigns. These campaigns have elicited heavy criticism from various quarters, domestic and international. Between half and three quarters of all new housing in sub-Saharan African cities…
Simon Msami Seja, Bonifas Mbilinyi, Proches Hieronimo
The northern slope of the Uluguru mountain, that falls under the sovereignty of Morogoro’s urban area, has steadily become populated and connected with uncontrolled human activity, which has had a harmful effect on the ecosystem. The rapid conversion of natur…
Tiancheng Zhou, Xiangting He, Tongguang Zang, Xiaoqi Yang, Konomi Ikebe
Rapid urbanization has resulted in uneven regional development in China’s urban villages. As well as providing affordable housing for low-income foreign residents, it also provides income for indigenous residents. Despite this, the government has often been p…
Renrui Wang
Urban population change has always been an important reference data for the study of urban sustainable development. This paper refers to the data on the population change of British cities after WWII and focuses on the population change and urban development…
Renrui Wang
WWII dealt a heavy blow to British cities, especially to urban housing provision. The purpose of this research paper is to compare the differences in urban housing supply data and policies in the UK before and after the WWII and draw out some successful exper…
Tama Bawack Ako, Clarkson Mvo Wanie
Rural-urban road transportation is very essential for mobility in most parts of the world. Its state s , especially in developing countries , ha ve posed serious challenges to the transportation of people and goods into urban centres with varying impacts. Thi…
Mohsen Dhieb
The dasymetric method is used to portray accurately phenomena such as densities of population over one space. In general, this method is preferred to the classical choropleth one since it yields more accurate results, especially when the mapped space is chara…
Miltiades Lazoglou
Coastal cities are complex and ever-changing social, spatial, economic, and environmental systems. The equilibrium in such systems is challenged, while resilience is described as their ability to transform and adapt to cope with the pressures and disturbances…
Virpi Lund, Soile Juujärvi
Participatory budgeting (PB) is an increasingly popular method for enhancing citizen participation in allocating public resources and engaging citizens in urban development. This paper aims to examine deliberation as a part of a PB experiment called “ My Idea…
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Current Urban Studies (CUS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement in the study of urban studies. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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