About Us
Urban Affairs Forum is a public-facing venue for urban and regional research. The Forum welcomes short-form contributions, dialogues, and edited collections from researchers, practitioners, and community voices that address the most pressing issues facing cities today.
Revisiting the Urban Crisis
This year, the UAR Editorial Team will be exploring the contours of “urban crisis” as a theme around which we will introduce new essays and revive older works from our journal’s archive. This theme was selected to reflect the growing concerns that academic researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and others have expressed about the confluence of global economic uncertainty, political instability, social unrest, and environmental risks—among others—that is influencing our understandings of how to talk about urban crisis today.
Recent Symposia
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Warren Magnusson Festschrift
In the memory of political scientist Warren Magnusson (1947–2025) and his contributions to local, urban, or municipal political thought and practice.
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After Black Lives Matter: Book Review
Scholars discuss the core themes and insights of Cedric Johnson’s After Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2023) for studies of urban politics, racial capitalism, and public policy.
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American Regionalism
An analysis of the mechanisms for cross-boundary cooperation in urban America
Calls for Contributions
Collections on the Urban Affairs Forum facilitate critical engagement of several scholars around a common theme or question of interest. Typically, each collection will include between six and twelve short articles of approximately 2,000–4,000 words. Unlike research articles published in the journal, these pieces will not go through the typical peer-review process. Rather, they will be commissioned by one of the UAR’s co-editors who will be responsible for reviewing pieces before publication. These articles are intended to be of interest to fellow scholars but also to reach beyond an academic audience to engage policymakers, practitioners, media outlets, and the general public.
For examples of themes and style, please see our catalogue.
Email Associate Managing Editor Emily Holloway with proposals and questions.