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Urban Research & Practice is making a special call for submissions for its Policy Section. Practitioners, policymakers, community actors, activists and researchers are invited to submit 300-word abstracts by 7 September 2026 on new and emerging urban policies shaping cities today. Read the call and consider submitting a contribution!
The third 2026 issue of the EURA journal Urban Research & Practice has been published. Now available: Volume 19, Issue 3, featuring the special section “Local Governments and the Illiberal Turn”, together with a policy article on metropolitan retrofit governance, a practice article on industrial heritage reuse and two book reviews. Read more and browse the EURA journal on Taylor & Francis Online.
We are delighted to announce the location and host of the EURA 2027 Annual Conference, marking the 30th anniversary of the European Urban Research Association. Location: Aveiro, Portugal. Dates: 17–19 June 2027. Theme: “Centres, Margins and the Future of Territory: Reconfiguring Urban Governance”. Host: University of Aveiro, co-organised with the University of Palermo. More details coming soon!
The European Urban Research Association would like to express its sincere thanks to Università Iuav di Venezia for hosting and organising the EURA 2026 Annual Conference in Venice. Special thanks go to the local organising committee, the conference secretariat, and all staff and students involved in the preparation and delivery of the event. We are especially grateful to the plenary speakers, public engagement contributors, mobile workshop organisers, EURA Awards Committee, track chairs, discussants, panelists, and all participants who made EURA 2026 such a vibrant moment of international exchange.
The papers titled "Learning to Reconfigure Housing Provision: Industrialised Construction and Collaborative Governance in Times of Crisis", by Emanuel Diogo and Alexandra Paio, and "Urban Regeneration, Social Impact Assessment and AI: Mediating Knowledge for Adaptive Governance", by Riccardo Palazzolo Henkes, won the EURA 2026 Best Conference Paper Award.
The paper titled "Amalgamation, Promised Decentralisation, and the Politics of “Uniqueness”: Local Narratives and Reform Legitimacy in Armenia", by Arman Gasparyan (KU Leuven), won the EURA 2026 Emerging Scholar Award. Congratulations once again to the winner and thank you to all PhD and emerging researchers who submitted papers.
