About this journal

Focusing on urban research and policy analysis, the Journal of Urban Affairs is among the most widely cited journals in the field. Published for the Urban Affairs Association, the journal provides a multidisciplinary perspective on issues of relevance to both scholars and practitioners, including:

• Interdisciplinary analyses of metropolitan and community problems
• Cutting edge quantitative and qualitative methodologies
• Global and comparative urban research
• Empirical research that advances the understanding for urban society
• Assessments of policies, programs, and strategies for change in the urban milieu

Editor-in-Chief

Bernadette Hanlon - Ohio State University

Managing Editor

Casey Wagner - Urban Affairs Association

Senior Associate Editors

Katrin Anacker - George Mason University

Patrick Cobbinah - University of Melbourne

Valeria Fedeli - Politechnic University of Milan

Clarissa Freitas - Federal University of Ceará

Andrew Kirby - Arizona State University

Cathy Yang Liu - Georgia State University

Deirdre Pfeiffer - Arizona State University

Igor Vojnovic - Michigan State University

June Wang - City University of Hong Kong

Associate Editors

Jonathan Davies - De Montfort University

James DeFilippis - Rutgers University

Pierre Filion - University of Waterloo

Jason Luger - Northumbria University

Michael Leo Owens - Emory University

Elena Vesselinov - Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Lin Ye - Sun Yat-sen University

Book Review Editors

David Varady - University of Cincinnati

Leah Hollstein - University of Cincinnati

Scholar Development Editors

Santina Contreras - University of Southern California

Davia Downey - University of Memphis

Michael Glass - University of Pittsburgh

Brenda Parker - University of Illinois, Chicago

Jason Reece - Ohio State University

Jocelyn Taliaferro - North Carolina State University

International Editorial Board

Manuel Aalbers - KU Leuven

Yasminah Beebeejaun - University College London

Jennifer Clark - Ohio State University

Prentiss Dantzler - University of Toronto

Sabina Deitrick - University of Pittsburgh

Ben Derudder - KU Leuven

Susan Fainstein - Harvard University

Arturo Flores - Anahuac University

Katherine Hankins - Georgia State University

Paul Jargowsky - Rutgers University

Sue-Ching Jou - National Taiwan University

Roger Keil - York University

Loraine Kennedy - French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris

Rachel Kleit - Ohio State University

Ernesto Lopez-Morales - University of Chile

Brij Maharaj - University of KwaZulu-Natal

David Merriman - University of Illinois Chicago

Don Mitchell - Uppsala University

Ali Modarres - University of Washington Tacoma

Deirdre Oakley - Georgia State University

Nicholas Phelps - University of Melbourne

Gordana Rabrenovic - Northeastern University

Akira Drake Rodriguez - University of Pennsylvania

William Rohe - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paula Russell - University College Dublin

John Rennie Short - University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ashima Sood - Anant National University

Paul Speer - Vanderbilt University

Elizabeth Strom - University of South Florida

Rui Wang - Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Weiping Wu - Columbia University

Elvin Wyly - University of British Columbia

Zhumin Xu - Laboratory Technology, Territories and Societies

Past Journal of Urban Affairs Editors

Patricia Klobus Edwards (1981-1984)

John R. Gist (1984-1987)

Scott Cummings & Knowlton W. Johnson (1987-1989)

Scott Cummings & C. Theodore Koebel (1989-1992)

Scott Cummings & Hank Savitch (1993-1998)

Scott Cummings (1998-2005)

Victoria Basolo (2005-2010)

Laura Reese (2010-2015)

Igor Vojnovic (2015-2021)

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Expanded Resources on the JUABlog for Remote Classes - Video and Power Point Presentation

The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) is the international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, and public service professionals.

Mission

The Urban Affairs Association is dedicated to creating interdisciplinary spaces for engaging in intellectual and practical discussions about urban life. Through theoretical, empirical, and action-oriented research, the UAA fosters diverse activities to understand and shape a more just and equitable urban world. (Adopted March 12, 2010)

History

UAA is the successor organization to the Council of University Institutes for Urban Affairs, formed in Boston in 1969 by a group of directors of university urban programs. Today, UAA includes over 700 institutional, individual, and student members from colleges and universities throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. All UAA members receive the Journal of Urban Affairs as part of their dues.

Conference

The Urban Affairs Association hosts a conference each spring in an urban center. These yearly conferences are an integral part of UAA's efforts to increase knowledge about urban places and promote the development of research activities. Formal research papers and organized discussions by recognized experts spanning a wide range of topics are presented. The conference format also provides professional development workshops and roundtables, as well as informal social activities designed to foster professional networking and open discussion. The sponsoring Association of the Journal of Urban Affairs and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, the Urban Affairs Association, is the international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, and nonprofit/public service practitioners. The UAA research community is highly interdisciplinary encompassing researchers from all social sciences, planning, education, health, law, social work, and other interdisciplinary fields. The conference content reflects this dynamic community.