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Urban Geography, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
More-than-human scholarship has increasingly conceptualized cities as multispecies spaces. Yet limited attention has been paid to how everyday relations between humans and animals spatially organize and sustain forms of multi-species coexistence within cities. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Eskişehir, Turkey, this article conceptualizes spaces of knots as localized spatial-relational formations co-created by street dogs and human residents through everyday practices such as feeding, sheltering, and communication. Spaces of knots are not fixed sites of harmony but fragile configurations that require ongoing maintenance and negotiation within predominantly human-centered cities. The relational capacities cultivated within such spaces also circulate across the city through the movements of humans and street dogs, creating the possibility for new spaces of knots to emerge, and opening up new more-than-human urban possibilities. By conceptualizing how multispecies relations are locally stabilized yet remain mobile and contested, this article contributes to more-than-human urban studies by offering a spatial account of how humans and animals learn to live together in cities.