Urban Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents105
Rethinking employee housing: An evaluation of an old tool for tackling recent challenges in urban development77
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany73
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries69
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214063
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities56
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham51
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?48
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London48
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign46
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes43
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada41
Slowing down: Degrowth and the limits to urban mobility40
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison37
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms37
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?35
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics35
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China34
Book review: Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy SchwedesOliver, Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023; 234 pp.; ISBN: 932
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes32
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective32
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda31
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice29
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China28
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship28
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance28
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world26
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies26
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits25
Realms of possibility: The ongoing Nakba and speculative futures25
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice25
Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach25
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’25
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development24
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany24
The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona23
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations23
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism23
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg22
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy22
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China22
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok22
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice22
From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’21
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania21
The green gentrification cycle21
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY21
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa21
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth : The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina20
Maintaining redistribution despite austerity: Spatial diversity in US local government expenditures 2007–201720
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto20
Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’19
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis19
In Absence: Exploring urbs nullius and decolonising urban landscapes in ‘Australian’ cities19
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities19
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility19
Metropolis, monarchy and the masses: Anti-royalism in Thailand's contemporary urban spaces18
Understanding age-friendly communities: Five global typologies of older adults18
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia18
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile18
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca18
Towards evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluating age-friendly cities and communities: Reflections from the Western Pacific and Nordic Regions18
Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport17
Still thinking from the south: A sequel from Beirut17
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment17
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising17
Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit17
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile17
Eviction from manufactured home parks17
The role of social institutions in informal self-organizing urbanism: The case of Palestinian towns in Israel16
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time16
Principles of neuroarchitecture in the city: Insights into urban ageing through photoproduction16
The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches15
Interim urban uses and the politics of safety: Interrogating the emergent scholarly and practitioner knowledge base15
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation15
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis15
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure15
Un-guided journeys: Tracing the multi-layered temporalities of Amager Commons in Copenhagen, Denmark15
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda15
Skies over Frölunda: ‘Mixed city’ densification and the lived space of a stigmatised Modernist suburb in Sweden15
Fragmented suburban landscapes: Rethinking vulnerability in southern Europe15
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency15
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias15
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs15
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab15
Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements14
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity14
Spatial planning for a popular circular economy14
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile14
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris14
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb14
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion14
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco13
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology13
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes13
Historical transformations of sacred land and urbanization politics in Nigeria13
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development13
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective13
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?13
Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment13
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents13
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance13
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city13
Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?13
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?13
Homeownership and subjective well-being: Are the links heterogeneous across location, age and income?13
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change12
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins12
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control12
Imagining urban futures: Participatory scenario planning London’s mobility to 205012
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam12
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment12
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification12
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings12
Comparative urbanism for hope and healing: Urbicide and the dilemmas of reconstruction in post-war Syria and Poland12
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification12
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia12
Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation12
Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?11
The politics of urban regime contention: A qualitative comparative analysis of 18 Spanish cases11
The geography of urban innovation beyond patents only: New evidence on large and secondary cities in the United States11
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance11
The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective11
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis11
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India11
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector11
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland11
Digital municipal currencies as a new municipalist instrument for trans-local transformation: The case of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil11
Modulating the indoor–outdoor urban boundary: Inversion, reversion and extension11
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation10
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace10
Intergenerational housing strategies and social closure in Gangnam10
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system10
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability10
Profiling caregivers: Caregiving workload, mobility, stress, and remote work difficulties10
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning10
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore10
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space10
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario10
Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing10
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific10
Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley10
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa10
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island10
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments10
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island10
An infrastructure of embodied practices: How disabled people become part of public transport in Santiago de Chile10
De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements10
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance10
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation9
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy9
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism9
Foreign infrastructure, local frictions: Contested mobility and social constructs of the Nairobi Expressway9
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market9
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness9
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities9
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s)9
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home9
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions9
Revealing the geography of food (in)accessibility for nighttime workers in the Greater London Area9
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises9
A wider view of shared transportation: Assessing the socioemotional costs and benefits of sharing in and sharing out9
Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development9
Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders9
Historical redlining, locally unwanted land uses, and neighborhood mental health: Investigating the mediating effect in Chicago, Illinois9
Neoliberal pursuits of equitable development: The broken promises of Opportunity Zones9
Reorienting age-friendly frameworks for rural contexts: A spatial competence–press framework for aging in Chinese villages9
The changing occupational class structure of London, 1981–2024: Professionalisation or social polarisation?9
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District9
State preemption and affordable housing policy9
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world9
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan8
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change8
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation8
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty8
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas8
Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea8
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention8
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?8
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities8
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi8
Arturo Soria’s Ciudad Linear of Madrid: From a (proto)transit-oriented bourgeoise utopia to a traffic-oriented upper-class neighborhood8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods8
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam8
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy8
Sense of belonging and attachment in urban green spaces: A qualitative study of older adults in Isfahan, Iran8
Mediating ‘alterlife’: Artistic research on plant labour at a contaminated site in Bitterfeld-Wolfen8
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions8
Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus8
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice8
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures8
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice8
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–20118
Flyovers, social constructs and uncertainty: (Un)covering the blind spots of urbanisation in Chongqing8
Mindsets and actions: Shifts in equitable and sustainable development in U.S. cities8
Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing8
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning8
Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?8
Why urban densification ignores the social dimension of sustainability8
Local familiar strangers in digitalising urban neighbourhoods in Seoul8
Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance8
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies8
Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge8
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space8
Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland8
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia8
Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality7
‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures7
Dialectical approach to unpacking knowledge-making for digital urban democracy: A critical case of Helsinki-based e-participatory budgeting7
Making the case for community-responsive circularity: Lessons from a legacy textile manufacturing region7
Geospatial relative income and subjective well-being in Hong Kong: A spatiotemporal perspective concerning adjacent neighborhoods7
Echoes of inclusion: The soundscape of age-friendly Raheny, Dublin7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city7
Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents7
Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation7
The politics of urban densification in Oslo7
Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion: A systematic review of empirical findings7
Belling the cat: Designing collective action institutions for natural resource management in the peri-urban interface7
Emotions in the city? Emotional responses to urban wildlife and their association with urban reactive behavioral intentions during environmental and political crisis7
Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation?7
Book Review: Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy7
Civil rights, urban policy, and the origins of the U.S. emergency medical services system7
Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China7
Towards open-air markets for people in the post-Covid-19 era: Integrating shopping, transport and urban transformation7
Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements7
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism7
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru7
A ‘gentrification regime’ change: The fiscal roots of buy-to-let gentrification in Dudelange, Luxembourg6
Book review: Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution SimpsonTim, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneso6
Book review: Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia6
The new dwellers of southern cities: Social diversification and uncertainty in Santiago inner city6
“We are the state”: Cities’ quest for recognition in climate diplomacy6
Book review: Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance6
Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa6
Places to be young: The dispossession of public space in Old Havana6
Is the city centre synonymous with (non-)cooperative innovation? Innovation in Knowledge -Intensive Services through intra-metropolitan space of Mexico City6
The increasing emission divide between cities of the Global North and Global South: Towards adjustable mitigation scenarios at the city level6
Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal6
Local land use regulations and new mobile home concentration6
Excess aspirations: Migration and urban futures in post-earthquake Christchurch6
Book review: Tremor6
Fences, seeds and bees: The more-than-human politics of community gardening in Rotterdam6
Book review: Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons6
Book review: Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism6
Redesigning the relationship between heritage and city: Insights from the Gandhi Heritage Portal, Ahmedabad6
Transfer or retain land development right: The role of China’s IDB programme in supporting inclusive urbanisation6
The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo: The ambivalent role of cross-sector coordination for urban sustainability6
Urban Studies Best Article 20246
Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces6
Residential vertical urbanisation: The intertwining of law and financialisation6
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