Urban Studies

Article	Citations
Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world	202
Urban resilience	62
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces	59
Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city	52
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic	48
Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century	48
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value	47
Do the characteristics of new green space contribute to gentrification?	43
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility	43
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change	40
Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception	37
Smart cities: Between worlding and provincialising	36
Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism: A case study of Taihu New Town, China	33
Urban scaling in rapidly urbanising China	33
Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain	33
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States	32
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London	31
The impact of immediate urban environments on people’s momentary happiness	30
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction	29
New spatialities of work in the city	28
Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta	28
The refugees’ right to the centre of the city: City branding versus city commoning in Athens	28
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles	26
A posteriori comparisons, repeated instances and urban policy mobilities: What ‘best practices’ leave behind	25
Critical Commentary: The city and the virus	25

Airbnb and its potential impact on the London housing market	24
Selective migration and urban–rural differences in subjective well-being: Evidence from the United Kingdom	23
Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness	23
Not too close, not too far: Urbanisation and life satisfaction along the urban hierarchy	23
How smart cities are made: A priori, ad hoc and post hoc drivers of smart city implementation in Sydney, Australia	23
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world	22
A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling	22
Urban paradox and the rise of the neoliberal city: Case study of Lagos, Nigeria	22
Incubators, accelerators and urban economic development	22
Land financialisation, planning informalisation and gentrification as statecraft in Antwerp	22
Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system	22
Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’	21
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China: The case of Shenzhen	21
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana	21
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance	21
The green gentrification cycle	21
Non-standard work in unconventional workspaces: Self-employed women in home-based businesses and coworking spaces	20
Between walls and fences: How different types of gated communities shape the streets around them	20
On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’	20
Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene	20
Urban statecraft: The governance of transport infrastructures in African cities	20
Worlding and provincialising smart cities: From individual case studies to a global comparative research agenda	20
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability	19
Beyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London	19
Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis	18
The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019	18
From housing crisis to housing justice: Towards a radical right to a home	18
Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms	18
Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons	18
On urban studies in Brazil: The favela, uneven urbanisation and beyond	18
Population density and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Comparing the geography of different waves in the Netherlands	18
The constitution of the city and the critique of critical urban theory	18
Reclaiming Hong Kong through neighbourhood-making: A study of the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement	17
Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings: Comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales	17
State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism	17
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation	17
‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place	17
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city	16
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK	16
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice	16
The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance	16
Federal ‘redlining’ maps: A critical reappraisal	16
The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence	16
Hybrid coordination of city organisations: The rule of people and culture in the shadow of structures	16
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency	16
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development	16
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal	15
Inter-city transport infrastructure and intra-city housing markets: Estimating the redistribution effect of high-speed rail in Shenzhen, China	15
New urban habits in Stockholm following COVID-19	15
The commonification of the public under new municipalism: Commons–state institutions in Naples and Barcelona	15

Towards a post-COVID geography of economic activity: Using probability spaces to decipher Montreal’s changing workscapes	15
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures	15
Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich	15
Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city	15
Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case of Sustainable Sydney 2030	15
The crowd and citylife: Materiality, negotiation and inclusivity at Tokyo’s train stations	14
A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation	14
‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change	14
Interstitiality in the smart city: More than top-down and bottom-up smartness	14
Out of the loop? On the radical and the routine in urban big data	14
The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies	14
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities	14
Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin	13
Urban migrant and refugee solidarity beyond city limits	13
Post-studentification? Promises and pitfalls of a near-campus urban intensification strategy	13
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa	13
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya	13
Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state–society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China	13
Working the urban assemblage: A transnational study of transforming practices	13
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	13
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison	12
Seeing the street through Instagram. Digital platforms and the amplification of gentrification	12
Becoming ‘pet slaves’ in urban China: Transspecies urban theory, single professional women and their companion animals	12
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project	12
Not diverse enough? Displacement, diversity discourse, and commercial gentrification in Santa Ana, California, a majority-Mexican city	12
Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis of the outbreak and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China	12
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?	12
Manufacturing urbanism: Improvising the urban–industrial nexus through Chinese economic zones in Africa	12
The interurban migration industry: ‘Migration products’ and the materialisation of urban speculation at Iskandar Malaysia	12
Education, neighbourhood context and depression of elderly Chinese	12
What do residential lotteries show us about transportation choices?	11
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience	11
Thinking through people: The potential of volunteered geographic information for mobility and urban studies	11
Internal migration industries: Shaping the housing options for refugees at the local level	11
Haphazard urbanisation: Urban informality, politics and power in Egypt	11
The academic effects of chronic exposure to neighbourhood violence	11
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific	11
A rhythmanalysis approach to understanding the vending-walking forms and everyday use of urban street space in Yuncheng, China	11
Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver	11
Light at the end of the tunnel:The impacts of expected major transport improvements on residential property prices	11
Making ways for ‘better education’: Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry	11
Bridging home and school in cross-border education: The role of intermediary spaces in the in/exclusion of Mainland Chinese students and their families in Hong Kong	11
Urban studies in India across the millennial turn: Histories and futures	11
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development	11
The smart grid as a security device: Electricity infrastructure and urban governance in Kingston and Rio de Janeiro	11
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates	11
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion	10
The contingency of neighbourhood diversity: Variation of social context using mobile phone application data	10
Hukou as benefits: Demand for hukou and wages in China	10
Statecraft on cement: The politics of land-based accumulation in Erdoğan’s Turkey	10
Theorising democratic space with and beyond Henri Lefebvre	10
Suburban (mis)fortunes: Outer suburban shrinkage in Tokyo Metropolis	10
Residential segregation and public services in urban India	10
Activity locations, residential segregation and the significance of residential neighbourhood boundary perceptions	10
Navigating stigma through everyday city-making: Gendered trajectories, politics and outcomes in the periphery of Lima	10
Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities	10
Towards weird verticality: The spectacle of vertical spaces in Chongqing	9
Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens	9
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations	9
An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation	9
Big data, accessibility and urban house prices	9
How tenants’ reactions to rent increases affect displacement: An interactionist approach to gentrification	9
Understanding the geography of affordable housing provided through land value capture: Evidence from England	9
Outer-suburban politics and the financialisation of the logistics real estate industry: The emergence of financialised coalitions in the Paris region	9
Introduction: Infrastructural stigma and urban vulnerability	9
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany	9
Natural population growth and urban management in metropolitan regions: Insights from pre-crisis and post-crisis Athens, Greece	9
Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave	9
Choreographing atmospheres in Copenhagen: Processes and positions between home and public	9
Impacts of political fragmentation on inclusive economic resilience: Examining American metropolitan areas after the Great Recession	9
The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-19	9
Arab integration in new and established mixed cities in Israel	9
Disassembling connections: A comparative analysis of the politics of slum upgrading in eThekwini and São Paulo	9
Problematising concepts of transit-oriented development in South African cities	9
Neighbourhood accessibility and walkability of subsidised housing in shrinking US cities	9
Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city	9
Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective	9
The caring city? A critical reflection on Barcelona’s municipal experiments in care and the commons	9
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region	9
Spatialising urban health vulnerability: An analysis of NYC’s critical infrastructure during COVID-19	9

Understanding policing demand and deployment through the lens of the city and with the application of big data	9
‘We need to put what we do in my dad’s language, in pounds, shillings and pence’: Commercialisation and the reshaping of public-sector planning in England	9
Residential coexistence: Anonymity, etiquette and proximity in high-rise living	8
‘Your daily reality is rubbish’: Waste as a means of urban exclusion in the suspended spaces of East Jerusalem	8
Critical Commentary: Beyond growth and density: Recentring the demographic drivers of urban health and risk in the global south	8
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi	8
Of political entrepreneurs: Assembling community and social capital in Hyderabad’s informal settlements	8
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela	8
Quality of local government and social trust in European cities	8
Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus	8
Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle	8
Contextual poverty and obtained educational level and income in Sweden and the Netherlands: A multi-scale and longitudinal study	8
New institutions and the politics of the interstices. Experimenting with a face-to-face democracy in Naples	8
Neighbourhood selection and neighbourhood matching: Choices, outcomes and social distance	8
Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness	8
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space	8
Public transport as public space: Introduction	8
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas	8
Local inequities in the relative production of and exposure to vehicular air pollution in Los Angeles	8
Remembering the river: Flood, memory and infrastructural ecologies of stormwater drainage in Mumbai	8
Neoliberalism and neo-dirigisme in action: The state–corporate alliance and the great housing rush of the 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey	8
Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?	8
Big Data in the city	8
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure	7
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector	7
Negotiating LGBTQ rights in Singapore: The margin as a place of refusal	7
Ethnic residential segregation in the city of Milan at the interplay between social class, housing and labour market	7
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities	7
The politics of hyperregulation in La Paz, Bolivia: Speculative peri-urban development in a context of unresolved municipal boundary conflicts	7
How do tax-based revitalisation policies affect urban property development? Evidence from Bronzeville, Chicago	7
Spatial spillover effects of crime on private investment at nearby micro-places	7
Changes in crime surrounding an urban home renovation and rebuild programme	7
Mapping and making gangland: A legacy of redlining and enjoining gang neighbourhoods in Los Angeles	7
The effects of land price in the peri-urban fringe of Mexico City: Environmental amenities for informal land parcel purchasers	7
‘Where the state freaks out’: Gentrification, Queerspaces and activism in postwar Beirut	7
Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing	7
Making cities through migration industries: Introduction to the special issue	7
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms	7
Housing wealth, mortgages and Australians’ labour force participation in later life	7
Can residents regain their community relations after resettlement? Insights from Shanghai	7
Comparison and political strategy: Internationalism, colonial rule and urban research after Fanon	7
Smart and disruptive infrastructures: Re-building knowledge on the informal city	7
Social mix and the city: Council housing and neighbourhood income inequality in Vienna	7
Compact living or policy inaction? Effects of urban density and lockdown on the COVID-19 outbreak in the US	7
Queer urban activism under state impunity: Encountering an LGBTTTI Pride archive in Chilpancingo, Mexico	7
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty	6
Coloniality and the political economy of gender: Edgework in Juárez City	6
To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies	6
Seoul’s nocturnal urbanism: An emergent night-time economy of substitute driving and fast deliveries	6
How do low-income commuters get to work in US and Mexican cities? A comparative empirical assessment	6
Delivering higher density suburban development: The impact of building design and residents’ attitudes	6
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb	6
Land-use reforms and housing costs: Does allowing for increased density lead to greater affordability?	6
Degrowth is coming to town: What can it learn from critical perspectives on urban transport?	6
Urban public health emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1: Social and spatial inequalities in the COVID-city	6
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments	6
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Transgressive spaces in a socialist state?	6
Institutionalising city networking: Discursive and rational choice institutional perspectives on membership of transnational municipal networks	6
The three tenures: A case of property maintenance	6
Social capital and perceived tenure security of informal housing: Evidence from Beijing, China	6
Adaptive capacity of the Pearl River Delta cities in the face of the growing flood risk: Institutions, ideas and interests	6
People, protest and place: Advancing research on the emplacement of LGBTQ+ urban activisms	6
Ethics at work: Diverse economies and place-making in the historical centre of Taranto, Italy	6
Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance?	6
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore	6
The divergent logics of urban regeneration in Israel: A neoliberal toolkit and national rationales	6
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile	6
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology	6
Surviving and dying through the urban frontier: Everyday life, social brokerage and living with militias in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone	5
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?	5
Scaling-up degrowth: Re-imagining institutional responses to climate change	5
Prefigurative legality: Transforming municipal jurisdiction	5
Using natural language processing to construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database	5
Re-contextualising purpose-built student accommodation in secondary cities: The role of planning policy, consultation and economic need during austerity	5
State preemption and affordable housing policy	5
Single mothers coping with food insecurity in a Nairobi slum	5
‘Creating the community I want to be part of’: Affinity-based organising in a small, progressive rustbelt city	5
Demystifying piped water supply: Formality and informality in (peri)urban water provisioning	5
Urban ethnic enclaves and migration industries: The urban choices of mobile people	5
‘Unpleasant’ but ‘helpful’: Immigration detention and urban entanglements in New Jersey, USA	5
Drivers of convergence: The role of first- and second-nature geography	5
Vulnerability, neglect, and collectivity in Brazilian favelas: Surviving the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state’s necropolitics	5
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island	5
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario	5
Checkpoint urbanism: Violent infrastructures and border stigmas in the Juárez border region	5
Do local start-ups and knowledge spillovers matter for firm-level R&D investment?	5
Business improvement districts, class turf war and the strategic weaponisation of class monopoly rent	5
Can subsidies paid directly to employers reduce residential discrimination in employment? An assessment based on serial field experiments	5
On the move in the (post)colonial metropolis: The Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction	5
The framing of urban values and qualities in inter-organisational settings: The case of ground floor planning in Gothenburg, Sweden	5
Home-made blues: Residential crowding and mental health in Beijing, China	5
Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales	5
Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalisation in Rio de Janeiro’s port area	5
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence	5
The place of transversal LGBTQ+ urban activisms	5