Urban Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban Studies is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes232
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany83
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics76
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham70
Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better59
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign57
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214050
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London45
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries43
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms42
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War40
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters39
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?36
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada36
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’35
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China35
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?34
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda33
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany33
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg30
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes30
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities29
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice29
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective29
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations29
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice28
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development28
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship27
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice27
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: 927
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism27
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal27
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance26
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits26
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies25
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania25
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’25
The green gentrification cycle24
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa24
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy24
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world24
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany23
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok23
Street markets, urban development and immigrant entrepreneurship: Unpacking precarity in Moore Street, Dublin22
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis22
De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time: Seeing housing development from Palestine/Israel22
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility22
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile22
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities21
Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’21
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY21
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives21
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto21
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth: The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina21
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca20
Of political entrepreneurs: Assembling community and social capital in Hyderabad’s informal settlements20
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time20
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Making ways for “better education”: Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry’20
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment19
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia19
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda19
Changes in the economic status of neighbourhoods in US metropolitan areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, growth and polarisation19
Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle19
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation19
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile17
The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches17
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency17
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising17
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison16
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam16
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?16
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective16
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris16
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents16
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab15
Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?15
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis15
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes14
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias14
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb14
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?14
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change14
Comparative urbanism for hope and healing: Urbicide and the dilemmas of reconstruction in post-war Syria and Poland14
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity14
Citizenship acquisition and spatial stratification: Analysing immigrant residential mobility in the Netherlands14
Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India14
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs14
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco13
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city13
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland13
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development13
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology13
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure13
Homeownership and subjective well-being: Are the links heterogeneous across location, age and income?13
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability13
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value13
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion13
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile13
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance13
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins13
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation13
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector12
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation12
Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation12
Corrigendum to “New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)”12
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India12
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance12
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment12
Choreographing atmospheres in Copenhagen: Processes and positions between home and public11
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia11
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis11
The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–201511
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore11
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings11
The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective11
Mapping and making gangland: A legacy of redlining and enjoining gang neighbourhoods in Los Angeles11
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification11
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification11
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control11
Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?11
The geography of urban innovation beyond patents only: New evidence on large and secondary cities in the United States11
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities10
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world10
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability10
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific10
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace10
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence10
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure10
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments10
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance10
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island10
Housing wealth, mortgages and Australians’ labour force participation in later life10
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence10
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban10
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America10
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home9
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system9
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District9
State preemption and affordable housing policy9
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism9
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?9
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market9
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space9
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island9
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario9
The politics of hyperregulation in La Paz, Bolivia: Speculative peri-urban development in a context of unresolved municipal boundary conflicts9
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises9
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions9
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK9
ERRATUM to “‘Pray for transit’: Seeking transportation justice in metropolitan Atlanta”9
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning9
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness9
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy9
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation9
Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets9
Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China9
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions8
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning8
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–20118
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods8
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas8
Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation?8
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change8
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities8
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam8
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan8
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi8
Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon8
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation8
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy8
Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception8
Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus8
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures8
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space8
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru8
Book review: Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability7
‘Timepass’ and ‘setting’: The meanings, relationships and politics of urban informal work in Delhi7
Local familiar strangers in digitalising urban neighbourhoods in Seoul7
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention7
Book Review: Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy7
Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents7
Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation7
Family names, city size distributions and residential differentiation in Great Britain, 1881–19017
Post-studentification? Promises and pitfalls of a near-campus urban intensification strategy7
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty7
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice7
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice7
Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements7
Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality7
Theorising democratic space with and beyond Henri Lefebvre7
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction7
Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion: A systematic review of empirical findings7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city7
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies7
Book review: Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance7
Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China7
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism7
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project7
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