Urban Studies

Article	Citations
Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world	182
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?	119
Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona	104
Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks	59
Who owns the future city? Phases of technological urbanism and shifts in sovereignty	47
Urban resilience	47
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces	45
Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research	43
Life between buildings from a street view image: What do big data analytics reveal about neighbourhood organisational vitality?	38
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations	38
Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai	38
Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city	37
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value	37
New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)	36
Data-driven governance, smart urbanism and risk-class inequalities: Security and social credit in China	33
Travel guides, urban spatial imaginaries and LGBTQ+ activism: The case of Damron guides	33
‘Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook	33
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings	32
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid	31
Do the characteristics of new green space contribute to gentrification?	30
Hidden homes? Uncovering Sydney’s informal housing market	30
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility	30
Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban: The case of permitted development in England	29
Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context	28

Government debt, land financing and distributive justice in China	28
Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception	28
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change	28
Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century	27
Proximity and the evolving knowledge polycentricity of megalopolitan science: Evidence from China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 1990–2016	27
Developing urban growth and urban quality: Entrepreneurial governance and urban redevelopment projects in Copenhagen and Hamburg	27
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London	26
Smart cities: Between worlding and provincialising	25
Urban sustainability and counter-sustainability: Spatial contradictions and conflicts in policy and governance in the Freiburg and Calgary metropolitan regions	25
Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain	24
Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex	24
Provincialising smart urbanism in Taipei: The smart city as a strategy for urban regime transition	24
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States	24
Urban scaling in rapidly urbanising China	24
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction	24
Critical Commentary: The city and the virus	24
A posteriori comparisons, repeated instances and urban policy mobilities: What ‘best practices’ leave behind	23
Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism: A case study of Taihu New Town, China	23
Upward or downward comparison? Migrants’ socioeconomic status and subjective wellbeing in Chinese cities	23
When local access matters: A detailed analysis of place, neighbourhood amenities and travel choice	22
Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile	22
Neighbourhood cohesion as a form of privilege	22
The rise (and rise) of vertical studentification: Exploring the drivers of studentification in Australia	21
Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK	21
Not too close, not too far: Urbanisation and life satisfaction along the urban hierarchy	21
Polycentric regions: Proposals for a new typology and terminology	21
The refugees’ right to the centre of the city: City branding versus city commoning in Athens	21
Airbnb and its potential impact on the London housing market	21
Neighbourhood perceptions and residential mobility	20
Unpacking the new urban food agenda: The changing dynamics of global governance in the urban age	20
Locating the public interest in mega infrastructure planning: The case of Sydney’s WestConnex	20
The effect of upzoning on house prices and redevelopment premiums in Auckland, New Zealand	20
New spatialities of work in the city	20
The changing social structure of global cities: Professionalisation, proletarianisation or polarisation	19
Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta	19
A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling	19
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles	19
Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness	18
Contemporary echoes of segregationist policy: Spatial marking and the persistence of inequality	18
Land financialisation, planning informalisation and gentrification as statecraft in Antwerp	18
Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’	18
Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising	17
How smart cities are made: A priori, ad hoc and post hoc drivers of smart city implementation in Sydney, Australia	17
The impact of immediate urban environments on people’s momentary happiness	17
Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system	17
Do rising rents lead to longer commutes? A gravity model of commuting flows in Ireland	17
‘Peasants are peasants’: Prejudice against displaced villagers in newly-built urban neighbourhoods in China	17
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China: The case of Shenzhen	17
Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms	16
Hybrid coordination of city organisations: The rule of people and culture in the shadow of structures	16

The constitution of the city and the critique of critical urban theory	16
Worlding and provincialising smart cities: From individual case studies to a global comparative research agenda	16
The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities	16
Non-standard work in unconventional workspaces: Self-employed women in home-based businesses and coworking spaces	16
Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons	16
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation	16
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana	16
On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’	16
Welfare migration or migrant selection? Social insurance participation and rural migrants’ intentions to seek permanent urban settlement in China	16
Urban volumetrics: From vertical to volumetric urbanisation and its extensions to empirical morphological analysis	15
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance	15
Incremental residential densification and urban spatial justice: The case of England between 2001 and 2011	15
Zoning and affordability: A reply to Rodríguez-Pose and Storper	15
Real and fake data in Shanghai’s informal rental housing market: Groundtruthing data scraped from the internet	15
Socioeconomic variations and disparity in space–time accessibility in suburban China: A case study of Guangzhou	15
Negotiating racialised (un)belonging: Black LGBTQ resistance in Toronto’s gay village	15
Selective migration and urban–rural differences in subjective well-being: Evidence from the United Kingdom	15
From housing crisis to housing justice: Towards a radical right to a home	15
Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings: Comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales	15
Incubators, accelerators and urban economic development	15
Neighbourhood and school effects on educational inequalities in the transition from primary to secondary education in Amsterdam	15
The role of mobile policies in coalition building: The Barcelona model as coalition magnet in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro (1989–1996)	14
Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem	14
Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene	14
On urban studies in Brazil: The favela, uneven urbanisation and beyond	14
Out of the loop? On the radical and the routine in urban big data	13
Beyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London	13
Co-Creation as an agonistic practice in the favela of Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro	13
Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case ofSustainable Sydney 2030	13
Urban statecraft: The governance of transport infrastructures in African cities	13
Inter-city transport infrastructure and intra-city housing markets: Estimating the redistribution effect of high-speed rail in Shenzhen, China	13
Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space	13
Urban paradox and the rise of the neoliberal city: Case study of Lagos, Nigeria	13
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability	13
Relocating queer: Comparing suburban LGBTQ2S activisms on Vancouver’s periphery	12
Does the monocentric model work in a polycentric urban system? An examination of German metropolitan regions	12
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development	12
Housing affordability sets us apart: The effect of rising housing prices on relocation behaviour	12
Regional housing price dependency in the UK: A dynamic network approach	12
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world	12
Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city	12
For the benefit of all? State-led gentrification in a contested city	12
Between walls and fences: How different types of gated communities shape the streets around them	12
Reclaiming Hong Kong through neighbourhood-making: A study of the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement	12
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal	12
Reconfiguration of state–society relations: The making of uncompromising nail households in urban housing demolition and relocation in Dalian, China	12
Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state–society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China	11
Does the neighbourhood matter for neighbourhood satisfaction? A meta-analysis	11
Population density and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Comparing the geography of different waves in the Netherlands	11
The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019	11
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice	11
State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism	11
Thinking through people: The potential of volunteered geographic information for mobility and urban studies	11
The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance	11
The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies	11
Light at the end of the tunnel:The impacts of expected major transport improvements on residential property prices	11
‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place	11
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities	11
New urban habits in Stockholm following COVID-19	11
The smart grid as a security device: Electricity infrastructure and urban governance in Kingston and Rio de Janeiro	11
Working the urban assemblage: A transnational study of transforming practices	11
The commonification of the public under new municipalism: Commons–state institutions in Naples and Barcelona	11
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK	11
Blocking the progressive city: How state pre-emptions undermine labour rights in the USA	11
Navigating stigma through everyday city-making: Gendered trajectories, politics and outcomes in the periphery of Lima	10
Queering social reproduction: Sex, care and activism in San Francisco	10
What do residential lotteries show us about transportation choices?	10
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya	10
Activity locations, residential segregation and the significance of residential neighbourhood boundary perceptions	10
Doing comparative urbanism differently: Conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory	10
Does demand lead supply? Gentrifiers and developers in the sequence of gentrification, New York City 2009–2016	10
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience	10
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures	10
Not diverse enough? Displacement, diversity discourse, and commercial gentrification in Santa Ana, California, a majority-Mexican city	10
Towards a post-COVID geography of economic activity: Using probability spaces to decipher Montreal’s changing workscapes	10
An urban political ecology for a world of cities	10
Post-studentification? Promises and pitfalls of a near-campus urban intensification strategy	9
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	9
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project	9
From advocacy to acceptance: Social media discussions of protected bike lane installations	9

The (de)territorialised appeal of international schools in China: Forging brands, boundaries and inter-belonging in segregated urban space	9
The local low skills equilibrium: Moving from concept to policy utility	9
Internal migration industries: Shaping the housing options for refugees at the local level	9
Suburban (mis)fortunes: Outer suburban shrinkage in Tokyo Metropolis	9
‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change	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
The green gentrification cycle	9
The crowd and citylife: Materiality, negotiation and inclusivity at Tokyo’s train stations	9
Theorising democratic space with and beyond Henri Lefebvre	9
Associating street-network centrality with spontaneous and planned subcentres	9
Haphazard urbanisation: Urban informality, politics and power in Egypt	9
Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities	9
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	9
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion	8
Disassembling connections: A comparative analysis of the politics of slum upgrading in eThekwini and São Paulo	8
Neighbourhood accessibility and walkability of subsidised housing in shrinking US cities	8
Locating the interstitial island: Integration of Zhoushan Archipelago into the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration	8
Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis of the outbreak and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China	8
Education, neighbourhood context and depression of elderly Chinese	8
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific	8
Spatialising urban health vulnerability: An analysis of NYC’s critical infrastructure during COVID-19	8
Manufacturing urbanism: Improvising the urban–industrial nexus through Chinese economic zones in Africa	8
The interurban migration industry: ‘Migration products’ and the materialisation of urban speculation at Iskandar Malaysia	8
Natural population growth and urban management in metropolitan regions: Insights from pre-crisis and post-crisis Athens, Greece	8
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa	8
Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich	8
Neighbourhoods, networks and unemployment: The role of neighbourhood disadvantage and local networks in taking up work	8
Critical Commentary: Beyond growth and density: Recentring the demographic drivers of urban health and risk in the global south	8
Understanding the geography of affordable housing provided through land value capture: Evidence from England	8
Towards weird verticality: The spectacle of vertical spaces in Chongqing	8
Understanding policing demand and deployment through the lens of the city and with the application of big data	8
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany	8
Urban migrant and refugee solidarity beyond city limits	8
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates	8
Complementary policies for multidimensional problems: Does the low-income housing tax credit complement homeless services in the USA?	8
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region	8
Big Data in the city	7
Actually existing managerialism: Planning, politics and property development in post-1945 Britain	7
Introduction: Infrastructural stigma and urban vulnerability	7
Agonistic failures: Following policy conflicts in Berlin’s urban cultural politics	7
Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness	7
Making ways for ‘better education’: Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry	7
Real estate politicians in India	7
Housing wealth, mortgages and Australians’ labour force participation in later life	7
How do tax-based revitalisation policies affect urban property development? Evidence from Bronzeville, Chicago	7
Mapping and making gangland: A legacy of redlining and enjoining gang neighbourhoods in Los Angeles	7
Statecraft on cement: The politics of land-based accumulation in Erdoğan’s Turkey	7
How tenants’ reactions to rent increases affect displacement: An interactionist approach to gentrification	7
Seeing the street through Instagram. Digital platforms and the amplification of gentrification	7
Neighbourhood selection and neighbourhood matching: Choices, outcomes and social distance	7
Measuring risk of missing transfers in public transit systems using high-resolution schedule and real-time bus location data	7
Becoming ‘pet slaves’ in urban China: Transspecies urban theory, single professional women and their companion animals	7
The time-spaces of austerity urbanism: Narratives of ‘localism’ and UK neighbourhood policy	7
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	7
Immigration and economic resilience in the Great Recession	7
Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin	7
Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle	7
A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation	7
Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave	7
Cycling mode choice amongst US commuters: The role of climate and topography	7
Queer urban activism under state impunity: Encountering an LGBTTTI Pride archive in Chilpancingo, Mexico	7
The financialisation of housing and the rise of the investor-activist	7
Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?	7