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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban214
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence72
Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces65
Private urbanism and the spatial rationalities of urban governance64
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London54
Quality of local government and social trust in European cities53
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Transgressive spaces in a socialist state?52
Book review: Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons46
Thermal governance, urban metabolism and carbonised comfort: Air-conditioning and urbanisation in the Gulf and Doha46
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island41
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces36
Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities35
From communal places to comfort zones: Familiar stranger encounters in everyday life as a form of belonging33
Public space and public rituals: Engagement and protest in the digital age33
Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei31
Have cycling-friendly cities achieved cycling equity? Analyses of the educational gradient in cycling in Dutch and German cities31
Private ordering of public processes: How contracts structure participatory processes in urban development in Amsterdam and Hamburg31
Re-contextualising purpose-built student accommodation in secondary cities: The role of planning policy, consultation and economic need during austerity31
Book review: Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies31
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance30
Book review: Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People. Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain30
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world29
State preemption and affordable housing policy29
A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling28
Housing wealth, mortgages and Australians’ labour force participation in later life27
Book review: Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India27
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America27
Book review: Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City: Space, Materiality and the Normative27
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes26
Rail stations and residential sorting: The case of Sydney metropolitan area26
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics25
Neighbourhoods as resource hubs and resource nodes: Civic organisations and political recruitment of first- and second-generation immigrants in Berlin, Germany25
Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better25
Book review: Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons25
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism24
Does urban concentration matter for changes in country economic performance?24
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham24
Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system24
Exploring mismatch in within-metropolitan affordable housing in the United States24
Bottom-up cluster branding through boundary spanners: The case of the Jingdezhen ceramics cluster in China23
Politics in affordable housing provision: How partisan control of local councils influences planning choices23
Common property in the city: Curbing urban vacancy in São Paulo23
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space22
Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai22
Book review: Urban Regeneration in the UK22
Re-learning culture in cities beyond the West21
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada21
Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective21
From ‘poor devil’ to middle class? Navigating resettlement and (in)formal reterritorialisation under COVID-1921
Checkpoint urbanism: Violent infrastructures and border stigmas in the Juárez border region20
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey20
The effect of the pandemic on European narratives on smart cities and surveillance20
Book review: The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions20
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China: The case of Shenzhen20
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification20
Book review: Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City19
Hukou type, hukou place and labour market vulnerability in Chinese megacities: The case of Beijing in the COVID-19 pandemic19
Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?19
Housing the historical bloc: Civil society contestation of authoritarian neoliberalism in England19
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace19
Spatial spillover effects of crime on private investment at nearby micro-places19
Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalisation in Rio de Janeiro’s port area19
Of broken promises cities are made. Gambling, urbanisation, and belonging in Macau19
Inter-city transport infrastructure and intra-city housing markets: Estimating the redistribution effect of high-speed rail in Shenzhen, China18
Excess aspirations: Migration and urban futures in post-earthquake Christchurch18
Book review: Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context17
An economic geography perspective on city diplomacy17
Patterns of onwards migration within the urban hierarchy of China: Who moves up and who moves down?17
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany17
Seoul’s nocturnal urbanism: An emergent night-time economy of substitute driving and fast deliveries17
Caring and commoning in political society: Insights from the Scugnizzo Liberato of Naples17
Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods16
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning16
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system16
Book review: How Cities Can Transform Democracy15
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence15
How do tax-based revitalisation policies affect urban property development? Evidence from Bronzeville, Chicago15
To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies15
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War15
(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia15
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability15
Capital’s welfare dependency: Market failure, stalled regeneration and state subsidy in Glasgow and Edinburgh15
Salience of social identities in explaining homeownership patterns in India14
Book review: Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere14
Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy14
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’14
The post-socialist cities from Central and Eastern Europe: Between spatial growth and demographic decline14
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?14
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms14
School and residential segregation in the reproduction of urban segregation: A case study in Buenos Aires14
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters13
The refugees’ right to the centre of the city: City branding versus city commoning in Athens13
Book review: Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance13
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–202013
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 Kong13
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya13
Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of rental properties and platform rentierisation13
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific13
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario13
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure13
Changes in psychosocial wellbeing over a five-year period in two predominantly Black Pittsburgh neighbourhoods: A comparison between gentrifying and non-gentrifying census tracts12
Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions12
Mobile urbanism from below: Afro-Christian churches as place-makers and scale-makers in European midsized cities12
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign12
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island12
Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa12
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic12
Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales12
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore12
Forthcoming special issues in Urban Studies11
What if autonomous vehicles had been introduced into cities? A counterfactual analysis11
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience11
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?11
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness11
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments11
A hima traditional ecological knowledge perspective of the sustainability goals in AlUla’s journey through time masterplan11
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela11
Book review: The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century11
Framing urban mobility injustice from the Global South11
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214011
Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India10
The conflictual governance of street experiments, between austerity and post-politics10
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy10
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy10
Becoming ‘pet slaves’ in urban China: Transspecies urban theory, single professional women and their companion animals10
Underground urbanism in Africa: Splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria10
Asymmetric housing information diffusions in China: An investor perspective10
Book review forum: Pandemic urbanism: Infectious diseases on a planet of cities10
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities10
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries10
Income polarisation, expenditure and the Australian urban middle class10
Do land supply restrictions promote structural transformation and urban sustainability in Chinese megacities? A quasi-experimental analysis10
Navigating spatial inequalities: The micro-politics of migrant dwelling practices during COVID-19 in Antwerp10
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities10
Debates Paper: COVID-19 and urban informality: Exploring the implications of the pandemic for the politics of planning and inequality10
Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art policies10
‘Once you come, you are a Shenzhener’? Multifaceted and variegated sense of place among migrants in Shenzhen10
Urban Studies Best Article 202010
(De)Financing remunicipalisation9
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship9
Fountain’, from Victorian necessity to modern inconvenience: Contesting the death of public toilets9
On urban studies in Brazil: The favela, uneven urbanisation and beyond9
An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation9
Cities under state capitalism9
Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China9
Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective9
Neoliberalism and neo-dirigisme in action: The state–corporate alliance and the great housing rush of the 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey9
Book review: Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations9
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change9
Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city9
‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place9
The implications of digital school quality information for neighbourhood and school segregation: Evidence from a natural experiment in Los Angeles9
Home-made blues: Residential crowding and mental health in Beijing, China9
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates9
Urban Studies Best Article 20219
Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city8
Care commons: Infrastructural (re)compositions for life sustenance through yet against regimes of chronic crisis8
Residential segregation and public services in urban India8
Navigating between resistance and unintentional collaboration: The role of left-wing grassroots associations in the tourist city8
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism8
Coloniality and the political economy of gender: Edgework in Juárez City8
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’8
Gentrifying with family wealth: Parental gifts and neighbourhood sorting among young adult owner-occupants8
ERRATUM to “‘Pray for transit’: Seeking transportation justice in metropolitan Atlanta”8
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania8
Incubators, accelerators and urban economic development8
Making cities through migration industries: Introduction to the special issue8
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK8
Suburbanisation in East Germany8
The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence8
Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing8
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development8
Education, neighbourhood context and depression of elderly Chinese8
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world7
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises7
Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness7
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development7
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District7
Book review: Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History7
Book review: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities7
For whom do we densify? Explaining income variation across densification projects in the region of Utrecht, the Netherlands7
Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets7
The new private urban governance: Vestiges, ventures and visibility7
Interstitiality in the smart city: More than top-down and bottom-up smartness7
Selective migration and urban–rural differences in subjective well-being: Evidence from the United Kingdom7
Hot climates in urban South Asia: Negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in Karachi7
Happy city for everyone: Generational differences in rural migrant workers’ leisure in urban China7
Afterword: Out there (or, do we have lift off?)7
Prefigurative legality: Transforming municipal jurisdiction7
The changing ethno-racial profile of ‘very walkable’ urban neighbourhoods in the US (2010–2020): Are minorities under-represented?7
Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits7
What do residential lotteries show us about transportation choices?7
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market7
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes7
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation7
Ethics at work: Diverse economies and place-making in the historical centre of Taranto, Italy7
People, protest and place: Advancing research on the emplacement of LGBTQ+ urban activisms7
Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave7
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