Urban Geography

Article	Citations
Pandemic in a smart city: Singapore’s COVID-19 management through technology & society	70
Ritornello: “People as Infrastructure”	63
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	41
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city	36
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	31
Dynamics in the polycentric development of Chinese cities, 2001-2016	27
Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city	27
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship	26
Climate urbanism as critical urban theory	25
Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it	24
The urban politics of policy failure	24
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London	22
The role of spatial planning in transitioning to circular urban development	22
Digitally enabled diverse economies: exploring socially inclusive access to the circular economy in the city	22
The density dilemma: there is always too much and too little of it	22
Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism: spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis Athens, Greece	22
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: the extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach	21
Placing cities in the circular economy: neoliberal urbanism or spaces of socio-ecological transition?	21
Autonomous vehicle experiments and the city	20
Climate urbanism through the lens of informal settlements	19
Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region	19
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: from people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again	18
The relational co-production of “success” and “failure,” or the politics of anxiety of exporting urban “models” elsewhere	17
Climate urbanism: crisis, capitalism, and intervention	17
U.S. suburbs and the global COVID-19 pandemic: from cleanscapes to safescapes 2.0? The case of the New York metropolitan area	16

Negotiating urban solidarities: multiple agencies and contested meanings in the making of solidarity cities	16
Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala	16
The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city	16
Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India	15
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings	15
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	14
The touristification of nightlife: some theoretical notes	14
Expulsion: A type of forced mobility experienced by homeless people in Canada	14
Policing the future, disrupting urban policy today. Predictive policing, smart city, and urban policy in Memphis (TN)	14
The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective	14
“Insurrection is not a spectacle”: experiencing and contesting touristification in Exarcheia, Athens	13
Evictions as infrastructural events	13
Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem	13
Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community	13
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization	13
Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age	12
Eco-communities as insurgent climate urbanism: radical urban socio-material transformations	12
Gentrification and social classes in Paris, 1982-2008	12
The New Urban Displacements? Finance-Led Capitalism, Austerity, and Rental Housing Dynamics	12
The service hub as bypassed social infrastructure: evidence from inner-city Osaka	12
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy	12
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	12
Refugees and the transforming landscapes of small cities in the US	12
Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum “like a city”	12
‘A world of many Souths’: (anti)Blackness and historical difference in conversation with Ananya Roy	11
Not entirely displacement: conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”	11
Gentrification in large Canadian cities: tenure, age, and exclusionary displacement 1991-2011	11
Symbolic domination in the neoliberal city: space, class, and residential stigma	11
Universities and urban social structure: gentrification, studentification, and youthification in five United States legacy cities	11
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building	11
Constructing an “infrastructure of care” – understanding the institutional remnants and socio-technical practices that constitute South Africa’s Covid-19 response	11
People’s absence from public places: academic research in the post-covid-19 era	10
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	10
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills	10
The compassionate invisibilization of homelessness: where revanchist and supportive city policies meet	10
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?	10
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality	10
Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale	10
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London	10
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia	10
Changing neighborhoods, shifting connections: mapping relational geographies of gentrification using social media data	9
Nuancing student geographies: studentscapes in post-industrial cities	9
Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen	9
Rethinking the off-grid city	9
From displacements to rent control and housing justice	9
Class monopoly rent, property relations, and Portland's homeless crisis	9
Fossil urbanism: fossil fuel flows, settler colonial circulations, and the production of carbon cities	9
Rethinking the post-socialist city	9
Urban village on a global scale: Diverse interpretations of one label	9
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	9

Decline machines and economic development: rust belt cities and Flint, Michigan	9
Gentrification in the media: the eviction of critical class perspective	8
Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system: the scaling down and out of forced migrants’ reception in Italy	8
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	8
Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment: a case from Wuhan	8
Introduction: rethinking urban density	8
Co-producing urban expertise for SDG localization: the history and practices of urban knowledge production in South Africa	8
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions: some thoughts	8
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy	8
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city	8
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	8
Transnational gentrification and the housing market during pandemic times, Lisbon style	8
Wood works: how local value chains based on urban forests contribute to place-based circular economy	8
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification	7
Contesting density: beyond nimby-ism and usual suspects in governing the future city	7
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	7
Mobilizing heterogeneity: understanding the dynamic qualities and diversity of energy access in Maputo	7
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city	7
Restructuring Beijing: upscaling a megacity toward the capital city-region	7
Is the grid people or product? Relational infrastructure networks in Cape Town's energy-housing nexus	7
Becoming more polycentric: public transport and location choices in the Munich Metropolitan Area	7
Spatial distribution of urban gardens on vacant land and rooftops: A case study of 'The Garden City Initiative' in Taipei City, Taiwan	7
Seeking polycentric post-suburbanization: a view from the urban region of Milan	7
Aesthetic politics and community gardens in Singapore	7
Urban infrastructure in the framework of mega-event exceptionalism: Glasgow and the 2014 Commonwealth Games	7
Beyond the car: how electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city	7
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction	7
State/finance symbiosis	7
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City	6
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure	6
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region	6
Space and social capital: social contacts in a segregated city	6
The limits to urban revolution: the transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party	6
Walking (with) the platform: bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver	6
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	6
Skateboarder and scooter-rider perceptions of the urban environment: a qualitative analysis of user-generated content	6
Curating smart cities	6
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	6
The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism	6
Land back / cities back	6
Urban property as security: examining the intersections between Africa’s growing middle classes and urban transformations	6
Persistent racial diversity in neighborhoods: what explains it and what are the long-term consequences?	6
Rebranding place “to build community”: neighborhood branding in Buffalo, NY	6
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market: the geographies of performing-arts consumption in China	6
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values	6
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia	5
Luxury housing and gentrification in New York City, 2010-2019	5
“鱼龙混杂 yúlóng-hùnzá” - fish and dragons (bad and good people) mixing together: young people, urban life and alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China	5
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”	5
The annexation threat: local government boundary changes, race, and the formation of new cities	5
Making city-bases: homeless places, poverty management, and urban change in Pilsen, Czechia	5
Housing affordability and commute distance	5
Urban Pulse - Gendered urban toponyms in the global South: a time for de-colonization?	5
Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment	5
Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density	5
Toward an agentic understanding of the urban metabolism: a landscape theory perspective	5
Vernacular place name as a cultural arena of urban place-making and symbolic resistance in Minsk, Belarus	5
Osmosis across defensible space: observations and lessons from dérives in London during COVID-19	5
How common is greening in gentrifying areas?	5
The politics of “urban expertise”: shifting horizons for critical urban scholarship?	5
Whose city? Which sociality?	5
Understanding different levels of segregation in urban China: a comparative study among 21 cities in Guangdong province	5
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: democratic politics and design review	5
Keeping up with the zones(es): how competing local governments in China use development zones as back doors to urbanization	5
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture	5
From campaign-style governance to multiple environmentalities: urban political ecologies of e-waste regulation in Guiyu, China	5
“It makes almost no difference which algorithm you use”: on the modularity of predictive policing	5
Artistic careers in the cyclicality of art scenes and gentrification: symbolic capital accumulation through space in Bushwick, NYC	5
Importing export zones: processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanization in rural south India	5
Between Bios and Philia : inside the politics of life-loving cities	4
Towards plush new digs in Toronto’s in-between city: the changing governance of student housing in Canada	4
Making the city through participatory video: implications for urban geography	4
Are mixed neighborhoods more socially cohesive? Evidence from Nanjing, China	4
Relying on their own hands: Examining the causes and consequences of supermarket decentralization in Detroit	4
Eco-cities as urban laboratories of Chinese ecological modernization: eco-experimentation and the modernization of urban governance	4
Simulating the “city of joy”: state choreography and the re-appropriation of public spaces in Kolkata	4
Densities of care	4
The uneven shrinking city: neighborhood demographic change and creative class planning in Birmingham, Alabama	4
Longing for everyday life. Experiencing COVID-19 social isolation in a Latin American city	4
Why did Chongqing’s recent hukou reform fail? A Chinese migrant workers’ perspective	4

Encountering neighbors: coexisting with difference in Auckland’s Avondale	4
Curious encounters: the social consolations of digital platform work in the gig economy	4
School-hosted urban development: the transformation of education facilities into residential real estate in Chicago	4
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	4
The people as infrastructure concept: appraisal and new directions	4
The politics of post-developmentalist expertise: progressive movements, strategic localism, and urban governance in Seoul	4
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities	4
Spaces of social reproduction, mobility, and the Syrian refugee care crisis in Izmir, Turkey	4
“A ‘Golden Child’ for Investors”: the assetization of urban childcare property in NZ	4
The role given to citizens in shaping a circular city	4
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations	4
Not Chicago: voids in world city network formation	4
Life in London’s changing densities	4
City-regional demographic composition and the fortunes of regional second cities	4
Managed urban retreat: the trouble with crisis narratives	4
Down and out in Dhaka: understanding land financialization and displacement in austerity urbanism	4
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	4
Climate urbanism and austerity in structurally disadvantaged cities	4
The datafication of water infrastructure and its implications for (il)legible water consumers	4
Charting the design and implementation of the smart city: the case of citizen-centric bikeshare in Hamilton, Ontario	4
Venerated skylines under pressure: a view of three cities	4
Security planning, citizenship, and the political temporalities of electricity infrastructure	4
Why is emotional data failing to produce more humane cities? Urban governance and the (interdisciplinary) problem of wellbeing	4
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities	4
The force of density: political crowding and the city	3
Imposing ferality: a technopolitical analysis of feral and free-roaming animal classification technologies	3
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	3
Contrasts in suburban decline: a tale of three key outer suburban “Business Core Cities” in Tokyo Metropolis	3
More-than-human territoriality: the contested spaces and beastly places of Canada geese in Europe’s largest urban wetland	3
Is there a global convergence of management foci in city credit quality assessments? A computational analysis approach	3
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	3
(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance	3
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	3
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent	3
Seeing like a shadow state: an ethnography of homeless street outreach in the USA	3
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	3
City-states in relational urbanization: the case of Luxembourg and Singapore	3
Before displacement: studentification, campus-led gentrification and rental market transformation in a multiethnic neighborhood (Parc-Extension, Montréal)	3
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	3
Making urban humanitarian policy: the “neighbourhood approach” in Lebanon	3
What is progressive city building? Global expertise and local entanglements in Latin America	3
A visual ethnography of an urban neighborhood	3
Green, gray, glocal: governing urban resilience in the Tel Aviv metropolitan region	3
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	3
Doing comparative urbanism: comparative conversation as tactic	3
Ownership is a habit of mind: how community land trusts expose key consensual fictions of urban property	3
Smart urban living in Singapore? Thinking through everyday geographies	3
Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin	3
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity	3
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	3
“Just as much as there is Islamophobia, there is racism:” corporeal encounters with the Muslim Other in Amsterdam	3
Creating therapeutic spaces for the public: elderly exercisers as leaders in urban China	3
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY	3
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	3
Urban value chains and re-framing agglomeration-centric conceptions of urban theory	3
Eat or be eaten: motorcycle taxis in Guatemala City	3
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters	3
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property	2
Competitiveness, metropolitan-centric regionalism and/or the cohesive state	2
Revisiting urban public space through the lens of the 2020 global lockdown	2
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	2
Trust the people: a lesson in listening, learning and following the lead of Black people in The City after Property Trust the people: a lesson in liste	2
Social governance for value creation: state-led land assembly, the property mind, and speculative urbanism in Taiwan	2
Paralleling auto-construction: the danger of misconceptualising density	2
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	2
A radical belief in all of us: an invitation to collective moral inquiry as democratic conversation	2
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	2
“What is ours to do?” Connection during a pandemic’s time of shelter-in-place	2
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: an analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast	2
Towards a world of “living otherwise” in The City after Property	2
Of plots and plantations, wilderness and frontiers in The City after Property	2
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	2
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	2
Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets	2
Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda	2
Density as urban affect: the enchantment of Tokyo’s crowds	2
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	2
Veni, vidi, gentri? – Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?	2
Infrastructural excess: the branding and securing of bus rapid transit in Cleveland, Ohio	2
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do	2
Sourcing and commodifying knowledge for investment and development in cities	2
Building space, building value: residential space additions and the transformation of low-rise housing in Toronto	2
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	2
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam	2
(D)evolving smartness: exploring the changing modalities of smart city making in Africa	2
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	2
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers	2
Insourcing the smart city: assembling an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore	2
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	2
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	2
Conversational urbanism	2
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	2
The expertise of urban expertise	2
Writing out Black history in Washington, D.C.: how historical narratives support a performance of progressiveness in gentrifying urban spaces	2
China at large, Chinas for comparative conversation: a commentary on “Urbanizing dynamics of global China”	2