Urban Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Geography is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity107
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India53
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy40
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden39
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides31
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles31
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century28
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun26
Contested natures in the city: rewilding, othering and more-than-human perspectives24
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare23
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification22
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis20
Durabilities in the age of disruption20
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism20
On writing The City after Property20
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes19
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates19
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults18
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world18
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing18
Infrastructure governance on unceded land: progress and challenges toward Indigenous sovereignty and coexisting governance18
Taming the green gentrification cycle? Evidence from street greening in Vienna17
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen17
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 liste17
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit16
Revisioning Urban Pulse16
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona16
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom16
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies16
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus16
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil15
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?15
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration15
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can14
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities14
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city13
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship13
Social housing as a social infrastructure: the coexistence of divergent socials on a north London council estate13
Urban geographies of waste13
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona13
Young, educated and excluded? Regulating student accommodation in England & Wales13
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look13
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen13
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets13
Placemaking and the blues in racialized, ethnic, and immigrant neighborhoods12
“I don't think anybody’s ever been to scale:” the imperative for growth and the implications of scale for Community Land Trusts in Minnesota, USA12
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA12
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg12
The slow dissolution of urban geography, the multiple lives of urban studies12
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity12
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration12
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach11
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares11
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development11
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia11
People after property: beyond relations of extraction11
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context11
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem11
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne10
“It’s not that I don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else”: young refugees’ contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in 10
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area10
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem10
Land back / cities back10
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy10
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle10
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”10
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta10
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing10
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary10
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective9
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?9
“This is my home, and I am not ashamed to live here”: a comparative study of sense of belonging in Harare and Accra’s informal settlements9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation9
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador9
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing9
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space9
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture9
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound9
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD9
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India9
Doing mapping and storytelling – notes from three field-based practices from the global south9
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state8
Concrete: the inconspicuous binder of Planetary Urbanization8
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water8
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking8
Politics of belonging and urban space: civil society interventions in French and German cities8
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures8
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami7
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou7
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–20137
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking7
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots7
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda7
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy7
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus7
“Waging love” against speculative revanchism: Black placemaking as earthwork (2025) Plenary Lecture7
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation7
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism6
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam6
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City6
Theatrical potential of the urban street: the everyday carnivalesque6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality6
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city6
Book review forums: reviving a platform6
Labor formalization and digital platforms: entrepreneurship and short-term rentals in Havana’s housing markets6
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations6
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property6
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process6
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city6
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis6
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo6
Building and defending counterspaces : an analysis of counterspace formation in two informal settlements in Istanbul6
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity6
Explaining asymmetric urbanism: contingent infrastructure, conjunctural space, and ideational hegemony in Tokyo6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia6
Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance6
Domesticating a redesigned public square: an ethnography of Enghave Plads, Copenhagen5
Reclaiming space: the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and the struggle for identity through urban placemaking5
Waiting in uneven geographies of asylum reception and the social mobility of refugees5
Geographies of masculinities: young men, inequality, and space in the township5
Governance and the everyday state: seeing migration like a global South city5
More private than public: the choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO5
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do5
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system5
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification5
Small city big thinking: the making of China’s coffee capital5
Neighborhood governance and residents’ satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban China: evidence from six major Chinese cities5
The practice of planetary urbanization: mediation of territorial regulations on the periphery of Ankara5
Trust and social space – a relational perspective5
The insurgent intellectuals in elite capture: resistance in Nanjing’s urban regeneration projects, China5
“It is for home but we use it for work”: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure and home-based enterprises in Accra5
The diverse processes behind neighborhood-level business agglomeration: the cases of Mile-End and Chabanel in Montreal5
The proprietary view: moral regulation of residential land use in Vancouver and Toronto5
Hacking suburban social infrastructure: glitch subjects and queer practices of social reproduction5
Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly . Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes5
Emergent urban technonatures: why do “smart greenhouses” matter for urban studies?5
Airbnbfication and gentrification from the perspective of rent gap theory: the case of Beyoğlu, Istanbul5
Spaces of knots: street dogs, humans and more-than-human spaces in Eskişehir, Turkey5
Sourcing and commodifying knowledge for investment and development in cities5
Frankenstein urbanism and why feminists, literature and AI can help us resist the end of the city4
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair4
New urban frontiers4
(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance4
Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South: insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory4
“Freedom Cities”: Trump and an American global new city4
Neighborhood as home, city as alienating: gendered exchange circles and place belonging in peripheral Tel Aviv4
Smart urban regeneration in Rotterdam: a cultural political economy perspective4
Building mixed and sustainable communities: from a sewage works to the realization of an island dream in a global provincial town?4
Building back better in urban contexts through a dual ethics of justice and care4
Curating smart cities4
Detroit’s Project Green Light: an experiment in police surveillance as economic development strategy4
Aging, everyday active mobility and the challenge of the tourist city: an illustration from Barcelona4
Port cities, shipping lines and hinterlands in the Southern African mining economy c.1890–19504
Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda4
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: a conjunctural comparison of two new cities4
Between joy, care, and risk in the sinking city: using photovoice to understand youth resilience in North Jakarta4
Feeding the green gentrification machine: urban agriculture and the barriers to a just ecological transition in Montréal, Québec4
Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets4
Gentrification in Chinese cities? Speaking to the context-versus-concept debate in regional terms4
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture4
Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity4
Climate transparency and the affective politics of adaptation in Miami4
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary4
Africa's concrete imaginaries4
Navigating constraints, finding freedom: exploring asylum seekers’ access to urban arrival infrastructures4
Chinese Urbanism beyond (post-)socialism4
The pincer movement: how middle-class homeowners overcome restrictions and block density4
The geographies of housing assetization (2023) Plenary Commentary3
Financializing Africa’s urban peripheries: the rise of housing microfinance3
Statist forms of entrepreneurialism: financing and managing urban ecological spaces in China3
The expertise of urban expertise3
Contemporary urban employment patterns among Chinese peasant workers in the 2020s3
Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter3
Is it a win-win strategy? Examining the media discourse on toponymic commodification in China3
The need to design a nocturnal 15-min city3
Culture-led regeneration and the contestation of local discourses and meanings: the case of European maritime port cities3
How common is greening in gentrifying areas?3
A place to find community: the role of autonomy and care in managed encampments3
Liminal and interstitial: performances of ordinary citizenship in Winnipeg, Canada and Copenhagen, Denmark3
Lost collectives and silenced histories3
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure3
“Earth work,” Black agrarianism, and urban theory (2025) Plenary Commentary3
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers3
From the square to the shopping mall: new social media, state surveillance, and the evolving geographies of urban protest3
Compassionate revanchism, homelessness, and the divided local state: the case of Spokane, WA3
Remaking urban village through culture: the politics of urban aesthetics in Shenzhen, China3
Riders driving at the limit of AI: geographies of two-wheeled food delivery and traffic safety in Seoul, South Korea3
Layers of settler urbanization and indigenous relational place-making: uncovering an ongoing palimpsest3
Small-town gentrification. Empirical findings from a case study in the Berlin-Brandenburg region3
Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research3
Animating ideologies of caste in the lively city3
Tracking the cement bag: a new geography of building3
Smart water? Corporate experiments and hybrid hydraulics in India3
Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe3
Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities3
Offshore campus development and the worlding of Dubai as an international education hub2
Whose sidewalk is it? Street vendors and the battle for San Diego’s foodscape2
Displaced for housing: analysing the uneven outcomes of the Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program2
The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation2
Questioning “progressive” gentrification in Asia: evidence from Kampung Sungai Baru, Kuala Lumpur2
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters2
Rhythms of recycling: reconfiguring apartment waste practices in London and Melbourne2
“Guess I’m Next to be Erased”: street art, heritage and gentrification in George Town, Malaysia2
Sensing Chennai from the air with Barad2
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency2
Repositioning southern cities in transnational city networks: the case of South Korea–Vietnam sister cities2
Seeing like a shadow state: an ethnography of homeless street outreach in the USA2
Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S.2
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent2
Settler urban geographies of decommissioned prisons: an invitation to a discussion2
Included or left behind? Residents’ perceptions on public investments, city growth, and local decision-making2
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction2
Urban sprawl and the automation of building control in the peripheries of Nairobi2
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias2
Correction2
Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center2
Creative responses to an informal space: the affordances of Pomona Island2
From neighborhood detail to urban theory?2
Does public rental housing foster social ties? A study of the everyday social lives of rural migrants in Chongqing, China2
Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century2
Cities for a guaranteed income: renewing the urban politics of cash assistance in the United States2
Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier2
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography2
Neighborhood attachment in Chinese cities: a case study of Chengdu2
Restaurants and the labor of urban revitalization, placemaking and rebranding in Louisville, Kentucky2
Zoning initiatives, divide or unite? Anti-displacement struggles in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, New York City, 2002–20182
Turning land into assets: local government borrowing through land assetization in China2
The spectacle of non-violence: deactivating territorial stigmatization in favela representations in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies2
Chinese urbanism and postsocialist urban studies2
Smart weather: Why does it matter for urban studies?2
The role of the diaspora: malaga, vā, and contesting the financialization of customary land in Samoa2
Distinction, difference, and the place(s) of Latine working-class immigrants in the creative city2
What Los Angeles tells us about Dracula Urbanism2
Lively cities: a review in the minor key Lively cities: reconfiguring urban ecology , by Maan Barua, Minneapolis, USA, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 382 pp., $30.2
One water in Los Angeles? Contesting the circular city through infrastructural practices2
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom2
Making sense ofsensinghomes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context2
Human-centered urban service design for an interconnected neighborhood(s) city2
Towards a world of “living otherwise” in The City after Property2
Decentralizing the power of fashion? Exploring the geographies and inter-place connections of fashion cities through fashion weeks2
Masculinities in transit: a review forum on City of Men2
Co-producing urban expertise for SDG localization: the history and practices of urban knowledge production in South Africa2
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