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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun58
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare57
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification57
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space50
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides39
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy37
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India21
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity19
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles18
Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice18
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world17
On writing The City after Property17
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary17
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing16
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis16
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates16
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults16
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities15
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus15
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?15
Revisioning Urban Pulse15
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom14
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities14
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation14
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies14
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit14
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can14
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona14
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London13
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look13
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship13
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil13
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration13
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets13
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 liste13
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city13
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development13
Urban geographies of waste12
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona12
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity11
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA11
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region11
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg11
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen11
“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, USA11
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development10
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach10
Wishing the wall back: the struggles of eight “unification losers” in post-socialist Berlin10
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration10
A radical belief in all of us: an invitation to collective moral inquiry as democratic conversation10
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity10
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem10
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context10
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá9
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”8
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle8
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy8
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary8
Veni, vidi, gentri? – Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?8
People after property: beyond relations of extraction8
Land back / cities back8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture8
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation8
“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 8
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound8
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking7
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK7
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space7
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing7
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures7
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China7
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta7
Rethinking the off-grid city7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state7
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking7
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands7
Gentrification and the role of the professional-managerial middle class7
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?7
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD7
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem7
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY7
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality6
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots6
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia6
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm6
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo6
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–20136
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees6
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy6
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou6
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda6
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city6
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity5
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis5
Sourcing and commodifying knowledge for investment and development in cities5
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system5
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism5
School-hosted urban development: the transformation of education facilities into residential real estate in Chicago5
Smart urban living in Singapore? Thinking through everyday geographies5
“It is for home but we use it for work”: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure and home-based enterprises in Accra5
Labor formalization and digital platforms: entrepreneurship and short-term rentals in Havana’s housing markets5
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification5
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city5
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City5
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property5
Book review forums: reviving a platform5
Domesticating a redesigned public square: an ethnography of Enghave Plads, Copenhagen5
Why is emotional data failing to produce more humane cities? Urban governance and the (interdisciplinary) problem of wellbeing5
Building and defending counterspaces : an analysis of counterspace formation in two informal settlements in Istanbul5
Small city big thinking: the making of China’s coffee capital4
Generationing cultural quarters: the temporal embeddedness of relational places4
More private than public: the choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO4
Refugees in new destinations and small cities: resettlement in Vermont4
Aging, everyday active mobility and the challenge of the tourist city: an illustration from Barcelona4
Climate transparency and the affective politics of adaptation in Miami4
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do4
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization4
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: an analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast4
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city4
Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity4
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative4
Trust and social space – a relational perspective4
Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly . Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes4
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship4
Airbnbfication and gentrification from the perspective of rent gap theory: the case of Beyoğlu, Istanbul4
Hacking suburban social infrastructure: glitch subjects and queer practices of social reproduction4
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture4
Justice and the American city4
(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance4
Importing export zones: processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanization in rural south India3
How common is greening in gentrifying areas?3
Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets3
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers3
Beyond the car: how electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city3
Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda3
Navigating constraints, finding freedom: exploring asylum seekers’ access to urban arrival infrastructures3
Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South: insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory3
Down and out in Dhaka: understanding land financialization and displacement in austerity urbanism3
Are mixed neighborhoods more socially cohesive? Evidence from Nanjing, China3
Layers of settler urbanization and indigenous relational place-making: uncovering an ongoing palimpsest3
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary3
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?3
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: a conjunctural comparison of two new cities3
Frankenstein urbanism and why feminists, literature and AI can help us resist the end of the city3
“Freedom Cities”: Trump and an American global new city3
From the square to the shopping mall: new social media, state surveillance, and the evolving geographies of urban protest3
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city3
Is it a win-win strategy? Examining the media discourse on toponymic commodification in China3
Disaster deaths: Trends, causes and determinants3
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings3
Curating smart cities3
The need to design a nocturnal 15-min city3
Building back better in urban contexts through a dual ethics of justice and care3
Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research2
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy2
Walking (with) the platform: bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver2
Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen2
Conversational urbanism2
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent2
Distinction, difference, and the place(s) of Latine working-class immigrants in the creative city2
Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities2
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters2
Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe2
Remaking urban village through culture: the politics of urban aesthetics in Shenzhen, China2
Animating ideologies of caste in the lively city2
Compassionate revanchism, homelessness, and the divided local state: the case of Spokane, WA2
Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century2
Citizens in the “smart city”: participation, co-production, governance2
Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter2
Whose sidewalk is it? Street vendors and the battle for San Diego’s foodscape2
Towards a world of “living otherwise” in The City after Property2
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills2
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
Decentralizing the power of fashion? Exploring the geographies and inter-place connections of fashion cities through fashion weeks2
Financializing Africa’s urban peripheries: the rise of housing microfinance2
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom2
Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center2
Liminal and interstitial: performances of ordinary citizenship in Winnipeg, Canada and Copenhagen, Denmark2
Mean streets: homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital2
Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin2
Riders driving at the limit of AI: geographies of two-wheeled food delivery and traffic safety in Seoul, South Korea2
Not entirely displacement: conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”2
Curious encounters: the social consolations of digital platform work in the gig economy2
Social governance for value creation: state-led land assembly, the property mind, and speculative urbanism in Taiwan2
The spectacle of non-violence: deactivating territorial stigmatization in favela representations in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies2
Culture-led regeneration and the contestation of local discourses and meanings: the case of European maritime port cities2
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction2
The expertise of urban expertise2
The New Urban Displacements? Finance-Led Capitalism, Austerity, and Rental Housing Dynamics2
Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier2
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias2
The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation2
Pow Choon Piew – our thanks2
Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience2
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure2
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality2
Contemporary urban employment patterns among Chinese peasant workers in the 2020s2
The geographies of housing assetization (2023) Plenary Commentary2
Seeing like a shadow state: an ethnography of homeless street outreach in the USA2
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy2
Theme park follies: the publics of art biennials in Dakar and Taipei2
Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S.2
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