Urban Geography

Article	Citations
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	63
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	45
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	39
Global connections and missing links: a tale of the yet-to-come transformation of Thessaloniki’s port area	36
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	26
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	23
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	23
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden	21
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	21
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	20
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	20
On writing The City after Property	19
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	19
Contested natures in the city: rewilding, othering and more-than-human perspectives	19
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	19
Durabilities in the age of disruption	19
Taming the green gentrification cycle? Evidence from street greening in Vienna	19
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	18
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	18
Brain in a chip: biocomputing infrastructure and the limits of urban governance	18
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	17
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	16
Infrastructure governance on unceded land: progress and challenges toward Indigenous sovereignty and coexisting governance	16
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	16
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	16

Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	15
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	15
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	15
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	15
Pseudo-smart cities: the erasure of Belgrade's Old Sava Bridge	15
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	15
Revisioning Urban Pulse	15
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	15
Density as verb: on the emergence and circulation of a category in Swiss urban development	15
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	14
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	14
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	13
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	13
Young, educated and excluded? Regulating student accommodation in England & Wales	13
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	13
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	13
Urban geographies of waste	13
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	13
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	12
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	12
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	12
Social housing as a social infrastructure: the coexistence of divergent socials on a north London council estate	12
Placemaking and the blues in racialized, ethnic, and immigrant neighborhoods	12
The slow dissolution of urban geography, the multiple lives of urban studies	12
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	12
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	12
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	12
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	12
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	11
“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, USA	11
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta	11
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	11
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	11
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	10
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	10
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	10
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	10
Introduction	10
“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
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne	9
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	9
Doing mapping and storytelling – notes from three field-based practices from the global south	9
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	9
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	9
Land back / cities back	9
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	9
Groups on the move. The urban pathways of African Pentecostal churches in Turin, Italy	9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	8
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India	8

From extraction to afterlife: toward a political materialism of urban ruins	8
“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 settlements	8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	8
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	8
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	8
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	8
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	8
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	7
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	7
Contesting verticality through consumption practices: digital markets as neighborliness in high-rise Santiago	7
The emotional life of privileged spaces: security and exclusion in Chinese gated communities	7
Politics of belonging and urban space: civil society interventions in French and German cities	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	7
African liberation geographies in the afterlife of the apartheid city	7
Concrete: the inconspicuous binder of Planetary Urbanization	7
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	7
Apartheid legacies on xenophobia against other Black Africans	7
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Theatrical potential of the urban street: the everyday carnivalesque	6
Urban density meets rhythmanalysis: theorising lived density in the city	6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
“Waging love” against speculative revanchism: Black placemaking as earthwork (2025) Plenary Lecture	6
Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	6
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process	6
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	6
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto	6
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013	6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Explaining asymmetric urbanism: contingent infrastructure, conjunctural space, and ideational hegemony in Tokyo	6
Rupture and repair: centering people and history in African liberation geographies	6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6
Navigating identity and class in ethnocratic cities: Palestinian middle-class neighborhoods in Haifa	6
The diverse processes behind neighborhood-level business agglomeration: the cases of Mile-End and Chabanel in Montreal	5
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system	5
Small city big thinking: the making of China’s coffee capital	5
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis	5
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations	5
Book review forums: reviving a platform	5
The proprietary view: moral regulation of residential land use in Vancouver and Toronto	5
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification	5
“It is for home but we use it for work”: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure and home-based enterprises in Accra	5
Reclaiming space: the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and the struggle for identity through urban placemaking	5
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam	5
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism	5
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property	5
Domesticating a redesigned public square: an ethnography of Enghave Plads, Copenhagen	5
Home as temporary unless owned: migrant homemaking in contexts of legal absence	5
Neighborhood governance and residents’ satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban China: evidence from six major Chinese cities	5
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city	5
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity	5
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City	5
Labor formalization and digital platforms: entrepreneurship and short-term rentals in Havana’s housing markets	5
The insurgent intellectuals in elite capture: resistance in Nanjing’s urban regeneration projects, China	4
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do	4
Trust and social space – a relational perspective	4
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair	4
Frankenstein urbanism and why feminists, literature and AI can help us resist the end of the city	4
Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South: insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory	4
Port cities, shipping lines and hinterlands in the Southern African mining economy c.1890–1950	4
Aging, everyday active mobility and the challenge of the tourist city: an illustration from Barcelona	4
Urban revitalization between proper and improper consumption: insights from Downtown Rio de Janeiro	4
Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly . Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes	4
The practice of planetary urbanization: mediation of territorial regulations on the periphery of Ankara	4
Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda	4
The evolving role of climate commissions in the mi(d)st of unambitious UK climate policy, urban climate governance experimentation and place-based climate action	4
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: a conjunctural comparison of two new cities	4

Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity	4
Climate transparency and the affective politics of adaptation in Miami	4
Airbnbfication and gentrification from the perspective of rent gap theory: the case of Beyoğlu, Istanbul	4
Spaces of knots: street dogs, humans and more-than-human spaces in Eskişehir, Turkey	4
Hacking suburban social infrastructure: glitch subjects and queer practices of social reproduction	4
Geographies of masculinities: young men, inequality, and space in the township	4
More private than public: the choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO	4
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture	4
Gentrification in Chinese cities? Speaking to the context-versus-concept debate in regional terms	4
New urban frontiers	4
Emergent urban technonatures: why do “smart greenhouses” matter for urban studies?	4
Governance and the everyday state: seeing migration like a global South city	4
Waiting in uneven geographies of asylum reception and the social mobility of refugees	4
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers	3
Financializing Africa’s urban peripheries: the rise of housing microfinance	3
A place to find community: the role of autonomy and care in managed encampments	3
Layers of settler urbanization and indigenous relational place-making: uncovering an ongoing palimpsest	3
Building back better in urban contexts through a dual ethics of justice and care	3
Animating ideologies of caste in the lively city	3
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary	3
Cities in emergency: stigma, discourse, and power in Callao, Peru	3
“Freedom Cities”: Trump and an American global new city	3
Navigating constraints, finding freedom: exploring asylum seekers’ access to urban arrival infrastructures	3
Remaking urban village through culture: the politics of urban aesthetics in Shenzhen, China	3
Small-town gentrification. Empirical findings from a case study in the Berlin-Brandenburg region	3
The pincer movement: how middle-class homeowners overcome restrictions and block density	3
Against the grain? Non-White gentrification in a segregated urban landscape	3
Africa's concrete imaginaries	3
Urban policies mobility from China to Africa: case study of Ethiopia	3
Detroit’s Project Green Light: an experiment in police surveillance as economic development strategy	3
Chinese Urbanism beyond (post-)socialism	3
The need to design a nocturnal 15-min city	3
“Earth work,” Black agrarianism, and urban theory (2025) Plenary Commentary	3
Tracking the cement bag: a new geography of building	3
Feeding the green gentrification machine: urban agriculture and the barriers to a just ecological transition in Montréal, Québec	3
Building mixed and sustainable communities: from a sewage works to the realization of an island dream in a global provincial town?	3
Neighborhood as home, city as alienating: gendered exchange circles and place belonging in peripheral Tel Aviv	3
Between joy, care, and risk in the sinking city: using photovoice to understand youth resilience in North Jakarta	3
Smart urban regeneration in Rotterdam: a cultural political economy perspective	3
Neighborhood attachment in Chinese cities: a case study of Chengdu	2
Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S.	2
Smart weather: Why does it matter for urban studies?	2
The transitional sensorium of Taranto Tamburi: navigating urban space through serial visions, sounds, and smells	2
Distinction, difference, and the place(s) of Latine working-class immigrants in the creative city	2
Lost collectives and silenced histories	2
Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience	2
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
The expertise of urban expertise	2
The land rent dynamics of public land development in Copenhagen	2
Smart water? Corporate experiments and hybrid hydraulics in India	2
Compassionate revanchism, homelessness, and the divided local state: the case of Spokane, WA	2
Contemporary urban employment patterns among Chinese peasant workers in the 2020s	2
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency	2
Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism	2
The spectacle of non-violence: deactivating territorial stigmatization in favela representations in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies	2
“Guess I’m Next to be Erased”: street art, heritage and gentrification in George Town, Malaysia	2
Whose sidewalk is it? Street vendors and the battle for San Diego’s foodscape	2
Riders driving at the limit of AI: geographies of two-wheeled food delivery and traffic safety in Seoul, South Korea	2
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent	2
Towards a world of “living otherwise” in The City after Property	2
Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier	2
Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century	2
Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research	2
Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter	2
Statist forms of entrepreneurialism: financing and managing urban ecological spaces in China	2
Human-centered urban service design for an interconnected neighborhood(s) city	2
The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation	2
Decolonial informal urban futures	2
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias	2
Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center	2
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom	2
Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe	2
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters	2
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography	2
How common is greening in gentrifying areas?	2
From neighborhood detail to urban theory?	2
The geographies of housing assetization (2023) Plenary Commentary	2
Liminal and interstitial: performances of ordinary citizenship in Winnipeg, Canada and Copenhagen, Denmark	2
Culture-led regeneration and the contestation of local discourses and meanings: the case of European maritime port cities	2
Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities	2