Journal of Urban Affairs

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Affairs is 0. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban marginality and institutional effects: Disinvestment, inefficacy, and stigmatization in Santiago de Chile42
Case studies in retrofitting suburbia: Urban design strategies for urgent challenges, by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones (eds.)27
Fixer-upper: How to repair America’s broken housing systems, by Jenny Schuetz26
A note from the new editor-in-chief25
Local immigrant support policies in the context of economic development20
Exploring local activism in the neighborhoods of Cairo18
Temporary food insecurity, social capital, and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai17
Innate terrain: Canadian landscape architecture , edited by Alissa North17
Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis , by Patrick Condon17
“Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms17
Who is the city for? Architecture, equity, and the public realm in Chicago , by Blair Kamin and Lee Bey Who is the city for? Architecture, equity, a16
The changing American neighborhood: The meaning of place in the twenty-first century , by Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom16
The neighbor spectrum in community housing: Pro-social, anti-social and asocial neighboring in Vancouver15
Race, housing policy, and the demographic and spatial structure of modern housing programs: Who receives rental assistance and where do they live?15
Repowering cities: Governing climate change mitigation in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, by Sarah Hughes15
Pandemic in the metropolis: Transportation impacts and recovery , edited by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Alexandre M. Bayen, Giovanni Circella and R. Jayakrishnan 15
Key to the city: How zoning shapes our world , by Sara C. Bronin14
Labor lacuna: Disjunctures between local climate action and workforce development in advancing just transitions14
Informality as an approach to claiming the right to resettlement and achieving inclusive rural-to-urban resettlement for landless villagers: The case of Hangzhou, China14
Homelessness and housing supply13
Ecological states: politics of science and nature in urbanizing China , by Jesse Rodenbiker13
Handbook on smart growth: Promise, principles, and prospects for planning , by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty, and Kay June-Friesen (eds.) 13
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies13
Brooklynites: The remarkable story of the free Black communities that shaped a borough , by Prithi Kanakamedala13
Is spatial mismatch really spatial, and really a mismatch? Recent evidence on employment among Hispanic and Black people in the U.S.13
Gardens of hope: Cultivating food and the future in a post-disaster city , by Yuki Kato13
Building Little Saigon: Refugee urbanism in American cities and suburbs , by Erica Allen-Kim,13
New Mobilities: Smart planning for emerging transportation technologies, by Todd Litman12
In placement, not just dis placement: Urban assemblages and neighborhood stability in the face of gentrification11
The Italian legacy in Philadelphia: History, culture, people, and ideas, by Andrea Canepari and Judith Goode (eds.)11
The sociology of housing: How homes shape our social lives , edited by Brian J. McCabe and Eva Rosen11
Is mixed-housing development healthier for residents? The implications on the perception of neighborhood environment, sense of place, and mental health in urban Guangzhou11
Urban planning as a way to pursue quality-oriented urbanization: Anatomy of the urban planning of Xiong’an New Area, China11
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class , by Max Fraser11
Child stunting in South Africa: Urban premium or penalty?10
Resilience difference between growing and shrinking resource-exhausted cities and its influencing factors10
Everyday improvising in public space: The forest pub as a site for suburban being10
Smart cities and smart communities: Empowering citizens through intelligent technologies , edited by Srikanta Patnaik, Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh 10
Including the majority: Examining the local social interactions of renters in four case study condominiums in Sydney10
Disaster resilience and human settlements: Emerging perspectives in the Anthropocene , edited by Bharat Dahiya, Francesco de Pascale, Orlando De Pietro, Piero Farabollini, Francesca10
Land reform from below: Institutional change driven by confrontation and negotiation10
Emergency responses of Indian smart cities during the COVID-19 pandemic10
The urban brain: Mental health in the vital city , by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald9
Hella Town: Oakland’s history of development and disruption, by Mitchell Schwarzer9
South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and resurrection of an American city, third edition , by Jill Jonnes South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and res9
Partnerships between anchor-med institutions and community organizations to address social determinants of health in urban populations: Do institutional pressures play a role?9
Uber to get groceries: Are ride-hail services accessing Chicago’s food deserts?9
Housing motivated youth in low-income neighborhoods: How practitioners shape conditions for encounters across diversity in ‘intentional’ social mix programs in Milan and Paris9
How to think about cities , by Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce9
Fragile neighborhoods: Repairing American society one zip code at a time , by Seth D. Kaplan8
Population trends in New Jersey , by James W. Hughes and David Listokin Population trends in New Jersey , by James 8
Over 40 years of shaping global urban research: TheJournal of Urban Affairs, 1979–20218
Producing affordable housing in higher-opportunity neighborhoods: Incentives in California’s LIHTC program8
Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality , by Robin Bartram Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproducti8
Bankers in the ivory tower: The troubling rise of financiers in U.S. higher education , by Charlie Eaton Bankers in the ivory tower: The troubling r8
Public gardens and livable cities: Partnerships connecting people, plants, and place , by Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, and Sharon A. Lee8
The dynamics of land-based financing in Ghana: An institutional perspective for implementation8
Exploring the spatial distribution of community resources focusing on municipalities: A multilevel analysis of the greater Los Angeles area7
Citizens’ and government officials’ perceptions of commercialization in Cairo’s public parks7
Boon or bane? Examining the impact of the Payatas sanitary landfill closure on former scavengers in the Philippines7
State infrastructure and neighborhood well-being in urbanizing China7
A research agenda for regional and local government , edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin6
Exploring sustainable urban governance: Evolving dynamics, transitions, and ambiguities6
Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , by Lynne A. Weikart Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , b6
Reshaping a historical industrial area on the edge of a city: Heritage, workers’ memories, and spatial narratives6
The city after property: Abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit , by Sara Safransky6
Power and leadership in small Russian monotowns6
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana6
Black barbershops and guardianship: A mixed methods investigation on the role of barbershops and community6
America’s Johannesburg: Industrialization and racial transformation in Birmingham, by Bobby M. Wilson6
A history of council housing in 100 estates , by John Boughton A history of council housing in 100 estates , by Joh6
Modeling the relationship between living in informal dwellings and fear of crime in Gauteng Province, South Africa6
The Routledge handbook of urban studies in Latin America and the Caribbean , edited by Jesús M. González-Pérez, Clara Irazábal, and Rubén C. Lois-González 6
The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam , by Claire Mercer, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024; The right to suburbia6
The importance of city services to internally displaced persons, returnees, and host residents in Juba, South Sudan6
Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? Understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities, by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris6
The alley as an expression of urban form: Understanding the logic of African urban dynamics6
Glasgow: High-rise homes, estates and communities in the post-war period, by Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley and Valerie Wright6
Public participation process in urban planning: Evaluation approaches of fairness and effectiveness criteria of planning advisory committees, by Kamal Uddin and Bhuiyan Monwar Alam6
Political exercise: Active living, public policy, and the built environment , by Lawrence D. Brown Political exercise: Active living, public policy,5
The many geographies of urban renewal: New perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949 , by Douglas R. Appler (ed.) The many geographies of urban renewa5
Black history in the Philadelphia landscape: Deep roots, continuing legacy , by Amy Jane Cohen5
Cumulative disadvantage during childhood: The association between moving and accumulated neighborhood deprivation over a child’s life course in the Netherlands5
Property rights, public health, and planning for informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya5
Place-makers in the digital age: Lifestyle migrants and the emergence of lifestyle-oriented urbanization in China5
Remaking the American dream: The informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities , by Vinit Mukhija Remaking the American dream: 5
Urban planning in a world of informal politics , by Chandan Deuskar5
Responding to an uprising: An analysis of the Ferguson Commission5
The impact of weather on the racial composition of traffic stop and citation issuance in the United States5
From improvement to city planning: Spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade, by Henry C. Binford5
Special Issue: Arts and the City in the 21st Century5
In Levittown’s shadow: Poverty in America’s wealthiest postwar suburb , by Tim Keogh5
Shifting philanthropies? An investigation of grantmaking for community revitalization and economic development by place-oriented foundations5
After suburbia: Urbanization in the twenty-first century , edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu5
Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city5
Interpreting China’s overbuilding through a behavioral perspective: The role of developers’ excessive optimism5
Social capital and perceived health of three types of older rural-to-urban migrants: A machine learning–based analysis5
Access to social welfare and migrants’ intercity location choices in the case of China: Do latent preferences matter?5
The grassroots and citymaking in the Middle East: The agency of tactical participation in Amman, Jordan5
Can school closures decrease ethnic school segregation? Evidence from primary and lower secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden5
An exploratory analysis of the development and implementation of urban animal welfare policy in public spaces for four common species: Cats, dogs, pigeons, and foxes in the Brussels Capital Region5
A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data5
The two-parent privilege: How Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind , by Melissa Kearney5
Decomposing changes in the geography of metropolitan inequality5
Skyscraper settlement: The many lives of Christodora House , by Joyce Milambiling5
Slum-dwellers as experts: A problem structuring approach to understand housing challenges in slum communities of India5
Survival strategies at the edge of the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar: Revealing ger residents’ capacity to aspire5
Ex nihilo urbanization in Nigeria: Colonial legacies, privatization, and foreign actors5
Building colonial Hong Kong: Speculative development and segregation in the city , by Cecelia L. Chu5
Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies , by Michael Neuman Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies 4
Commoning urban infrastructures: Lessons from energy, water and housing commons in Barcelona4
Sustainability prospects for autonomous vehicles: Environmental, social, and urban, by George Martin4
Contested Americans: Mixed-status families in anti-immigrant times , by Cassaundra Rodriguez4
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles neighborhood became the future of American democracy, by George Sanchez4
Not gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a housing assetization strategy4
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles4
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty4
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality, by Max Besbris4
Regional governance for greenways in China: A control rights perspective4
Temporary use of urban vacant spaces: A pro-poor land use strategy in the Global South4
Survival of the city: Living and thriving in an age of isolation, by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler4
Handbook of global urban health, by Igor Vojnovic, Amber L. Pearson, Gershim Asiki, Geoff DeVerteuil, Adriana Allen (eds.)4
Building a better Chicago: race and community resistance to urban redevelopment , by Teresa Irene Gonzales Building a better Chicago: Race and commu4
Affordable housing preservation in Washington, DC: A framework for local funding, collaborative governance and community organizing for change, by Kathryn Howell4
How spaces become places: Place makers tell their stories, by John Forester4
Handbook of megacities and megacity-regions , edited by Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen4
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change, by Joan Fitzgerald4
When tourism disrupts it all: An approach to the landscapes of touristification4
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California4
Social capital and housing at the urban periphery: Lessons from a government-led housing development program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia4
Understanding the residential mobility decisions of U.S. families in poverty4
Examining the impact of in-situ infrastructural upgrading on sustainability in informal settlements: The case of Accra, Ghana4
Rail accessibility and residential property values: Estimating value capture potential4
Heat mitigation and management in Allentown, Pennsylvania: A case study of a mid-sized Northeastern city in a heat wave risk area4
Building downtown Los Angeles: The politics of race and place in urban America , by Leland T. Saito Building downtown Los Angeles: The politics of r4
Estate regeneration and its discontents: Public housing, place and inequality in London, by Paul Watt4
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Street matters: A critical history of twentieth-century urban policy in Brazil , by Fernando Luiz Lara and Ana Paula Koury Street matters: A critica4
Bringing the civic back in: Zane L. Miller and American urban history , edited by Larry Bennett, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin Bring4
Understanding residential mobility: Why the African context matters4
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s old Harlem neighborhood through the centuries , by Davida Siwisa James4
Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism , by Trevor Latimer Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism 4
Megaregions and America’s future, by Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang and Frederick R. Steiner4
Urban home values and multi-level political accountability: Evidence from Calgary, Canada4
Practitioners’ perspectives on preventing environmental gentrification4
Communities of resistance and resilience in the post-industrial city: A transnational perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh , by Daniel Holland4
Residents’ reshaping of public space during COVID-19: The case of North Tel Aviv4
What contributes to the collaborative network of emergency information release? A case study of COVID-19 response in China3
Regional governance and the politics of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area , by Paul G. Lewis and Nicholas J. Marantz3
Slow and sudden violence , by Derek Hyra3
Tensions in diversity: Spaces for collective life in Los Angeles , by Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan3
The architecture of disability: Buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access , by David Gissen3
Mayor’s desk: 20 conversations with local leaders solving global problems , by Anthony Flint3
Building on firm foundations: Organizations and growth in urban arts communities3
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach3
The reproduction of social inequalities at neighborhood level in Salvador, Brazil: Does the spatial proximity to affluent gated communities mitigate neighborhood effects?3
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs3
A ‘gray area’? Neighborhood decline and reclamation in 1950s and 1960s U.S. urban discourse and legislation3
Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana3
Depicting the narratives of escape, drift, compromise, and return: New Chinese youth paradigms in narratives of social mobility3
Local factors sustaining co-production: Two case studies from the city of Yokohama, Japan3
Defensible space on the move: Mobilisation in English housing policy and practice , by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick Defensible space on the move:3
The gerrymandering of cities and the politics of racial exclusion: Evidence from a spatial typology of municipal boundary changes3
Curbing traffic: The human case for fewer cars in our lives, by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett3
Professional sports venues as catalysts for revitalization? Perspectives from industry experts3
Neighborhood and housing choices of out-of-town versus local movers: The case of Charlotte, North Carolina3
“All roads lead to Rome?” Performance evaluation across different types of community land trusts based on a large-scale survey3
Keeping the sanctuary pure: Movements and frictions in an Argentine gated community3
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas3
Gentrification studies and cultural colonialism: Discussing connections between historic city centers of Mexico and Spain3
Public space reader, edited by Miodrag Mitrašinović and Vikas Mehta, New York, Routledge, 20213
Airbnb in Latin America: A literature review from an urban studies perspective3
Parks and recreation system planning: A new approach for creating sustainable, resilient communities, by David L. Barth3
The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association3
Smart cities in the post-algorithmic era: Integrating technologies, platforms and governance, edited by Nicos Komninos and Christina Kakderi3
A research agenda for events impacts , by Nicholas Wise and Kelly Maguire (eds.) A research agenda for events impacts 3
Colour matters: Essays on the experiences, education, and pursuits of Black youth, by Carl James3
More justice via participation in Chinese urban redevelopment: Reality or illusion?3
Post-growth planning: Cities beyond the market economy , by Federico Savini, Antonio Ferreira, and Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld3
Rhetoric and reality of “turnover”: Condominium developer influence in Ontario and New York3
The comprehensive plan: Sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities for the 21st century, by David Rouse and Rocky Piro3
Moving ideas? The news media’s impact on ridehailing regulation in Canadian cities3
Understanding the financial health of community land trusts in the United States3
From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities , by Alison Sant From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities 3
The Routledge handbook of regional design , edited by Michael Neuman and Wil Zonneveld The Routledge handbook of 2
Shadow men: The third wheel of public transport in Ghana2
Livable streets 2.0 , by Bruce and Donald Appleyard Livable streets 2.0 , by Bruce and Donald Appleyard, Amsterdam,2
Justice and the Interstates: The racist truth about urban highways , edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda K. Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca C. Retzlaff2
Who collaborates on urban resilience? An analysis of flood resilience planning networks in four coastal cities2
Perceptions of the built environment and its effects on active school transportation in Michigan2
American urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s unconventional wisdom reshaped public life, by Richard K. Rein2
Cracks within capitalism: Alternative rental practices and a politics of care among small-building owners in Chicago2
The spatial distribution of neighborhood safety ties: Consequences for perceived collective efficacy?2
The cities we need: Essential stories of everyday places , by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani2
Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning2
Mobilities in a turbulent era , by Antonio Ferreira2
Dilemmas of substitution: Why the urban poor support punitive policing in a Latin American city2
Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government2
Gayfriendly: Acceptance and control of homosexuality in New York and Paris , by Sylvie Tissot2
The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject2
“Micro-regeneration”: Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China2
Race and the suburbs in American film , edited by Merrill Schleier2
The speculative city: Emergent forms and norms of the built environment , edited by Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He The speculative city: Emergent fo2
Dynamics of intra-urban employment geographies: A comparative study of U.S. and German metropolitan areas2
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity2
Measuring a neighborhood planning unit-V (NPU-V): Residents’ perceptions of problems associated with gentrification2
Better by design? Architecture, urban planning, and the good city , by Paul L. Knox Better by design? Architecture, urban planning, and the good cit2
Muhtars becoming real estate agents: Changing roles of neighborhood representatives in relation to the state-led urban transformation in Çinçin, Ankara, Turkey2
Urban economy: Real estate economics and public policy , by Colin Jones Urban economy: Real estate economics and public policy 2
Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster capitalism , by Albert S. Fu Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster cap2
Philadelphia, corrupt and consenting: A city’s struggle against an epithet , by Brett H. Mandel2
Neighbor change and social connectedness for older adults in Barcelona2
The outcomes of residential squatting activism in the context of municipalism and capitalism in Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)2
Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice , by Sandeep Agrawal (ed.) Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice 2
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods: Empirical insights from Accra, Ghana2
(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America2
Urban jungle: The history and future of nature in the city , by Ben Wilson2
Scope creep in California’s equitable mobility policy: Competing or complementing policy goals?2
Learning from the participatory practices of urban observatories to co-create a new town observatory in Loughborough, UK2
A green surge amidst conservative politics: The case of Knoxville, Tennessee2
Talking while walking but not with the locals: Social support and domesticity in public space before and during COVID-19 in Berlin, Germany2
Urbanization and carbon emissions: Panel evidence from 68 low-income and lower-middle-income countries2
Cities, climate change, and public health: Building human resilience to climate change at the local level, by Ella Jisun Kim2
Judicial territory: Law, capital and the expansion of American empire , by Shaina Potts2
Evaluating the availability, accessibility, and affordability of fresh food in informal food environments in five Mexican cities2
Constructing gardens, cultivating the city: Paris’s New Parks, 1977-1995 , by Amanda Shoaf Vincent2
Mitigating urban light pollution: A review of municipal regulations and implications for planners2
Sixty miles upriver: Gentrification and race in a small American city , by Richard E. Ocejo2
Buying a house without a formal title: A property rights perspective for understanding informal housing ownership in Shenzhen, China2
The narrow margin of urban protest art: A comparative study of the role of street art in two neighborhoods of Barcelona and Madrid2
Moving back: Spatial and demographic differences in boomeranging to parents2
Who owns France? Uncovering the structure of property ownership for a better understanding of the socio-spatial distribution of wealth2
Investigating institutional barriers and opportunities to an integrated approach for transport and spatial development: Mega urban transport development in a rapidly developing city, Seoul2
Autonorama: The illusory promise of high-tech driving, by Peter Norton, Washington, DC, Island Press, 2021 Cities for driverless vehicles: Planning the future built environment with shared m2
The influence of women’s representation on social spending in local government1
Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses t1
Civic pivot: Smoothing the politics of race and place through arts and culture in Nashville, Tennessee1
High-density living, migratory status, and perceived crowding: A study of juveniles in Hong Kong1
A policy window for equity? The American Rescue Plan and local government response1
Social (in)equality, community well-being and quality of life , by Patsy Kraeger, M. Rezaul Islam, and Rhonda Phillips1
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential, by Heba Gowayed1
First responder ladder of community engagement: Understanding community-facing activities during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Disrupting the knowledge and power imbalance in Community Benefits Agreement negotiations: Lessons from the Aggie Square development in Sacramento, California1
Right-wing populism and urban planning1
Quo vadis, city? Residents’ perception of the lockdown during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in two districts in Rome1
Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana1
Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential , by Vikas Mehta Public space: Notes on why it matters,1
The toponymic battle: Renaming streets in Santiago de Chile 50 years after the military coup1
Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Leslie Kern Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Lesli1
The state of urban research: Views across the disciplines1
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