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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fixer-upper: How to repair America’s broken housing systems, by Jenny Schuetz49
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, a45
Pandemic in the metropolis: Transportation impacts and recovery , edited by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Alexandre M. Bayen, Giovanni Circella and R. Jayakrishnan 37
The changing American neighborhood: The meaning of place in the twenty-first century , by Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom31
Innate terrain: Canadian landscape architecture , edited by Alissa North28
Labor lacuna: Disjunctures between local climate action and workforce development in advancing just transitions27
Anti-immigration and the politics of housing affordability: Examining the evolution and housing market impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes in British Columbia and Ontario27
Reducing housing vulnerability and injustice? An evaluation of Chongqing’s public rental housing policy and its impact on migrant workers26
The price of landlords’ racial and ethnic discrimination: Analyzing the Malaysian rental housing market26
Handbook on smart growth: Promise, principles, and prospects for planning , by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty, and Kay June-Friesen (eds.) 26
Temporary food insecurity, social capital, and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai25
Gardens of hope: Cultivating food and the future in a post-disaster city , by Yuki Kato22
Brooklynites: The remarkable story of the free Black communities that shaped a borough , by Prithi Kanakamedala21
The neighbor spectrum in community housing: Pro-social, anti-social and asocial neighboring in Vancouver21
Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis , by Patrick Condon20
Building Little Saigon: Refugee urbanism in American cities and suburbs , by Erica Allen-Kim,20
Ecological states: politics of science and nature in urbanizing China , by Jesse Rodenbiker20
Informality as an approach to claiming the right to resettlement and achieving inclusive rural-to-urban resettlement for landless villagers: The case of Hangzhou, China19
Local immigrant support policies in the context of economic development19
Key to the city: How zoning shapes our world , by Sara C. Bronin19
Exploring local activism in the neighborhoods of Cairo18
Urban marginality and institutional effects: Disinvestment, inefficacy, and stigmatization in Santiago de Chile18
Creative instigation: The art & strategy of authentic community engagement , by Fern Tiger17
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies17
Contextualizing digital platforms in the informal economy: Policy and reality in Jakarta, Indonesia17
American bridge: Reinventing building, making history , by Gregory Dreicer17
“Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms16
Race, housing policy, and the demographic and spatial structure of modern housing programs: Who receives rental assistance and where do they live?16
In placement, not just dis placement: Urban assemblages and neighborhood stability in the face of gentrification15
Child stunting in South Africa: Urban premium or penalty?15
Homelessness and housing supply15
New Mobilities: Smart planning for emerging transportation technologies, by Todd Litman15
Smart cities and smart communities: Empowering citizens through intelligent technologies , edited by Srikanta Patnaik, Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh 15
Everyday improvising in public space: The forest pub as a site for suburban being14
Uber to get groceries: Are ride-hail services accessing Chicago’s food deserts?14
Incumbency bias: Why political office is a blessing and a curse in Latin America , by Luis Schiumerini14
Household involuntary residential mobility and the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of urban South Korea13
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class , by Max Fraser13
Resilience difference between growing and shrinking resource-exhausted cities and its influencing factors13
Wonder city: How to reclaim human-scale urban life , by Lynn Ellsworth13
Disaster resilience and human settlements: Emerging perspectives in the Anthropocene , edited by Bharat Dahiya, Francesco de Pascale, Orlando De Pietro, Piero Farabollini, Francesca13
At home in the city: Growing old in urban America , by Stacy Torres13
The urban brain: Mental health in the vital city , by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald12
The sociology of housing: How homes shape our social lives , edited by Brian J. McCabe and Eva Rosen12
South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and resurrection of an American city, third edition , by Jill Jonnes South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and res12
Is mixed-housing development healthier for residents? The implications on the perception of neighborhood environment, sense of place, and mental health in urban Guangzhou12
How to think about cities , by Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce12
Left behind and out of the loop: Examining the spatial distribution of news outlet closures in Canada12
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 r11
Fragile neighborhoods: Repairing American society one zip code at a time , by Seth D. Kaplan11
Midwest unrest: 1960s urban rebellions and the Black freedom movement , by Ashley Howard11
Public gardens and livable cities: Partnerships connecting people, plants, and place , by Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, and Sharon A. Lee11
Reshaping a historical industrial area on the edge of a city: Heritage, workers’ memories, and spatial narratives11
Population trends in New Jersey , by James W. Hughes and David Listokin Population trends in New Jersey , by James 11
The dynamics of land-based financing in Ghana: An institutional perspective for implementation11
Partnerships between anchor-med institutions and community organizations to address social determinants of health in urban populations: Do institutional pressures play a role?10
State infrastructure and neighborhood well-being in urbanizing China10
The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam , by Claire Mercer, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024; The r10
Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality , by Robin Bartram Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproducti10
Over 40 years of shaping global urban research: TheJournal of Urban Affairs, 1979–202110
Balancing mission and measurement: Institutional pressures on evaluation practices in nonprofit community development loan funds10
Exploring the spatial distribution of community resources focusing on municipalities: A multilevel analysis of the greater Los Angeles area10
Citizens’ and government officials’ perceptions of commercialization in Cairo’s public parks10
Policy design and implementation of health impact assessment in English planning10
Public participation process in urban planning: Evaluation approaches of fairness and effectiveness criteria of planning advisory committees, by Kamal Uddin and Bhuiyan Monwar Alam9
Black barbershops and guardianship: A mixed methods investigation on the role of barbershops and community9
Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , by Lynne A. Weikart Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , b9
Exploring sustainable urban governance: Evolving dynamics, transitions, and ambiguities9
The importance of city services to internally displaced persons, returnees, and host residents in Juba, South Sudan9
Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? Understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities, by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris9
Producing affordable housing in higher-opportunity neighborhoods: Incentives in California’s LIHTC program9
Vertical ethnoburbs in Melbourne, Australia: Apartment living, presales finance, and settlement services9
Interpreting China’s overbuilding through a behavioral perspective: The role of developers’ excessive optimism8
A history of council housing in 100 estates , by John Boughton A history of council housing in 100 estates , by Joh8
The two-parent privilege: How Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind , by Melissa Kearney8
Black history in the Philadelphia landscape: Deep roots, continuing legacy , by Amy Jane Cohen8
The city after property: Abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit , by Sara Safransky8
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 8
Modeling the relationship between living in informal dwellings and fear of crime in Gauteng Province, South Africa8
What’s the alternative? The institutional logics of community-oriented smart city development8
Glasgow: High-rise homes, estates and communities in the post-war period, by Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley and Valerie Wright8
Remaking the American dream: The informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities , by Vinit Mukhija Remaking the American dream: 8
Power and leadership in small Russian monotowns8
Building colonial Hong Kong: Speculative development and segregation in the city , by Cecelia L. Chu7
The impact of weather on the racial composition of traffic stop and citation issuance in the United States7
Cumulative disadvantage during childhood: The association between moving and accumulated neighborhood deprivation over a child’s life course in the Netherlands7
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change, by Joan Fitzgerald7
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles7
Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city7
Slum-dwellers as experts: A problem structuring approach to understand housing challenges in slum communities of India7
Skyscraper settlement: The many lives of Christodora House , by Joyce Milambiling7
Campus speech and academic freedom: A guide for difficult times , by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman7
From improvement to city planning: Spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade, by Henry C. Binford7
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s old Harlem neighborhood through the centuries , by Davida Siwisa James7
Urban planning in a world of informal politics , by Chandan Deuskar7
Shifting philanthropies? An investigation of grantmaking for community revitalization and economic development by place-oriented foundations7
State policy variation and emergency rental assistance take-up during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Survival strategies at the edge of the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar: Revealing ger residents’ capacity to aspire7
Urbicide in Eastern Europe and the Middle East: Grozny, Aleppo, and Aghdam in comparative analysis7
Political exercise: Active living, public policy, and the built environment , by Lawrence D. Brown Political exercise: Active living, public policy,7
The many geographies of urban renewal: New perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949 , by Douglas R. Appler (ed.) The many geographies of urban renewa7
Access to social welfare and migrants’ intercity location choices in the case of China: Do latent preferences matter?7
Place-makers in the digital age: Lifestyle migrants and the emergence of lifestyle-oriented urbanization in China7
Squatter life: Persistence at the urban margins of Buenos Aires , by Javier Auyero and Sofía Servián7
Can school closures decrease ethnic school segregation? Evidence from primary and lower secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden6
The grassroots and citymaking in the Middle East: The agency of tactical participation in Amman, Jordan6
A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data6
Handbook of megacities and megacity-regions , edited by Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen6
When tourism disrupts it all: An approach to the landscapes of touristification6
Ex nihilo urbanization in Nigeria: Colonial legacies, privatization, and foreign actors6
Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism , by Trevor Latimer Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism 6
In Levittown’s shadow: Poverty in America’s wealthiest postwar suburb , by Tim Keogh6
After suburbia: Urbanization in the twenty-first century , edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu6
Municipal social entrepreneurship: Retail consolidation in Stockton-on-Tees (North-East England) to maintain place-based shopping center benefits6
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty6
Sustainability prospects for autonomous vehicles: Environmental, social, and urban, by George Martin6
Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies , by Michael Neuman Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies 6
Social capital and perceived health of three types of older rural-to-urban migrants: A machine learning–based analysis6
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California6
Decomposing changes in the geography of metropolitan inequality6
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 Region6
Not gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a housing assetization strategy6
Bringing the civic back in: Zane L. Miller and American urban history , edited by Larry Bennett, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin Bring6
Building downtown Los Angeles: The politics of race and place in urban America , by Leland T. Saito Building downtown Los Angeles: The politics of r6
Defensible space on the move: Mobilisation in English housing policy and practice , by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick Defensible space on the move:5
Understanding the residential mobility decisions of U.S. families in poverty5
Contested Americans: Mixed-status families in anti-immigrant times , by Cassaundra Rodriguez5
Street matters: A critical history of twentieth-century urban policy in Brazil , by Fernando Luiz Lara and Ana Paula Koury Street matters: A critica5
Social capital and housing at the urban periphery: Lessons from a government-led housing development program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia5
Between the forest and the trees: Navigating silos and setbacks to vegetative roadway barriers5
Examining the impact of in-situ infrastructural upgrading on sustainability in informal settlements: The case of Accra, Ghana5
Practitioners’ perspectives on preventing environmental gentrification5
Selling high-density housing in post-suburbia: Between a natural idyll and putting faith in future (re)developments5
Chinese digital nomadism in Dali: Life autonomy, platformized livelihood and re-territorialization5
Carnalities: The art of living in Latinidad , by Mariana Ortega5
Megaregions and America’s future, by Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang and Frederick R. Steiner5
How spaces become places: Place makers tell their stories, by John Forester5
Heat mitigation and management in Allentown, Pennsylvania: A case study of a mid-sized Northeastern city in a heat wave risk area5
Varieties of urban housing regimes: Comparing housing provision and tenure shift in Athens, Belgrade, and Vienna5
The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association5
Temporary use of urban vacant spaces: A pro-poor land use strategy in the Global South5
Rail accessibility and residential property values: Estimating value capture potential5
Regional governance for greenways in China: A control rights perspective5
Communities of resistance and resilience in the post-industrial city: A transnational perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh , by Daniel Holland5
Commoning urban infrastructures: Lessons from energy, water and housing commons in Barcelona5
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Residential pathways: Understanding moving dynamics in gentrifying neighborhoods through a multi-dimensional sequence analysis5
Residents’ reshaping of public space during COVID-19: The case of North Tel Aviv5
Seeking a future for the past: Space, power, and heritage in a Chinese city , by Philipp Demgenski4
Airbnb in Latin America: A literature review from an urban studies perspective4
A ‘gray area’? Neighborhood decline and reclamation in 1950s and 1960s U.S. urban discourse and legislation4
More justice via participation in Chinese urban redevelopment: Reality or illusion?4
Building on firm foundations: Organizations and growth in urban arts communities4
Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government4
Local factors sustaining co-production: Two case studies from the city of Yokohama, Japan4
‘The rent eats first’: Did ending the national eviction moratorium increase food insufficiency among renters in the United States?4
Chuco punk: Sonic insurgency in El Paso , by Tara López4
The comprehensive plan: Sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities for the 21st century, by David Rouse and Rocky Piro4
Tensions in diversity: Spaces for collective life in Los Angeles , by Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan4
Urban home values and multi-level political accountability: Evidence from Calgary, Canada4
Who owns France? Uncovering the structure of property ownership for a better understanding of the socio-spatial distribution of wealth4
Gentrification studies and cultural colonialism: Discussing connections between historic city centers of Mexico and Spain4
Inside Montréal’s inclusionary zoning debate: Who participates and what do they say?4
Mayor’s desk: 20 conversations with local leaders solving global problems , by Anthony Flint4
From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities , by Alison Sant From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities 4
Emerging subcenters in the inner Budapest metropolitan area4
Understanding the financial health of community land trusts in the United States4
What contributes to the collaborative network of emergency information release? A case study of COVID-19 response in China4
Curbing traffic: The human case for fewer cars in our lives, by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett4
Public space reader, edited by Miodrag Mitrašinović and Vikas Mehta, New York, Routledge, 20214
Keeping the sanctuary pure: Movements and frictions in an Argentine gated community4
Self-initiated residential mobility in pandemic times: A Schumpeterian perspective4
Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana4
Neighborhood and housing choices of out-of-town versus local movers: The case of Charlotte, North Carolina4
Post-growth planning: Cities beyond the market economy , by Federico Savini, Antonio Ferreira, and Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld4
Rhetoric and reality of “turnover”: Condominium developer influence in Ontario and New York4
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs4
Slow and sudden violence , by Derek Hyra4
Depicting the narratives of escape, drift, compromise, and return: New Chinese youth paradigms in narratives of social mobility4
Regional governance and the politics of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area , by Paul G. Lewis and Nicholas J. Marantz4
A research agenda for events impacts , by Nicholas Wise and Kelly Maguire (eds.) A research agenda for events impacts 4
The speculative city: Emergent forms and norms of the built environment , edited by Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He The speculative city: Emergent fo3
Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster capitalism , by Albert S. Fu Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster cap3
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods: Empirical insights from Accra, Ghana3
Gayfriendly: Acceptance and control of homosexuality in New York and Paris , by Sylvie Tissot3
Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice , by Sandeep Agrawal (ed.) Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice 3
Here down on dark Earth: Loss and remembrance in New York City , by Clifford Thompson, Jan Ramirez, and Larry Racioppo3
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 m3
Artist-entrepreneurs in underserved cities: Cultural production, social entrepreneurship, and community development3
Dilemmas of substitution: Why the urban poor support punitive policing in a Latin American city3
The material geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and political ecologies on the New Silk Road , edited by Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan S3
The spatial distribution of neighborhood safety ties: Consequences for perceived collective efficacy?3
Moving back: Spatial and demographic differences in boomeranging to parents3
Urban jungle: The history and future of nature in the city , by Ben Wilson3
Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning3
The architecture of disability: Buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access , by David Gissen3
Toward a sociology of urban knowledge: Reconceptualizing urbanization from contemporary China3
Property dynamics and displacement: How multifamily sales, renovations, and demolitions influence moves for children3
The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject3
The rule of dons: Criminal leaders and political authority in urban Jamaica , by Rivke Jaffe3
(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America3
Traditional markets in transition: Production of space and divergent place identities in China’s rural markets3
Justice and the Interstates: The racist truth about urban highways , edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda K. Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca C. Retzlaff3
American urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s unconventional wisdom reshaped public life, by Richard K. Rein3
“All roads lead to Rome?” Performance evaluation across different types of community land trusts based on a large-scale survey3
Emergent genders: Living otherwise in Tokyo’s pink economies , by Michelle H. S. Ho3
Buying a house without a formal title: A property rights perspective for understanding informal housing ownership in Shenzhen, China3
Neighbor change and social connectedness for older adults in Barcelona3
Philadelphia, corrupt and consenting: A city’s struggle against an epithet , by Brett H. Mandel3
Mitigating urban light pollution: A review of municipal regulations and implications for planners3
“Micro-regeneration”: Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China3
A green surge amidst conservative politics: The case of Knoxville, Tennessee3
Evaluating the availability, accessibility, and affordability of fresh food in informal food environments in five Mexican cities3
Anticipated willingness to share resources in a disaster scenario: The role of social ties2
Showcase politics: The production and distribution of new public space in Mexico City2
Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Leslie Kern Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Lesli2
The suburbanization of California’s deserts2
Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China , by Travis S. K. Kong2
The privatization of everything: How the plunder of public goods transformed America and how we can fight back , by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian2
The financial ecologies of climate urbanism: Project preparation and the anchoring of global climate finance2
Graduated suspension: Ethnic minority gig work in China’s platform economy2
Shaking up the city: Ignorance, inequality, and the urban question, by Tom Slater2
Causes and exit strategies from municipal fiscal stress and bankruptcy: A taxonomy2
Basti clearances: Examining the characteristics of informal settlements experiencing evictions in India2
Caring public space: Advancing justice through intergenerational public space design and planning2
Urban agendas around the world: A case of policy transfer? An analysis proposal2
Social (in)equality, community well-being and quality of life , by Patsy Kraeger, M. Rezaul Islam, and Rhonda Phillips2
Street-level architecture: The past, present and future of interactive frontages , by Conrad Kickert and Hans Karssenberg Street-level architecture:2
Exploring the local impacts of universities on socioeconomic characteristics and housing markets in Canadian urban regions, 1981–2016: A spatial panel modeling approach2
Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future: Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement2
Place-making and culture branding by graffiti artists in China: Analyzing urban creativity in the public space of Wuhan and Quanzhou2
Creating Chinese urbanism: Urban revolution and governance changes , by Fulong Wu2
When fracking comes to town: Governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US shale boom, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili (eds.)2
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China2
Collateral damages: Landlords and the urban housing crisis , by Meredith Greif Collateral damages: Landlords and the urban housing crisis 2
Social infrastructuring arrangements in Nordic urban area development: The professionalization of civil society associations?2
Livin’ on the edge: The peripheral host and the production of a digital tourism space beyond the city center2
Examining facilitators and challenges to implementing equitable green space policies: Lessons from Los Angeles County2
Environmental justice and resiliency in an age of uncertainty , edited by Celeste Murphy-Greene2
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,2
Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses t2
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential, by Heba Gowayed2
Inclusive transportation: A manifesto for repairing divided communities , by Veronica Davis2
Introduction to housing (third edition) , edited by Katrin B. Anacker, Andrew T. Carswell, and Sarah D. Kirby2
New York , by Jill S. Gross and H. V. Savitch2
Diverging discourses: State-level preemption of municipal land regulation for housing production in California and Texas2
Building caring communities: A special issue in honor of Janet L. Smith2
Atlas of the senseable city , by Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti2
The architecture of the wire: Infrastructures of telecommunication , by Carlotta Darò2
Who is responsible for homelessness? From personal responsibility to structural injustice2
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