Journal of Urban Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Affairs is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Fixer-upper: How to repair America’s broken housing systems, by Jenny Schuetz30
Case studies in retrofitting suburbia: Urban design strategies for urgent challenges, by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones (eds.)29
Urban marginality and institutional effects: Disinvestment, inefficacy, and stigmatization in Santiago de Chile27
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, a23
Pandemic in the metropolis: Transportation impacts and recovery , edited by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Alexandre M. Bayen, Giovanni Circella and R. Jayakrishnan 20
The changing American neighborhood: The meaning of place in the twenty-first century , by Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom19
Key to the city: How zoning shapes our world , by Sara C. Bronin18
Temporary food insecurity, social capital, and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai18
Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis , by Patrick Condon18
Innate terrain: Canadian landscape architecture , edited by Alissa North18
Labor lacuna: Disjunctures between local climate action and workforce development in advancing just transitions17
Anti-immigration and the politics of housing affordability: Examining the evolution and housing market impacts of Foreign Buyer Taxes in British Columbia and Ontario17
Repowering cities: Governing climate change mitigation in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, by Sarah Hughes17
Exploring local activism in the neighborhoods of Cairo17
The neighbor spectrum in community housing: Pro-social, anti-social and asocial neighboring in Vancouver17
Building Little Saigon: Refugee urbanism in American cities and suburbs , by Erica Allen-Kim,16
Gardens of hope: Cultivating food and the future in a post-disaster city , by Yuki Kato16
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies15
Local immigrant support policies in the context of economic development14
Handbook on smart growth: Promise, principles, and prospects for planning , by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty, and Kay June-Friesen (eds.) 14
Brooklynites: The remarkable story of the free Black communities that shaped a borough , by Prithi Kanakamedala14
Ecological states: politics of science and nature in urbanizing China , by Jesse Rodenbiker14
Informality as an approach to claiming the right to resettlement and achieving inclusive rural-to-urban resettlement for landless villagers: The case of Hangzhou, China13
“Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms13
Homelessness and housing supply13
Creative instigation: The art & strategy of authentic community engagement , by Fern Tiger13
New Mobilities: Smart planning for emerging transportation technologies, by Todd Litman12
Child stunting in South Africa: Urban premium or penalty?12
Race, housing policy, and the demographic and spatial structure of modern housing programs: Who receives rental assistance and where do they live?12
In placement, not just dis placement: Urban assemblages and neighborhood stability in the face of gentrification12
Is spatial mismatch really spatial, and really a mismatch? Recent evidence on employment among Hispanic and Black people in the U.S.12
Uber to get groceries: Are ride-hail services accessing Chicago’s food deserts?11
Everyday improvising in public space: The forest pub as a site for suburban being11
Including the majority: Examining the local social interactions of renters in four case study condominiums in Sydney11
Is mixed-housing development healthier for residents? The implications on the perception of neighborhood environment, sense of place, and mental health in urban Guangzhou11
Land reform from below: Institutional change driven by confrontation and negotiation11
The Italian legacy in Philadelphia: History, culture, people, and ideas, by Andrea Canepari and Judith Goode (eds.)11
Disaster resilience and human settlements: Emerging perspectives in the Anthropocene , edited by Bharat Dahiya, Francesco de Pascale, Orlando De Pietro, Piero Farabollini, Francesca11
Smart cities and smart communities: Empowering citizens through intelligent technologies , edited by Srikanta Patnaik, Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh 11
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class , by Max Fraser11
The sociology of housing: How homes shape our social lives , edited by Brian J. McCabe and Eva Rosen11
Emergency responses of Indian smart cities during the COVID-19 pandemic11
South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and resurrection of an American city, third edition , by Jill Jonnes South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and res10
The urban brain: Mental health in the vital city , by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald10
Household involuntary residential mobility and the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of urban South Korea10
Fragile neighborhoods: Repairing American society one zip code at a time , by Seth D. Kaplan10
Hella Town: Oakland’s history of development and disruption, by Mitchell Schwarzer10
Partnerships between anchor-med institutions and community organizations to address social determinants of health in urban populations: Do institutional pressures play a role?10
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 r10
How to think about cities , by Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce10
Resilience difference between growing and shrinking resource-exhausted cities and its influencing factors10
Population trends in New Jersey , by James W. Hughes and David Listokin Population trends in New Jersey , by James 9
The importance of city services to internally displaced persons, returnees, and host residents in Juba, South Sudan9
Reshaping a historical industrial area on the edge of a city: Heritage, workers’ memories, and spatial narratives9
Public gardens and livable cities: Partnerships connecting people, plants, and place , by Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, and Sharon A. Lee9
Boon or bane? Examining the impact of the Payatas sanitary landfill closure on former scavengers in the Philippines9
The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam , by Claire Mercer, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024; The right to suburbia8
The dynamics of land-based financing in Ghana: An institutional perspective for implementation8
Citizens’ and government officials’ perceptions of commercialization in Cairo’s public parks8
Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality , by Robin Bartram Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproducti8
State infrastructure and neighborhood well-being in urbanizing China8
Black barbershops and guardianship: A mixed methods investigation on the role of barbershops and community8
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 program7
The alley as an expression of urban form: Understanding the logic of African urban dynamics7
Glasgow: High-rise homes, estates and communities in the post-war period, by Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley and Valerie Wright7
Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , by Lynne A. Weikart Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , b7
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana7
Exploring sustainable urban governance: Evolving dynamics, transitions, and ambiguities7
A research agenda for regional and local government , edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin7
A history of council housing in 100 estates , by John Boughton A history of council housing in 100 estates , by Joh7
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 7
Public participation process in urban planning: Evaluation approaches of fairness and effectiveness criteria of planning advisory committees, by Kamal Uddin and Bhuiyan Monwar Alam7
Midwest unrest: 1960s urban rebellions and the Black freedom movement , by Ashley Howard7
Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? Understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities, by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris7
Skyscraper settlement: The many lives of Christodora House , by Joyce Milambiling7
Remaking the American dream: The informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities , by Vinit Mukhija Remaking the American dream: 7
Exploring the spatial distribution of community resources focusing on municipalities: A multilevel analysis of the greater Los Angeles area7
Interpreting China’s overbuilding through a behavioral perspective: The role of developers’ excessive optimism6
Black history in the Philadelphia landscape: Deep roots, continuing legacy , by Amy Jane Cohen6
Responding to an uprising: An analysis of the Ferguson Commission6
The many geographies of urban renewal: New perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949 , by Douglas R. Appler (ed.) The many geographies of urban renewa6
The grassroots and citymaking in the Middle East: The agency of tactical participation in Amman, Jordan6
Municipal social entrepreneurship: Retail consolidation in Stockton-on-Tees (North-East England) to maintain place-based shopping center benefits6
Modeling the relationship between living in informal dwellings and fear of crime in Gauteng Province, South Africa6
Slum-dwellers as experts: A problem structuring approach to understand housing challenges in slum communities of India6
Shifting philanthropies? An investigation of grantmaking for community revitalization and economic development by place-oriented foundations6
Property rights, public health, and planning for informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya6
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
Political exercise: Active living, public policy, and the built environment , by Lawrence D. Brown Political exercise: Active living, public policy,6
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
Social capital and perceived health of three types of older rural-to-urban migrants: A machine learning–based analysis6
Place-makers in the digital age: Lifestyle migrants and the emergence of lifestyle-oriented urbanization in China6
Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city6
Survival strategies at the edge of the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar: Revealing ger residents’ capacity to aspire6
Building colonial Hong Kong: Speculative development and segregation in the city , by Cecelia L. Chu6
Urban planning in a world of informal politics , by Chandan Deuskar6
From improvement to city planning: Spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade, by Henry C. Binford6
Ex nihilo urbanization in Nigeria: Colonial legacies, privatization, and foreign actors6
The city after property: Abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit , by Sara Safransky6
The impact of weather on the racial composition of traffic stop and citation issuance in the United States6
Power and leadership in small Russian monotowns6
The two-parent privilege: How Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind , by Melissa Kearney6
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change, by Joan Fitzgerald5
A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data5
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s old Harlem neighborhood through the centuries , by Davida Siwisa James5
Can school closures decrease ethnic school segregation? Evidence from primary and lower secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden5
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty5
Understanding residential mobility: Why the African context matters5
Access to social welfare and migrants’ intercity location choices in the case of China: Do latent preferences matter?5
After suburbia: Urbanization in the twenty-first century , edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu5
Not gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a housing assetization strategy5
When tourism disrupts it all: An approach to the landscapes of touristification5
Cumulative disadvantage during childhood: The association between moving and accumulated neighborhood deprivation over a child’s life course in the Netherlands5
Handbook of global urban health, by Igor Vojnovic, Amber L. Pearson, Gershim Asiki, Geoff DeVerteuil, Adriana Allen (eds.)5
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles5
In Levittown’s shadow: Poverty in America’s wealthiest postwar suburb , by Tim Keogh5
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles neighborhood became the future of American democracy, by George Sanchez5
Special Issue: Arts and the City in the 21st Century5
How spaces become places: Place makers tell their stories, by John Forester4
Survival of the city: Living and thriving in an age of isolation, by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler4
What contributes to the collaborative network of emergency information release? A case study of COVID-19 response in China4
Street matters: A critical history of twentieth-century urban policy in Brazil , by Fernando Luiz Lara and Ana Paula Koury Street matters: A critica4
Defensible space on the move: Mobilisation in English housing policy and practice , by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick Defensible space on the move:4
Practitioners’ perspectives on preventing environmental gentrification4
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
Correction4
Contested Americans: Mixed-status families in anti-immigrant times , by Cassaundra Rodriguez4
Temporary use of urban vacant spaces: A pro-poor land use strategy in the Global South4
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs4
Keeping the sanctuary pure: Movements and frictions in an Argentine gated community4
Rail accessibility and residential property values: Estimating value capture potential4
Understanding the financial health of community land trusts in the United States4
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality, by Max Besbris4
Slow and sudden violence , by Derek Hyra4
Estate regeneration and its discontents: Public housing, place and inequality in London, by Paul Watt4
Urban home values and multi-level political accountability: Evidence from Calgary, Canada4
Regional governance and the politics of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area , by Paul G. Lewis and Nicholas J. Marantz4
Sustainability prospects for autonomous vehicles: Environmental, social, and urban, by George Martin4
Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism , by Trevor Latimer Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism 4
Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies , by Michael Neuman Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies 4
Bringing the civic back in: Zane L. Miller and American urban history , edited by Larry Bennett, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin Bring4
Examining the impact of in-situ infrastructural upgrading on sustainability in informal settlements: The case of Accra, Ghana4
Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana4
Airbnb in Latin America: A literature review from an urban studies perspective4
The comprehensive plan: Sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities for the 21st century, by David Rouse and Rocky Piro4
Understanding the residential mobility decisions of U.S. families in poverty4
Parks and recreation system planning: A new approach for creating sustainable, resilient communities, by David L. Barth4
Commoning urban infrastructures: Lessons from energy, water and housing commons in Barcelona4
Megaregions and America’s future, by Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang and Frederick R. Steiner4
Heat mitigation and management in Allentown, Pennsylvania: A case study of a mid-sized Northeastern city in a heat wave risk area4
The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association4
Gentrification studies and cultural colonialism: Discussing connections between historic city centers of Mexico and Spain4
Affordable housing preservation in Washington, DC: A framework for local funding, collaborative governance and community organizing for change, by Kathryn Howell4
Social capital and housing at the urban periphery: Lessons from a government-led housing development program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia4
Handbook of megacities and megacity-regions , edited by Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen4
Communities of resistance and resilience in the post-industrial city: A transnational perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh , by Daniel Holland4
Depicting the narratives of escape, drift, compromise, and return: New Chinese youth paradigms in narratives of social mobility4
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach4
Emerging subcenters in the inner Budapest metropolitan area4
Local factors sustaining co-production: Two case studies from the city of Yokohama, Japan4
Regional governance for greenways in China: A control rights perspective4
Residents’ reshaping of public space during COVID-19: The case of North Tel Aviv4
Neighborhood and housing choices of out-of-town versus local movers: The case of Charlotte, North Carolina3
Buying a house without a formal title: A property rights perspective for understanding informal housing ownership in Shenzhen, China3
Urban jungle: The history and future of nature in the city , by Ben Wilson3
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods: Empirical insights from Accra, Ghana3
Justice and the Interstates: The racist truth about urban highways , edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda K. Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca C. Retzlaff3
Post-growth planning: Cities beyond the market economy , by Federico Savini, Antonio Ferreira, and Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld3
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity3
Public space reader, edited by Miodrag Mitrašinović and Vikas Mehta, New York, Routledge, 20213
Neighbor change and social connectedness for older adults in Barcelona3
Tensions in diversity: Spaces for collective life in Los Angeles , by Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan3
Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government3
A research agenda for events impacts , by Nicholas Wise and Kelly Maguire (eds.) A research agenda for events impacts 3
The reproduction of social inequalities at neighborhood level in Salvador, Brazil: Does the spatial proximity to affluent gated communities mitigate neighborhood effects?3
“All roads lead to Rome?” Performance evaluation across different types of community land trusts based on a large-scale survey3
American urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s unconventional wisdom reshaped public life, by Richard K. Rein3
Seeking a future for the past: Space, power, and heritage in a Chinese city , by Philipp Demgenski3
Mayor’s desk: 20 conversations with local leaders solving global problems , by Anthony Flint3
A green surge amidst conservative politics: The case of Knoxville, Tennessee3
Building on firm foundations: Organizations and growth in urban arts communities3
The spatial distribution of neighborhood safety ties: Consequences for perceived collective efficacy?3
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas3
Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice , by Sandeep Agrawal (ed.) Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice 3
Smart cities in the post-algorithmic era: Integrating technologies, platforms and governance, edited by Nicos Komninos and Christina Kakderi3
Evaluating the availability, accessibility, and affordability of fresh food in informal food environments in five Mexican cities3
Curbing traffic: The human case for fewer cars in our lives, by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett3
Gayfriendly: Acceptance and control of homosexuality in New York and Paris , by Sylvie Tissot3
The architecture of disability: Buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access , by David Gissen3
Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster capitalism , by Albert S. Fu Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster cap3
From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities , by Alison Sant From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities 3
A ‘gray area’? Neighborhood decline and reclamation in 1950s and 1960s U.S. urban discourse and legislation3
Shadow men: The third wheel of public transport in Ghana3
Rhetoric and reality of “turnover”: Condominium developer influence in Ontario and New York3
Cities, climate change, and public health: Building human resilience to climate change at the local level, by Ella Jisun Kim3
Moving ideas? The news media’s impact on ridehailing regulation in Canadian cities3
Who owns France? Uncovering the structure of property ownership for a better understanding of the socio-spatial distribution of wealth3
Colour matters: Essays on the experiences, education, and pursuits of Black youth, by Carl James3
Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning3
More justice via participation in Chinese urban redevelopment: Reality or illusion?3
The outcomes of residential squatting activism in the context of municipalism and capitalism in Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)2
Graduated suspension: Ethnic minority gig work in China’s platform economy2
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
Democracy’s hidden heroes: Fitting policy to people and place , by David C. Campbell2
Mitigating urban light pollution: A review of municipal regulations and implications for planners2
Cross-sector partnerships in the South City Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI): An exploratory case study of collaboration network structure and process in Memphis, Tennessee2
The speculative city: Emergent forms and norms of the built environment , edited by Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He The speculative city: Emergent fo2
The Routledge handbook of housing and welfare , edited by Martin Grander and Mark Stephens2
“Micro-regeneration”: Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China2
Festive culture, social hierarchization, and urban inequality: Analysis of the fallas of València (1981–2019)2
Hospital city, health care nation: Race, capital, and the costs of American health care , by Guian A. McKee2
Anti-Black residential preferences in Toronto2
The politics of police violence: Political competition and police killings in Brazil2
New York , by Jill S. Gross and H. V. Savitch2
Creating Chinese urbanism: Urban revolution and governance changes , by Fulong Wu2
Urban economy: Real estate economics and public policy , by Colin Jones Urban economy: Real estate economics and public policy 2
Causes and exit strategies from municipal fiscal stress and bankruptcy: A taxonomy2
Investigating institutional barriers and opportunities to an integrated approach for transport and spatial development: Mega urban transport development in a rapidly developing city, Seoul2
Normative influence on intention to segregate household waste: Reflections from a low-middle income city in urban Africa2
Muhtars becoming real estate agents: Changing roles of neighborhood representatives in relation to the state-led urban transformation in Çinçin, Ankara, Turkey2
Politics of the periphery: Governing global suburbia , edited by Pierre Hamel2
The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject2
Life among urban planners: Practice, professionalism, and expertise in the making of the city, by Jennifer Mack and Michael Herzfeld (eds.)2
(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America2
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China2
Learning from the participatory practices of urban observatories to co-create a new town observatory in Loughborough, UK2
The narrow margin of urban protest art: A comparative study of the role of street art in two neighborhoods of Barcelona and Madrid2
Anticipated willingness to share resources in a disaster scenario: The role of social ties2
Livin’ on the edge: The peripheral host and the production of a digital tourism space beyond the city center2
Special Issue: Animals in the City2
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 cities we need: Essential stories of everyday places , by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani2
Gentrification: A philosophical analysis and critique2
Mobilities in a turbulent era , by Antonio Ferreira2
Scope creep in California’s equitable mobility policy: Competing or complementing policy goals?2
Moving back: Spatial and demographic differences in boomeranging to parents2
Building caring communities: A special issue in honor of Janet L. Smith2
Traditional markets in transition: Production of space and divergent place identities in China’s rural markets2
Slowdown: The end of the great acceleration—and why it’s good for the planet, the economy and our lives , by Danny Dorling, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020; 2
Dilemmas of substitution: Why the urban poor support punitive policing in a Latin American city2
Exploring the local impacts of universities on socioeconomic characteristics and housing markets in Canadian urban regions, 1981–2016: A spatial panel modeling approach2
Philadelphia, corrupt and consenting: A city’s struggle against an epithet , by Brett H. Mandel2
The financial ecologies of climate urbanism: Project preparation and the anchoring of global climate finance2
Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China , by Travis S. K. Kong2
In the name of “low-carbon cities”: National rhetoric, local leverage, and divergent exploitation of the greening of urban governance in China2
Cities and affordable housing: Planning, design and policy nexus, edited by Sasha Tsenkova2
Who collaborates on urban resilience? An analysis of flood resilience planning networks in four coastal cities2
When fracking comes to town: Governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US shale boom, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili (eds.)2
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