Journal of Urban Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Affairs is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can the innovative-city-pilot policy promote urban innovation? An empirical analysis from China29
Platform Spaces: When culture and the arts intersect territorial development and social innovation, a view from the Italian context22
Delineate the U.S. suburb: An examination of how different definitions of the suburbs matter22
People-Centered Smart Cities: An exploratory action research on the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights20
Renovation of industrial heritage sites and sustainable urban regeneration in post-industrial Shanghai19
A Polanyi-inspired perspective on social-ecological transformations of cities19
Managing free-roaming cats in U.S. cities: An object lesson in public policy and citizen action16
The more-than-human right to the city: A multispecies reevaluation15
Managing cybersecurity at the grassroots: Evidence from the first nationwide survey of local government cybersecurity15
Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in arts and cultural planning14
Unused private and public buildings: Re-discussing merely empty and truly abandoned situations, with particular reference to the case of Italy and the city of Milan13
In debt to the rent gap: Gentrification generalized and the frontier of the future13
State-led gentrification in three Latin American cities12
Urban climate governance under the national government shadow: Evidence from Istanbul11
Grassroots refugee community organizations: In search of participatory urban governance10
Interests driven or socially mobilized? Place attachment, social capital, and neighborhood participation in urban China10
Commoning toward urban resilience: The role of trust, social cohesion, and involvement in a simulated urban commons setting10
Racial/ethnic and class segregation at workplace and residence: A Los Angeles case study10
Using urban networks to gain new insight into old questions: Community, economy, bureaucracy10
Gendered fear of crime in the urban context: A comparative multilevel study of women’s and men’s fear of crime9
The impact of a tax cut reform on land finance revenue: Constrained by the binding target of construction land9
“Placing” the relation of social media participation to neighborhood community connection9
Planning, participation, and power in a shrinking city: The Detroit Works Project9
Place branding and growth machines: Implications for spatial planning and urban development8
The unequal housing and neighborhood outcomes of displaced movers8
From shared micro-mobility to shared responsibility: Using crowdsourcing to understand dockless vehicle violations in Austin, Texas8
An environmental justice analysis of urban tree canopy distribution and change8
From margins to capital: The integration of spaces of artistic critique within capitalist urbanism8
Rightful squatting: Housing movements, citizenship, and the “right to the city” in Brazil8
Street entanglements: Contestation, collaboration, and co-optation in Manila’s informal vending spaces8
Exceptionalism and theorizing spatial inequality: Segregation research on cities in China8
Exploring the impact of factors influencing case selection in the place branding literature from 2014 to 20188
From public goods theory to municipal capitalism: Evaluating investments in sport venues from an urban entrepreneurial perspective8
Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future: Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement7
Social solidarity economy and urban commoning in post-crisis contexts: Madrid and Athens in a comparative perspective7
Political fragmentation and economic growth in U.S. metropolitan areas7
Gentrification: The role of dialogue in community engagement and social cohesion7
Touristification, commercial gentrification, and experiences of displacement in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Busan, South Korea7
Follow the money: Do gentrifying and at-risk neighborhoods attract more park spending?7
Industrial heritage preservation and the urban revitalisation process in Belgrade7
A fowl politics of urban dwelling. Or, Ybor City’s republic of noise7
Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana7
Re-scaling social mix: Public housing renewal in Melbourne6
From top-down urban planning to culturally sensitive planning? Urban renewal and artistic activism in a neo-bohemian district in Barcelona6
(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America6
Choosing homes without choosing schools? How urban parents navigate decisions about neighborhoods and school choice6
A matter of life or death: How racial representation shapes compliance with city disaster preparedness orders6
Climate change adaptation with green roofs: Instrument choice and facilitating factors in urban areas6
Probing political paradox: Urban expansion, floods risk vulnerability and social justice in urban Africa6
Creative discretion and the structure of context-responsive improvising6
Reconciling big data and thick data to advance the new urban science and smart city governance6
The space of ideas: Public art policy and the concept of urban model spaces6
The politics of police violence: Political competition and police killings in Brazil6
Problematizing the concept of walkability in Johannesburg6
Impact of school location on children’s air pollution exposure6
Motivations and barriers in becoming urban residents: Evidence from rural migrants living in public rental housing in Chongqing, China6
Refugees in borderlands: Safe places versus securitization in Athens, Greece6
The state of urban research: Views across the disciplines6
Arts in the city: Debates in the Journal of Urban Affairs5
Housing vacancy and hypervacant neighborhoods: Uneven recovery after the U.S. foreclosure crisis5
Topography and crime in place: The effects of elevation, slope, and betweenness in San Francisco street segments5
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China5
Animals in the city: Wither the human-animal divide5
Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana5
Artistic City-zenship: How artists perceive and practice political agency in their cities5
Is public agency relocation effective to achieve decentralization? Evaluating its effects on regional employment5
The intra-urban residential and workplace locations of small business owners5
The spatialized political ecology of the city: Situated peripheries and the capitalocenic limits of urban affairs5
Arts and the city in post-Soviet contexts: Policy pathways and interventions in urban cultural development in Kazakhstan5
“Micro-regeneration”: Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China5
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana5
Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government5
The specter of the “art-less city”: Locating artists in Philadelphia’s creative economy5
Evaluating values in creative placemaking: The arts as community development in the NEA’s Our Town program5
Electoral support for the 5 Star Movement in Milan: An ecological analysis of social and spatial factors5
Urban transformation through national innovation competitions: Lessons from the UK’s Future City Demonstrator initiative5
Sports stadiums and local economic activity: Evidence from sales tax collections4
Urban planning as a way to pursue quality-oriented urbanization: Anatomy of the urban planning of Xiong’an New Area, China4
Challenges in the creation of murals: A theoretical framework4
Lisbon, the Portuguese Erasmus city? Mis-match between representation in urban policies and international student experiences4
The neighborhood context of school openings: Charter school expansion and socioeconomic ascent in the United States4
Social inclusion through mixed-income development: Design and practice in the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative4
Who collaborates on urban resilience? An analysis of flood resilience planning networks in four coastal cities4
A comparison of space quality in streets in the context of public open space design: The example of Izmir, Barcelona, and Liverpool4
City in Africa I: Urbanism and informality4
Placing production in urban cultural policy: The locational patterns of cultural industries and related manufacturing4
Promoting Social Justice and Equity in Shrinking Cities4
Amateur real estate investing4
Perceived reasons for paying more for housing in metro Atlanta: Results from the 2018 Metro Atlanta Speaks survey4
Including the majority: Examining the local social interactions of renters in four case study condominiums in Sydney4
Right-wing populism and urban planning4
Accessibility, mobility, and spatial justice in Nairobi, Kenya4
The mobility preferences of ICT knowledge workers: Do second-ranked cities have a chance of attracting them?4
Transit oriented development and sustainable cities: Economics, community and methods, edited by Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache4
Urbanization and carbon emissions: Panel evidence from 68 low-income and lower-middle-income countries4
Tourism, cultural heritage and urban regeneration: Changing spaces in historical places, edited by Nicholas Wise and Takamitsu Jimura3
Denver’s Green Mile: Marijuana gentrification as a process of urban change3
Towards an alternative interpretation of the socio-cultural dimensions of urban greenspace planning in the Global South: Evidence from the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana3
Professional sports venues as catalysts for revitalization? Perspectives from industry experts3
Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives3
Homelessness and housing supply3
Street-level collaborative governance for urban regeneration: How were conflicts resolved at grassroot level?3
Identifying the parameters for assessment of child-friendliness in urban neighborhoods in Indian cities3
Financing climate-related resettlements in uneven geographies of risk: Lessons from Bogota Humana3
Pandemic gardening: Variant adaptations to COVID-19 disruptions by community gardens, school gardens, and urban farms3
Hidden barriers and divisive architecture: The role of “everyday space” in conflict and peacebuilding in Belfast3
Bonding out the future: Tracing the politics of urban climate finance in Miami, Florida3
Changing employment subcenters and opportunity in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area3
B(u)ypassing conflict: Urban redevelopment in nationally contested cities3
“Why are we asking for a seat at the table that our ancestors created for us?” The importance of cultural landscapes and power in urban planning3
Social capital, access to healthcare, and health-related quality of life in urban Ghana3
Social mix in context: Comparing housing regeneration programs in Australia and Israel3
The role of nonprofit organizations in the expansion of inclusive transportation in Los Angeles3
Predatory commodification and housing renovation3
The evolution and trajectories of the geography of mergers and acquisitions: A city network analysis for Canada, 1994–20163
Neighborhood segregation in Dhaka3
Dreaming the wrong dream: An exploratory case study of a policy change toward sustainable urban development in a medium-sized Chinese city3
Participatory urban governance under the microscope: A qualitative study of high-functioning neighborhood councils in Los Angeles3
A citizen participation model for co-creation of public value in a smart city3
Intercity economic networks under recession: Counterintuitive results on the evolution of Russian cities in multinational firm networks from 2010 to 20193
Ambiguity and clarity in residential yard ordinances across metropolitan areas in the United States3
The insurgent smart city: How a social movement created an alternative imaginary of the smart city3
When schools open: Student mobility and racial sorting across new charter schools in Kansas City, Missouri3
Pandemic urbanization: How South Africa’s history of labor and disease control creates its current disparities3
Economic inequality in U.S. global cities3
Fiscal disparities among local governments in Zhejiang Province, China3
Special Issue: Social Impact Bonds and the Urban Transformation2
The work of crisis framing: Claims of social justice obscuring a history and, likely future, of uneven investment in Moss Park, Toronto2
Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies?2
When tourism disrupts it all: An approach to the landscapes of touristification2
Leadership development in divided cities: The Homecomer, Middleman, and Pathfinder2
The governance dilemmas of urban shrinkage: Evidence from Northeast China2
Business cycles of casino cities: Theoretical model, empirical evidence and policy implications2
Dynamics of intra-urban employment geographies: A comparative study of U.S. and German metropolitan areas2
Vulnerability to COVID-19: Cluster analysis of census tracts in Malaga, Spain2
Urban neoliberalism, smart city, and Big Tech: The aborted Sidewalk Labs Toronto experiment2
Effects of the Community Reinvestment Act on small business lending2
The contribution of urban public space to the social interactions and empowerment of women2
Waiting for Wakanda: Activists challenge Black exclusion from the construction industry2
Nomocracy versus teleocracy: Comparing participatory urban redevelopment in Shenzhen and Kashgar2
In the name of “low-carbon cities”: National rhetoric, local leverage, and divergent exploitation of the greening of urban governance in China2
Investigating institutional barriers and opportunities to an integrated approach for transport and spatial development: Mega urban transport development in a rapidly developing city, Seoul2
COVID-19 and racial inequalities in housing: Pre-pandemic and pandemic pathways to housing insecurity2
Local rebels: How local governments get around federal and state laws to resist new mosques2
The role of social justice frameworks in an era of neoliberalism: Lessons from youth activism2
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California2
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity2
Understanding residential mobility: Why the African context matters2
Integration of twin cities: A Delphi investigation of the urban areas on both sides of the Strait of Messina2
Low-income housing development in India: Strategies for income mixing and inclusive urban planning2
In the name of “social mixing”: The privatization of public housing to non-governmental organizations2
Remaking urban divides: Shifting patterns of neighborhood differentiation in Bilbao, Spain2
Emergency responses of Indian smart cities during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Fintech’s relationship with subprime lending in immigrant gateway metropolitan areas2
‘It’s like crossing a border everyday’: Police-migrant encounters in a postcolonial city2
The outcomes of residential squatting activism in the context of municipalism and capitalism in Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)2
Neoliberalizing infrastructure: Financing public transportation in Greater Boston2
Place attachment in the context of loss and displacement: The case of Syrian immigrants in Esenyurt, Istanbul2
The gerrymandering of cities and the politics of racial exclusion: Evidence from a spatial typology of municipal boundary changes2
A city of contrasts: Binary position of residents’ knowledge and attitudes toward urban green infrastructure2
Sustaining the grassroots: How community organizations mitigate the downsides of collaborating with unions2
Muhtars becoming real estate agents: Changing roles of neighborhood representatives in relation to the state-led urban transformation in Çinçin, Ankara, Turkey2
Foundation activism in urban revitalization: Effects on institutions and political agency2
On infrastructure repair and gender politics: A more global view from Tallinn, Estonia2
Between gentrification and supergentrification: Hybrid processes of socio-spatial upscaling2
A democratization of urban space: Gender and ethnicity in the Whitechapel Market2
“A better place to be”? Black Mecca, White democracy, and the contradictions of neoliberal cityhood in Atlanta’s Black suburbs2
Special Issue: Smart governance in the contemporary era2
A methodology for evaluating housing quality in settlements of the displaced in Jordan2
Municipal urban rat management policies and programming in seven cities in the United States of America2
Visibility matters: Constructing safe passages on the streets of Kolkata2
Exploring place attachment dynamics in deprived urban neighborhoods: An empirical study of Nima and Old Fadama slums in Accra, Ghana2
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown2
Reflections on researching new cities underway in the Global South2
Street vending on Addis Ababa’s sidewalks: A sign of vibrancy and identity or a nuisance for pedestrians?2
Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana2
Keeping the family home: Reproducing gentrifiers in two Boston neighborhoods2
Arts consumers’ place-visioning as a tool for planning creative neighborhoods2
Negotiating distance to buzz as an important factor shaping urban residential strategies of artists2
Showcase politics: The production and distribution of new public space in Mexico City2
Betting on children at risk: Actors’ views on the introduction of social impact bonds in the French field of “childhood in danger”2
Promoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomings2
Toward sustainable urbanization: Understanding the dynamics of urban sprawl and food (in)security of indigenous households in peri-urban Wa, Ghana2
State infrastructure and neighborhood well-being in urbanizing China2
Whose diversity? Race, space and the European city2
Exploring the spatial distribution of community resources focusing on municipalities: A multilevel analysis of the greater Los Angeles area2
Black Mecca futures: Re-Membering New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue2
Rethinking development and redistribution policy: Testing the local expenditure assumption using the Community Development Block Grant program2
Does pre-purchase counseling help low-income buyers choose and sustain homeownership in socially mixed destination neighborhoods?2
Is the Chinese skyscraper boom excessive?2
Climate change adaptation plans: Inclusion of health, equity, and green space1
The art of “everyday resistance”: Small city cultural actors’ disruption of extralocal growth politics1
Coexisting or coworking? The reconfigured office spaces in two emerging global cities1
The comprehensive plan: Sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities for the 21st century, by David Rouse and Rocky Piro1
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas1
Local immigrant support policies in the context of economic development1
Property taxation in a shrinking city1
Who shares? Participation in the sharing economy in the U.S.1
Resilience of a contested high street: The changing image of Tunali Hilmi Street in Ankara, Turkey1
Economic and racial justice coalitions and the rise of progressive cities1
Art as intervention: Protests on urban transformation in China and Australia1
Spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the effects of immigration on home values and native flight in Louisville, Kentucky1
Moving ideas? The news media’s impact on ridehailing regulation in Canadian cities1
The suburbanization of poverty and minority populations in the 2000s: Two parallel or interrelated processes?1
Achieving urban regeneration without gentrification? Community enterprises and community assets in the UK1
An urban design perspective of mass housing estates: Analyzing spatial accessibility over half a century in Spain1
Do home purchase limits help? Government policy and housing prices in China1
Housing motivated youth in low-income neighborhoods: How practitioners shape conditions for encounters across diversity in ‘intentional’ social mix programs in Milan and Paris1
“Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms1
A green surge amidst conservative politics: The case of Knoxville, Tennessee1
Giving the green light to sustainability: Key political factors behind the European Green Capital Award applications1
The role of affects in subjective constructions of neighborhood boundaries: An investigation of Bairro de Contumil (Porto, Portugal)1
Civic pivot: Smoothing the politics of race and place through arts and culture in Nashville, Tennessee1
Special Issue: Unequal Schools and Communities: A Critical Examination of Neoliberal Education Reform1
We make us safe: Alternatives to policing in a Latinx immigrant inner-ring suburb1
Educational opportunity and public rental housing choice of rural migrant families in Chongqing, China1
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs1
Land reform from below: Institutional change driven by confrontation and negotiation1
Gentrification studies and cultural colonialism: Discussing connections between historic city centers of Mexico and Spain1
The metropolitan and neighborhood geographies of REIT- and private equity–owned single-family rentals1
Legacy regions, not legacy cities: Growth and decline in city-centered regional economies1
The reinforcement of pedestrian safety in the central business district: A spatial analysis of Austin, Texas1
Organizing transit institutions to facilitate cross-jurisdictional service integration: A multi-region comparative case study1
Disconnected in the Mecca? Black social media usage and levels of engagement in Atlanta1
Gendering grassrootscapes: The sociospatial relations of lower working-class women dwelling in the socialist Workers’ New Villages in post-reform Shanghai1
Resilience difference between growing and shrinking resource-exhausted cities and its influencing factors1
Evaluating the availability, accessibility, and affordability of fresh food in informal food environments in five Mexican cities1
The influence of women’s representation on social spending in local government1
Google Fiber Community Connections: Promises, pitfalls, and outcomes in Austin, Texas1
How inter-city rents are shaped by health considerations of pollution and walkability: A study of 146 mid-sized cities1
Between social isolation and opportunity-enriching environments: Assessing neighborhood effects on the socioeconomic integration of the populations of three shanty towns in Salvador, Brazil1
Moralization and classification struggles over gentrification and the hipster figure in austerity Britain1
Incremental housing and compliance with development control in urban Ghana1
Airbnb in Latin America: A literature review from an urban studies perspective1
Street naming and political identity in the postcolonial African city: A social sustainability framework1
Water access disparity in Mumbai, India: Using spatial and structural attributes as formal conditionalities1
Revitalizing Chinatown for a new generation: The community politics of the business improvement district1
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach1
Everyday improvising in public space: The forest pub as a site for suburban being1
“Urban interventionism” in welfare and planning: National typologies and “local cultures” in Europe1
Reviving Cleveland’s commercial corridors: Analyzing the Storefront Renovation Program, 1983–20161
Rethinking the effects of gentrification on the health of Black communities in the United States: Towards a racialized health framework1
Is mixed-housing development healthier for residents? The implications on the perception of neighborhood environment, sense of place, and mental health in urban Guangzhou1
Who owns France? Uncovering the structure of property ownership for a better understanding of the socio-spatial distribution of wealth1
No justice, no streets: The complex task of evaluating environmental justice on open streets in three U.S. cities1
Typology of home value change over time: Growth mixture models in Southern California neighborhoods from 1960 to 20101
The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject1
Cooperating and competing for land-based interests in the growth coalition of market-oriented urban redevelopment: The case of Longsheng village, Shenzhen1
Neighborhood disparities in access to street arts festivals: Evidence from Chicago1
Explaining the contradictory creativity of neoliberalism: Evidence from the economic development agendas of four European second-tier cities1
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