Urban Research & Practice

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Research & Practice 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU: Reflections on the JESSICA Initiative14
Being a planner in society, for people, planet, place13
How to satisfy dissatisfied citizens with urban public services? The case from Nanjing, China13
Contemporary co-housing in Europe: towards sustainable cities?12
Heat waves and urban vulnerability: climate shelters, public services and innovative solutions. Lessons from Barcelona12
The end of the village: planning the urbanisation of rural China10
Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia – exploring (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobility9
Activating building land as joint task in the Stuttgart region action programmes for residential and commercial land as elements of sustainable regional development8
Editorial (reflecting on the past and focusing on the future)7
Cities and regional disparities in the European Union: evolving geographies and challenges for Cohesion Policy7
Reflecting on the practice of citizen science projects for cities – the case of ‘Colouring Dresden’ in Germany7
Conceptualising smart cities7
Conceptualising nature-based solutions: addressing environmental challenges in the city of Amman, Jordan7
‘Let’s do it together’: fostering social innovation through a university-community collaboration. The ‘Grandangolo’ project in the Aurora neighbourhood in Turin7
Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach6
Handbook on cities and complexity6
From climate policy pioneers to climate policy leaders? The examples of the eastern German cities of Potsdam and Rostock6
Women Leadership at the Apex. The Distinctiveness of Urban Women Mayors in Europe5
Framing Europe on the local level – policy networks in German cities and their activities for political cohesion in Europe5
How can green events accelerate urban sustainability transitions? Insights from eight German regional garden shows5
Community self-governance in São Paulo’s informal settlements through the PAA framework4
Localising centralised climate policies in Ghana: insights from 3 local governments4
Urban impacts of Spain 1982 and Italy 1990 FIFA World Cup: a comparative analysis with more recent sports mega-events4
The role of civil society in urban governance: bottom-linked initiatives in Athens4
Routledge handbook of street culture4
Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna?4
Who and how decides when and where? Drifts and deadlocks in metropolitan governance4
Some thoughts on Ralf-Martin Soe, Luiza Schuch de Azambuja, Kalle Toiskallio, Marko Nieminen & Michael Batty (2021): Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitionsto3
Social value and the disposal of public land for community-led housing: applying a multi-level perspective to the case of Bristol3
Acceptance of users and non-users of an autonomous shuttle service3
Cities and communities beyond COVID-19. How local leadership can change our future for the better3
Café culture and retail gentrification: a nonlinear canonical correlation analysis of intraclass diversity and bivalent class narratives in Cluj, Romania3
The smart city and urban governance: the urban transformation of Barcelona, 2011–20233
Some ideas for a post-war recovery of Ukrainian cities3
A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe3
Evaluating the ‘Dipiao’ policy from the perspectives of relocated peasants: an equitable and sustainable approach to urbanisation?3
The routledge handbook of urban design research methods2
Planning the metropolitan region in the era of governance: three Latin American cases2
Shared challenges, divergent practices. The impact of institutional frameworks on area-based initiatives in Barcelona and Paris2
Pockets of survival and alleys of livelihood: tracking local practices to sustain urban vitality in cities during and post-conflict in the city of Homs/Syria2
Introduction to the special issue2
The production of Asian public space: the role of the transnational developer2
Urban planning and policy in Portugal: an overview on the role of EU funds and guidelines2
The Politics of the EU Urban Agenda: Mobilising the ‘Right to the City’ for European Governance?2
Cities Learning from a Pandemic. Towards Preparedness2
Configurations for circularity? A scoping review of urban planning approaches in the circular economy literature2
Assessing job-access inequity for transit-based workers across space and race with the Palma ratio2
Assessing urban forest governance through a capacity-based approach: insights from a case study in Milan, Italy2
The influence of EU policy on local policy-making, governance and urban change. Evidence from Porto, Portugal2
Residential intensification through a new statutory plan in Auckland: outcome evaluation and stakeholders’ experience2
Evaluating ‘pocket’ public spaces in Al Wehdat refugee camp, Jordan: challenges and opportunities2
Analysis of structure and spatial deprivation in Akure, Nigeria2
From the representative to the radical: how novel forms of participation can reform democracy and reduce existential risk2
Superblocks between theory and practice: insights from an international e-Delphi process and urban living labs in Vienna and Berlin2
The emerging role of cooperatives in the management of public housing in Italy. Opportunities and limitations of the ”Valorization-alternative-to-sale” policy in Lombardy1
Editorial1
Industrial lands, equity, and economic diversity: a comparative study of planned employment areas in Melbourne, Australia1
Resisting redevelopment: protest in aspiring global cities1
Towards new geographies of cohesion in a context of growing inequalities: insights from two social innovation projects in Milan metropolitan area1
Cities against authoritarianism? Polish and Hungarian capitals facing centralistic pressure1
Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes1
‘Smart’ in another way: the potential of the Fab City approach to reconfigure urban dynamics1
Planned urban development learning from town expansion schemes in the UK and Europe1
Johannesburg’s transit revolution: a critical report on transit-oriented development strategy1
How do urban policies shape atmosphere? A multimethod inquiry of the sonic environment1
Response to Ryanne Flock’s review of Routledge Handbook of Street Culture published in Urban Research & Practice1
Operationalizing spatial justice in urban planning: bridging theory with practice1
Noise regulations and practices: a survey of Quebec municipalities1
Climate Change and Urban Environment Sustainability1
Paranoid regulatory innovations? Setting the stage for an unexpected war in Russian cities, 2021-20221
Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns1
The role of municipalities in promoting housing affordability: an analysis of three Finnish cities1
Sustainable Urbanism in China1
Integrating knowledge forms in public transport planning and policies: the case of the Lisbon metropolitan area1
Compensation as a planning compass: decision making in light of future claims and lawsuits1
Material communities: urban reuse centres and community-oriented circularity in the building sector1
Housing refugees from Ukraine: preliminary insights and learnings from the local response in five European cities0
Size matters: action space for sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities0
Urban policy in the framework of the 2030 agenda: balance and perspectives from Latin America and Europe0
Advanced introduction to urban segregation0
Correction0
Earthquake disaster-induced urban policies: paradoxes and challenges in Turkey0
Chongqing People’s Square after 1997: situated publicness of municipal squares in reform-era China0
Political graffiti in the political symbolic space of Prague, Czechia0
European cities in Europe’s recovery plan: an historical opportunity for urban transformation?0
Cities in the Anthropocene. New Ecology and Urban Politics0
Beyond Desakota: the urbanization process and spatial restructuring in contemporary Vietnam0
Pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation through smart specialization strategies: the case of the lagging Centro region of Portugal0
Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn0
Survival strategies in inner-city neighborhoods: the case of Colombian and Peruvian migrants in Brussels, Belgium0
Urban villages in China and India: parallels and differences in the village extension process0
The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions0
Serving the national on the global plane: disentangling Chinese cities’ practice of international law0
Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments0
Behind the budget: analysing the factors driving sustainable urban development financing in Spain0
Exploring the agency of policy through ecological urbanism for climate action: water and sanitation systems of Bengaluru0
Patchy neighbourhood changes from street micro level: an insight from residents and businesses0
The motivations and practices of commercial short-term rental operators in the short-term/long-term “regulatory gap”0
Demystifying smart cities: practical perspective on how cities can leverage the potential of new technologies0
European urban networks as aspirational horizon of Europeanization in the Balkans0
Understanding experimental governance of urban regeneration from the perspective of social learning – the case of Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen0
From claims to practice? Sustainability in Swedish collaborative housing alternatives0
Navigating in unknown waters: planners’ involvement in negotiated developer obligations in Turkey0
Putting inclusion into practice: how urban professionals give shape to participatory governance approaches in marginalized neighborhoods0
On place, privacy, and ethics0
Informality as a safety net: civic agency and the crisis of local governments in Hungary0
Airbnb and urban population change: an empirical analysis of the case of Stockholm, Sweden0
Geographic information systems in urban planning and management0
The impacts of neighbourhood governance on residents’ sense of community: a case study of Wuhan, China0
Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy0
Post-suburban arrival spaces and the frame of ‘welfare offloading’: notes from an Italian suburban neighborhood0
Mayors’ attention to metropolitan policy: exploring communication and engagement patterns in Rockford, Illinois0
Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary’s ‘big’ cities0
Urban operating systems: producing the computational city0
Factors and levels of community participation using the example of small-scale regeneration interventions in selected neighbourhood spaces in Polish cities0
Is moving the solution? Evidence from a social housing demolition program in Santiago, Chile0
Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local0
Necessity as the trigger of invention? The promotion of innovations in Athens and Elefsina0
Co-producing maintenance and repair: hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana0
A research Agenda for heritage planning. Perspectives from Europe A research Agenda for heritage planning. Perspectives from Europe , edited by Eva Stegmeijer and Loes V0
Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans0
Capturing spatial inequalities: an analysis of walkable access to open spaces in Lima0
Tourism in common: policy flows and participatory management in the Tourism Council of Barcelona0
Affordable housing alternatives in George Town World Heritage Site: what we have and what is possible0
Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City0
Housing allowance and the perverse theory of housing outcomes0
Intra-urban industrial restructuring in the city of Copenhagen: workplaces and employment changes in metro- and non-metro-served areas, 2002-20120
The smart city that would not be labelled ‘smart’: a tale about innovation in urban development through citizen-centric and sustainable ideals0
Identifying models of National Urban Agendas. a view to the global transition Identifying models of National Urban Agendas. a view to the global transition , edited by F0
Prefigurative urbanization: housing cooperatives, social movements, and the urban transformation question in Harare (Zimbabwe)0
Associations between sense of place and the geometric shape complexity of corresponding self-reported spatial footprints from Lisbon, Portugal0
Mashhad urban management practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study to identify challenges, current and future measures0
Developer-driven co-housing in Denmark: strengths and weaknesses compared to resident-driven co-housing0
Changing use of public spaces in Cairo during COVID-190
Beyond the informal understanding Self-organized Kampungs in Indonesia0
Public spaces in land use rating based on participatory mapping0
Leadership, urban structure and place: evidence from Bristol and Dorset0
The urban now: living in an age of urban globalism0
Typologies of informal adaptations of communal spaces:a comparative study between different socio-economic spatial settings in Amman0
Urban spectacularisation and social housing : an asymmetrical relation ? The habitations Jeanne-Mance in Montreal’s quartier des spectacles0
Rethinking sustainability towards a regenerative economy0
We’re in this together: Capacities and relationships to enable community resilience0
Neighbourhood rebuilding and affordable housing in Canadian cities0
Heritage and entrepreneurial urbanism: unequal economies, social exclusion, and conservative cultures0
Transforming public housing in Australia: embracing sustainable refurbishment over demolition0
An analysis of urban policies and strategies on health and nutrition in Nigeria0
Rhythmic processes of temporary use: understanding spatially detached stabilization through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis0
E-participation and engagement in urban planning: experiences from the Baltic cities0
How divided government challenges strong mayors: the case of Poland0
Is the effect of Airbnb on the housing market different in medium-sized cities? Evidence from a Southern European city0
The effects of the local and regional conditions and inequalities on urban shrinkage: a multilevel analysis focusing on local population decline0
Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: between plans and reality in public-private partnerships0
Do voluntary civic engagement and non-profit leadership challenge local political leadership in urban development?0
From the Garden City of West Africa to a landscape of urban crises0
Retooling local economies: Practitioners’ experiences with and perspectives on plant closures in Ontario0
Being Interdisciplinary. Adventures in urban science and beyond0
Recognizing, supporting and embracing the urban informal economy in Ghana: A local economic development perspective0
Authenticity and integrity as qualifiers in managing living historic cities0
Correction0
Smart adaptation to urban shrinkage in North Gyeongsang province, South Korea: opportunities and obstacles for implementation0
EU awareness: unlocking the European potential of cities and regions0
Gatekeepers of local environmental progress? Self-referencing practices of urban bureaucracy0
Transect urbanism: readings in human ecology0
School and neighborhood selection as mechanism of socio-urban exclusion in Santiago of Chile: an action approach0
Lessons from U.S. rust belt cities for equitable low-growth futures0
Public housing and the PINQuA in Italy0
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