Urban Studies: Latest Papers

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Aug

2026

Non-linear relationships between outdoor thermal comfort and recreational walking among older adults in subsidized housing: Insights from Strava Gold Open Access

Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science

19

Aug

2026

Developing a just 15-minute city framework: insights from a Delphi panel Gold Open Access

Urban Research & Practice

19

Aug

2026

Planner-level variation in sustainability regulation: agency in statutory planning practice Gold Open Access

Urban Research & Practice

19

Aug

2026

Estimating carbon storage and sequestration in peri-urban forests under urban growth uncertainty: the Mexico City case

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

Synergistic Effects of Wind Direction, Walkway Position, and Tree Canopy Characteristics on Pedestrian Thermal Comfort in Urban Riverside Greenways

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

Urban greenspace for Nature, Society and Culture: case studies across Eastern Europe

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

Models based on urbanization and environmental heterogeneity jointly explain the distribution of plant species diversity and composition in urban gree

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

The effectiveness of urban green space management on butterfly diversity depends on the species functional groups Gold Open Access

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

Book Review

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

Waterlogging tolerance of Rhododendron × pulchrum ‘Oomurasaki’ as a candidate shrub for roadside stormwater management in Japan Gold Open Access

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

When blue meets green: Behavioural patterns and social lingering around naturalised ponds in Barcelona Gold Open Access

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

19

Aug

2026

Public green space, but not gated-residential green space, predicts lower cardiovascular mortality in Shanghai: an ecological cross-sectional study, 2

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

18

Aug

2026

Impacts of energy efficiency retrofit interventions on the health and wellbeing of older people who rent their homes: a literature review Gold Open Access

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

18

Aug

2026

Justice-Oriented Reflective Design: Making Justice Actionable in Spatial Planning and Design Practice Gold Open Access

Planning Theory & Practice

18

Aug

2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Planning, Democracy… and Publishing: Remembering Our Humanity

Planning Theory & Practice

18

Aug

2026

Self-organized urban planning and design: Learning from Kampung Lebak Siliwangi, Bandung, Indonesia

Urban Design International

18

Aug

2026

Modernist infrastructural governance meets twenty-first century fragilities: California, a cautionary tale? Gold Open Access

Local Environment

18

Aug

2026

Prisoners of property? Exploring the French MaPrimeRénov’ home energy retrofit initiative through an energy justice lens in Occitanie Gold Open Access

Local Environment

17

Aug

2026

The Democratic Legitimacy of Intermunicipal Cooperation: A Systematic Literature Review Gold Open Access

Urban Affairs Review

17

Aug

2026

Municipal Issue Publics Gold Open Access

Urban Affairs Review

17

Aug

2026

The Application of Internet of Behavior in Smart City Management: A State-of-the-Art Review and Future Perspectives

Journal of Urban Technology

17

Aug

2026

Housing Indivisibility, Income Risk, and Cohort Differences in Tenure Choice, Housing Leverage, and Portfolio Concentration

Journal of Housing Economics

17

Aug

2026

Instituting civics: the Spanish social mobilization for housing justice

European Planning Studies

17

Aug

2026

From pilot to paradigm: a call for entrepreneurial strategies to scale up the implementation of nature-based solutions

European Planning Studies

17

Aug

2026

EU policies and soft urban regeneration via multi-level planning and governance for circular cities

European Planning Studies

17

Aug

2026

Information Poverty Alleviation causing Implicit Information Poverty? Evidence from Rural Information Ecology in China

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

16

Aug

2026

City of All Sizes: Zootopia as a Blueprint for Inclusive Design and Accessibility

Journal of Planning Education and Research

16

Aug

2026

Beyond generation rent: Political economy, inequality, and the private rental sector , by Michael Byrne

Journal of Urban Affairs

16

Aug

2026

Enclave encounters: Transient migrants as spatial mediators in Paya Lebar, Singapore

Journal of Urban Affairs

16

Aug

2026

Pushed to the edges? Electivity patterns of urban stream homeless encampments in environmentally burdened areas Gold Open Access

Journal of Urban Affairs

16

Aug

2026

Aging playfully: Reimagining the possibilities of age-friendly community planning , by Maxwell Hartt

Journal of Urban Affairs

16

Aug

2026

Closing the ‘outdoor living room’: Investigating the impact of COVID-19 public green space closures on the housing experiences of low-income renters i Gold Open Access

Journal of Urban Affairs

16

Aug

2026

Research on the Impact of FinTech Development on Urban Innovation in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on 282 Cities

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Geospatial Assessment of Physical Heat Vulnerability in Semiarid Urban Areas: Insights from Guelma, Algeria

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Unproductive Landscapes: Determinants of Investment-Driven Land Idleness and Socioeconomic Implications in Peri-Urban Areas of Debre Markos, Ethiopia

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Spatial Spillover Effect of High-Speed Rail Opening on Urban Sprawl in China: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Urbanization, Land Use Change, and Land Surface Temperature: A Remote Sensing-Based Assessment for Sustainable City Planning and Development

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Improving Bus Service Levels: A Coupling Coordination Model Based on Travel Hotspot Detection

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Growth Synergy versus Environmental Trade-Offs: Exploring Coordination Mechanisms among Polycentricity, Urban Development, and Carbon Emission Efficie

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Modeling Land-Use Dynamics and Urban Growth Prediction Using an ANN-Based Cellular Automata–Markov Chain in Class-I Urban Agglomeration

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Exploring the Coordinated Linkage of Climatic Environment Comfort, Urban Sprawl, and Quality of Innovation: Cases from 283 Cities in China

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

How Smart Cities Reshape the Mobility of Technical Talent: New Evidence Based on the Push–Pull Mechanism

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

Urban Network Analysis of the Transformation Strategy of Gangue Hill: A Case Study of the Yangquan Mining Area in China

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

16

Aug

2026

NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY : Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality Gold Open Access

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

16

Aug

2026

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries Gold Open Access

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

16

Aug

2026

The investment attitudes of lay residential investors in a post-socialist context: rational attitudes or simplified heuristics?

Housing Studies

16

Aug

2026

Negotiating relationships and space in the share household, a gendered perspective Gold Open Access

Housing Studies

16

Aug

2026

Institutionalizing informal conversions: how industrial buildings became rental apartments in post-industrial Shanghai Gold Open Access

Housing Studies

16

Aug

2026

Is the accessible truly walkable? Does proximity to services translate into walking?

Cities

16

Aug

2026

The role of living labs for cities sustainable transition: evidence from the Turin living lab Gold Open Access

Cities

16

Aug

2026

Toward precision urban resilience: Integrating multimodal large language models with spatial analytics for fire risk governance

Cities

16

Aug

2026

Spatial exclusion on public land: Fragmented governance and Vancouver's golf courses Gold Open Access

Cities

16

Aug

2026

Editorial Board

Cities

16

Aug

2026

Decomposition of anthropogenic and climate forces of carbon sequestration in the urban agglomeration Gold Open Access

Cities

16

Aug

2026

Inequality in bridging the digital divide among older adults across 115 Chinese cities during the public health emergencies

Cities

16

Aug

2026

Geographies in flux - how time and location influence shrinking medium-sized cities Gold Open Access

Cities

16

Aug

2026

From perceived value to practice: Optimizing old residential community renovation indicators and implementation in Guangzhou

Habitat International

16

Aug

2026

Moving off the homestead: Certification and citizenization in rural China

Habitat International

16

Aug

2026

Mapping urban underutilization in data-scarce global South Cities: A multidimensional open-data framework for spatial planning

Habitat International

16

Aug

2026

Informal Re-Encroachment: the futility of demolition?

Habitat International

16

Aug

2026

Editorial Board

Habitat International

16

Aug

2026

Why small blocks make a better 15-minute living circle: Evidence from Turin and Tangshan

Habitat International

16

Aug

2026

Human-Centered Planning Through Design Thinking: Patterns, Possibilities, and Perceptions Gold Open Access

Journal of the American Planning Association

16

Aug

2026

Advancing Climate and Equity Goals in Regional Transportation Planning: Learning from California Gold Open Access

Journal of the American Planning Association

16

Aug

2026

Drivers of public and administrative perceptions on the transition toward biodiversity-friendly and sustainable urban green space management Gold Open Access

Landscape and Urban Planning

16

Aug

2026

Biodiversity of domestic gardens: Design, management, and perception in a case study in Salzburg, Austria

Landscape and Urban Planning

16

Aug

2026

Editorial Board

Landscape and Urban Planning

16

Aug

2026

Walkability vs. Walking: Testing the role of proximity in urban environments

Landscape and Urban Planning

16

Aug

2026

JustGreen: Health impact assessment of urban vegetation across the 200 most populated US cities

Landscape and Urban Planning

16

Aug

2026

Quantifying heat exposure risk in 15-minute cities: a coupled analysis integrating dynamic shading effects and human mobility patterns

Landscape and Urban Planning

16

Aug

2026

Corrigendum to “Leases over real property” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ. 111 (2025) 104087]

Regional Science and Urban Economics

15

Aug

2026

State entrepreneurialism under economic transition: Bounded rationality in China’s high-speed rail new town governance

Urban Studies

15

Aug

2026

Does urban agriculture make us healthier and happier? Examining self-reported wellbeing outcomes of home gardening in India

Urban Studies

15

Aug

2026

Corrigendum To: Off-Grid Electricity Imaginaries: Tracing Urban Citizenship In Cape Town’s Informal Settlements (Doi: Https://Doi.Org/10.1177/00420980

Urban Studies

15

Aug

2026

Politicians’ municipal bond purchases and local government misallocation: Implications for urban fiscal governance

Urban Studies

14

Aug

2026

Multi-class classification of parcel-level morphological urban change using a Siamese network: Evidence from Portland, Oregon Gold Open Access

Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science

14

Aug

2026

Pushing housing hyper-commodification: how new rental market intermediaries capture flows of labour and capital under platform capitalism Gold Open Access

International Journal of Housing Policy

14

Aug

2026

Beyond Generation Rent: political economy, inequality, and the private rental sector

International Journal of Housing Policy

14

Aug

2026

Through the Roof: housing, capitalism, and the state in America and Germany

International Journal of Housing Policy

14

Aug

2026

Understanding homelessness in Ireland since independence: decades in the making

International Journal of Housing Policy

13

Aug

2026

Frontier technologies for spatio-temporal modeling of urban vegetation carbon storage

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

13

Aug

2026

How greenspaces fit into daily routines: Evidence from mobile signaling data in Shenzhen, China Gold Open Access

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

13

Aug

2026

The hidden power of trees: Do local trees combat excessive body weight in Southern Europe?

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

13

Aug

2026

What’s it worth? Willingness-To-Pay for Urban Green Spaces for Urban Year-Round Green Exercise

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

13

Aug

2026

Green Infrastructure and Housing Prices: Heterogeneous Effects and Sensitivity to Modeling Choices Gold Open Access

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

12

Aug

2026

Indigenous Planning: Cracking Coloniality Through Everyday Practices

Planning Theory & Practice

12

Aug

2026

Appraisal and gender Gold Open Access

Real Estate Economics

12

Aug

2026

Voters Support and Are Willing to Pay for Local Climate Adaptation Policies Gold Open Access

Urban Affairs Review

12

Aug

2026

Reporting Revitalization: Local Newspaper Portrayals of Economic Change in a Small Rustbelt City

Urban Affairs Review

12

Aug

2026

Governing Little Fiefdoms: City Power, Fractured Politics, and Police Reform Gold Open Access

Urban Affairs Review

12

Aug

2026

Snow as Urban Infrastructure: Engineering, Extending, and Eliminating Winter Gold Open Access

Journal of Urban Technology

12

Aug

2026

House hunting high and low: Constructing a Housing Search Index for Portugal

Journal of Housing Economics

12

Aug

2026

Government’s Real Estate Pricing Rationale: Analysis of Price Control Policy in Residential Land Granting in Urban China

Journal of Housing Economics

11

Aug

2026

The politics of gastro-driven gentrification and peri-urban transformation: Investigating the case of Urla, İzmir

European Urban and Regional Studies

11

Aug

2026

Cultural (mis)alignment and its influence on green regional industrial path development Gold Open Access

European Planning Studies

11

Aug

2026

The role of planning in street evolution in Mersin, Türkiye

European Planning Studies

11

Aug

2026

A GIS–AHP-based assessment of visual landscape in multi-component rural areas

European Planning Studies

11

Aug

2026

How High is the Bar? Pension Fund Benchmark Choices in Real Assets Gold Open Access

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

11

Aug

2026

Housing Affordability and Homelessness: Evidence from Commuting Zones

Economic Development Quarterly

11

Aug

2026

Stage Courts and Street Sovereignty: Accident Blame, Debt Discipline, and Platform Friction in Uganda’s Boda Boda Economy

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

11

Aug

2026

Review: What Cities Say: A Social Interpretation of Urban Patterns and Forms , by Talen, Emily TalenEmily. 202

Journal of Planning Education and Research

11

Aug

2026

Where Does the City Grow? Residual Floor Area and the Determinants of Residential (Re)development in São Paulo Gold Open Access

Journal of Planning Education and Research

11

Aug

2026

The Effect of Disaster Assistance on Household and Business Mitigation: Relocation and Rebuilding Decisions After Hurricanes Ike and Harvey

Journal of Planning Education and Research

11

Aug

2026

Review: Decolonizing Planning , by Bjørn Sletto, Tanja Winkler, and Efadul Huq, eds SlettoBjørnWinklerTanjaHuq

Journal of Planning Education and Research

11

Aug

2026

Does unauthorized immigration drive community crime rates? Evidence from 11,500 U.S. neighborhoods Gold Open Access

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

Building ghosts: Past lives and lost places in a changing city , text by Molly Lester; photographs by Michael Bixler

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

She’s a great lady and she works hard but I can’t waive her rent: Residential rental property owner decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

Printing Nueva York: Spanish-language print culture, media change, and democracy in the late nineteenth century , by Kelley Kreitz

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

Unruly comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone , by Alvin Wong

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the marginalized on Ward’s Island , by Philip T. Yanos

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

Mid-term rentals and the Airbnbification of housing Gold Open Access

Journal of Urban Affairs

11

Aug

2026

Research on Management Efficiency and Public Participation in Smart City Construction Based on BIM–CIM Technology

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Exploring the Nonlinear Nexus between People Climate and Creative-Class Agglomerations Using Interpretable Ensemble Learning: Evidence from Milan, Ita

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Evidence from Chinese Cities on the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Resilience of Intercity Population Flow Networks

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Erratum for “Urban Land Marketization in China: The Spatiotemporal Evolution Characteristics and Convergence Trends”

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Shaping the Sustainable City Schema: Study of Media Presentation in Guangzhou, China, Based on Schema Theory and LDA Topic Modeling

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

SLEUTH-3r Modeling of Urban Expansion in a Challenging Case: Insights from Ottawa’s Dispersed Growth Landscape

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Assessing Urban Environmental Governance in Traditional Commercial Streets Using ChatGPT-4o and Streetscape Imagery

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Urban Ecological Resilience Policy Evaluation Using a Multiple Streams Perspective: Evidence from China’s Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Resilient Cities and Inclusion: Urban Design as a Response to the Ukrainian Crisis in Poland

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

Calculation Method of Cascade Idle Water Consumption Exemption Based on the Electricity Discount Threshold Coefficient

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

11

Aug

2026

DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP : Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small C Gold Open Access

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

10

Aug

2026

The path and multi-level dependencies of three second-tier European cities – challenges to local social inclusion efforts Gold Open Access

Urban Geography

10

Aug

2026

“But we don't know, it could come back” temporalities and times of the Unbuilt Lamu Coal Power Plant Gold Open Access

Urban Geography

10

Aug

2026

Socially smart Bhubaneswar: making space for urban informality within postcolonial smart urbanisms Gold Open Access

Urban Geography

10

Aug

2026

Housing precarity pathways, responses and meanings among Bangladeshi migrants in Dublin

Housing Studies

10

Aug

2026

Cooking in the urban kitchen: a photo-elicitation study exploring apartment living’s impacts on Belgian food practices Gold Open Access

Housing Studies

10

Aug

2026

What does home mean for young people in foster care? Gold Open Access

Housing Studies

10

Aug

2026

Nonlinear and spatial spillover effects of manufacturing agglomeration on urban ecological resilience

Cities

10

Aug

2026

The invisible hand of God: faith-based organizations and the governance of food poverty in Rome Gold Open Access

Cities

10

Aug

2026

Sensing the city: Experiences of loneliness among students in Amsterdam Gold Open Access

Cities

10

Aug

2026

What rights and whose rights count? Housing activism in urban redevelopment in Shenzhen Gold Open Access

Cities

10

Aug

2026

Between city and countryside: The (un)sustainable development of peri-urban areas (PUA) of large cities in Poland – The case of Warsaw Gold Open Access

Cities

10

Aug

2026

Process justice in transit-oriented development in Hong Kong: The case of Kai Tak station development Gold Open Access

Cities

10

Aug

2026

Taking refuge: Prioritising park climate adaptation strategies based on urban design and planning professionals' insights Gold Open Access

Cities

10

Aug

2026

Property rights misalignment in peri-urban Ghana: A land use rights transfer framework with lessons from China and Hong Kong

Habitat International

10

Aug

2026

Quantification of three-dimensional green visual accessibility using multi-source geospatial datasets: A case study of Beijing, China

Habitat International

10

Aug

2026

Assessing Equity in Urban Heat Adaptation: A Review of Networks of Plans in U.S. Municipalities Gold Open Access

Journal of the American Planning Association

10

Aug

2026

Online consumption and sustained air pollution exposure: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China

Regional Science and Urban Economics

10

Aug

2026

Editorial Board

Journal of Urban Economics

10

Aug

2026

Stigma as attraction: Local actors and the tourism-led commodification of territorial stigma

Urban Studies

10

Aug

2026

Book Review: Classroom Justice in Second/Foreign Language (L2) Education: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice

Urban Education

10

Aug

2026

Locs, Loopholes, and Liberation: Black Hair, Identity, and the Natural Hair Movement as Resistance

Urban Education

10

Aug

2026

Who Is Doing Equity Work? A QuantCrit Exploration of BIPOC and White Teacher Leader Equity Behaviors

Urban Education

10

Aug

2026

A Book Review of The Power of Social and Emotional Learning for Student Success StewartD. (2025). The Power of Social and Emotional Learning for Stude

Urban Education

10

Aug

2026

Reluctant Leavers: Gentrifier Parents, Ethical Dilemmas, and the Limits of Collectivist Commitment in Urban Public Schools

Urban Education

10

Aug

2026

Learning Along the Way: Novice Teachers’ Reflections on Developing Critical Race Praxis in Urban Schools

Urban Education