Urban Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Urban Studies is 27. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China116
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms79
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics74
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany74
Slowing down: Degrowth and the limits to urban mobility65
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison58
Rethinking employee housing: An evaluation of an old tool for tackling recent challenges in urban development51
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214049
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?48
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes47
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries44
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents40
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities38
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada38
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham36
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign35
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?34
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London34
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes34
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice32
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice31
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China30
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance29
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China28
Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach28
Book review: Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy SchwedesOliver, Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023; 234 pp.; ISBN: 927
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok27
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