Urban Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’95
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War87
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?75
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms66
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?63
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters57
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham53
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics42
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign41
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany39
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada38
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes38
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London37
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China36
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214035
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes34
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries34
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective32
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice32
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’31
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities29
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal29
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda29
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies28
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits28
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship28
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
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations26
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany26
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg25
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development25
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania25
The green gentrification cycle24
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world24
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice24
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy24
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice23
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa23
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance22
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok22
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism22
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives22
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Making ways for “better education”: Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry’21
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY21
Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’20
Street markets, urban development and immigrant entrepreneurship: Unpacking precarity in Moore Street, Dublin20
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile18
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility18
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis17
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto17
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities17
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany17
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth: The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina17
De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time: Seeing housing development from Palestine/Israel17
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency16
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia16
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time16
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca16
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment16
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation16
Eviction from manufactured home parks15
Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit15
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure15
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising15
The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches15
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents15
Changes in the economic status of neighbourhoods in US metropolitan areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, growth and polarisation15
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile15
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda15
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology14
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis14
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris14
Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India14
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity14
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance14
Skies over Frölunda: ‘Mixed city’ densification and the lived space of a stigmatised Modernist suburb in Sweden14
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?14
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias14
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam14
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective14
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes14
Comparative urbanism for hope and healing: Urbicide and the dilemmas of reconstruction in post-war Syria and Poland14
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile13
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city13
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change13
Homeownership and subjective well-being: Are the links heterogeneous across location, age and income?13
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development13
Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?13
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison13
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?13
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab12
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation12
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment12
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco12
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion12
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins12
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia12
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs12
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb12
Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation12
Corrigendum to “New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)”12
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability11
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control11
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance11
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India11
The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–201511
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification11
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis11
The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective11
Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?11
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings11
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore11
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa11
The geography of urban innovation beyond patents only: New evidence on large and secondary cities in the United States11
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation10
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific10
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure10
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning10
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America10
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification10
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace10
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence10
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island10
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland10
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector10
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban10
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability10
State preemption and affordable housing policy9
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space9
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District9
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market9
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK9
ERRATUM to “‘Pray for transit’: Seeking transportation justice in metropolitan Atlanta”9
Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley9
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world9
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities9
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home9
Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets9
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises9
Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China9
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance9
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island9
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario9
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness9
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy9
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism9
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation9
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments9
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system9
Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders8
Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus8
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space8
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam8
Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland8
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures8
The politics of hyperregulation in La Paz, Bolivia: Speculative peri-urban development in a context of unresolved municipal boundary conflicts8
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan8
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi8
Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods8
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions8
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–20118
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia8
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?8
Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge8
The impact of ethnic segregation on neighbourhood-level social distancing in the United States amid the early outbreak of COVID-197
‘Timepass’ and ‘setting’: The meanings, relationships and politics of urban informal work in Delhi7
Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality7
Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements7
Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation7
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention7
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice7
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions7
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas7
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy7
‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city7
Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China7
Book Review: Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy7
Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon7
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies7
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change7
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice7
The politics of urban densification in Oslo7
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru7
Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents7
Local familiar strangers in digitalising urban neighbourhoods in Seoul7
Book review: Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability7
Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion: A systematic review of empirical findings7
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities7
Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation?7
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning7
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation7
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty7
Fences, seeds and bees: The more-than-human politics of community gardening in Rotterdam6
Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state–society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China6
Book review: Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons6
Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales6
The new dwellers of southern cities: Social diversification and uncertainty in Santiago inner city6
Book review: Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution SimpsonTim, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneso6
The reproduction of informal settlements in Santiago: Housing policy, cycles of repopulation and the ‘politics of poverty’ as a regime of government6
Book review: Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia6
Theorising democratic space with and beyond Henri Lefebvre6
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project6
Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid6
Book review: Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance6
Book review: Tremor6
Re-contextualising purpose-built student accommodation in secondary cities: The role of planning policy, consultation and economic need during austerity6
Forthcoming special issues in Urban Studies6
A ‘gentrification regime’ change: The fiscal roots of buy-to-let gentrification in Dudelange, Luxembourg6
The micro-geography of knowledge exchanges in Montreal: Questioning the importance of the neighbourhood scale in an age of virtual communications6
Statecraft on cement: The politics of land-based accumulation in Erdoğan’s Turkey6
Book review: Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism6
Belling the cat: Designing collective action institutions for natural resource management in the peri-urban interface6
Dialectical approach to unpacking knowledge-making for digital urban democracy: A critical case of Helsinki-based e-participatory budgeting6
Redesigning the relationship between heritage and city: Insights from the Gandhi Heritage Portal, Ahmedabad6
The increasing emission divide between cities of the Global North and Global South: Towards adjustable mitigation scenarios at the city level6
To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies6
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification6
Residential vertical urbanisation: The intertwining of law and financialisation6
Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal6
Transfer or retain land development right: The role of China’s IDB programme in supporting inclusive urbanisation6
The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo: The ambivalent role of cross-sector coordination for urban sustainability6
Places to be young: The dispossession of public space in Old Havana6
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism6
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction6
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism5
Common property in the city: Curbing urban vacancy in São Paulo5
Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces5
Social representation, self-identity and anticipated guilt in universal access: A constructivist approach to (non-)visible disabilities5
Urban Studies Best Article 20245
Making cities through migration industries: Introduction to the special issue5
Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa5
The post-socialist cities from Central and Eastern Europe: Between spatial growth and demographic decline5
Urban metabolism redux5
Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy5
Making Mangaung Metro: The politics of metropolitan reform in a South African secondary city5
School and residential segregation in the reproduction of urban segregation: A case study in Buenos Aires5
Excess aspirations: Migration and urban futures in post-earthquake Christchurch5
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–20205
(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia5
Local land use regulations and new mobile home concentration5
Book review: Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions5
Urban planning and the knowledge politics of the smart city4
Depoliticised environmental policies: Low-carbon action in the Paris urban region4
Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat4
‘Fall girl’: Vertical evacuation and the aesthetics of emergency4
Unequal access to childcare in cities: Is equal public funding sufficient?4
On measuring Muslim segregation in urban India4
Book review: The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages DoveyKimRecioRedento B., The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 204
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