Urban Studies

Article	Citations
Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world	189
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?	122
Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona	106
Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks	62
Urban resilience	49
Who owns the future city? Phases of technological urbanism and shifts in sovereignty	49
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces	46
Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research	45
Life between buildings from a street view image: What do big data analytics reveal about neighbourhood organisational vitality?	41
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations	40
Everyday urbanisms and the importance of place: Exploring the elements of the emancipatory smart city	40
Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai	38
Critical Commentary: Repopulating density: COVID-19 and the politics of urban value	37
New municipalism in action or urban neoliberalisation reloaded? An analysis of governance change, stability and path dependence in Madrid (2015–2019)	36
‘Post-pandemic’ transnational gentrifications: A critical outlook	35
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Data-driven governance, smart urbanism and risk-class inequalities: Security and social credit in China	33
Travel guides, urban spatial imaginaries and LGBTQ+ activism: The case of Damron guides	33
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings	32
Hidden homes? Uncovering Sydney’s informal housing market	32
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility	32
Do the characteristics of new green space contribute to gentrification?	32
Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid	31
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change	31
Developing urban growth and urban quality: Entrepreneurial governance and urban redevelopment projects in Copenhagen and Hamburg	30

Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban: The case of permitted development in England	30
Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context	30
Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century	30
Government debt, land financing and distributive justice in China	29
Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception	28
Urban scaling in rapidly urbanising China	28
Spatial and social disparities in the decline of activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London	27
Smart cities: Between worlding and provincialising	27
Proximity and the evolving knowledge polycentricity of megalopolitan science: Evidence from China’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 1990–2016	27
Provincialising smart urbanism in Taipei: The smart city as a strategy for urban regime transition	26
Racial composition and trajectories of gentrification in the United States	26
The cities we need: Towards an urbanism guided by human needs satisfaction	25
Upward or downward comparison? Migrants’ socioeconomic status and subjective wellbeing in Chinese cities	25
Urban sustainability and counter-sustainability: Spatial contradictions and conflicts in policy and governance in the Freiburg and Calgary metropolitan regions	25
Does better job accessibility help people gain employment? The role of public transport in Great Britain	24
Critical Commentary: The city and the virus	24
A posteriori comparisons, repeated instances and urban policy mobilities: What ‘best practices’ leave behind	24
Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism: A case study of Taihu New Town, China	24
Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex	24
The refugees’ right to the centre of the city: City branding versus city commoning in Athens	24
Unpacking the new urban food agenda: The changing dynamics of global governance in the urban age	23
Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile	23
Not too close, not too far: Urbanisation and life satisfaction along the urban hierarchy	23
Polycentric regions: Proposals for a new typology and terminology	22
Neighbourhood cohesion as a form of privilege	22
Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK	22
When local access matters: A detailed analysis of place, neighbourhood amenities and travel choice	22
The rise (and rise) of vertical studentification: Exploring the drivers of studentification in Australia	22
Airbnb and its potential impact on the London housing market	21
Locating the public interest in mega infrastructure planning: The case of Sydney’s WestConnex	21
New spatialities of work in the city	21
Policing gentrification or policing displacement? Testing the relationship between order maintenance policing and neighbourhood change in Los Angeles	20
Neighbourhood perceptions and residential mobility	20
Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta	20
The effect of upzoning on house prices and redevelopment premiums in Auckland, New Zealand	20
A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling	19
Latin American smart cities: Between worlding infatuation and crawling provincialising	19
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China: The case of Shenzhen	19
The changing social structure of global cities: Professionalisation, proletarianisation or polarisation	19
Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness	18
Non-standard work in unconventional workspaces: Self-employed women in home-based businesses and coworking spaces	18
Contemporary echoes of segregationist policy: Spatial marking and the persistence of inequality	18
Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’	18
The impact of immediate urban environments on people’s momentary happiness	18
Land financialisation, planning informalisation and gentrification as statecraft in Antwerp	18
How smart cities are made: A priori, ad hoc and post hoc drivers of smart city implementation in Sydney, Australia	18
Welfare migration or migrant selection? Social insurance participation and rural migrants’ intentions to seek permanent urban settlement in China	17
Neighbourhood and school effects on educational inequalities in the transition from primary to secondary education in Amsterdam	17
On the conditions of ‘late urbanisation’	17
Do rising rents lead to longer commutes? A gravity model of commuting flows in Ireland	17

Worlding and provincialising smart cities: From individual case studies to a global comparative research agenda	17
‘Peasants are peasants’: Prejudice against displaced villagers in newly-built urban neighbourhoods in China	17
Real and fake data in Shanghai’s informal rental housing market: Groundtruthing data scraped from the internet	17
Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms	17
Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system	17
The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities	16
Socioeconomic variations and disparity in space–time accessibility in suburban China: A case study of Guangzhou	16
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance	16
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana	16
The constitution of the city and the critique of critical urban theory	16
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation	16
Hybrid coordination of city organisations: The rule of people and culture in the shadow of structures	16
Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons	16
Incremental residential densification and urban spatial justice: The case of England between 2001 and 2011	15
Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings: Comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales	15
Negotiating racialised (un)belonging: Black LGBTQ resistance in Toronto’s gay village	15
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability	15
Selective migration and urban–rural differences in subjective well-being: Evidence from the United Kingdom	15
Urban volumetrics: From vertical to volumetric urbanisation and its extensions to empirical morphological analysis	15
Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem	15
From housing crisis to housing justice: Towards a radical right to a home	15
Incubators, accelerators and urban economic development	15
Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene	15
Urban paradox and the rise of the neoliberal city: Case study of Lagos, Nigeria	15
Zoning and affordability: A reply to Rodríguez-Pose and Storper	15
Beyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London	14
Does the monocentric model work in a polycentric urban system? An examination of German metropolitan regions	14
The role of mobile policies in coalition building: The Barcelona model as coalition magnet in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro (1989–1996)	14
Regional housing price dependency in the UK: A dynamic network approach	14
On urban studies in Brazil: The favela, uneven urbanisation and beyond	14
Housing affordability sets us apart: The effect of rising housing prices on relocation behaviour	14
Reclaiming Hong Kong through neighbourhood-making: A study of the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement	14
Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space	13
Between walls and fences: How different types of gated communities shape the streets around them	13
Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city	13
Co-Creation as an agonistic practice in the favela of Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro	13
Out of the loop? On the radical and the routine in urban big data	13
Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case ofSustainable Sydney 2030	13
Urban statecraft: The governance of transport infrastructures in African cities	13
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal	13
Reconfiguration of state–society relations: The making of uncompromising nail households in urban housing demolition and relocation in Dalian, China	13
The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance	13
The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019	13
Inter-city transport infrastructure and intra-city housing markets: Estimating the redistribution effect of high-speed rail in Shenzhen, China	13
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world	12
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development	12
Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state–society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China	12
The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies	12
Relocating queer: Comparing suburban LGBTQ2S activisms on Vancouver’s periphery	12
Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities	12
For the benefit of all? State-led gentrification in a contested city	12
Population density and SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Comparing the geography of different waves in the Netherlands	12
State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism	12
The green gentrification cycle	12
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures	12
Working the urban assemblage: A transnational study of transforming practices	12
Does the neighbourhood matter for neighbourhood satisfaction? A meta-analysis	11
‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change	11
The commonification of the public under new municipalism: Commons–state institutions in Naples and Barcelona	11
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice	11
‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place	11
Thinking through people: The potential of volunteered geographic information for mobility and urban studies	11
The smart grid as a security device: Electricity infrastructure and urban governance in Kingston and Rio de Janeiro	11
Does demand lead supply? Gentrifiers and developers in the sequence of gentrification, New York City 2009–2016	11
Light at the end of the tunnel:The impacts of expected major transport improvements on residential property prices	11
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK	11
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War	11
New urban habits in Stockholm following COVID-19	11
Haphazard urbanisation: Urban informality, politics and power in Egypt	11
Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich	11
What do residential lotteries show us about transportation choices?	11
Blocking the progressive city: How state pre-emptions undermine labour rights in the USA	11
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience	11
Urban epidemic governance: An event system analysis of the outbreak and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China	10
Queering social reproduction: Sex, care and activism in San Francisco	10
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya	10
Doing comparative urbanism differently: Conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory	10
Theorising democratic space with and beyond Henri Lefebvre	10
The (de)territorialised appeal of international schools in China: Forging brands, boundaries and inter-belonging in segregated urban space	10
Towards a post-COVID geography of economic activity: Using probability spaces to decipher Montreal’s changing workscapes	10

Activity locations, residential segregation and the significance of residential neighbourhood boundary perceptions	10
Manufacturing urbanism: Improvising the urban–industrial nexus through Chinese economic zones in Africa	10
Not diverse enough? Displacement, diversity discourse, and commercial gentrification in Santa Ana, California, a majority-Mexican city	10
Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities	10
An urban political ecology for a world of cities	10
Navigating stigma through everyday city-making: Gendered trajectories, politics and outcomes in the periphery of Lima	10
Post-studentification? Promises and pitfalls of a near-campus urban intensification strategy	10
Internal migration industries: Shaping the housing options for refugees at the local level	9
Associating street-network centrality with spontaneous and planned subcentres	9
From advocacy to acceptance: Social media discussions of protected bike lane installations	9
A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation	9
Education, neighbourhood context and depression of elderly Chinese	9
Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver	9
The crowd and citylife: Materiality, negotiation and inclusivity at Tokyo’s train stations	9
Urban migrant and refugee solidarity beyond city limits	9
Residential segregation and public services in urban India	9
The local low skills equilibrium: Moving from concept to policy utility	9
Citizens go digital: A discursive examination of digital payments in Singapore’s Smart Nation project	9
Suburban (mis)fortunes: Outer suburban shrinkage in Tokyo Metropolis	9
‘We need to put what we do in my dad’s language, in pounds, shillings and pence’: Commercialisation and the reshaping of public-sector planning in England	9
Locating the interstitial island: Integration of Zhoushan Archipelago into the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration	9
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa	9
Arab integration in new and established mixed cities in Israel	8
Understanding the geography of affordable housing provided through land value capture: Evidence from England	8
Understanding policing demand and deployment through the lens of the city and with the application of big data	8
The interurban migration industry: ‘Migration products’ and the materialisation of urban speculation at Iskandar Malaysia	8
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany	8
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates	8
The time-spaces of austerity urbanism: Narratives of ‘localism’ and UK neighbourhood policy	8
Complementary policies for multidimensional problems: Does the low-income housing tax credit complement homeless services in the USA?	8
Critical Commentary: Beyond growth and density: Recentring the demographic drivers of urban health and risk in the global south	8
Statecraft on cement: The politics of land-based accumulation in Erdoğan’s Turkey	8
Spatialising urban health vulnerability: An analysis of NYC’s critical infrastructure during COVID-19	8
Displacement through development? Property turnover and eviction risk in Seattle	8
Disassembling connections: A comparative analysis of the politics of slum upgrading in eThekwini and São Paulo	8
Neighbourhood accessibility and walkability of subsidised housing in shrinking US cities	8
The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence	8
The academic effects of chronic exposure to neighbourhood violence	8
The financialisation of housing and the rise of the investor-activist	8
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region	8
Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin	8
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion	8
Towards weird verticality: The spectacle of vertical spaces in Chongqing	8
Introduction: Infrastructural stigma and urban vulnerability	8
Natural population growth and urban management in metropolitan regions: Insights from pre-crisis and post-crisis Athens, Greece	8
Cycling mode choice amongst US commuters: The role of climate and topography	8
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific	8
Neighbourhoods, networks and unemployment: The role of neighbourhood disadvantage and local networks in taking up work	8
On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique	8
Actually existing managerialism: Planning, politics and property development in post-1945 Britain	7
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison	7
The association between residential housing prices, bicycle infrastructure and ridership volumes	7
Seeing the street through Instagram. Digital platforms and the amplification of gentrification	7
Agonistic failures: Following policy conflicts in Berlin’s urban cultural politics	7
Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave	7
Making ways for ‘better education’: Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry	7
Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness	7
Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?	7
Mapping and making gangland: A legacy of redlining and enjoining gang neighbourhoods in Los Angeles	7
Immigration and economic resilience in the Great Recession	7
How tenants’ reactions to rent increases affect displacement: An interactionist approach to gentrification	7
Contextual poverty and obtained educational level and income in Sweden and the Netherlands: A multi-scale and longitudinal study	7
Negotiating LGBTQ rights in Singapore: The margin as a place of refusal	7
Gentrification or …? Injustice in large-scale residential projects in Hanoi	7
Neighbourhood selection and neighbourhood matching: Choices, outcomes and social distance	7
An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg’s socio-spatial transformation	7
Queer urban activism under state impunity: Encountering an LGBTTTI Pride archive in Chilpancingo, Mexico	7
Real estate politicians in India	7
How do tax-based revitalisation policies affect urban property development? Evidence from Bronzeville, Chicago	7
Big Data in the city	7
A rhythmanalysis approach to understanding the vending-walking forms and everyday use of urban street space in Yuncheng, China	7
Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis	7
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency	7
Hukou as benefits: Demand for hukou and wages in China	7
Of political entrepreneurs: Assembling community and social capital in Hyderabad’s informal settlements	7
Interstitiality in the smart city: More than top-down and bottom-up smartness	7
Measuring risk of missing transfers in public transit systems using high-resolution schedule and real-time bus location data	7
Becoming ‘pet slaves’ in urban China: Transspecies urban theory, single professional women and their companion animals	7
Housing wealth, mortgages and Australians’ labour force participation in later life	7
Bridging home and school in cross-border education: The role of intermediary spaces in the in/exclusion of Mainland Chinese students and their families in Hong Kong	7
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector	7
Outer-suburban politics and the financialisation of the logistics real estate industry: The emergence of financialised coalitions in the Paris region	6
Remembering the river: Flood, memory and infrastructural ecologies of stormwater drainage in Mumbai	6
Conceptualising modes of redistribution in public urban infrastructure	6
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space	6
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city	6
‘Your daily reality is rubbish’: Waste as a means of urban exclusion in the suspended spaces of East Jerusalem	6
Neoliberalism and neo-dirigisme in action: The state–corporate alliance and the great housing rush of the 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey	6
Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective	6
Seoul’s nocturnal urbanism: An emergent night-time economy of substitute driving and fast deliveries	6
Problematising concepts of transit-oriented development in South African cities	6
Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens	6
Compact living or policy inaction? Effects of urban density and lockdown on the COVID-19 outbreak in the US	6
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela	6
Community interactions and sanitation use by the urban poor: Survey evidence from India’s slums	6