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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries104
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham100
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters75
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes61
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’57
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms53
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?44
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China43
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214040
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany38
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?37
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign37
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada35
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London35
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents34
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics32
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective32
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance30
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes30
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice29
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany28
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: 928
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’28
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations28
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits27
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism26
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China26
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies26
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok26
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy25
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice25
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa25
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania23
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities23
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda23
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world23
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice22
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development22
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal21
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship20
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg20
The green gentrification cycle20
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth: The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina19
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis19
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany19
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile19
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities18
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives18
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility18
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY18
From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’18
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca17
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto17
Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’17
De-colonising the right to housing, one new city at a time: Seeing housing development from Palestine/Israel17
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia17
Towards evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluating age-friendly cities and communities: Reflections from the Western Pacific and Nordic Regions17
Metropolis, monarchy and the masses: Anti-royalism in Thailand's contemporary urban spaces16
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency16
Eviction from manufactured home parks16
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile16
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time16
Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit16
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment15
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda15
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation15
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising15
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias14
Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements14
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison14
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?14
The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches14
Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India14
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective14
Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment14
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam14
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 Chile14
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb13
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change13
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation13
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis13
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city13
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab13
Homeownership and subjective well-being: Are the links heterogeneous across location, age and income?13
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs13
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco13
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?13
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance13
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents12
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris12
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins12
Skies over Frölunda: ‘Mixed city’ densification and the lived space of a stigmatised Modernist suburb in Sweden12
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development12
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology12
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment12
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure12
Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?12
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity12
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion12
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability11
Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?11
The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective11
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control11
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia11
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification11
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance11
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa11
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland11
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings11
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation11
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis10
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India10
The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–201510
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space10
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification10
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector10
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore10
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban10
State preemption and affordable housing policy10
The geography of urban innovation beyond patents only: New evidence on large and secondary cities in the United States10
Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation10
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island10
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America10
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace9
Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley9
Profiling caregivers: Caregiving workload, mobility, stress, and remote work difficulties9
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario9
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence9
Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing9
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities9
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island9
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world9
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning9
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability9
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure9
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments9
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises8
Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China8
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system8
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness8
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market8
Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea8
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia8
Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing8
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures8
Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders8
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation8
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific8
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy8
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK8
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 exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism8
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions8
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District8
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance8
A wider view of shared transportation: Assessing the socioemotional costs and benefits of sharing in and sharing out8
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home8
Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods8
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s)8
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice7
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change7
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy7
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi7
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan7
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?7
Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance7
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention7
Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city7
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas7
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice7
Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon7
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities7
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–20117
Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland7
Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation?7
Local familiar strangers in digitalising urban neighbourhoods in Seoul7
Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation7
Book review: Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability7
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru7
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation7
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies7
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty7
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning7
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam7
Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge7
Flyovers, social constructs and uncertainty: (Un)covering the blind spots of urbanisation in Chongqing7
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions7
Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents7
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism7
Effects of urban rail transit expansion on the mobility of the elderly: Findings from Singapore6
Book review: Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia6
Theorising democratic space with and beyond Henri Lefebvre6
Catalysts of connection. The role of digital information and communication technology in fostering neighbourhood social cohesion: A systematic review of empirical findings6
Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements6
Redesigning the relationship between heritage and city: Insights from the Gandhi Heritage Portal, Ahmedabad6
Towards a constructed order of co-governance: Understanding the state–society dynamics of neighbourhood collaborative responses to COVID-19 in urban China6
The new dwellers of southern cities: Social diversification and uncertainty in Santiago inner city6
The micro-geography of knowledge exchanges in Montreal: Questioning the importance of the neighbourhood scale in an age of virtual communications6
Transfer or retain land development right: The role of China’s IDB programme in supporting inclusive urbanisation6
Book review: Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism6
Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China6
‘Volviendo a Vivir’ (coming back to life): Urban trauma, activism and building emancipatory futures6
Dialectical approach to unpacking knowledge-making for digital urban democracy: A critical case of Helsinki-based e-participatory budgeting6
Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid6
Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal6
The reproduction of informal settlements in Santiago: Housing policy, cycles of repopulation and the ‘politics of poverty’ as a regime of government6
A ‘gentrification regime’ change: The fiscal roots of buy-to-let gentrification in Dudelange, Luxembourg6
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
The politics of urban densification in Oslo6
Belling the cat: Designing collective action institutions for natural resource management in the peri-urban interface6
Book Review: Managing Cities at Night. A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy6
The increasing emission divide between cities of the Global North and Global South: Towards adjustable mitigation scenarios at the city level6
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
Fences, seeds and bees: The more-than-human politics of community gardening in Rotterdam6
Residential vertical urbanisation: The intertwining of law and financialisation6
Book review forum: Pandemic urbanism: Infectious diseases on a planet of cities5
The post-socialist cities from Central and Eastern Europe: Between spatial growth and demographic decline5
School and residential segregation in the reproduction of urban segregation: A case study in Buenos Aires5
Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales5
Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces5
Book review: Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance5
Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa5
Excess aspirations: Migration and urban futures in post-earthquake Christchurch5
Urban metabolism redux5
Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania5
Interstitiality in the smart city: More than top-down and bottom-up smartness5
Re-contextualising purpose-built student accommodation in secondary cities: The role of planning policy, consultation and economic need during austerity5
Framing urban living lab as a multi-dimensional knowledge model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park5
Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy5
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To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies5
Common property in the city: Curbing urban vacancy in São Paulo5
Book review: Tremor5
My city or my planet? Rethinking the EU cultural policy toward planetary heritage and planetary senses of belonging5
Reimagining the municipal economy: The emancipatory politics of the people’s budget movement5
Book review: Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions5
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification5
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism5
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–20205
Forthcoming special issues in Urban Studies5
Book review: Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons5
(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia5
Social representation, self-identity and anticipated guilt in universal access: A constructivist approach to (non-)visible disabilities5
A multi-faceted concept of safety in the public transport system: The case of Gran Valparaiso in Chile5
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