Urban Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Studies is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rethinking employee housing: An evaluation of an old tool for tackling recent challenges in urban development141
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214087
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?85
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes72
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities61
Slowing down: Degrowth and the limits to urban mobility53
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms51
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign48
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries44
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics39
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany39
Estimating a CPI-based regional price parity index for US cities38
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 Birmingham38
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents37
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China37
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?36
Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison35
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London34
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes33
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice32
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China32
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China32
Analyzing teen drivers’ exposure to crash risk: An activity space-based approach31
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: 931
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok30
The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona29
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania29
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective28
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies28
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany27
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg27
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’27
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism27
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda24
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa24
Realms of possibility: The ongoing Nakba and speculative futures24
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship24
A tale of two houses: Manufactured homes and industrialized construction in the U.S. and Sweden23
Informal smart urbanism: A case study of digital resilience in Mathare informal settlement23
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy23
The green gentrification cycle23
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance23
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice22
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development22
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations22
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world22
Maintaining redistribution despite austerity: Spatial diversity in US local government expenditures 2007–201721
Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’21
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY21
From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’21
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth : The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina20
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities20
Towards evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluating age-friendly cities and communities: Reflections from the Western Pacific and Nordic Regions19
Book review forum: Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI CugurulloFedericoCaprottiFedericoCookMatthewKarvonenAndrewMcGuirkP19
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility19
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis19
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto19
In Absence: Exploring urbs nullius and decolonising urban landscapes in ‘Australian’ cities19
Fragmented suburban landscapes: Rethinking vulnerability in southern Europe18
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile18
The role of social institutions in informal self-organizing urbanism: The case of Palestinian towns in Israel18
Understanding age-friendly communities: Five global typologies of older adults18
A multilevel analysis of pupils’ travel distance to primary school: Simultaneously modelling origins and destinations18
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile17
Relational city actorness in global migration governance: A comparative analysis of Dallas and San Diego17
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation17
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time17
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising16
Eviction from manufactured home parks16
Metropolis, monarchy and the masses: Anti-royalism in Thailand's contemporary urban spaces16
Un-guided journeys: Tracing the multi-layered temporalities of Amager Commons in Copenhagen, Denmark16
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment16
Interim urban uses and the politics of safety: Interrogating the emergent scholarly and practitioner knowledge base16
Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit16
Daily routines, activity space, and third places: A big data approach to understand encounters16
Principles of neuroarchitecture in the city: Insights into urban ageing through photoproduction15
Urban segregation and economic inequality in Sweden (1991–2017): A decomposition analysis15
The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches15
Incremental urbanism: Experimenting with land development and statecraft in Lhasa, Tibet15
Contemplating obstacles: Experiences of indigenising urban spaces. The case of Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand15
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda15
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca15
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia15
Still thinking from the south: A sequel from Beirut15
Mobility freedoms: Conceptions of freedom in contestations over urban transport15
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency14
Skies over Frölunda: ‘Mixed city’ densification and the lived space of a stigmatised Modernist suburb in Sweden14
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion14
Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements14
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias14
Seeing with, seeing otherwise: Transvisualizing extended urbanization through urban-nature archives in Brazilian Amazonia14
Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?14
Historical transformations of sacred land and urbanization politics in Nigeria14
Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment14
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective14
Impacts of flood zoning policies on housing markets: Evidence from the national flood insurance program14
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam14
Spatial planning for a popular circular economy14
Comparative urbanism for hope and healing: Urbicide and the dilemmas of reconstruction in post-war Syria and Poland13
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure13
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris13
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis13
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change13
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance13
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development13
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes13
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?13
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?13
Homeownership and subjective well-being: Are the links heterogeneous across location, age and income?12
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology12
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco12
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents12
Manufactured housing and the dialectics of enclosure and commoning12
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs12
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile12
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance11
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings11
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab11
Modulating the indoor–outdoor urban boundary: Inversion, reversion and extension11
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins11
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis11
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia11
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity11
Imagining urban futures: Participatory scenario planning London’s mobility to 205011
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification11
The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective11
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation11
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment11
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city11
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa11
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification11
The politics of urban regime contention: A qualitative comparative analysis of 18 Spanish cases11
Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?10
Profiling caregivers: Caregiving workload, mobility, stress, and remote work difficulties10
De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements10
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world10
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island10
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities10
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
From precarious tenure to new urban possibilities in manufactured housing communities: A view from the Global South10
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control10
A wider view of shared transportation: Assessing the socioemotional costs and benefits of sharing in and sharing out10
State preemption and affordable housing policy10
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness10
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace10
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India10
Digital municipal currencies as a new municipalist instrument for trans-local transformation: The case of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil10
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore10
Left behind in time: Rethinking left-behind places through a timescape approach in Northeast China10
An infrastructure of embodied practices: How disabled people become part of public transport in Santiago de Chile10
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario10
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability10
Nordic exceptionalism as settler urbanism: Sámi presence and urban contestation in Tromsø10
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland10
Assembling Community Wealth Building policies in Scotland: Policy mobilities, institutional translations and localised adaptations9
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island9
Intergenerational housing strategies and social closure in Gangnam9
Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development9
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning9
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District9
Foreign infrastructure, local frictions: Contested mobility and social constructs of the Nairobi Expressway9
Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley9
Culture as repair in Black Los Angeles? Destination Crenshaw and the possibilities of reparative development9
Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing9
Mindsets and actions: Shifts in equitable and sustainable development in U.S. cities9
Reorienting age-friendly frameworks for rural contexts: A spatial competence–press framework for aging in Chinese villages9
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific9
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home9
Neoliberal pursuits of equitable development: The broken promises of Opportunity Zones9
Building age diversity and retail patterns: A morphometric exploration of Jacobs’ neglected condition through the Temporal Fingerprint Matrix9
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance9
State-led age-friendly urbanism in non-Western contexts: Evidence from transitional communities in Fujian, China9
Revealing the geography of food (in)accessibility for nighttime workers in the Greater London Area9
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system9
Historical redlining, locally unwanted land uses, and neighborhood mental health: Investigating the mediating effect in Chicago, Illinois9
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation9
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy9
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan8
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market8
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change8
Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance8
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises8
Framing justice in urban climate adaptation policy in 14 frontrunner cities8
Arturo Soria’s Ciudad Linear of Madrid: From a (proto)transit-oriented bourgeoise utopia to a traffic-oriented upper-class neighborhood8
Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea8
Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders8
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism8
The changing occupational class structure of London, 1981–2024: Professionalisation or social polarisation?8
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space8
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru8
Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland8
Manufacturing the urban: Situating manufactured housing and manufactured home communities in urban studies and charting a course for research8
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?8
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia8
Flyovers, social constructs and uncertainty: (Un)covering the blind spots of urbanisation in Chongqing8
Not that wide open: Urban securitization and the experience of Paris 20248
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s)8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods8
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–20118
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities8
Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge8
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam8
Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing8
Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus8
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi8
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions8
Mediating ‘alterlife’: Artistic research on plant labour at a contaminated site in Bitterfeld-Wolfen7
Local familiar strangers in digitalising urban neighbourhoods in Seoul7
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty7
Justice without feeling? The case for Wildlife-Affective Urban Design7
Making the case for community-responsive circularity: Lessons from a legacy textile manufacturing region7
Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation7
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy7
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice7
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention7
Priming the pump: Does Black and Hispanic gentrification predict White gentrification?7
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation7
The role of diasporic ties in alternative infrastructure: A case study of the Kurdish community center of Rome7
Civil rights, urban policy, and the origins of the U.S. emergency medical services system7
Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements7
Emotions in the city? Emotional responses to urban wildlife and their association with urban reactive behavioral intentions during environmental and political crisis7
Bridging social capital and intersectional alliance: Towards an integrated framework for interpreting urban solidarity7
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning7
Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation?7
Why urban densification ignores the social dimension of sustainability7
Echoes of inclusion: The soundscape of age-friendly Raheny, Dublin7
A caring smart city: A bottom-up approach with older adults in Santiago de Chile7
Towards open-air markets for people in the post-Covid-19 era: Integrating shopping, transport and urban transformation7
Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city7
Sense of belonging and attachment in urban green spaces: A qualitative study of older adults in Isfahan, Iran7
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions7
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies7
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
Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal6
A ‘gentrification regime’ change: The fiscal roots of buy-to-let gentrification in Dudelange, Luxembourg6
“We are the state”: Cities’ quest for recognition in climate diplomacy6
The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo: The ambivalent role of cross-sector coordination for urban sustainability6
Book review: Upgrading Informal Settlements: Experiences from Asia6
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
Frontier density in urban India6
Is the city centre synonymous with (non-)cooperative innovation? Innovation in Knowledge -Intensive Services through intra-metropolitan space of Mexico City6
Socio-geographic mobility and widespread zoning reform in Auckland6
Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid6
Book review: Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism6
The increasing emission divide between cities of the Global North and Global South: Towards adjustable mitigation scenarios at the city level6
Transfer or retain land development right: The role of China’s IDB programme in supporting inclusive urbanisation6
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