Urban Studies

Article	Citations
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries	104
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham	100
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters	75
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes	61
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 norms	53
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 China	43
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140	40
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany	38
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign	37
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?	37
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London	35
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada	35
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents	34
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective	32
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics	32
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance	30
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes	30
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice	29
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’	28
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations	28
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany	28
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: 9	28
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits	27

Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok	26
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism	26
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China	26
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies	26
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa	25
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy	25
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice	25
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world	23
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania	23
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities	23
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda	23
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development	22
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice	22
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal	21
The green gentrification cycle	20
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship	20
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg	20
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany	19
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile	19
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth: The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina	19
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis	19
From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’	18
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities	18
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives	18
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility	18
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY	18
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/Israel	17
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia	17
Towards evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluating age-friendly cities and communities: Reflections from the Western Pacific and Nordic Regions	17
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca	17
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto	17
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time	16
Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit	16
Metropolis, monarchy and the masses: Anti-royalism in Thailand's contemporary urban spaces	16
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency	16
Eviction from manufactured home parks	16
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile	16
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising	15
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment	15
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda	15
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation	15
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam	14
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes	14
Comparative urbanism for hope and healing: Urbicide and the dilemmas of reconstruction in post-war Syria and Poland	14
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile	14
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias	14
Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements	14
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison	14
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?	14

The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches	14
Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India	14
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective	14
Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment	14
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs	13
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco	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?	13
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance	13
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb	13
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change	13
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis	13
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city	13
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab	13
Shared projects and symbiotic collaborations: Shenzhen and London in comparative conversation	13
Skies over Frölunda: ‘Mixed city’ densification and the lived space of a stigmatised Modernist suburb in Sweden	12
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development	12
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology	12
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment	12
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure	12
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 austerity	12
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion	12
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents	12
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris	12
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins	12
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification	11
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance	11
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa	11
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland	11
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings	11
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation	11
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability	11
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 perspective	11
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control	11
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia	11
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector	10
Managing the non-integration of transient migrant workers: Urban strategies of enclavisation and enclosure in Singapore	10
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban	10
State preemption and affordable housing policy	10
The geography of urban innovation beyond patents only: New evidence on large and secondary cities in the United States	10
Smaller cities as sites of youth migrant incorporation	10
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island	10
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America	10
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis	10
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India	10
The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015	10
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space	10
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification	10
Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing	9
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities	9
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island	9
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world	9
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning	9
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability	9
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure	9
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments	9
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace	9
Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley	9
Profiling caregivers: Caregiving workload, mobility, stress, and remote work difficulties	9
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario	9
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence	9
Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders	8
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation	8
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific	8
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy	8
The ethical underpinnings of Smart City governance: Decision-making in the Smart Cambridge programme, UK	8
Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus	8
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space	8
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism	8
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions	8
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District	8
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance	8
A wider view of shared transportation: Assessing the socioemotional costs and benefits of sharing in and sharing out	8
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home	8
Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development	8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods	8
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s)	8
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises	8

Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China	8
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system	8
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness	8
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market	8
Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea	8
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia	8
Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing	8
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures	8
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi	7
Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon	7
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan	7
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 governance	7
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention	7
Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation	7
Book review: Slow Cities – Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability	7
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru	7
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice	7
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation	7
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities	7
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty	7
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–2011	7
Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland	7
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 Seoul	7
Book review: Estate Regeneration and its Discontents	7
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism	7
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice	7
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies	7
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy	7
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning	7
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam	7
Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge	7
Flyovers, social constructs and uncertainty: (Un)covering the blind spots of urbanisation in Chongqing	7
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions	7
Book Review: Bulls Markets: Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality	7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city	7
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change	7
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas	7