Urban Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban Studies is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai222
From communal places to comfort zones: Familiar stranger encounters in everyday life as a form of belonging81
Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning71
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system69
Private ordering of public processes: How contracts structure participatory processes in urban development in Amsterdam and Hamburg57
Book review: Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance55
A hima traditional ecological knowledge perspective of the sustainability goals in AlUla’s journey through time masterplan49
(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia42
What if autonomous vehicles had been introduced into cities? A counterfactual analysis41
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign40
Forthcoming special issues in Urban Studies38
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness37
Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of rental properties and platform rentierisation35
Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore34
Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods33
Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa33
Book review: The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions32
Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey32
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability30
Caring and commoning in political society: Insights from the Scugnizzo Liberato of Naples29
Book review: Tremor29
Seoul’s nocturnal urbanism: An emergent night-time economy of substitute driving and fast deliveries29
Land use disadvantages in Germany: A matter of ethnic income inequalities?27
Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales27
Book review: Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere27
Bottom-up cluster branding through boundary spanners: The case of the Jingdezhen ceramics cluster in China26
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities26
Book review: Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies26
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence26
To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies26
Book review: Urban Regeneration in the UK25
Book review: Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City: Space, Materiality and the Normative25
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214025
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Transgressive spaces in a socialist state?25
Re-learning culture in cities beyond the West24
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience24
Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalisation in Rio de Janeiro’s port area22
Housing wealth, mortgages and Australians’ labour force participation in later life22
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario22
School and residential segregation in the reproduction of urban segregation: A case study in Buenos Aires22
Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions22
Realising direct democracy through representative democracy: From the Yellow Vests to a libertarian municipalist strategy in Commercy22
Hukou type, hukou place and labour market vulnerability in Chinese megacities: The case of Beijing in the COVID-19 pandemic21
Book review: The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century21
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism21
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence20
Mobile urbanism from below: Afro-Christian churches as place-makers and scale-makers in European midsized cities20
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?20
Examining the long-term influence of New Deal era redlining on contemporary gentrification20
Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective20
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island20
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya20
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham20
Book review: How Cities Can Transform Democracy20
Rail stations and residential sorting: The case of Sydney metropolitan area19
Debates Paper: COVID-19 and urban informality: Exploring the implications of the pandemic for the politics of planning and inequality19
Quality of local government and social trust in European cities19
Book review: Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India19
Framing urban mobility injustice from the Global South19
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments19
Neighbourhoods as resource hubs and resource nodes: Civic organisations and political recruitment of first- and second-generation immigrants in Berlin, Germany19
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance18
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America17
Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War17
Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei17
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics16
Of broken promises cities are made. Gambling, urbanisation, and belonging in Macau16
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace15
State preemption and affordable housing policy15
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island15
Book review: Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better15
Common property in the city: Curbing urban vacancy in São Paulo15
Book review: Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons15
Book review: Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context14
From ‘poor devil’ to middle class? Navigating resettlement and (in)formal reterritorialisation under COVID-1914
Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces14
Book review: Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City14
Have cycling-friendly cities achieved cycling equity? Analyses of the educational gradient in cycling in Dutch and German cities14
Private urbanism and the spatial rationalities of urban governance14
Book review: Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People. Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain14
Book review: Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons14
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban14
Checkpoint urbanism: Violent infrastructures and border stigmas in the Juárez border region13
Housing the historical bloc: Civil society contestation of authoritarian neoliberalism in England13
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London13
Public space and public rituals: Engagement and protest in the digital age13
Salience of social identities in explaining homeownership patterns in India13
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries13
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes12
Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–202012
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space12
Changes in psychosocial wellbeing over a five-year period in two predominantly Black Pittsburgh neighbourhoods: A comparison between gentrifying and non-gentrifying census tracts12
Moving down the urban hierarchy: Turning point of China’s internal migration caused by age structure and hukou system12
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada12
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?12
The effect of the pandemic on European narratives on smart cities and surveillance12
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany12
The conflictual governance of street experiments, between austerity and post-politics12
How does neighbourhood satisfaction impact relocation intentions? The mediating effects of housing costs and socioeconomic status11
Excess aspirations: Migration and urban futures in post-earthquake Christchurch11
Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism: Municipally owned corporations and climate change mitigation in German cities11
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world11
Patterns of onwards migration within the urban hierarchy of China: Who moves up and who moves down?11
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters11
Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela11
The post-socialist cities from Central and Eastern Europe: Between spatial growth and demographic decline11
Inter-city transport infrastructure and intra-city housing markets: Estimating the redistribution effect of high-speed rail in Shenzhen, China11
Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure11
Spatial spillover effects of crime on private investment at nearby micro-places11
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific11
Book Review Forum. Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang ConnollyCreighton, Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang, Bristol: 10
Capital’s welfare dependency: Market failure, stalled regeneration and state subsidy in Glasgow and Edinburgh10
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 Kong10
Re-contextualising purpose-built student accommodation in secondary cities: The role of planning policy, consultation and economic need during austerity10
Thermal governance, urban metabolism and carbonised comfort: Air-conditioning and urbanisation in the Gulf and Doha10
‘It’s part of our community, where we live’: Urban heritage and children’s sense of place10
An economic geography perspective on city diplomacy10
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’10
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic10
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms10
Urban Studies Best Article 202010
Exploring mismatch in within-metropolitan affordable housing in the United States10
Mind the rent gap: Blackstone, housing investment and the reordering of urban rent surfaces10
Politics in affordable housing provision: How partisan control of local councils influences planning choices10
Antisocial and prosocial activities at crime hot spots: Rethinking conventional paradigms10
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism9
Book review: Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations9
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship9
Book review: Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities9
The changing ethno-racial profile of ‘very walkable’ urban neighbourhoods in the US (2010–2020): Are minorities under-represented?9
Book review: University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District9
Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits9
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home9
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance9
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice9
Happy city for everyone: Generational differences in rural migrant workers’ leisure in urban China9
(De)Financing remunicipalisation9
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda9
Underground urbanism in Africa: Splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria9
Making Mangaung Metro: The politics of metropolitan reform in a South African secondary city9
Temporary populations and sociospatial polarisation in the short-term city9
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg9
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation9
The implications of digital school quality information for neighbourhood and school segregation: Evidence from a natural experiment in Los Angeles9
The new private urban governance: Vestiges, ventures and visibility9
Book review: Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions9
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice8
Preference for internet at home in a disadvantaged neighbourhood8
Urban Studies Best Article 20218
Ambivalent insurgencies: Citizenship, land politics and development in Hanoi and its periurban fringe8
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany8
Cities under state capitalism8
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism8
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes8
Organising grassroots infrastructure: The (in)visible work of organisational (in)completeness8
Governing public health emergencies during the coronavirus disease outbreak: Lessons from four Chinese cities in the first wave8
For whom do we densify? Explaining income variation across densification projects in the region of Utrecht, the Netherlands8
Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India8
Fountain’, from Victorian necessity to modern inconvenience: Contesting the death of public toilets8
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’8
Fifty years of Business Improvement Districts: A reappraisal of the dominant perspectives and debates8
Spatialising degrowth in Southern cities: Everyday park-making for (un)commoning8
Book review: Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History8
Book review forum: How Cities Learn8
Making cities through migration industries: Introduction to the special issue8
Do land supply restrictions promote structural transformation and urban sustainability in Chinese megacities? A quasi-experimental analysis8
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market8
Residents’ expectations from the municipality in an age of urban-national polarisation8
Asymmetric housing information diffusions in China: An investor perspective8
Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China7
The local multiplier of income support paid in a complementary currency: Comparative evaluation in the city of Barcelona7
Reimagining the municipal economy: The emancipatory politics of the people’s budget movement7
How buses alleviate unemployment and poverty: Lessons from a natural experiment in Clayton County, GA7
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective7
Calculative infrastructures of net zero urban governance: A transformative science-based agenda or reductive territorial project?7
Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania7
Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future7
Erratum for ‘Placebo urban interventions: Observing Smart City narratives in Santiago de Chile’7
Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city7
Book review: Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England7
Framing urban living lab as a multi-dimensional knowledge model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park7
Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions7
Welcoming the unwelcome: Migration industries and border control for homeless job-seeking migrants in central Copenhagen7
Iconic buildings in the making of city identity: The role of aspirational identity artefacts7
The academic effects of chronic exposure to neighbourhood violence7
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice7
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations7
Home-made blues: Residential crowding and mental health in Beijing, China7
Back to the suburbs? Millennial residential locations from the Great Recession to the pandemic7
Amenities and housing market dynamics: Implications for population change, urban attractiveness, innovation, and productivity7
Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art policies6
Book review: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities6
Walls and openings: The politics of containment of informal communities in Islamabad6
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy6
Book review forum: Pandemic urbanism: Infectious diseases on a planet of cities6
African urbanisation at the confluence of informality and climate change6
Rezoning a top-notch CBD: The choreography of land-use regulation and creative destruction in Manhattan’s East Midtown6
Care commons: Infrastructural (re)compositions for life sustenance through yet against regimes of chronic crisis6
Vulnerability, neglect, and collectivity in Brazilian favelas: Surviving the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state’s necropolitics6
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies6
Book review: Internal other: Re-imagined class in urban spaces6
The politics of hyperregulation in La Paz, Bolivia: Speculative peri-urban development in a context of unresolved municipal boundary conflicts6
Afterword: Out there (or, do we have lift off?)6
Coloniality and the political economy of gender: Edgework in Juárez City6
ERRATUM to “‘Pray for transit’: Seeking transportation justice in metropolitan Atlanta”6
Gentrifying with family wealth: Parental gifts and neighbourhood sorting among young adult owner-occupants6
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions6
Incubators, accelerators and urban economic development6
Navigating between resistance and unintentional collaboration: The role of left-wing grassroots associations in the tourist city6
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits6
Income polarisation, expenditure and the Australian urban middle class6
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania6
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa6
Prefigurative legality: Transforming municipal jurisdiction6
Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy6
Neoliberalism and neo-dirigisme in action: The state–corporate alliance and the great housing rush of the 2000s in Istanbul, Turkey6
Suburbanisation in East Germany6
Governing investors and developers: Analysing the role of risk allocation in urban development6
Navigating spatial inequalities: The micro-politics of migrant dwelling practices during COVID-19 in Antwerp6
State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism6
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