Urban Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban Studies is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of home and land tenure in shaping opportunities and challenges for manufactured home residents105
Recruiting international students: Analysing the imaginative geographies of three urban encounters85
‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes67
Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 214062
Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada60
‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign51
Public spaces of transport as mobile public spheres and atmospheric publics49
Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries42
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China41
No child to call: Lived experiences of childless older adults from the Baby Boomer generation with functional limitations in urban senior living facilities41
Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London39
The experience economy in UK city centres: A multidimensional and interconnected response to the ‘death of the high street’?37
How have digital mobility platforms responded to COVID-19 and why does this matter for ‘the urban’?37
Where is agency in the context of urban transformation? Exploring the narratives of institutional stakeholders and community activists in Birmingham36
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany36
Settlement in Nanjing among Chinese rural migrant families: The role of changing and persistent family norms35
Book review: IoT and Big Data Analytics for Smart Cities: A Global Perspective34
Order and openness in community-driven urban initiatives: Insights from a ‘spot-fix’34
How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic support for transportation taxes33
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
Delivering common property in Chinese contractual communities: Law, power and practice31
Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’30
Critical Commentary: Fickle spheres: The constant re/construction of the private and other new habits30
Book review: Care and the City: Encounters With Urban Studies29
Visible presence, unseen hand: Royalty and reality in the reshaping of Bangkok27
The intersectional right to the city: Non-binary and trans people navigating gender, race, and class in Barcelona27
Urban state venturism as state entrepreneurialism: Conceptualizing the risk-taking dynamics of industrial upgrading in Hefei, China27
The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities26
Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development26
Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice26
(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany26
Writing the Latin American city: Trajectories of urban scholarship24
The regeneration path not taken further: An experiment in urban densification and state entrepreneurialism in a resettlement neighborhood in Suzhou, China24
Analysing a private city being built from scratch through a social and environmental justice framework: A research agenda23
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg23
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal22
The complexities of smartification: Exploring horizontal tensions in smart city governance22
Has South Korea’s policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy21
‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania21
Laboratory Barcelona: Tenants, corporate landlords and housing justice21
Beyond urban ecomodernism: How can degrowth-aligned spatial practices enhance urban sustainability transformations20
Progressive cities: Urban–rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world20
Provincialising smart urbanism further, from the Global East: Articulating the smart city in the context of Hungary’s authoritarian state capitalism20
The green gentrification cycle20
From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’19
Book review: Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives19
Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guise of new infrastructure in Africa19
Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities19
Commodifying Havana? Private accumulation, assetisation and marketisation in the Cuban metropolis19
An evaluation framework for predictive models of neighbourhood change with applications to predicting residential sales in Buffalo, NY19
Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility18
Ethno-religious neighbourhood infrastructures and the life satisfaction of immigrants and their descendants in Germany18
Deindustrialisation and the politics of subordinate degrowth: The case of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina18
Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’18
Maintaining redistribution despite austerity: Spatial diversity in US local government expenditures 2007–201718
Towards evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluating age-friendly cities and communities: Reflections from the Western Pacific and Nordic Regions18
Under the paving stones at the Bloordale Beach: Sub-terra urbs nullius and volumetric colonialism in Toronto18
Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca17
Leveraging the collective: Contesting California’s corporate landlords through multibuilding organising17
In/formal reappropriations: Spatialised needs and desires in residential alleys in Melbourne, Australia17
Fragmented suburban landscapes: Rethinking vulnerability in southern Europe17
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile17
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time17
Metropolis, monarchy and the masses: Anti-royalism in Thailand's contemporary urban spaces17
Eviction from manufactured home parks16
Waze seating in the control room: Enacting the data bricolage in urban traffic management in Santiago de Chile16
Still thinking from the south: A sequel from Beirut16
The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment16
Google urbanism 2010–2020: From infrastructural control to growing bit by bit16
The urban question under illiberalism? Three thematic approaches15
Principles of neuroarchitecture in the city: Insights into urban ageing through photoproduction15
Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation?15
The right to the smart city in the Global South: A research agenda15
The role of social institutions in informal self-organizing urbanism: The case of Palestinian towns in Israel15
Book review: Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India15
Book review: Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias15
‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation15
Urbanizing degrowth: Five steps towards a Radical Spatial Degrowth Agenda for planning in the face of climate emergency15
Self-governance of condominiums in urban China: A strategic action field perspective15
Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama Lab14
Spatial planning for a popular circular economy14
Speculating on land, property and peri/urban futures: A conjunctural approach to intra-metropolitan comparison14
Concessionary governance: The shifting local statecraft in Nanjing’s innovation-driven urban redevelopment14
Comparative urbanism for hope and healing: Urbicide and the dilemmas of reconstruction in post-war Syria and Poland14
Homeownership and subjective well-being: Are the links heterogeneous across location, age and income?14
‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity14
The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure14
Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris14
Burden or benefit: Is retail marijuana facility siting influenced by LULU- or gentrification-related neighbourhood characteristics?13
Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance13
The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs13
Skies over Frölunda: ‘Mixed city’ densification and the lived space of a stigmatised Modernist suburb in Sweden13
Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb13
Come together! Or not? Homebuyers’ interest in sharing facilities with fellow residents13
Cleaning up Los Angeles: The construction and non-resolution of a sanitation infrastructure crisis13
Displacement frames: How residents perceive, explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Francisco13
Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements13
How digitalisation influences neighbourhood change13
Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam12
Distractions in a disruption: The soothing effect of the heritage bus ride during London Tube strikes12
Book review forum: Housing in the Margins12
Spillover of urban gentrification and changing suburban poverty in the Amsterdam metropolis12
The dynamics of socio-economic segregation: What role do private schools play?12
Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city12
Book review: Urban Gardening as Politics; Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment12
The ‘In/formal Nocturnal City’: Updating a research agenda on nightlife studies from a Southern European perspective12
New municipalism in South America? Developing theory from experiences in Argentina and Chile12
‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development12
‘The gates of paradise are open’: Contesting and producing publicness in the Brussels metro through fare evasion12
Settlement policy in an Israeli mixed city: A typology of displacement and its resistance12
Zoonotic urbanisation: multispecies urbanism and the rescaling of urban epidemiology12
Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control11
The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–201511
Can zoning reform change urban development patterns? Evidence from Auckland11
Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification11
Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia11
Operationalising social protection: Reflections from urban India11
Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings11
Digital municipal currencies as a new municipalist instrument for trans-local transformation: The case of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil11
Book review: The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence10
An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments10
Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification10
The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation10
Speculative urban infrastructure in the context of Chinese engagement in Africa10
Book review: Metropolitan Governance in Latin America10
Densification by commodification: Comparing the production of housing in the Gauteng City-Region and Alpine Rhine Valley10
Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island10
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
Light violence at the threshold of acceptability10
Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace10
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world10
Book review: A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban10
Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?10
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
The governance of public space by legally unique bodies: A case study of Vancouver’s Granville Island10
From the streets to the town halls: Municipalist platforms in the post-Yugoslav space9
Redeveloping ageing communities under state entrepreneurialism in China: The case of Xiaoxihu, Nanjing9
Counter-logistics and municipalism: Popular infrastructures during the pandemic in Rosario9
State preemption and affordable housing policy9
Social ties in and out of the neighbourhood: Between compensation and cumulation9
Naming public transport and historicising experiences: Critical toponymies and everyday multilingualism in Singapore’s mass rapid transit system9
Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific9
Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability9
De-greening urbanism and social imaginaries in informal settlements9
By yourself, yet not alone: Making space for loneliness9
Profiling caregivers: Caregiving workload, mobility, stress, and remote work difficulties9
Obliged smart freedom: The Singaporean experience of advanced neoliberal-developmental governance9
Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities9
A wider view of shared transportation: Assessing the socioemotional costs and benefits of sharing in and sharing out9
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
Daylife: The evolution of partner dance spaces in urban South Korea8
Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland8
Post-political clouds: Suspended failure in Google’s data centre development8
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
Social pathologies and urban pathogenicity: Moving towards better pandemic futures8
Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods8
Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam8
The urbanisation of controlled environment agriculture: Why does it matter for urban studies?8
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions8
Negotiating the exclusive right to public schools in China’s education-featured gated communities under multiscalar and multidirectional urban entrepreneurialism8
Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home8
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s)8
Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market8
Moving towards gender-sensitive urban mobility planning: Unpacking the role of knowledge8
Arturo Soria’s Ciudad Linear of Madrid: From a (proto)transit-oriented bourgeoise utopia to a traffic-oriented upper-class neighborhood8
Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus8
Beyond consumption? Sociability and the mall as social infrastructure in Beijing8
Reorienting age-friendly frameworks for rural contexts: A spatial competence–press framework for aging in Chinese villages8
Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China8
Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises8
Making the invisible visible in city spaces: The hidden labour practices of market traders8
Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia8
A bus as a compressed public space: Everyday multiculturalism in Milan8
Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty7
Mediating ‘alterlife’: Artistic research on plant labour at a contaminated site in Bitterfeld-Wolfen7
Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions7
A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism7
Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention7
Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities7
Building back better through urban blue and green space? A critical review of post-pandemic urban planning and climate governance7
Flyovers, social constructs and uncertainty: (Un)covering the blind spots of urbanisation in Chongqing7
Why urban densification ignores the social dimension of sustainability7
Local familiar strangers in digitalising urban neighbourhoods in Seoul7
Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation?7
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice7
Book review: Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice7
Book review: Urban Planning for Climate Change7
Storage city: Water tanks, jerry cans, and batteries as infrastructure in Nairobi7
An empirical test of measures of housing degrowth: Learning from the limited experience of England and Wales, 1981–20117
Change or stability in educational inequalities? Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy7
Community engagement through the neighbourhood street festival: Between external simulation and local stimulation7
Disposable infrastructures: ‘Micromobility’ platforms and the political economy of transport disruption in Austin, Texas7
Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city7
Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning7
Book review: The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies7
Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru7
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space7
Book review: War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon7
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