Urban Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Geography 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century56
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom55
Hacking suburban social infrastructure: glitch subjects and queer practices of social reproduction54
Working toward infrastructural citizenship: state-society relations and community waste labor in Cape Town49
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space38
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture36
Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly . Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes21
Terraformed18
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values18
Resilient climate urbanism and the politics of experimentation for adaptation17
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare17
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area17
Distinction, difference, and the place(s) of Latine working-class immigrants in the creative city17
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: an analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast16
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India16
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD15
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun15
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do15
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification14
Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center14
Small city big thinking: the making of China’s coffee capital14
Mean streets: homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital14
An investigation of the use of Google Street View for identifying gentrification across diverse United States morphological city types14
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent14
How workable is a 20-minute city in Australia? Re-examining the challenge of change in spatial labour and job relations14
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process14
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary13
Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience13
Veni, vidi, gentri? – Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?13
On autonomy in Frankenstein Urbanism13
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation13
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy13
State/finance symbiosis12
Linking U.S. government-sponsored redlining to early-stage white flight, 1940–195012
Building space, building value: residential space additions and the transformation of low-rise housing in Toronto12
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem12
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound12
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space11
The limits to urban revolution: the transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party11
Doing comparative urbanism: comparative conversation as tactic11
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity11
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization10
Rethinking the off-grid city10
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides10
In the shadow of gentrification: the case of art-led neighborhood change in Osaka’s developmental inner city10
“Homes not shelters”: co-productions of home in financialized social housing for women in Vancouver, Canada10
Urban value chains and re-framing agglomeration-centric conceptions of urban theory10
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia10
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city10
More private than public: the choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO10
The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism9
From campaign-style governance to multiple environmentalities: urban political ecologies of e-waste regulation in Guiyu, China9
Generationing cultural quarters: the temporal embeddedness of relational places9
The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation8
Rethinking the post-socialist city8
Trust and social space – a relational perspective8
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK8
Infrastructure in formation: the politics and practices of making progress with infrastructure8
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy8
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters8
Urban policy mobilities in Urban Geography : in retrospect and in prospect8
Dialogic practices of urban gardening in Rome: “Reading for difference” in social innovation8
Justice and the American city7
Writing urban worlds in City of Men7
The nature of “wilderness” in the settler-colonial suburb7
Refugees in new destinations and small cities: resettlement in Vermont7
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction7
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state7
An urban resilience fix: resolving waterfront development and flood risks in Boston’s Seaport District7
Displacement: cause and consequence of gentrification7
An analysis of diverse gentrification processes and their relationship to historic preservation activity in Chicago7
Trading crime for culture? Activating territorial stigma through cultural regeneration in Paisley7
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary7
On writing The City after Property7
Spatial clustering of property abandonment in shrinking cities: a case study of targeted demolition in Buffalo, NY’s African American neighborhoods7
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world7
Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice7
“Blacklighting” the shaping of place: theories, strategies, and spatial imaginaries from the ‘Shaw7
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality7
Shelter in place: neighborhood policing of homelessness in Montreal, Canada7
Empowered, almost: luxury consumption and the crooked urban life6
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis6
“Worlding” Bangladeshi urbanism through water6
On structures and events6
Socio-material governance tensions in nature-based solution experiments: lessons from Turin6
“In densification we trust” – on the role of abstract space in the production of urban densification in the Alpine Rhine Valley6
Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment: a case from Wuhan6
Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen6
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?6
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy6
The promise and reality of middle-class homeownership in China: housing assetisation, speculative urban (re)development and residential inequalities6
Aging, everyday active mobility and the challenge of the tourist city: an illustration from Barcelona6
Liquid borders: reflections from fragmented water infrastructure in Guwahati, Northeast India6
Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S.6
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias6
Whose sidewalk is it? Street vendors and the battle for San Diego’s foodscape6
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing6
Osmosis across defensible space: observations and lessons from dérives in London during COVID-196
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”6
Assembling place-based transitions: capitalist logics of green building in Vancouver, Canada5
Climate transparency and the affective politics of adaptation in Miami5
Regulating sidewalk delivery robots as a disruptive new urban technology5
Decentralizing the power of fashion? Exploring the geographies and inter-place connections of fashion cities through fashion weeks5
Mobilizing heterogeneity: understanding the dynamic qualities and diversity of energy access in Maputo5
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults5
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta5
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills5
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture5
(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance5
Vernacular place name as a cultural arena of urban place-making and symbolic resistance in Minsk, Belarus5
Urban social infrastructure and care: Japanese examples5
Green, gray, glocal: governing urban resilience in the Tel Aviv metropolitan region5
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing5
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking4
Social governance for value creation: state-led land assembly, the property mind, and speculative urbanism in Taiwan4
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus4
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative4
Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South: insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory4
Spaces of social reproduction, mobility, and the Syrian refugee care crisis in Izmir, Turkey4
Policing tenancy: the struggle for housing and land in Los Angeles4
Divine and wine: negotiating the past in Nashik’s urban future4
Cities on the new silk road: the global urban geographies of China’s belt and road initiative4
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit4
One water in Los Angeles? Contesting the circular city through infrastructural practices4
Review symposium: transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn4
Citizens in the “smart city”: participation, co-production, governance4
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY4
Cultural variables differ informal settlement interventions in Accra and Buenos Aires4
Theme park follies: the publics of art biennials in Dakar and Taipei4
Shark Fin City: transitional marine wildlife economies in Global Hong Kong4
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom4
The role of the diaspora: malaga, vā, and contesting the financialization of customary land in Samoa4
Gentrification and the role of the professional-managerial middle class4
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China4
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil4
Making sense ofsensinghomes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context3
Rebranding place “to build community”: neighborhood branding in Buffalo, NY3
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies3
Space and social capital: social contacts in a segregated city3
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?3
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water3
Keeping up with the zones(es): how competing local governments in China use development zones as back doors to urbanization3
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration3
Beyond the car: how electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city3
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings3
Territorializing the Pearl River Delta: “state entrepreneurialism” in the cultural facility boom3
Revisioning Urban Pulse3
On women, pans, and politics: imagining decolonial gendered urban spatialities3
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures3
“鱼龙混杂 yúlóng-hùnzá” - fish and dragons (bad and good people) mixing together: young people, urban life and alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China3
Insourcing the smart city: assembling an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore3
The datafication of water infrastructure and its implications for (il)legible water consumers3
Simulating the “city of joy”: state choreography and the re-appropriation of public spaces in Kolkata3
Transnational gentrification and the housing market during pandemic times, Lisbon style3
Luxury housing and gentrification in New York City, 2010-20193
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus3
Creating therapeutic spaces for the public: elderly exercisers as leaders in urban China3
The need to design a nocturnal 15-min city2
Correction2
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city2
More-than-human territoriality: the contested spaces and beastly places of Canada geese in Europe’s largest urban wetland2
Injected urbanism: urban theory from India?2
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can2
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking2
Cities for a guaranteed income: renewing the urban politics of cash assistance in the United States2
Eco-cities as urban laboratories of Chinese ecological modernization: eco-experimentation and the modernization of urban governance2
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London2
Trust the people: a lesson in listening, learning and following the lead of Black people in The City after Property Trust the people: a lesson in liste2
Curating smart cities2
Does public rental housing foster social ties? A study of the everyday social lives of rural migrants in Chongqing, China2
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China2
Navigating constraints, finding freedom: exploring asylum seekers’ access to urban arrival infrastructures2
Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets2
Displaced for housing: analysing the uneven outcomes of the Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program2
Encountering not-so-smart technologies in urban spaces: QR codes, screens and the idiocy of smart living2
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?2
“By what authority?” The contested politics of urban toponymic inscription in Zimbabwe2
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation2
Diversity our strength? Exploring the influence of power dynamics on shaping suburban ethnic strips and place-making2
Co-producing gendered mobilities in City of Men2
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees2
“Just as much as there is Islamophobia, there is racism:” corporeal encounters with the Muslim Other in Amsterdam2
What is progressive city building? Global expertise and local entanglements in Latin America2
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space2
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona2
Tracing the smart virus in a smart city: a discursive analysis of Singapore’s early pandemic surveillance response2
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets2
Special issues: Urban Geography’s renewed commitment2
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities2
Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda2
Digital platforms and the spatial transformation of urban villages in southern China: a case for platform-urban villagism?2
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami2
Restaurants and the labor of urban revitalization, placemaking and rebranding in Louisville, Kentucky2
Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity2
Negotiating urban solidarities: multiple agencies and contested meanings in the making of solidarity cities2
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands2
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: a conjunctural comparison of two new cities2
Frankenstein urbanism and why feminists, literature and AI can help us resist the end of the city2
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities2
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers2
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London1
Making the city through participatory video: implications for urban geography1
The politics of post-developmentalist expertise: progressive movements, strategic localism, and urban governance in Seoul1
Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment1
Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter1
Whose city? Which sociality?1
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region1
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present1
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona1
Place branding in resource peripheries: attracting the knowledge elite to Antofagasta, Chile1
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda1
“Freedom Cities”: Trump and an American global new city1
Demarcating the granular frontier: planetary urbanization without an inside1
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai1
Importing export zones: processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanization in rural south India1
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia1
Mundane urban (im)mobilities: work, domestic, and family lives of migrant building workers in China1
From the square to the shopping mall: new social media, state surveillance, and the evolving geographies of urban protest1
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm1
Before displacement: studentification, campus-led gentrification and rental market transformation in a multiethnic neighborhood (Parc-Extension, Montréal)1
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity1
Universities and urban social structure: gentrification, studentification, and youthification in five United States legacy cities1
Safe storage and parking lots: anti-homeless laws and homeless service spaces in Los Angeles1
Turning land into assets: local government borrowing through land assetization in China1
The politics of “urban expertise”: shifting horizons for critical urban scholarship?1
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary1
Questioning “progressive” gentrification in Asia: evidence from Kampung Sungai Baru, Kuala Lumpur1
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship1
Urban geographies of waste1
Moving from “superstar” cities to “ordinary” cities to reclaim middle-class status: gentrification-induced inter-metropolitan migration1
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development1
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots1
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy1
Rhythms of recycling: reconfiguring apartment waste practices in London and Melbourne1
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city1
Offshore campus development and the worlding of Dubai as an international education hub1
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou1
Transforming buildings, reorienting lives: the desire for gentrification in Istanbul1
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–20131
Living in psychic ellipses … mutual aid amongst evictees in central Bucharest1
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria1
Conversational gambits: talking points to a better future1
Building back better in urban contexts through a dual ethics of justice and care1
Included or left behind? Residents’ perceptions on public investments, city growth, and local decision-making1
Zoning initiatives, divide or unite? Anti-displacement struggles in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, New York City, 2002–20181
Urban sprawl and the automation of building control in the peripheries of Nairobi1
Touristification, rent gap and the local political economy of Airbnb in Salzburg (Austria)1
From lively spatial combinations to lively theorizations1
Persistent racial diversity in neighborhoods: what explains it and what are the long-term consequences?1
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