Urban Geography

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Geography is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space68
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides63
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India62
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy28
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles27
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare22
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century20
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity20
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification20
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden20
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism19
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun19
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary19
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing19
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world17
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis17
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates17
On writing The City after Property17
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults16
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration16
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes16
Revisioning Urban Pulse16
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom15
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit15
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 liste15
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil15
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation14
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies14
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can13
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus13
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona13
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?12
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen12
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development12
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities12
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity12
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities12
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship12
“I don't think anybody’s ever been to scale:” the imperative for growth and the implications of scale for Community Land Trusts in Minnesota, USA11
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city11
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona11
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA11
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen11
Urban geographies of waste11
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration11
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city11
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets11
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look11
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg10
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity10
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach10
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development10
Wishing the wall back: the struggles of eight “unification losers” in post-socialist Berlin10
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia9
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá9
People after property: beyond relations of extraction9
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem9
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”9
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context9
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing9
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle9
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares8
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound8
“This is my home, and I am not ashamed to live here”: a comparative study of sense of belonging in Harare and Accra’s informal settlements8
Land back / cities back8
Rethinking the off-grid city8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space8
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective8
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy8
“It’s not that I don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else”: young refugees’ contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in 8
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem8
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture8
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking7
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?7
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”7
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees7
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador7
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami7
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state7
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta7
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area7
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China6
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy6
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia6
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures6
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water6
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh6
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots6
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou6
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–20136
Smart urban living in Singapore? Thinking through everyday geographies5
Why is emotional data failing to produce more humane cities? Urban governance and the (interdisciplinary) problem of wellbeing5
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto5
School-hosted urban development: the transformation of education facilities into residential real estate in Chicago5
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo5
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity5
Building and defending counterspaces : an analysis of counterspace formation in two informal settlements in Istanbul5
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda5
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city5
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism5
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis5
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam5
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city5
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process5
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City5
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property5
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations5
Sourcing and commodifying knowledge for investment and development in cities4
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: an analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast4
Waiting in uneven geographies of asylum reception and the social mobility of refugees4
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture4
Neoliberalism and the splintering of city-regionalism: the case of Denver’s regional transit agency in times of COVID-19 urban austerity4
Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly . Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes4
Labor formalization and digital platforms: entrepreneurship and short-term rentals in Havana’s housing markets4
More private than public: the choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO4
Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system4
The diverse processes behind neighborhood-level business agglomeration: the cases of Mile-End and Chabanel in Montreal4
Book review forums: reviving a platform4
Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South: insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory4
Detroit’s Project Green Light: an experiment in police surveillance as economic development strategy4
Climate transparency and the affective politics of adaptation in Miami4
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative4
The insurgent intellectuals in elite capture: resistance in Nanjing’s urban regeneration projects, China4
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city4
Hacking suburban social infrastructure: glitch subjects and queer practices of social reproduction4
Airbnbfication and gentrification from the perspective of rent gap theory: the case of Beyoğlu, Istanbul4
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification4
“It is for home but we use it for work”: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure and home-based enterprises in Accra4
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do4
(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance4
Emergent urban technonatures: why do “smart greenhouses” matter for urban studies?4
Trust and social space – a relational perspective4
Aging, everyday active mobility and the challenge of the tourist city: an illustration from Barcelona4
Small city big thinking: the making of China’s coffee capital4
Neighborhood governance and residents’ satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban China: evidence from six major Chinese cities4
Domesticating a redesigned public square: an ethnography of Enghave Plads, Copenhagen4
Frankenstein urbanism and why feminists, literature and AI can help us resist the end of the city3
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?3
Layers of settler urbanization and indigenous relational place-making: uncovering an ongoing palimpsest3
Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter3
How common is greening in gentrifying areas?3
Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary3
Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin3
Navigating constraints, finding freedom: exploring asylum seekers’ access to urban arrival infrastructures3
Is it a win-win strategy? Examining the media discourse on toponymic commodification in China3
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”: Kilamba’s domestic workers3
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings3
Beyond the car: how electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city3
Importing export zones: processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanization in rural south India3
Building back better in urban contexts through a dual ethics of justice and care3
Remaking urban village through culture: the politics of urban aesthetics in Shenzhen, China3
Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities3
From the square to the shopping mall: new social media, state surveillance, and the evolving geographies of urban protest3
Liminal and interstitial: performances of ordinary citizenship in Winnipeg, Canada and Copenhagen, Denmark3
Re-producing public space: the changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets3
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city3
Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda3
Curating smart cities3
Neighborhood as home, city as alienating: gendered exchange circles and place belonging in peripheral Tel Aviv3
Chinese Urbanism beyond (post-)socialism3
Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe3
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure3
“Freedom Cities”: Trump and an American global new city3
Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research3
Are mixed neighborhoods more socially cohesive? Evidence from Nanjing, China3
The geographies of housing assetization (2023) Plenary Commentary3
The need to design a nocturnal 15-min city3
Compassionate revanchism, homelessness, and the divided local state: the case of Spokane, WA3
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: a conjunctural comparison of two new cities3
Making sense ofsensinghomes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context2
Decentralizing the power of fashion? Exploring the geographies and inter-place connections of fashion cities through fashion weeks2
Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center2
Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen2
Distinction, difference, and the place(s) of Latine working-class immigrants in the creative city2
Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S.2
Walking (with) the platform: bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver2
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent2
Riders driving at the limit of AI: geographies of two-wheeled food delivery and traffic safety in Seoul, South Korea2
Animating ideologies of caste in the lively city2
Culture-led regeneration and the contestation of local discourses and meanings: the case of European maritime port cities2
The expertise of urban expertise2
The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation2
Does public rental housing foster social ties? A study of the everyday social lives of rural migrants in Chongqing, China2
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality2
Smart weather: Why does it matter for urban studies?2
Mean streets: homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital2
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy2
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom2
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias2
Towards a world of “living otherwise” in The City after Property2
Whose sidewalk is it? Street vendors and the battle for San Diego’s foodscape2
Seeing like a shadow state: an ethnography of homeless street outreach in the USA2
Not entirely displacement: conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”2
Financializing Africa’s urban peripheries: the rise of housing microfinance2
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters2
The role of the diaspora: malaga, vā, and contesting the financialization of customary land in Samoa2
Divine and wine: negotiating the past in Nashik’s urban future2
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction2
Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier2
One water in Los Angeles? Contesting the circular city through infrastructural practices2
Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century2
The spectacle of non-violence: deactivating territorial stigmatization in favela representations in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies2
Lost collectives and silenced histories2
From neighborhood detail to urban theory?2
Lively cities: a review in the minor key Lively cities: reconfiguring urban ecology , by Maan Barua, Minneapolis, USA, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 382 pp., $30.2
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency2
Contemporary urban employment patterns among Chinese peasant workers in the 2020s2
Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience2
“Guess I’m Next to be Erased”: street art, heritage and gentrification in George Town, Malaysia2
Repositioning southern cities in transnational city networks: the case of South Korea–Vietnam sister cities2
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