Journal of Urban Affairs

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Affairs is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The neighbor spectrum in community housing: Pro-social, anti-social and asocial neighboring in Vancouver57
Urban marginality and institutional effects: Disinvestment, inefficacy, and stigmatization in Santiago de Chile33
Race, housing policy, and the demographic and spatial structure of modern housing programs: Who receives rental assistance and where do they live?31
Local immigrant support policies in the context of economic development30
Forever struggle: Activism, identity, & survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880–2018, by Michael Liu21
Case studies in retrofitting suburbia: Urban design strategies for urgent challenges, by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones (eds.)20
Fixer-upper: How to repair America’s broken housing systems, by Jenny Schuetz19
A note from the new editor-in-chief16
Repowering cities: Governing climate change mitigation in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, by Sarah Hughes16
Scenario planning for cities and regions: Managing and envisioning uncertain futures, by Robert Goodspeed15
Innate terrain: Canadian landscape architecture , edited by Alissa North14
Broken city: Land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis , by Patrick Condon13
Exploring local activism in the neighborhoods of Cairo13
Globalizing cities: A brief introduction, by Mark Abrahamson12
Homelessness and housing supply12
The changing American neighborhood: The meaning of place in the twenty-first century , by Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom12
Temporary food insecurity, social capital, and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai12
Pandemic in the metropolis: Transportation impacts and recovery , edited by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Alexandre M. Bayen, Giovanni Circella and R. Jayakrishnan 12
“Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms12
Who is the city for? Architecture, equity, and the public realm in Chicago , by Blair Kamin and Lee Bey Who is the city for? Architecture, equity, a12
Handbook on smart growth: Promise, principles, and prospects for planning , by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty, and Kay June-Friesen (eds.) 11
Is spatial mismatch really spatial, and really a mismatch? Recent evidence on employment among Hispanic and Black people in the U.S.11
Informality as an approach to claiming the right to resettlement and achieving inclusive rural-to-urban resettlement for landless villagers: The case of Hangzhou, China11
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies11
Labor lacuna: Disjunctures between local climate action and workforce development in advancing just transitions11
New Mobilities: Smart planning for emerging transportation technologies, by Todd Litman10
Ecological states: politics of science and nature in urbanizing China , by Jesse Rodenbiker10
Building Little Saigon: Refugee urbanism in American cities and suburbs , by Erica Allen-Kim,10
The Italian legacy in Philadelphia: History, culture, people, and ideas, by Andrea Canepari and Judith Goode (eds.)10
Brooklynites: The remarkable story of the free Black communities that shaped a borough , by Prithi Kanakamedala10
Including the majority: Examining the local social interactions of renters in four case study condominiums in Sydney9
Uber to get groceries: Are ride-hail services accessing Chicago’s food deserts?9
In placement, not just dis placement: Urban assemblages and neighborhood stability in the face of gentrification9
The sociology of housing: How homes shape our social lives , edited by Brian J. McCabe and Eva Rosen9
Child stunting in South Africa: Urban premium or penalty?9
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian migration and the making of a white working class , by Max Fraser Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian mi9
Smart cities and smart communities: Empowering citizens through intelligent technologies , edited by Srikanta Patnaik, Siddhartha Sen and Sudeshna Ghosh 9
Emergency responses of Indian smart cities during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Is mixed-housing development healthier for residents? The implications on the perception of neighborhood environment, sense of place, and mental health in urban Guangzhou8
Resilience difference between growing and shrinking resource-exhausted cities and its influencing factors8
How to think about cities , by Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce8
The urban brain: Mental health in the vital city , by Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald8
Land reform from below: Institutional change driven by confrontation and negotiation8
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city, by Aaron Shapiro8
Partnerships between anchor-med institutions and community organizations to address social determinants of health in urban populations: Do institutional pressures play a role?8
Hella Town: Oakland’s history of development and disruption, by Mitchell Schwarzer8
Urban planning as a way to pursue quality-oriented urbanization: Anatomy of the urban planning of Xiong’an New Area, China8
Everyday improvising in public space: The forest pub as a site for suburban being8
Disaster resilience and human settlements: Emerging perspectives in the Anthropocene , edited by Bharat Dahiya, Francesco de Pascale, Orlando De Pietro, Piero Farabollini, Francesca8
State infrastructure and neighborhood well-being in urbanizing China8
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana7
Exploring the spatial distribution of community resources focusing on municipalities: A multilevel analysis of the greater Los Angeles area7
Exploring sustainable urban governance: Evolving dynamics, transitions, and ambiguities7
Producing affordable housing in higher-opportunity neighborhoods: Incentives in California’s LIHTC program7
Black barbershops and guardianship: A mixed methods investigation on the role of barbershops and community7
South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and resurrection of an American city, third edition , by Jill Jonnes South Bronx rising: The rise, fall, and res7
Housing motivated youth in low-income neighborhoods: How practitioners shape conditions for encounters across diversity in ‘intentional’ social mix programs in Milan and Paris7
Bankers in the ivory tower: The troubling rise of financiers in U.S. higher education , by Charlie Eaton Bankers in the ivory tower: The troubling r7
The dynamics of land-based financing in Ghana: An institutional perspective for implementation6
Fragile neighborhoods: Repairing American society one zip code at a time , by Seth D. Kaplan Fragile neighborhoods: Repairing American society one z6
Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , by Lynne A. Weikart Mayor Michael Bloomberg: The limits of power , b6
Population trends in New Jersey , by James W. Hughes and David Listokin Population trends in New Jersey , by James 6
Over 40 years of shaping global urban research: TheJournal of Urban Affairs, 1979–20216
The suburbanization of poverty and minority populations in the 2000s: Two parallel or interrelated processes?6
Furthering fair housing: Prospects for racial justice in America’s neighborhoods, edited by Justin P. Steil, Nicholas F. Kelly, Lawrence J. Vale, and Maia S. Woluchem6
Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality , by Robin Bartram Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproducti6
The importance of city services to internally displaced persons, returnees, and host residents in Juba, South Sudan6
Citizens’ and government officials’ perceptions of commercialization in Cairo’s public parks6
Boon or bane? Examining the impact of the Payatas sanitary landfill closure on former scavengers in the Philippines6
Public gardens and livable cities: Partnerships connecting people, plants, and place , by Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, and Sharon A. Lee6
America’s Johannesburg: Industrialization and racial transformation in Birmingham, by Bobby M. Wilson5
Public participation process in urban planning: Evaluation approaches of fairness and effectiveness criteria of planning advisory committees, by Kamal Uddin and Bhuiyan Monwar Alam5
The two-parent privilege: How Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind , by Melissa Kearney5
Modeling the relationship between living in informal dwellings and fear of crime in Gauteng Province, South Africa5
Power and leadership in small Russian monotowns5
A research agenda for regional and local government , edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin5
A history of council housing in 100 estates , by John Boughton A history of council housing in 100 estates , by Joh5
Skyscraper settlement: The many lives of Christodora House , by Joyce Milambiling5
Survival strategies at the edge of the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar: Revealing ger residents’ capacity to aspire5
The alley as an expression of urban form: Understanding the logic of African urban dynamics5
Changing employment subcenters and opportunity in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area5
Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? Understanding the effects of smarter growth on communities, by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris5
Black history in the Philadelphia landscape: Deep roots, continuing legacy , by Amy Jane Cohen5
The city after property: Abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit , by Sara Safransky5
Glasgow: High-rise homes, estates and communities in the post-war period, by Lynn Abrams, Ade Kearns, Barry Hazley and Valerie Wright5
Interpreting China’s overbuilding through a behavioral perspective: The role of developers’ excessive optimism4
Shifting philanthropies? An investigation of grantmaking for community revitalization and economic development by place-oriented foundations4
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s old Harlem neighborhood through the centuries , by Davida Siwisa James Hamilton Heights and Su4
From improvement to city planning: Spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade, by Henry C. Binford4
When tourism disrupts it all: An approach to the landscapes of touristification4
Political exercise: Active living, public policy, and the built environment , by Lawrence D. Brown Political exercise: Active living, public policy,4
Can school closures decrease ethnic school segregation? Evidence from primary and lower secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden4
Access to social welfare and migrants’ intercity location choices in the case of China: Do latent preferences matter?4
Special Issue: Arts and the City in the 21st Century4
The many geographies of urban renewal: New perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949 , by Douglas R. Appler (ed.) The many geographies of urban renewa4
Building colonial Hong Kong: Speculative development and segregation in the city , by Cecelia L. Chu4
An exploratory analysis of the development and implementation of urban animal welfare policy in public spaces for four common species: Cats, dogs, pigeons, and foxes in the Brussels Capital Region4
The Routledge handbook of urban studies in Latin America and the Caribbean , edited by Jesús M. González-Pérez, Clara Irazábal, and Rubén C. Lois-González 4
Slum-dwellers as experts: A problem structuring approach to understand housing challenges in slum communities of India4
Remaking the American dream: The informal and formal transformation of single-family housing cities , by Vinit Mukhija Remaking the American dream: 4
Decomposing changes in the geography of metropolitan inequality4
A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data4
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California4
Handbook of global urban health, by Igor Vojnovic, Amber L. Pearson, Gershim Asiki, Geoff DeVerteuil, Adriana Allen (eds.)4
Cumulative disadvantage during childhood: The association between moving and accumulated neighborhood deprivation over a child’s life course in the Netherlands4
Responding to an uprising: An analysis of the Ferguson Commission4
Social capital and perceived health of three types of older rural-to-urban migrants: A machine learning–based analysis4
After suburbia: Urbanization in the twenty-first century , edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu After suburbia: Urbanization in the twenty-first centu4
Understanding residential mobility: Why the African context matters4
Ex nihilo urbanization in Nigeria: Colonial legacies, privatization, and foreign actors4
Place-makers in the digital age: Lifestyle migrants and the emergence of lifestyle-oriented urbanization in China4
Property rights, public health, and planning for informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya4
How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles4
The impact of weather on the racial composition of traffic stop and citation issuance in the United States4
Not gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a housing assetization strategy4
Evaluating the association between Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining and concentrated Black poverty4
Hidden barriers and divisive architecture: The role of “everyday space” in conflict and peacebuilding in Belfast4
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change, by Joan Fitzgerald4
The grassroots and citymaking in the Middle East: The agency of tactical participation in Amman, Jordan4
Urban planning in a world of informal politics , by Chandan Deuskar4
In Levittown’s shadow: Poverty in America’s wealthiest postwar suburb , by Tim Keogh4
The misunderstood history of gentrification: People, planning, preservation, and urban renewal, 1915–2020, by Dennis Gale4
Examining the impact of in-situ infrastructural upgrading on sustainability in informal settlements: The case of Accra, Ghana3
Estate regeneration and its discontents: Public housing, place and inequality in London, by Paul Watt3
Regional governance and the politics of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area , by Paul G. Lewis and Nicholas J. Marantz3
Survival of the city: Living and thriving in an age of isolation, by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler3
Slow and sudden violence , by Derek Hyra3
Can the innovative-city-pilot policy promote urban innovation? An empirical analysis from China3
Communities of resistance and resilience in the post-industrial city: A transnational perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh , by Daniel Holland3
Residents’ reshaping of public space during COVID-19: The case of North Tel Aviv3
Social capital and housing at the urban periphery: Lessons from a government-led housing development program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia3
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles neighborhood became the future of American democracy, by George Sanchez3
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The new noir: Race, identity, and diaspora in Black suburbia, by Orly Clergé3
How spaces become places: Place makers tell their stories, by John Forester3
Commoning urban infrastructures: Lessons from energy, water and housing commons in Barcelona3
Defensible space on the move: Mobilisation in English housing policy and practice , by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick Defensible space on the move:3
Refugees in borderlands: Safe places versus securitization in Athens, Greece3
Urban home values and multi-level political accountability: Evidence from Calgary, Canada3
Building downtown Los Angeles: The politics of race and place in urban America , by Leland T. Saito Building downtown Los Angeles: The politics of r3
Understanding the residential mobility decisions of U.S. families in poverty3
Contested Americans: Mixed-status families in anti-immigrant times , by Cassaundra Rodriguez3
Building a better Chicago: race and community resistance to urban redevelopment , by Teresa Irene Gonzales Building a better Chicago: Race and commu3
Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism , by Trevor Latimer Small isn’t beautiful: The case against localism 3
Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies , by Michael Neuman Sustainable infrastructure for cities and societies 3
Handbook of megacities and megacity-regions , edited by Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen3
Street matters: A critical history of twentieth-century urban policy in Brazil , by Fernando Luiz Lara and Ana Paula Koury Street matters: A critica3
Sustainability prospects for autonomous vehicles: Environmental, social, and urban, by George Martin3
Is public agency relocation effective to achieve decentralization? Evaluating its effects on regional employment3
The comprehensive plan: Sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities for the 21st century, by David Rouse and Rocky Piro3
Gentrification studies and cultural colonialism: Discussing connections between historic city centers of Mexico and Spain3
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach3
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality, by Max Besbris3
Temporary use of urban vacant spaces: A pro-poor land use strategy in the Global South3
Megaregions and America’s future, by Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang and Frederick R. Steiner3
Airbnb in Latin America: A literature review from an urban studies perspective3
Regional governance for greenways in China: A control rights perspective3
Affordable housing preservation in Washington, DC: A framework for local funding, collaborative governance and community organizing for change, by Kathryn Howell3
Bringing the civic back in: Zane L. Miller and American urban history , edited by Larry Bennett, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin Bring3
Building on firm foundations: Organizations and growth in urban arts communities2
The spatial distribution of neighborhood safety ties: Consequences for perceived collective efficacy?2
Buying a house without a formal title: A property rights perspective for understanding informal housing ownership in Shenzhen, China2
(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America2
The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject2
Cities, climate change, and public health: Building human resilience to climate change at the local level, by Ella Jisun Kim2
A ‘gray area’? Neighborhood decline and reclamation in 1950s and 1960s U.S. urban discourse and legislation2
Neighborhood and housing choices of out-of-town versus local movers: The case of Charlotte, North Carolina2
Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning2
Reframing the urban challenge in Africa: Knowledge co-production from the South, by Ntombini Marrengane and Sylvia Croese2
Shadow men: The third wheel of public transport in Ghana2
Moving back: Spatial and demographic differences in boomeranging to parents2
The reproduction of social inequalities at neighborhood level in Salvador, Brazil: Does the spatial proximity to affluent gated communities mitigate neighborhood effects?2
Immigrant crossroads: Globalization, incorporation, and placemaking in Queens, New York, edited by Tarry Hum, Ron Hayduk, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. and Michael Alan Krasner2
From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities , by Alison Sant From the ground up: Local efforts to create resilient cities 2
Keeping the sanctuary pure: Movements and frictions in an Argentine gated community2
The age of surveillance capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power, by Shoshana Zuboff2
What contributes to the collaborative network of emergency information release? A case study of COVID-19 response in China2
Local factors sustaining co-production: Two case studies from the city of Yokohama, Japan2
Colour matters: Essays on the experiences, education, and pursuits of Black youth, by Carl James2
Does pre-purchase counseling help low-income buyers choose and sustain homeownership in socially mixed destination neighborhoods?2
“All roads lead to Rome?” Performance evaluation across different types of community land trusts based on a large-scale survey2
Justice and the Interstates: The racist truth about urban highways , edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda K. Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca C. Retzlaff2
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity2
Sense of community (SOC) in gated urban neighborhoods: Empirical insights from Accra, Ghana2
Public space reader, edited by Miodrag Mitrašinović and Vikas Mehta, New York, Routledge, 20212
A green surge amidst conservative politics: The case of Knoxville, Tennessee2
Mayor’s desk: 20 conversations with local leaders solving global problems , by Anthony Flint2
Professional sports venues as catalysts for revitalization? Perspectives from industry experts2
Dilemmas of substitution: Why the urban poor support punitive policing in a Latin American city2
Rhetoric and reality of “turnover”: Condominium developer influence in Ontario and New York2
Moving ideas? The news media’s impact on ridehailing regulation in Canadian cities2
A research agenda for events impacts , by Nicholas Wise and Kelly Maguire (eds.) A research agenda for events impacts 2
The gerrymandering of cities and the politics of racial exclusion: Evidence from a spatial typology of municipal boundary changes2
Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana2
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs2
Evaluating the availability, accessibility, and affordability of fresh food in informal food environments in five Mexican cities2
Post-growth planning: Cities beyond the market economy , by Federico Savini, Antonio Ferreira, and Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld2
Mitigating urban light pollution: A review of municipal regulations and implications for planners2
Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster capitalism , by Albert S. Fu Risky cities: The physical and fiscal factors of disaster cap2
Muhtars becoming real estate agents: Changing roles of neighborhood representatives in relation to the state-led urban transformation in Çinçin, Ankara, Turkey2
Tensions in diversity: Spaces for collective life in Los Angeles , by Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan2
Urban jungle: The history and future of nature in the city , by Ben Wilson2
Who owns France? Uncovering the structure of property ownership for a better understanding of the socio-spatial distribution of wealth2
Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government2
The speculative city: Emergent forms and norms of the built environment , edited by Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He The speculative city: Emergent fo2
The architecture of disability: Buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access , by David Gissen The architecture of disability: Buildings, cities,2
The geography of nonstandard employment across U.S. metropolitan areas2
Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice , by Sandeep Agrawal (ed.) Rights and the city: Problems, progress, and practice 2
Gayfriendly: Acceptance and control of homosexuality in New York and Paris , by Sylvie Tissot Gayfriendly: Acceptance and control of homosexuality i2
Curbing traffic: The human case for fewer cars in our lives, by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett2
Smart cities in the post-algorithmic era: Integrating technologies, platforms and governance, edited by Nicos Komninos and Christina Kakderi2
Parks and recreation system planning: A new approach for creating sustainable, resilient communities, by David L. Barth2
Depicting the narratives of escape, drift, compromise, and return: New Chinese youth paradigms in narratives of social mobility2
Livin’ on the edge: The peripheral host and the production of a digital tourism space beyond the city center1
Social (in)equality, community well-being and quality of life , by Patsy Kraeger, M. Rezaul Islam, and Rhonda Phillips1
The great American housing bubble: What went wrong and how we can protect ourselves in the future, by Adam Levitin and Susan Wachter1
Identifying urban households in relative poverty with multi-source data: A case study in Zhengzhou1
Making our neighborhoods, making our selves , by George C. Galster1
Municipal mergers under local autonomy: Electoral consequences of city-county consolidation in South Korea1
Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential , by Vikas Mehta Public space: Notes on why it matters,1
A policy window for equity? The American Rescue Plan and local government response1
When fracking comes to town: Governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US shale boom, by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili (eds.)1
Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Leslie Kern Gentrification is inevitable and other lies , by Lesli1
Creating Chinese urbanism: Urban revolution and governance changes , by Fulong Wu1
Atlas of the senseable city , by Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti1
Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future: Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement1
The politics of police violence: Political competition and police killings in Brazil1
Non-design: Architecture, liberalism, and the market, by Anthony Fontenot1
Showcase politics: The production and distribution of new public space in Mexico City1
Collateral damages: Landlords and the urban housing crisis , by Meredith Greif Collateral damages: Landlords and the urban housing crisis 1
Where are the police in urban governance? Three investigations of police, planning, and governance in central Atlanta1
The influence of women’s representation on social spending in local government1
Street-level architecture: The past, present and future of interactive frontages , by Conrad Kickert and Hans Karssenberg Street-level architecture:1
First responder ladder of community engagement: Understanding community-facing activities during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential, by Heba Gowayed1
Examining facilitators and challenges to implementing equitable green space policies: Lessons from Los Angeles County1
Reflecting on the JUA, 2015-2021: An editor’s farewell1
Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China , by Travis S. K. Kong1
Outcaste Bombay: City making and the politics of the poor , by Juned Shaikh Outcaste Bombay: City making and the politics of the poor 1
In the name of “low-carbon cities”: National rhetoric, local leverage, and divergent exploitation of the greening of urban governance in China1
The suburbanization of California’s deserts1
Shaking up the city: Ignorance, inequality, and the urban question, by Tom Slater1
Neoliberalizing infrastructure: Financing public transportation in Greater Boston1
The state of urban research: Views across the disciplines1
Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses t1
The toponymic battle: Renaming streets in Santiago de Chile 50 years after the military coup1
Whose diversity? Race, space and the European city1
Urban agendas around the world: A case of policy transfer? An analysis proposal1
New York , by Jill S. Gross and H. V. Savitch1
Inclusive transportation: A manifesto for repairing divided communities , edited by Veronica Davis Inclusive transportation: A manifesto for repairi1
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