Journal of Urban Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Urban Affairs 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can the innovative-city-pilot policy promote urban innovation? An empirical analysis from China30
A Polanyi-inspired perspective on social-ecological transformations of cities22
Platform Spaces: When culture and the arts intersect territorial development and social innovation, a view from the Italian context22
Renovation of industrial heritage sites and sustainable urban regeneration in post-industrial Shanghai21
People-Centered Smart Cities: An exploratory action research on the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights20
Managing free-roaming cats in U.S. cities: An object lesson in public policy and citizen action16
Diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in arts and cultural planning14
In debt to the rent gap: Gentrification generalized and the frontier of the future14
Unused private and public buildings: Re-discussing merely empty and truly abandoned situations, with particular reference to the case of Italy and the city of Milan13
Interests driven or socially mobilized? Place attachment, social capital, and neighborhood participation in urban China13
State-led gentrification in three Latin American cities13
Grassroots refugee community organizations: In search of participatory urban governance12
Urban climate governance under the national government shadow: Evidence from Istanbul12
Commoning toward urban resilience: The role of trust, social cohesion, and involvement in a simulated urban commons setting12
“Placing” the relation of social media participation to neighborhood community connection10
Using urban networks to gain new insight into old questions: Community, economy, bureaucracy10
Racial/ethnic and class segregation at workplace and residence: A Los Angeles case study10
Place branding and growth machines: Implications for spatial planning and urban development9
Follow the money: Do gentrifying and at-risk neighborhoods attract more park spending?9
Grassroots mobilization for a just, green urban future: Building community infrastructure against green gentrification and displacement9
The impact of a tax cut reform on land finance revenue: Constrained by the binding target of construction land9
Planning, participation, and power in a shrinking city: The Detroit Works Project9
From margins to capital: The integration of spaces of artistic critique within capitalist urbanism9
Gendered fear of crime in the urban context: A comparative multilevel study of women’s and men’s fear of crime9
Exceptionalism and theorizing spatial inequality: Segregation research on cities in China8
(Mis-)belonging to the climate-resilient city: Making place in multi-risk communities of racialized urban America8
From public goods theory to municipal capitalism: Evaluating investments in sport venues from an urban entrepreneurial perspective8
Street entanglements: Contestation, collaboration, and co-optation in Manila’s informal vending spaces8
Exploring the impact of factors influencing case selection in the place branding literature from 2014 to 20188
Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government8
A matter of life or death: How racial representation shapes compliance with city disaster preparedness orders8
An environmental justice analysis of urban tree canopy distribution and change8
Gentrification: The role of dialogue in community engagement and social cohesion8
Rightful squatting: Housing movements, citizenship, and the “right to the city” in Brazil8
From shared micro-mobility to shared responsibility: Using crowdsourcing to understand dockless vehicle violations in Austin, Texas8
Motivations and barriers in becoming urban residents: Evidence from rural migrants living in public rental housing in Chongqing, China7
A fowl politics of urban dwelling. Or, Ybor City’s republic of noise7
Political fragmentation and economic growth in U.S. metropolitan areas7
Industrial heritage preservation and the urban revitalisation process in Belgrade7
Touristification, commercial gentrification, and experiences of displacement in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Busan, South Korea7
Experiential Knowledge of urbanites on climatic changes in the Sunyani municipality, Ghana7
Climate change adaptation with green roofs: Instrument choice and facilitating factors in urban areas7
Social solidarity economy and urban commoning in post-crisis contexts: Madrid and Athens in a comparative perspective7
Choosing homes without choosing schools? How urban parents navigate decisions about neighborhoods and school choice7
Reconciling big data and thick data to advance the new urban science and smart city governance6
The state of urban research: Views across the disciplines6
Problematizing the concept of walkability in Johannesburg6
From top-down urban planning to culturally sensitive planning? Urban renewal and artistic activism in a neo-bohemian district in Barcelona6
“Micro-regeneration”: Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China6
Housing vacancy and hypervacant neighborhoods: Uneven recovery after the U.S. foreclosure crisis6
Refugees in borderlands: Safe places versus securitization in Athens, Greece6
The space of ideas: Public art policy and the concept of urban model spaces6
The politics of police violence: Political competition and police killings in Brazil6
Enacting urban entrepreneurialism through neighbourhood governance: A comparative study of Shanghai and Guangzhou, China6
Amateur real estate investing6
Probing political paradox: Urban expansion, floods risk vulnerability and social justice in urban Africa6
Arts in the city: Debates in the Journal of Urban Affairs6
Is public agency relocation effective to achieve decentralization? Evaluating its effects on regional employment6
Re-scaling social mix: Public housing renewal in Melbourne6
Evaluating values in creative placemaking: The arts as community development in the NEA’s Our Town program6
Impact of school location on children’s air pollution exposure6
Creative discretion and the structure of context-responsive improvising6
Pandemic urbanization: How South Africa’s history of labor and disease control creates its current disparities5
Topography and crime in place: The effects of elevation, slope, and betweenness in San Francisco street segments5
Electoral support for the 5 Star Movement in Milan: An ecological analysis of social and spatial factors5
Social inclusion through mixed-income development: Design and practice in the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative5
Urban transformation through national innovation competitions: Lessons from the UK’s Future City Demonstrator initiative5
“Top-down” local government mergers: Political and institutional factors facilitating radical amalgamation reforms5
The intra-urban residential and workplace locations of small business owners5
The spatialized political ecology of the city: Situated peripheries and the capitalocenic limits of urban affairs5
Animals in the city: Wither the human-animal divide5
Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana5
Artistic City-zenship: How artists perceive and practice political agency in their cities5
The specter of the “art-less city”: Locating artists in Philadelphia’s creative economy5
Arts and the city in post-Soviet contexts: Policy pathways and interventions in urban cultural development in Kazakhstan5
Urban neoliberalism, smart city, and Big Tech: The aborted Sidewalk Labs Toronto experiment5
Entanglements in urban governance in new African cities: Appolonia City in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana5
City in Africa I: Urbanism and informality5
Challenges in the creation of murals: A theoretical framework4
Economic inequality in U.S. global cities4
Who collaborates on urban resilience? An analysis of flood resilience planning networks in four coastal cities4
Perceived reasons for paying more for housing in metro Atlanta: Results from the 2018 Metro Atlanta Speaks survey4
A comparison of space quality in streets in the context of public open space design: The example of Izmir, Barcelona, and Liverpool4
Placing production in urban cultural policy: The locational patterns of cultural industries and related manufacturing4
Lisbon, the Portuguese Erasmus city? Mis-match between representation in urban policies and international student experiences4
Fiscal disparities among local governments in Zhejiang Province, China4
Urbanization and carbon emissions: Panel evidence from 68 low-income and lower-middle-income countries4
Towards an alternative interpretation of the socio-cultural dimensions of urban greenspace planning in the Global South: Evidence from the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana4
Urban planning as a way to pursue quality-oriented urbanization: Anatomy of the urban planning of Xiong’an New Area, China4
Right-wing populism and urban planning4
The mobility preferences of ICT knowledge workers: Do second-ranked cities have a chance of attracting them?4
Accessibility, mobility, and spatial justice in Nairobi, Kenya4
The neighborhood context of school openings: Charter school expansion and socioeconomic ascent in the United States4
Transit oriented development and sustainable cities: Economics, community and methods, edited by Richard D. Knowles and Fiona Ferbrache4
Sports stadiums and local economic activity: Evidence from sales tax collections4
Including the majority: Examining the local social interactions of renters in four case study condominiums in Sydney4
Neighborhood segregation in Dhaka3
Dreaming the wrong dream: An exploratory case study of a policy change toward sustainable urban development in a medium-sized Chinese city3
Street vending on Addis Ababa’s sidewalks: A sign of vibrancy and identity or a nuisance for pedestrians?3
Changing employment subcenters and opportunity in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area3
A citizen participation model for co-creation of public value in a smart city3
“Why are we asking for a seat at the table that our ancestors created for us?” The importance of cultural landscapes and power in urban planning3
Ambiguity and clarity in residential yard ordinances across metropolitan areas in the United States3
The insurgent smart city: How a social movement created an alternative imaginary of the smart city3
In the name of “low-carbon cities”: National rhetoric, local leverage, and divergent exploitation of the greening of urban governance in China3
Homelessness and housing supply3
Financing climate-related resettlements in uneven geographies of risk: Lessons from Bogota Humana3
Social mix in context: Comparing housing regeneration programs in Australia and Israel3
Examining facilitators and challenges to implementing equitable green space policies: Lessons from Los Angeles County3
The role of nonprofit organizations in the expansion of inclusive transportation in Los Angeles3
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California3
Tourism, cultural heritage and urban regeneration: Changing spaces in historical places, edited by Nicholas Wise and Takamitsu Jimura3
Bonding out the future: Tracing the politics of urban climate finance in Miami, Florida3
Black Mecca futures: Re-Membering New Orleans’s Claiborne Avenue3
Climate change adaptation plans: Inclusion of health, equity, and green space3
Incremental housing and compliance with development control in urban Ghana3
Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives3
Unraveling social inequalities in urban health care accessibility in Montevideo: A space-time approach3
Predatory commodification and housing renovation3
The metropolitan and neighborhood geographies of REIT- and private equity–owned single-family rentals3
Pandemic gardening: Variant adaptations to COVID-19 disruptions by community gardens, school gardens, and urban farms3
When schools open: Student mobility and racial sorting across new charter schools in Kansas City, Missouri3
Hidden barriers and divisive architecture: The role of “everyday space” in conflict and peacebuilding in Belfast3
Between gentrification and supergentrification: Hybrid processes of socio-spatial upscaling3
Dynamics of intra-urban employment geographies: A comparative study of U.S. and German metropolitan areas3
Participatory urban governance under the microscope: A qualitative study of high-functioning neighborhood councils in Los Angeles3
B(u)ypassing conflict: Urban redevelopment in nationally contested cities3
Intercity economic networks under recession: Counterintuitive results on the evolution of Russian cities in multinational firm networks from 2010 to 20193
Professional sports venues as catalysts for revitalization? Perspectives from industry experts3
Social capital, access to healthcare, and health-related quality of life in urban Ghana3
Promoting a geography of opportunity in Accra, Ghana: Applying lessons from mixed-income development successes and shortcomings3
Neoliberalizing infrastructure: Financing public transportation in Greater Boston3
Identifying the parameters for assessment of child-friendliness in urban neighborhoods in Indian cities3
Toward sustainable urbanization: Understanding the dynamics of urban sprawl and food (in)security of indigenous households in peri-urban Wa, Ghana3
The evolution and trajectories of the geography of mergers and acquisitions: A city network analysis for Canada, 1994–20163
Street-level collaborative governance for urban regeneration: How were conflicts resolved at grassroot level?3
Willing to be the change: Perceived drivers and barriers to participation in urban smart farming projects2
Integration of twin cities: A Delphi investigation of the urban areas on both sides of the Strait of Messina2
In the name of “social mixing”: The privatization of public housing to non-governmental organizations2
Low-income housing development in India: Strategies for income mixing and inclusive urban planning2
Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies?2
Understanding residential mobility: Why the African context matters2
Reflections on researching new cities underway in the Global South2
Remaking urban divides: Shifting patterns of neighborhood differentiation in Bilbao, Spain2
Planning public green spaces within customary land tenure contexts: Reflections on the limits to collaborative planning in Tamale, Ghana2
Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown2
Evaluating the availability, accessibility, and affordability of fresh food in informal food environments in five Mexican cities2
Arts consumers’ place-visioning as a tool for planning creative neighborhoods2
The governance dilemmas of urban shrinkage: Evidence from Northeast China2
On infrastructure repair and gender politics: A more global view from Tallinn, Estonia2
Gentrification studies and cultural colonialism: Discussing connections between historic city centers of Mexico and Spain2
Negotiating distance to buzz as an important factor shaping urban residential strategies of artists2
Special Issue: Social Impact Bonds and the Urban Transformation2
Waiting for Wakanda: Activists challenge Black exclusion from the construction industry2
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity2
A city of contrasts: Binary position of residents’ knowledge and attitudes toward urban green infrastructure2
Foundation activism in urban revitalization: Effects on institutions and political agency2
State infrastructure and neighborhood well-being in urbanizing China2
Understanding the geography of access to cultural amenities: The case of Metropolitan Detroit2
Local rebels: How local governments get around federal and state laws to resist new mosques2
Rethinking development and redistribution policy: Testing the local expenditure assumption using the Community Development Block Grant program2
Municipal urban rat management policies and programming in seven cities in the United States of America2
Leadership development in divided cities: The Homecomer, Middleman, and Pathfinder2
Special Issue: Smart governance in the contemporary era2
Emergency responses of Indian smart cities during the COVID-19 pandemic2
The work of crisis framing: Claims of social justice obscuring a history and, likely future, of uneven investment in Moss Park, Toronto2
Explaining the contradictory creativity of neoliberalism: Evidence from the economic development agendas of four European second-tier cities2
Denver’s Green Mile: Marijuana gentrification as a process of urban change2
‘It’s like crossing a border everyday’: Police-migrant encounters in a postcolonial city2
Local cultures of control, order maintenance policing, and gentrification: A comparison of railway station districts in three German cities2
Muhtars becoming real estate agents: Changing roles of neighborhood representatives in relation to the state-led urban transformation in Çinçin, Ankara, Turkey2
Effects of the Community Reinvestment Act on small business lending2
Keeping the family home: Reproducing gentrifiers in two Boston neighborhoods2
A democratization of urban space: Gender and ethnicity in the Whitechapel Market2
Betting on children at risk: Actors’ views on the introduction of social impact bonds in the French field of “childhood in danger”2
Dilemmas of substitution: Why the urban poor support punitive policing in a Latin American city2
Does pre-purchase counseling help low-income buyers choose and sustain homeownership in socially mixed destination neighborhoods?2
Sustaining the grassroots: How community organizations mitigate the downsides of collaborating with unions2
Showcase politics: The production and distribution of new public space in Mexico City2
Nomocracy versus teleocracy: Comparing participatory urban redevelopment in Shenzhen and Kashgar2
Whose diversity? Race, space and the European city2
Exploring the spatial distribution of community resources focusing on municipalities: A multilevel analysis of the greater Los Angeles area2
The effects of COVID-19 on downtown land use: Evidence from four U.S. cities2
District government as a policy entrepreneur: Understanding policy experimentation in China’s Wujin District2
Educational opportunity and public rental housing choice of rural migrant families in Chongqing, China2
When tourism disrupts it all: An approach to the landscapes of touristification2
Exploring place attachment dynamics in deprived urban neighborhoods: An empirical study of Nima and Old Fadama slums in Accra, Ghana2
Is the Chinese skyscraper boom excessive?2
Business cycles of casino cities: Theoretical model, empirical evidence and policy implications2
Visibility matters: Constructing safe passages on the streets of Kolkata2
Local immigrant support policies in the context of economic development2
The outcomes of residential squatting activism in the context of municipalism and capitalism in Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)2
Vulnerability to COVID-19: Cluster analysis of census tracts in Malaga, Spain2
Fintech’s relationship with subprime lending in immigrant gateway metropolitan areas2
The suburbanization of poverty and minority populations in the 2000s: Two parallel or interrelated processes?2
The gerrymandering of cities and the politics of racial exclusion: Evidence from a spatial typology of municipal boundary changes2
Place attachment in the context of loss and displacement: The case of Syrian immigrants in Esenyurt, Istanbul2
The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject2
Philanthropic foundations as urban climate policy entrepreneurs2
Investigating institutional barriers and opportunities to an integrated approach for transport and spatial development: Mega urban transport development in a rapidly developing city, Seoul2
“A better place to be”? Black Mecca, White democracy, and the contradictions of neoliberal cityhood in Atlanta’s Black suburbs2
The contribution of urban public space to the social interactions and empowerment of women2
A methodology for evaluating housing quality in settlements of the displaced in Jordan2
COVID-19 and racial inequalities in housing: Pre-pandemic and pandemic pathways to housing insecurity2
No justice, no streets: The complex task of evaluating environmental justice on open streets in three U.S. cities2
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