Urban Studies

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Volume 62, issue 9, 2025

Infrastructures as urban solutions? Critical perspectives on transformative socio-technical change pp. 1709-1730

Jochen Monstadt, Jonathan Rutherford and Olivier Coutard

Fixing motorisation: The logics of infrastructure solutionism in Bengaluru pp. 1731-1749

Sreelakshmi Ramachandran, Apoorva Rathod, Jacob Baby, Yogi Joseph and Govind Gopakumar

Urban mobilities in Mumbai: Towards worker-centric platformisation beyond ‘urban solutionism’ pp. 1750-1770

Tobias Kuttler

Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism pp. 1771-1792

Michael R Glass and Jean-Paul D Addie

Infrastructure segments evolving through transient governance: Nairobi metropolitan services and active mobility infrastructures pp. 1793-1807

Dorcas Nthoki Nyamai and Sophie Schramm

The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany pp. 1808-1825

Helen Traill and Andrew Cumbers

Towards the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam pp. 1826-1849

Jochen Monstadt, Francesca Pilo’ and Bart AM van Gils

Depoliticised environmental policies: Low-carbon action in the Paris urban region pp. 1850-1875

Olivier Coutard and Caroline Gallez

Justice, energy and infrastructure in the ‘greenest city in America’ pp. 1876-1896

Jenna Lamphere

Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg pp. 1897-1918

Jean-Baptiste Bahers and Jonathan Rutherford

The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo: The ambivalent role of cross-sector coordination for urban sustainability pp. 1919-1938

Shaun Smith

Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai pp. 1939-1956

Purva Dewoolkar, Deljana Iossifova, Sitaram Shelar, Alison L Browne and Elsa Holm

Volume 62, issue 8, 2025

Urban metabolism redux pp. 1483-1511

Matthew Gandy

The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs pp. 1512-1528

Nicholas A Phelps and Ashraful Alam

Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities pp. 1529-1545

Solène Le Borgne

Urban street dynamics: Assessing the relationship of sidewalk width and pedestrian activity in Auckland, New Zealand, based on mobile phone data pp. 1546-1565

I-Ting Chuang and Qingqing Chen

Will low-carbon transformation cause income inequality? Empirical evidence from the low-carbon city pilot policy pp. 1566-1583

Dong Liang, Yu Liu, Shuo Zhang and Boyang Chen

(Re)defining the smart city at national level? Coexisting narratives of urban sustainability governance in Germany pp. 1584-1600

Leonie Büttner and Nele Kress

Hello, stranger? How attraction trumps interaction in ‘new’ public space pp. 1601-1629

Sverre Bjerkeset

‘Neo-collectivisation’ through property rights reforms: Villager empowerment and state building in urbanising China pp. 1630-1649

Siu Wai Wong, Jinlong Liu and Bo-sin Tang

On measuring Muslim segregation in urban India pp. 1650-1668

Arpit Shah, Anish Sugathan, Naveen Bharathi, Andaleeb Rahman, Amit Garg and Deepak Malghan

Where do neighbourhood reputations come from? Analysing Chicago community areas using a systematic neighbourhood reputation score, 1985–2020 pp. 1669-1690

Forrest Stuart, Charles R Collins, Bocar Wade, Rebecca D Gleit and Caylin Louis Moore

Calculative infrastructures of net zero urban governance: A transformative science-based agenda or reductive territorial project? pp. 1691-1705

Taylor Davey

Volume 62, issue 7, 2025

Amenities and housing market dynamics: Implications for population change, urban attractiveness, innovation, and productivity pp. 1269-1292

Christian Leishman and Satyam Goel

Are urban labour markets more dynamic? Vacancies and urban scaling pp. 1293-1315

Harm-Jan Rouwendal and Jan Rouwendal

Corporations and cities under distress: Organised business and ‘emergency’ governance in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa pp. 1316-1333

Marius Pieterse and Amanda Spies

The physical and virtual presence of the local state and citizens’ life satisfaction in urbanising China pp. 1334-1357

Juan Chen, Mengyu Liu, Lin Gong and Charles Chang

The entrepreneurial creative city and its discontents: The politics of art-led urban regeneration in Incheon, South Korea pp. 1358-1374

Se Hoon Park and HaeRan Shin

Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions pp. 1375-1396

Claudia V Diezmartínez and Anne G Short Gianotti

Migration and neighbourhood trust: Evidence from urban China pp. 1397-1416

Xiaobin Zhang, Linlin Zhang, Xiaoqiang Shen and Huiling Huang

Culture goes East: Mapping the shifting geographies of urban cultural capital through major cultural buildings pp. 1417-1434

David Gogishvili and Martin Müller

Salience of social identities in explaining homeownership patterns in India pp. 1435-1463

Ashish Gupta, Prashant Das, N Edward Coulson and Abhiman Das

Of broken promises cities are made. Gambling, urbanisation, and belonging in Macau pp. 1464-1479

Sheyla S Zandonai

Volume 62, issue 6, 2025

Primary school segregation in the context of free primary school choice – More than just a reflection of residential segregation? pp. 1039-1061

Andreas Wettlaufer and Andreas Farwick

Common property in the city: Curbing urban vacancy in São Paulo pp. 1062-1082

Abigail Friendly

“This is what I like, this is why I need to be hereâ€: Young women’s pleasure in the urban night time economy pp. 1083-1098

Amanda McBride

Organisations and the dynamics of change in the location of American invention pp. 1099-1122

Breandán Ó hUallacháin

Neighbourhoods as resource hubs and resource nodes: Civic organisations and political recruitment of first- and second-generation immigrants in Berlin, Germany pp. 1123-1140

Nihad El-Kayed

Have City Deals delivered higher productivity in England? An empirical assessment of a broad-spectrum local growth policy pp. 1141-1167

Sanjay I Raja and Johan P Larsson

Privatised urbanism: The making of new cities and the self-organising mosaic pp. 1168-1185

Prosper Issahaku Korah and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah

Analysing non-linearities and threshold effects between street-level built environments and local crime patterns: An interpretable machine learning approach pp. 1186-1208

Sugie Lee, Donghwan Ki, John R Hipp and Jae Hong Kim

Assessing downtown recovery rates and determinants in North American cities after the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 1209-1231

Amir Forouhar, Karen Chapple, Jeff Allen, Byeonghwa Jeong and Julia Greenberg

Life for rent: Evolving residential infrastructure in London and the rise of Build-to-Rent pp. 1232-1249

Boyana Buyuklieva, Ivana Bevilacqua, Adam Dennett, Jonathan Reades and Phil Hubbard

Book review forum: Properties of rent: Community, capital and politics in globalising Delhi pp. 1250-1260

Karen Coelho, Aditi Dey, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay and Sushmita Pati

Book review: Build: Investing in America’s Infrastructure pp. 1261-1263

Saira Hafeez

Book review: The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages pp. 1263-1266

Hesam Kamalipour

Volume 62, issue 5, 2025

Temporary temporariness? The (mis)use of tactical urbanism from the ‘open city’ framework pp. 809-827

Lina Naoroz Bråten

Gentrification and neighbourhood satisfaction: A study of Philadelphia pp. 828-850

Yeonhwa Lee and Vincent J Reina

Proximity to gentrification and order maintenance policing: How the diffusion of urban renewal amplifies formal social control pp. 851-867

Lallen T Johnson and Malcolm Guy

Delivering suburban densification: Diverse resident groups and strategies of support and resistance pp. 868-890

Kristian J Ruming, Sha Liu, Simon Pinnegar, Laura Crommelin, Charles Gillon and Hazel Easthope

Politics in affordable housing provision: How partisan control of local councils influences planning choices pp. 891-908

Yonah Slifkin Freemark

Restaurant survival during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada pp. 909-931

Alexander Wray, Godwin Arku, Jed Long, Leia Minaker, Jamie Seabrook, Sean Doherty and Jason Gilliland

Difference between Global South cities: Mexico City, Freetown and the global division of urban informal labour pp. 932-953

Joshua Lew McDermott

Application of the VBN theory to understand residents’ participation in the smart city: The case of French metropolises pp. 954-975

Norbert Lebrument, Cédrine Zumbo-Lebrument and Corinne Rochette

Car ownership after having children: Exploring the impacts of income and public transport accessibility pp. 976-994

Erik B Lunke

The production of extended local territory: Topology and the spatial politics of city-region making in China pp. 995-1014

Xuan Wang and Yimin Zhao

Book Review Forum. Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang pp. 1015-1029

Calvin King Lam Chung, Jonathan Silver, Alex Loftus, Gwynn Jenkins, Jamie Wang and Creighton Connolly

Book review: Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy pp. 1030-1031

Martha Elisa Kurniaty Gon

Book review: The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook pp. 1031-1033

Agustina Martire

Book review: Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution pp. 1033-1035

Dennis Zuev

Volume 62, issue 4, 2025

(De)Financing remunicipalisation pp. 603-627

David A McDonald

The creative city’s swan song? The individualisation of the music scene in Bologna, UNESCO City of Music pp. 628-646

Sabrina Pedrini, Massimo Giovanardi and Raffaele Corrado

Unequal access to childcare in cities: Is equal public funding sufficient? pp. 647-664

Astrid Pennerstorfer, Dieter Pennerstorfer and Michaela Neumayr

Migration across the urban hierarchy: Has China’s urbanisation transitioned from the primate city stage to the secondary city stage? pp. 665-681

Jun Wen, Sylvia JT Jansen, Harry van der Heijden and Peter J Boelhouwer

Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China? pp. 682-699

Xiaomeng Zhou, Yanliu Lin, Jochen Monstadt, Pieter Hooimeijer, Shifu Wang and Zheng Liu

The logistical governance of vertical commuting in the central business district pp. 700-716

Donald McNeill and Andrea Connor

Firm dynamics in urban neighbourhoods and innovation: A microgeographic analysis pp. 717-736

Charlotte Rochell

Navigating between resistance and unintentional collaboration: The role of left-wing grassroots associations in the tourist city pp. 737-753

Priscilla Santos, Daniel Malet Calvo and Jordi Nofre

From communal places to comfort zones: Familiar stranger encounters in everyday life as a form of belonging pp. 754-771

Renee Zahnow and Jonathan Corcoran

Racial capitalism in urban studies: From spaces of victimisation to spaces of benefit pp. 772-785

Jason Hackworth and Prentiss Dantzler

Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home pp. 786-797

Colin McFarlane, Ash Amin, Katherine Brickell, Erin McElroy, Saanchi Saxena, Michele Lancione, Colin McFarlane, Ash Amin, Katherine Brickell, Erin McElroy, Saanchi Saxena and Michele Lancione

Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace pp. 798-801

Lipon Mondal

Book review: Tremor pp. 801-804

Nirmal Kumar M and L. Kavitha Nair

Book review: Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China pp. 804-806

Ran Mei

Volume 62, issue 3, 2025

Towards intergenerational neutrality in urban planning and governance: Reflections on temporality in sustainability transitions research pp. 435-451

Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl, Keir Strickland and Stephan Barthel

Underground urbanism in Africa: Splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria pp. 452-468

Abidemi Agwor, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita and Paul G Munro

Urban development and long-term flood risk and resilience: Experiences over time and across cultures. Cases from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia pp. 469-486

Duncan C Keenan-Jones, Anna Serra-Llobet, Hongming He and G Mathias Kondolf

Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal pp. 487-506

Christian Isendahl, Nicholas P Dunning, Liwy Grazioso, Scott Hawken, David L Lentz and Vernon L Scarborough

Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience pp. 507-524

David M Carballo, Gary M Feinman and Aurelio López Corral

Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time pp. 525-542

Thurston Tl and Claes B Pettersson

Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future pp. 543-559

Dan Lawrence, Michelle W de Gruchy, Israel Hinojosa-Baliño and Abdulameer Al-Hamdani

A hima traditional ecological knowledge perspective of the sustainability goals in AlUla’s journey through time masterplan pp. 560-580

Abdulrahman Alshami, Martin Bryant and Andrew Toland

(In-)formal settlement to whom? Archaeology and old urban agendas for sustainability transitions in Ethiopia pp. 581-599

Federica Sulas and Christian Isendahl

Volume 62, issue 2, 2025

‘I leave the everyday behind, everyday’: Sounds and spaces of the revanchist middle classes in Berlin’s Fünf Morgen Dahlem Urban village pp. 219-237

Christy Kulz

Reimagining the urban through agency as healing justice: Stories from Kolkata and Chicago pp. 238-254

Ritwika Biswas and Elizabeth L. Sweet

Local state leadership: State-leading groups in governing urban China pp. 255-272

Jie Guo, Hong’ou Zhang and Yongchun Yang

Places to be young: The dispossession of public space in Old Havana pp. 273-291

Joanna Kocsis

Communities built on political trust: Theory and evidence from China pp. 292-309

Yu Zeng and Shitong Qiao

Customary land management systems and urban planning in peri-urban informal settlements pp. 310-327

Herman Geyer

Castro, Soho, Chueca, Le Marais. An international approach to queer urban spaces of symbolic capital accumulation pp. 328-346

Jose Carpio-Pinedo and Jesús López-Baeza

Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space pp. 347-366

Yixin Liu and Rowland Atkinson

Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden pp. 367-386

Fredrik W Andersson, Selcan Mutgan, Axel Norgren and Karl Wennberg

Questioning pandemic recovery: A regional second city perspective pp. 387-403

Charles Williams and Mark Pendras

Book review forum: Pandemic urbanism: Infectious diseases on a planet of cities pp. 404-426

Ranabir Samaddar, Susannah Bunce, Chiara Camponeschi, David Wilson, S Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly and Roger Keil

Book review: Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City pp. 427-429

Hangli Zeng

Book review: Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies pp. 429-432

Gábor Patkós

Volume 62, issue 1, 2025

Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits pp. 3-30

Jennifer Robinson, Philip Harrison, Sylvia Croese, Rosina Sheburah Essien, Wilbard Kombe, Matthew Lane, Evance Mwathunga, George Owusu and Yan Yang

Infrastructural politics: A conceptual mapping and critical review pp. 31-51

León Felipe Téllez Contreras

Smart cities, virtual futures? – Interests of urban actors in mediating digital technology and urban space in Tallinn, Estonia pp. 52-68

Olli Ilmari Jakonen

Mapping religion, space and economic outcomes in Indian cities pp. 69-91

Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus pp. 92-108

Amparo Tarazona Vento

Discontent in the world city of Singapore pp. 109-126

Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Jessie PH Poon and Orlando Woods

‘Once you come, you are a Shenzhener’? Multifaceted and variegated sense of place among migrants in Shenzhen pp. 127-143

Huimin Du

‘Lines of flight’ in city food networks: A relational approach to food systems transformation pp. 144-166

Roberta Discetti and Diletta Acuti

Why mixed communities regeneration fails to improve the lives of low-income young people pp. 167-186

Rana Khazbak

Small is beautiful? Making sense of ‘shrinking’ homes pp. 187-203

Phil Hubbard

Book review: The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition pp. 204-207

Patrick Brandful Cobbinah

Book review: The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities pp. 207-210

Ekaterina Mizrokhi

Book review: Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India: Right to Sell pp. 210-212

Pitri Yanti, Imanirrahma Salsabil and Asni Mustika Rani

Book review: Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies pp. 212-215

Andrew Littlejohn