Urban Research & Practice

2014 - 2026

Current editor(s): Professor Rob Atkinson

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Volume 15, issue 5, 2022

The Politics of the EU Urban Agenda: Mobilising the ‘Right to the City’ for European Governance? pp. 655-678

Monika De Frantz

Political graffiti in the political symbolic space of Prague, Czechia pp. 679-698

David Hána and Jan Šel

Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary’s ‘big’ cities pp. 699-723

Krisztina Varró and Ádám Szalai

Residential intensification through a new statutory plan in Auckland: outcome evaluation and stakeholders’ experience pp. 724-745

Wen Liu, Lee Beattie and Errol Haarhoff

Assessing job-access inequity for transit-based workers across space and race with the Palma ratio pp. 746-772

Dong Liu, Mei-Po Kwan and Zihan Kan

Neighbourhood rebuilding and affordable housing in Canadian cities pp. 773-788

Sasha Tsenkova

Serving the national on the global plane: disentangling Chinese cities’ practice of international law pp. 789-797

Shisong Jiang

Being Interdisciplinary. Adventures in urban science and beyond pp. 798-799

Alicia Sevillano

Handbook on cities and complexity pp. 799-801

Emine Koseoglu

Volume 15, issue 4, 2022

Regulation of short-term rentals in Lisbon: strike a balance between tourism dependence and urban life pp. 477-504

Sandra Marques Pereira

Reconsidering Industrial Policy in Eastern New York, U.S.A pp. 505-528

Carlos J. L Balsas

Exploring data driven initiatives for smart city development: empirical evidence from techno-stakeholders’ perspective pp. 529-560

Bokolo Anthony Jnr

A framework for using the concept of urban resilience in responding to climate-related disasters pp. 561-583

Elnaz Torabi, Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes and Michael Howes

Making the slow metropolis by designing walkability: a methodology for the evaluation of public space design and prioritizing pedestrian mobility pp. 584-603

Aniss M Mezoued, Quentin Letesson and Vincent Kaufmann

Assessment of living condition of urban slum dwellers in India in the New Millennium pp. 604-626

Balakrushna Padhi, Udaya S Mishra and Triveni T.

Evaluating the ‘Dipiao’ policy from the perspectives of relocated peasants: an equitable and sustainable approach to urbanisation? pp. 627-640

Weijie Hu

Public spaces in land use rating based on participatory mapping pp. 641-650

Anastasiia Galaktionova

Planned urban development learning from town expansion schemes in the UK and Europe pp. 651-652

Corinna Di Franco

Cities in the Anthropocene. New Ecology and Urban Politics pp. 652-654

Giorgian Guțoiu

Volume 15, issue 3, 2022

Coalitions, agendas, and funding in the public transport arena: exploring urban governance arrangements in two Mexican cities pp. 321-349

Manlio F. Castillo

Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City pp. 350-365

Raúl Acosta García, Marie Aschenbrenner, Eveline Dürr and Gordon Winder

Whose space is privately owned public space? Exclusion, underuse and the lack of knowledge and awareness pp. 366-380

Dahae Lee

Airbnb in Tel Aviv: finding place amongst other people’s stuff pp. 381-396

Christine Steinmetz

Smart city. Four approaches to the concept of understanding pp. 397-420

Sabina Baraniewicz-Kotasińska

Greenways in Athens, Greece:Enhancing connectivity through a greenway network in a contemporary European metropolis pp. 421-453

Nerantzia Tzortzi (Julia Georgi) and Danae Ioannou

Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local pp. 454-463

Aysegul Can

How to satisfy dissatisfied citizens with urban public services? The case from Nanjing, China pp. 464-471

Zhe Li, Jiannan Wu, Kevin C. Desouza and Zitao Chen

Urban operating systems: producing the computational city pp. 472-473

Astrid Krisch

Contemporary co-housing in Europe: towards sustainable cities? pp. 474-475

Anthony Boanada-Fuchs

Volume 15, issue 2, 2022

Beyond the decay? Positive patterns in the development of a large housing estate: the case of Olechów-Janów district in Łódź, Poland pp. 169-193

Jakub Galuszka

Temporary uses: a new form of inclusive urban regeneration or a tool for neoliberal policy? pp. 194-214

Francesca Bragaglia and Nadia Caruso

Towards the ‘just city’? Exploring the attitudes of European city mayors pp. 215-238

Oliver Dlabac, Roman Zwicky, Juliet Carpenter and Patrícia Pereira

One city, different views: an analysis of cultural schemes on Brussels as a living environment pp. 239-257

Pascal Verhoest, Joke Bauwens and Petrus te Braak

Governing and financing affordable housing at the intersection of the market and the state: Denmark’s private non-profit housing system pp. 258-274

Luise Noring, David Struthers and Adam Grydehøj

Perceived benefits and risks of developing mixed communities in New Zealand: implementer perspectives pp. 275-298

Elinor Chisholm, Nevil Pierse and Philippa Howden-Chapman

Paranoid regulatory innovations? Setting the stage for an unexpected war in Russian cities, 2021-2022 pp. 299-309

Sofia Borushkina

Activating building land as joint task in the Stuttgart region action programmes for residential and commercial land as elements of sustainable regional development pp. 310-314

Thomas Kiwitt and Christoph Hemberger

A modern guide to national urban policies in Europe pp. 315-316

Carla Tedesco

Rethinking sustainability towards a regenerative economy pp. 317-319

Jelena Brajković

Volume 15, issue 1, 2022

Human-centred public urban space: exploring how the ‘re-humanisation’ of cities as a universal concept has been adopted and is experienced within the socio-cultural context of Riyadh pp. 1-24

Mohammed Almahmood, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, Oliver Schulze, Trine Agervig Carstensen and Gertrud Jørgensen

Spatial inequality in Tehran, a structural explanation pp. 25-46

Shadi Yousefi and Ilia Farahani

Enterprise discourses in Dutch urban policies; a comparison between two cities in the Netherlands pp. 47-70

Nuha Al Sader, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

Growth management for low-carbon development patterns – leverages in state planning enabling legislation pp. 71-93

Deborah Heinen

Dining out as a performative event pp. 94-111

John Pløger

Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments pp. 112-154

Ralf-Martin Soe, Luiza Schuch de Azambuja, Kalle Toiskallio, Marko Nieminen and Michael Batty

Conceptualising smart cities pp. 155-159

Rob Kitchin

Some thoughts on Ralf-Martin Soe, Luiza Schuch de Azambuja, Kalle Toiskallio, Marko Nieminen & Michael Batty (2021): Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitionsto real-life experiments, urban research & practice, 2021 pp. 160-162

Susanne Frank

Demystifying smart cities: practical perspective on how cities can leverage the potential of new technologies pp. 163-165

Arif Budy Pratama

The end of the village: planning the urbanisation of rural China pp. 166-167

Weijie Hu

Volume 14, issue 5, 2021

Innovative cities: how to explain differences between cities? An answer based on an interpretive approach pp. 487-501

Hubert Heinelt and Georgios Terizakis

Innovations at the edge: how local innovations are established in less favourable environments pp. 502-522

Ralph Richter

Conditions for innovation in German cities: the cases Offenbach am Main and Kassel in comparison pp. 523-542

Melina Lehning and Max A. Kayser

Necessity as the trigger of invention? The promotion of innovations in Athens and Elefsina pp. 543-559

Nikolaos Komninos Hlepas and Panos Koliastasis

Innovating local housing policies in a country of homeowners. Insights from an Italian affluent medium-sized city pp. 560-575

Massimo Bricocoli, Stefania Sabatinelli and Paola Savoldi

Changing use of public spaces in Cairo during COVID-19 pp. 576-593

Reem A. Bakir and Sahar A. Attia

Response to Ryanne Flock’s review of Routledge Handbook of Street Culture published in Urban Research & Practice pp. 594-594

Jeffrey Ian Ross

Volume 14, issue 4, 2021

Introduction to the special issue pp. 345-349

Ignazio Vinci and Paula Russell

Cities and regional disparities in the European Union: evolving geographies and challenges for Cohesion Policy pp. 350-371

Ignazio Vinci

The influence of EU policy on local policy-making, governance and urban change. Evidence from Porto, Portugal pp. 372-396

João Igreja and Paulo Conceição

Transferring sustainability: imaginaries and processes in EU funded projects in Thessaloniki pp. 397-418

Evangelia Athanassiou

Understanding the influence of EU urban policy in Spanish cities: the case of Málaga pp. 419-444

Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado

How the EU regional policy can shape urban change in Southern Europe: learning from different planning processes in Palermo pp. 445-470

Ignazio Vinci

Lessons from U.S. rust belt cities for equitable low-growth futures pp. 471-482

Dayne Walling, Richard Sadler and Don Lafreniere

Transect urbanism: readings in human ecology pp. 483-484

Miza Moreau

Cities and communities beyond COVID-19. How local leadership can change our future for the better pp. 484-486

Alessandro Balducci

Volume 14, issue 3, 2021

Introduction to the special issue: between practices and policies. Rethinking urban regeneration in Southern European cities after the crisis pp. 217-222

Chiara Rabbiosi, Raffaella Coletti and Carlo Salone

Informal urban regeneration as a way out of the crisis? Airbnb in Athens and its effects on space and society pp. 223-242

Dimitris Balampanidis, Thomas Maloutas, Evangelia Papatzani and Dimitris Pettas

The commodification of territorial stigma. How local actors can cope with their stigma pp. 243-263

Carolina Mudan Marelli

Neighbourhood branding and urban regeneration: performing the ‘right to the brand’ in Casilino, Rome pp. 264-285

Raffaella Coletti and Chiara Rabbiosi

“They tried to make me go to rehab. I said, no, no, no”. Representations of ‘deprived’ urban spaces and urban regeneration in Turin, Italy pp. 286-306

Sara Bonini Baraldi, Francesca Governa and Carlo Salone

Analysing the role of citizens in urban regeneration: bottom-linked initiatives in Barcelona pp. 307-324

Marc Pradel-Miquel

Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach pp. 325-339

Xuanyi Nie

Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn pp. 340-342

Jorn Koelemaij

Routledge handbook of street culture pp. 342-344

Ryanne Flock

Volume 14, issue 2, 2021

Editorial pp. 111-116

Rob Atkinson, Sonia de Gregorio Hurtado, Jacob Norvig Larsen, Cristiana Rossignolo, Paula Russel, Cristina Stănuș, Iván Tosics and Karsten Zimmermann

Mobilising post-political environments: tracing the selective geographies of Swedish sustainable urban development pp. 117-137

Toni Adscheid and Peter Schmitt

Regionalised sprawl: conceptualising suburbanisation in the European context pp. 138-156

Sofia Pagliarin and Pascal De Decker

Does municipal funding of organizations reflect communities of need? Exploring trends in Halifax, 1996-2016 pp. 157-179

Max Stick and Howard Ramos

London’s King’s Cross redevelopment: a compact, resource efficient and ‘liveable’ global city model for an era of climate emergency? pp. 180-200

Marco Adelfio, Iqbal Hamiduddin and Elke Miedema

Brick: sustainability through policy pp. 201-211

Priya Joseph

Resisting redevelopment: protest in aspiring global cities pp. 212-213

Yitian Ren

Being a planner in society, for people, planet, place pp. 213-215

Georgiana Varna

Volume 14, issue 1, 2021

Smart city technologies and figures of technical mediation pp. 1-26

Hans Voordijk and Steven Dorrestijn

Mobilising knowledge for urban governance: the case of the Gauteng City-region observatory pp. 27-49

Carla-Leanne Washbourne, Christina Culwick, Michele Acuto, Jason J. Blackstock and Robin Moore

Walking as a medium of comprehending contextual assets of historical urban fabrics pp. 50-72

Soroush Masoumzadeh and Hadi Pendar

Challenging peripherality through access to the internet? Socio-spatial practices of the connected rurban pp. 73-93

Lorena Melgaço

Planning and managing urbanization in the twenty-first century: content analysis of selected African countries’ national urban policies pp. 94-104

Elmond Bandauko, Eunice Annan-Aggrey and Godwin Arku

Planning for ecosystem services in cities pp. 105-107

S Krishnan

Participatory research and planning in practice pp. 107-109

Linda Carroli