Urban Research & Practice

2014 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Rob Atkinson

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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

Volume 13, issue 5, 2020

Formulating the success of citizen participation in urban regeneration: Insights and perplexities from Lisbon pp. 477-499

Roberto Falanga

Transparency and evolution in the use of negotiated developer obligations within land readjustment in Spain pp. 500-524

Demetrio Muñoz Gielen and Marta García Pastor

Clarifying street culture: integrating a diversity of opinions and voices pp. 525-539

Jeffrey Ian Ross, G. James Daichendt, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Paul Gilchrist, Monique Charles and James Wicks

Unused, underused, and misused: an examination of theories on urban void spaces pp. 540-556

Soe Won Hwang and Seog Jeong Lee

Learning from overtourism; new tourism policy for the city of Rotterdam pp. 557-565

Peter Nientied and Rudina Toto

A resilient response to the social-economic implications of coronavirus. The case of Snodi Solidali in Turin pp. 566-570

Nadia Caruso, Sara Mela and Elena Pede

European dimension of metropolitan policies. Policy-learning and reframing of metropolitan Regions pp. 571-572

Deborah Galimberti

Volume 13, issue 4, 2020

New horizons for old industrial areas: urban shrinkage and social capital in Blaenau Gwent, Wales pp. 363-389

Maja Ročak, Gert-Jan Hospers and Nol Reverda

Autonomy, democracy and solidarity. The defining principles of collaborative civil society housing and some mechanisms that may challenge them pp. 390-410

Jardar Sørvoll and Bo Bengtsson

Unpacking social learning in planning: who learns what from whom? pp. 411-433

Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Wendy Tan, Carina Wiekens and Leonie Janssen-Jansen

Critical success factors of geocrowdsourcing use in e-government: a case study from the Czech Republic pp. 434-451

Barbora Haltofová

Governing diversity in socially fragmented urban settings: ‘Skopje 2014’ and the ethnocratic homogenization of public spaces pp. 452-464

Katerina Mojanchevska

Re-thinking the production of urban built environments in the face of climate change pp. 465-471

Ender Peker

Foregrounding Urban Agendas. The New Urban Issue in European Experiences of Policy-Making pp. 472-473

Gloria Pessina

Connecting arts and place: cultural policy and American cities pp. 473-475

Priya Joseph

Volume 13, issue 3, 2020

Urban energy transitions in ordinary cities: Philadelphia’s place-based policy innovations for socio-technical energy change in the commercial sector pp. 243-275

Iraklis Argyriou

Implementing TOD around suburban and rural stations: an exploration of spatial potentialities and constraints pp. 276-299

Luca Staricco and Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone

Cultural and creative clusters – a systematic literature review and a renewed research agenda pp. 300-329

Caroline Chapain and Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux

A spirit of urban capitalism: market cities, people cities, and cultural justifications pp. 330-347

Kevin T. Smiley and Michael Oluf Emerson

Supporting open, shared and collaborative workspaces and hubs: recent transformations and policy implications pp. 348-357

Vasilis Avdikos and Janet Merkel

Urban energy landscapes pp. 358-359

María Ruiz de Gopegui

Metropolitan regions, planning and governance pp. 360-361

Christine Mady

Volume 13, issue 2, 2020

Urban reuse of public spaces in ‘central suburbs’. Two districts between two rivers in the city of Cosenza (Italy) pp. 113-130

Mauro Francini, Rosario Chimirri, Annunziata Palermo and Maria Francesca Viapiana

‘Wiener Null’ – levelling the city of Vienna pp. 131-156

Angelika Psenner

Urban rehabilitation, governance, and housing affordability: lessons from Portugal pp. 157-179

Rosa Branco and Sónia Alves

Sustainable smart city development framework for developing countries pp. 180-212

Tania Ray Bhattacharya, Anindya Bhattacharya, Benjamin Mclellan and Tetsuo Tezuka

Public engagement under authoritarian entrepreneurialism: the Belgrade Waterfront project pp. 213-227

Ana Perić

The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action pp. 228-237

Robin Hambleton

Modern Rome: From Napoleon to the Twenty-First Century pp. 238-239

David Escudero

Urban environments for healthy ageing – a global perspective pp. 240-241

Ben Spencer

Volume 13, issue 1, 2020

Prioritization of development interventions in Egyptian slums through an urban appraisal index pp. 1-21

Asmaa Abdel Aty Mohamed Ibrahim, Ingy Mohamed El Barmelgy and Sherin Ali Gammaz

How do open space characteristics influence open space use? A study of Melbourne’s Southbank Promenade pp. 22-44

Zhugen Wang and Quentin Stevens

A comprehensive approach in green space site planning: an application of a three-stage multi-criteria decision support system pp. 45-76

Alireza Pakfetrat, Masoud Taghvaei and Asghar Zarrabi

The role of policy learning in urban mobility adaptation: exploring Vancouver’s plan to remove the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts pp. 77-96

Devon Farmer and Anthony Perl

Rethinking youth policy model in Europe and its constituents: civic learning and civic engagement pp. 97-108

Xuan Li

Advanced introduction to social innovation pp. 109-110

Francesca Bragaglia

Urban transport pp. 111-112

Guillermo Velázquez