Journal: Urban Studies

Abbreviation

Urban Stud.

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SAGE

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0042-0980
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  • Revealing centrality in the spatial structure of cities from human activity patterns
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zhong, Chen; Schläpfer, Markus; Müller Arisona, Stefan; et al. (2017)
    Urban Studies
  • Cultural Industries in Small-sized Canadian Cities: Dream or Reality?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Denis-Jacob, Jonathan (2012)
    Urban Studies
  • Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes: A comparative approach
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schmid, Christian; Karaman, Ozan; Hanakata, Naomi C; et al. (2018)
    Urban Studies
    Contemporary processes of urbanisation present major challenges for urban research and theory as urban areas expand and interweave. In this process, urban forms are constantly changing and new urban configurations are frequently evolving. An adequate understanding of urbanisation must derive its empirical and theoretical inspirations from the multitude of urban experiences across the various divides that shape the contemporary world. New concepts and terms are urgently required that would help, both analytically and cartographically, to decipher the differentiated and rapidly mutating landscapes of urbanisation that are being produced today. One of the key procedures to address these challenges is the application of comparative strategies. Based on postcolonial critiques of urban theory and on the epistemologies of planetary urbanisation, this paper introduces and discusses the theoretical and methodological framework of a collaborative comparative study of urbanisation processes in eight large metropolitan territories across the world: Tokyo, Hong Kong/Shenzhen/Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. In order to approach these large territories, a specific methodological design is applied mainly based on qualitative methods and a newly developed method of mapping. After the presentation of the main lines of our theoretical and methodological approach we discuss some of the new comparative concepts that we developed through this process: popular urbanisation, plotting urbanism, multilayered patchwork urbanisation and the incorporation of urban differences.
  • The Positioning of Sustainability within Residential Property Marketing
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kriese, Ulrich; Scholz, Roland W. (2011)
    Urban Studies
  • Housing after redevelopment: Where and to what buildings do displaced residents move?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kauer, Fiona; Lutz, Elena; Kaufmann, David (2026)
    Urban Studies
    Urban redevelopment often involves the demolition or renovation of the existing housing stock, which can result in the direct displacement of residents. We examine how tenure type, defined as living in for-profit versus non-profit housing, affects the location and the housing characteristics of displaced residents after displacement. Using individual-level data of all residents in the Zurich region of Switzerland, we observe the direct displacement of 12,599 residents between 2016 and 2020. First, we descriptively analyze who is directly displaced and compare their housing situation before and after relocation. Displacement is socially stratified and predominantly affects low-income residents, earning on average only 69.7% of the median income of all movers. Residents without Swiss citizenship were substantially more likely to be displaced (9.6 percentage points). After their displacement, residents consumed more floor space than before. Next, we use propensity score matching to compare displaced residents from for-profit and displaced residents from non-profit housing with a respective comparison group of socio-economically similar individuals who moved for reasons other than building demolition or renovation. We find that displaced residents from for-profit projects tend to move shorter distances and to lower-income areas. They consume less floor space and are slightly more likely to move to post-war buildings (1945–1970). These inequalities in moving patterns are less prevalent for residents from non-profit redevelopment projects. This shows that assistance in finding housing after displacement and non-profit housing more generally can mitigate some of the negative aspects of displacement.
  • Strategies of cities in globalised interurban competition: The locational policies framework
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kaufmann, David; Arnold, Tobias (2017)
    Urban Studies
    Globalised interurban competition affects cities of various sizes and cities in various locations. Cities have to find ways to position themselves in global markets by formulating locational policies. To capture this wide range of policies, this paper develops an analytical framework of locational policies that is interdisciplinary informed by theories of economic geography and political science. We compare the cities of Lucerne and Ulm to illustrate the added value of the locational policies framework. We found that these two cities feature very different locational policies agendas. By employing a neo-institutional lens, we suggest that place-specific factors enable and constrain the formulation of locational policies. We outline three possible venues to tentatively explain these different locational policies, namely the economic sector mix, the national tax system, and politics. Beyond these empirical findings, this paper shows that the locational policies framework is able to capture a wide range of policies that aim to enhance the competitiveness of a city. Thus, the locational policies framework is a tool that can be used to reveal how cities face the globalised, and increasingly knowledge-intensive, interurban competition.
  • 'A Tall Storey ... but, a Fact Just the Same'
    Item type: Journal Article
    Jacobs, Jane M.; Cairns, Stephen; Strebel, Ignaz (2007)
    Urban Studies
  • Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In
    Item type: Book Review
    Bathla, Nitin (2019)
    Urban Studies
  • Doing mobile ethnography: Grounded, situated and comparative
    Item type: Journal Article
    Streule Ulloa Nieto, Monika (2020)
    Urban Studies
  • The long shadow of the Iron Curtain for female sex workers in German cities: Border effects and regional differences
    Item type: Journal Article
    Lindenblatt, Andreas; Egger, Peter (2017)
    Urban Studies
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