Urban Studies

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240.0k papers covering Urban Studies have received a total of 2.4M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Cultural Industries and Urban Development, Urban and Rural Development Challenges and Social Sciences and Governance and also cover the fields of Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Political Science and International Relations. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Political Science and International Relations. Some of the most active scholars covering Urban Studies are Loo‐See Beh, Allen J. Scott, Neil Smith, Neil Brenner, Waldo Tobler, Fulong Wu, Ananya Roy, Patsy Healey, Jamie Peck and Pierre Bourdıeu.

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Urban Studies

31.9k papers receiving 194.1k citations

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  1. Development and Distortion of Malaysian Public- Private Partnerships: Patronage, Privatised Profits and Pitfalls DOI: 10.1111/j.1467- 8500.2009.00655.x (2010)
  2. A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region (1970)
  3. Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment (2005)
  4. The Theory of the Leisure Class (2009)
  5. The Global City (2001)
  6. How Accessibility Shapes Land Use (1959)
  7. The Social Logic of Space (1984)
  8. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (2003)
  9. Social Space and Symbolic Power (1989)
  10. Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” (2002)
  11. A Postcapitalist Politics (2006)
  12. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (1996)
  13. Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? (2010)
  14. Central Places in Southern Germany (1967)
  15. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and other Real-and-Imagined Places (1998)
  16. Governance as theory: five propositions (1998)
  17. Struggling with the Creative Class (2005)
  18. Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts (1996)
  19. The Dimensions of Residential Segregation (1988)
  20. New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy (2002)
  21. A Space for Place in Sociology (2000)
  22. The World City Hypothesis (1986)
  23. The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions (2019)
  24. Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability (2005)
  25. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions (2011)
  26. The Microfinance Promise (1999)
  27. The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal (1997)
  28. Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or The undefinable tacitness of being (there) (2002)
  29. Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana (1995)
  30. Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning (2005)
  31. Motivations to Remit: Evidence from Botswana (1985)
  32. The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability (2009)
  33. The social construction of scale (2000)
  34. The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid (2010)
  35. Les métamorphoses de la question sociale (1995)
  36. In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (1997)
  37. Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People (1979)
  38. The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies (1998)
  39. The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it) (2017)
  40. Planning in the Face of Power (1982)
  41. Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities?: Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development (1996)
  42. Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010)
  43. Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (2000)
  44. Seeking Spatial Justice (2010)
  45. Geographies of responsibility (2004)
  46. Why landscapes of the past are important for the future (2003)
  47. Society: Realizing China's urban dream (2014)
  48. THE RESOURCE-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM IN TWO ENVIRONMENTS: THE HOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS FROM 1936 TO 1965. (1996)
  49. Design: Cultural probes (1999)
  50. People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg (2004)
  51. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006)
  52. Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change. (1985)
  53. A Review of the Research Literature on Evidence-Based Healthcare Design (2008)
  54. Marketing Places: Attracting Investment, Industry, and Tourism to Cities, States, and Nations (1993)
  55. Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity (2002)
  56. Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable? (1997)
  57. The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 (2004)
  58. Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems (1972)
  59. The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration (1986)
  60. Spatial Divisions of Labor: Social Structures and the Geography of Production (1985)
  61. The creative city: A toolkit for urban innovators (2001)
  62. Sustainable Fashion: Exploring the Concept of Greenwashing and New Trends in the Fashion Industry (2024)
  63. Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter (2008)
  64. The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. (1994)
  65. Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption? (1998)
  66. Industrial Clusters: Complexes, Agglomeration and/or Social Networks? (2000)
  67. World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis (2003)
  68. Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization (2009)
  69. The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration (2001)
  70. The Cultural Economy of Cities (1997)
  71. Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality. (1993)
  72. Global and world cities: a view from off the map (2002)
  73. Towards a new epistemology of the urban? (2015)
  74. Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Multilevel Governance and the 'Urban' Politics of Climate Change (2004)
  75. Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets (1990)
  76. Regional Innovation Systems: The Integration of Local ‘Sticky’ and Global ‘Ubiquitous’ Knowledge (2002)
  77. Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital (1997)
  78. The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory (2008)
  79. World Development Report 2009: reshaping economic geography (2009)
  80. Cities and the Creative Class (2003)

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