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Submissions from 2024
America's Urban Futures: In and Beyond the City, Jean-Paul Addie
A Region Runs Through It: Representation, Mediation and Partnership in Regional Water Infrastructure Governance, Michael Glass, Jen Nelles, and Jean-Paul Addie
Submissions from 2023
The state of urban research? The state of urban research! (Reply), Jean-Paul Addie and Kevin Ward
Public Response to Solar Geoengineering: How Media Frames About Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Affect Opinions, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, and Russell E. Luke
The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Adrian Martin, Ritesh Kumar, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Rebecca Collins, Klaus Eisenack, Ellen Guimaraes, María Heras, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, Federica Ravera, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, and Patrick O’Farrell
How buses alleviate unemployment and poverty: Lessons from a natural experiment in Clayton, GA, Fei Li
Perspectives of Southwest Florida Homeowners and Real Estate Agents before Hurricane Ian, Risa Palm and Toby Bolsen
Diverse values of nature for sustainability, Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Michael Christie, David Gonzalez Jimenez, Adrian Martin, Christopher Raymond, Mette Termansen, Arild Vatn, Simone Athayde, Brigitte Baptiste, David N. Barton, Sander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen, Ritesh Kumar, Elena Lazos, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Barbara Nakangu, Patrick O’Farrell, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Meine van Noordwijk, SoEun Ahn, Sacha Amaruzaman, Ariane M. Amin, Paola Arias-Arévalo, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Antonio J. Castro, Victoria Contreras, Alta De Vos, Nicolas Dendoncker Dendoncker, Stefanie Engel, Uta Eser, Daniel P. Faith, Anna Filyushkina, Houda Ghazi, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle K. Gould, Louise Guibrunet, Haripriya Gundimeda, Thomas Hahn, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher, Cem İskender Aydın, Mine Islar, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Jasper O. Kenter, Marina Kosmus, Heera Lee, Beria Leimona, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic Lenzi, Bosco Lliso, Lelani Mannetti, Juliana Merçon, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Nibedita Mukherjee, Barbara Muraca, Roldan Muradian, Ranjini Murali, Sara H. Nelson, Gabriel R. Nemogá-Soto, Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Aidin Niamir, Emmanuel Nuesiri, Tobias O. Nyumba, Begüm Özkaynak, Ignacio Palomo, Ram Pandit, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Sonya Sachdeva, Aibek Samakov, Marije Schaafsma, Nadia Sitas Sitas, Paula Ungar, Evonne Yiu, Yuki Yoshida, and Eglee Zent
The Urban Nature Indexes (UNI): A New, Flexible Tool to Comprehensively Monitor Urban Ecological Performance, Jennifer Pierce, Laura Costadone, Lelani Mannetti, Joeri Morpurgo, Charlyn Green, Michael Halder, Pablo Lopez Guijosa, Abner Bogan, Russell Galt, and Jonathan Hughes
Science on ecosystems and people to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Matthias Schröter, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Christian Albert, Rosemary Hill, Torsten Krause, Jacqueline Loos, Lelani Mannetti, Berta Martín-López, Amrita Neelakantan, John A. Parrotta, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, David J. Abson, Rob Alkemade, Bas Amelung Amelung, Brigitte Baptiste, Edmundo Barrios, Houria Djoudi, Evangelia G. Drakou, Isabelle Durance, Marina García Llorente, Davide Geneletti, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Sander Jacobs, Nina N. Kaiser, Jonathan Kingsley, Sarah Klain, María José Martínez-Harms, Ranjini Murali, Patrick O’Farrell, Ram Pandit, Laura Pereira, Sakshi Rana, Maraja Riechers, Graciela M. Rusch, Juan E. Sala, Catharina J.E. Schulp, Nadia Sitas, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Sebastian Villasante, and Alexander van Oudenhoven
Submissions from 2022
The Times of Splintering Urbanism, Jean-Paul Addie
How Negative Frames Can Undermine Public Support for Studying Solar Geoengineering in the U.S., Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, and Justin Kingsland
Disconnected in a pandemic: COVID-19 outcomes and the digital divide in the United States, Fei Li
The role of diverse values of nature in visioning and transforming towards just and sustainable futures, Adrian Martin, Patrick O’Farrell, Ritesh Kumar, Uta Eser, Daniel Faith, Erik Gomez- Baggethun, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Juliana Merçon, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Nadia Sitas, Yuki Yoshida, Tobias Nyumba Ochieng, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Natalia Lutti Hummel, Lelani Mannetti, and Gabriela Arroyo-Robles
Beyond Academia: A case for reviews of gray literature for science-policy processes and applied research, Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, David Gonzalez Jimenez, Valerie Nelson, Aidin Niamir, and Zuzana V. Harmáčková
Submissions from 2021
Urban Life in the Shadows of Infrastructural Death: From People as Infrastructure to Dead Labor and Back Again, Jean-Paul Addie
Effects of Conspiracy Rhetoric on Views About the Consequences of Climate Change and Support for Direct Carbon Capture, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, and Justin Kingsland
Housing Vacancy and Hypervacant Neighborhoods: Uneven Recovery after the U.S. Foreclosure Crisis, Austin Harrison and Dan Immergluck
Racial Justice and the Mortgage Market: Recommendations to the Biden Administration Regarding the Future of the GSEs, Dan Immergluck
How Does an Expansion of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Affect Housing Supply?, Fei Li and Zhan Guo
Atlanta Eds and Meds: Collaboration or Competition, Sam A. Williams
Submissions from 2020
Stuck Inside the Urban with the Dialectical Blues Again: Abstraction and Generality in Urban Theory, Jean-Paul Addie
Anchoring (in) the Region: The Dynamics of University-Engaged Urban Development in Newark, NJ, USA, Jean-Paul D. Addie
Regionalizing the Infrastructure Turn: A Research Agenda, Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles
Framing the Origins of Covid-19, Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm
Sea Level Rise, Homeownership, and Residential Real Estate Markets in South Florida, Xinyu Fu and Jan Nijman
The Battle of the Belts: Comparing Housing Vacancy in Larger Metros in the Sun Belt and the Rust Belt Since the Mortgage Crisis, 2012 to 2019, Austin Harrison and Daniel Immergluck
Housing Stability, Evictions, and Subsidized Rental Properties: Evidence from Metro Atlanta, Austin Harrison, Daniel Immergluck, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Stephanie Earl
Will mandatory inclusionary housing create mixed-income communities? Evidence from London, UK, Fei Li and Zhan Guo
“Don’t Tell Me What to Do”: Resistance to Climate Change Messages Suggesting Behavior Changes, Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen, and Justin Kingsland
Submissions from 2019
Rent Gap, Jean-Paul Addie
The Limits of University Regionalism, Jean-Paul Addie
In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure?, Jean-Paul D. Addie
Review of New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question by Neil Brenner, Jean-Paul D. Addie
Counteracting Climate Science Politicization With Effective Frames and Imagery, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, and Justin Kingsland
The Impact of Message Source on the Effectiveness of Communications About Climate Change, Toby Bolsen, Risa Palm, and Justin Kingsland
Gendered Livelihoods: Migrating Men, Left-behind Women and Household Food Security in India, Chetan Choithani
Black Homebuying after the Crisis: Appreciation Patterns in Fifteen Large Metropolitan Areas, Daniel Immergluck, Stephanie Earl, and Allison Powell
Neighborhood Affordability and Housing Market Resilience, Kyungsoon Wang and Dan Immergluck
Submissions from 2018
Urban(izing) University Strategic Planning: An Analysis of London and New York City, Jean-Paul Addie
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum, Jean-Paul Addie, Michele Acuto, Kongchong Ho, Stephen Cairns, and Hwee Pink Tan
University-led Innovation In and For Peripheral Urban Areas: New Approaches in Naples, Italy and Newark, NJ, US, Jean-Paul Addie, Mariarosalba Angrisani, and Stefano De Falco
From the “Smart City” to the “Smart Metropolis”? Building Resilience in the Urban Periphery, Stefano De Falco, Margarita Angelidou, and Jean-Paul Addie
Renting the Dream: The Rise of Single-Family Rentership in the Sunbelt Metropolis, Daniel Immergluck
The Geography of Vacant Housing and Neighborhood Health Disparities After the U.S. Foreclosure Crisis, Daniel Immergluck and Kyungsoon Wang
Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETSs) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience, Samuel A. Markolf, Mikhail Chester, Daniel Eisenberg, David M. Iwaniec, Cliff I. Davidson, Rae Zimmerman, Thaddeus Miller, Benjamin Ruddell, and Heejun Chang
Pluvial Flood Risk and Opportunities for Resilience, Bernice R. Rosenzweig, Lauren McPhillips, Heejun Chang, and Claire Welty
Science and Culture: Imagining a Climate-Change Future, Without the Dystopia, Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Submissions from 2017
Claiming the University for Critical Urbanism, Jean-Paul Addie
Infrastructure, Jean-Paul Addie
Confronting the Heartbreak and Injustice of Eviction, Daniel Immergluck
Encouraging Housing Equity, Daniel Immergluck
Review: Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities, Daniel Immergluck
Sustainable for Whom? Green Urban Development, Environmental Gentrification, and the Atlanta Beltline, Daniel Immergluck and Tharunaya Balan
Do parking maximums deter housing development?, Fei Li and Zhan Guo
Submissions from 2016
From the Urban University to Universities in Urban Society, Jean-Paul Addie
Theorising Suburban Infrastructure: A Framework for Critical and Comparative Analysis, Jean-Paul Addie
University College London: Leveraging the Civic Capacity of ‘London’s Global University', Jean-Paul Addie and James Paskins
Foreclosures and Neighborhoods: The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis, Daniel Immergluck
Do parking standards matter? Evaluating the London parking reform with a matched-pair approach, Fei Li and Zhan Guo
Measuring urban segregation based on individuals’ daily activity patterns: A multidimensional approach, Fei Li and Donggen Wang
Submissions from 2015
On the Road to the In-Between City: Excavating Peripheral Urbanisation in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’, Jean-Paul Addie
Daily activity space and exposure: A comparative study of Hong Kong’s public and private housing residents‘ segregation in daily life, Donggen Wang and Fei Li
Submissions from 2014
Flying High (In The Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing the Role of Airports in Global City-Regions Through “Aero-Regionalism”, Jean-Paul Addie
Rent Gap, Jean-Paul Addie
Cyberspace: connected or segregated? Examining virtual segregation among Hong Kong internet users, Fei Li and Donggen Wang
Submissions from 2013
New Data on Local Vacant Property Registration Ordinances, Yun Sang Lee, Patrick Terranova, and Daniel Immergluck
Activity spaces and sociospatial segregation in Beijing, Donggen Wang, Fei Li, and Yanwei Chai
Submissions from 2012
Legislative Responses to the Foreclosure Crisis in Nonjudicial Foreclosure States, Frank S. Alexander, Daniel Immergluck, Katie Balthrop, Philip Schaeffing, and Jesse Clark
Submissions from 2011
Built environment diversities and activity-travel behavior variations in Beijing, China, Donggen Wang, Yanwei Chai, and Fei Li
Submissions from 2009
Private Risk, Public Risk: Public Policy, Market Development, and the Mortgage Crisis, Daniel Immergluck