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A View of Buildings in Beijing, China. Photo by zhang kaiyv via Pexels.

Hukou type, hukou place, and labour market ...

The household registration (hukou) system in China serves as a means of ...

Qiujie Shi, Tao Liu and Rongxi Peng 29th January 2024
View of the Estatua de Tiradentes between Trees and Apartment Buildings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Informality through the state: How overregulation and ...

The relationship between the state and informal land development in Global ...

João Tonucci 24th January 2024
Stone Sheep Statues on Pavement. Lahti, Päijät-Häme, Finland.

Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in ...

Our paper, “Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art ...

Noga Keidar and Daniel Silver 20th December 2023
Traffic on the Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA

How land use patterns keep driving cheap: Geographic ...

Urban planners often prescribe compact, walkable development as a way to reduce ...

Adam Millard-Ball and Purva Kapshikar 18th December 2023

Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for ...

  In the pursuit of achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11,...

Rico H Herzog, Juliana E Gonçalves, Geertje ... 4th December 2023
Student Housing Building Johanna at Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

For whom do we densify? Explaining income variation ...

Compact urban development plays a crucial role in protecting open landscapes, ...

Vera Götze, Josje Anna Bouwmeester and Mathias ... 7th November 2023
A black and white photo showing mural of Rab C Nesbitt on a shop

Conceptualising ‘street-level’ urban design ...

Today’s cross-cutting policy challenges, including climate and housing crises,...

Robert Richardson 3rd November 2023
White and Blue Buildings Near Body of Water. Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Australia.

Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of ...

  Brisbane, Australia, is a subtropical city at the center of one of Australia�...

Rachel Gallagher, Thomas Jason Sigler and Yan Liu 9th October 2023
Bustling Karachi Street during Rush Hour. Pakistan

Hot Climates in Urban South Asia: negotiating the ...

With global warming, temperatures are rising in cities and South Asia has ...

Soha Macktoom, Nausheen H Anwar and Jamie Cross 13th September 2023

‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative ...

Decades of traditional growth-oriented urban economic policies have failed to ...

Richard Crisp, David Waite, Anne Green, Ceri ... 14th August 2023

Reimagining Urban Living Labs: Enter the Urban Drama ...

Urban Drama Lab pilot in Drammen, Norway. Photo by Lucas Leonardo Ibanez-Fæhn. ...

Cecilie Sachs Olsen 3rd August 2023

Sector connectors, specialists and scrappers: How ...

In recent years, Tijs, David and I have all been struck by the emergence of ...

Darius Ornston, Tijs Creutzberg, and David A Wolfe 3rd August 2023