Skip to main content

State of the cities marks phase two of Transformative Urban Coalitions

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Urban labs beyond Europe: the formation and contextualization of experimental climate governance in five Latin American cities

Environment & Urbanization
Michael Roll, Florencia Almansi, Gorka Zubicaray - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Is China’s rate of urbanisation too fast or too slow?

Bingqin Li - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Accelerating Smart City 4.0: A city diplomacy and sister city cooperation between Jakarta and Berlin

Kariem El-Ali, Alecia Firnanda - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)

Early engagement and co-benefits strengthen cities’ climate commitments

Nature Cities
Tanya O’Garra, Viktoriya Kuz, Andrew Deneault, Christopher Orr, Sander Chan - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Lobbying for land then and now: reflections on what changed in Karachi

Arif Hasan - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Building the city under financial frictions

David Gomtsyan - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI)

Urban park qualities driving visitorsmental well‑being and wildlifeconservation in a Neotropicalmegacity

Nature Scientific Reports
Jéssica Francine Felappi, Jan Henning Sommer - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung ZEF

The fastest-growing cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban sub-Saharan Africa?

Oxford Economic Papers
Eva-Maria Egger, Cecilia Poggi, Héctor Rufrancos - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Displaced people in Afghanistan’s cities need support

IIED Briefing
Nassim Majidi, Stefanie Barratt - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Migrants, Markets, and Mayors. Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities

Luc Christiaensen, Nancy Lozano-Gracia - The Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Urban resilience through green infrastructure: A framework for policy analysis applied to Madrid, Spain

Landscape and Urban Planning
Marta Suárez, Amaya M. Rieiro-Díaz, David Alba, Johannes Langemeyer, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Ibone Ametzaga-Arregi - Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)

Revisiting modal split as an urban sustainability indicator using citizen science

Cities
Vanoutrive, Thomas; Huyse, Huib - Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA)

Controlling the Capital. Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World

Open access book
Tom Goodfellow, David Jackman (eds.) - Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)
While most literature considers authoritarianism on the national scale, the chapters in this open access book train their gaze on capital cities, which as 'containers' of both capital and sovereignty are spaces in which authoritarian dominance is increasingly built, contested, maintained, and undone. Focusing on some of the world's fastest urbanizing regions - Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - the book explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance in capital cities in order to meet the challenge of urban political resistance.
continue

Localising aid for urban displacement: Donor views of contested public authority

Dolf J.H. te Lintelo - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Urbanisation and social cohesion: theory and empirical evidence from Africa

Tekalign Gutu Sakketa - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Urban restructuring and the reproduction of spaces of violence in Belfast

Peacebuilding
Elfversson, Emma et al - Department of Government Uppsala University

How to unravel pathbreaking trajectories in the left-behind areas of Istanbul?

Regional Science Policy & Practice
Ebru Kurt Özman, Tuna Taşan-Kok, Gülden Erkut - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality

Urban Geography
Justus Uitermark, Cody Hochstenbach, Jolien Groot - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

Pragmatic peacebuilding for climate change adaptation in cities

Achim Wennmann - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Simplified sewerage systems: lessons from Dar es Salaam

Christopher Yap - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Urban growth, resilience, and violence

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Emma Elfversson, Kristine Höglund - Department of Government Uppsala University

Getting attention to urban health issues – or not?

David Satterthwaite - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Strengthening Urban Labs’ Democratic Aspirations: Nurturing a Listening Capacity to Engage With the Politics of Social Learning

Urban Planning
Anna Seravalli - School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3)

Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities

Peacebuilding
Emma Elfversson, Ivan Gusic, Jonathan Rokem - Department of Government Uppsala University

The next 30 years: planning cities beyond mobility?

European Planning Studies
Luca Bertolini - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)

Exploring the use and perceptions of inner-city small urban parks: A case study of Budapest, Hungary

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
György Csomós et al. - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Strengthening Urban Labs’ Democratic Aspirations: Nurturing a Listening Capacity to Engage With the Politics of Social Learning

Urban Planning
Anna Seravalli - School of Arts and Communication, University Malmö (K3)

Leaving No One Behind: Prospects for User-Owned Urban Water Utilities in Kenya

Public Works Management & Policy
Japheth Kibet Koros, Petri Juuti, Shilpa Muliyil Asokan - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Where Goes the Neighbourhood? Refugee Resettlement and Urban Development in a Disempowered City

Open access book
Chiara Moslow - The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)

Postwar cities: Conceptualizing and mapping the research agenda

Political Geography
Emma Elfversson, Ivan Gusic, Brendan Murtagh - Department of Government Uppsala University

Climate change and coastal megacities: Adapting through mobility

Global Environmental Change
Susan S. Ekoh, Lemir Teron, Idowu Ajibade - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Urbanisation and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of pathways and impacts

Research in Globalization
Tekalign Gutu Sakketa - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Legalizing illegalities? Land titling and land tenure security in informal settlements

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Bridget Bwalya Umar, Julius Kapembwa, Ketiwe Kaluma, Lawrence Siloka, Dipuo Mukwena - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Asia’s fastest growing cities… and why these are mostly small cities

David Satterthwaite - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Politicising land subsidence in Jakarta: How land subsidence is the outcome of uneven sociospatial and socionatural processes of capitalist urbanization

Geoforum
Bosman Batubara, Michelle Kooy, Margreet Zwarteveen - Governance and Inclusive Development, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (GID)  |  IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft)

Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat

Urban Studies
Sheba Tejani - Department of International Development King’s College London (DID)

City branding in a multi-level governance context: comparing branding performance across five institutional models for urban development in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Place Management and Development
Abdulrhman Alsayel et al. - Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)

A systematic review of urban green space research over the last 30 years: A bibliometric analysis

Heliyon
Jenő Zsolt Farkas et al. - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS

Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia

International Migration Review
Charles Martin-Shields, Katrina Munir-Asen - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Green jobs and the city: towards a just transition in developing countries

Policy Brief
Alexander .Kleinbrink, Anna Pegels, Michael Fink, Wolfgang Scholz - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Magic City, Value City: The moral geography of Suva Fiji

Cogent Social Sciences
Lucas Watt - Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)

Power and Informality in Urban Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives

Open Access Book
Laura Stark, Annika Björnsdotter Teppo (eds.) - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)
This open access book brings together contributions from urban studies, geography, and anthropology to provide new insights into the social and political dynamics of African cities, as well as uncovering the causes and consequences of urban inequality. Featuring rich new ethnographic research data and case studies drawn from across the continent, the collection shows that Africa’s new urbanites have adapted to their environs in ways which often defy the assumptions of urban planners.
continue

City planning with displaced communities: the benefits of inclusion

Samer Saliba, Nassim Majidi & Anna Walnycki - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

How to Develop Inclusive, Sustainable Urban Spaces in the European Arctic and Beyond – Insights from Kiruna

Moa Mattsson and Jacqueline Götze - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Data tales – part three: the technological prowess of the urban poor

Antarin Chakrabarty - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Civil society participation in urban governance in Africa. Supporting CSOs’ political voice for a transformation of citizen–state relations

Megatrends Africa, Policy Brief
Lena Gutheil - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Urban rail implementation in emerging economies: an opportunity for industrial development and technological learning?

Emmanuel Theodore Asimeng - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Mineralized Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Katherine V. Gough, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Crispin Kinabo, Michael Clarke Shand, Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Paul W.K. Yankson - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: impressions from Namibia’s capital, Windhoek

Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Henning Melber - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)

Transcribing mobile lives into urban spaces: observations from Haifa

Adriana Kemp & Tanja Müller - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Better cities are possible: responding to the twin crises of climate change and inequality

Anna Walnycki, Aditya V. Bahadur & Tucker Landesman - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Green jobs in cities: challenges and opportunities in African and Asian intermediary cities

Wolfgang Scholz, Michael Fink - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Green jobs in cities: challenges and opportunities in African and Asian intermediary cities

Wolfgang Scholz, Michael Fink - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South

Paul Kerswill - Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York (IGDC)

Closing the municipal finance gap for migrants and refugees

Samer Saliba - OECD Development Centre OECD/DC

Urbanisation and rural development in developing countries: a review of pathways and impacts

Sakketa Tekalign Gutu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

An expanded framing of ecosystem services is needed for a sustainable urban future

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
T. Elliot, J.A.Torres-Matallana, B.Goldstein, J.Babí Almenar, E.Gómez-Baggethun, V. Proença, B.Ruganic - Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)

Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok

Futures
Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Steven R. McGreevy, Natapol Thongplew et al. -

Blog: When Covid-19 Hits Transnational Urban Lives: Localisation and New Solidarities

Tanja Müller - Global Development Institute (GDI)

Are leading urban centers predisposed to global risks- An analysis of the global south from COVID-19 perspective

Habitat International
Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE)

On the Fringes of Urban Justice: Violence and Environmental Risks in Precarious Settlements in Guatemala City

Social Inclusion
Florencia Quesada - Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki

Limited, Fragmented and Powerless: National Urban Policies in Sweden

Anders Lidström & Nils Hertting - Department of Government Uppsala University

Appropriate Housing Typologies, Effective Land Management and the Question of Density in Muscat, Oman 2021/12 – SPRING,

Sustainability
Wolfgang Scholz - Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies, Faculty of Spacial Planning, Universität Dortmund ISPC / SPRING