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Urban Studies

interdisciplinary field that examines the development and dynamics of cities and urban spaces

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Most cited

  1. A Ladder Of Citizen Participation

    Sherry R. Arnstein · 1969 · Journal of the American Institute of Planners · 16,067 citations

  2. Dilemmas in a general theory of planning

    Horst W. J. Rittel, Melvin M. Webber · 1973 · Policy Sciences · 15,545 citations

  3. World Urbanization Prospects: The 1996 Revision

    Martin Brockerhoff, United Nations · 1998 · Population and Development Review · 5,937 citations

  4. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

    Mark Jackson · 2010 · Emotion, space and society · 4,757 citations

  5. Place and Placelessness

    Christopher J. Smith, Edward Relph · 1978 · Geographical Review · 4,690 citations

  6. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

    Arjun Appadurai · 1990 · Public Culture · 3,944 citations

Most recent

  1. The Management of Street Vending in Public Spaces in Indonesia: How Do Regulations Facilitate Self-Organising Communities?

    Hafi Munirwan · 2028 · University of Liverpool · 0 citations

  2. Population Growth and Urban Expansion in Noida City

    Nazirou Bacar, Sethi Dr. Malini Prava · 2027 · World Wide Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development · 0 citations

  3. Population Growth and Urban Expansion in Noida City

    Nazirou Bacar, Sethi Dr. Malini Prava · 2027 · World Wide Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development · 0 citations

  4. Modernización registral y digitalización del Estado peruano: trayectoria histórico-normativa e impacto del Sistema de Intermediación Digital en la calidad del servicio registral de la Zona Registral N.° V–Trujillo

    Jéssica Inés Díaz Delgado · 2027 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  5. Modernización registral y digitalización del Estado peruano: trayectoria histórico-normativa e impacto del Sistema de Intermediación Digital en la calidad del servicio registral de la Zona Registral N.° V–Trujillo

    Jéssica Inés Díaz Delgado · 2027 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

  6. Policy Brief: Urban Informality, Social Welfare and Gender in Ethiopian Cities (2021-2026)

    Selamawit Tesfaye, Ms Kayleigh Smith · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 0 citations

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