Journal Articles

Selected recent articles authored by LSE Cities researchers published in external journals

• Kubo, T. (2026). Benchmarking quality of life and urban growth: Fukuoka among globally competitive regional cities. GeoJournal 91, 25 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-026-11581-z
• da Cruz, N.F., Ahmed, S., Gebremariam, E. (2026). Political (in)visibility and governance disconnects: dealing with waste in Addis Ababa and Faisalabad. Oxford Development Studies, in press. DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2026.2613972
• Ramos, F., Tavares, A., da Cruz, N.F. (2026). Between promise and practice: a scoping review of the democratic outcomes of youth participation in local governance. Children and Youth Services Review, 181, 108738.
• Rode, P., Gomes, A., Linke, J., Laffan, K., Hicks, C. (2025) Deliberating sufficiency in transport: Fair car use budgets for London. Transport Policy, Volume 171, September 2025, Pages 615-640.
• Gomes, A. and Burdett, R. (2024) Spatial and visual comparison analysis of health disparities in London neighbourhoods: the case of Southwark and Lambeth. Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 8. ISSN 2523-2533
• da Cruz, N.F. and Rode, P. (2024) Social structures of urban governance: strategic spatial planning in Addis Ababa. Territory, Politics, Governance. ISSN 2162-2671
• Oyeyemi, A.L., Mabry, R., Wachira, L.J., Gomes, A. and De Siqueira, G. (2023) Addressing the impact of urbanization on health and well-being in African and Asian cities. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. ISSN 2296-2565
• Rogers, B., da Cruz, N.F., Ripa, F. and Hamilton-Jones, I. (2024). Prosperity Beyond Growth: An Emerging Agenda for European Cities. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy. University of Toronto Press.
• Rode, P. (2023) Fairness and the sufficiency turn in urban transport. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy. ISSN 2816-7414
• Beall, J. (2023) Urbanising futures and sustainability: ODS sponsored plenary panel discussion, DSA 2022. Oxford Development Studies, 51 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1360-0818
• de Sousa, L., da Cruz, N.F.and Fernandes, D. (2023) The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis. Local Government Studies, 49 (1). 1 - 29. ISSN 0300-3930
• da Cruz, N.F., Rode, P., McQuarrie, M., Badstuber, N. and Robin,E. (2022). Networked Urban Governance: A Socio-Structural Analysis of Transport Strategies in London and New York. Urban Affairs Review. Sage. London
• Cirolia, L., Hailu, T., King, J., da Cruz, N.F., Beall, J. (2021). Infrastructure governance in the post-networked city: state-led, high-tech sanitation in Addis Ababa’s condominium housing. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Volume 39, Issue 7, pages 1606-1624.
• Cirolia, L.R., Tesfaye, H., King,J., da Cruz, N. F. and Beall, J. (2021) Infrastructure governance in the post-networked city: state-led, high-tech sanitation in Addis Ababa’s condominium housing. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39 (7). pp. 1606-1624. ISSN 2399-6544
• de Sousa, L., da Cruz, N.F., and Fernandes, D. (2021) The quality of local democracy: an institutional analysis. Local Government Studies. ISSN 0300-3930
• Charlton, E. (2020) Trashing Johannesburg: Ponte City-as-archive of everyday loss. Cultural Geographies, 27 (2). 277 - 292. ISSN 1474-4740
• Rode, P., Terrefe, B., and da Cruz, N.F. (2020) Cities and the governance of transport interfaces: Ethiopia’s new rail systems. Transport Policy, 91. 76 - 94. ISSN 0967-070X
• Rode, P., Gomes, A., Adeel, M., Sajjad, F., Koch, A. and Murshed, S.M. (2020) Between abundance and constraints: the natural resource equation of Asia’s diverging, higher-income city models. Land, 9 (11). ISSN 2073-445X
• Charlton, E. (2020) The Zero-Hour City: Writing London in the End Times, GeoHumanities, 6:2, 280-294, DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2020.1768880
• da Cruz, N.F., Oh, D.Y., and Badaoui Choumar, N. (2020). 'The Metropolitan Scale'. Cities, vol 100, DOI/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102644
• Beall, J., Cherenet, Z., Cirolia, L., Da Cruz, N.F., Parnell, S., and Rode, P. (2019). Understanding infrastructure interfaces: common ground for interdisciplinary urban research?: Journal of the British Academy, London.
• Beall, J. (2019) Whither the region? Re-thinking the space and place of regions and cities in international comparative perspective. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. ISSN 0309-1317 (In Press)
• Beall, J., Cherenet, Z., Cirolia, L. and da Cruz, N.F. (2019) Understanding infrastructure interfaces: common ground for interdisciplinary urban research? Journal of the British Academy. pp. 11-43. ISSN 2052-7217
• da Cruz, N.F. and Marques, R.C. (2019) An application of a multicriteria model to assess the quality of local governance. Urban Affairs Review, 55 (4). 1218–1239. ISSN 1078-0874
• da Cruz, N.F., Rode, P. and McQuarrie, M. (2018). New urban governance: A review of current themes and future priorities, Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1499416
• Rode, P., and da Cruz, N.F. (2018). 'Governing urban accessibility: moving beyond transport and mobility'. Applied Mobilities, in press. DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2018.1438149
• Adeel, M. and Yeh, A.G.O. (2018) Gendered immobility: influence of social roles and local context on mobility decisions in Pakistan. Transportation Planning and Technology, 41 (6). pp. 660-678. ISSN 0308-1060
• Murshed, S. M., Duval, A, Koch, A. and Rode, P. (2018) Impact of urban morphology on energy consumption of vertical mobility in Asian cities: a comparative analysis with 3D city models. Urban Science, 3 (4). ISSN 2413-8851
• Hooyberghs, H., Verbeke, S., Lauwaet, D., Costa, H., Floater, G. and De Ridder, K. (2017) Influence of climate change on summer cooling costs and heat stress in urban office buildings. Climatic Change, 144 (4). pp. 721-735. ISSN 0165-0009
• Hall, Suzanne M., King, J. and Finlay, R. (2017) Migrant infrastructure: transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester, UK. Urban Studies, 54 (6). 1311 - 1327. ISSN 0042-0980
• Ferreira, S., Cabral, M., da Cruz, Nuno F., Simões, P. and Marques, R. C. (2017) The costs and benefits of packaging waste management systems in Europe: the perspective of local authorities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 60 (5). pp. 773-791. ISSN 0964-0568
• Ferreira, S., Cabral, M., De Jaeger, Simon, da Cruz, Nuno F., Simões, P. and Marques, R. C. (2017) Life cycle assessment and valuation of the packaging waste recycling system in Belgium. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 19 (1). pp. 144-154. ISSN 1438-4957
• Adeel, M. (2017) Gender inequality in mobility and mode choice in Pakistan. Transportation, 44 (6). pp. 1519-1534. ISSN 0049-4488
• Charlton, E. (2017) Apartheid acting out: trauma, confession and the melancholy of theatre in Yaël Farber's He Left Quietly. Theatre Research International, 42 (01). pp. 55-71. ISSN 0307-8833
• da Cruz, N., and Marques, R. (2017). 'An Application of a Multicriteria Model to Assess the Quality of Local Governance'. Urban Affairs Review. Sage. London.
• da Cruz, N.F. and Tavares, A.F. (2017). "Explaining the transparency of local government websites through a political market framework", In Government Information Quarterly, 2017, ISSN 0740-624X.
• Charlton, E. (2017). 'Melancholy mapping: A ‘dispatcher’s eye’ and the locations of loss in Johannesburg'. Thesis Eleven, Vol 141, Issue 1, 2017. Sage.
• Hall, S. (2017). 'Mooring "super-diversity" to a Brutal Migration Milieu'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40th Anniversary Edition, 40(9), pp. 1562-1573.
• Pierre, J. (2017). Multilevel governance as a strategy to build capacity in cities: Evidence from Sweden. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, May, pp. 1-14.
• Paschoal, B., and Wegrich, B. (2017). 'Urban governance innovations in Rio de Janeiro: The political management of digital innovations'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-17.
• Pieterse, E. (2017). 'Urban governance and spatial transformation ambitions in Johannesburg'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, May, pp. 1-19.
• Ng, M.K. (2017). 'Governing green urbanism: The case of Shenzhen, China'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-19.
• Ahluwalia, I.J. (2017). 'Urban governance in India'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-20.
• Rode, P. (2017). 'Urban planning and transport policy integration: The role of governance hierarchies and networks in London and Berlin'. Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue, February, pp.1-25.
• Di Nunzio, M. (2017) Marginality as a politics of limited entitlements: Street life and the dilemma of inclusion in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist, 44 (1). pp. 91-103. ISSN 0094-0496
• Bingham-Hall, J. (2017), Imagined Community and Networked Hyperlocal Publics. Archit. Design, 87: 64–71. doi:10.1002/ad.2133
• King, J. (2017). ‘Incremental Infrastructure’, Infrastructure Space. Berlin: Ruby Press.
• Burdett, R. (2017). Infrastructures of equality versus inequality. In: Ruby, Ilka and Ruby, Andreas, (eds.) Infrastructure Space. Ruby Press, Berlin, Germany, pp. 306-313. ISBN 9783944074184.
• da Cruz, N.F., Rode, P., and McQuarrie, M. (eds.). (2017). New Urban Governance: A global perspective of institutional change in cities, Journal of Urban Affairs Special Issue.
• Lam, T. F. (2017) Hackney: a cycling borough for whom? Applied Mobilities. ISSN 2380-0127
• Burdett, R. (2016). ‘Inequality and patterns of urban growth’, Policy in Focus Volume 13, Issue No. 3
• Sallis, J.F., Bull, F., Burdett, R., Frank, L.D., Griffiths, P., Giles-Corti, B., and Stevenson, M. (2016). ‘Using science to guide city planning policy and practice: Achieving healthy and sustainable future cities’, in the series on Urban Design, Transport, and Health, The Lancet.
• da Cruz, N.F, and Marques, R. (2016). 'Structuring Composite Local Governance Indicators'. Policy Studies, July, pp. 109-129.
• Zeiderman, A. (2016). 'Adaptive Publics: Building Climate Constituencies in Bogotá'. Public Culture, 28(2 79), pp. 389-413.
• Burdett, R. (2016). 'Designing Inequality?' Counterpoint, (No.241): 136-141
• Adeel, M., Yeh, A.G.O., and Zhang, F. (2016). 'Transportation Disadvantage and Activity Participation in the Cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan'. Transport Policy, 47, pp. 1–12.
• Kandt, J., Chang, S., Yip, P., and Burdett, R. (2016). 'The Spatial Pattern of Premature Mortality in Hong Kong: How Does it Relate to Public Housing?'. Urban Studies [Online], pp. 1-24.
• Hall, S., and Savage, M. (2016). 'Animating the Urban Vortex: New Sociological Urgencies'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(1), pp.82–95.
• Adeel, M., Yeh, A.G.O., and Zhang, F. (2015). 'Towards an Inclusive Public Transport System in Pakistan'. Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific: Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Transport, 85, pp. 33–44.
• Marques, R., Pires, J.S., and da Cruz, N.F. (2015). 'Measuring the Sustainability of Urban Water Services'. Environmental Science & Policy, 54, pp. 142-151.
• Hall, S., King, J. and Finlay, R. (2015). 'Envisioning Migration: Drawing the Infrastructure of Stapleton Road, Bristol'. New Diversities, 17(2), pp. 59-72.
• Kandt, J., Rode, P., Hoffman,C., Graff, A., and Smith, D. (2015). 'Gauging Interventions for Sustainable Travel: A Comparative Study of Travel Attitudes in Berlin and London'. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 80, pp.35–48.
• Hall, S. (2015). 'Migrant Urbanisms: Ordinary Cities and Everyday Resistance'. Sociology, 49(5), pp. 853–869.
• Hall, S. (2015). 'Super-diverse Street: a ‘Trans-Ethnography’ Across Migrant Localities". Ethnic and Racial Studies, Themed Issue on 'Cities, Diversity, Ethnicity', 38(1), pp. 22-37.
• Ahmad Kaker, S., Silver, J., Wood, A. and Zeiderman, A. (2015). 'Uncertainty and Urban Life'. Public Culture, 27(2 76), pp. 281-304.
• Rode, P., Keim, C., Robazza, G., Viejo, P. and Schofield, J. (2014). 'Cities and Energy: Urban Morphology and Residential Heat Energy Demand'. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 41(1), pp. 138–162.
• Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., and Silver, J. (2014). 'Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?' Political Geography, 40. pp. 25-34. ISSN 0962-6298
• da Cruz, N.F., and Marques, R. (2014). Revisiting the determinants of local government performance. Omega, 44, 91-103.
• da Cruz, N.F., and Marques, R. (2014). 'Scorecards for sustainable local governments'. Cities, 39, 165-170.
• Lawhon, M., Ernstson, H. and Silver, J., (2013). 'Provincializing Urban Political Ecology: Towards a Situated UPE Through African Urbanism', Volume 46, Issue 2, pages 497–516, March 2014.
• Zeiderman, A. (2013). 'Living Dangerously: Biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia', American Ethnologist 40(1):71-87.
• da Cruz, N.F., Berg, S., and Marques, R. (2013). Managing public utilities: lessons from Florida. Lex Localis, 11(2), 101-118.
• da Cruz, N.F., and Marques, R. (2013). The challenges of designing municipal governance indicators. Public Money & Management, 33(3), 209-212.
• Hall, S. (2013). ‘The Politics of Belonging’, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Special Issue: Settling Differences in a Land of Strangers, vol.20, no. 1, pp. 46-53.
• Hall, S. & Burdett R. (2013). ‘Rescaling the Transnational City: In search of a trans-methodology’, (under review).
• Di Nunzio, M. (2012) "We are good at surviving": Street hustling in Addis Ababa's inner city. Urban Forum, 23 (4). pp. 433-447. ISSN 1015-3802
• Rode, P. and Zenghelis, D. (2012): Das Kommunale ist global. Internationale Politik. Vol. 67. No.4. Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik e.V. Berlin
• da Cruz, N.F., Marques, R. (2012). 'Mixed companies and local governance: no man can serve two masters'. Public Administration, 90(3), 737-758.
• Zeiderman, A. (2012). 'On Shaky Ground: The Making of Risk in Bogotá', Environment and Planning A 44(7):1570-1588.
• Tonkiss, F. (2012). ‘Review: Xuefei Ren, ‘Building Globalization: Transnational Architectural Production in China’, British Journal of Sociology, 63/1:190-92.
• Tonkiss, F. (2012). ‘The one-dimensional city’, City, Vol 16, 1-2.
• Burdett, R., and Kaasa, A. (2011). ‘Color and the City’, in New Geographies, Issue 3, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Nathan, M. (2011). ‘East London Tech City: Ideas without a Strategy?’, Local Economy, 26:3, pp 197-202.
• Hall, S. (2011). 'High Street Adaptations: Ethnicity, Independent Retail Practices, and Localism in London's Urban Margins'. Environment and Planning A, 43(11), pp. 2571-2588.
• Tonkiss, F. (2011). ‘Review Symposium: Anna Minton Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City’, Sociology, Vol 45, No 2.
• Tonkiss, F. (2011). ‘Spatial causes, social effects: A response to Soja’, City, Vol 15, No 1.
• Tonkiss, F. (2011). ‘Template urbanism: four points about assemblage’, City, Vol 15, No. 5.
• Tonkiss, F. (2011). ‘The Just City by Susan Fainstein’, Contemporary Sociology, Vol 40, No 5.
• Zeiderman, A. and Ramírez, L.A. (2010). '"Apocalipsis Anunciado": Un Viraje en la Política de Riesgo en Colombia a Partir de 1985' ('"Apocalypse Foretold": A Shift in the Politics of Risk in Colombia since 1985'). Revista de Ingeniería, Special Issue on Cities at Risk, 31, pp. 119-131.
• Rode, P. (2008). Der Klimaschutz fordert die Städte, Stadtblick 18, Informationen zur Stadtentwicklung, Stadtentwicklung Stadt Zürich.
• Salcedo Fidalgo, A. and Zeiderman, A., 2008. 'Antropología y ciudad: Hacia un análisis crítico e histórico' ('Anthropology and the City: Towards a Critical-Historical Analysis'), Antípoda 7:63-97.
• Zeiderman, A. (2008). 'Cities of the Future? Megacities and the Space/Time of Urban Modernity', Critical Planning 15:23-39.