Working Papers

Selected recent working papers by LSE Cites faculty and visitors

• Rode, P. and Helmut, A. (2026). In search of City Government Innovation in Europe: A Scoping Paper on Concept and Approach. LSE Cities Working Paper.
• Beck, K. and Kaune, M. (2025). Early Childhood Development and Cities. LSE Cities Working Paper.
• Rode, P. (2024) 'Car Use Budgets: Mode-specific Sufficiency for Cities'. (24 July 2024). LSE Cities Working Papers
• Rode, P. and Bhargava, S. (2024). Hybrid Cities: Conceptual Framework.LSE Cities Working Paper.
• Rode, P. and Bhargava, S. (2024). Hybrid Cities: Literature Review. LSE Cities Working Paper.
• Hügler, B., Flynn, R., Heeckt, C., da Cruz, N.F., Herrmann, A., Rode, P. (2023). What keeps us driving? Exploring sociodemographic patterns and underlying motives of mode choice in cities. LSE Cities Working Paper.
• King, J., Sajjad, F., Ahmed, S. (2022). Ethnographic mapping as a critical pedagogical tool in planning and architecture. Research Strand 03 (September 2022). LSE Cities Working Papers.
• Gazdar, H., Bux Mallah, H. (2022). Traditional municipal sweepers in Faisalabad and Karachi. Research Strand 03 (September 2022). LSE Cities Working Papers.
• Beall, J. (2022). Unruly order: the role of sweepers in municipal solid waste management in 1990s Faisalabad, Pakistan. Research Strand 03 (September 2022). LSE Cities Working Papers.
• Beall, J., Ali, M., Ahmed, S., Ahmed, S., Desta, H., Gebremariam, E. , da Cruz, N.F. (2022). Why Integrated Solid Waste Management is so elusive – learning from Africa and Asia. Research Strand 03 (May 2022). LSE Cities Working Papers.
• Gomes, A., Al-Ragam, A. and AlShalfan, S. (2021) Reclaiming public space in Kuwait’s residential neighbourhoods: an applied policy-oriented approach. Kuwait Programme paper series (8). LSE Middle East Centre, London, UK.
• United Nations General Assembly Document, 'Urban Governance, Capacity and Institutional Development', June 2016
• Costa, H. and Floater, G. (2016). Economic costs of heat and flooding in cities: Cost and economic data for the European Clearinghouse databases. RAMSES project.
• Rode, P. (2015). Integrated governance as privileging key policy links: The case of strategic planning in London and Berlin. LSE Cities Working Papers.
• NUG papers – Foresight seminar series – Mitleton-Kelly, E. (2015). Urban Governance: A Complexity Theory Approach in New Urban Governance: Urban complexity and institutional capacities of cities. London: LSE Cities.