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Publications

• Informing urban governance? Boundary‐spanning organisations and the ecosystem of urban data
• Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
• Implosions/explosions. Towards a study of planetary urbanization, edited by Neil Brenner
• In praise of visceral urbanism
• Global science for city policy It is time for a global reform of science advice to cities
• City networks: Breaking gridlocks or forging (new) lock-ins?
• Give cities a seat at the top table
• Leave no city behind
• Promoting a healthy cities agenda through indicators: development of a global urban environment and health index
• Introduction: Global governance in the interregnum
• Forum: On on diplomacy: James Der Derian’s classic 30 years on
• Harnessing inclusive urban knowledge for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
• The global governance of large technical systems
• Digital Infrastructures and Urban Governance
• City Diplomacy: Towards More Strategic Networking? Learning with WHO Healthy Cities
• The water-energy-food nexus: An integration agenda and implications for urban governance
• Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: urbanization and control as economic sectors
• Global urban policy and the geopolitics of urban data
• Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food
• Rebalancing the Encounter between Science Diplomacy and International Relations Theory
• Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance
• Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks
• Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda
• Assemblage thinking and international relations
• An urban affair: How mayors shape cities for world politics
• Garbage
• Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age
• Tacit networks, crucial care: Informal networks and disaster response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake
• Transcending (in)formal urbanism
• Night: the final frontier?
• C40 Cities Inside Out
• Networking Cities after Paris: Weighing the Ambition of Urban Climate Change Experimentation
• The city as actor in UN frameworks: formalizing ‘urban agency’ in the international system?
• City Leaders Go Abroad: A Survey of City Diplomacy in 47 Cities
• (Un)learning the city through crisis: lessons from Cape Town
• TAKING CITY RANKINGS SERIOUSLY : Engaging with Benchmarking Practices in Global Urbanism
• The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance
• We need a science of the night
• Engaging with global urban governance in the midst of a crisis
• Whatever happened to urban governance?
• Reimagining climate networking between cities: clustering cities based on a large dataset of mitigation actions
• Managing Cities at Night
• Shaping a global comparative imagination? Assessing the role of city rankings in the “global city” discourse
• Potential and limitations of digital twins to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
• Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens
• Networking Australia's Urban Governance
• Everyday International Relations: Garbage, Grand Designs, and Mundane Matters
• Dubai in the 'Middle'
• Mobilising knowledge for urban governance: the case of the Gauteng City-region observatory
• Acknowledging Urbanization: A Survey of the Role of Cities in UN Frameworks
• World politics by other means? London, City diplomacy and the olympics
• City leadership in global governance
• The new climate leaders?
• Reassembling international theory: Assemblage thinking and international relations
• Introduction
• Global cities, governance and diplomacy: The urban link
• The geopolitical dimension
• Conclusions
• Sydney: The wicked power-geometry of a greening global city
• Global city challenges: Debating a concept, improving the practice
• Ain't about Politics? The Wicked Power-Geometry of Sydney's Greening Governance
• Finding the global city: An analytical journey through the 'invisible college'
• Diplomats in Crisis
• Global cities: Gorillas in our midst
• High-rise Dubai urban entrepreneurialism and the technology of symbolic power
• Not quite the dragon: A 'Chinese' view on the Six Party Talks, 2002-8
• Immoral authorities: Crusades, jihād and just war rhetoric
• Wilson victorious? Understanding democracy promotion in the midst of a "backlash"
• Review of Michele Lancione and Colin McFarlane (eds.) 2021: Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City. London: Routledge.
• The politics of “urban expertise”: shifting horizons for critical urban scholarship?
• Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do
• COVID-19 and informal workers in Asian cities
• Navigating the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in Asia: state measures, grassroots responses and implications for recovery
• Just and inclusive urban recovery in post-pandemic Asia: prioritising policy considerations for informal workers
• Governing the informed city: examining local government strategies for information production, consumption and knowledge sharing across ten cities
• Expanding the urban climate imagination: A review of mitigation actions across 800 local governments
• Global cities in the making
• The politics of “urban expertise”
• Navigating the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
• “Not so polycentric
• Tacit networks, crucial care
• Leaving no urban citizens behind
• Whose City Benchmarks? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring
• Fragmentation and urban knowledge
• Mobilising urban knowledge in an infodemic
• Knowledge translation in global urban agendas
• City Diplomacy
• Taking City Rankings Seriously
• Expanding the urban climate imagination
• A City Professorial Chair - a research partnership for a resilient City of Melbourne
• Meeting afterhours
• “Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality
• COVID-19
• Cities
• Acknowledging Urbanization
• (Un)learning the city through crisis
• Urbanization in the Anthropocene
• The gifted city
• Governing the informed city
• Just and inclusive urban recovery in post-pandemic Asia
• Informing urban governance? Boundary-spanning organisations and the ecosystem of urban data
• Scaling the nexus
• The city as actor in UN frameworks
• Editorial
• Exorcising Malthusian ghosts
• The landscape and evolution of urban planning science
• Editorial
• What three decades of city networks tell us about city diplomacy’s potential for climate action
• Geographies of super-philanthropy
• Unveiling urban governance diversity
• Publisher Correction: What three decades of city networks tell us about city diplomacy’s potential for climate action
• Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010
• National urban politics and policy: between local, national, and global
• The foreign policy of cities
• Integrating night studies into climate science