Outputs

Peer reviewed journal articles

2024

Acuto, M., Seijas, A., Edwards, A. & Bassett, S. (2024). Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do. URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 45(3), pp. 372-389. doi:10.1080/02723638.2023.2180192

Lowe, M., Bell, S., Briggs, J., McMillan, E., Morley, M., Grenfell, M., ... Jordan, N. (2024). A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government. LOCAL ENVIRONMENT, pp. 16-. doi:10.1080/13549839.2024.2318571

Lundberg, K., Popovski, H. & Young, A. (2024). Justice in the streets? Towards a criminology of more-than-spatial justice. CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE, pp. 17-. doi:10.1177/17488958241257834

Mokhles, S. & Acuto, M. (2024). Expanding the urban climate imagination: A review of mitigation actions across 800 local governments. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 442 pp. 16-. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141055

Mokhles, S., Davidson, K. & Acuto, M. (2024). Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions. AMBIO, pp. 16-. doi:10.1007/s13280-024-01991-z

Nava, S., Chalabi, Z., Bell, S., Sendra, P. & Burman, E. (2024). Identifying the criteria for community-centred Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of estate regeneration schemes. Heliyon, 10(10), pp. e31115-. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31115

Young, A. & Popovski, H. (2024). Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest. CRIME MEDIA CULTURE, 20(1), pp. 59-82. doi:10.1177/17416590231161510

2023

Abdullah, A., Cardoso, R., Dasgupta, S., Pati, S., Plueckhahn, R., Shafique, T., ... Zhao, Y. (2023). Re-arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics. TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS, pp. 27-. doi:10.1111/tran.12604

Acuto, M. (2023). Book review forum: How Cities Learn: Tracing Bus Rapid Transit in South Africa. Urban Studies, 60(14), pp. 2941-2950. doi:10.1177/00420980231183651

Acuto, M., Kosovac, A., Pejic, D. & Jones, T. L. (2023). The city as actor in UN frameworks: formalizing 'urban agency' in the international system? TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE, 11(3), pp. 519-536. doi:10.1080/21622671.2020.1860810

Acuto, M., Seijas, A., Edwards, A. & Bassett, S. (2023). Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do. URBAN GEOGRAPHY, online first pp. 18. doi:10.1080/02723638.2023.2180192

Assarkhaniki, Z., Sabri, S., Rajabifard, A. & Kahalimoghadam, M. (2023). Advancing sustainable development goals: embedding resilience assessment. SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE, 18(5), pp. 2405-2421. doi:10.1007/s11625-023-01372-7

Bell, S. (2023). From the Ground Up: local efforts to create resilient cities. JOURNAL OF HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 38(1), pp. 671-672. doi:10.1007/s10901-022-09965-x

Bush, J., Oke, C., Dickey, A., Humphrey, J., Harrison, L., Amati, M., ... van der Ree, R. (2023). A decade of nature: Evolving approaches to Melbourne's 'nature in the city'. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING, 235 pp. 9-. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104754

Fattah, K. N., Recio, R. B., Anwar, N. H., Ahmed, N., Mateo-Babiano, I., Acuto, M., ... Nouri, S. (2023). 7. Just and inclusive urban recovery in post-pandemic Asia: prioritising policy considerations for informal workers. Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, 5(1), pp. 129-136. doi:10.1080/2578711x.2023.2196217

Fileborn, B. & Ball, M. (2023). TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Some queer considerations. Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses (1 ed., pp. 133-143) Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429316098-13

Fileborn, B. & Hardley, J. (2023). 'I'd be in my school uniform': the informal curriculum of street harassment. GENDER AND EDUCATION, 35(4), pp. 330-347. doi:10.1080/09540253.2023.2193206

Fileborn, B. & O'Neill, T. (2023). From "Ghettoization" to a Field of Its Own: A Comprehensive Review of Street Harassment Research. Trauma, Violence and Abuse: a review journal, 24(1), pp. 125-138. doi:10.1177/15248380211021608

Giles-Corti, B., Foster, S., Lynch, B. & Lowe, M. (2023). What are the lessons from COVID-19 for creating healthy, sustainable, resilient future cities? NPJ Urban Sustain, 3(1), pp. 29-. doi:10.1038/s42949-023-00107-y

Haghani, M., Sabri, S., De Gruyter, C., Ardeshiri, A., Shahhoseini, Z., Sanchez, T. W. & Acuto, M. (2023). The landscape and evolution of urban planning science. CITIES, 136 pp. 24-. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104261

Hassink, R., Trippl, M., Breznitz, S., Coenen, L., Fitjar, R. D., Gong, H., ... Zook, M. (2023). Progress in economic geography: Inaugural editorial. Progress in Economic Geography, 1(1), pp. 100001-100001. doi:10.1016/j.peg.2022.100001

Higgs, C., Lowe, M., Hooper, P., Mavoa, S., Arundel, J., Gunn, L., ... Giles-Corti, B. (2023). Policy relevant health related liveability indicator datasets for addresses in Australia's 21 largest cities. SCIENTIFIC DATA, 10(1), pp. 19-. doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02013-5

Hindes, S. & Fileborn, B. (2023). ‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment. The British Journal of Criminology, 63(3), pp. 668-686. doi:10.1093/bjc/azac029

Holleran, M. & Notting, M. (2023). Mobility guilt: digital nomads and COVID-19. TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES, 25(5), pp. 1341-1358. doi:10.1080/14616688.2023.2217538

Holleran, S. & Holleran, M. (2023). 9/11 steel: Distributed memorialization. JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CULTURE, pp. 20-. doi:10.1177/13591835221139676

Hunter, N., Walsh, B., Delgado Ramos, G., Greenwalt, J., Roberts, D., Oke, C., ... Slotow, R. (2023). Cities and climate change science after Edmonton: Knowledge, people, and organisations' influence and outreach. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 6 doi:10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100231

Kosovac, A., Horne, A. C. & O'Donnell, E. (2023). Community perceptions of environmental water: a review. Environmental Conservation: an international journal of environmental science, 50(2), pp. 73-82. doi:10.1017/S0376892923000036

Leffel, B., Derudder, B., Acuto, M. & van der Heijden, J. (2023). “Not so polycentric: The stratified structure & national drivers of transnational municipal networks”. Cities, 143 doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104597

Levy, C., Frediani, A. A., Butcher, S., Cocina, C. & Acuto, M. (2023). Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale. ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION, 35(1), pp. 3-11. doi:10.1177/09562478231153761

Lundberg, K. (2023). Bill McClanahan (2023) Visual Criminology. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.3119

Mcevoy, D., Tara, A., Vahanvati, M., Ho, S., Gordon, K., Trundle, A., ... Qomariyah, Y. (2023). Localized nature-based solutions for enhanced climate resilience and community wellbeing in urban informal settlements. CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT, pp. 13-. doi:10.1080/17565529.2023.2277248

Mortimer, S., Fileborn, B. & Henry, N. (2023). Beyond Formal Ethics Reviews: Reframing the Potential Harms of Sexual Violence Research. New Feminist Research Ethics (pp. 34-47). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003375913-3

Nava, S., Chalabi, Z., Bell, S. & Burman, E. (2023). A multistakeholder participatory Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment framework for the options appraisal of social housing regeneration schemes. INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT, 19(3), pp. 844-847. doi:10.1002/ieam.4759

Pejic, D. (2023). Curtain Up: City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance. URBAN STUDIES, 60(10), pp. 2002-2005. doi:10.1177/00420980231170627

Recio, R. B., Fattah, K. N., Anwar, N. H., Ahmed, N., Mateo-Babiano, I., Acuto, M., ... Nouri, S. (2023). 1. Navigating the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in Asia: state measures, grassroots responses and implications for recovery. Regional Studies Policy Impact Books, 5(1), pp. 19-29. doi:10.1080/2578711x.2023.2196210

Robin, E. & Acuto, M. (2023). The politics of "urban expertise": shifting horizons for critical urban scholarship? URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 44(3), pp. 431-446. doi:10.1080/02723638.2022.2148504

Sanger, A. & Young, A. (2023). AN INVOLUNTARY UNION? SUPREME COURT REJECTS SCOTLAND'S CLAIM FOR UNILATERAL REFERENDUM ON INDEPENDENCE. Cambridge Law Journal, 82(1), pp. 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0008197323000090

Sanger, A. & Young, A. (2023). DEFERENCE and DUALISM ARE NOT FRIENDS of the EARTH. Cambridge Law Journal, 82(2), pp. 195-199. doi:10.1017/S0008197323000235

Shrestha, P., Young, A., Morton, A., Shafique, T., Rogers, D. & Simone, A. (2023). Book review forum podcast: The Surrounds. Urban Studies, 60(12), pp. 2515-2523. doi:10.1177/00420980231172588

Soanes, K., Taylor, L., Ramalho, C. E., Maller, C., Parris, K., Bush, J., ... Threlfall, C. G. (2023). Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers. CONSERVATION LETTERS, 16(3), pp. 10-. doi:10.1111/conl.12946

Steenmans, K., Robin, E., Acuto, M., Iwaszuk, E. & Garza, L. (2023). Governing the informed city: Examining local government strategies for information production, consumption and knowledge sharing across ten cities. Urban Governance, 3(4), pp. 243-251. doi:10.1016/j.ugj.2023.09.001

Trundle, A. & Organo, V. (2023). Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent. URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 44(3), pp. 492-516. doi:10.1080/02723638.2022.2143692

Ward, N. M., Garrard, G., Gregg, E. A., May, B., Wandin, D., Harrison, M., ... Bekessy, S. A. (2023). "Totemic species" can be an effective lens for engaging students with Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity conservation. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, 5(4), pp. 11-. doi:10.1111/csp2.12904

Young, A. (2023). Arrested Mobilities: Affective Encounters and Crime Scenes in the City. LAW CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES, 19(2), pp. 210-226. doi:10.1177/1743872119889824

Young, A. & Popovski, H. (2023). Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest. CRIME MEDIA CULTURE, pp. 24-. doi:10.1177/17416590231161510

By our honoraries and associates

Cinar, R. & Coenen, L. (2023). Universities’ contribution to culture and creativity-led regional development: Conflicting institutional demands and hybrid organizational responses. Industry and Higher Education, 37(2), pp. 237-250. doi:10.1177/09504222221119736

Cinar, R., Benneworth, P. & Coenen, L. (2023). Changing conceptualization of innovation in the European Union and its impact on universities: Critical junctures and evolving institutional demands. Research Evaluation, doi:10.1093/reseval/rvad006

Davidson, K., Hakansson, I., Coenen, L. & Nguyen, T. M. (2023). Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district. CITIES, 132 pp. 12-. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.104042

Fastenrath, S., Tavassoli, S., Sharp, D., Raven, R., Coenen, L., Wilson, B. & Schraven, D. (2023). Mission-Oriented Innovation Districts: Towards challenge-led, place-based urban innovation. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 418 pp. 17-. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138079

Gollagher, P. & Fastenrath, S. (2023). Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events - The case of the Australian Open. ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS, 48 pp. 14-. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2023.100762

Jon, I. (2023). Bubble clash: Identity, environment and politics in a multicultural suburb. Dialogues in Urban Research, 1(1), pp. 11-33. doi:10.1177/27541258221130318

Jon, I. (2023). Stories, contingent materialities, and moral inquiry: Response to Simone, MacLeavy, Kim, and Lake. Dialogues in Urban Research, 1(1), pp. 58-62. doi:10.1177/27541258231159127

Jon, I., Guma, P. & Simone, A. (2023). "Humanistic" City in the Age of "Capitalocene". ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS, pp. 16-. doi:10.1080/24694452.2023.2239893

Kirka, H., Soanes, K., Amati, M., Bekessy, S., Harrison, L., Parris, K., ... Threlfall, C. (2023). Ecological connectivity as a planning tool for the conservation of wildlife in cities. METHODSX, 10 pp. 12-. doi:10.1016/j.mex.2022.101989

Mitchell, B., Harrison, L., Ainley, J., van Der Ree, R. & Soanes, K. (2023). Mitigating the effect of linear infrastructure on arboreal mammals in dense forest: A canopy bridge trial. ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION, pp. 9-. doi:10.1111/emr.12568

Parris, K. M., Steven, R., Vogel, B., Lentini, P. E., Hartel, J. & Soanes, K. (2023). The value of question-first citizen science in urban ecology and conservation. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, 5(6), pp. 12-. doi:10.1111/csp2.12917

Rohracher, H., Coenen, L. & Kordas, O. (2023). Mission incomplete: Layered practices of monitoring and evaluation in Swedish transformative innovation policy. SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY, 50(2), pp. 336-349. doi:10.1093/scipol/scac071

Trippl, M., Fastenrath, S. & Isaksen, A. (2023). Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience. EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES, pp. 15-. doi:10.1177/09697764231172326

van Holstein, E., Wiesel, I., Bigby, C. & Gleeson, B. (2023). More-than-care: People with intellectual disability and emerging vulnerability during pandemic lockdown. TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS, 48(3), pp. 525-540. doi:10.1111/tran.12595

Wiesel, I., Bigby, C., van Holstein, E. & Gleeson, B. (2023). 'Mainstreaming' Meets 'Choice and Control': Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE, pp. 17-. doi:10.1177/23996544221146051

Winslow, J. & Coenen, L. (2023). Sustainability transitions to circular cities: Experimentation between urban vitalism and mechanism. Cities, 142 doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104531

2022

Cocina, C., Frediani, A. A., Butcher, S., Levy, C. & Acuto, M. (2022). Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice. ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION, 34(2), pp. 269-277.

Dickey, A., Kosovac, A., Fastenrath, S., Acuto, M. & Gleeson, B. (2022). Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions. CITIES, 131 pp. 10-.

Pejic, D., & Acuto, M. (2022). City diplomacy back home: Central–local tensions in a time of global urban governance. Journal of International Affairs, 74(1).

Frantzeskaki, N., Oke, C., Barnett, G., Bekessy, S., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J., ... Ossola, A. (2022). A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities. AMBIO, 51(6), pp. 1433-1445.

Leavesley, A., Trundle, A. & Oke, C. (2022). Cities and the SDGs: Realities and possibilities of local engagement in global frameworks. AMBIO, 51(6), pp. 1416-1432.

Kemp, P., Acuto, M., Larcom, S., Lumbroso, D. & Owen, M. (2022). Exorcising Malthusian ghosts: Vaccinating the Nexus to advance integrated water, energy and food resource resilience. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4.

Tzachor, A., Sabri, S., Richards, C. E., Rajabifard, A. & Acuto, M. (2022). Potential and limitations of digital twins to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY, 5(10), pp. 822-829.

Acuto, M. (2022). Research handbook on international law and cities. International Affairs, 98(1), pp. 323-324.

Butcher, S., Cociña, C., Frediani, A., Acuto, M., Pérez‐castro, B., Peña‐díaz, J., ... Macarthy, J. (2022). “Emancipatory Circuits of Knowledge” for Urban Equality: Experiences From Havana, Freetown, and Asia. Urban Planning, 7(3), pp. 206-218.

2021

Butcher, S., Acuto, M. & Trundle, A. (2021). Leaving no urban citizens behind: An urban equality framework for deploying the sustainable development goals. ONE EARTH, 4(11), pp. 1548-1556.

Jon, I. (2021). Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice. Urban Geography, pp.1-5.

Butcher, S. (2021). Differentiated citizenship: The everyday politics of the urban poor in Kathmandu, Nepal. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Pejic, D. (2021) 'The power of cities in migration governance: Pilot project report', University of Melbourne, online resource, 25 August 2021.

Fuentenebro, P., & Acuto, M. (2021) ‘The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance’, Urban Studies. 16 July 2021.

Acuto, M., Kosovac, A., Pejic, D., & Jones, T. L. (2021). “The city as actor in UN frameworks: Formalizing ‘urban agency’ in the international system?” Territory, Politics, Governance, 1–18.

Mokhles, S. and Davidson, K., 2021. A framework for understanding the key drivers of cities' climate actions in city networks. Urban Climate, vol.38.

Acuto, M., Pejic, D. and Briggs, J. (2021), Whose City Benchmarks? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45: 389-392.

Acuto, M., Pejic, D. and Briggs, J. (2021), Taking City Rankings Seriously: Engaging with Benchmarking Practices in Global Urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45: 363-377.

Acuto, M, Pejic, D. (2021) Shaping a global comparative imagination? Assessing the role of city rankings in the “global city” discourse. Area 53: 247– 256.

Oke, C., Bekessy, S.A., Frantzeskaki, N., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J. A., Garrard, G. E., Grenfell, M., Harrison, L., Hartigan, M., Callow, D., Cotter, B. & Gawler, S. (2021) Cities should respond to the biodiversity extinction crisis. npj Urban Sustainability 1(11).

Acuto, M., & Leffel, B. (2021). “Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks”. Urban Studies, 58(9).

2020

Trundle, A. (2020). Resilient cities in a Sea of Islands: Informality and climate change in the South Pacific. Cities, 97, 102496.

Acuto, M. (2020). Engaging with global urban governance in the midst of a crisis. Dialogues in Human Geography 10(2): 221-224.

Rogers, D., Herbert, M., Murray, K. et al. (2020). The city under COVID: Podcasting as a digital methodology. Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 111: 434-450.

Acuto, M. (2020). COVID-19: Lessons for an Urban (izing) World. One Earth, 2(4), 317-319.

Jon, I. (2020). Scales of Political Action in the Anthropocene: Gaia, Networks, and Cities as Frontiers of Doing Earthly Politics. Global Society, 1-23.

Hensley, M., Mateo-Babiano, D., Minnery, J., & Pojani, D. (2020). How diverging interests in public health and urban planning can lead to less healthy cities. Journal of Planning History, 19(2), 71-89.

Jon, I. (2020). Deciphering posthumanism: Why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene. Planning Theory.

Butcher, S. (2020). Research solidarity? Navigating feminist ethics in participatory action-research in Kathmandu, Nepal. Gender, Place & Culture, 1.

Kosovac, A. & Davidson, B. (2020). Is too much personal dread stifling alternative pathways to improving urban water security? Journal of Environmental Management, 265.

Trundle, A. (2020). Resilient cities in a Sea of Islands: Informality and climate change in the South Pacific. Cities, 97.

Kosovac, A., Acuto, M. & Jones, T. (2020). Acknowledging Urbanization: A Survey of the Role of Cities in UN Frameworks. Global Policy.

2019

Davidson, K., Coenen, L., Acuto, M., & Gleeson, B. (2019). Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda. Urban Studies, 56(16), 3540-3555.

Jon, I. (2019). Resilience and ‘technicity’: challenges and opportunities for new knowledge practices in disaster planning. Resilience, 7(2), 107-125.

McGrane, S. J., Acuto, M., Artioli, F., Chen, P. Y., Comber, R., Cottee, J., ... & McCann, J. A. (2019). Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food. The Geographical Journal, 185(4), 419-431.

Jon, I. (2019). Reframing postmodern planning with feminist social theory: Toward “anti-essentialist norms”. Planning Theory, 1473095219851214.

Cociña, C., Frediani, A. A., Acuto, M., & Levy, C. (2019). Knowledge translation in global urban agendas: A history of research-practice encounters in the Habitat conferences. World Development, 122, 130-141.

Jon, I., & Reghezza-Zitt, M. (2019). Late Modernity to Postmodern? The Rise of Global Resilience and its Progressive Potentials for Local Disaster Planning (Seattle and Paris). Planning Theory & Practice, 1-29

Kosovac, A., Davidson, B., & Malano, H. (2019). Are We Objective? A Study into the Effectiveness of Risk Measurement in the Water Industry. Sustainability, 11(5), 1279.

Zenkteler, M., Darchen, S., Mateo-Babiano, I., & Baffour, B. (2019). Home-based work in cities: In search of an appropriate urban planning response. Futures, 102494.

Carrero, R., Acuto, M., Tzachor, A., Subedi, N., Campbell, B., & To, L. S. (2019). Tacit networks, crucial care: Informal networks and disaster response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Urban Studies, 56(3), 561-577.

Acuto, M., Steenmans, K., Iwaszuk, E., & Ortega-Garza, L. (2019). Informing urban governance? Boundary-spanning organisations and the ecosystem of urban data. Area, 51(1), 94-103.

Acuto, M., & Ghojeh, M. (2019). C40 Cities Inside Out. Global Policy, 10(4), 709-711.

Washbourne, C. L., Culwick, C., Acuto, M., Blackstock, J. J., & Moore, R. (2019). Mobilising knowledge for urban governance: the case of the Gauteng City-region observatory. Urban Research & Practice, 1-23.

Robin, E., Chazal, C., Acuto, M., & Carrero, R. (2019). (Un) learning the city through crisis: lessons from Cape Town. Oxford Review of Education, 45(2), 242-257.

Robin, E., Steenmans, K., & Acuto, M. (2019). Harnessing inclusive urban knowledge for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Urban Research & Practice, 12(2), 137-155.

Gholamhosseini, R., Pojani, D., Mateo Babiano, I., Johnson, L., & Minnery, J. (2019). The place of public space in the lives of Middle Eastern women migrants in Australia. Journal of Urban Design, 24(2), 269-289.

Curtis, S., & Acuto, M. The Foreign Policy of Cities. RUSI Journal, 28 January 2019

Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., Cosgrave, E., Aldridge, R. W., Acuto, M., & Rutter, H. (2018). Promoting a healthy cities agenda through indicators: development of a global urban environment and health index. Cities & Health, 2(1), 27-45.

Leffel, B., & Acuto, M. (2018). Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance. Global Society, 32(3), 281-301.

Jon, I., Huang, S. K., & Lindell, M. K. (2018). Perceptions and reactions to tornado warning polygons: Would a gradient polygon be useful?. International journal of disaster risk reduction, 30, 132-144.

Kaltofen, C., & Acuto, M. (2018). Rebalancing the Encounter between Science Diplomacy and International Relations Theory. Global Policy, 9, 15-22.

Acuto, M. (2018). Bydiplomatiet skal studeres i en politisk kontekst. Okonomi & Politik, 91(3).

Kaltofen, C., & Acuto, M. (2018). Science diplomacy: introduction to a boundary problem. Global Policy, 9, 8-14.

Robin, E., & Acuto, M. (2018). Global urban policy and the geopolitics of urban data. Political Geography, 66, 76-87.

Smeds, E. and Acuto, M. (2018). Networking Cities after Paris: Weighing the Ambition of Urban Climate Change Experimentation. Global Policy, 9: 549-559.

Acuto, M., Parnell, S. & Seto, K.C. (2018). Building a global urban science. Nature Sustainability 1, 2–4.

Schafran, A., McDonald, C., Lopez Morales, E., Akyelken, N. & Acuto, M. (2018). Replacing the services sector and three-sector theory: urbanization and control as economic sectors. Regional Studies, 52:12, 1708-1719.

2018

Acuto, M. (2018). Global science for city policy. Science, 359(6372), 165-166.

Books and special issues

2023

Andron, S. (2023). Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003456070

Bell, S. et al. (2023) Co-designing infrastructures: Community Collaboration for Liveable Cities. London: UCL Press.

Recio, R.B., Fattah, K.N., Anwar, N.H., Ahmed, N., Mateo-Babiano, I., Acuto, M., Hecita, I.J., & Nouri, S. (Eds.). (2023). COVID-19 and informal workers in Asian cities: Impact, response, and implications for urban recovery (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003438083

2022

Acuto, M. (2022). How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination (1 ed.). Cornell University Press.

2021

Acuto, M., & Seijas, A. (2021). Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy. Policy Press.

Jon, I.(2021). Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics. Pluto Press.

2019

Rapoport, E. Acuto, M. & Grcheva, L. (2019). Leading Cities: A Global Review of City Leadership. UCL Press.

Acuto, M., Dinardi, C., & Marx, C. (2019). Transcending (in)formal urbanism. Special issue of Urban Studies, 56(3).

Addie, J. P. D., Acuto, M., Ho, K. C., Cairns, S., & Tan, H. P. (2019). Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum. Cities, 88(1).

Acuto, M., Robin, E., Setzer, J. (2019). Politics of an Urban Age, Special issue of Palgrave Communications 4(2)

Pojani, D., Corcoran, J., Sipe, N., Mateo-Babiano, I., & Stead, D. (Eds.) (2019). Parking: An International Perspective. Elsevier.

2018

Kaltofen, C., Carr, M., & Acuto, M. (2018). Technologies of International Relations. Palgrave.

Kaltofen, C., & Acuto, M. (2018). Science Diplomacy. Special issue of Global Policy, 9 (S2).

Book chapters

2024

Bell, S., Johnson, C., Teh, T., Austen, K. & Moore, G. (2024). Co-designing infrastructures: Working with communities to create resilient cities. Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment (pp. 411-422). doi:10.4324/9781003292821-37

Bell, S., Lowe, M., Oke, C., Grenfell, M., Sweeting, D. & Acuto, M. (2024). A City Professorial Chair - a research partnership for a resilient City of Melbourne. Empowering Smart Cities through Community-Centred Public Private Partnerships and Innovations (pp. 131-146).

Kosovac, A. & Pejic, D. (2024). Cities and the SDGs: A Spotlight on Urban Settlements. In Partzsch, L. (Eds.) ENVIRONMENT IN GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE (1st ed., pp. 269-294) BRISTOL UNIV PR.

Morrissey, C. & Acuto, M. (2024). Global cities in the making. Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment (pp. 554-562). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003292821-50

Trundle, A. & Gleeson, B. (2024). The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Australia’s de facto national urban policy? Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways (pp. 89-110). ANU Press. doi:10.22459/aup.2024.05

2023

Fileborn, B. & Ball, M. (2023). Technology-facilitated domestic violence. Technology and Domestic and Family Violence (pp. 133-143). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429316098-13

Fileborn, B. & Ball, M. (2023). TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Some queer considerations. Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses (1 ed., pp. 133-143) Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429316098-13

Hu, D. & Li, Y. (2023). Australia’s China Literacy and China’s Australia Literacy: Misassumptions and Implications for Bilateral Relations. Different Histories, Shared Futures (pp. 137-158). Springer Nature Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-9191-2_9

Pejic, D. (2023). Interview with Daniel Pejic: Cities and City Networks: Bottom-Up Pioneers in a Top-Down World. In Partzsch, L. (Eds.) The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance Perceptions, Actors, Innovations Policy Press.

2022

Acuto, M., Pejic, D. & Oke, C. (2022). Networking Australia's Urban Governance. Planning in an Uncanny World (pp. 34-50). Routledge.

2021

Bell, S. (2021). Water Bag. In Penner, B., Forty, A., Horsfall Turner, O. & Critchley, M. (Eds.) Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (1 ed., pp. 349-352) Reaktion Books.

Day, J. (2021). The critical need for urban planning around Port Vila's BRI projects. In Sintusingha, S., Wu, H., Lin, W., Han, S. & Qin, B. (Eds.) INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH (1 ed., pp. 226-244) ROUTLEDGE.

Fastenrath, S. & Coenen, L. (2021). Future-proof cities through governance experiments? Insights from the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (RMS). In Harrison, J., Galland, D. & Tewdwr-Jones, M. (Eds.) Planning Regional Futures (1 ed., pp. 265-287) Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003147008-13

Kosovac, A. & Pejic, D. (2021). What’s next? New forms of city diplomacy and emerging global urban governance. In Fernández de Losada, A. & Galceran-Vercher, M. (Eds.) Cities in Global Governance. From multilateralism to multistakeholderism? (1 ed., pp. 87-96) CIDOB.

Pejic, D. & Acuto, M. (2021). Cities: Understanding global urban governance. In Weiss, T. G. & Wilkinson, R. (Eds.) Global Governance Futures (1 ed., pp. 101-114) Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003139836-8

Young, A. & Jewkes, Y. (2021). Sensory Reflections on a Japanese Prison. In Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. & Warr, J. (Eds.) Sensory Penalities Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control Emerald Group Publishing. doi:10.1108/978-1-83909-726-320210012

2020

Pejic, D. (2020). Cities and International Relations. In Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mateo-Babiano, I., & Lee, G. (2020). People in Place: Placemaking Fundamentals. In Placemaking Fundamentals for the Built Environment (pp. 15-38). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

2019

Acuto, M., Carr, M., & Kaltofen, C. (2019). Conversations on Technology and IR. In Technologies of International Relations (pp. 1-11). Palgrave

Acuto M. & Sassen S. (2019) Everyday Tech: In Search of Mundane Tactics. In: Kaltofen C., Carr M. & Acuto M. (eds) Technologies of International Relations. Palgrave Pivot.

Acuto, M. (2019). From the Globe to the Germ, and Back. In: Singh, J.P., Carr, M. & Marlin-Bennett, R. (eds) Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations. Routledge.

Acuto, M. (2019). Whose Urban Agency Is It Anyway?. In: Oosterlynck, S., Beeckmans, L., Bassens, D., Derudder, B., Segaert, B. & Braeckmans, L. (eds) The City as a Global Political Actor. Routledge.

Scholarly op-eds

Acuto, M & Edwards, A. (2024). Mapping the hidden lives of Melbourne’s night workers. Pursuit.

Acuto, M & Edwards, A. (2024). Is Melbourne really a 24-hour city if public transport stops?. Pursuit.

Acuto, M. (2019). We need a science of the night. Nature, 576(7787), 339.

Acuto, M., Pejic, D. & Moonen, T. (2019). “Why city rankings matter” Scientific American 321(1) July 2019.

Acuto, M. (2018). “Why Cities Need CXOs” Scientific American 319 (5) November 2018.

Acuto, M. (2018). Global science for city policy. Science, 359(6372), 165-166.

Cobb, M. (2024). We checked if Melbourne really is a dog-friendly city. Pursuit.

Croeser, T. & Acuto, M. (2024). These maps tell us we need to cool our sweltering streets. Pursuit.

Farmer, J., De Cotta, T., Savic, M., Butt, A. & Kroen, A. (2024). ‘Bumping spaces’ build community – when they are within reach. Pursuit.

Jon, I. (2020). A manifesto for planning after the coronavirus: Towards planning of care. Planning Theory, 19:3.

Leavesley, A. (2024). Are cheap plastics the new tobacco? Pursuit.

Leavesley, A. (2024). Is this the world’s coolest street? Or is the system rigged? Pursuit.

Nice, K., Seneviratne, S. & Stevenson, M. (2024). How many 20 minute neighbourhoods does Melbourne really have?. Pursuit.

Pejic, D. (2021). Local climate action blocked by foreign relations laws.Pursuit.

Stefanic, T. (2024). Five ways retrofitting cities can help decarbonise our future. Pursuit.

Stone, J. (2022). Better bus networks for fairer suburbs can cut emissions. Pursuit.

Trijsburg, I. & Peucker, M. (2024). How disinformation is undermining our cities. Pursuit.

Reports and more

Reports 2024

Reports 2023

Report 2022

Reports 2019-2021

Student Energy & Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne (2021). Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy Youth Policy Innovation Team: Process Outcomes and Recommendations for Global Regions. [Online resource]

Hadfield, P., Oke, C., & Verbeeck, J. (2021). Regional Research and Innovation for City Climate Action: Global Synthesis Report. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne. [Online resource]

Lynch, A., Oke, C., & Leavesley, A. (2021). State of play: Local governments and city networks accelerating climate action in Australia. ICLEI Oceania.

Dickey, A. (ed.), Oke, C. (ed.) (2021). COP26 Insights from the Innovate4Cities Conference 2021: Student-Led Briefing Report. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. [Online resource].

Dickey, A. (ed.), Oke, C. (ed.) (2021). Innovate4Cities Conference 2021: Student-Led Final Report. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. [Online resource].

Dickey, A., Hadfield, P., Oke, C., Verbeeck, J. (2021). Opportunities for coordinating multi-level climate action: an analysis of city climate action and national urban engagement. Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. [Online resource].

Fattah, K., Marathe, R., Butcher, S., & Das, J. (2021). Evidence to Action Dialogue Series: Young Peoples’ Wellbeing in Southern Cities. University of Melbourne. [Online resource].

Acuto, M. Larcom, S. Rauch, & F. Willems, T. (2021). Covid-19 forced us all to experiment. What have we learned?. IEEE Spectrum.

Butcher, S. Cociña, C. Levy, C. & Yap, C. (2021). Localising the SDGs: A Call for Urban Equality as a Guiding Principle. Urbanet.

Butcher, S., Das, J., Dam, J., Fattah, K., & Hausmann, S. (2021). Evidence to Action (E2A) Framework: A Participatory Approach to Action Learning (Summary Guide). University of Melbourne. [Online resource].

Butcher, S., Das, J., Dam, J., Fattah, K., & Hausmann, S. (2021). Evidence to Action (E2A) Framework: A Participatory Approach to Action Learning. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne. [Online resource].

Dickey, A., Acuto, M., Washbourne, C (2021). Urban Observatories: A Comparative Review. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne: Melbourne.

Dickey, A., Kosovac, A., Acuto, A., & Gleeson, B. (2020). Benchmarking Urban Exchanges: Lessons for Melbourne. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne: Melbourne. [Online Resource].

Dickey, A., Acuto, M., & Washbourne, C. (2020). Urban Observatories in the Midst of COVID-19: Challenges & Responses. Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne: Melbourne. [Online Resource].

Acuto, M. (2020). From Crisis to crisis? Melbourne in the midst of COVID-19, in Abdullah, H., & Fernandez de Lozada, A. Cities on the Frontline. Barcelona: CIDOB.

Acuto, M. (2020). Whatever happened to urban governance?. Dialogues in Human Geography.

Connected Cities Lab Annual Report 2019

Lu, Y., Mateo-Babiano, I., & Sorupia, E. (2019). Who uses smart card? Understanding public transport payment preference in developing contexts, a case study of Manila’s LRT-1. IATSS research, 43(1), 60-68.

Butcher, S., Nolan, E., & Davidson, K. (2019). Academic Literature Review of Resilient Communities. Working paper for Resilient Melbourne Office.

Multimedia

Peel, J. Oke, C. & Markley-Towler, B. (Hosts) 2023, Climate Talks, Climate Talks series 3 (8 episodes), Climate Talks podcast, Melbourne Centre for Cities & Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne.

Petridis, L. (Producer & Host) & Acuto, M. (Guest) 2023, City Resilience in Melbourne, City Resilience series, Connected Cities podcast, 5 December 2023, Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.

Petridis, L. (Producer & Host) & Gibbs, L. (Guest) 2023, City Resilience in Melbourne, City Resilience series, Connected Cities podcast, 5 December 2023, Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.

Petridis, L. (Producer & Host) & Yazdi, F. (Guest) 2023, City Resilience in Melbourne, City Resilience series, Connected Cities podcast, 5 December 2023, Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.

Petridis, L. (Producer & Host) & Veale, G. (Guest) 2023, City Resilience in Melbourne, City Resilience series, Connected Cities podcast, 5 December 2023, Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.

Petridis, L. (Producer & Host) & Bell, S. (Guest) 2023, City Resilience in Melbourne, City Resilience series, Connected Cities podcast, 5 December 2023, Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.

Peel, J. Oke, C. & Markley-Towler, B. (Hosts) 2022, Climate Talks, Climate Talks series 2 (10 episodes), Climate Talks podcast, Melbourne Centre for Cities & Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Bassett, S. & Seijas, A. (Hosts) 2021, Lockdown Nights, Cities After Dark series, Connected Cities podcast, 2 April 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Bassett, S. & Acuto, M. (Hosts) 2021, Sleeping, Cities After Dark series, Connected Cities podcast, 25 March 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Bassett, S. & Acuto, M. (Hosts) 2021, Right to the Night, Cities After Dark series, Connected Cities podcast, 19 March 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Bassett, S. & Acuto, M. (Hosts) 2021, Night Shift, Cities After Dark series, Connected Cities podcast, 12 March 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Bassett, S. & Seijas, A. (Hosts) 2021, Having Night Mayors, Cities After Dark series, Connected Cities podcast, 5 March 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Bassett, S. & Seijas, A. (Hosts) 2021, Into the Night, Cities After Dark series, Connected Cities podcast, 27 February 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Murray, K. (Producer) Dickey, A. & Washbourne, C. (Hosts) 2021, Urban Observatories and COVID, Connected Cities podcast, 24 January 2021, Connected Cities Lab, University of Melbourne.

Peel, J. Oke, C. & Markley-Towler, B. (Hosts) 2021, Climate Talks, Climate Talks series 1 (8 episodes), Climate Talks podcast, Melbourne Centre for Cities & Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne.

Parnell, S., Elmqvist, T., Acuto, M. & Murray, K. (2020). Coffee with Sue Parnell and Thomas Elmqvist - the global urban agenda. Connected Cities podcast.

Oke, C. (2020). Bridging research and policy for climate action. UN-Habitat Global Urban Lecture series.

Murray, K. Rogers, D. & Acuto, M. (2020). Night-time and cities. City Road podcast.

Murray, K. (2020). Melbourne contributor, in Rogers, D. & Herbert, M. Listening to the city in a global pandemic. City Road podcast.

Keil, R., McVernon, J., Acuto, M., Murray, K. & Rafferty, J. (2020). Coffee with Roger Keil and Jodie McVernon - pandemics and the city. Connected Cities podcast.