Impact

Peer reviewed journal articles

2026

Mentha, J., Edwards, A., Young, A. & Acuto, M. (2026). On the Brighter Side of the Night: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70084

Opacin, N., Johnson, K., Hill, N., Morato, A., Seal, I., Litt, J. & Bekessy, S. (2026). Reimagining health care and social connection with asylum seekers and refugees through contextually grounded nature-based social interventions. Wellbeing, Space and Society (Vol 10). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2026.100409

2025

Lowe, M., Roberts, M., Doak, M., & Bell, S. (2025). Evaluating the Inclusion of Urban Resilience in Localised Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunities to Align Urban Agendas. Urban Policy and Research, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2025.2527420

Moosavi, S., Keane, B., Roberts, D., Verbeeck, J., Bell, S. & Oke, C. (2025). Tales of boundary spanning for climate actions in cities: from theory to practice, and back. npj Urban Sustain 5, 59. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00246-4

Acuto, M., Edwards, A., Mentha, J., & Young, A. (2025). (Ac)counting for night shift workers: Insights from Australian cities. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083251315796

Acuto, M., Ratti, C., Mateen, B. A., Mazzotta, B., Skenazy, S., Thompson, D. R., & Setian, L. (2025). Digital Transformations and Urban Health: Current Challenges and Opportunities. F1000Research, 14. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.166033.1

Bush, J. & Doyon, A. (2025). Climate emergency declarations by local governments – what comes next?. npj Climate Action, 4(44). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00253-2

Day, J., & Missack, W. (2025). Pem Graon: Customary tenants in the case of Tebakor, Port Vila, Vanuatu. Cities, 161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105880

Evans, J., Cassanmagnago, D., Chatterji, T., Irvin, A., Jance, B., Oke, C., Thioye, M., Trencher, G., Uyarra, E., & Yarime, M. (2025). Grand challenges in sustainable cities: urban innovation for global climate and sustainability goals—from policy agenda to research needs. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2025.1568701

Fileborn, B. (2025). “I Actually Snapped”: Conceptualizing Resistance to Street Harassment as Feminist Snap and Erosion. Gender and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251337428

Gao, X., Day, J., & Han, S. (2025). Two relocation strategies: Preserving erstwhile neighbourhood relationships in Shenzhen. Cities, 157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105610

Grilo, C., Neves, T., Bates, J., le Roux, A., Medrano-Vizcaíno, P., Quaranta, M., Silva, I., Soanes, K., Wang, Y., Guinard, E., Zotos, S., Zoel, L., Zocche, J., Zenere, J., Zeferino, G., da Silva Zanzini, A., Zank, C., Zakaria, S., Zaharia, R., … de Sá, G. (2025). Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles. Scientific Data, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04207-x

Holleran, M. (2025). De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-19. Sociological Review, 73(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241259543

Lata, L. N. (2025). Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251335371

Lata, L., & Copolov, A. (2025). Parasitic platform urbanism in Dhaka and Melbourne. Human Geography United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786251321611

Miller, D., Oke, C., & Jance IV, B. (2025). Special Issue on City-Led Research and Innovation for Action on Climate Change. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.3138/jccpe-2024-0046

Miller-Yeaman, R. (2025). “New Look” Hostels: Domestic Framings of Hospitality at the Villawood/Westbridge Migrant Hostel. Fabrications. https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2025.2469949

Nava, S., Chalabi, Z., Bell, S., & Burman, E. (2025). Co-designing with community for net zero: Case study of a housing estate. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 46(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/01436244241273935

Nava, S., Chalabi, Z., Bell, S., & Moore, G. (2025). Multistakeholder sustainability assessment of housing estate regeneration schemes: Analysis of a mixed methods survey. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107805

O’Donnell, M., Collier, M., Pineda-Pinto, M., Cooper, C., Nulty, F., & Castañeda, N. (2025). Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review. Environmental Science and Policy, 164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103998

O’Neill, T., & Fileborn, B. (2025). ‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism. The British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae085

Parker, D., Soanes, K., & Roudavski, S. (2025). Learning with owls: Human–wildlife coexistence as a guide for urban design. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70067

Pineda-Pinto, M., Lennon, M., Kennedy, C., O’Donnell, M., Andersson, E., Wijsman, K., & Collier, M. (2025). Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions. Npj Urban Sustainability, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00205-z

Raymond, C. M., Rautio, P., Fagerholm, N., Aaltonen, V.A., Andersson, E., Celermajer, D., Christie, M., Hällfors, M., Saari, M. H., Mishra, H. S., Lechner, A. M., Pineda-Pinto, M. & Schlosberg, D. (2025). Applying multispecies justice in nature-based solutions and urban sustainability planning: Tensions and prospects. npj Urban Sustainability 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00191-2

Salay, S., & Day, J. (2025). Overlapping Land Tenure Stories: Ambiguity in Port Vila’s Urban Precarity. City and Society, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.70009

Shi, Y., Lyu, J., Candido, C., Miao, J., & Lian, Z. (2025). Experimental investigation on effects of odor types, concentrations, and release frequencies on cognitive performance. Building and Environment, 269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.112456

Sou, G., & Day, J. (2025). Postcolonial experiences of Chinese aid: Encountering and welcoming South–South aid from the middle. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12693

2024

Acuto, M., Pejic, D., Mokhles, S., Leffel, B., Gordon, D., Martinez, R., Cortes, S., & Oke, C. (2024). What three decades of city networks tell us about city diplomacy’s potential for climate action. Nature Cities, 1(7). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00081-1

Acuto, M., Seijas, A., Edwards, A., & Bassett, S. (2024). Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do. Urban Geography, 45(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2180192

Ahsan, M. N., Naim, J., Kumar, P., Okano, N., Alam, A., Chowdhury, S., Islam, M. T., Khatun, A., Nasrin, N., & Vink, K. (2024). Displaced by nature, driven by choice: Exploring the factors influencing environmental migrants’ habitat preferences in coastal Bangladesh. Habitat International, 153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103215

Alam, A., Nel, E., & Bergen, S. (2024). New Zealand’s Small-Town Disruptions and the Role of Immigrant Mobilities. In A. Triandafyllidou, A. Moghadam, M. Kelly, & Z. Şahin-Mencütek (Eds.), IMISCOE Research Series: Vol. Part F2825 (1st ed.). SpringerLink. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55680-7_7

Alidoust, S., Wyeth, S., Reddel, T., Cornish, G., Lata, L., Johnson, L., & Shaweesh, M. (2024). Sustaining a resilient housing system in southeast Queensland. Australian Planner, 60(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2024.2309352

Andrews, F. J., Johnson, L. C., Horne, R., & Thornton, L. E. (2024). The interrelationships between kitchen design and food practices for apartment dwellers in Melbourne, Australia: an exploratory study. Cities & Health, 8(6), 991–1002. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2333126

Brown, J., Williams, N., & Soanes, K. (2024). Conservation translocations in urban environments: State of the knowledge and future directions. Basic and Applied Ecology, 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2024.10.008

Castaneda, N. R., Pineda-Pinto, M., Gulsrud, N. M., Cooper, C., O’Donnell, M., & Collier, M. (2024). Exploring the restorative capacity of urban green spaces and their biodiversity through an adapted One Health approach: A scoping review. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128489

Cooper, C., Collier, M., Pineda-Pinto, M., Castañeda, N., O’Donnell, M., & Nulty, F. (2024). Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes. Sustainability Science, 19(6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01539-w

Fuentenebro, P., Bok, R., Rosenman, E., & Acuto, M. (2024). Geographies of super-philanthropy: Disaggregating the global philanthropic complex. Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206241228659

Kolioulis, A., Seijas, A., & Acuto, M. (2024). Integrating night studies into climate science. Nature Climate Change, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02117-9

Lata, L (2024). Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine. Planning Theory, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/14730952231163213

Lata, L. N., & Chowdhury, R. (2024). City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport. Journal Of Sociology, 60(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241232643

Lata, L. N., Reddel, T., Head, B. W., & Craven, L. (2024). Advancing collaborative social outcomes through place-based solutions-aligning policy and funding systems. Policy And Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae018

Loney-Howes, R., Longbottom, M., & Fileborn, B. (2024). Gender-Based Violence and Carceral Feminism in Australia: Towards Decarceral Approaches (Feminist Legal Studies, (2024), 32, 2, (163-185), 10.1007/s10691-024-09546-z). Feminist Legal Studies, 32(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-024-09552-1

Lowe, M., Bell, S., Briggs, J., McMillan, E., Morley, M., Grenfell, M., Sweeting, D., Whitten, A., & Jordan, N. (2024). A research-based, practice-relevant urban resilience framework for local government. Local Environment, 29(7). https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2318571

Lowe, M., Bell, S., Ferguson, P., Morley, M., Morrice, H., & Foster, S. (2024). Building back healthier? The transformative potential and reality of city planning responses to COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia. Cities, 155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105479

Lundberg, K., Popovski, H., & Young, A. (2024). Justice in the streets? Towards a criminology of more-than-spatial justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958241257834

Lundberg, K., Popovski, H., & Young, A. (2024). Spatial Governance of the Unhoused: On Social Death in the Contemporary City. Social and Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639241265358

Malekpour, S., Raven, R., Allen, C., Moallemi, E. A., Ningrum, D., Cuesta-Claros, A., Grainger-Brown, J., Trundle, A., Kestin, T., Coy, D., Dechrai, I., Walters, J., & Bryan, B. (2024). Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda. Nature Sustainability, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01324-8

McEvoy, D., Tara, A., Vahanvati, M., Ho, S., Gordon, K., Trundle, A., Rachman, C., & Qomariyah, Y. (2024). Localized nature-based solutions for enhanced climate resilience and community wellbeing in urban informal settlements. Climate and Development, 16(7). https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2277248

Mokhles, S., & Acuto, M. (2024). Expanding the urban climate imagination: A review of mitigation actions across 800 local governments. Journal of Cleaner Production, 442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141055

Mokhles, S., Davidson, K., & Acuto, M. (2024). Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions. AMBIO, 53(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-01991-z

Mundell, M., Andrews, F., Tucker, R., Johnson, L., & Liang, J. (2024). Public space in the shadow of COVID-19: placemaking for spatial justice in Geelong’s ‘disadvantaged’ neighbourhoods. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2024.2337888

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). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31115

Pineda-Pinto, M., Kennedy, C., Nulty, F., & Collier, M. (2024). Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation. Environmental Science and Policy, 162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103926

Plueckhahn, R. (2024). Effective Cynicism: Waste, Power, and the Negotiation of Urban Decay and Renewal in Ulaanbaatar. Cultural Anthropology, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca39.3.05

Reddel, T., Lata, L. N., Young, C., Yates, M., & Mcdaid, L. (2024). Addressing (in)equity through public policy and local governance systems: A case study of Queensland, Australia. Australian Journal Of Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12675

Sanusi, R., Lata, L., Mishra, S., & Iossifova, D. (2024). Editorial: Reviews in cities in the Global South: 2022. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2024.1356965

Sehgal, M., Jatrana S., & Johnson, L. (2024). A comprehensive health index for India: development, validation, and spatial variation. Journal of Population Research,41(3) .1-31. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-024-09341-2

Soanes, K., Rytwinski, T., Fahrig, L., Huijser, M., Jaeger, J., Teixeira, F., van der Ree, R., & van der Grift, E. (2024). Do wildlife crossing structures mitigate the barrier effect of roads on animal movement? A global assessment. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14582

Staines, Z., Smith, K., Plage, S., Lata, L. N., Fay, S., Zheng, Z., Reeves, L. S., Beazley, H., Kuskoff, E., Clarke, A., McGowan, G., Shevellar, L., & Prangnell, J. (2024). Social science as social action to address inequalities. Australian Journal Of Social Issues, 59(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.272

Tucker, R., de Jong, U., Johnson, L. C., Johnston, N., Lee, A., Michaux, F., … Andrews, F. J. (2021). Microvillage: assessing the viability of increasing supply of affordable, sustainable and socially integrated small homes. Housing Studies, 39(1), 52–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.2014418

Uddin, H., Islam, A., Lata, L. N., Nahar, S., Zakir Hossin, M., & Uddin, J. (2024). Associations of threat and deprivation-related childhood exposures with children’s mental health and flourishing: The moderating role of family resilience. Children and Youth Services Review, 166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107912

Walker, J. A., Hajek, J., Loakes, D., Diskin-Holdaway, C., & Docherty, G. (2024). The sociolinguistics of urban multilingualism Toronto and Melbourne. In K. Grohmann (Ed.), Studies in Bilingualism (66). John Benjamins B V Publ. https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.66.15wal

Wang, H., Wang, P., Zhang, X., Chen, W., Tzachor, A., Fishman, T., Schandl, H., Acuto, M., Yang, Y., Lu, Y., Böcher, C., Ma, F., Zhang, C., Yue, Q., Du, T., Liu, J., & Zhu, Y. (2024). Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010. Nature Geoscience, 17(9). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01501-6

Young, A., & Popovski, H. (2024). Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest. Crime, Media, Culture, 20(1). https://doi.org/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

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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

2026

Oke, C. & Verbeeck, J. (2026). City Leaders for Sustainable Futures: Portraits of Visionary Urban Changemakers. Palgrave Macmillan.

Oke, C., Jance IV, B., Carlo Delgado-Ramos, G., Roberts, D. C., Tollin, N., Irvin, A. & Doak, M. (Eds.). (2026). A Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science: The Innovate4Cities Initiative. Palgrave Macmillan.

Pejic, D. (2026). City Agency and Global Governance: A Study of Migration City Diplomacy. Bristol University Press.

2025

Frantzeskaki, N., Moglia, M., Newton, P., Prasad, D., & Pinto, M. P. (Eds.). (2024). Future Cities Making Mission-oriented Research for Urban Sustainability Transitions in Australia (1st ed.). Springer.

Hill, R., Fileborn, B., & Strong, C. (2025). Unsilenced: Women musicians, gender-based violence, and the popular music industry.

Kafili, D., Mokhles, S., Edwards, A., Trimboli, D., Mirra, G., Alfaro, G. A. R., Haberfield, J., Walker, R., Roberts, R., Pourafkari, S., Greunen, S. van, & Tumturk, O. (2025). Oculus 2022. https://doi.org/10.26188/29206391

Miller, D., Oke, C. & Jance I.V., B. (2025). Special Issue on City-Led Research and Innovation for Action on Climate Change. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy , 3(2).

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

2025

Fileborn, B. (2025). Safety and inclusion in public space: taking street harassment seriously. In Public Space and the Sustainable Development Goals Inclusion Safety Culture and Nature. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035322411.00013

Frantzeskaki, N., Bush, J., Kendal, D., Adams, C., Bellato, L., Ossola, A., & Oke, C. (2025). Pathways for Restoring and Connecting with Nature in Australian Cities. In Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7671-9_8

Holleran, M., Minner, J., & Abbott, M. (2025). Behind the Golden Glow: The Soft Power, Potemkinism, and Protest of Australian Mega-Events. In Mega Event Planning. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3515-3_4

Lata, L. N. (2025). Urban informality and spaces of exception: Urban planning and social distinction in Dhaka. In F. H. Mallick, T. Shafique, & S. Kabir (Eds.), Next50: Collective Futures Critical-creative perspectives on the built environment in Bangladesh (First edition). University Press Limited.

Miao, J., Phelps, N., Lin, S., & Li, Z. (2025). Wuhan’s Red Steel City: The waning centrality of an industrial satellite town? In Peripheral Centralities the Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs.

Moglia, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Newton, P., Pineda Pinto, M., & Prasad, D. (2025). Future Cities and Their Transitions Ahead. In N. Frantzeskaki, M. Moglia, P. Newton, D. Prasad, & M. Pineda Pinto (Eds.), Future Cities Making: Mission-oriented Research for Urban Sustainability Transitions in Australia (1st ed.). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7671-9_1

Mondal, L., & Lata, L. (2025). The idea of land justice in urban Bangladesh. In Politics of Urban Land in South Asia: Current Challenges and New Directions. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003530664-7

Pineda Pinto, M., & Steele, W. (2025). Regenerative Urban Development Paradigms in a Time of Climate Change and Ecological Crisis. In N. Frantzeskaki, M. Moglia, P. Newton, D. Prasad, & M. Pineda Pinto (Eds.), Future Cities Making: Mission-oriented Research for Urban Sustainability Transitions in Australia (1st ed.). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7671-9_9

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

2026

Opacin, N., Johnson, K. & Bekessy, S. When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease. The Conversation.

Robertson, K. M., Kirk, H., Humphrey, J. & Bekessy, S. Parks are sanctuaries but can also harbour disease – here’s how to protect yourself. The Conversation.

2025

Ashcroft, L & Soanes, K, (2025) Don’t be fooled by Melbourne’s Fool’s Spring. Pursuit.

Andron, S. (2025) Graffiti removal isn’t the enemy of art. It’s part of a vibrant dialogue on life in the big city. The Conversation.

Bell, S. (2025) Why we all need a 'climate safe room' (and how to create one). Australian Geographic.

Edwards, A., Bekoe, I. & Amenuvor, D. (2025) Ghana's 24-hour economy could be a lesson for Australia. Pursuit.

Irvin, A. (2025) Earth has an Outer Space Treaty, but is it time for an Orbital Activity Treaty? Pursuit.

Irvin, A. & Dunne, M. P. (2025) How bots are driving the climate crisis and how we can solve it. Pursuit.

Pejic, D. (2025) Will a second Trump presidency help or hinder relationships between local leaders? Pursuit.

2024

Acuto, M., Trijsburg, I. & Pejic, D. (2024) Strengthening city diplomacy in 2024. Diplomatic Courier.

Acuto, M., Trijsburg, I. & Wong, S. (2024) The stories hidden in maps. Pursuit.

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.

Andron, S. & Lata, L. (2024) Images shape cities, but who decides which ones survive? It’s a matter of visual justice. The Conservation.

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. & Naccarella L. (2024) Bumping spaces’ build community – when they are within reach. Pursuit.

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.

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

Trijsburg, I. (2024) Cities must act quickly to challenge disinformation-fuelled violence. Pursuit.

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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.

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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.

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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.

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