| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of Governance-beyond-the-State | Urban Studies | 2005 | 1,136 |
| 2 | Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Neighbourhood | Urban Studies | 2001 | 1,097 |
| 3 | Industrial Clusters: Complexes, Agglomeration and/or Social Networks? | Urban Studies | 2000 | 917 |
| 4 | Smartmentality: The Smart City as Disciplinary Strategy | Urban Studies | 2014 | 878 |
| 5 | The Concept of Employability | Urban Studies | 2005 | 748 |
| 6 | Compact, Dispersed, Fragmented, Extensive? A Comparison of Urban Growth in Twenty-five Global Cities using Remotely Sensed Data, Pattern Metrics and Census Information | Urban Studies | 2008 | 704 |
| 7 | Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues | Urban Studies | 2009 | 635 |
| 8 | Gentrification and Social Mixing: Towards an Inclusive Urban Renaissance? | Urban Studies | 2008 | 602 |
| 9 | Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification | Urban Studies | 2003 | 586 |
| 10 | The Compact City: Just or Just Compact? A Preliminary Analysis | Urban Studies | 2000 | 585 |
| 11 | Tacit Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Geography | Urban Studies | 2002 | 574 |
| 12 | The Right to Stay Put, Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City | Urban Studies | 2006 | 572 |
| 13 | Creative Cities, Creative Spaces and Urban Policy | Urban Studies | 2009 | 562 |
| 14 | Creative Cities and Economic Development | Urban Studies | 2000 | 555 |
| 15 | A New Measure of the Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets: The Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index | Urban Studies | 2008 | 549 |
| 16 | Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK | Urban Studies | 2006 | 497 |
| 17 | Diversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does it Matter? | Urban Studies | 2000 | 492 |
| 18 | Quantifying Urban Form: Compactness versus 'Sprawl' | Urban Studies | 2005 | 488 |
| 19 | Towards Alternative Model(s) of Local Innovation | Urban Studies | 2005 | 487 |
| 20 | Is the Journey to Work Explained by Urban Structure? | Urban Studies | 1993 | 461 |
| 21 | Zoning and Property Taxation in a System of Local Governments | Urban Studies | 1975 | 457 |
| 22 | The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: What Has the Evidence Shown? | Urban Studies | 1991 | 454 |
| 23 | Cultural Clusters and the Post-industrial City: Towards the Remapping of Urban Cultural Policy | Urban Studies | 2004 | 453 |
| 24 | The Polycentric Urban Region: Towards a Research Agenda | Urban Studies | 2001 | 448 |
| 25 | On the Nature of Neighbourhood | Urban Studies | 2001 | 447 |
| 26 | Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardisation in Spaces of Consumption | Urban Studies | 1998 | 444 |
| 27 | Gender, Race, Age and Fear in the City | Urban Studies | 2001 | 443 |
| 28 | Sense of Community and Neighbourhood Form: An Assessment of the Social Doctrine of New Urbanism | Urban Studies | 1999 | 430 |
| 29 | Clusters from the Inside and Out: Local Dynamics and Global Linkages | Urban Studies | 2004 | 429 |
| 30 | Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City | Urban Studies | 2003 | 412 |
| 31 | Three Challenges for the Compact City as a Sustainable Urban Form: Household Consumption of Energy and Transport in Eight Residential Areas in the Greater Oslo Region | Urban Studies | 2005 | 404 |
| 32 | Urban Form, Energy and the Environment: A Review of Issues, Evidence and Policy | Urban Studies | 1996 | 387 |
| 33 | Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans' Vieux Carre (French Quarter) | Urban Studies | 2005 | 386 |
| 34 | Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration | Urban Studies | 2005 | 384 |
| 35 | Impact of Proximity to Light Rail Rapid Transit on Station-area Property Values in Buffalo, New York | Urban Studies | 2007 | 384 |
| 36 | What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods? | Urban Studies | 2002 | 377 |
| 37 | People, Parks and the Urban Green: A Study of Popular Meanings and Values for Open Spaces in the City | Urban Studies | 1988 | 372 |
| 38 | Can Land-use Policy Really Affect Travel Behaviour? A Study of the Link between Non-work Travel and Land-use Characteristics | Urban Studies | 1998 | 372 |
| 39 | On the Concept of Territorial Competitiveness: Sound or Misleading? | Urban Studies | 2002 | 370 |
| 40 | Urban Democracy and the Local Trap | Urban Studies | 2006 | 364 |
| 41 | City Marketing, Image Reconstruction and Urban Regeneration | Urban Studies | 1993 | 362 |
| 42 | The Impact of Cultural Events on City Image: Rotterdam, Cultural Capital of Europe 2001 | Urban Studies | 2004 | 361 |
| 43 | Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence | Urban Studies | 1994 | 360 |
| 44 | The evolutionary dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems | Urban Studies | 2016 | 360 |
| 45 | Urban Neoliberalism with Islamic Characteristics | Urban Studies | 2013 | 359 |
| 46 | Cities and Competitiveness | Urban Studies | 1999 | 357 |
| 47 | The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch | Urban Studies | 2007 | 356 |
| 48 | Urban Form and Travel Behaviour: Micro-level Household Attributes and Residential Context | Urban Studies | 2002 | 354 |
| 49 | An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Hong Kong's Emerging Strategies in and for (Inter)Urban Competition | Urban Studies | 2000 | 349 |
| 50 | Anatomy of a New Ethnic Settlement: The Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles | Urban Studies | 1998 | 346 |
