Book
2016. With co-author Peter Marcuse. . London and New York: Verso. The book has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Farsi, Turkish, French and Slovak. A second edition of In Defense of Housing will be published in 2024.
Journal Articles
Forthcoming. “Beyond the Limits of Rentability: Revalorizing urban space in late neoliberalism.” Environment & Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice.
2024. With Tim White. "Housing Ideology and Urban Residential Change: The rise of co-living in the financialized city." Environment and Planning A: Economy and space 56 (5): 1368-1384.
2023. With Ulises Moreno-Tabarez, Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero, Lindsay Sawyer, Anna Richter, Yimin Zhao, Hanna Baumann and Andrea Gibbons. “Pluriversal Urbanisms.” CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory action 27 (5-6): 691-696.
2023. “Polycritical City?” CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action 27 (3-4): 271-274.
2023. “The Politics of Housing Knowledge.” future.lab-Magazin 18:5-7.
2022. “Tired City: On the politics of urban exhaustion.” CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action 26 (4): 559-561.
2021. “Disaster Urbanization: The city between crisis and calamity.” Sociologica 15 (1): 91-108.
2020. “The urban process under covid capitalism.” CITY: Analysis of urban change, theory, action 24 (5-6): 677-780.
2020. “Housing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction.” e-flux, 25 June. Available online at
2020. With Gibbons, Andrea, Anna Richter, Antonis Vradis, Debbie Humphry, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, and Michele Lancione. “For the City yet to come.” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 24 (1-2): 1-4.
2019. “City of Emergency.” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 23 (3): 281-284.
2019. “The Names of Urban Dispossession.” Urban Geography 40 (6): 888-892.
2018. “Pushed Off the Map: Toponymy and the politics of place in New York City.” Urban Studies 55 (8): 1599-1614.
2017. “A Catastrophic Event.” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 21 (1): 1-5.
2016. “Designing Against the Public.” Topos: The international review of landscape architecture and urban design 96: 52-59.
2014. “Neighborhood as Spatial Project: Making the urban order on the downtown Brooklyn waterfront.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38 (2): 471-497.
2012. “City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the global-urban imagination.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 (5): 772-787.
2011. With Neil Brenner and David Wachsmuth. “Between Abstraction and Complexity: Meta-theoretical observation on the assemblage debate.” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 15 (6): 740-750.
2011. With Neil Brenner and David Wachsmuth. “Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory.” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 15 (2): 225-240.
2010. “Revisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the public in an urban park.” City and Community 9 (2): 187-207.
Book Chapters
2023. “Unlocking the Housing Question.” Pp 10 – 14 in Housing Unlocked: Idea from a living room. Irish Architecture Foundation.
2022. “Obdachlosigkeit und Wohnungswesen” (Homelessness and the Housing System). Pp 36-41 in Daniel Talesnik and Andres Lepik, eds, Who’s Next? Obdachlosigkeit, architektur und die stadt. Munich: ArchiTangle.
2017. “The Contradictions of Global Urban Public Space: The view from New York and London.” In Ricky Burdett and Suzanne Hall, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Urban Sociology: New approaches to the twenty-first century city. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
2017. Neil Brenner, David J. Madden and David Wachsmuth. “Assemblage, Actor-Networks and the Challenges of
Critical Urban Theory.” Pp 237-260 in Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected essays. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH.
2015. “Spatial Projects: The politics of neighborhood in New York.” Pp 3-12 in Housing After the Neoliberal Turn: International case studies. Berlin: Spector Books.
2013. “City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the global-urban imagination.” Pp 505-522 in Implosions/Explosions: Towards a study of planetary urbanization. Neil Brenner, ed. Berlin: Jovis.
2011. “Assemblage, actor-networks and the challenges of critical urban theory.” Pp 117-137 in Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical urban theory and the right to the city, Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2011). Turkish translation, 2014: “Assemblajlar, Aktör-Ağlar ve Eleştirel Kent Teorisinin Karşilaştiği Zorluklar,” pp 155-181 in Kâr İçin Değil Halk İçin: Eleştirel Kent Teorisi Ve Kent Hakkı. Istanbul: Sel.
Reviews and Commentary
2022. With Simon Güntner, Andrej Holm, Margit Mayer and Hilary Silver. “Soziale Bewegungen, die Wohnungsfrage und kritische Theorie ein Gespräch in Erinnerung an Peter Marcuse.” Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 36 (1): 112-128.
2021. With Alexander Vasudevan. “.” The Guardian, 23 April.
2021. “.” Jacobin, 26 January.
2020. “.” e-flux, 25 June.
2020. “.” The Guardian, 22 June.
2020. “‘.’” Jacobin, 2 April.
2020. With Glyn Robbins. “” Jacobin, 28 March.
2019. “?” The Guardian, 10 December.
2019. “.” The Big Issue, 1 August.
2019. “ ” The Guardian, 3 July.
2019. “.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Spotlight On Cities and Language.
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2016. “Designing Against the Public.” Topos: The international review of landscape architecture and urban design 96: 52-59.
2015. Exhibition at Space Studios, London.
2015. “Five myths about public housing.” Washington Post, 13 September 2015.
2015. “There Is a Politics of Urban Knowledge Because Urban Knowledge Is Political: A rejoinder to ‘Debating urban studies in 23 steps.’” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy action 19 (2-3): 297-302.
2015. “Book Review: Hell’s Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space.” American Journal of Sociology 120 (2): 604-606.
2015. “Book Review: Cities Full of Symbols.” Contemporary Sociology 44 (1): 100-101.
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2013. “Book Review: Globalization, Modernity and the City.” Economic Geography 89 (3): 311-312.
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2012. “Poor Man’s Penthouse” (review essay on the film The Pruitt-Igoe Myth). CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 16 (3): 377-381.
2012. With co-author Antonis Vradis. “From Athens to Occupy and Back: Introduction to cities in upheaval.” CITY: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 16 (1-2): 235-236.
2010. “Urban ANTs: A review essay.” Qualitative Sociology 33 (4): 583-590.