Publications
The City Leadership Laboratory research and policy activities take a wide range of shapes, from academic articles and monographs to laboratory reports, collaborations with policy partners, as well as regular blogs and media appearances. Find out more about the Laboratory reports by clicking on the themes below.




2019
Transportation Research
Part A: Policy and Practice
121:433-443
Socio-spatial and temporal dimensions of transport equity for London's night time economy
Jenny McArthur, Enora Robin and Emilia Smeds
John Bingham-Hall and Ellie Cosgrave
Mobilities
doi:10.1080/174501
01.2019.1567981
Jenny McArthur & Enora Robin
Urban Studies
doi:10.1177/004209
8018804759
2018
Networking cities after Paris: weighing the ambition of urban climate change experimentation
Emilia Smeds & Michele Acuto
Global Policy
doi:10.1111/1758-
5899.12587
Political Geography
66:76-87
Global urban policy and the geopolitics of urban data
Enora Robin & Michele Acuto
Book review: Cities in the Urban Age:
A Dissent
Enora Robin
International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research
42(5):952-953
The global politics of an urban age: creating
'cities for all' in the age of financialisation
Enora Robin
Palgrave Communications
4(3):1-5
Transforming the engineering of cities: 'points of departure' for future visioning
Corina Kwami and Ellie Cosgrave
Proceedings of the
Institution of Civil Engineers
171(4):157-165
Helen Pineo, Nici Zimmermann, Ellie Cosgrave, Robert W Aldridge, Michele Acuto, Harry Rutter
Cities & Health
doi: 10.1080/23748834
.2018.1429180
The smart city: challenges for the civil engineering sector
Ellie Cosgrave
Proceedings of the
Institution of Civil Engineers
170(4):90-98
Enora Robin
Geoforum
doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum
.2018.05.006
The production and politics of urban knowledge: contesting transport in Auckland, New Zealand
Jenny McArthur
Urban Policy & Research
doi: 10.1080/08111146
.2018.1476229
Informing urban governance? Boundary-spanning organisations and the ecosystem of urban data
Michele Acuto, Katrien Steenmans, Ewa Iwaszuk, Liliana Ortega-Garza
Area
doi: 10.1111/area.12430
Global science for city policy
Michele Acuto
Science
359(6372):165-166
Jenny McArthur
Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space
36(5):816-836
Building a global urban science
Michele Acuto, Susan Parnell, Karen C. Seto
Nature Sustainability
1:2-4
What is the city but the people? The role of the engineer in creating inclusive cities
ICE Thinks Discussion Paper
The urban agenda: what will New Zealand's new government bring for towns and cities?
by Jenny McArthur
with Ellie Cosgrave
Smart transport can change people's lives - but austerity is suppressing new transit tech
by Emilia Smeds
Is there such thing as an inclusive feminist city?
by Ellie Cosgrave
We have to stop excluding people - cities depend on it
by Ellie Cosgrave
2017 and earlier
The water-energy-food nexus: An integration agenda and implications for urban governance
Francesca Artioli, Michele Acuto and Jenny McArthur
Political Geography
61:215-223
Auckland: Rescaled governance and post-suburban politics
Jenny McArthur
Cities
64:79-87
Digital infrastructures and urban governance
Sarah Barns, Ellie Cosgrave, Michele Acuto and Donald McNeill
Urban Policy & Research
35(1):20-31
From the urban university to universities in urban society
Jean-Paul Addie
Regional Studies
51(7):1089-1099
Aligning systemic infrastructure decisions with social outcomes
Tom Dolan and Ellie Cosgrave
Proceedings of the
Institution of Civil Engineers
169(4):147
Equitable transport provision for night-time workers
City Leadership Lab Report
The future of floating cities - and the realities
by Ellie Cosgrave
Give cities a seat at the top table
by Michele Acuto
Climate Action in Megacities 3.0
for ARUP/C40 Cities
with the Business of Cities, OECD and World Bank
The Future of City Leadership in the UK
for UK Government Office for Science
for ARUP/C40 Cities
Informal Governance Networks for Disaster Risk Reduction
with World Bank GFDRR
Safer Smarter Cities: Understanding Urban Safety in Information Age
for UN-Habitat TWG on Safer and Smarter Cities
for WHO Europe and Healthy Cities network
Engaging Universities as Partners and Proponents of the New Urban Agenda
with EU Marie Curie and UN Habitat
Engineers could learn a lot from dance when designing urban transport
by John Bingham-Hall
Nurses, drivers and delivery people: meet the real stars of the night time economy
by Enora Robin, Emilia Smeds and Jenny McArthur
What is Habitat III and why does it matter? A beginner’s guide to the new urban agenda
by Enora Robin
with Ellie Cosgrave
with Michele Acuto, Abha Joshi Ghani and Juma Assiago
The impact of engineers on the resilience of cities
ICE debate with Ellie Cosgrave
Bringing Infrastructure to Life in the Public Imagination
by Ellie Cosgrave
How can engineers plan for a driverless future?
by Jenny McArthur