Outputs
Outputs
Peer reviewed journal articles
2023
Acuto, M., Kosovac A., Pejic D., & Louise Jones T. (2023). The city as actor in UN frameworks: formalizing 'urban agency' in the international system?. TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE, 11(3), pp. 519-536.
Bush, J., Oke C., Dickey A., Humphrey J., Harrison L., Amati M, Fornari G., Soanes K., Callow D., & Van der Ree. R. (2023). A Decade of Nature: Evolving Approaches to Melbourne’s ‘Nature in the City’. Landscape and Urban Planning 235: 104754.
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
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
2022
Acuto, M., Pejic, D. & Oke, C. (2022). Networking Australia's Urban Governance. Planning in an Uncanny World (pp. 34-50). Routledge.
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
Jon, I. (2020). A manifesto for planning after the coronavirus: Towards planning of care. Planning Theory, 19:3.
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.
Reports and more
Reports 2022-2023













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
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.
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.