Selected journal articles

Siri, J., Kim, J., Indvik, K., de Leeuw, E., Dora, C., Gatzweiler, F., Holm, E., Iossifova, D., Obando, F., and Simos, J. (2025) Defining Urban Health for Strategic Action.  F1000Research 2025 (14): 144. 

 Dewoolkar, P. (2025). Sewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai: Temporality, difference, competing universals and infrastructural entanglements. Environment and Planning E, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251315289 

Dewoolkar, P., Iossifova, D., Shelar, S., Browne, A.L. and Holm, E. (2024)   

Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai. Urban Studies online first.

Alda Vidal, C., Browne, A.L., Lawhon, M. and Iossifova, D. (2024) Sanitation Configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid. Urban Studies 61 (9):  1773-1788.

Valencio, N., Valencio, A., Carvalho., G.G., Baptista, Baptiasta, M.S. (2024) Economic-Sanitation-Environmental (Dis)Connections in Brazil: a trans-scale perspective from Minas Gerais State and BH microregion. Urban Planning 9: 7048.

Long, Y., Wu, Y. Huang, L., Aleksejeva, J., Iossifova, D., Dong, N., Gasparatos, A. (2024) Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach. npj urban sustainability 4: 7.

Castro, M. A. S., Velencio, N., Iossifova, D., Santiago, C.D., Ziglio, L., Valencio, A., Pugliesi, E., Gonçalves, J.C., Cheung, E., and Sengupta, U. (2024). An experiment in transdisciplinary systems mapping: architecture and the water-energy-sanitation nexus in Brazil. Architecture 4 (1): 73-89.

Liu, Q., and Iossifova, D. (2024) Socio-metabolic practices and heterogeneous sanitation infrastructures in urbanizing China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research 3 (1-2): 121-138.

Gamal, Y., Pinto, N. and Iossifova, D. (2024) The role of procedural utility in land market dynamics in Greater Cairo: an agent based model application. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 51(4), 954-970.

Alda-Vidal, C., Lawhon, M., Iossifova, D. and Browne, A.L. (2023). Living with fragile infrastructure: The gendered labour of preventing, responding to and being impacted by sanitation failures. Geoforum 141: 103724.

Liu, Q., Browne, A.L. and Iossifova, D. (2022) Creating water demand: performances of bathing-as-practice in a Chinese hot spring tourist town. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 30 (4): 685-703. 

Liu, Q., Browne, A.L. and Iossifova, D. (2022) A material approach to resource consumption and environmental sustainability in Chinese tourist accommodations. Sustainable Production and Consumption 30: 424-437. 

Yan, Y., Iossifova, D. and Ren, Y. (2021) More than ‘urban character’: An introduction to the concept of fengmao and fengmao-led planning and design in China. Urban Design International 26: 211-219.