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Selected journal articles

2025

Rural type classification based on resource characteristics in China

Yan, Y., Zhou, L., and Iossifova, D. (2025) Rural type classification based on resource characteristics and its relationship with local villagers’ concerns: a case study of the beautiful villages initiative in Zhejiang, China.   
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering. 

Defining Urban Health for Strategic Action

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. 

Sewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai

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


2024

Administrative ambiguation & the labour of de-ambiguationion in Mumbai

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.

Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe (Malawi)

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.

Economic–Sanitation–Environmental (Dis)Connections in Brazil

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.

Assessing urban livability in Shanghai

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.

An experiment in transdisciplinary systems mapping

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.

Socio-metabolic practices and heterogeneous sanitation infrastructures

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.

The role of procedural utility in land market dynamics in Greater Cairo

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.


2023

Living with fragile infrastructure

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.


2022

Creating water demand in a Chinese hot spring tourist town

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. 

A material approach to resource consumption & environmental sustainability

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. 


2021

More than 'urban character'

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. 

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