Selected journal articles

Chakrabarti, D., Iossifova, D. and Gasparatos, A. (2026, online first).  INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Shtanov, M. (2026, online first). Decouplement: commodity geography of the corpse. Antipode.

Ortiz-Moreno, J., de Coss-Corzo, A. and Lawhon, M. (2026, online first). To complete modernity or to embrace heterogeneity? From historical inequality towards an uncertain future for water infrastructure in Mexico City. Urban Geography.

Dewoolkar, P., Browne, A.L., Iossifova, D. and Millington, N. (2026, online first). On shaky gounds: situating safe sanitation in Mumbai’s sub-surface legacies of waste. Geoforum.

Hu, W. and Iossifova, D. (2026, online first). Marriage housing as intimate infrastructure: vital conjunctures in urban Chongqing, China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research.

Kamata, G. and Iossifova, D. (2026, online first). Adaptive boundaries at the shop-street interface: informal thresholds and micro-practices in Harajuku, Tokyo. Frontiers of Architectural Research.

Mi, D., Browne, A. L., Iossifova, D. and Petrova, S. (2026). Everyday geographies of uneven water infrastructures and practices in China. Geographical Research, 64(1): e70028. 

Yan, Y., Zhou, L. and Iossifova, D. (2026). 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, 25(4), 3832–3852.  

Zavos, S. and Iossifova, D. (2026, in press).  Living with waste: minor infracultures of sanitation in Shanghai, China. Oxford Intersections: Cultures of waste.

Ren, Z. and Khalili, H. (2026, in press).  Intimate cinematic observation: filming urban marketplaces as spatial practice. The Journal of Architecture.

Ren, Z. (2026, in press). Vernacular logistics and the making of a 'rural-like' market in urban China. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research.

Zhang, Z. and Iossifova, D. (2026, in press).  Planning, state form and public toilet provision in Manchester and Suzhou: sanitation infrastructure in comparative perspective. Transactions in Planning and Urban Research.

Dewoolkar, P., Iossifova, D., Shelar, S., Browne, A.L. and Holm, E. (2025).   

Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation: Struggling for water infrastructure in Mumbai. Urban Studies, 62(9): 1939-1956.

Akther, S., Evans, J. and Millington, N. (2025). Solid waste management in Dhaka: Understanding the evolution of a waste regime. Geoforum, 165:  104364.

Dewoolkar, P. (2025). Sewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai: Temporality, difference, competing universals and infrastructural entanglements. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 8(3): 839-860. 

Peng, Q. (2025, online first). Flyovers, social constructs and uncertainty: (un)covering the blind spots of urbanisation in Chongqing. Urban Studies.

Shtanov, M. (2025, online first).  Respectful Disposal: Spatial and Material Practices of Incinerating Necro-Waste.  Social Epistemology.  

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. 

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.

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.

Akther, S., Evans, J. and Millington, N. (2024). Why do cities in the global South pursue waste incineration rather than source segregation and recycling? Insights from Bangladesh. Frontiers in Sustainability, 5:1496075. 

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

Akther, S. and Evans, J. (2024). Emerging attributes of adaptive governance in the global south. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12:1372157.

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.

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.

Valencio, N., Valencio, A., Carvalho, G.G. and Baptista, 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.

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.

Chakrabarti, D (2023). Urban theory of/from the Global South: a systematic review of issues, challenges, and pathways of decolonization. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 5:1163534. 

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.