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Helga Leitner is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Urban Studies, demonstrated by 16 publications in this subfield. Additional areas of study include Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Food Science, and Building and Construction.

Their work addresses main topics such as Urban Planning and Governance, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Socioeconomic Development in Asia, Urban Design and Spatial Analysis, Community Development and Social Impact, and Regional resilience and development.

Leitner has contributed to several publications in prominent venues, including:

  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2 publications)
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (2 publications)
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society (1 publication)
  • Journal of Political Ecology (1 publication)
  • Antipode (1 publication)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Leitner include:

  • Towards an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison, 2020, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity, 2020, Journal of Political Ecology
  • Everyday speculation in the remaking of peri-urban livelihoods and landscapes, 2022, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Leitner has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Eric Sheppard, Sophie Webber, Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, and Renata Blumberg.

Their research often explores relationships between urban development, governance, economic forces, and social conditions, emphasizing comparative analyses between different geographic contexts and the reconfiguration of urban and peri-urban spaces.

Best Publications

  • The political construction of scale

    David Delaney;Helga Leitner

  • The spatialities of contentious politics

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard;Kristin M. Sziarto

  • Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers

    Helga Leitner;Jamie Peck;Eric S. Sheppard

  • Cities in pursuit of economic growth The local state as entrepreneur

    Helga Leitner

  • Urban Pulse-provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto

    Eric Sheppard;Helga Leitner;Anant Maringanti

  • Spaces of Encounters: Immigration, Race, Class, and the Politics of Belonging in Small-Town America

    Helga Leitner

  • The Variegated Landscape of Local Immigration Policies in the United States

    Kyle E. Walker;Helga Leitner

  • Scale and the limitations of ontological debate: a commentary on Marston, Jones and Woodward

    Helga Leitner;Byron Miller

  • Dreaming the ordinary Daily life and the complex geographies of citizenship

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Patricia Ehrkamp;Helga Leitner;Caroline R. Nagel

  • Measuring the unmeasurable

    Helga Leitner;Neil Wrigley;Peter Nijkamp

  • Urban encounters with difference: the contact hypothesis and immigrant integration projects in eastern Berlin

    Tatiana Matejskova;Helga Leitner

  • Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus

    Eric Sheppard;Helga Leitner

  • Reconfiguring the spatiality of power: the construction of a supranational migration framework for the European Union

    Helga Leitner

  • Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference?

    Ruth Fincher;Kurt Iveson;Helga Leitner;Valerie Preston

  • Beyond National Citizenship: Turkish Immigrants and the (RE)Construction of Citizenship in Germany

    Patricia Ehrkamp;Helga Leitner

  • The Politics of Scale and Networks of Spatial Connectivity: Transnational Interurban Networks and the Rescaling of Political Governance in Europe

    Helga Leitner

  • Transnationalism and Migrants' Imaginings of Citizenship

    Helga Leitner;Patricia Ehrkamp

  • GIS-based measures of environmental equity: exploring their sensitivity and significance.

    E R I C Sheppard;H E L G A Leitner;Robert B Mcmaster;H O N G G U O Tian

  • GIS and Community-based Planning: Exploring the Diversity of Neighborhood Perspectives and Needs

    Sarah Elwood;Helga Leitner

  • Globalizing urban resilience

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard;Sophie Webber;Emma Colven

  • “The City is Dead, Long Live the Net”: Harnessing European Interurban Networks for a Neoliberal Agenda

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah Elwood
Sarah Elwood University of Washington
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Neil Wrigley
Neil Wrigley University of Southampton
Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University

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