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Overview

Michele Acuto is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with notable contributions to urban studies, global and planetary change, political science and international relations, transportation, and sociology and political science. The subfields with the highest publication counts include urban studies, followed by global and planetary change.

Their main research topics cover an array of urban and social issues, including night-time city culture, urban planning and governance, the impact of light on environment and health, urban transport and accessibility, socioeconomic development in Asia, global urban networks and dynamics, and housing, finance, and neoliberalism.

Michele Acuto has co-authored extensively with several researchers. Frequent collaborators include Andreina Seijas, Enora Robin, Jenny McArthur, Daniel Pejic, and Sombol Mokhles.

Their work has been published repeatedly in academic journals that focus on urban and regional issues. The key venues for their publications include Urban Studies, Dialogues in Human Geography, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Cities, and Urban Geography.

Several recent papers illustrate the topical range and focus of their research. These include:

  • COVID-19: Lessons for an Urban(izing) World (2020) published in One Earth
  • Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks (2020) published in Urban Studies
  • Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens (2020) published in Nature Sustainability

Although not authored solely by Michele Acuto, related notable works published in similar venues also provide context, such as "Potential and limitations of digital twins to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals" (2022) in Nature Sustainability and "The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance" (2021) in Urban Studies.

Michele Acuto has contributed books published mainly by Bristol University Press eBooks, with titles focused on urban management including multiple editions of "Managing Cities at Night" (2021). Their work also includes publications with Cornell University Press eBooks, such as "How to Build a Global City" (2022), and a book published by Policy Press.

Their scholarly output reflects a consistent engagement with contemporary urban issues, blending social science perspectives with a focus on urban governance, planning, and the environmental and social dynamics of cities.

Best Publications

  • Implosions/explosions. Towards a study of planetary urbanization

    Michele Acuto

  • Building a global urban science

    Michele Acuto;Susan Parnell;Karen C. Seto

  • City networks: breaking gridlocks or forging (new) lock-ins?

    Michele Acuto;Steve Rayner

  • Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy: The Urban Link

    Michele Acuto

  • Assemblage Thinking and International Relations

    Michele Acuto;Simon Curtis

  • High-rise Dubai urban entrepreneurialism and the technology of symbolic power

    Michele Acuto;Michele Acuto

  • COVID-19: Lessons for an Urban(izing) World

    Michele Acuto

  • City Leadership in Global Governance

    Michele Acuto

  • The water-energy-food nexus: An integration agenda and implications for urban governance

    Francesca Artioli;Michele Acuto;Jenny McArthur

  • Digital Infrastructures and Urban Governance

    Sarah Barns;Ellie Cosgrave;Michele Acuto;Donald Mcneill

  • Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations

    Michele Acuto;Simon Curtis

  • Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda:

    Kathryn Davidson;Lars Coenen;Michele Acuto;Brendan Gleeson

  • Give cities a seat at the top table

    Michele Acuto

  • Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens

    Michele Acuto;Shaun Larcom;Roger Keil;Mehrnaz Ghojeh

  • Scaling the nexus: towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food

    Scott J. McGrane;Scott J. McGrane;Michele Acuto;Francesca Artioli;Po-Yu Chen

  • The new climate leaders

    Michele Acuto

  • City Diplomacy: Towards More Strategic Networking? Learning with WHO Healthy Cities

    Michele Acuto;Mika Morissette;Agis Tsouros

  • Reassembling International Theory

    Michele Acuto;Simon Curtis

  • Understanding the global ecosystem of city networks

    Michele Acuto;Benjamin Leffel

  • Networking cities after Paris: Weighing the ambition of urban climate change experimentation

    Emilia Smeds;Michele Acuto

  • Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Position, Space and Conflict Escalation

    Michele Acuto

  • If mayors ruled the world: dysfunctional nations, rising cities

    M Acuto

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Parnell
Susan Parnell University of Cape Town
Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Harry Rutter
Harry Rutter University of Bath
Hannah Badland
Hannah Badland RMIT University
Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto Yale University
Diana C. Parra
Diana C. Parra Washington University in St. Louis
Steve Rayner
Steve Rayner University of Oxford
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Hwee-Pink Tan
Hwee-Pink Tan Singapore Management University

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