Michele Acuto

The landscape and evolution of urban planning science

M Haghani, S Sabri, C De Gruyter, A Ardeshiri, Z Shahhoseini, TW Sanchez, M Acuto

Journal article  |  2023  |  Cities

The science of urban planning has drawn on a wide range of disciplines and research perspectives. This makes it challenging to def..

Linking UN-Habitat and universities

Michele Acuto, Carolina Mayen Huerta

Report  |  2023

Linking UN-Habitat and universities: Harnessing the potential of knowledge partnerships A study of university-UN partnerships arou..

Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do

M Acuto, A Seijas, A Edwards, S Bassett

Journal article  |  2023  |  Urban Geography

Despite the sizeable impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on nightlife, the night-time economy (NTE) is still high on the cards in cities..

The politics of "urban expertise": shifting horizons for critical urban scholarship?

Enora Robin, Michele Acuto

Journal article  |  2022  |  URBAN GEOGRAPHY

Expertise and experts have been at the heart of the last few years of pandemic crisis. Yet, their role in urban governance is stil..

Networking Australia's Urban Governance

Michele Acuto, Daniel Pejic, Cathy Oke

Book Chapter  |  2022

Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice

Camila Cocina, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Stephanie Butcher, Caren Levy, Michele Acuto

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION

Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions

Ariana Dickey, Anna Kosovac, Sebastian Fastenrath, Michele Acuto, Brendan Gleeson

Journal article  |  2022  |  CITIES

Silo-ed thinking, fragmented knowledge systems and short-termism remain key challenges in transforming urban systems and policy ma..

Review of Michele Lancione and Colin McFarlane (eds.) 2021: Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City. London: Routledge.

Michele Acuto

Journal article  |  2022  |  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Potential and limitations of digital twins to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Asaf Tzachor, Soheil Sabri, Catherine E Richards, Abbas Rajabifard, Michele Acuto

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE SUSTAINABILITY

Could computer simulation models drive our ambitions to sustainability in urban and non-urban environments? Digital twins, defined..

How to Build a Global City Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

Michele Acuto

Book  |  2022

"How to Build a Global City investigates how key ideas underpinning the concept of the global city have driven the growth of Singa..