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PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Huang, W., Bossuyt, D. & Friendly, A. (2026). “Life after renewal: The social impacts of public housing redevelopment.” Planning Practice & Research. DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2026.2676133.
Bossuyt, D., Friendly, A., van Noorloos, F & van Zevenbergen, M. (2026). “The informal governance of LEGO-urbanism: Temporary housing in the Netherlands.” Urban Studies. DOI: 10.1177/00420980261427646.
Meeusen, T. & Friendly, A. (2025). "Challenging gentrification: Community struggle in CLT H-Buurt, Amsterdam." Radical Housing Journal 7(2): 9–30.
Friendly, A., van Noorloos, F. & Steel, G. (2025). "Reimagining incremental housing: City-making within and beyond the state." International Journal of Housing Policy 25(4): 557–570.
Friendly, A. (2025). "Common Property in the City: Curbing Urban Vacancy in São Paulo." Urban Studies 62(6): 1062–1082.
Pimentel Walker, A. P. & Friendly, A. (2024). "Master planning 'as a verb': Enforcing participatory planning through the Brazilian courts." Planning Practice and Research 39(6): 1056–1087.
Valenzuela, L., Friendly, A. & van Noorloos, F. (2024). "Pathways to Assisted Self-Help Housing: The Evolution of Mexico's Housing Governability System." International Development Planning Review 46(2): 151–174.
Pimentel Walker, A. P., Arquero de Alarcón, M., Friendly, A., Barbosa, B. R., Ribeiro de Souza, M. & Nobre, S. C. S. (2024). "Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade." Planning Theory 23(4): 324–355.
Biggar, J. & Friendly, A. (2023). "Balancing equity-based goals with market-driven forces in land development: The case of density bonusing in Toronto." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55(6): 1581–1599.
Friendly, A. & Pimentel Walker, A. P. (2022). "Legacy participation and the buried history of racialised spaces: Hypermodern revitalization in Rio de Janeiro's port area." Urban Studies 59(6): 1167–1184.
See our blog post on the article here.
See our blog post on the article here.
Friendly, A. (2022). "Insurgent Planning in Pandemic Times: The Case of Rio de Janeiro." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46(1): 115–125.
Pimentel Walker, A. P. & Friendly, A. (2021). "The value of participatory urban policy councils: Engaging actors through policy communities." Environment & Urbanization 33(2); 436–455.
Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J. & Friendly, A. (2021). "Towards smart regional growth: institutional complexities and the regional governance of Southern Ontario's Greenbelt." Territory, Politics, Governance. DOI 10.1080/21622671.2021.1928540.
Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J. & Friendly, A. (2021). "Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts." Regional Studies 55(5): 804–817.
Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J. & Friendly, A. (2021). "From the Frankfurt greenbelt to the Regionalpark RheinMain: An institutional perspective on regional greenbelt governance." European Planning Studies. 29(1): 142–162.
Friendly, A. (2020). "Sharing the Unearned Increment: Divergent Outcomes in Toronto and São Paulo." Land Use Policy 91: 104270.
Levkoe, C. Z., Friendly, A. & Daniere, A. (2020). "Community Service-Learning in Graduate Planning Education." Journal of Planning Education and Research 40(1): 92–103.
Friendly, A. (2020). "The Place of Social Citizenship and Property Rights in Brazil's 'Right to the City Debate." Social Policy and Society 19(2): 307–318.
See my blog post on the article here.
See my blog post on the article here.
van Noorloos, F., Cirolia, L. R., Friendly, A., Jukur, S., Schramm, S., Steel, G. & Valenzuela, L. (2020). "Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making: rethinking the housing shortage in the global South." Environment & Urbanization 32(1): 37–54.
Friendly, A. (2019). "The Contradictions of Participatory Planning: Reflections on the Role of Politics in Urban Development in Niterói, Brazil." Journal of Urban Affairs 41(7): 910–929.
Friendly, A. & Stiphany, K. (2019). "Paradigm or Paradox? The 'Cumbersome Impasse' of the Participatory Turn in Brazilian Urban Planning." Urban Studies 56(2): 271–287.
Stren, R. & Friendly, A. (2019). "Big City Mayors: Still Avatars of Local Politics?" Cities 84: 172–177.
Stren, R. & Friendly, A. (2019). "Toronto and São Paulo: Cities and International Diplomacy." Urban Affairs Review 55(2): 375–404.
Friendly, A. (2017). “Urban Policy, Social Movements and the Right to the City in Brazil.” Latin American Perspectives 44(2): 132–148.
Friendly, A. (2016). “The Changing Landscape of Civil Society in Niterói, Brazil.” Latin American Research Review 51(1): 218–241.
See my blog post on the article here.
See my blog post on the article here.
Friendly, A. (2013). “The Right to the City: Theory and Practice in Brazil.” Planning Theory & Practice 14(2): 158–179.
Book chapters
Friendly, A. (2024). "Right to the City." In Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies. Ed. Richardson Dilworth. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780190922481-0081.
Friendly, A. (2024). "Brazil's urban reform movement and urban transformations in perspective." In A. Domaradzka & P. Hamel, Handbook on Urban Social Movements. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 168–184.
Friendly, A. (2020). "Planning Reconfigurations in a Mega-Event Context: The Case of Rio de Janeiro." In D. Rukmana (Ed.),The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South. New York: Routledge, pp. 342–354.
Book reviews
Friendly, A. (2026). R. Rocco & G. Silvestre (Eds.), Book review: Insurgent Planning Practice, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, 2024. 242 pages. ISBN 978-1-78821-676-0. Planning Theory DOI 10.1177/14730952261425113.
Friendly, A. (2024). "Book review of Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto: A Visual Analysis of Change." Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 115(4): 571–572.
Friendly, A. (2024). "Street matters: A critical history of twentieth-century urban policy in Brazil, by Fernando Luiz Lara and Ana Paula Koury." Journal of Urban Affairs 46(4): 897–899.
Friendly, A. (2021). "Latin American Urbanization and the Political Economy of Inequality." Latin American Perspectives. 48(6): 223–226.
Friendly, A. (2015). "Review: Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region." Journal of Planning Education and Research 35(4): 532–534.
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