Selected Publications:
Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Zhou, X., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (Accepted/In press). Making collaborative water governance accountable? The River Chief System in China. International Journal of Water Resources Development. [DOI]
Monstadt, J., Rutherford, J., & Coutard, O. (2025). Infrastructures as urban solutions? Critical perspectives on transformative socio-technical change. Urban Studies, 62(9). [DOI]
Monstadt, J., Msangi, D., & Otsuki, K. (2025). Power Struggles: Urban Heterogeneity and Unruly Electricity Access in Dar es Salaam. Sustainability Science, Article 102209. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Monstadt, J., Pilo, F., & van Gils, B. A. M. (2025). Toward the next generation of urban heating systems? Governing multi-infrastructural solutions in Amsterdam. Urban Studies. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Meilinger, V., & Monstadt, J. (2025). One Water in Los Angeles? Contesting the Circular City through Infrastructural Practices. Urban Geography. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Punt, E., Monstadt, J., Frank, S., & Witte, P. (2025). Business-as-unusual: exploring port stakeholders' time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam. Time and Society, 34(2), 276-300. [DOI]
Monstadt, J., & Saltzman, K. (2025). How data centers have come to matter: Governing the spatial and environmental footprint of the “digital gateway to Europe”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Advance online publication. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Li, Z., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Hidden conflicts? Revealing power mechanisms in collaborative governance for redeveloping heritage districts: The case of Dashilar. Journal of Urban Affairs. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Meilinger, V., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Shaping Suburbanization through Regional Land-Use Planning? The case of Greater Frankfurt. In P. Hamel (Ed.), Politics of the Periphery: Governing Global Suburbia University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487547097/politics-of-the-periphery/
Jambadu, L., Pilo, F., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Co-producing maintenance and repair: Hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana. Urban Research and Practice, 17(2), 280–302. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
He, J., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2023). The role of social media in reshaping the power of third parties in urban planning. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) in Montreal, Canada, 20-22 June 2023 [DOI] [Portal]
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., & Pilo, F. (2023). Urban electricity governance and the (re)production of heterogeneous electricity constellations in Dar es Salaam. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 13(1), 1-15. Article 23. [DOI] [Repository]
Punt, E., Monstadt, J., Frank, S., & Witte, P. (2023). Navigating cyber resilience in seaports: challenges of preparing for cyberattacks at the Port of Rotterdam. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 25(4), 420-438. [DOI] [Repository]
Eledi Kuusaana, J., Monstadt, J., & Smith, S. (2023). Toward Urban Resilience? Coping with Blackouts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Journal of Urban Technology, 30(2), 79-101. [DOI] [Repository]
Eledi Kuusaana, J., Monstadt, J., & Smith, S. (2023). Practicing Urban Resilience to Electricity Service Disruption in Accra, Ghana. Energy Research and Social Science, 95, Article 102885. [DOI] [Repository]
Punt, E., Monstadt, J., Frank, S., & Witte, P. (2023). Beyond the dikes: an institutional perspective on governing flood resilience at the Port of Rotterdam. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 25(2), 230-248. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
He, J., Lin, Y., Hooimeijer, P., & Monstadt, J. (2022). Measuring social network influence on power relations in collaborative planning in Beijing city, China.
Smith, S., Monstadt, J., & Otsuki, K. (2022). Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery. Energy Research and Social Science, 90, 1-13. Article 102684. [DOI] [Repository]
Guma, P., Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2022). Post-, Pre- and Non-Payment: Conflicting Rationalities in the Digitalisation of Energy Access in Kibera, Nairobi. Digital Geography and Society, 3, 100037. Article 100037. [DOI] [Repository]
Monstadt, J., Colen Ladeia Torrens, J., Jain, M., Macrorie, R., & Smith, S. (2022). Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 55(4), 1-9. Article 101157. [DOI] [Repository]
Jambadu, L., Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2022). Understanding repair and maintenance in networked water supply in Accra and Dar es Salaam. Water Alternatives, 15(2), 413-437. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol15/v15issue2/661-a15-2-3 [Repository]
Monstadt, J. (2022). Urban and infrastructural rhythms and the politics of temporal alignment. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(1), 69-77. [DOI] [Repository]
Meilinger, V. U., & Monstadt, J. (2022). From the Sanitary City to the Circular City? Technopolitics of Wastewater Restructuring in Los Angeles, California. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(2), 182-201. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Engels, J. I., Frank, S., Gurevych, I., Heßler, M., Knodt, M., Monstadt, J., Nordmann, A., Oetting, A., Rudolph-Cleff, A., Rüppel, U., Schenk, G. J., & Steinke, F. (2021). Transformation, Zirkulation, System of Systems: Für ein dynamisches Verständnis netzgebundener Infrastrukturen. TUprints. [DOI] [Repository]
Viegas Filipe, E., Otsuki, K., & Monstadt, J. (2021). Translating the Sustainable Development Goals in national development planning: the case of Mozambique’s Energy for All Programme. Sustainability Science, 16(6), 1797–1809. [DOI] [Repository]
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., Pilo, F., & Otsuki, K. (2021). Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam. Energy Research and Social Science, 74(2021), Article 101937 (open access). [DOI] [Repository]
Huck, A., Monstadt, J., Driessen, P. P. J., & Rudolph-Cleff, A. (2021). Towards resilient Rotterdam? Key conditions for a networked approach to managing urban infrastructure risks. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 29(1), 12-22. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Guma, P. K., & Monstadt, J. (2021). Smart city making? The spread of ICT-driven plans and infrastructures in Nairobi. Urban Geography, 42(3), 360-381. [DOI] [Repository]
2020
Scholarly publications
Huck, A., Monstadt, J., & Driessen, P. P. J. (2020). Mainstreaming resilience in urban policymaking? Insights from Rotterdam and Christchurch. Geoforum, 117, 194-205. [DOI] [Repository]
Huck, A., Monstadt, J., & Driessen, P. P. J. (2020). Building urban and infrastructure resilience through connectivity: An institutional perspective on disaster risk management in Christchurch, New Zealand. Cities, 98, 1-10. Article 102573. [DOI] [Repository]
Monstadt, J., & Meilinger, V. (2020). Governing Suburbia through regionalized land-use planning? Experiences from the Greater Frankfurt region. Land Use Policy, 91, 1-12. Article 104300. [DOI] [Repository]
2019
Scholarly publications
Elsner, I., Monstadt, J., & Raven, R. P. J. M. (2019). Decarbonising Rotterdam? Energy transitions and the alignment of urban and infrastructural temporalities. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 23(4-5), 646-657. [DOI] [Repository]
Guma, P. K., Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2019). Hybrid constellations of water access in the digital age: the case of Jisomee Mita in Soweto-Kayole, Nairobi. Water Alternatives, 12(2), 725-743. http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/volume-12/v12issue2/496-a12-2-3/file [Repository]
Huck, A., & Monstadt, J. (2019). Urban and infrastructure resilience: Diverging concepts and the need for cross-boundary learning. Environmental Science & Policy, 100, 211–220. [DOI] [Repository]
Monstadt, J., & Schmidt, M. (2019). Urban resilience in the making? The governance of critical infrastructures in German cities. Urban Studies, 56(11), 2353–2371. [DOI]
Monstadt, J., & Coutard, O. (2019). Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus. Urban Studies, 56(11), 2191-2206. [DOI] [Repository]
2018
Scholarly publications
Monstadt, J. (2018). Technische Infrastruktur. In Handwörterbuch der Stadt‐ und Raumentwicklung (pp. 2649-2662). ARL- Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. https://shop.arl-net.de/media/direct/pdf/HWB%202018/Technische%20Infrastruktur.pdf [Repository]
Schmidt, M., & Monstadt, J. (2018). Infrastruktur. In Handwörterbuch der Stadt- und Raumentwicklung (pp. 975-988). ARL- Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. https://shop.arl-net.de/media/direct/pdf/HWB%202018/Infrastruktur.pdf [Repository]
de Bercegol, R., & Monstadt, J. (2018). The Kenya Slum Electrification Program. Local politics of electricity networks in Kibera. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 249-258. [DOI] [Repository]
2017
Scholarly publications
Wolff, A., & Monstadt, J. (2017). Infrastrukturregime und inkrementeller Wandel: Das Beispiel der Energie- und Wasserversorgung in Los Angeles. In M. Flitner, J. Lossau, & A.-L. Müller (Eds.), Infrastrukturen der Stadt (1 ed., pp. 205-225). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Engels, J. I., Janich, N., Monstadt, J., & Schott, D. (Eds.) (2017). Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung: Infrastrukturen, Akteure, Diskurse. (Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung). Campus Verlag.
Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2017). Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), 104-125. [DOI] [Repository]
2016
Scholarly publications
Monstadt, J., & Scheiner, S. (2016). Die Bundesländer in der nationalen Energie- und Klimapolitik: Räumliche Verteilungswirkungen und föderale Politikgestaltung der Energiewende. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 74(3), 179-197. [DOI]
2015
Scholarly publications
Monstadt, J., Hård, M., & Schramm, S. (2015). Jenseits der Netzstadt? Stadt- und Infrastrukturentwicklung in Dar es Salaam. Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte, 2015(1), 81–92. https://difu.de/sites/difu.de/files/archiv/publikationen/reihen/informationen%20zur%20modernen%20stadtgeschichte%20(ims)/ims-2015-1_volltext.pdf
Monstadt, J., & Wolff, A. (2015). Energy transition or incremental change? Green policy agendas and the adaptability of the urban energy regime in Los Angeles. Energy Policy, 78(March), 213-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.10.022
Monstadt, J., & Schramm, S. (2015). Changing sanitation infrastructure in Hanoi: hybrid topologies and the networked city. In O. Coutard, & J. Rutherford (Eds.), Beyond the networked city: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South. Routledge. [DOI]
2014
Scholarly publications
Monstadt, J., & Scheiner, S. (2014). Allocating greenhouse gas emissions in the German federal system: Regional interests and federal climate governance. Energy Policy, 74(11), 383–394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.09.001
2009
Scholarly publications
Monstadt, J. (2009). Conceptualizing the political ecology of urban infrastructures: Insights from technology and urban studies. Environment and Planning A, 41(8), 1924-1942. [DOI]