Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles ( * corresponding author): 

Liu, A*. (2026) Governing or Manipulating Leverage to Build More Cities? Borrowing in Shadows by Real Estate Developers and Local Governments. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR)

C, Peng, S, Yang, Liu, A, Y, Xiang, Z, Zhou, F, Biljecki, (2026) City landscape in sight: A Crowdsourced Framework for Unlocking Urban-Scale Window View Perceptions from Real Estate Imagery.

Landscape and Urban Planning

Liu, A*, Barr, J, (2026) Housing Satisfaction and Building Type: Evidence from an Online Survey, Cities

Liu, M; Liu, A*, (2026) Homeownership and Social Policy Preferences in China: Mediating Roles of Employment Sector and Socioeconomic Perceptions. Cities

Chen, C, Liu, A. (2026) Foreign Infrastructure, Local Frictions: Contested Mobility and Social

Constructs of the Nairobi Expressway. Urban Studies

Liu, A*. (2025). Financialization of Housing Production: Unveiling the Fake Equity in Urban China. Economic Geography, 101 (4), 218-239.

Cite Score (2024): 11.2                      ABS 4★ / AJG 4                    94th percentile in Economics and Econometrics (44/731)

Liu, A*, Jia, M, Chen, C, (2025). From Speculative Dreams to Ghost Housing Realities: Homeless Homeowners Failed Future-Making in Urban Development, Urban Geography, 46(8), 1821-1841.

Liu, A, Chen, C. (2025). From Real Estate Financialization to Decentralization: A comparative review of REITs and blockchain-based tokenization. Geoforum, 159, 104193.

Cited 48 times (Google Scholar, by 10/2026)

Liu, A*. (2025). Financialization vs. Technologization: Can Technology Replace Finance in Global Hegemony? Human Geography. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786251337714

Liu, A*. (2025) The De/re-centralized Finance in Real Estate? From Securitization to Tokenization.

Finance and Space. 2(1), 411–423

Jia, M; Liu, A; Narahara, T. (2024). The Integration of Dual Evaluation and Minimum Spanning Tree Clustering to Support Decision-Making in Territorial Spatial Planning. Sustainability, 16, 3928.

Liu, A*. (2024). Richard C Koo, Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies. International Sociology, 39(2), 177-180. (book review)