Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Fox, S., Agyemang, F., Hawker, L. & Neal, J. (2024) Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping. Nature Communications 15 (3155). 

Dorward, N., Fox, S., Statham, S. & Wolf, S. (2023) A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa's emerging urban geography. Environment & Urbanization, Vol 44 (2), 310-327.

Agyemang, F., Fox, S., & Memon, R. (2023) Mapping urban living standards & economic activity in developing countries with energy data. PLoS ONE. 

Hoelscher, K., Dorward, N., Fox, S., Lawanson, T., Paller, J.W., Phillips, M. (2023) Urbanization and political change in Africa. African Affairs. Published version available here.

Agyemang, F., Memon, R., Wolf, L. & Fox, S. (2023) High-resolution rural poverty mapping in Pakistan with ensemble deep learning. PLoS ONE. 

Dorward, N. & Fox, S. (2022) Population pressure, political institutions, and protests: A multilevel analysis of protest events in African cities, Political Geography, Vol. 99.

Agyemang, F., Silva, E. & Fox, S. (2022) Modelling and simulating 'informal urbanization': An integrated ABM and CA model of urban residential growth in Accra, Ghana, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. (Open access)

Fox, S. & Goodfellow, T. (2021) On the conditions of 'late urbanization', Urban Studies. (Open access)

Fox, S. & Macleod, A. (2021) Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK. Urban Geography. Published version available here.

Wolf, L. J., Fox, S., Harris, R., Johnston, R., Jones, K., Manley, D., ... & Wang, W. W. (2020). Quantitative geography III: Future challenges and challenging futures. Progress in Human Geography, doi: 0309132520924722.

Fox, S., Ney, D., & Verrucci, E. (2019). Liberalisation, urban governance and gridlock: Diagnosing Yangon's mobility crisis. Cities, 84, pp. 83-95. Published version available here.

Fox, S., Bloch, R. & Monroy, J. (2018) Understanding the dynamics of Nigeria’s urban transition: A refutation of the ‘stalled urbanization’ hypothesis. Urban Studies. Vol 55(5), pp. 947-964. Published version available here.

Fox, S. (2017) Mortality, migration and rural transformation in Africa’s urban transition. Journal of Demographic Economics. Vol. 83, No 1, pp. 13-30. Published version available here.

Fox, S., Manley, D. and Johnston, R. (2016) If immigrants could vote in the UK: A thought experiment with data from the 2015 general election. Political Quarterly. Vol. 87, No 4, pp. 500-508. Published version available here.

Fox, S. & Bell, A. (2016) Urban Geography and Protest Mobilization in Africa, Political Geography, Vol. 53, pp. 54-64. Published version available here.

Fox, S. (2014) The Political Economy of Slums: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. World Development, Vol. 54, pp. 191-203. Published version available here.

Fox, S. (2012) Urbanization as a Global Historical Process: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 285-310. Published version available here.

Fox, S. & Beall, J. (2012) Mitigating conflict and violence in African cities. Environment and Planning: C, Vol. 30, No 6, pp. 968-981. Published version available here.

Fox, S. & Hoelscher, K. (2012) Political order, development and social violence. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 431-445. Published version available here.

Books & Chapters

Dorward, N. & Fox, S. (2022) 'Geographies of Armed Conflict and Protest in Africa, 1997-2019' in Kniknie, S. & Büscher, K. (Ed.s)  Rebellious Riots: Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa. Leiden: Brill.

Fox, S. & Goodfellow, T. (2016) Cities and Development, 2nd Edition, London: Routledge. 

Beall, J. & Fox, S. (2009) Cities and Development. London: Routledge. 

Working Papers

Agyemang, F., Fox, S., Hagen-Zanker, J., Mallah, H. B., Memon, R., Paller, J., & Wolf, L. J. (2023). Practical reflections on conducting survey research in cities in low and middle-income countries. ODI Working Paper.

Fox, S.* & Wolf, L. (2022) What makes a place urban? https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qfvry

Statham, T. A., Wolf, L. J., & Fox, S. (2021). Identifying urban areas: A new approach and comparison of national urban metrics with gridded population data. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/abvc6