Research articles
Avery, Emma and Moser, Sarah. (in press) Urban speculation for survival: Adaptations and negotiations in Forest City, Malaysia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
Avni, Nufar; Moser, Sarah; and Gorgy, Gabrielle. (in press) Gendering gray space: Everyday challenges, strategies, and initiatives of women community leaders in East Jerusalem. Social and Cultural Geography.
Côté-Roy, Laurence and Moser, Sarah. (2022) 'A kingdom of new cities: Morocco’s national Villes Nouvelles strategy'. Geoforum 131: 27-38.
Sato, Mayumi and Moser, Sarah. (2022) '#FromFerguson2Gaza: A transnational movement of Black-Palestinian solidarity'. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 21 (1): 1-19.
Moser, Sarah; Côté-Roy, Laurence; and Korah, Prosper Issahaku. (2021) The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building. Urban Geography 56 (12): 2391–2397.
Moser, Sarah and Avery, Emma. (2021) 'The multi-scalar politics of urban greening in Forest City, Malaysia'. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 60 (May): 1-5.
Moser, Sarah and Côté-Roy, Laurence. (2021) 'New cities: Power, prestige, and profit'. Geography Compass 15 (1): 1-15.
Rebentisch, Hannah; Thompson, Caroline; Côté-Roy, Laurence; Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'Unicorn planning: Lessons from the rise and fall of an American ‘smart’ mega-development'. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 101: 1-6.
Forest, Benjamin and Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'Building nations/building states/building cities: Concrete symbols of identity'. In Sami Moisio, Natalie Koch, Andy Jonas, Juho Luukkonen, Chris Lizotte (Eds.). Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Edward Elgar.
Jordan, Joanna and Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'Researching migrants in informal transit camps along the Balkan Route: Reflections on volunteer activism, access, and reciprocity'. Area 52 (3): 566-574.
Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'New cities: Engineering social exclusions'. One Earth. 2 (2): 125-127.
Shebell, Elizabeth and Moser, Sarah. (2019) 'Planning for the Buen Vivir: Socialism, decentralization, and urbanization in rural Ecuador'. International Development Planning Review 41 (4): 473-494.
Moser, Sarah. (2019) 'Rejecting and reproducing colonial urbanism in contemporary Malaysian city design'. In H. Hazel Hahn. (Ed.). Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters Via Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. (187-214)
Chitti, Marco and Moser, Sarah. (2019) 'Emerging trends in urbanizing Palestine: Neglected city-builders beyond the occupation'. Urban Geography 40 (7): 1010-1017.
Moser, Sarah. (2019) ‘Islamic cities’. In Orum, Anthony. (Ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. John Wiley & Sons. (983-992) [ISBN: 978-1-118-56845-3]
Côté-Roy, Laurence and Moser, Sarah. (2019) ‘“Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?": The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa’. Urban Studies. 56(12): 2391–2407.
Moser, Sarah; Fauveaud, Gabriel; and Cutts, Adam. (2019) 'Montréal: Towards a post-industrial reinvention'. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 86: 125-135.
Moser, Sarah. (2019) ‘“Two days to shape the future”: A Saudi Arabian node in the transnational circulation of new cities ideas’, In Molotch, Harvey and Ponzini, Davide (Eds.) The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress. New York: NYU Press. 213-232.
Blander, Akiva; Moser, Sarah; and Avni, Nufar. (2018) 'Religio-nationalism and "soft boundaries": Urban gating in West Jerusalem and Tel Aviv'. Geoforum. 96: 227-235.
Moser, Sarah. (2018) 'Ethno- and Religio-Nationalism in Putrajaya, Taman Tamadun Islam, and Kota Iskandar: Malay(sian) national identity in contemporary urban mega-projects’, In Hagen, Joshua and Diener, Alexander (Eds.) The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 235-252.
Moser, Sarah. (2018) ‘Forest City, Malaysia, and Chinese expansionism’. Urban Geography. 39 (6): 935-943.
Moser, Sarah; Hendricks, Michael; and Vives, Luna. (2017) ‘Academia’s moral entanglements in the face of a racist regime’. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 16 (2): 1-10.
Moser, Sarah and Wilbur, Alyssa Shamsa. (2017) ‘Constructing heritage through state architecture in Indonesia’s Riau Islands’. ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe. 11 (July): 1-25.
Araos, Malcolm; James Ford; Lea Berrang-Ford; Robbert Biesbroek; and Sarah Moser. (2017) ‘Climate change adaptation planning for Global South megacities: The case of Dhaka’. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 19 (6): 682-696.
Moser, Sarah; Esther Clinton; and Jeremy Wallach. (2017) ‘Leisure activities in Southeast Asia, from pre-colonial times to the present’, In Spracklen, Karl et al (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave. 107-125.
Moser, Sarah. (2016) ‘Educating the nation: Shaping student-citizens in Indonesian schools’ Children’s Geographies. 14 (3): 247-262.
Cutts, Adam, and Moser, Sarah. (2015) 'State-community collaborative strategies to enable the right to the city in Argentina'. Habitat International. 49: 243-250.
Moser, Sarah; Swain, Marian; Alkhabbaz, Mohammed H. (2015) 'King Abdullah Economic City: Engineering Saudi Arabia's post-oil future', Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 45: 71-80.
Moser, Sarah. (2014) ‘New cities: Old wine in new bottles?’ Dialogues in Human Geography. 5 (1): 31-35.
Moser, Sarah. (2013) ‘New cities in the Muslim world: The cultural politics of planning an ‘Islamic’ city’. In Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics and Piety. (Edited by Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong and Elizabeth Olson). New York: Springer. 39-55. [ISBN 978-94-007-4684-8]
Moser, Sarah. (2012) ‘Circulating visions of ‘High Islam’: The adoption of fantasy Middle Eastern architecture in constructing Malaysian national identity’ Urban Studies. 49 (13) 2783-2805.
Moser, Sarah. (2012) ‘Globalization and the construction of identity in two new Southeast Asian capitals: Putrajaya and Dompak’ in Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities. Chen, Xiangming and Kanna, Ahmed. (Eds.) New York / London: Routledge. 169-189.
Moser, Sarah. (2010) ‘Creating citizens through play: The role of leisure in Indonesian nation-building’ Social and Cultural Geography. 11 (1): 53-73.
Moser, Sarah. (2010) ‘Putrajaya: Malaysia’s new federal administrative capital’ Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 27 (3): 285-297.
Moser, Sarah. (2008) ‘Personality: a new positionality?’ Area. 40 (3) 383-392.
Books
Moser, Sarah. (Ed.) (under contract, 2021) New Master-Planned Cities, Islam, and Identity. London and New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series)
Other articles and commentaries
Avery, Emma and Moser, Sarah. (February 14, 2020) Les mégadéveloppements urbains chinois en Malaisie : Une nouvelle forme de colonialisme par la construction? (A new colonialism through construction? Chinese urban mega-developments in Malaysia). l'Asie en 1000 Mots.
Moser, Sarah. (July 13, 2018) The future is already here, Cato Unbound (online debates, Cato Institute).
Moser, Sarah and Wilbur, Alyssa Shamsa. (Feb. 1, 2018) Social exclusions in a state urban mega-development, Inside Indonesia.
Moser, Sarah. (May 2, 2014) Dompak eco-city: A tale of corruption, Open Democracy.
Moser, Sarah. (August 29, 2014) Yachay Knowledge City: Challenges and possibilities’, Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor.
Moser, Sarah. (2011) Constructing cultural heritage in new cities in Southeast Asia, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 57. 30-31.
Review articles
Moser, Sarah. (2022) 'The juggernaut of fast development: Johor's leap into a privatized neoliberal future'. Review of Johor: Abode of Development? Francis E. Hutchinson and Serina Rahman. (Eds.). ISEAS, 2020. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 43 (1): 142-145.
Moser, Sarah. (2021) ‘Exploring life in the shadows of fast urbanism’. Review of Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia. Yasser Elsheshtawy. Routledge, 2019. CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 1-5.
Moser, Sarah. (2018) Review of Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation. Vadim Rossman. Routledge, 2017. Journal of Urban Affairs.
Moser, Sarah. (2017) Review of The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalizing Southeast Asian City. Yeoh Seng Guan (Ed.). Routledge, 2014. Southeast Asian Studies 6 (2): 13-16.
Moser, Sarah. (2014) ‘Exhibition review of ‘How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh’, International Journal of Islamic Architecture. 4 (1): 209-214.
Moser, Sarah. (2010) Review of Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle. Yasser Elsheshtawy. London: Routledge, 2010. Built Environment 36 (2): 260-264.
Moser, Sarah. (2009) Review of The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity & Urban Development. Yasser Elsheshtawy. New York: Routledge, 2008. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 26 (6): 377-78.
Moser, Sarah. (2009) Review of Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century. Christopher Silver. New York: Routledge, 2008. Planning Perspectives 24 (3): 402-403.
Moser, Sarah. (2009) Review of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia. Ross King. Copenhagen: NIAS Press / Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. Urban Design International 14 (1): 57-58.
Moser, Sarah. (2008) Review of Two Squares: Martyr’s Square, Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul. Sarkis, Hashim (Ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 25 (3): 178-179.
Moser, Sarah. (2008) Review of From Subjects to Citizens: Balinese Villagers in the Indonesian Nation-State. Lyn Parker. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2003. Nations and Nationalism 14 (1): 209-211.
Moser, Sarah. (2007) ‘Reclaiming the City: the Great Asian Streets Symposium’ Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 24 (3): 242-244.
Reports
Roland Amador, Zulma Bolivar, Luis Buezo de Manzanedo, Henry Chabert, Jean-Yves Chapuis, Didier Drummond, Gilbert Emont, Jacques Gally, Marc Glaudemans, Sylvain Guillot, Christian Laroche, Nicolas Le Berre, Serge Le Boulch, Olivier Lemaire, Jean-Robert Mazaud, Sarah Moser, Germanico Pinto, Thomas Sanchez, Philippe Serizier, Elise Soulier, Robert Spizzichino. Cities and Territories in Transformation 2016: The INTA Initiative for Habitat III. Association Internationale du Développement Urbain. 44 pages.
Avery, Emma and Moser, Sarah. (in press) Urban speculation for survival: Adaptations and negotiations in Forest City, Malaysia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
Avni, Nufar; Moser, Sarah; and Gorgy, Gabrielle. (in press) Gendering gray space: Everyday challenges, strategies, and initiatives of women community leaders in East Jerusalem. Social and Cultural Geography.
Côté-Roy, Laurence and Moser, Sarah. (2022) 'A kingdom of new cities: Morocco’s national Villes Nouvelles strategy'. Geoforum 131: 27-38.
Sato, Mayumi and Moser, Sarah. (2022) '#FromFerguson2Gaza: A transnational movement of Black-Palestinian solidarity'. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 21 (1): 1-19.
Moser, Sarah; Côté-Roy, Laurence; and Korah, Prosper Issahaku. (2021) The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building. Urban Geography 56 (12): 2391–2397.
Moser, Sarah and Avery, Emma. (2021) 'The multi-scalar politics of urban greening in Forest City, Malaysia'. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 60 (May): 1-5.
Moser, Sarah and Côté-Roy, Laurence. (2021) 'New cities: Power, prestige, and profit'. Geography Compass 15 (1): 1-15.
Rebentisch, Hannah; Thompson, Caroline; Côté-Roy, Laurence; Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'Unicorn planning: Lessons from the rise and fall of an American ‘smart’ mega-development'. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 101: 1-6.
Forest, Benjamin and Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'Building nations/building states/building cities: Concrete symbols of identity'. In Sami Moisio, Natalie Koch, Andy Jonas, Juho Luukkonen, Chris Lizotte (Eds.). Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Edward Elgar.
Jordan, Joanna and Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'Researching migrants in informal transit camps along the Balkan Route: Reflections on volunteer activism, access, and reciprocity'. Area 52 (3): 566-574.
Moser, Sarah. (2020) 'New cities: Engineering social exclusions'. One Earth. 2 (2): 125-127.
Shebell, Elizabeth and Moser, Sarah. (2019) 'Planning for the Buen Vivir: Socialism, decentralization, and urbanization in rural Ecuador'. International Development Planning Review 41 (4): 473-494.
Moser, Sarah. (2019) 'Rejecting and reproducing colonial urbanism in contemporary Malaysian city design'. In H. Hazel Hahn. (Ed.). Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters Via Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. (187-214)
Chitti, Marco and Moser, Sarah. (2019) 'Emerging trends in urbanizing Palestine: Neglected city-builders beyond the occupation'. Urban Geography 40 (7): 1010-1017.
Moser, Sarah. (2019) ‘Islamic cities’. In Orum, Anthony. (Ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. John Wiley & Sons. (983-992) [ISBN: 978-1-118-56845-3]
Côté-Roy, Laurence and Moser, Sarah. (2019) ‘“Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?": The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa’. Urban Studies. 56(12): 2391–2407.
Moser, Sarah; Fauveaud, Gabriel; and Cutts, Adam. (2019) 'Montréal: Towards a post-industrial reinvention'. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 86: 125-135.
Moser, Sarah. (2019) ‘“Two days to shape the future”: A Saudi Arabian node in the transnational circulation of new cities ideas’, In Molotch, Harvey and Ponzini, Davide (Eds.) The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress. New York: NYU Press. 213-232.
Blander, Akiva; Moser, Sarah; and Avni, Nufar. (2018) 'Religio-nationalism and "soft boundaries": Urban gating in West Jerusalem and Tel Aviv'. Geoforum. 96: 227-235.
Moser, Sarah. (2018) 'Ethno- and Religio-Nationalism in Putrajaya, Taman Tamadun Islam, and Kota Iskandar: Malay(sian) national identity in contemporary urban mega-projects’, In Hagen, Joshua and Diener, Alexander (Eds.) The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 235-252.
Moser, Sarah. (2018) ‘Forest City, Malaysia, and Chinese expansionism’. Urban Geography. 39 (6): 935-943.
Moser, Sarah; Hendricks, Michael; and Vives, Luna. (2017) ‘Academia’s moral entanglements in the face of a racist regime’. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 16 (2): 1-10.
Moser, Sarah and Wilbur, Alyssa Shamsa. (2017) ‘Constructing heritage through state architecture in Indonesia’s Riau Islands’. ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe. 11 (July): 1-25.
Araos, Malcolm; James Ford; Lea Berrang-Ford; Robbert Biesbroek; and Sarah Moser. (2017) ‘Climate change adaptation planning for Global South megacities: The case of Dhaka’. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 19 (6): 682-696.
Moser, Sarah; Esther Clinton; and Jeremy Wallach. (2017) ‘Leisure activities in Southeast Asia, from pre-colonial times to the present’, In Spracklen, Karl et al (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave. 107-125.
Moser, Sarah. (2016) ‘Educating the nation: Shaping student-citizens in Indonesian schools’ Children’s Geographies. 14 (3): 247-262.
Cutts, Adam, and Moser, Sarah. (2015) 'State-community collaborative strategies to enable the right to the city in Argentina'. Habitat International. 49: 243-250.
Moser, Sarah; Swain, Marian; Alkhabbaz, Mohammed H. (2015) 'King Abdullah Economic City: Engineering Saudi Arabia's post-oil future', Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 45: 71-80.
Moser, Sarah. (2014) ‘New cities: Old wine in new bottles?’ Dialogues in Human Geography. 5 (1): 31-35.
Moser, Sarah. (2013) ‘New cities in the Muslim world: The cultural politics of planning an ‘Islamic’ city’. In Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics and Piety. (Edited by Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong and Elizabeth Olson). New York: Springer. 39-55. [ISBN 978-94-007-4684-8]
Moser, Sarah. (2012) ‘Circulating visions of ‘High Islam’: The adoption of fantasy Middle Eastern architecture in constructing Malaysian national identity’ Urban Studies. 49 (13) 2783-2805.
Moser, Sarah. (2012) ‘Globalization and the construction of identity in two new Southeast Asian capitals: Putrajaya and Dompak’ in Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities. Chen, Xiangming and Kanna, Ahmed. (Eds.) New York / London: Routledge. 169-189.
Moser, Sarah. (2010) ‘Creating citizens through play: The role of leisure in Indonesian nation-building’ Social and Cultural Geography. 11 (1): 53-73.
Moser, Sarah. (2010) ‘Putrajaya: Malaysia’s new federal administrative capital’ Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. 27 (3): 285-297.
Moser, Sarah. (2008) ‘Personality: a new positionality?’ Area. 40 (3) 383-392.
Books
Moser, Sarah. (Ed.) (under contract, 2021) New Master-Planned Cities, Islam, and Identity. London and New York: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series)
Other articles and commentaries
Avery, Emma and Moser, Sarah. (February 14, 2020) Les mégadéveloppements urbains chinois en Malaisie : Une nouvelle forme de colonialisme par la construction? (A new colonialism through construction? Chinese urban mega-developments in Malaysia). l'Asie en 1000 Mots.
Moser, Sarah. (July 13, 2018) The future is already here, Cato Unbound (online debates, Cato Institute).
Moser, Sarah and Wilbur, Alyssa Shamsa. (Feb. 1, 2018) Social exclusions in a state urban mega-development, Inside Indonesia.
Moser, Sarah. (May 2, 2014) Dompak eco-city: A tale of corruption, Open Democracy.
Moser, Sarah. (August 29, 2014) Yachay Knowledge City: Challenges and possibilities’, Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor.
Moser, Sarah. (2011) Constructing cultural heritage in new cities in Southeast Asia, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 57. 30-31.
Review articles
Moser, Sarah. (2022) 'The juggernaut of fast development: Johor's leap into a privatized neoliberal future'. Review of Johor: Abode of Development? Francis E. Hutchinson and Serina Rahman. (Eds.). ISEAS, 2020. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 43 (1): 142-145.
Moser, Sarah. (2021) ‘Exploring life in the shadows of fast urbanism’. Review of Temporary Cities: Resisting Transience in Arabia. Yasser Elsheshtawy. Routledge, 2019. CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 1-5.
Moser, Sarah. (2018) Review of Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation. Vadim Rossman. Routledge, 2017. Journal of Urban Affairs.
Moser, Sarah. (2017) Review of The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalizing Southeast Asian City. Yeoh Seng Guan (Ed.). Routledge, 2014. Southeast Asian Studies 6 (2): 13-16.
Moser, Sarah. (2014) ‘Exhibition review of ‘How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh’, International Journal of Islamic Architecture. 4 (1): 209-214.
Moser, Sarah. (2010) Review of Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle. Yasser Elsheshtawy. London: Routledge, 2010. Built Environment 36 (2): 260-264.
Moser, Sarah. (2009) Review of The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity & Urban Development. Yasser Elsheshtawy. New York: Routledge, 2008. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 26 (6): 377-78.
Moser, Sarah. (2009) Review of Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century. Christopher Silver. New York: Routledge, 2008. Planning Perspectives 24 (3): 402-403.
Moser, Sarah. (2009) Review of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia. Ross King. Copenhagen: NIAS Press / Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. Urban Design International 14 (1): 57-58.
Moser, Sarah. (2008) Review of Two Squares: Martyr’s Square, Beirut and Sirkeci Square, Istanbul. Sarkis, Hashim (Ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 25 (3): 178-179.
Moser, Sarah. (2008) Review of From Subjects to Citizens: Balinese Villagers in the Indonesian Nation-State. Lyn Parker. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2003. Nations and Nationalism 14 (1): 209-211.
Moser, Sarah. (2007) ‘Reclaiming the City: the Great Asian Streets Symposium’ Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 24 (3): 242-244.
Reports
Roland Amador, Zulma Bolivar, Luis Buezo de Manzanedo, Henry Chabert, Jean-Yves Chapuis, Didier Drummond, Gilbert Emont, Jacques Gally, Marc Glaudemans, Sylvain Guillot, Christian Laroche, Nicolas Le Berre, Serge Le Boulch, Olivier Lemaire, Jean-Robert Mazaud, Sarah Moser, Germanico Pinto, Thomas Sanchez, Philippe Serizier, Elise Soulier, Robert Spizzichino. Cities and Territories in Transformation 2016: The INTA Initiative for Habitat III. Association Internationale du Développement Urbain. 44 pages.