International Refereed Journal Papers (Selected):
Padawangi, Rita. "Forced Evictions, Spatial (Un)certainties and the Making of Exemplary Centres in Indonesia." Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 60, no. 1 (2019): 65-79.
Buurman, Joost, and Rita Padawangi. "Bringing People Closer to Water: Integrating Water Management and Urban Infrastructure." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 61, no. 14 (2018): 2531-2548.
Bunnell, Tim, Rita Padawangi, and Eric C. Thompson. "The Politics of Learning from a Small City: Solo as Translocal Model and Political Launch Pad." Regional Studies (2017): 1-11.
Padawangi, Rita. "Building Knowledge, Negotiating Expertise: Participatory Water Supply Advocacy and Service in Globalizing Jakarta." East Asian Science, Technology and Society 11.1 (2017): 71-90.
Padawangi, Rita, Etienne Turpin, Herlily, Michaela F. Prescott, Ivana Lee, and Ariel Shepherd. "Mapping an Alternative Community River: The Case of the Ciliwung." Sustainable Cities and Society 20 (January 2016): 147-157.
Shaad, Kashif, Yazid Ninsalam, Rita Padawangi, and Paolo Burlando. "Towards High Resolution and Cost-Effective Terrain Mapping for Urban Hydrodynamic Modelling in Densely Settled River-Corridors." Sustainable Cities and Society 20 (January 2016): 168-179.
Padawangi, Rita and Mike Douglass. "Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta." Pacific Affairs 88, no. 3 (2015): 517-550
Vollmer, Derek, Michaela F. Prescott, Rita Padawangi, Christophe Girot, and Adrienne Grêt-Regammey. "Understanding the Social Value of Urban Riparian Corridors: Considerations in Planning for Green Infrastructure along the Ciliwung River, Jakarta." Landscape and Urban Planning 138 (June 2015): 144-154.
Vollmer, Derek, Diogo Costa, Ervine Lin, Yazid Ninsalam, Kashif Shaad, Michaela F. Prescott, Senthil Gurusamy, Federica Remondi, Rita Padawangi, Paolo Burlando, Christophe Girot, Adrienne GrêtRegammey, and Joerg Rekittke. "Changing the Course of Rivers in Asian Cities: Linking Urban Landscapes to Human Benefits Through Iterative Modeling and Design." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 51, Issue 3 (June 2015): 672-688.
Padawangi, Rita. "Reform, Resistance and Empowerment: Urban Landscapes and the Transformation of Activist Groups in Jakarta, Indonesia." International Development Planning Review 36, no. 1 (2014): 33-50.
Padawangi, Rita, Peter Marolt, and Mike Douglass. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Insurgencies, Social Media, and the Public City in Asia." International Development Planning Review 36, no. 1 (2014): 3-13.
Padawangi, Rita. "The Cosmopolitan Grassroots City as Megaphone: Reconstructing Public Spaces through Urban Activism in Jakarta." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37, no. 3 (2013): 849-863.
Padawangi, Rita. "Community-Driven Development as Drivers of Change: Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in Rural Punjab, Pakistan." Water Policy, S1 (2010): 104-120.
Lim, Merlyna and Rita Padawangi. "Contesting Alun-alun: Power Relations, Identities, and the Production of Urban Space in Bandung, Indonesia." International Development Planning Review 30, no. 3 (2008): 307-326.
Padawangi, Rita. "From Colonial Past to Commercial Present and Spectacular Future: The Impact of Urban Growth in the Transformation of Alun-alun Bandung." Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture 9 (2006): 29-41.
Book Chapters (Selected):
Padawangi, Rita. "Urban Development, Vulnerabilities, and Disasters in Indonesia's Coastal Land Reclamations: Does Social Justice Matter?" In People and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Social Justice (eds. Lisa Reyes Mason and Jonathan Rigg). New York: Oxford University Press (2019): 122-146.
Cabannes, Yves, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi. "Cities by and for the People." In Cities by and for the People in Asia (eds. Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019): 13-40.
Padawangi, Rita. "Progressive City Surakarta? Learning from Community-Based Initiatives in Urban Indonesia." In The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West (eds. Mike Douglass, Romain Garbaye, and Ho Kong Chong). Singapore: Springer (2019): 233-249.
Padawangi, Rita. "Excavating the Ruins of Aspirational Urban Futures in Bukit Duri, Jakarta." In Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present (eds. Tim Bunnell and Daniel P.S. Goh). Berlin: Jovis (2018): 205-218.
Padawangi, Rita. "In Search of Alternative Development in Post-Reformasi Jakarta." In Jakarta: Claiming Spaces and Rights in the City (eds. Jorgen Hellman, Marie Thynell, and Roanne van Voorst). London, UK: Routledge (2018): 173-194.
Padawangi, Rita. "Water Connections: Output-Based Projects for the Urban Poor and the Pursuit of Water Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia." In Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City, eds. Manuel Vallee and Beth Caniglia. London, UK: Routledge (2017): 118-137.
Perkasa, Adrian and Rita Padawangi. "Living Heritage of Ruins? Contesting the Paradox in Trowulans Majapahit Heritage." In Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia, eds. Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hui Yew-Foong, Philippe Peycam. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (2017): 61-85.
Padawangi, Rita. "Muddy Resistance: Community Empowerment in Mudflow Disaster Governance in Porong, Sidoarjo, Indonesia." In Disaster Governance and the Urban Transition in Asia, ed. Michelle Miller and Mike Douglass. Singapore: Springer (2015).
Padawangi, Rita. "The Vernacular and the Spectacular: Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities." In Asian Cities: Colonial to Global, ed. Gregory Bracken. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2015): 261-277.
Padawangi, Rita. "Climate Change and the North Coast of Jakarta: Environmental Justice and the Social Construction of Space in Urban Poor Communities." In Research in Urban Sociology vol. 12 (Urban Areas and Climate Change), ed. William G. Holt III. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2012: 321-339.
Padawangi, Rita. "The Right to Flood-Free Homes: Urban Floods, Spatial Justice and Social Movements in Jakarta, Indonesia." In Global Visions: Risks and Opportunities for the Urban Planet, eds. Johannes Widodo; Jürgen Rosemann; Low Boon Liang; and Adriana Gonzalez-Brun. Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2012.
Padawangi, Rita. "The Planned Suburbanisation of a City-State: Singapore's New Towns." In Research in Urban Sociology vol. 10 (Suburbanisation in Global Society), eds. Mark Clapson and Ray Hutchison. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2010: 293-317.
Edited Books:
Padawangi, Rita. Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia. London and New York: Routledge (2019).
Padawangi, Rita, Mike Douglass and Yves Cabannes. Cities by and for the People in Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019).