PUBLICATIONS | Books & Edited Volumes
Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh, Nikos Katsikis, Environments of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2025). Spanish translation: Entornos de urbanización planetaria (Ediciones ARQ, 2026)
Nikos Katsikis, Neil Brenner, Grga Basic, Mariano Gomez Luque, Data-spheres of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2025)
Nikos Katsikis and Victor Muñoz Sanz (eds.), More-Than-Human Ecologies of Extended Urbanisation. Special issue #33 of the Footprint Journal (Jap Sam Books, 2024)
Florian Hertweck and Nikos Katsikis (eds.), Positions on Emancipation (Basel: Lars Muller Publishers, 2017)
Joan Busquets and Nikos Katsikis, Manhattan: Rectangular Grid for Ordering an Island (ORO Editions, 2017)
Nikos Katsikis and Daniel Ibanez (eds.) New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014)
Nikos Katsikis, Lily Baum Pollans and Cressica Brazzier (eds.) Writing Cities 03: Limits and the Urban (Cambridge, MA: Harvard GSD, MIT DUSP, 2014)
PUBLICATIONS | Book Chapters
Nikos Katsikis, Alexander Wandl and Olga Ioannou, “Spatial Strategies for Circular Regions,” Bayro Kaiser F., Wandl A., Reicher C. and Keim D. (eds.) Eurodelta 2050+: Spatial Strategies for a Circular Built Environment (Jovis / De Gruyter Brill, forthcoming 2026)
Alexander Wandl, Olga Ioannou and Nikos Katsikis, “How to Achieve a Circular Built Environment and Beyond,” Bayro Kaiser F., Wandl A., Reicher C. and Keim D. (eds.) Eurodelta 2050+: Spatial Strategies for a Circular Built Environment (Jovis / De Gruyter Brill, forthcoming 2026)
Nikos Katsikis, “Energy Hinterglobes,” Mehan A. and Mostafavi S. (eds.) The New Energy Matters (Actar, forthcoming 2026)
Nikos Katsikis, “Beyond the Operational Landscape,” Wall E. (ed.) Collective Landscape Futures (Routledge, 2025)
Nikos Katsikis, “The Horizontal Factory: The Operationalization of the US Corn and Soy Belt,” Schmid C. and Topalovic M. (eds.) Territories of Extended Urbanization, (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2023)
Nikos Katsikis and Neil Brenner, “Hinterlands of the Capitalocene,” Kaika M. et. al. (eds.), Turning up the heat, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023)
Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh and Nikos Katsikis, “The Global Industrial Feedlot Matrix,” Waldheim C. and Nesbit J. (eds.) Technical Lands: A Critical Primer (Berlin: Jovis, 2022)
Nikos Katsikis and Neil Brenner, “Hinterlands of the Capitalocene.” Lancione M. and McFarlane C. (eds.) Global Urbanism: Knowledge Power and the City (Routledge, 2021)
Nikos Katsikis, “Postcards from the Low Earth Orbit,” Çinçik B. and Torres-Campos T. (eds.) Postcards from the Anthropocene (DPR, 2021)
Nikos Katsikis, “The Other Horizontal Metropolis,” Cavalieri C. and Viganò P. (eds.) The Horizontal Metropolis in Contemporary Urbanisation (Springer, 2018)
Nikos Katsikis, “Visualizing the Planetary Urban,” Harrison J. and Hoyler M. (eds.) Doing Global Urban Research (SAGE, 2018)
Nikos Katsikis, “Geographical Urbanism,” Esposti L. (ed.), Milan, Capital of the Modern (Barcelona: ACTAR, 2017)
Nikos Katsikis, “Two Approaches to World Management,” Brenner N. (ed.) Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis 2013)
Nikos Katsikis & Urban Theory Lab, “Visualizing an Urbanized Planet: Materials,” Brenner N. (ed.) Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Berlin: Jovis 2013)
PUBLICATIONS | Journal Papers
Nikos Katsikis, “Spatial capital in the web of life,” Planning Practice & Research (2026)
Nikos Katsikis, Pier Paolo Saraceno and Iraklis Stamos, “Spatializing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The role of urbanization in SDGs localization across spatial scales,” Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 28(2): 247–267 (2026; published online September 2025)
Nikos Katsikis and Daniel Ibanez, “Metabolismo: Consideraciones Esenciales,” Arquitectura: Revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 387 (2024)
Nikos Katsikis and Daniel Daou, “Deep Zoning,” Benjamin Bratton (ed.) For Planetary Governance, Strelka Magazine (Fall 2021, online publication)
Thomas Turnbull, Maik Renner, Annu Panwar, Nikos Katsikis and Axel Kleidon, “Quantifying available energy and anthropogenic energy use in the Mississippi river basin,” The Anthropocene Review (Sage, October 2021)
Nikos Katsikis and Neil Brenner, “Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene” Ed Wall (ed.) AD, The Landscapists: Redefining Landscape Relations (Wiley: January 2020)
Nikos Katsikis and Renia Kagkou, “Planetary Bottlenecks: The New World Capitals,” Winy Maas (ed.) DOMUS 1037(June–July 2019)
Nikos Katsikis, “Operational Landscapes and the Planetary Thünen Town,” Technosphere Magazine (HKW, 2019)
Nikos Katsikis, “Operational Landscapes of Forestry: A global Survey,” Leah Whitman-Salkin (ed.) Harvard Design Magazine 45: Into the Woods (2018)
Nikos Katsikis, “On the Geographical Organization of World Urbanization,” MONU: Magazine on Urbanism, 20 (2014)
Nikos Katsikis and Neil Brenner, “Is the Mediterranean Urban?” Petrov A. (ed.) New Geographies 05: The Mediterranean (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
PUBLICATIONS | Conference Proceedings
Nikos Katsikis and Victor Muñoz Sanz, “Densities of Urbanization: More-than-City, More-than-Human,” IPHS 2024: 20th International Planning History Society Conference (2024)
Katerina Inglezaki, Nikos Katsikis, Diego Sepulveda Carmona, Mariana Pestana and Nuno Jardim Nunes, “Agroecology as a Practice of Care supported by Blockchain and DAOs: The speculative case of Murcia’s Mar Menor Lagoon,” Mindtrek ’24: Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (ACM, 2024), 109–120
Jinlai Song, Daniele Cannatella and Nikos Katsikis, “Landscape-Based Fire Resilience: Identifying Interaction Between Landscape Dynamics and Fire Regimes in the Mediterranean Region,” Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops (Springer, 2023), 328–344
Nikos Katsikis, “‘Fixing’ Space through Infrastructure,” Gassner, Kaasa and Robinson (eds.) Writing Cities 2: Distance and Cities (London: LSE, 2012)