McFarlane, Colin. "Fragment urbanism: Politics at the margins of the city." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, no. 6 (2018): 1007-1025.

McFarlane, Colin, Jonathan Silver, and Yaffa Truelove Forthcoming. Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison and Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography, 2016.

Lancione, Michele, and Colin McFarlane. "Life at the urban margins: Sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 48, no. 12 (2016): 2402-2421.

McFarlane, Colin, and R. Desai. "Sites of entitlement: claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai." Environment and Urbanization 27, no. 2 (2015): 441-454.

McFarlane, Colin, Renu Desai, and Steve Graham. "Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty, and Comparison." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104, no. 5 (2014): 989-1011.

Desai, Renu, Colin McFarlane, and Stephen Graham. "The Politics of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in Mumbai." Antipode 10 (2014): 98-120.

McFarlane, Colin. "Metabolic Inequalities in Mumbai: Beyond Telescopic Urbanism." City 17 (2013): 498-503.

Graham, Stephen, Renu Desai, and Colin Mcfarlane. "Water Wars in Mumbai." Public Culture 25, no. 1 (2013): 115-141.

McFarlane, Colin. "From Sanitation Inequality to Malevolent Urbanism: The Normalisation of Suffering in Mumbai." Geoforum 43 (2012): 1287-1290.

McFarlane, Colin. "Rethinking Informality: Politics, Crisis, and the City." Planning Theory & Practice 13, no. 1 (2012): 89-108.

McFarlane, Colin. "Translocal assemblages: Space, power and social movements." Geoforum 40, no. 4 (2009): 561-567.

Mcfarlane, Colin. "Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bombay." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32, no. 2 (2008): 415-435.

Legg, Stephen, and Colin McFarlane. "Ordinary Urban Spaces: Between Postcolonialism and Development." Environment and Planning A 40, no. 1 (2008): 14-6.

McFarlane, Colin, and Jonathan Rutherford. "Political infrastructures: Governing and experiencing the fabric of the city." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32, no. 2 (2008): 363-374.

McFarlane, Colin. "Postcolonial Bombay: Decline of a Cosmopolitanism City?" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26, no. 3 (2008): 480-499.

McFarlane, Colin. "Sanitation in Mumbai's Informal Settlements: State, ‘Slum’, and Infrastructure." Environment and Planning A 40 (2008): 88-107.

Mcfarlane, Colin. "Geographical Imaginations and Spaces of Political Engagement: Examples from the Indian Alliance." Antipode 36 (2004): 890-916.