OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Urban History is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
From Police Power to Police Practice	14
Living within the Watershed: Managing Urban Water Supply in a Growing Metropolis	10
The Role of the North-China Herald in the Anti-Tax Activities of British Businessmen in Shanghai, 1850-1854	8
Modernity, Nationalism, and Colonialism: A Historical Study of the Canton Zoological Park during the Republican Era	7
Imagining Residential Segregation before the Ghetto: Representations of Black Urban Space and Mobility in the “Darktown” Comics, 1877-1900	6
Building the Black City: Expanding the Case for Reparations for Descendants of African People Enslaved in America	6
The New Revisionists: Recent Histories of Inequality and Urban Education	5
Patrolling and Controlling the Streets: The Origin of School Safety Patrols in New York City	5
Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971	5
Fragmented Emergency: Sirens, Cellphones, and Sonic Spatialization in Israel	4
Five Urban Geographies of History, Heritage, Monuments, and Modernity	3
Troubled Waters: New York City’s Waterfront and Wastescapes	3
Municipal Market Halls in Cyprus, c. 1870-1970: Intersecting Traditions and the Dynamics of Colonial Modernity	3
The Natural Limits to Extraterritoriality: Contested Sovereignty in a Periphery of Ottoman Istanbul	3
Interplay of Street Politics and the Origins of High-Density Standards in Hong Kong’s Resettlement Housing	3
Dynamic Urban Thresholds: Relationships between Form and Activities in Porta Ticinese, Milano	3
Mediating and Representing the Slum: An Introduction	2
The Socialist City of Tomorrow in Retrospect	2
Isolated Resilience: Urban Situation in Baghdad under International Sanctions (1990-2003)	2
Public Health in a Transnational Context: Hong Kong and the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic	2
Unpacking the Town within Sailortown: The Port District Neighborhoods of Antwerp and Boston, c. 1880-1900	2
The Politics of Blight: Recent Literature on Urban Renewal BilesRogerRoseMark H. (2022). A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press	2
Chicago Blues Dreams	2
Trash Land: The Landfill, the Campamento , and Transnational Geographies of Disaster	2
Civic Education and Artistic Innovation on New York City’s Dancemobile, 1967-1988	2

Making the City: The Contested Shaping of Urban Life through Transit Investments BergmanMike (2021). Seattle’s Streetcar Era: An Illustrated History, 1884-1941. Pullman: University of Washington Press	2
Bicycle-Oriented Development: How the Dutch Railroad Shaped Urban Planning and Discovered Cyclists along the Way, 1960-1990	2
The Colonial City: Empire, Authenticity, and Urban Imagination at the 1906 Marseille Colonial Exposition	2
The Airplane and the Imperial City: A Brief History of Seattle and American Empire	2
“The Cité Is Yours”: Colonial Modernization and Dakar’s Postcolonial Suburban Dream	1
From Slums to Community: The Urban Turn of Catholicism in Post-War Brussels (1950-1975)	1
“Somebody Else’s Fight”: Local Dynamics in the Baltimore Highway Revolt	1
Redeeming the Tenement and Understanding Technological Change in the Home	1
Hope and Hard-Bitten Pragmatism in the Long Urban Crisis MarchielRebecca K. (2020). After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation.Chicago: University of Chicago	1
The Evolving Typologies and Morphologies of Hong Kong Public Housing: Between Implementation and Remediation of Urban Density	1
The Rules of the Game	1
When Did Deindustrialization Start? Reexamining Industrial Decline in Metro Detroit	1
How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City	1
Beyond Dynasties: An Alternative Periodization of Islamic Built Environments—Interplay of Power, Jurisprudence, and Knowledge	1
From Pre-Pandemic to Post-Pandemic Suburban Heavens of Privilege	1
“Neighborhood Nightmares”: Drug Dens, Finance, and the Political Economy of the Crack Crisis	1
Role of Women in Milwaukee’s Fair Housing Marches and Civil Rights Movements: Recognizing the Unsung Heroines	1
Enlarging Bogotá: The Production of Urban Space	1
Mediating Planning Discourses: Medium, Interface, and Fusion	1
Decentering Whiteness: Race, Democratic Citizenship, and Multiethnic American Suburbs	1
Revising the Newsboy	1
Mapping the Contours of Black Juvenile Delinquency: The Journal of Negro Education , 1945-1975	1
The Renewal and Reinvention of Postwar Urban Britain SmithOtto Saumarez (2019). Boom Cities: Architect-Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Pr	1
Managing Flow: Drainage and Flood Control in Eighteenth-Century London	1
Urban Morphology and Functional Hierarchy of the Jewish Quarter of Zaragoza (Spain) at the End of the Fifteenth Century	1
In a Toxic City Beautiful: Harvey Washington Wiley, the Model City, and the Authenticity of Science in the Nation’s Capital	1
Back to the Sea Clifford Holliday and the Building of the Government Estate and Kingsway Boulevard in British Mandatory Haifa	1
How Police Make the World	1
Crisis and Faith: Urban Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States	1
The Selective Criteria for Trees in the Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon 1882	1
Dragging the Waters: Pestilence, Policing, and the Public Good in Postbellum Baltimore	1
Built on Women’s Bodies: An Author’s Response	1
Interculturalism and Immigration Governance in Global Cities	1
Potholes of Philadelphia: Seasonality, Infrastructure, and Environments Above and Below Ground	1
Animopolis: Re-Imagining Animals in the City	1
Race and Place in Asian American History, 1950-present HumTarryHaydukRonPierre-LouisFrancoisJrKrasnerMichael Alan (eds.) (2021). Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in	1
Learning to Struggle, Learning to Govern: How Black Youth Marshaled Education to Navigate Urban Transformations in the Motor City, 1967-1972	1
Architecture, Planning, and Policy Around Two Spanish Trips to the Soviet Union: I Réunions Internationales des Architectes (1932) and V International Union of Architects Congress (1958)	1
Cities as Settings: The Civil War Era in the Urban South	1
Gambling by the Numbers and Tales of the Turf	1
Working for the Workers? Infonavit’s Creation and Its Foundational Motivations, 1972-1976	1
“The Police State in Franklin K. Lane”: Desegregation, Student Resistance, and the Carceral Turn at a New York City High School	1
Ungovernable Amsterdam? Redefining Municipal Government from the Late 1970s to the Late 1980s	1
“A Style Conscious Nation Eagerly Awaits”: Chambers of Commerce and the Making of the American Fashion Industry, 1900-1960	1
Archeology on an Urban Scale	1
The Medium Is the Message: Recent Interpretations of Jane Jacobs and Cities AkkermanAbraham (2020). The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard: Contraction and Meaning in City Form. Toron	1