OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Geography is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	68
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	63
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	62
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	28
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	27
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	22
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	20
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden	20
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	20
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	20
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	19
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	19
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	19
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	19
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	17
On writing The City after Property	17
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world	17
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	17
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration	16
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	16
Revisioning Urban Pulse	16
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	16
Trust the people: a lesson in listening, learning and following the lead of Black people in The City after Property Trust the people: a lesson in liste	15
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil	15
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	15

Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	15
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	14
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	14
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	13
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	13
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	13
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities	12
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	12
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	12
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	12
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	12
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	12
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity	12
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	11
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	11
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	11
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	11
“I don't think anybody’s ever been to scale:” the imperative for growth and the implications of scale for Community Land Trusts in Minnesota, USA	11
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city	11
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	11
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	11
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	11
Urban geographies of waste	11
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	10
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	10
Wishing the wall back: the struggles of eight “unification losers” in post-socialist Berlin	10
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	10
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	10
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	9
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context	9
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	9
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	9
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	9
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	9
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	9
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	9
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	8
“It’s not that I don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else”: young refugees’ contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in	8
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	8
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	8
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	8
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	8
“This is my home, and I am not ashamed to live here”: a comparative study of sense of belonging in Harare and Accra’s informal settlements	8
Land back / cities back	8
Rethinking the off-grid city	8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	8
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	8
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	7

Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	7
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	7
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	7
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	7
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	7
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”	7
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	7
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	7
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013	6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia	6
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	6
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	6
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	6