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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	107
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	53
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	40
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden	39
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	31
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	31
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	28
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	26
Contested natures in the city: rewilding, othering and more-than-human perspectives	24
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	23
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	22
Durabilities in the age of disruption	20
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	20
On writing The City after Property	20
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	20
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	19
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	19
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world	18
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	18
Infrastructure governance on unceded land: progress and challenges toward Indigenous sovereignty and coexisting governance	18
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	18
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	17
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	17
Taming the green gentrification cycle? Evidence from street greening in Vienna	17
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	16

Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	16
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	16
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	16
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	16
Revisioning Urban Pulse	16
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	15
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration	15
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil	15
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	14
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	14
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	13
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	13
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	13
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	13
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	13
Social housing as a social infrastructure: the coexistence of divergent socials on a north London council estate	13
Urban geographies of waste	13
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	13
Young, educated and excluded? Regulating student accommodation in England & Wales	13
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	12
The slow dissolution of urban geography, the multiple lives of urban studies	12
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	12
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	12
Placemaking and the blues in racialized, ethnic, and immigrant neighborhoods	12
“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	12
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	12
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	11
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	11
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	11
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context	11
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	11
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	11
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	11
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	10
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	10
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	10
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta	10
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	10
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	10
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne	10
“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	10
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	10
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	10
Land back / cities back	10
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	9
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	9
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	9
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	9
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India	9
Doing mapping and storytelling – notes from three field-based practices from the global south	9

Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	9
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	9
“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	9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	9
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	9
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	9
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	8
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	8
Politics of belonging and urban space: civil society interventions in French and German cities	8
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	8
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	8
Concrete: the inconspicuous binder of Planetary Urbanization	8
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	7
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	7
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7
“Waging love” against speculative revanchism: Black placemaking as earthwork (2025) Plenary Lecture	7
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	7
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	7
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	7
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013	7
Labor formalization and digital platforms: entrepreneurship and short-term rentals in Havana’s housing markets	6
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations	6
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property	6
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process	6
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto	6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city	6
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis	6
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	6
Building and defending counterspaces : an analysis of counterspace formation in two informal settlements in Istanbul	6
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity	6
Explaining asymmetric urbanism: contingent infrastructure, conjunctural space, and ideational hegemony in Tokyo	6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance	6
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism	6
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam	6
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City	6
Theatrical potential of the urban street: the everyday carnivalesque	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city	6
Book review forums: reviving a platform	6