OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Geography is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century	56
Public housing, homeplaces, and entangled spatial strategies of Black freedom	55
Hacking suburban social infrastructure: glitch subjects and queer practices of social reproduction	54
Working toward infrastructural citizenship: state-society relations and community waste labor in Cape Town	49
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	38
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	36
Fixing new municipalism discretely and discreetly . Power, participation, and the possibilities of progressive regimes	21
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values	18
Terraformed	18
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	17
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	17
Distinction, difference, and the place(s) of Latine working-class immigrants in the creative city	17
Resilient climate urbanism and the politics of experimentation for adaptation	17
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	16
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: an analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast	16
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	15
Meeting afterhours: on the work that night commissions do	15
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	15
Urban adaptation pathways at the edge of the anthropocene: lessons from the Blue Pacific Continent	14
How workable is a 20-minute city in Australia? Re-examining the challenge of change in spatial labour and job relations	14
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process	14
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	14
Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center	14
Small city big thinking: the making of China’s coffee capital	14
Mean streets: homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital	14

An investigation of the use of Google Street View for identifying gentrification across diverse United States morphological city types	14
On autonomy in Frankenstein Urbanism	13
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	13
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	13
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	13
Frankenstein Urbanism through the lens of feminist technoscience	13
Veni, vidi, gentri? – Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?	13
Building space, building value: residential space additions and the transformation of low-rise housing in Toronto	12
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	12
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	12
State/finance symbiosis	12
Linking U.S. government-sponsored redlining to early-stage white flight, 1940–1950	12
The limits to urban revolution: the transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party	11
Doing comparative urbanism: comparative conversation as tactic	11
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	11
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	11
In the shadow of gentrification: the case of art-led neighborhood change in Osaka’s developmental inner city	10
“Homes not shelters”: co-productions of home in financialized social housing for women in Vancouver, Canada	10
Urban value chains and re-framing agglomeration-centric conceptions of urban theory	10
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia	10
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city	10
More private than public: the choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO	10
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization	10
Rethinking the off-grid city	10
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	10
From campaign-style governance to multiple environmentalities: urban political ecologies of e-waste regulation in Guiyu, China	9
Generationing cultural quarters: the temporal embeddedness of relational places	9
The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism	9
Traveling planning concepts revisited: how they land and why it matters	8
Urban policy mobilities in Urban Geography : in retrospect and in prospect	8
Dialogic practices of urban gardening in Rome: “Reading for difference” in social innovation	8
The Vancouver socioecological fix: indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation	8
Rethinking the post-socialist city	8
Trust and social space – a relational perspective	8
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	8
Infrastructure in formation: the politics and practices of making progress with infrastructure	8
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy	8
An urban resilience fix: resolving waterfront development and flood risks in Boston’s Seaport District	7
Displacement: cause and consequence of gentrification	7
An analysis of diverse gentrification processes and their relationship to historic preservation activity in Chicago	7
Trading crime for culture? Activating territorial stigma through cultural regeneration in Paisley	7
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	7
On writing The City after Property	7
Spatial clustering of property abandonment in shrinking cities: a case study of targeted demolition in Buffalo, NY’s African American neighborhoods	7
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world	7
Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice	7
“Blacklighting” the shaping of place: theories, strategies, and spatial imaginaries from the ‘Shaw	7
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality	7
Shelter in place: neighborhood policing of homelessness in Montreal, Canada	7
Justice and the American city	7

Writing urban worlds in City of Men	7
The nature of “wilderness” in the settler-colonial suburb	7
Refugees in new destinations and small cities: resettlement in Vermont	7
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction	7
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	7
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy	6
Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen	6
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	6
The promise and reality of middle-class homeownership in China: housing assetisation, speculative urban (re)development and residential inequalities	6
Aging, everyday active mobility and the challenge of the tourist city: an illustration from Barcelona	6
Liquid borders: reflections from fragmented water infrastructure in Guwahati, Northeast India	6
Family experiences of urban transformation: entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias	6
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	6
Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S.	6
Whose sidewalk is it? Street vendors and the battle for San Diego’s foodscape	6
Osmosis across defensible space: observations and lessons from dérives in London during COVID-19	6
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”	6
Empowered, almost: luxury consumption and the crooked urban life	6
“Worlding” Bangladeshi urbanism through water	6
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	6
On structures and events	6
Socio-material governance tensions in nature-based solution experiments: lessons from Turin	6
“In densification we trust” – on the role of abstract space in the production of urban densification in the Alpine Rhine Valley	6
Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment: a case from Wuhan	6
Mobilizing heterogeneity: understanding the dynamic qualities and diversity of energy access in Maputo	5
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	5
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	5
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills	5
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture	5
(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance	5
Vernacular place name as a cultural arena of urban place-making and symbolic resistance in Minsk, Belarus	5
Urban social infrastructure and care: Japanese examples	5
Green, gray, glocal: governing urban resilience in the Tel Aviv metropolitan region	5
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	5
Assembling place-based transitions: capitalist logics of green building in Vancouver, Canada	5
Climate transparency and the affective politics of adaptation in Miami	5
Regulating sidewalk delivery robots as a disruptive new urban technology	5
Decentralizing the power of fashion? Exploring the geographies and inter-place connections of fashion cities through fashion weeks	5