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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden	85
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	37
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	35
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	27
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	26
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	24
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	24
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	23
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	22
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	21
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	20
Durabilities in the age of disruption	19
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	19
On writing The City after Property	18
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	18
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	18
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	17
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	16
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	16
Revisioning Urban Pulse	16
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	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	16
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	16
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	15

Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	15
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	15
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	15
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	15
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	15
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil	15
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration	14
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	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	14
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities	14
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	13
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity	13
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	13
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	13
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	13
Urban geographies of waste	13
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	13
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	12
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	12
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	12
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	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
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	11
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	10
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta	10
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	10
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	10
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	10
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	10
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context	10
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne	9
Land back / cities back	9
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	9
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	9
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India	9
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	9
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	9
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	9
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	9
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	9
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	9
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	9
“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	9
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	9
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	9
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	9
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	8
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	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
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”	8
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY	8
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	8
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	8
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	8
Rethinking the off-grid city	8
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	8
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	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
Politics of belonging and urban space: civil society interventions in French and German cities	7
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	7
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	7
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	7
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	6
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity	6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	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
Why is emotional data failing to produce more humane cities? Urban governance and the (interdisciplinary) problem of wellbeing	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	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
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
Building and defending counterspaces : an analysis of counterspace formation in two informal settlements in Istanbul	6
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis	6