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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	61
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	60
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	59
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	54
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	40
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	24
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	24
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	22
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world	19
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	19
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	19
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	19
Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice	18
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	17
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	17
On writing The City after Property	16
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	16
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	16
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	15
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	15
Revisioning Urban Pulse	15
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration	15
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	15
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	14
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil	14

Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	14
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	14
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	14
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London	14
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	14
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	13
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities	13
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	13
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	13
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	12
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city	12
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	12
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	11
Urban geographies of waste	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
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	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
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	11
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity	11
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	11
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context	10
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	10
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	10
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	10
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	10
A radical belief in all of us: an invitation to collective moral inquiry as democratic conversation	10
Wishing the wall back: the struggles of eight “unification losers” in post-socialist Berlin	10
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	10
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	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	9
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	9
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	9
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	9
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	8
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	8
Rethinking the off-grid city	8
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	8
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	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
Land back / cities back	8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	8
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	8
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7

Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	7
Gentrification and the role of the professional-managerial middle class	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”	7
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	7
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	7
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY	7
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
Veni, vidi, gentri? – Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?	7
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	7
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process	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
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia	6
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	6
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	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
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	6
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	6
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6