OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space is 9. 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
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam’s unplanned settlements	84
Winners of the Ashby prizes	68
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation: Lessons from the study of precarious older workers	61
Rental proptech platforms: Changing landlord and tenant power relations in the UK private rental sector?	59
Tenure transitions at the edges of ownership: Reinforcing or challenging the status quo?	59
Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future	54
Firm decline and the mobility of US inventors, 1976–2015	51
Platformed distinction work: Rethinking the migration and integration of food delivery workers in China	43
Territorial stigmatisation beyond the city: Habitus, affordances and landscapes of industrial ruination	43
Ridesourcing and urban inequality in Chicago: Connecting mobility disparities to unequal development, gentrification, and displacement	38
Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?: Routes to a value theory of reproductive labour	33
Multi-occupation segregation through London's tube network	33
Capital flows and geographically uneven economic dynamics: A monetary perspective	31
Banks on a plane: The possibilities and limits of spatial accessibility measures for understanding geographies of financial exclusion	31
The anti-politics of impact investment: Financial self-regulation, market competition and over-indebtedness in Cambodia	29
The spatiality of collective action and organization among platform workers in Spain and Chile	28
‘Commodification of everything’ arguments in the social sciences: Variants, specification, evaluation, critique	28
Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning	28
Imagining a future in the austerity city: Anticipated futures and the formation of neoliberal subjectivities of youth in Ireland	27
Critical realist perspectives on the urban growth system	27
Into the zone	25
Learn from elsewhere: A relational geography of policy learning in Bangkok’s Creative District	25
The shape of neighborhoods to come: Examining patterns of gentrification and holistic neighborhood change in Los Angeles County, 1980–2010	25
Embeddedness beyond the lead firm in global production networks: Insights from Kenyan horticulture	24
Connecting up embedded knowledge across Northern Powerhouse cities	24

Creating elite encounters: The ‘campaign’ as approach for interviewing corporate elites	24
Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy	24
Population mobility, urban centrality and subnetworks in China revealed by social sensing big data	23
‘Going Karura’: Colliding subjectivities and labour struggle in Nairobi's gig economy	23
Neoliberal urban segregation and property tax: A critical view of Santiago, Chile	23
Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery	23
Differentiation under capitalism: Genesis and consequences of the rent gap	22
Remaking the socio-spatial fix: Actors, time and crisis in two iron ore towns	22
(No) City for old men	21
The fragile ‘art’ of multi-apping: Resilience and snapping in the gig economy	21
Labour geography is tedious: Of contracts, grievances and the nitty-gritty of worker agency in United Farm Workers-era California	20
Turning land into capital? The expansion and extraction of value in Laos	19
Can polycentric urban development simultaneously achieve both economic growth and regional equity? A multi-scale analysis of German regions	19
The American spirit: The performativity of folk economics in global financial markets	19
Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy	18
Governing through ESG and the green spirit of asset manager capitalism	18
Distance creates proximity: Unraveling the influence of geographical distance on social proximity in interorganizational collaborations	18
The dynamics of international exploitation	18
The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As)	18
Assessing life and assembling economies in the production of antibiotic-free broilers	17
Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia	17
The political economy of land value capture in the UK: Rent and viability in Salford’s new municipalist turn	16
Channeling the capital of others: How Luxembourg came to be asset managers’ “plumber” of choice	16
The university and the city: Spaces of risk, decolonisation, and civic disruption	16
Immaterial animals and financialized forests: Asset manager capitalism, ESG integration and the politics of livestock	16
Can gentrification theory learn from Airbnb? Airbnbfication and the asset economy in Reykjavík	16
Planning deregulation as solution to the housing crisis: The affordability, amenity and adequacy of Permitted Development in London	16
Follow the labour process: Constructing explanations and making a difference through multi-sited ethnographic methods	16
A political ecology of speculative urbanism: The role of financial and environmental speculation in Jakarta’s water crisis	15
Contested values of development: Experiencing commodification of livelihoods through displacement and resettlement in Mozambique	15
The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism	14
Everyday speculation in the remaking of peri-urban livelihoods and landscapes	14
More work for Big Mother: Revaluing care and control in smart homes	14
Ten theses on the new state capitalism and its futures	14
Uneven and combined state capitalism	14
Neoliberal disease: COVID-19, co-pathogenesis and global health insecurities	14
China, geoeconomics and the ‘new’ state capitalism	14
Knowledge exchanges, trust, and secretive geographies in merger and acquisition processes	13
The era of digital transformation: Visualizing the geography of e-commerce usage in Turkey	13
At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains	13
State capitalism and capital markets: Comparing securities exchanges in emerging markets	13
Precarity and agency in youthspaces of work: The case of food delivery platform workers in Athens, Greece	13
The political: A view from Jakarta’s kampungs	12
Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and temporalities in the new state capitalism	12
Skill-relatedness and employment growth of firms in times of prosperity and crisis in an oil-dependent region	12
Waiting for the market? Microinsurance and development as anticipatory marketization	12
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering	12
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism	12
Post-great recession municipal budgeting and governance: A mixed methods analysis of budget stress and reform	12
What does capital consume? Racial capitalism and the social reproduction of surplus people	12

From the racialization of finance to the financing of anti-racism: Tracing the US financial industry’s investments in closing the racial wealth gap	12
‘Cambiando el chip’: The gendered constellation of subjectivities of the financialisation of remittances in Mexico	12
Symposium – Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development, by Patrice Derrington. London: Routledge (2021)	12
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure	12
The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier	12
Spatial scales of inflation and deflation	11
The real subsumption of nature and cryopolitics: Temporal fixes in dairy farming in Southern Italy	11
In the frontier zone of market transition: Economic possibilities across the market/non-market divide	11
A place to start?	11
Punching holes in history	11
Institutional conformity, entrepreneurial governance and local contingency: Problematizing central-local dynamics in localizing China's low-income housing policy	11
‘The whole of Shirebrook got put on an ASBO’: The co-production of territorial stigma in a former colliery town	11
The consequences of timing norms and term limits on local agency	10
Diaspora engagement policies and transnational financialisation in Colombia	10
Making markets from the data of everyday life	10
Making the hard sale: Migrant sales agents and the precarious labours of Philippine real estate brokerage	10
Placing the Foundational Economy: An emerging discourse for post-neoliberal economic development	10
Reorienting new state capitalism to food and agriculture	10
Legal affordances in global wealth chains: How platform firms use legal and spatial scaling	10
Visualizing China’s river network	10
Gillian Hart in Beijing: Negotiating capitalist models at the World Bank–China nexus	10
Wrestling with “the new” state capitalism	10
Entangling global chains of wealth and value through CSR-ization: A critical Polanyian perspective on Weda Bay Nickel	10
Becoming ‘farazat’: Re-examining feminisation from a Tunis used clothes sorting factory	9
Ethical product havens in the global diamond trade: Using the Wayback Machine to evaluate ethical market outcomes	9
Municipal Statecraft For The Smart City: Retooling The Smart Entrepreneurial City?	9
Building state centrality through state selective financialization: Reconfiguring the land reserve system in China	9
Temporary markets: Market devices and processes of valuation at three Basel art fairs	9
Reformulating theories of ‘accumulation by dispossession’: ‘Contested accumulations through displacement’ in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan	9
Patterns of opportunity spaces and agency across regional contexts: Conditions and drivers for change	9
The proximity and dynamics of intercity technology transfers in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area: Evidence from patent transfer networks	9
Uneven and combined development in anthropology	9
Population density, activity centres, and pandemic: Visualizing clusters of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong	9
Corrigendum to Social reproduction and public finance: A comparative study of TIF in California and Chicago	9