International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is 1. 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.)
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TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia54
FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan47
RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh37
DOES IDENTITY HAVE SPACE IN DHARAVI’S REDEVELOPMENT? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context23
FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities22
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China20
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND19
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UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching16
UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION ( PANHUO ): ‘Liv16
TEMPORARY ARTWASHING AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE: Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin15
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KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT : The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies15
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NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya14
EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona14
COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State14
BORDERING, DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE UK14
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POLICYCONSTRAINED PARENTAL CHOICE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATION : Evidence from Local and Migrant Families in Suz13
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA13
ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe12
THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City11
PUBLICMAKING IN HYPERDIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York11
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEOAUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain11
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India10
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy10
MEGAREAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami's Little Haiti10
WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London10
RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: The Solidarity of City and Non‐City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia9
NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE : The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mob9
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GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka9
THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?9
RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France9
THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh9
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks9
STREETS AS STAGES : Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China9
THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region9
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VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY9
‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi8
CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India8
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SECTION 106, VIABILITY, AND THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF ENGLISH LAND VALUE CAPTURE POLICY8
ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban8
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity8
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TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England7
INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships7
SMART CITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGICAL CITYISM: Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’7
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona7
THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary7
TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATIONRESISTANCE NEXUS 7
JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict7
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PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco6
PLANNERSALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION6
SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens6
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements6
PERIURBAN EXTRACTIVISM : The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’6
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta6
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THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction6
TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE COPRODUCTION OF URBAN RESILIENCE: Institutional Enablers and Political Constraints6
MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria5
REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests5
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HOW NONRESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Florida5
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐195
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AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port5
INFORMALITY AS THE URFORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies5
THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms5
CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona4
INSURGENT COPRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program4
CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance4
PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa4
NONPROFITLED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT : The Obama Presidential Cent4
THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities4
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang4
MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces4
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HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost4
EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools4
MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT : A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction4
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THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region's Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization4
RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City4
YIMBYISM, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REMAKING OF RACE AND CLASS COALITIONS IN AUSTIN, TX4
BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System3
HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’3
YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification3
MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction3
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BETWEEN DREAMS AND SURVIVAL: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Neoliberalism among Entrepreneurial Workers from São Paulo's Peripheries3
EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case3
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CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF SLUMS: Understanding Different Outcomes of Community Resistance against Evictions in Rio de Janeiro3
CONTESTED GOOD CITY STORIES FROM A NORTH CHENNAI LITTORAL3
THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis3
UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England3
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS3
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FUTURE OF A DYING RIVER: Bureaucratic Practices and Negotiated Plans of the Yamuna Riverfront3
UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION3
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THE CHAINMAKER : How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time3
SPORTRELATED GENTRIFICATION : Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism3
FROM HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE: English‐language Media Outlets and Urban Planning Best Practices in the Global South3
THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso3
PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot3
GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border3
GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit3
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PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects3
THE PARTNERSHIP QUESTION AS A SCALE QUESTION: Extending the Theorization of Entrepreneurial Urbanism in China2
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YIMBYISM AND THE HOUSING CRISIS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: A Critical Reflection2
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SAYINGYESTO WHAT?: YIMBY and Urban Redevelopment in Chicago2
THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London2
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THE MISSING PEOPLE OF STATE‐SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: Lived Experiences of Non‐Occupancy and Secondary Residential Mobility2
THE COMMODIFICATION GAP AND THE CONTRADICTORY DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL MONOPOLY RENT: Insights from Kyoto, Japan2
SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA2
TEMPORAL POLITICS AND INJUSTICE IN MEGA URBANIZATION: Lessons from Yangzhou, China2
INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory2
IN THE SHADOW OF ‘THE CITY’ YET TO COME: Auroville, Developmentalism and the Social Effects of Cityness2
FARE MONEYSTORIES: Transportation and Everyday Practices in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro2
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POWER AND PREJUDICE: The Micropolitics of Electricity Access in Uganda's Urban Informal Settlements2
PRO‐GROWTH ETHOS MEDIATED BY RACE: No YIMBY, No Zoning and the Housing Crisis in Houston2
BEYONDBAD DENSITYAND TERRITORIAL STIGMA : An Infrastructure A2
PLOTTING NEW MIDDLECLASS ASPIRATIONS: ‘Outlaw’ Builders of Market‐rate Affordable Homes in Chennai's Agrarian Urban Frontier2
THE STATE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Waste Valorization in Hong Kong and Rotterdam2
ATHENS'S PHILANTHROCAPITALIST LANDSCAPE WITHIN THE CRISIS–AUSTERITY CONJUNCTURE2
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BORDER CONTROL: The Territorial Politics of Policy Experimentation in Chinese Border Cities2
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BETWEENCHAIANDQIAN: How Unfinishedness and Ruination Have Reshaped Urbanity in China's ‘Coal Capital’ after the Construction Boom1
THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN'S URBAN EDGE1
Chris Pickvance (1944–2021)1
RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION IN GENTRIFYING URBAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS: The Experience of Cultural Manufacturers in San Francisco and Melbourne1
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URBICIDAL ECONOMICS AND THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF TRIAGE1
LIBERTOPIA : An Intellectual Stroll in Berlin's Tempelhof Park1
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SPOTLIGHTING MIGRANT AGENCY: How Migratory Movements and Temporariness Drive Peripheral Urbanization in Mumbai's Agrarian‐urban Edge1
THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban1
BLOCOS URBANISM: Capitalism and Modularity in the Making of Contemporary Luanda1
HOW LOCAL PRACTICES OF SOCIOPOLITICAL INNOVATION DEVELOP: And Why This Matters for Urban Transformations1
INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies1
TRANSFORMED SECURITY PRACTICES: Informalization in the Production of Hegemony and Place1
BOATS AS HOUSING IN OXFORD, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context1
THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility1
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DID INDIA EVER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE CITY MOVEMENT? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times1
Formalization, Citizenship and the Challenges of Self‐Governance in Mumbai's Slum Relocation Colonies1
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STATELED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China1
THE POWER OF UNCERTIFIED URBAN LAND1
CARE INFRASTRUCTURES IN CHILE DURING THE PANDEMIC: Communitarian Weavings, Spaces and the Production of Common Goods1
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CITY OF NON‐EQUIVALENTS: Making, Maintaining and Disrupting Customary Attachments to Land in Port Vila, Vanuatu1
CODA: The Racial Ecologies of Urban Wetlands1
REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon1
WHO COUNTS AS A “WHO”?’ Homeless Women and Geographies of Misrecognition in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden1
CROSSING THE LINE: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel's ‘Mixed Cities’1
TERRITORIALIZING POWER : The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar1
STRUGGLING FOR URBAN SPACE: Examining Social Distinctions between Long‐Term Residents and Newcomers in Warsaw's Districts1
EXPLAINING THE NATURE OF POLICY RESPONSES DURING THE PANDEMIC OUTBREAK: The Role of Geographical Characteristics1
MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS1
RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion1
ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements1
URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities1
THE PRACTICE OF INFORMALITY: Hustling, Anticipating and Refusing in the Postindustrial City1
URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)1
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INTEGRATING CLIMATE POLICY OBJECTIVES INTO MUNICIPAL LAND POLICIES: From conceptualization to empirical evidence from Finland1
NARRATIVES OF SMART URBANISM : And their Role in the Digitalization of Urban Services in Poland1
GAMONALES WHO MAKE A CITY: Intimate Interactions in City Building1
IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona1
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ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OR PASSIVE WITNESS? Role of City Councils in the Creation and Scrutiny of Cities’ International Cooperation1
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