OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality	40
Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence	39
Subaltern Urbanization: Indian Insights for Urban Theory	39
Day Zero and The Infrastructures of Climate Change: Water Governance, Inequality, and Infrastructural Politics in Cape Town's Water Crisis	38
The Real Estate Frontier	34
Painted Bullet Holes and Broken Promises: Understanding and Challenging Municipal Dispossession in London's Public Housing ‘Decanting’	28
OUT IN SPACE: Difference and Abstraction in Planetary Urbanization	28
EVERYDAY ROMA STIGMATIZATION: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus	27
TOWARDS A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE URBANISM	25
Who Builds Cities in China? How Urban Investment and Development Companies Have Transformed Shanghai	25
The (Re)Making of Polycentricity in China's Planning Discourse: The Case of Tianjin	22
From Territorial Cohesion to Regional Spatial Justice: The Well‐Being of Future Generations Act in Wales	21
CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES	19
Promoting Social Sustainability of Urban Neighbourhoods: The Case of Bethnal Green, London	18
LIFE AFTER RESETTLEMENT IN URBAN CHINA: State‐led Community Building as a Reterritorialization Strategy	18
Informal Property Rights as Relational and Functional: Unravelling the Relational Contract in China's Informal Housing Market	18
SPLANETARY URBANIZATION	17
GOVERNING URBAN AGRICULTURE: Formalization, Resistance and Re‐visioning in Two ‘Green’ Cities	16
Assisted Self‐help Housing in Mexico: Advocacy, (Micro)Finance and the Making of Markets	15
Extracting Value, London Style: Revisiting the Role of the State in Urban Development	14
Urban Commoning as a Vehicle Between Government Institutions and Informality: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva	14
THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary	14
Urban Ecological Enclosures: Conservation Planning, Peri‐urban Displacement, and Local State Formations in China	14
TERRITORIAL DESTIGMATIZATION IN AN ERA OF POLICY SCHIZOPHRENIA	13
Space Grabs: Colonizing the Vertical City	13

Lively Lands: The Spatial Reproduction Squeeze and the Failure of the Urban Imaginary	12
DIS/POSSESSORY DATA POLITICS: From Tenant Screening to Anti‐Eviction Organizing	12
CRITICAL URBAN THEORY IN THE ‘URBAN AGE’: Ruptures, Tensions, and Messy Solidarities	11
FROM VISIBLE INFORMALITY TO SPLINTERED INFORMALITIES: Reflections on the Production of ‘Formality’ in a Moroccan Housing Programme	11
Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’)	11
Corruption as Infrastructure: Rendering the New Saigon Global	11
‘For the People’ Without ‘by the People’: People and Plans in Shanghai's Waterfront Development	11
Paradigm Shifts in Social Housing after Welfare‐State Transformation: Learning from the German Experience	10
INSURGENT PLANNING IN PANDEMIC TIMES: The Case of Rio de Janeiro	10
DENIGRATING BY NUMBERS: Quantification, Statistics and Territorial Stigma	10
FOUR MODES OF NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNANCE: The View from Nanjing, China	10
A RADICAL‐RIGHT POPULIST DEFINITION OF CROSS‐NATIONAL REGIONALISM IN EUROPE: Shaping Power Geometries at the Regional Scale Beyond State Borders	9
Land Trafficking and the Fertile Spaces of Legality	9
TITLING AS A CONTESTED PROCESS: Conditional Land Rights and Subaltern Citizenship in South India	9
GENTRIFICATION IN TOKYO: Formation of the Tokyo West Creative Industry Cluster	8
PLANNERS’ ALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION	8
THE IMPACT OF MEXICO’S LAND REFORM ON PERIURBAN HOUSING PRODUCTION: Neoliberal or Neocorporatist?	8
THE RISK OF AUSTERITY CO‐PRODUCTION IN CITY‐REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN ENGLAND	8
The Green Masterplan: Crisis, State Transition and Urban Transformation in Post‐Genocide Rwanda	8
SYMBOLIC DISPLACEMENT REVISITED: Place‐making Narratives in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Tallinn	8
The Role of Traders and Small Businesses in Urban Social Movements: The Case of London's Workspace Struggles	8
RESTORING A RIVER, RE‐STORYING HISTORY	7
Home Matters: The Material Culture of Urban Security	7
BICYCLE POLICY IN MEXICO CITY: Urban Experiments and Differentiated Citizenship	7
DIFFERENTIATED CITIZENSHIP: The Everyday Politics of the Urban Poor in Kathmandu, Nepal	7
AMBIVALENT GOVERNANCE AND SLOW VIOLENCE IN MUMBAI'S MITHI RIVER	7
CITY OF REPAIR: Practicing the Future in Mexico City	7
YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification	7
TOXICITY 1: On Ambiguity and Sewage in Mumbai's Urban Sea	7
A Safer Housing Agenda for Women: Local Urban Planning Knowledge and Women's Grassroots Movements in Medellín, Colombia	7
CRITICAL URBAN PEDAGOGY: Convites as Sites of Southern Urbanism, Solidarity Construction and Urban Learning	7
THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban	6
From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan	6
URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective	6
UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier	6
TOWARDS GREEN POPULISM? Right‐wing Populism and Metropolization in Switzerland	6
UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION	6
Infrastructure Disruption in ‘Silicon Savannah’: Exploring the Idea of the Creative Class and their Relation to Quality of Place in Nairobi, Kenya	6
Suburbanization of the Self: Religious Revival and SocioSpatial Fragmentation in Contemporary Poland	6
UNDERSTANDING SCALAR POLITICS THROUGH THE FRAMEWORK OF RELATIONAL ARCHIPELAGOS: The Case of Shenzhen Fair, China	6
TAKING CITY RANKINGS SERIOUSLY : Engaging with Benchmarking Practices in Global Urbanism	6
The Creative Night‐Time Leisure Economy of Informal Drinking Venues	6
SAYING ‘YES’ TO WHAT?: YIMBY and Urban Redevelopment in Chicago	6
WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020	6
THE ‘CITY’ AS TEXT	5
THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction	5
Democratic Public or Populist Rabble: Repositioning the City amidst Social Fracture	5
The Making of Post‐Post‐Soviet Ruins: Infrastructure Development and Disintegration in Contemporary Russia	5
Encountering Everyday Racist Practices: Sociospatial Negotiations of Immigrant Settlement in Athens, Greece	5
Remaking Shanghai: New Divisions in an Expanding Metropolis	5

MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction	5
YIMBYISM THEN AND NOW	5
POLYCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE FORMATION OF EDGE URBAN AREAS IN CHINA'S MEGA CITY REGIONS: Case Study of Nansha, Guangzhou	5
Safeguarding the House of the Dead: Configurations of Risk and Protection in the Urban Cemetery	5
YIMBYISM, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REMAKING OF RACE AND CLASS COALITIONS IN AUSTIN, TX	5
THROUGH THE OPTICS OF FINANCE: Speculative Urbanism and the Transformation of Markets	5
POSTCOLONIZING PLANETARY URBANIZATION: Aníbal Quijano and an Alternative Genealogy of the Urban	5
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China	5
AFTER THE RIGHT TO WATER: Rethinking the State and Justice in Mumbai	5
Race Matters: The Materiality of Domopolitics in the Peripheries of Rome	5
CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF SLUMS: Understanding Different Outcomes of Community Resistance against Evictions in Rio de Janeiro	5
WALK THE PIPELINE: Urban Infrastructure Landscapes in Bengaluru's Long Twentieth Century	5