OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia	45
FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan	45
UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching	44
FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities	43
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND	37
RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh	21
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China	21
DOES IDENTITY HAVE SPACE IN DHARAVI'S REDEVELOPMENT? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context	17
CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES	17
SYMBOLIC DISPLACEMENT REVISITED: Place‐making Narratives in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Tallinn	16
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BORDERING, DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE UK	13
COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State	13
UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION (PANHUO): ‘Living’ Legacy of Socialist Housing in China's Sustainability Transition	12
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EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE: Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona	12
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POLICY‐CONSTRAINED PARENTAL CHOICE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATION: Evidence from Local and Migrant Families in Suzhou, China	11
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NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya	11
EVERYDAY ROMA STIGMATIZATION: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus	11
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‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe	11

MEGA‐REAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami's Little Haiti	10
FANTASY ISLAND: Paul Romer and the Multiplication of Hong Kong	10
PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York	10
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India	9
THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City	9
THE PERFORMATIVITY OF METROPOLIZATION: How Material‐Discursive Practices Institutionalize the Prague Metropolitan Region	9
WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London	9
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO‐AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain	9
NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE: The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mobilized by Radical‐Right Cities	8
THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region	8
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INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships	8
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy	8
GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka	8
VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY	8
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks	8
RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France	8
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‘THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE’: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh	8
CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India	7
ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban	7
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‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi	7
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity	7
SMART CITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGICAL CITYISM: Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’	7
SECTION 106, VIABILITY, AND THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF ENGLISH LAND VALUE CAPTURE POLICY	7
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England	7
TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATION–RESISTANCE NEXUS: A Comparative Case Study	7
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THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary	6
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MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements	6
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona	6
JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict	6
PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco	6
PLANNERS’ ALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION	6
THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction	6
PERI‐URBAN EXTRACTIVISM: The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’	6
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta	5
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19	5
TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE COPRODUCTION OF URBAN RESILIENCE: Institutional Enablers and Political Constraints	5
THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms	5
AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port	5
REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests	5
SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens	5
INFORMALITY AS THE UR‐FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies	4
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NONPROFIT‐LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side	4
RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City	4
HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost	4

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HOW NON‐RESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Florida	4
IMAGINARIES AND EXPULSION: How 1,000 Temporary Accommodation Units for Refugees in the City of Gothenburg Became 57	4
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang	4
A RADICAL‐RIGHT POPULIST DEFINITION OF CROSS‐NATIONAL REGIONALISM IN EUROPE: Shaping Power Geometries at the Regional Scale Beyond State Borders	4
EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools	4
MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT: A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction	4
Andrew Herscher 2017: Displacements: Architecture and Refugee. Berlin: Sternberg Press	4
‘MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria	4
PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa	4
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CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona	4
YIMBYISM, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REMAKING OF RACE AND CLASS COALITIONS IN AUSTIN, TX	4
THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities	4
CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance	3
Deljana Iossifova 2020: Translocal Ageing in the Global East: Bulgaria's Abandoned Elderly. London: Palgrave Macmillan	3
EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case	3
FUTURE OF A DYING RIVER: Bureaucratic Practices and Negotiated Plans of the Yamuna Riverfront	3
Alison H. Alkon, Yuki Kato and Joshua Sbicca (eds.) 2020: A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City. New York: New York University Press	3
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MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces	3
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Haris Malamidis 2020: Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis‐Ridden Greece. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press	3
GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border	3
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INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program	3
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UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION	3
THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis	3
CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF SLUMS: Understanding Different Outcomes of Community Resistance against Evictions in Rio de Janeiro	3
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PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects	3