OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environment and Urbanization 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Notes	31
Oil cities, industrial policy and sustainable development: a new historical approach	21
Bulletin Board	20
Bulletin Board	15
The economic circularity of informality? Evidence from patterns of informal business innovation in Bandung	14
Summaries of Articles	11
Citizen participation in multiscale planning: the case of “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan” in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2016–2020)	10
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan	10
Occupation of vacant buildings in central districts by social movements as a means to deal with climate change in an inclusive way: the cases of cities São Paulo and Natal	9
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	8
Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city	8
An evolving threat to life and livelihoods: comparing the health, economic and political implications of the first two waves of COVID-19 in Bengaluru and Patna slums	8
A novel approach to work towards gender-responsive urban climate policy	8
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	7
Bulletin Board	7
Area-based approaches and urban recovery in the Pacific: lessons from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu	7
Wetland gentrification: the African variant on ecological gentrification	6
Summaries of Articles	6
Towards understanding enabling environments for good practices in disaster risk management: an analysis of critical junctures in Manizales, Colombia	6
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	6
Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia	6
A city on the edge: the political ecology of urban green space	6
Framing ‘slums’: global policy discourses and urban inequalities	6
Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature	5
Self-reliance programming in urban displacement: a pragmatic approach or a disillusionment?	5

Sanitary civility: sanitation and urban co-existence in Maputo City, Mozambique	5
Corrigendum to ““Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)”	5
Bulletin Board	5
Editorial: Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city	5
Book Notes	5
Exploring the views of Iranian planning professionals on children’s active involvement in urban planning	5
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	4
Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field	4
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	4
Corrigendum to Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	4
Bulletin Board	4
The political economy of development: analysing Daqing’s contribution to the formation and technocratic evolution of China’s socialist state	4
Is rapid urbanization of low-elevation deltas undermining adaptation to climate change? A global review	4
Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro	4
The right to the city for urban refugees? Living in the shadow of the camp in Nairobi, Amman and Addis Ababa	3
Sanitation citizenship: state expectations and community practices of shared toilet use and maintenance in urban India	3
Book Notes	3
Rethinking urbanization and economic development: a synopsis	3
An assessment of ecosystem degradation and poverty: a case study of Obafemi-Owode local government area, Ogun State, Nigeria	3
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	3
Building common understandings of urban inequalities to generate relevant solutions in Lima, Peru	2
Performative legitimation of waste-to-energy infrastructure: incineration politics in Guangzhou low-carbon transition	2
Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change	2
Zero Waste household practices in informal settlements: an opportunity to improve the living conditions of the urban poor and address global challenges	2
Tax reform coalitions for urban development: the politics of property tax reform in Sierra Leone	2
Catalysing urban reform through coalition-building in African cities: key dimensions and typologies	2
Editorial: Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities	2
Enabling participatory planning to be scaled in exclusionary urban political environments: lessons from the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi	2
Book Notes	2
The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field	2
Bulletin Board	2
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	2
Situated perspectives on the city: a reflection on scaling participation through design	2
Urban protracted displacement and displacement economies	1
“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)	1
One step forward, two steps back? Shifting patterns of participation in a former informal settlement in Mexico City	1
Pluralizing the urban waste economy: insights from community-based enterprises in Ahmedabad (India) and Kampala (Uganda)	1
Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	1
Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	1
Inequality and the social construction of urban disaster risk in multi-hazard contexts: the case of Lima, Peru and the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	1
Polymorphic grassroots networks and implications for disaster resilience in popular settlements in Sierra Leone, India and Kenya	1
Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?	1
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	1
Book Notes	1
Toiling for oil: Daqing, real utopias and the production of livelihood in communist China	1