OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environment and Urbanization is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Bulletin Board	20
Bulletin Board	16
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	12
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	12
Summaries of Articles	12
Recovering the (hi)stories of popular urbanism in revolutionary times: insights from conversations with TUPAU and Taller 5 architects on critical pedagogy, the politics of participation and urban desi	12
Book Notes	10
Polymorphic grassroots networks and implications for disaster resilience in popular settlements in Sierra Leone, India and Kenya	9
Catalysing urban reform through coalition-building in African cities: key dimensions and typologies	9
Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	9
Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change	9
An assessment of ecosystem degradation and poverty: a case study of Obafemi-Owode local government area, Ogun State, Nigeria	9
Tax reform coalitions for urban development: the politics of property tax reform in Sierra Leone	9
Tired	8
Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India	8
Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru	8
Revisiting Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State	8
Life in the Slums . . . Still I Rise	8
Making rent: how forced migrant families access private rental housing in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon	8
A threat to life and livelihoods: examining the effects of the first wave of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing in Bengaluru and Patna slums	7
Book Notes	7
Daqing and China’s quest for oil: between survival and ingenuity in times of resource scarcity	7
A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa’s emerging urban geography	6
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	6
The city the earthquake built: internal displacement, international aid and state–society relations in the “fragile city” of Canaan	6

Citizen participation in multiscale planning: the case of “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan” in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2016–2020)	6
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan	6
Critical planning advocacy in solidarity in the pursuit of informal settlement upgrading in Harry Gwala and Slovo Park, Greater Johannesburg	6
Book Notes	6
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	6
Fragmented urban water governance: a case study of textile mills and water tanks in colonial Bangalore	6
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	5
The political economy of development: analysing Daqing’s contribution to the formation and technocratic evolution of China’s socialist state	5
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	5
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	5
Pluralizing the urban waste economy: insights from community-based enterprises in Ahmedabad (India) and Kampala (Uganda)	5
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	5
There is no environmental health without public health: exploring the links between sanitation and waterbody health in Bengaluru, India	4
How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?	4
Summaries of Articles	4
Bulletin Board	4
Realigning responses to protracted displacement: putting “urban first” in a “world without camps”	4
Bulletin Board	4
Summaries of Articles	4
Developing pathways for self-reliance: urban IDPs and the negotiation of livelihood opportunities in Makurdi, Nigeria	4
Property rights and household income among the urban poor in Luanda, Angola	3
The complex practices of assessoria técnica popular : challenges of representation in the technical advisory process to the Carlos Marighella Occupation in Fortaleza	3
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	3
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: data from informal settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai	3
Oil cities, industrial policy and sustainable development: a new historical approach	3
Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city	3
Inclusive planning and collaboration in support of disadvantaged groups: lessons from the urban food agenda in Chiang Mai, Thailand	3
Pathways to urban equality: trans-local solidarities within the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights	3
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	3
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	2
Corrigendum to Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	2
Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro	2
Self-reliance programming in urban displacement: a pragmatic approach or a disillusionment?	2
Wetland gentrification: the African variant on ecological gentrification	2
Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature	2
Summaries of Articles	2
Editorial: Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities	2
Book Notes	1
Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?	1
Urban reform coalitions for transformative sustainability: reflections and lessons from Durban, South Africa	1
“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)	1
Mapping pathways for urban reforms: a critical reflection on the Urban Informality Forum in Harare, Zimbabwe	1
The case for a climate bonus: waste pickers’ perceptions of climate change in Minas Gerais	1
Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	1
Dakar’s flood drainage canals: assembling urban subjectivities, transforming political spaces	1
The socio-technicities of campaigning as a form of planning: lessons from the Hamara Shehar Mumbai Abhiyaan in Mumbai and the Main Bhi Dilli	0
Peri-urban rent gap and land value capture by government-led urban development in South Korea	0
Urban protracted displacement and displacement economies	0
Building common understandings of urban inequalities to generate relevant solutions in Lima, Peru	0
Technology-aided slum enumerations: examining a new kind of political agency for young people	0

Towards adaptive and transformative finance for urban areas? A framework to analyse the responsiveness of adaptation finance to urban challenges in the global South	0
A comparative analysis of the cost of alternative approaches to addressing housing need in Namibia	0
Can cities bounce back better from COVID-19? Reflections from emerging post-pandemic recovery plans and trade-offs	0
Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia	0
Global development and urban studies: tactics for thinking beyond the North–South binary	0
Upgrading public space in Cape Town: reflections on Southern strategies for transformative practice	0
The proliferation of municipal green bonds in Africa and Latin America: the need for a climate justice approach	0
Sanitation citizenship: state expectations and community practices of shared toilet use and maintenance in urban India	0
COVID-19 in real time: comparing the struggle of three low-income neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires	0
Living heritage as shared knowledge: advancing community-led reconstruction in post-earthquake Antakya	0
Exploring the views of Iranian planning professionals on children’s active involvement in urban planning	0
The economic circularity of informality? Evidence from patterns of informal business innovation in Bandung	0
Climate change and health in informal settlements: a narrative review of the health impacts of extreme weather events	0
Inequality and the social construction of urban disaster risk in multi-hazard contexts: the case of Lima, Peru and the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Book Notes	0
The right to the city for urban refugees? Living in the shadow of the camp in Nairobi, Amman and Addis Ababa	0
Trust in transition: unpacking the significance of social licence and community consent in renewable energy projects in Taiwan and Iran	0
Book Notes	0
Bulletin Board	0
Summaries of Articles	0
Advancing just climate adaptation in the global South: socio-technical assistance for nature-based solutions in the Pacific	0
Co-producing nature-based solutions: integrating knowledge interfaces in informal settlements in Indonesia	0
Zero Waste household practices in informal settlements: an opportunity to improve the living conditions of the urban poor and address global challenges	0
In the collective pursuit for a better future: my reflection on the writing of Building for Oil	0
Editorial: Nature and equity in the city	0
Urban fragments in the politics of infrastructure: land claims and livelihood spaces of a fishing community in Chennai	0
CORRIGENDUM to “A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa’s emerging urban geography”	0
Co-producing knowledge to address disaster risks in informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: pathways toward urban equality?	0
People move, policies don’t: discursive partition against climate-impacted dwellers in urbanizing Bangladesh	0
Paths to the Campus Quilombo as a self-managed construction lab	0
Analysing the local governance of internal displacement: an emerging (local) social contract in eastern Ukraine since 2014	0
Summaries of Articles	0
‘Together and entwined’ – housing movements and academic groups in collaborative resistance practices in São Paulo: territories, methods and contested paradigms	0
Climate justice is social justice: articulating people’s rights to the city in Mumbai	0
Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies: weave, sentipensar, mobilize, reverberate, emancipate	0
Corrigendum to ““Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)”	0
Area-based approaches and urban recovery in the Pacific: lessons from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu	0
Erratum to Notes on a Southern urban practice	0
Bulletin Board	0
Social movements in the context of crisis: waste picker organizations as collaborative public partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Anatomy of an alliance for affordable urban housing	0
Socio-technical practices: re-arrangements of technical knowledge for just cities	0
Performative legitimation of waste-to-energy infrastructure: incineration politics in Guangzhou low-carbon transition	0
Is rapid urbanization of low-elevation deltas undermining adaptation to climate change? A global review	0
The lack of organizational learning in slum upgrading success: the case of the Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Programme 2011–2020	0
Toiling for oil: Daqing, real utopias and the production of livelihood in communist China	0
Bulletin Board	0
Bulletin Board	0
A novel approach to work towards gender-responsive urban climate policy	0
Claiming the right to the city: the politics of urban reform coalitions in Lagos	0
The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field	0
Urban density and socioeconomic characteristics of informal settlements: evidence of interrelation from Maputo, Mozambique	0
The design politics of migrant farmworker ghettos of Borgo Mezzanone, Puglia	0
Urban labs beyond Europe: the formation and contextualization of experimental climate governance in five Latin American cities	0
Sanitary civility: sanitation and urban co-existence in Maputo City, Mozambique	0
Insights into relations in community-led urban interventions in the global South: civil society and co-production in Kampala	0
Book Notes	0
Framing ‘slums’: global policy discourses and urban inequalities	0
Summaries of Articles	0
Now you see them, now you don’t: performance and the politics of localizing (forced) migration governance in the Horn of Africa’s secondary cities	0
Rethinking urbanization and economic development: a synopsis	0
No shelter is safe: Syrian refugees and housing precarity in Beirut, Lebanon	0
Distributed energy technologies, decentralizing systems and the future of African cities	0
Participation as ‘city-making’: a critical assessment of participatory planning in the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi, Kenya	0
Book Notes	0
Summaries of Articles	0
The contribution of urban reform coalitions to inclusive and equitable cities	0