OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Urbanization 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Bulletin Board	34
Bulletin Board	23
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	18
A city on the edge: the political ecology of urban green space	15
Book Notes	13
An assessment of ecosystem degradation and poverty: a case study of Obafemi-Owode local government area, Ogun State, Nigeria	11
Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	10
Book Notes	10
Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change	10
Tax reform coalitions for urban development: the politics of property tax reform in Sierra Leone	9
Catalysing urban reform through coalition-building in African cities: key dimensions and typologies	9
Polymorphic grassroots networks and implications for disaster resilience in popular settlements in Sierra Leone, India and Kenya	9
Tired	8
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	8
Making rent: how forced migrant families access private rental housing in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon	7
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
Life in the Slums . . . Still I Rise	7
Revisiting Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State	7
Book Notes	6
A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa’s emerging urban geography	6
Book Notes	6
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	6
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan	6
Daqing and China’s quest for oil: between survival and ingenuity in times of resource scarcity	6
Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India	6

Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia	6
Fragmented urban water governance: a case study of textile mills and water tanks in colonial Bangalore	6
The city the earthquake built: internal displacement, international aid and state–society relations in the “fragile city” of Canaan	6
Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru	6
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	5
Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field	5
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	5
The political economy of development: analysing Daqing’s contribution to the formation and technocratic evolution of China’s socialist state	5
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	5
Citizen participation in multiscale planning: the case of “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan” in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2016–2020)	5
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	5
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	5