OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Urbanization is 4. 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