OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Technology is 2. 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
From the Editor	63
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	55
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	45
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	41
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	40
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	33
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	32
Splintering Volumes: Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and Urban Form	29
The Citizen’s Right to the Virtual City: Urban Governance in the Metaverse Through an Exploration of Decentraland	27
Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica	25
From the Editor	25
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	24
SmartnessBeyondthe Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	22
Refracting Urbanism: The Multiple Histories (as well as Geographies) of the Networked City	18
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	17
Urban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact	16
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation: Infrastructuring a Tracing System Through Commercial Apps in South Korea	15
Unleashing Urban Technology Dynamics: The Interplay of AI Patents, Metropolitan Area Population, and R&D Expenditures in Sustainable Urban Development	14
From the Editor	14
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Assessing the Built Environment	13
The Role of Psychological-Physical-Physiological Factors in Decision-Making Behavior in Disasters: Insights from an Experimental Study in Gulangyu	13
Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City	13
Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	11
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	11
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through	10

Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	10
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	10
Optimizing Sustainability and Performance of Green Roofs in Qeytarieh, Tehran: A Multi-Objective Approach	10
Artificial Intelligence and the City: An Editorial Perspective	10
Holistic Sustainability in Urban Gas Stations: Community Engagement, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Impacts	9
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	9
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	8
From the Editor	8
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	8
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	8
From the Editor	7
Community Smarts in Grassroots Initiatives to Support Cycling and Walking in Large Urban Areas	7
Cyclists as Intelligent Carriers of Space-Time Environmental Information: Crowd-Sourced Sensor Data for Local Air Quality Measurement and Mobility Analysis in the Netherlands	6
Sustainable Construction Technologies: Are Construction Firms Ready for Sustainable Cities?	6
Does Mobility Experience Matter? Insights from a Model-Oriented Practice in Zaragoza, Spain	6
Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India	6
Planning First, Tools Second: Evaluating the Evolving Roles of Planning Support Systems in Urban Planning	6
Divergent Futures in a Damaged Territory: The Rise of Data Centers and Water Conflicts in Santiago de Chile	6
From the Editor	6
Downtime on the Microgrid: Architecture, Electricity, and Smart City Islands	6
The Infrastructural Imagination	5
Smart Cities Indicators: How Regional Context and Its Stakeholders Are Essential to Name “The” Smart City	5
Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements	5
Investigating Digitally Inflected Intercity Cycle Commuting	5
Solar Rooftop Systems and the Urban Transition: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? Interrogations from Rewari, India	5
Planning for Urban Livability: Integrating Socio-Spatial Indicators in City-Making	5
How do Cyber-Risks Vary Across Smart City Technologies?	4
Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process Method to Evaluate Mobility as a Service ( MaaS ) Applications	4
Can Smart Cities Be Sustainable? An Emerging Field of Research	4
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach	4
Sensing Lights: The Challenges of Transforming Street Lights into an Urban Intelligence Platform	4
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity: A Case Study in Santiago, Chile	4
Splintering by Proxy: A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism	3
Uncertainty in Market-Mediated Technology Transfer and Geographical Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Technology Flow	3
Enabling Seamless Interoperability of Digital Systems in Smart Cities Using API: A Systematic Literature Review	3
Immigrants Living in Smart Cities: A Systematic Review of Their Digital Technology Adoption and an Empirical Study on the Adoption of Smart City Applications	3
All That Is Urban Melts into Data: Circulations of Matter, Energy, and Data in the Digital City	3
The Neuro-Cognitive Approach to Urban Planning: Wayfinding Behavior Analysis and its Effect on Urban Planning	3
The Post-Networked Condition in the Urbanized Periphery: Transforming Water Supply and Sanitation Services in a Southern European Metropolis	3
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure	3
Incorporating Planning Intelligence into Deep Learning: A Planning Support Tool for Street Network Design	3
Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality	3
Interspecies Cyber-Governance: BeeDAO and the Artistic Imaginaries of Blockchain for Planetary Regeneration	3
Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South	3
“Danger Zones,” “Death Zones,” and Paradoxes of Infrastructural Space-Making in Manila	3
Competency Checklists and Education Recommender Programs: Training Smart City Managers	2
A Common Management Framework for European Smart Cities? The Case of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities Six Nations Forum	2
Mining the Sequence Pattern of Functional Zones to Analyze the Spatial Layout of Port Cites in Coastal Zones	2
Splintering Urbanism @ 20: Reengaging Contradiction, Confinement, and Consumption	2
Towards a Political Ecology of Caste and the City	2

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from the Threshold Effect of Absorptive Capacity	2
Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises	2
Autonomous Vehicles as Public Transport: Perceptions of Risks and Opportunities for Mobility, the Environment, and Society	2
Mapping Roof Materials in Cities for Food, Water, and Energy Production: A Mediterranean Metropolitan Area Case Study	2
Smart Technologies for Urban Energy Systems	2
Embodied Precariat and Digital Control in the “Gig Economy”: The Mobile Labor of Food Delivery Workers	2
Informational Modeling of Cities: Method and Challenges for Institutional Implementation	2
Splintering Urbanismand Climate Breakdown	2