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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From the Editor	49
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	47
Where Are Autonomous Vehicles Taking Us?	41
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	35
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	32
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	25
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	25
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	22
Splintering Volumes: Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and Urban Form	22
Capitalizing on the “Public Turn”: New Possibilities for Citizens and Civil Servants in Smart City-Making	21
The Citizen’s Right to the Virtual City: Urban Governance in the Metaverse Through an Exploration of Decentraland	21
From the Editor	19
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	18
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	18
Urban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact	15
Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica	15
SmartnessBeyondthe Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	15
Refracting Urbanism: The Multiple Histories (as well as Geographies) of the Networked City	15
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation: Infrastructuring a Tracing System Through Commercial Apps in South Korea	14
From the Editor	13
The Role of Psychological-Physical-Physiological Factors in Decision-Making Behavior in Disasters: Insights from an Experimental Study in Gulangyu	12
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Assessing the Built Environment	11
Unleashing Urban Technology Dynamics: The Interplay of AI Patents, Metropolitan Area Population, and R&D Expenditures in Sustainable Urban Development	10
Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City	10
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	9

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through	9
Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	9
Optimizing Sustainability and Performance of Green Roofs in Qeytarieh, Tehran: A Multi-Objective Approach	9
Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	9
Co-Designing Planning Support Systems in Urban Science: The Questions They Answer and the Questions They Raise	8
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	8
Holistic Sustainability in Urban Gas Stations: Community Engagement, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Impacts	8
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	8
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	7
From the Editor	7
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	7
From the Editor	7
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	7
Planning First, Tools Second: Evaluating the Evolving Roles of Planning Support Systems in Urban Planning	6
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
Community Smarts in Grassroots Initiatives to Support Cycling and Walking in Large Urban Areas	6
From the Editor	6
Downtime on the Microgrid: Architecture, Electricity, and Smart City Islands	6
Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India	6
Smart Local Governance: The Case of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area in Poland	6
Sustainable Construction Technologies: Are Construction Firms Ready for Sustainable Cities?	6
Planning for Urban Livability: Integrating Socio-Spatial Indicators in City-Making	5
A New Wave of Urban Sprawl: Influence of Autonomous Vehicles on the Policy Toolkit and Property Tax Revenue of Local Governments	5
Smart Cities Indicators: How Regional Context and Its Stakeholders Are Essential to Name “The” Smart City	5
Investigating Digitally Inflected Intercity Cycle Commuting	5
Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements	5
Shifting Gears for the Automated Vehicle: Findings from Focus Groups in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area	4
Does Mobility Experience Matter? Insights from a Model-Oriented Practice in Zaragoza, Spain	4
Sensing Lights: The Challenges of Transforming Street Lights into an Urban Intelligence Platform	4
Solar Rooftop Systems and the Urban Transition: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? Interrogations from Rewari, India	4
The Post-Networked Condition in the Urbanized Periphery: Transforming Water Supply and Sanitation Services in a Southern European Metropolis	3
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach	3
Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process Method to Evaluate Mobility as a Service ( MaaS ) Applications	3
From Available to Actionable Data: An Exploration of Expert and Re-users Views of Open Data	3
Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality	3
Can Smart Cities Be Sustainable? An Emerging Field of Research	3
Splintering by Proxy: A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism	3
Interspecies Cyber-Governance: BeeDAO and the Artistic Imaginaries of Blockchain for Planetary Regeneration	3
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity: A Case Study in Santiago, Chile	3
The Infrastructural Imagination	3
“Danger Zones,” “Death Zones,” and Paradoxes of Infrastructural Space-Making in Manila	2
Incorporating Planning Intelligence into Deep Learning: A Planning Support Tool for Street Network Design	2
Immigrants Living in Smart Cities: A Systematic Review of Their Digital Technology Adoption and an Empirical Study on the Adoption of Smart City Applications	2
Smart Technologies for Urban Energy Systems	2
Competency Checklists and Education Recommender Programs: Training Smart City Managers	2
Uncertainty in Market-Mediated Technology Transfer and Geographical Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Technology Flow	2
Enabling Seamless Interoperability of Digital Systems in Smart Cities Using API: A Systematic Literature Review	2
Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South	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
Splintering Urbanismand Climate Breakdown	2

The Neuro-Cognitive Approach to Urban Planning: Wayfinding Behavior Analysis and its Effect on Urban Planning	2
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure	2
Mining the Sequence Pattern of Functional Zones to Analyze the Spatial Layout of Port Cites in Coastal Zones	2
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from the Threshold Effect of Absorptive Capacity	2