OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Affairs Review is 1. 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
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	25
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	24
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	21
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	21
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	19
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	17
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	17
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	17
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	14
Do Local Immigrant-Welcoming Efforts Increase Immigration? The Detroit Experience	14
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	13
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	13
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	12
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	12
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	11
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	11
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	11
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	11
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	10
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	10
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	9
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	9
Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018	8
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	8
School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	8

Motivations for Mobilization: Comparing Urban and Suburban Residents’ Participation in the Politics of Planning and Development	8
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	7
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	7
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	7
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	7
An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	7
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	7
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	7
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	7
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	7
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	7
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	7
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	6
Transforming a Day-Laborer's Quarter into a Service Hub: An Analysis of the Case of Kotobuki in Yokohama, Japan, Using Public Choice and Neo-Hegelian Theories	6
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	6
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	6
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	6
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	6
Immigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election	6
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	5
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	5
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives	5
An Empirical Examination of Representational Equity in Consolidated Governments, 1965–2002	5
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	5
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	5
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	5
Can Institutional Reform Have a Lasting Impact on the Policy Agenda? Evidence From the 10-1 in Austin, TX	4
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	4
Representation in American Cities: Who Runs for Mayor and Who Wins?	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future by Joanna Kusiak	4
Book Review: Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur by Hyra, Derek	4
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled	4
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	4
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	4
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	4
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	4
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	4
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	3
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy	3
Understanding Urban Retail Vacancy	3

Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	3
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago	3
Spotlighting the Economy: Media Coverage and Mayoral Evaluations	3
Undermining Sanctuary? When Local and National Partisan Cues Diverge	3
A Grassroots Alternative to Urban Shrinkage? A Comparative Analysis of Place Reputational Remaking in Buffalo and Cleveland	3
Black Heritage in the National Register: The Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon	3
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	3
Patterns of Force: The Relationship Between Officer-Involved Homicides of Black and Hispanic Citizens and Metropolitan Residential Segregation	3
The Emergence of Environmental Justice in General Plans: Lessons From California's Senate Bill 1000	3
Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones	3
Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context	2
Planning for Homelessness: Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and Cities’ Homelessness Responses	2
Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	2
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Larry Bennett and the “Black Urban Regime”	2
The Effects of Policy-Interested Bureaucrats on State and Local Policymaking	2
How Landlords of Small Rental Properties Decide Who Gets Housed and Who Gets Evicted	2
“It’s a Racist Plot”: An Experimental Test of the Racial Defense	2
Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance	2
Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development	2
Local Self-Government Against the State: Resistance of Polish Municipalities to Creeping Centralization	2
Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race	2
Investing in Gentrification: The Eligibility of Gentrifying Neighborhoods for Federal Place-Based Economic Investment in U.S. Cities	2
Race and Survival: Examining the Interplay of Demand and Supply Factors on Black-Owned Businesses During Gentrification in New York City	2
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	2
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	2
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	2
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City	2
“Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification	2
On Their Own Terms: How Informal Settlement Residents Interpret Urban Inclusion and Exclusion Within the Context of Participatory Mechanisms	2
Local Government's Resource Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Capacity, Conservatism, and Contractual Dynamics	2
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	2
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	2
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	2
Call and Response? Neighborhood Inequality and Political Voice	2
Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020)	1
The Involvement of Business Elites in the Management of Homelessness: Towards a Privatization of Service Provision for Homeless People?	1
Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	1
Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 2	1
“The Councilors are the Ones to Blame”: The Symbolic Reproduction of Territorial Boundaries Created by Policy and Planning Decisions	1
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	1
Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance	1
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States	1
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective	1
Urban Political Development and the Social Construction of Interests: The Case of Chicago's Dearborn Park	1
Challenges to Equitable and Effective Land Value Capture: Lessons from Mexico City	1
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	1
Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe	1
Examining the Dynamics Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Progressive City Planning	1
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Hajnal and Trounstine and the Urban Vote	1
How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement	1
Urban Social Movement Strategies in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Movements for Housing in São Paulo	1
Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020	1
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery	1
Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	1
Editor's Introduction	1
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	1
Corrigendum to “Moving to Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment”	1
Revisiting the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Theory of Local Expenditures: Are Private Community Amenities Substitutes for Local Public Services in Residential Choices?	1
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 3: Homelessness and Eviction, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change, and Urban Expansion in Chinese Cities	1
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn	1
From the Editors: It’s Been our Honor…	1
Crime, Policing, and Voter Turnout in Chicago's 2023 and 2019 Mayoral Elections	1
Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance: Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation	1
Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism	1
Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID	1
A Tale of Two Crises: Local Homelessness Policy during Covid-19	1
The Problems with Neighbors: An Examination of the Influence of Neighborhood Context Using Large-Scale Administrative Data	1
Bargaining for Benefits: The Dilemmas of Implementing the West Harlem Community Benefits Agreement	1
Motivated Localism: Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts	1
Impacts of COVID-19 on Business Improvement Districts and Prospects for Recovery: A Survey of Executive Directors in Canada and the United States	1
Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis	1
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice	1