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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	33
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	26
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	26
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	25
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	20
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	20
State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements	18
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	17
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	16
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	16
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	15
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	14
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	14
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	14
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	12
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	12
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	12
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	12
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	12
Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo	11
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	11
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	11
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	11
Public Transportation Governance Types: An Analytical Framework for Examining Bus Services in the Global South	11
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	11

The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	9
Impact of a Woman Mayor on Women's Local Political Participation. Does Partisanship Matter?	9
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles	9
School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	9
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	9
An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	9
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	8
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	8
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	8
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	8
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	8
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	8
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	7
Book Review: Affordable Housing in the United States by Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter ColburnGreggWalterRebecca J., Affordable Housing in the United States (London	7
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	7
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	7
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	6
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	6
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	6
Resident (Non)Participation in Croatian Housing Estates	6
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	6
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	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
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	6
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives	5
When Do Local Governments Discriminate? Lessons from the Diffusion of “LGBT Free Zones” in Poland	5
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	5
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	5
Saviors, Villains, or Allies? Exploring How Nonprofit Developers Navigate Narratives of Gentrification in a Changing City	5
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	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
Black Heritage in the National Register: The Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
Book Review: Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur Hyra, Derek. Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur (Berkeley, CA: University of Califo	4
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	4
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Joanna Kusiak, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 188 pp.	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	4
Wetland and Stream Compensatory Mitigation as a Funding Vehicle for US Public Housing Authorities	4
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	4
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	4
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	3

Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago	3
The Emergence of Environmental Justice in General Plans: Lessons From California's Senate Bill 1000	3
“Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification	3
Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	3
Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	3
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	3
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy	3
Spotlighting the Economy: Media Coverage and Mayoral Evaluations	3
A Grassroots Alternative to Urban Shrinkage? A Comparative Analysis of Place Reputational Remaking in Buffalo and Cleveland	3
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	3
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	3
Book Review: Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City by Timothy P. R. Weaver WeaverTimothy P. R., Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City (Temple U	3
Patterns of Force: The Relationship Between Officer-Involved Homicides of Black and Hispanic Citizens and Metropolitan Residential Segregation	3
Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones	3
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Larry Bennett and the “Black Urban Regime”	3
Succession Planning for the Future of Intergovernmental Organizations in the United States	3
Race and Survival: Examining the Interplay of Demand and Supply Factors on Black-Owned Businesses During Gentrification in New York City	2
Local Self-Government Against the State: Resistance of Polish Municipalities to Creeping Centralization	2
Measuring Conflict in Local Politics	2
Planning for Homelessness: Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and Cities’ Homelessness Responses	2
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	2
Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development	2
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery	2
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City	2
The Effects of Policy-Interested Bureaucrats on State and Local Policymaking	2
Local Government's Resource Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Capacity, Conservatism, and Contractual Dynamics	2
Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race	2
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	2
Towards Racial Housing Equity: The Role of CDBG Grants	2
Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	2
Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020	2
Fostering Equitable Transit-Oriented Development via Multi-Sectoral Community Collaborations: Lessons from and for Maryland's Purple Line Corridor Coalition	2
Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context	2
On Their Own Terms: How Informal Settlement Residents Interpret Urban Inclusion and Exclusion Within the Context of Participatory Mechanisms	2
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	2
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	2
Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance	2
Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance	2
A Tale of Two Crises: Local Homelessness Policy during Covid-19	2
A Weak Link in Efforts to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing? Evaluating Public Engagement Processes in Housing Plan Development in Southern California	1
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	1
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	1
The Involvement of Business Elites in the Management of Homelessness: Towards a Privatization of Service Provision for Homeless People?	1
Do Local Governments Listen to the Experts? A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of Local Economic Development Policies	1
From the Editors: It’s Been our Honor…	1
The Quantitative Research on Government Budgeting: A Literature Review on Local Culture Budgets	1
Regulatory Approaches to Short-Term Rental Accommodation: A Systematic Literature Review for Urban Policy	1
Bargaining for Benefits: The Dilemmas of Implementing the West Harlem Community Benefits Agreement	1
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 3: Homelessness and Eviction, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change, and Urban Expansion in Chinese Cities	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
Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020)	1
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn	1
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective	1
How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement	1
Editor's Introduction	1
“The Councilors are the Ones to Blame”: The Symbolic Reproduction of Territorial Boundaries Created by Policy and Planning Decisions	1
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States	1
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	1
Crime, Policing, and Voter Turnout in Chicago's 2023 and 2019 Mayoral Elections	1
Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis	1
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice	1
Challenges to Equitable and Effective Land Value Capture: Lessons from Mexico City	1
Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe	1
Urban Social Movement Strategies in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Movements for Housing in São Paulo	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
Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance: Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation	1
Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 2	1
Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism	1
Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID	1
Reimagining Public Participation in Urban Development: Insights from Bramfischerville, Johannesburg	1
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Hajnal and Trounstine and the Urban Vote	1
Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	1