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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	39
Book Review: Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices by Markus Holdo HoldoMarkus, Participatory Sp	28
State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements	26
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	22
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	20
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	20
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	18
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	18
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	17
Housing Vacancy, Structural Decline, and Voter Turnout in South Korea	17
Book Review: Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston by de Graauw, Els and Shannon Gleeson de GraauwElsGleesonShannon. 2024. Advancing Immigrant Rights in	17
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	16
Electing Mayors, Excluding Women? Direct Elections and the Increasing Legislative–Executive Gender Gap in Local Politics	15
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	14
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	13
Book Review: The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly by Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi MoisioSamiRossiUgo, The Urban Field:	12
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	12
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	12
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	12
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	12
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	10
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	10
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	10
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	9
Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo	9

Public Transportation Governance Types: An Analytical Framework for Examining Bus Services in the Global South	9
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	9
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	8
An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	8
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	7
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	7
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles	7
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	7
Impact of a Woman Mayor on Women's Local Political Participation. Does Partisanship Matter?	7
School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	7
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	6
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	6
Resident (Non)Participation in Croatian Housing Estates	6
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	6
Book Review: Affordable Housing in the United States Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter, Affordable Housing in the United States (London, UK: Routledge,	6
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Attitudes Toward Racial Outgroups During Gentrification	6
When Cues Collide: Partisan Signals and the Dynamics of Ethnic Voting in Nonpartisan Local Elections	6
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	6
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	5
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	5
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	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
Saviors, Villains, or Allies? Exploring How Nonprofit Developers Navigate Narratives of Gentrification in a Changing City	5
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	5
When Do Local Governments Discriminate? Lessons from the Diffusion of “LGBT Free Zones” in Poland	5
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	5
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	5
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	5
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	5
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	5
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	5
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	5
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	5
Heirs’ Property in Urban America: A Case Study of Inherited Homeownership in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex	5
Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Times of Crisis: The 2020 Mass Protests and Police Department Social Media	5
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Joanna Kusiak, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 188 pp.	5
Cultured Sites of Contestation: Choosing Between Resistance and Submission to Culture-led Regeneration of Former Military Barracks	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
State-Led Ethno-Gentrification and the Intensification of Minority Political Displacement in Ethno-Nationally Contested Cities	4
Book Review: Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol by Sanyu A. Mojola MojolaSanyu A.. 2025. Death by Design: P	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy	3
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	3
Black Heritage in the National Register: The Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon	3

Book Review: Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City WeaverTimothy P. R., Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City (Temple Universit	3
Wetland and Stream Compensatory Mitigation as a Funding Vehicle for US Public Housing Authorities	3
Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones	3
Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	3
Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	3
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	3
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	3
What Drives Local Action? Proactive Reception and Early Integration for Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Polish Cities: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
The Emergence of Environmental Justice in General Plans: Lessons From California's Senate Bill 1000	3
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	3
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Larry Bennett and the “Black Urban Regime”	3
Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race	3
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	3
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago	3
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	3
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	3
Patterns of Force: The Relationship Between Officer-Involved Homicides of Black and Hispanic Citizens and Metropolitan Residential Segregation	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
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	3
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	2
Book Review: Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis by Kimberley Johnson JohnsonKimberley, Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism a	2
A Tale of Two Crises: Local Homelessness Policy during Covid-19	2
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	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
Arrested (Oversight) Development: Civilian Oversight, Law Enforcement, and Federalism	2
Race and Survival: Examining the Interplay of Demand and Supply Factors on Black-Owned Businesses During Gentrification in New York City	2
Waste Warriors: The Fight for Waste Justice and Participatory Rights in the City	2
Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020	2
Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance	2
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	2
The Effects of Policy-Interested Bureaucrats on State and Local Policymaking	2
Succession Planning for the Future of Intergovernmental Organizations in the United States	2
“Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification	2
Planning for Homelessness: Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and Cities’ Homelessness Responses	2
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City	2
Towards Racial Housing Equity: The Role of CDBG Grants	2
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	2
Local Self-Government Against the State: Resistance of Polish Municipalities to Creeping Centralization	2
Measuring Conflict in Local Politics	2
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	2
Fostering Equitable Transit-Oriented Development via Multi-Sectoral Community Collaborations: Lessons from and for Maryland's Purple Line Corridor Coalition	1
Taking Stock of Living Wage Ordinances and Charting the Course for Future Research	1
Reversal of Local Party System Nationalization: Exploring the Influence of Size, Rurality, Peripherality, and Mergers	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
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
“The Councilors are the Ones to Blame”: The Symbolic Reproduction of Territorial Boundaries Created by Policy and Planning Decisions	1
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review : Hajnal and Trounstine and the Urban Vote	1
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	1
Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 2	1
Do Local Governments Listen to the Experts? A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of Local Economic Development Policies	1
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery	1
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States	1
Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance: Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation	1
How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement	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
Impacts of COVID-19 on Business Improvement Districts and Prospects for Recovery: A Survey of Executive Directors in Canada and the United States	1
Regulatory Approaches to Short-Term Rental Accommodation: A Systematic Literature Review for Urban Policy	1
Crime, Policing, and Voter Turnout in Chicago's 2023 and 2019 Mayoral Elections	1
Campaign Capital, Resource Mobilization, and Candidate Performance in Local Elections	1
Bargaining for Benefits: The Dilemmas of Implementing the West Harlem Community Benefits Agreement	1
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	1
Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism	1
The Politics of Participatory Rollback in Urban Water Remunicipalization: Paris and Naples	1
The Quantitative Research on Government Budgeting: A Literature Review on Local Culture Budgets	1
“Are we Abating the Humans or Abating the Hazard?”: Workers’ Emotional Pain from Homeless Encampment Displacement Events	1
Comparative Performance of Municipal General Governments and Collaborative Municipal Governance Structures: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Crime Control and Prevention	1
Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020)	1
A Weak Link in Efforts to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing? Evaluating Public Engagement Processes in Housing Plan Development in Southern California	1
Reimagining Public Participation in Urban Development: Insights from Bramfischerville, Johannesburg	1
Editor's Introduction	1
Urban Social Movement Strategies in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Movements for Housing in São Paulo	1
Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID	1
Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development	1
From the Editors: It’s Been our Honor…	1