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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe	22
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	21
“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End	20
Racialized Real Estate Agency in U.S. Housing Markets: A Research Note	19
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	16
The Impact of State Fiscal Preemption on Local Taxing Authorities: A Case of Michigan	16
Revisiting the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Theory of Local Expenditures: Are Private Community Amenities Substitutes for Local Public Services in Residential Choices?	16
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	15
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	14
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	13
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	12
Neighborhood Distribution of Unsheltered Homelessness and its Temporal Changes: Evidence from Los Angeles	12
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	11
Predatory Policing, Intersectional Subjection, and the Experiences of LGBTQ People of Color in New Orleans	11
Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	11
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn	10
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Larry Bennett and the “Black Urban Regime”	10
Rising Tides or Political Ripcurrents? Gentrification and Minority Representation in 166 Cities	10
Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race	10
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	9
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	8
Immigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election	8
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	7
Citizen Oversight of Public Spaces: Evaluating Public Participation in Managing Privately Owned Public Spaces	7
Wealthier Neighbors and Higher Rents: The Rental Assistance Demonstration and Gentrification	7

“Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification	7
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	7
Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020)	7
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	7
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice	7
A Grassroots Alternative to Urban Shrinkage? A Comparative Analysis of Place Reputational Remaking in Buffalo and Cleveland	6
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	6
“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line	6
Investing in Gentrification: The Eligibility of Gentrifying Neighborhoods for Federal Place-Based Economic Investment in U.S. Cities	6
Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis	6
On Their Own Terms: How Informal Settlement Residents Interpret Urban Inclusion and Exclusion Within the Context of Participatory Mechanisms	6
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	6
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	6
Reflections on the Late 1960s	6
Digitalization of Smart City—Sine Qua Non or an Option for Those Interested?	5
Local Government's Resource Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Capacity, Conservatism, and Contractual Dynamics	5
“Listen to the People of Starkville”: Dynamics of (Extra-)Local Political Opposition to Short-Term Rental Regulation in a Small Southern City	5
Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	5
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	5
Examining the Smart City Generational Model: Conceptualizations, Implementations, and Infrastructure Canada's Smart City Challenge	5
Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo: Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation	5
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	5
The Effects of Policy-Interested Bureaucrats on State and Local Policymaking	5
Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context	4
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	4
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	4
Do Local Immigrant-Welcoming Efforts Increase Immigration? The Detroit Experience	4
The End of the Right to the City: A Radical-Cooperative View	4
Pandemic-Era Organizing	4
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives	4
Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing	4
Economies of Inequality? Polycentric Metropolitan Governance and Strategic Sustainability Choices	4
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	4
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics	4
Corrigendum to “Moving to Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment”	4
Planning for Homelessness: Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and Cities’ Homelessness Responses	4
Becoming Editors	4
Sharing Homes and Beds: Baptist-Bootlegger Coalitions and the Politics of Authenticity in the Regulation of Los Angeles's Short-Term Rental Markets	4
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 1: Progressive Cities, Voters and their Elected Officials, Privatized Services, Neighbors and Neighborhoods, and Housing	4
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 3: Homelessness and Eviction, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change, and Urban Expansion in Chinese Cities	3
Race and Survival: Examining the Interplay of Demand and Supply Factors on Black-Owned Businesses During Gentrification in New York City	3
An Empirical Examination of Representational Equity in Consolidated Governments, 1965–2002	3
Urban Political Development and the Social Construction of Interests: The Case of Chicago's Dearborn Park	3
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	3
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	3
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	3
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	3
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	3
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	3
Homeowners Saying “Yes, In My Back Yard”: Evidence from Israel	3

When Cities Borrow State Power: New York State's Empire State Development Corporation in New York City	3
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	3
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	3
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	3
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City	2
How Strong is Local Politics’ Grip on Local Economic Development? The Case of Swiss Small and Medium-Sized Towns	2
How Policy Entrepreneurs Encourage or Hinder Urban Growth Within a Political Market	2
Who Benefits From Brownfield Cleanup and Gentrification? Evidence From Chicago	2
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	2
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	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
Representation in American Cities: Who Runs for Mayor and Who Wins?	2
How Landlords of Small Rental Properties Decide Who Gets Housed and Who Gets Evicted	2
Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance	2
Shared Space and Civic Engagement: Block Parties and Voter Turnout in Philadelphia	2
Motivated Localism: Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts	2
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	2
Resurgent Ethnicity and Residential Choice Among Second-generation Asian Americans in a Los Angeles Panethnic Suburb	2
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	2
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	2
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	2
Why do Role Perceptions Matter? A Qualitative Study on Role Conflicts and the Coping Behavior of Dutch Municipal Enforcement Officers	1
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future by Joanna Kusiak	1
The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology	1
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	1
The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Pre-merger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	1
Working-Class Institutions, Amazon and The Politics of Local Economic Development in Western Queens	1
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	1
Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development	1
Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	1
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	1
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	1
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	1
Reflections on “Re-Placing the Nation”	1
Exploring the Impacts of Transit-Oriented Development Housing Stock and Built Environments on Housing Costs in Twenty-Six U.S. Metropolitan Areas	1
A Tale of Two Crises: Local Homelessness Policy during Covid-19	1
Going Local: Understanding and Avoiding the Dangers of Localism	1
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	1
Whose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Federal Community Development Funds	1
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	1
Long Live Marketization for Local Public Spaces: A Study of Scandinavian Managers’ Satisfaction with Private Provider Performance	1
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	1
Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism	1
Eco-gentrification in a Welfare State: How Sustainable City Development Gradually Reduces Social Equity	1
Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID	1
Perception of Health and Well-being Among the Chinese Immigrant Population in Seville (Spain): Does Territorial Concentration Matter?	1
Book Review: Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur by Hyra, Derek	1
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	1
The Role of Women in Local Governments: An Analysis of Efficiency in Spain	1
Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance	1
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX	1
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	1
“It’s a Racist Plot”: An Experimental Test of the Racial Defense	1
“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power	1
Emerging Metropolitan Spaces in Poland and France: Co-creation of New Territorialities Through Institutional Dialogue and Soft Planning	1
Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020	1
Call and Response? Neighborhood Inequality and Political Voice	1
Green Dreams, Concrete Realities: Overcoming Climate Hurdles in American Mid-Sized Cities	1
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery	1
Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018	1