OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Affairs Review is 4. 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
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
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	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
Neighborhood Distribution of Unsheltered Homelessness and its Temporal Changes: Evidence from Los Angeles	12
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	12
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
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	11
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
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn	10
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	9
Immigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election	8
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	8
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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