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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	28
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	25
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	23
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	23
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	20
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	18
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	17
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	17
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	16
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	15
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	15
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	14
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	13
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	13
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	12
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	11
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	11
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	10
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	10
An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	9
Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018	9
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles	9
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	9
Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo	9
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	9

School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	8
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	8
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	8
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	8
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	8
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	8
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	7
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	7
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	7
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	7
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	7
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	7
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	7
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	6
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	6
Immigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election	6
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	6
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	6
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	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
Resident (Non)Participation in Croatian Housing Estates	5
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	5
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics	5
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	5
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	5
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	5
Saviors, Villains, or Allies? Exploring How Nonprofit Developers Navigate Narratives of Gentrification in a Changing City	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
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	5
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	4
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled	4
Representation in American Cities: Who Runs for Mayor and Who Wins?	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	4
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	4
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Joanna Kusiak, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 188 pp.	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	4
Book Review: Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur by Hyra, Derek	4
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	4