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 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
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	20
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	20
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	18
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	18
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
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	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
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
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
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	10
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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