OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Research & Practice is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring data driven initiatives for smart city development: empirical evidence from techno-stakeholders’ perspective	20
Temporary uses: a new form of inclusive urban regeneration or a tool for neoliberal policy?	19
A framework for using the concept of urban resilience in responding to climate-related disasters	18
Planning and managing urbanization in the twenty-first century: content analysis of selected African countries’ national urban policies	18
Making the slow metropolis by designing walkability: a methodology for the evaluation of public space design and prioritizing pedestrian mobility	15
Regulation of short-term rentals in Lisbon: strike a balance between tourism dependence and urban life	13
Whose space is privately owned public space? Exclusion, underuse and the lack of knowledge and awareness	12
Assessing job-access inequity for transit-based workers across space and race with the Palma ratio	11
Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary’s ‘big’ cities	10
Governing and financing affordable housing at the intersection of the market and the state: Denmark’s private non-profit housing system	9
Smart city. Four approaches to the concept of understanding	9
Urban planning and policy in Portugal: an overview on the role of EU funds and guidelines	8
Retooling local economies: Practitioners’ experiences with and perspectives on plant closures in Ontario	8
E-participation and engagement in urban planning: experiences from the Baltic cities	6
Introduction to the special issue: between practices and policies. Rethinking urban regeneration in Southern European cities after the crisis	6
Chongqing People’s Square after 1997: situated publicness of municipal squares in reform-era China	6
Conceptualising smart cities	6
A resilient response to the social-economic implications of coronavirus. The case of Snodi Solidali in Turin	6
Evaluating the ‘Dipiao’ policy from the perspectives of relocated peasants: an equitable and sustainable approach to urbanisation?	6
Political graffiti in the political symbolic space of Prague, Czechia	5
Post-suburban arrival spaces and the frame of ‘welfare offloading’: notes from an Italian suburban neighborhood	5
Innovations at the edge: how local innovations are established in less favourable environments	5
Learning from overtourism; new tourism policy for the city of Rotterdam	5
Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments	4
Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes	4

Industrial lands, equity, and economic diversity: a comparative study of planned employment areas in Melbourne, Australia	4
Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans	4
Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City	4
Reconsidering Industrial Policy in Eastern New York, U.S.A.	4
Assessment of living condition of urban slum dwellers in India in the New Millennium	4
Rhythmic processes of temporary use: understanding spatially detached stabilization through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	4
Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns	4
How can green events accelerate urban sustainability transitions? Insights from eight German regional garden shows	3
Co-producing maintenance and repair: hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana	3
Brick: sustainability through policy	3
Some ideas for a post-war recovery of Ukrainian cities	3
Changing use of public spaces in Cairo during COVID-19	3
Housing refugees from Ukraine: preliminary insights and learnings from the local response in five European cities	3
Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach	3
Planning for ecosystem services in cities	3
The impacts of neighbourhood governance on residents’ sense of community: a case study of Wuhan, China	3