OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Geography is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	63
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	45
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	39
Global connections and missing links: a tale of the yet-to-come transformation of Thessaloniki’s port area	36
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	26
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	23
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	23
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden	21
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	21
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	20
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	20
On writing The City after Property	19
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	19
Contested natures in the city: rewilding, othering and more-than-human perspectives	19
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	19
Durabilities in the age of disruption	19
Taming the green gentrification cycle? Evidence from street greening in Vienna	19
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	18
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	18
Brain in a chip: biocomputing infrastructure and the limits of urban governance	18
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	17
Trust the people: a lesson in listening, learning and following the lead of Black people in The City after Property Trust the people: a lesson in liste	16
Infrastructure governance on unceded land: progress and challenges toward Indigenous sovereignty and coexisting governance	16
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	16
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	16

Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	15
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	15
Pseudo-smart cities: the erasure of Belgrade's Old Sava Bridge	15
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	15
Revisioning Urban Pulse	15
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	15
Density as verb: on the emergence and circulation of a category in Swiss urban development	15
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	15
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	15
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	14
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	14
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	13
Young, educated and excluded? Regulating student accommodation in England & Wales	13
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	13
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	13
Urban geographies of waste	13
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	13
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	13
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	12
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	12
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	12
Social housing as a social infrastructure: the coexistence of divergent socials on a north London council estate	12
Placemaking and the blues in racialized, ethnic, and immigrant neighborhoods	12
The slow dissolution of urban geography, the multiple lives of urban studies	12
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	12
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	12
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	12
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	12
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	11
“I don't think anybody’s ever been to scale:” the imperative for growth and the implications of scale for Community Land Trusts in Minnesota, USA	11
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta	11
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	11
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	11
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	10
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	10
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	10
Introduction	10
“It’s not that I don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else”: young refugees’ contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in	10
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	10
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	9
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	9
Land back / cities back	9
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	9
Groups on the move. The urban pathways of African Pentecostal churches in Turin, Italy	9
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne	9
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	9
Doing mapping and storytelling – notes from three field-based practices from the global south	9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	8
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India	8

From extraction to afterlife: toward a political materialism of urban ruins	8
“This is my home, and I am not ashamed to live here”: a comparative study of sense of belonging in Harare and Accra’s informal settlements	8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	8
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	8
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	8
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	8
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	8
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	7
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	7
Contesting verticality through consumption practices: digital markets as neighborliness in high-rise Santiago	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
Apartheid legacies on xenophobia against other Black Africans	7
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	7
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	7
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7
The emotional life of privileged spaces: security and exclusion in Chinese gated communities	7
Politics of belonging and urban space: civil society interventions in French and German cities	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	7
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
African liberation geographies in the afterlife of the apartheid city	7
Concrete: the inconspicuous binder of Planetary Urbanization	7
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013	6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Explaining asymmetric urbanism: contingent infrastructure, conjunctural space, and ideational hegemony in Tokyo	6
Rupture and repair: centering people and history in African liberation geographies	6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6
Navigating identity and class in ethnocratic cities: Palestinian middle-class neighborhoods in Haifa	6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Theatrical potential of the urban street: the everyday carnivalesque	6
Urban density meets rhythmanalysis: theorising lived density in the city	6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
“Waging love” against speculative revanchism: Black placemaking as earthwork (2025) Plenary Lecture	6
Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	6
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process	6
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	6
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto	6