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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic in a smart city: Singapore’s COVID-19 management through technology & society	67
The transition to autonomous cars, the redesign of cities and the future of urban sustainability	61
Ritornello: “People as Infrastructure”	55
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	34
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city	32
Care, commoning and collectivity: from grand domestic revolution to urban transformation	30
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	29
Dynamics in the polycentric development of Chinese cities, 2001-2016	24
Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city	24
Community gardening in Hellinikon as a resistance struggle against neoliberal urbanism: spatial autogestion and the right to the city in post-crisis Athens, Greece	22
The urban politics of policy failure	22
The role of spatial planning in transitioning to circular urban development	21
Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it	20
Digitally enabled diverse economies: exploring socially inclusive access to the circular economy in the city	20
Climate urbanism as critical urban theory	19
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship	19
Autonomous vehicle experiments and the city	19
The density dilemma: there is always too much and too little of it	19
Placing cities in the circular economy: neoliberal urbanism or spaces of socio-ecological transition?	19
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London	18
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: the extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach	17
Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region	17
The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city	16
Climate urbanism through the lens of informal settlements	15
From circular consumers to carriers of (unsustainable) practices: socio-spatial transformations in the Circular City	15

U.S. suburbs and the global COVID-19 pandemic: from cleanscapes to safescapes 2.0? The case of the New York metropolitan area	15
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: from people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again	15
The relational co-production of “success” and “failure,” or the politics of anxiety of exporting urban “models” elsewhere	15
The touristification of nightlife: some theoretical notes	14
Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala	14
Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India	14
Policing the future, disrupting urban policy today. Predictive policing, smart city, and urban policy in Memphis (TN)	14
Climate urbanism: crisis, capitalism, and intervention	13
World cities of ride-hailing	13
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization	13
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	13
The New Urban Displacements? Finance-Led Capitalism, Austerity, and Rental Housing Dynamics	12
The urban commons: a keyword essay	12
Expulsion: A type of forced mobility experienced by homeless people in Canada	12
Beyond southern urbanism? Imagining an urban geography of a world of cities	12
Gentrification and social classes in Paris, 1982-2008	12
Symbolic domination in the neoliberal city: space, class, and residential stigma	11
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building	11
Refugees and the transforming landscapes of small cities in the US	11
Evictions as infrastructural events	11
Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age	11
The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective	11
Metropolisation and the challenge of rural-urban dichotomies	11
Constructing an “infrastructure of care” – understanding the institutional remnants and socio-technical practices that constitute South Africa’s Covid-19 response	11
Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale	10
The service hub as bypassed social infrastructure: evidence from inner-city Osaka	10
Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community	10
“Insurrection is not a spectacle”: experiencing and contesting touristification in Exarcheia, Athens	10
Metropolitan context and immigrant rights experiences: DACA awareness and support in Houston	10
Not entirely displacement: conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”	10
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings	10
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy	10
‘A world of many Souths’: (anti)Blackness and historical difference in conversation with Ananya Roy	10
“A marketplace of schools”: race, power, and education reform in the Detroit region	9
Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem	9
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills	9
People’s absence from public places: academic research in the post-covid-19 era	9
Universities and urban social structure: gentrification, studentification, and youthification in five United States legacy cities	9
Eco-communities as insurgent climate urbanism: radical urban socio-material transformations	9
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia	9
From displacements to rent control and housing justice	9
Class monopoly rent, property relations, and Portland's homeless crisis	9
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality	9
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	8
Race, space, and America’s subprime housing boom	8
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions: some thoughts	8
Rethinking the off-grid city	8
Rethinking the post-socialist city	8
The compassionate invisibilization of homelessness: where revanchist and supportive city policies meet	8
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	8

What is a river? A transnational meditation on the colonial city, abolition ecologies and the future of geography	8
Gentrification in large Canadian cities: tenure, age, and exclusionary displacement 1991-2011	8
Changing neighborhoods, shifting connections: mapping relational geographies of gentrification using social media data	8
Nuancing student geographies: studentscapes in post-industrial cities	8
Negotiating urban solidarities: multiple agencies and contested meanings in the making of solidarity cities	8
Planetary urbanization and the “right against the urbicidal city”	8
Wood works: how local value chains based on urban forests contribute to place-based circular economy	8
Seeking polycentric post-suburbanization: a view from the urban region of Milan	7
Cuban migrants and the making of Havana’s property market	7
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city	7
Becoming more polycentric: public transport and location choices in the Munich Metropolitan Area	7
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	7
Fossil urbanism: fossil fuel flows, settler colonial circulations, and the production of carbon cities	7
Decline machines and economic development: rust belt cities and Flint, Michigan	7
Urban village on a global scale: Diverse interpretations of one label	7
Formality and informality in e-waste economies: exploring caste-class in urban land and labor practices	7
Transnational gentrification and the housing market during pandemic times, Lisbon style	7
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?	7
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city	7
Introduction: rethinking urban density	7
Contesting density: beyond nimby-ism and usual suspects in governing the future city	7
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London	7
“We dredge because it doesn’t work”: urban political ecology and the uneven geographies of sediment metabolism	6
Aesthetic politics and community gardens in Singapore	6
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	6
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region	6
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	6
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction	6
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values	6
The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism	6
Gentrification in the media: the eviction of critical class perspective	6
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure	6
Co-producing urban expertise for SDG localization: the history and practices of urban knowledge production in South Africa	6
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market: the geographies of performing-arts consumption in China	6
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy	6
State/finance symbiosis	6
Restructuring Beijing: upscaling a megacity toward the capital city-region	6
Skateboarder and scooter-rider perceptions of the urban environment: a qualitative analysis of user-generated content	6
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	6
Beyond the car: how electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city	6
Mobilizing heterogeneity: understanding the dynamic qualities and diversity of energy access in Maputo	6
Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum “like a city”	6