OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Geography is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	64
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	30
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	29
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	22
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	21
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	20
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	20
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	20
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	19
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	19
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	19
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	17
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world	17
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	17
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	17
On writing The City after Property	16
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	16
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	15
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	15
Durabilities in the age of disruption	14
Revisioning Urban Pulse	14
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	13
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	13
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	13

Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	13
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	13
Urban uprisings between revolutionary openings and reactionary outcomes: making sense of the 2013 “June Days” in Brazil	13
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration	13
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	13
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	12
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	12
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	12
Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	12
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	12
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	12
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity	12
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities	12
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city	11
Urban geographies of waste	11
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	11
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	11
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	11
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	11
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	11
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	11
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	10
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	10
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	10
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	10
“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	10
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	10
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	9
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	9
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	9
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta	9
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context	9
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	9
Wishing the wall back: the struggles of eight “unification losers” in post-socialist Berlin	9
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	8
Land back / cities back	8
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne	8
Rethinking the off-grid city	8
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	8
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	8
“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	8
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	8
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	8
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	8
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	8
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	8
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	7
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	7

Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	7
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	7
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	7
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	7
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	7
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	7
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	7
On data cultures and the prehistories of smart urbanism in “Africa’s Digital City”	7
“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	7
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	7
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	6
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	6
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	6
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	6
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	6
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	6
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	6
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	6
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6
The geopolitical construction of Madrid as a city-region and its discontents: understanding the relevance of the “national” scale for the urban process	5
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	5
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto	5
Why is emotional data failing to produce more humane cities? Urban governance and the (interdisciplinary) problem of wellbeing	5
The empire strikes back: the financialization of rental housing – a new frontier of accumulation and precarity	5
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism	5
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	5
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	5
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city	5
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city	5
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations	5
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013	5
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	5
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property	5
Becoming displaceable, feeling displacing, un/doing displacement – Conceptualizing urban residential displacements as dissimilar experiences amidst the global housing affordability crisis	5
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	5