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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	58
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	57
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	57
Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space	50
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	39
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	37
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	21
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	19
Lake-ian pragmatism and the path to engaged practice	18
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	18
On writing The City after Property	17
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	17
Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world	17
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	16
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	16
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	16
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	16
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	15
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	15
Revisioning Urban Pulse	15
New urban politics as post-politics of schooling marketization and distribution in entrepreneurial Chinese cities	15
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	14
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	14
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	14
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	14

Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	14
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	14
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	14
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
Ethnographies of urban change: introducing homelessness and the post-socialist city	13
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	13
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London	13
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	13
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	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
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	13
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	12
Urban geographies of waste	12
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	11
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	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
No common cause? The spaces of urban collective identity	11
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	11
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region	11
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	10
A radical belief in all of us: an invitation to collective moral inquiry as democratic conversation	10
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	10
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	10
Variations onVariations: placing public space in context	10
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	10
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	10
Wishing the wall back: the struggles of eight “unification losers” in post-socialist Berlin	10
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	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
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	8
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	8
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	8
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	8
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	8
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	8
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	8
Veni, vidi, gentri? – Social class change in London and Paris: gentrification cause or consequence?	8
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	8
Land back / cities back	8
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	8
Mapping and the politics of informality in Jakarta	7
Rethinking the off-grid city	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
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	7
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
Gentrification and the role of the professional-managerial middle class	7
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	7

Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	7
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	7
Seeing like the shadow state: philanthropy, memory, and public housing redevelopment in Syracuse, NY	7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	7
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	7
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	7
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	7
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	6
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city	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
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	6
Settler-colonial urbanisms: convergences, divergences, limits, contestations	6
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia	6
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	6
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	6
“There’s nothing left to tax”: the effects of automobility on the downtowns of America’s mid-size cities 1913–2013	6
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	6
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	6
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	6
Between self-help and emerging water markets: self-governance, everyday practices and the spatiality of water access in Dar es Salaam	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6