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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the desirable and affordable city: middle-income renter perceptions of housing opportunity	54
“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India	41
Corporate practices of racial banishment in Los Angeles	40
Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides	32
Contested natures in the city: rewilding, othering and more-than-human perspectives	32
Global connections and missing links: a tale of the yet-to-come transformation of Thessaloniki’s port area	29
Performing conviviality in diverse and precarious urban spaces: everyday experiences of Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare	28
Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification	23
Influencers and social media: gentrification aesthetics and prosumption through China’s wanghong economy	23
Omni-temporality and place making: evidence from Colchester in the long-nineteenth century	21
Active aging in place: neighborhood practices and preferences among urban older adults in Sweden	21
Durabilities in the age of disruption	20
Of scale and discourse: China’s ecological civilization and the struggle for development in Anshun	20
Infrastructure governance on unceded land: progress and challenges toward Indigenous sovereignty and coexisting governance	19
On writing The City after Property	19
Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism	18
Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults	18
Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis	18
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing	18
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	17
Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates	17
Taming the green gentrification cycle? Evidence from street greening in Vienna	17
Do you see it how I see it? Differences in neighborhood perceptions explained by individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics and trust attitudes	17
The ivory tower in China’s speculative urbanism: instrumentalizing the university-healthcare nexus	16
Revisioning Urban Pulse	16

Art, culture and regeneration in China: the bi-city biennale of urbanism/architecture in Shenzhen	16
Narratives of dispossession: a precondition of colonialism in Detroit	16
Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies	15
Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom	15
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona	15
Chinese urbanism : lessons for theorizing the post-socialist city	14
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	14
The limits of right-sizing: analyzing social housing strategies in French shrinking cities	14
Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in Urbanplan, Copenhagen	14
Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look	14
Notions of time in a neighborhood destined for state-led regeneration	14
Urban geographies of waste	14
Pseudo-smart cities: the erasure of Belgrade's Old Sava Bridge	14
Mitungi as … thinking about urban space and infrastructure with the jerry can	14
Sidewalk toil as performance of insurgent citizenship	13
Social housing as a social infrastructure: the coexistence of divergent socials on a north London council estate	13
Young, educated and excluded? Regulating student accommodation in England & Wales	13
Identifying habitation patterns in world heritage areas through social media and open datasets	13
“I always say, it’s the icing on the cake”: the discursive production of fare-free public transport in Luxembourg	12
Object-based change detection (OBCD): a case study for measuring retail led regeneration	12
“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	12
Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA	12
The slow dissolution of urban geography, the multiple lives of urban studies	12
“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: Experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in Greater Barcelona	12
Land back / cities back	11
Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”	11
Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development	11
People after property: beyond relations of extraction	11
Tunnel vision: notes from “generic” Atlanta	11
Speed traps: on the turbulent logics of the platformed motorcycle	11
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	11
Placemaking and the blues in racialized, ethnic, and immigrant neighborhoods	11
Home swapping as a degrowth strategy for housing	11
“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	11
Filling the void: arts and culture institutions as socio-political actors in East Jerusalem	11
Rent extraction and the making of urban frontiers: a firm-centered approach	11
Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China’s Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area	10
Desirable or unremarkable? Perceiving and living with diversity in public squares	10
Ontological agility and infrastructure: Palestinian liberation's praxis in the corridor between Ramallah and East Jerusalem	10
The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne	10
Centrifugal circular cities: mapping circular economy employment and accessibility in Melbourne, Australia	10
The new informality? The financialization of informal housing as a parasitic relation (2023) Plenary Commentary	10
Urban smart microgrids: a political technology of emergency-normalcy	10
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India	10
“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	9
Groups on the move. The urban pathways of African Pentecostal churches in Turin, Italy	9
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: complex configurations of conflicts and cooperation	9
The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound	9
Interrogating narratives of urban change: disinvestment and development in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD	9
Migrants’ intergroup relations and the role of neighborhood in urban China: a generational perspective	9

Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador	9
Right to the city or environmental gentrification? A discussion about risks and potential of urban agriculture	9
Doing mapping and storytelling – notes from three field-based practices from the global south	9
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing	8
From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking	8
Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space	8
Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state	8
The emotional life of privileged spaces: security and exclusion in Chinese gated communities	8
African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to?	8
From extraction to afterlife: toward a political materialism of urban ruins	8
Concrete: the inconspicuous binder of Planetary Urbanization	8
Theatrical potential of the urban street: the everyday carnivalesque	7
The role of urban transformation on inter-suburban commuting: evidence from Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia	7
Politics of belonging and urban space: civil society interventions in French and German cities	7
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking	7
Geographies and counter-geographies of global circulation in port cities – the case of Piraeus	7
Navigating identity and class in ethnocratic cities: Palestinian middle-class neighborhoods in Haifa	7
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	7
From “killing deserts” to “killing cities”: weaponizing urban landscapes in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands	7
“Art district without artists”: urban redevelopment through industrial heritage renovation and the gentrification of industrial neighborhoods in China	7
“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy	7
Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai	7
Living with, or despite, organized abandonment: social reproduction and real estate speculation on Chicago’s Large Lots	7
Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures	7
Crypto-urban statecraft: post-pandemic urban governance experiments in Miami	7
Community governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown I: the roles and actions of residents’ committees	7
Nigerian migrants, daily life domains and bordering processes in the city of Guangzhou	6
Explaining asymmetric urbanism: contingent infrastructure, conjunctural space, and ideational hegemony in Tokyo	6
“Waging love” against speculative revanchism: Black placemaking as earthwork (2025) Plenary Lecture	6
The myth of the “Brasília of the North”: rhetoric and reality in Newcastle’s urban transformation	6
New stories of urban AI: exploring the artificial intelligence–city nexus beyond Frankenstein Urbanism	6
Evictions, spatial inequality, and the financialization of rental housing in Toronto	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
Contested autonomy in “smart” and “inclusive” innovation: test-driving transportation technology and policy in Pittsburgh	6
Borg urbanism: emerging neural infrastructures of urban governance	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
Everyday scalar politics: navigating insecurity in the competitive city	6
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city	6
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	6
Mobilizing alternative urbanisms in the semiperipheral smart city agenda	6
The limits of collective resistance to urban renewal: the governance of urban displacements in Lagos, Nigeria	6
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City	6
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property	6
Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality	6