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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ritornello: “People as Infrastructure”	71
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	44
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city	42
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	35
Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it	33
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship	31
The density dilemma: there is always too much and too little of it	28
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London	28
Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city	28
Dynamics in the polycentric development of Chinese cities, 2001-2016	27
Climate urbanism as critical urban theory	26
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: the extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach	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	24
Autonomous vehicle experiments and the city	23
Climate urbanism through the lens of informal settlements	20
Climate urbanism: crisis, capitalism, and intervention	19
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: from people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again	19
The touristification of nightlife: some theoretical notes	18
Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala	18
Negotiating urban solidarities: multiple agencies and contested meanings in the making of solidarity cities	16
U.S. suburbs and the global COVID-19 pandemic: from cleanscapes to safescapes 2.0? The case of the New York metropolitan area	16
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings	16
“Insurrection is not a spectacle”: experiencing and contesting touristification in Exarcheia, Athens	15
Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem	15
Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community	15

Policing the future, disrupting urban policy today. Predictive policing, smart city, and urban policy in Memphis (TN)	15
Expulsion: A type of forced mobility experienced by homeless people in Canada	14
Symbolic domination in the neoliberal city: space, class, and residential stigma	14
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	14
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy	14
The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective	14
Not entirely displacement: conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”	13
Rethinking the post-socialist city	13
The New Urban Displacements? Finance-Led Capitalism, Austerity, and Rental Housing Dynamics	13
Universities and urban social structure: gentrification, studentification, and youthification in five United States legacy cities	13
The compassionate invisibilization of homelessness: where revanchist and supportive city policies meet	13
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization	13
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London	12
Eco-communities as insurgent climate urbanism: radical urban socio-material transformations	12
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	12
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	12
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building	12
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	12
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?	12
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	12
Urban village on a global scale: Diverse interpretations of one label	11
Becoming more polycentric: public transport and location choices in the Munich Metropolitan Area	11
Gentrification in large Canadian cities: tenure, age, and exclusionary displacement 1991-2011	11
Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale	11
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills	11
Nuancing student geographies: studentscapes in post-industrial cities	11
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality	11
Changing neighborhoods, shifting connections: mapping relational geographies of gentrification using social media data	10
People’s absence from public places: academic research in the post-covid-19 era	10
Transnational gentrification and the housing market during pandemic times, Lisbon style	10
Introduction: rethinking urban density	10
Contesting density: beyond nimby-ism and usual suspects in governing the future city	10
Rethinking the off-grid city	10
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city	10
From displacements to rent control and housing justice	10
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	10
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia	10
Class monopoly rent, property relations, and Portland's homeless crisis	9
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions: some thoughts	9
Fossil urbanism: fossil fuel flows, settler colonial circulations, and the production of carbon cities	9
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	9
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy	9
Decline machines and economic development: rust belt cities and Flint, Michigan	9
Restructuring Beijing: upscaling a megacity toward the capital city-region	9
Luxury housing and gentrification in New York City, 2010-2019	9
Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment: a case from Wuhan	9
State/finance symbiosis	8
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure	8
Planning and developing a high-speed railway new town under state entrepreneurialism in China	8
Co-producing urban expertise for SDG localization: the history and practices of urban knowledge production in South Africa	8

Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen	8
The limits to urban revolution: the transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party	8
Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system: the scaling down and out of forced migrants’ reception in Italy	8
The people as infrastructure concept: appraisal and new directions	8
Space and social capital: social contacts in a segregated city	8
Mobilizing heterogeneity: understanding the dynamic qualities and diversity of energy access in Maputo	8
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City	8
Persistent racial diversity in neighborhoods: what explains it and what are the long-term consequences?	8
Spatial distribution of urban gardens on vacant land and rooftops: A case study of 'The Garden City Initiative' in Taipei City, Taiwan	8
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values	7
City-regional demographic composition and the fortunes of regional second cities	7
“It makes almost no difference which algorithm you use”: on the modularity of predictive policing	7
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development	7
Seeking polycentric post-suburbanization: a view from the urban region of Milan	7
Walking (with) the platform: bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver	7
From campaign-style governance to multiple environmentalities: urban political ecologies of e-waste regulation in Guiyu, China	7
Towards plush new digs in Toronto’s in-between city: the changing governance of student housing in Canada	7
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	7
Beyond the car: how electric vehicles may enable new forms of material politics at the intersection of the smart grid and smart city	7
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	7
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction	7
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification	7
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city	7
Urban infrastructure in the framework of mega-event exceptionalism: Glasgow and the 2014 Commonwealth Games	7
Is the grid people or product? Relational infrastructure networks in Cape Town's energy-housing nexus	7
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market: the geographies of performing-arts consumption in China	7
How common is greening in gentrifying areas?	6
Urban property as security: examining the intersections between Africa’s growing middle classes and urban transformations	6
Down and out in Dhaka: understanding land financialization and displacement in austerity urbanism	6
Creating therapeutic spaces for the public: elderly exercisers as leaders in urban China	6
Rebranding place “to build community”: neighborhood branding in Buffalo, NY	6
The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism	6
The role given to citizens in shaping a circular city	6
Housing affordability and commute distance	6
Temporal logics in urban place-making: the case of refugee-background Ethiopians in Australia	6
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region	6
Toward an agentic understanding of the urban metabolism: a landscape theory perspective	6
Folding Beijing in Houchangcun Road, or, the topology of power density	6
Land back / cities back	6
School-hosted urban development: the transformation of education facilities into residential real estate in Chicago	6
Understanding different levels of segregation in urban China: a comparative study among 21 cities in Guangdong province	6
Whose city? Which sociality?	6
Curating smart cities	6
Charting the design and implementation of the smart city: the case of citizen-centric bikeshare in Hamilton, Ontario	6