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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic in a smart city: Singapore’s COVID-19 management through technology & society	70
Ritornello: “People as Infrastructure”	63
Localizing the SDGs in cities: reflections from an action research project in Bristol, UK	41
The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city	36
Socio-economic segregation in European cities. A comparative study of Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm	31
Dynamics in the polycentric development of Chinese cities, 2001-2016	27
Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city	27
Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship	26
Climate urbanism as critical urban theory	25
Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it	24
The urban politics of policy failure	24
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London	22
The role of spatial planning in transitioning to circular urban development	22
Digitally enabled diverse economies: exploring socially inclusive access to the circular economy in the city	22
The density dilemma: there is always too much and too little of it	22
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
Governing homeowner associations in China’s gated communities: the extension of state infrastructural power and its uneven reach	21
Placing cities in the circular economy: neoliberal urbanism or spaces of socio-ecological transition?	21
Autonomous vehicle experiments and the city	20
Climate urbanism through the lens of informal settlements	19
Metropolisation: the winding road toward the citification of the region	19
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: from people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again	18
The relational co-production of “success” and “failure,” or the politics of anxiety of exporting urban “models” elsewhere	17
Climate urbanism: crisis, capitalism, and intervention	17
U.S. suburbs and the global COVID-19 pandemic: from cleanscapes to safescapes 2.0? The case of the New York metropolitan area	16

Negotiating urban solidarities: multiple agencies and contested meanings in the making of solidarity cities	16
Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala	16
The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city	16
Introduction: displacement, asylum and the city – theoretical approaches and empirical findings	15
Apps, maps and war rooms: on the modes of existence of “COVtech” in India	15
The touristification of nightlife: some theoretical notes	14
Expulsion: A type of forced mobility experienced by homeless people in Canada	14
Policing the future, disrupting urban policy today. Predictive policing, smart city, and urban policy in Memphis (TN)	14
The urban class structure: class change and spatial divisions from a multidimensional class perspective	14
Continental metropolitanization: Chongqing and the urban origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	14
“Insurrection is not a spectacle”: experiencing and contesting touristification in Exarcheia, Athens	13
Evictions as infrastructural events	13
Limited urban citizenship: the case of community councils in East Jerusalem	13
Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community	13
Capital switching, spatial fix, and the paradigm shifts of China’s urbanization	13
Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age	12
Eco-communities as insurgent climate urbanism: radical urban socio-material transformations	12
Gentrification and social classes in Paris, 1982-2008	12
The New Urban Displacements? Finance-Led Capitalism, Austerity, and Rental Housing Dynamics	12
The service hub as bypassed social infrastructure: evidence from inner-city Osaka	12
The work of foodification: an analysis of food gentrification in Turin, Italy	12
Mobilizing legal expertise in and against cities: urban planning amidst increased legal action in Bogotá	12
Refugees and the transforming landscapes of small cities in the US	12
Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum “like a city”	12
‘A world of many Souths’: (anti)Blackness and historical difference in conversation with Ananya Roy	11
Not entirely displacement: conceptualizing relocation in Ethiopia and South Africa as “disruptive re-placement”	11
Gentrification in large Canadian cities: tenure, age, and exclusionary displacement 1991-2011	11
Symbolic domination in the neoliberal city: space, class, and residential stigma	11
Universities and urban social structure: gentrification, studentification, and youthification in five United States legacy cities	11
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building	11
Constructing an “infrastructure of care” – understanding the institutional remnants and socio-technical practices that constitute South Africa’s Covid-19 response	11
Becoming killable: white-tailed deer management and the production of overabundance in the Blue Hills	10
The compassionate invisibilization of homelessness: where revanchist and supportive city policies meet	10
State and collective ownership: thwarting and enabling financialization?	10
Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street: policy and design for mobility justice and conviviality	10
Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale	10
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London	10
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia	10
People’s absence from public places: academic research in the post-covid-19 era	10
Urban densification and exclusionary pressure: emerging patterns of gentrification in Oslo	10
Changing neighborhoods, shifting connections: mapping relational geographies of gentrification using social media data	9
Nuancing student geographies: studentscapes in post-industrial cities	9
Community formation in talent worker housing: the case of Silicon Valley Talent Apartments, Shenzhen	9
Rethinking the off-grid city	9
From displacements to rent control and housing justice	9
Class monopoly rent, property relations, and Portland's homeless crisis	9
Fossil urbanism: fossil fuel flows, settler colonial circulations, and the production of carbon cities	9
Rethinking the post-socialist city	9
Urban village on a global scale: Diverse interpretations of one label	9
Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation	9

Decline machines and economic development: rust belt cities and Flint, Michigan	9
Gentrification in the media: the eviction of critical class perspective	8
Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system: the scaling down and out of forced migrants’ reception in Italy	8
The policing of Black debt: how the municipal bond market regulates the right to water	8
Revisiting entrepreneurial governance in China’s urban redevelopment: a case from Wuhan	8
Introduction: rethinking urban density	8
Co-producing urban expertise for SDG localization: the history and practices of urban knowledge production in South Africa	8
Governing urban infrastructures under pandemic conditions: some thoughts	8
Coyotes and more-than-human commons: exploring co-existence through Toronto’s Coyote Response Strategy	8
Light infrastructures and intimate publics in the vertical city	8
Decline-induced displacement: the case of Detroit	8
Transnational gentrification and the housing market during pandemic times, Lisbon style	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
Aesthetic politics and community gardens in Singapore	7
Urban infrastructure in the framework of mega-event exceptionalism: Glasgow and the 2014 Commonwealth Games	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
“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction	7
State/finance symbiosis	7
Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification	7
Contesting density: beyond nimby-ism and usual suspects in governing the future city	7
Urban renewal without gentrification: toward dual goals of neighborhood revitalization and community preservation?	7
Mobilizing heterogeneity: understanding the dynamic qualities and diversity of energy access in Maputo	7
Geopolitical boundaries and urban borderlands in an Ethiopian frontier city	7
Restructuring Beijing: upscaling a megacity toward the capital city-region	7
Is the grid people or product? Relational infrastructure networks in Cape Town's energy-housing nexus	7
Becoming more polycentric: public transport and location choices in the Munich Metropolitan Area	7
Spatial distribution of urban gardens on vacant land and rooftops: A case study of 'The Garden City Initiative' in Taipei City, Taiwan	7
Walking (with) the platform: bikesharing and the aesthetics of gentrification in Vancouver	6
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity	6
Skateboarder and scooter-rider perceptions of the urban environment: a qualitative analysis of user-generated content	6
Curating smart cities	6
Black insurgent aesthetics and the public imaginary	6
The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation, articulation, and translation in global capitalism	6
Land back / cities back	6
Urban property as security: examining the intersections between Africa’s growing middle classes and urban transformations	6
Persistent racial diversity in neighborhoods: what explains it and what are the long-term consequences?	6
Rebranding place “to build community”: neighborhood branding in Buffalo, NY	6
Connecting Chinese cities with the global performing arts market: the geographies of performing-arts consumption in China	6
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values	6
“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City	6
Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure	6
The spatiality of poverty and popular agency in the GCR: constituting an extended urban region	6
Space and social capital: social contacts in a segregated city	6
The limits to urban revolution: the transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party	6