OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is 4. 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
TOWARDS A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE URBANISM	42
EVERYDAY ROMA STIGMATIZATION: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus	33
THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary	29
CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES	27
LIFE AFTER RESETTLEMENT IN URBAN CHINA: State‐led Community Building as a Reterritorialization Strategy	23
GOVERNING URBAN AGRICULTURE: Formalization, Resistance and Re‐visioning in Two ‘Green’ Cities	20
SPLANETARY URBANIZATION	20
Extracting Value, London Style: Revisiting the Role of the State in Urban Development	18
DIS/POSSESSORY DATA POLITICS: From Tenant Screening to Anti‐Eviction Organizing	17
TITLING AS A CONTESTED PROCESS: Conditional Land Rights and Subaltern Citizenship in South India	17
PLANETARY URBAN INVOLUTION IN THE TOKYO SUBURBS	16
DENIGRATING BY NUMBERS: Quantification, Statistics and Territorial Stigma	15
TERRITORIAL DESTIGMATIZATION IN AN ERA OF POLICY SCHIZOPHRENIA	15
UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier	14
CRITICAL URBAN THEORY IN THE ‘URBAN AGE’: Ruptures, Tensions, and Messy Solidarities	13
FROM VISIBLE INFORMALITY TO SPLINTERED INFORMALITIES: Reflections on the Production of ‘Formality’ in a Moroccan Housing Programme	13
FOUR MODES OF NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNANCE: The View from Nanjing, China	13
A RADICAL‐RIGHT POPULIST DEFINITION OF CROSS‐NATIONAL REGIONALISM IN EUROPE: Shaping Power Geometries at the Regional Scale Beyond State Borders	13
INSURGENT PLANNING IN PANDEMIC TIMES: The Case of Rio de Janeiro	12
SYMBOLIC DISPLACEMENT REVISITED: Place‐making Narratives in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Tallinn	12
YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification	12
GENTRIFICATION IN TOKYO: Formation of the Tokyo West Creative Industry Cluster	11
PLANNERS’ ALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION	11
CRITICAL URBAN PEDAGOGY: Convites as Sites of Southern Urbanism, Solidarity Construction and Urban Learning	10
CITY OF REPAIR: Practicing the Future in Mexico City	10

BICYCLE POLICY IN MEXICO CITY: Urban Experiments and Differentiated Citizenship	10
THE IMPACT OF MEXICO’SLAND REFORM ON PERIURBAN HOUSING PRODUCTION: Neoliberal or Neocorporatist?	9
AMBIVALENT GOVERNANCE AND SLOW VIOLENCE IN MUMBAI'S MITHI RIVER	9
URBAN SHRINKAGE IN CHINA, THE USA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A Comparative Multilevel Governance Perspective	9
Land Trafficking and the Fertile Spaces of Legality	9
RESTORING A RIVER, RE‐STORYING HISTORY	9
YIMBYISM, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REMAKING OF RACE AND CLASS COALITIONS IN AUSTIN, TX	9
DIFFERENTIATED CITIZENSHIP: The Everyday Politics of the Urban Poor in Kathmandu, Nepal	9
TOXICITY 1: On Ambiguity and Sewage in Mumbai's Urban Sea	9
THE RISK OF AUSTERITY CO‐PRODUCTION IN CITY‐REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN ENGLAND	9
THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban	8
UNDERSTANDING SCALAR POLITICS THROUGH THE FRAMEWORK OF RELATIONAL ARCHIPELAGOS: The Case of Shenzhen Fair, China	8
TAKING CITY RANKINGS SERIOUSLY : Engaging with Benchmarking Practices in Global Urbanism	7
Remaking Shanghai: New Divisions in an Expanding Metropolis	7
YIMBYISM THEN AND NOW	7
A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana	7
Encountering Everyday Racist Practices: Sociospatial Negotiations of Immigrant Settlement in Athens, Greece	7
WHERE IS THE FUTURE? Geography, Expectation and Experience across Three Decades of Malaysia's Vision 2020	7
UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION	7
YIMBYISM AND THE HOUSING CRISIS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: A Critical Reflection	7
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China	7
THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms	6
MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction	6
TOWARDS GREEN POPULISM? Right‐wing Populism and Metropolization in Switzerland	6
From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan	6
INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory	6
FROM THE SANITARY CITY TO THE CIRCULAR CITY? Technopolitics of Wastewater Restructuring in Los Angeles, California	6
THE ‘CITY’ AS TEXT	6
Interweaving the Fabric of Urban Infrastructure: Senegalese City‐making in Rio de Janeiro	6
WALK THE PIPELINE: Urban Infrastructure Landscapes in Bengaluru's Long Twentieth Century	6
THROUGH THE OPTICS OF FINANCE: Speculative Urbanism and the Transformation of Markets	6
NORMALIZING URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM THROUGH SLY DE‐POLITICIZATION: City Centre Development in Gothenburg and Stockholm	6
POSTCOLONIZING PLANETARY URBANIZATION: Aníbal Quijano and an Alternative Genealogy of the Urban	6
AFTER THE RIGHT TO WATER: Rethinking the State and Justice in Mumbai	6
SAYING ‘YES’ TO WHAT?: YIMBY and Urban Redevelopment in Chicago	6
POLYCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE FORMATION OF EDGE URBAN AREAS IN CHINA'S MEGA CITY REGIONS: Case Study of Nansha, Guangzhou	5
CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF SLUMS: Understanding Different Outcomes of Community Resistance against Evictions in Rio de Janeiro	5
MAKING PROPERTY OUTLAWS: Law and Relegation	5
THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction	5
STRUCTURING ARTISTIC CREATIVITY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A ‘CREATIVE CITY’: Urban Sculpture Planning in Shanghai	5
ENDURING HARM: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice	5
SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment	5
BORDERING, DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE UK	5
INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships	5
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy	5
FINANCIALIZED GENTRIFICATION AND CLASS COMPOSITION IN THE POST‐INDUSTRIAL CITY: A Rent Strike Against a Real Estate Investment Trust in Hamilton, Ontario	5
THE PRESENCE OF THE ABSENCE: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel	5
THE URBAN LAB: Imaginative Work in the City	4
ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa	4
‘ARE WE JUST KILLING PEOPLE?’: Centering Racial Capitalism in the Green Gentrification of the Atlanta BeltLine	4

TEMPORAL POLITICS AND INJUSTICE IN MEGA URBANIZATION: Lessons from Yangzhou, China	4
FROM HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE: English‐language Media Outlets and Urban Planning Best Practices in the Global South	4
AIMING FOR THE ‘GREEN’: (Post)Colonial and Aesthetic Politics in the Design of a Purified Gated Environment	4
THE INFORMAL CONSTITUTION OF STATE CENTRALITY: Governing Street Businesses in (Post‐)Pandemic Chengdu, China	4
THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region	4
OF HOLY COWS AND UNHOLY POLITICS: Dalits, Annihilation and More‐than‐Human Urban Abolition Ecologies	4
‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi	4
URBAN WATERLINES: Socio‐natural Productions of Indifference in an Indian City	4
TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia	4
SURVIVING SUPERGENTRIFICATION IN INNER CITY SYDNEY: Adaptive Spaces and Makeshift Economies of Cultural Production	4
Thinking through Urban Obsolescence: Tinkering, Repair and the Politics of Joona in Bombay/Mumbai's Taxi Trade	4
THE STATE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Waste Valorization in Hong Kong and Rotterdam	4
BORDER CONTROL: The Territorial Politics of Policy Experimentation in Chinese Border Cities	4
PRO‐GROWTH ETHOS MEDIATED BY RACE: No YIMBY, No Zoning and the Housing Crisis in Houston	4
SECTION 106, VIABILITY, AND THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF ENGLISH LAND VALUE CAPTURE POLICY	4