OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia	54
FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan	47
RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh	37
DOES IDENTITY HAVE SPACE IN DHARAVI’S REDEVELOPMENT? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context	23
FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities	22
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China	20
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND	19
UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION ( PANHUO ): ‘Liv	16
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UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching	16
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TEMPORARY ARTWASHING AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE: Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin	15
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KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT : The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies	15
BORDERING, DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE UK	14
NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya	14
EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona	14
COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State	14
THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA	13
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POLICY ‐ CONSTRAINED PARENTAL CHOICE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATION : Evidence from Local and Migrant Families in Suz	13
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‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe	12
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO‐AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain	11

THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City	11
PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York	11
WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London	10
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India	10
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy	10
MEGA‐REAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami's Little Haiti	10
STREETS AS STAGES : Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China	9
THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region	9
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VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY	9
RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: The Solidarity of City and Non‐City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia	9
NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE : The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mob	9
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GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka	9
THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?	9
RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France	9
‘THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE’: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh	9
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks	9
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity	8
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‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi	8
CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India	8
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SECTION 106, VIABILITY, AND THE DEPOLITICIZATION OF ENGLISH LAND VALUE CAPTURE POLICY	8
ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban	8
TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATION – RESISTANCE NEXUS	7
JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict	7
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England	7
INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships	7
SMART CITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGICAL CITYISM: Foregrounding Developmentalism, Scalar Flexing and the Rebranding of the ‘Urban’	7
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona	7
THE ZOONOTIC CITY: Urban Political Ecology and the Pandemic Imaginary	7
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THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction	6
TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE COPRODUCTION OF URBAN RESILIENCE: Institutional Enablers and Political Constraints	6
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PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco	6
PLANNERS’ ALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION	6
SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens	6
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements	6
PERI ‐ URBAN EXTRACTIVISM : The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’	6
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta	6
AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port	5
INFORMALITY AS THE UR‐FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies	5
THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms	5
‘MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria	5
REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests	5
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HOW NON‐RESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT: The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Florida	5
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19	5

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HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost	4
EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools	4
YIMBYISM, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE REMAKING OF RACE AND CLASS COALITIONS IN AUSTIN, TX	4
CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona	4
INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program	4
CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance	4
THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region's Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization	4
RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City	4
THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities	4
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang	4
MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces	4
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PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa	4
NONPROFIT ‐ LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT : The Obama Presidential Cent	4
MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT : A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction	4
CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF SLUMS: Understanding Different Outcomes of Community Resistance against Evictions in Rio de Janeiro	3
CONTESTED GOOD CITY STORIES FROM A NORTH CHENNAI LITTORAL	3
THE HOUSING/FINANCIAL COMPLEX IN SPAIN: After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis	3
UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post‐Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England	3
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND DISSENT FOR POSTCOLONIAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS	3
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FUTURE OF A DYING RIVER: Bureaucratic Practices and Negotiated Plans of the Yamuna Riverfront	3
UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION	3
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THE CHAINMAKER : How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time	3
SPORT ‐ RELATED GENTRIFICATION : Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism	3
FROM HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE: English‐language Media Outlets and Urban Planning Best Practices in the Global South	3
THE POWER OF IMPENDING ZONING: Governance through Inaction in a Secondary City in Burkina Faso	3
PLURALITY IN URBAN POLITICS: Conflict and Commonality in Mouffe and Thévenot	3
GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border	3
GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit	3
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PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects	3
BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System	3
HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’	3
YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification	3
MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction	3
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BETWEEN DREAMS AND SURVIVAL: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Neoliberalism among Entrepreneurial Workers from São Paulo's Peripheries	3
EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case	3
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