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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh	53
FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities	27
FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan	27
TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia	25
DOES IDENTITY HAVE SPACE IN DHARAVI’S REDEVELOPMENT? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context	21
UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching	21
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND	19
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China	18
RECONSIDERING INCREMENTALISM : Implementing the Mumbai Climate Action Plan	18
AESTHETIC POLITICS AND ELITE ‐ DRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN CITIES : The Case of Beautifying Sheger in Addis Ab	18
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KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT : The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies	16
UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION ( PANHUO ): ‘Liv	16
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CARE MATTERS IN THE ENTANGLED COMMONS : Perspectives on a Temporality of Urgency, Knowledge Co‐production and Infrastructures of Sociality in Diverse Urban Contexts	15
TEMPORARY ARTWASHING AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE : Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin	15
EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona	15
COLLECTIVELY GARDENING THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN MEXICO CITY: When Informal Practices Interact with the State	15
CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL : The Subaltern Archive of Portarias	14
NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya	13
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA	12

FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO ’S RENTAL MARKET : Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities	12
‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe	12
POLICY ‐ CONSTRAINED PARENTAL CHOICE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATION : Evidence from Local and Migrant Families in Suz	12
AUGURAL TERRITORIES : On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range	11
PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York	11
MEGA‐REAL ESTATE SPECULATION AND RACIALIZED DISPOSSESSION: Miami's Little Haiti	11
THE LIMITS OF INFRASTRUCTURE: Public Transport in a Post‐colonial City	11
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO‐AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain	11
SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘ UNFREEDOMS ’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Hou	10
RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France	10
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy	10
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India	10
STREETS AS STAGES : Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China	10
GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka	10
THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region	10
RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: The Solidarity of City and Non‐City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia	10
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NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE : The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mob	9
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity	9
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RECONTEXTUALIZING TRANSIT ART : Cultural Narratives and Visual Governance across Beijing's Subway Network	9
VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY	9
WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London	9
THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?	9
CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India	8
TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATION – RESISTANCE NEXUS	8
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks	8
‘THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE’: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh	8
ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban	8
INSURGENT HERITAGE: Mobilizing Memory, Place‐based Care and Cultural Citizenships	8
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JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict	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
‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi	7
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TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England	7
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements	6
PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN A POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Land Use Planning in Morocco	6
AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port	6
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THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction	6
REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests	6
TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE COPRODUCTION OF URBAN RESILIENCE: Institutional Enablers and Political Constraints	6
SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens	6
PERI ‐ URBAN EXTRACTIVISM : The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’	6
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta	6
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‘MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria	5
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THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms	5
PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa	5
CAPITALIZING ON EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona	5
INFORMALITY AS THE UR‐FORM OF URBANITY: Keeping the Ur‐ in Urban Studies	5
THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities	5
MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT : A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction	5
NONPROFIT ‐ LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT : The Obama Presidential Cent	5
HOW NON ‐ RESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT : The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Flor	5
WE THE PLUG THO : Energy Democracy and the Politics of Social Reproduction in Atlanta	5
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19	5
EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools	5
THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization	5
HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost	5
RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City	5
FROM NY‐LON TO SILK ? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric	5
PLACE LEADERSHIP AND BRANDING ‐ DRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA : A Political Economy Approach	5
THE CHAINMAKER : How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time	4
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CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance	4
FUTURE OF A DYING RIVER: Bureaucratic Practices and Negotiated Plans of the Yamuna Riverfront	4
CONTESTED GOOD CITY STORIES FROM A NORTH CHENNAI LITTORAL	4
HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW : Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today	4
MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces	4
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DIGITAL TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SOCIALITIES AS AN ENTANGLED COMMONS	4
CAPITAL BATTLES , HABITUS AND SPACE : Urban Segregation in Bursa, Türkiye	4
GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border	4
EXPERIENCING URBAN SMELLS WHEN WALKING: Kastamonu City Case	4
BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System	4
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PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects	4
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang	4
INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program	4