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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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RESPONDING TO MURDER: The City as a Site of Compassion for LGBTQ Activists in Bangladesh	55
FRINGE FINANCIAL ECOLOGIES AND PLACE‐BASED EXCLUSION: A Tale of Two Cities	29
TOXICITY 2: The Violence of Thresholds in Philadelphia	27
UNPACKING CAPITAL SWITCHING: Value, Rentierism and Displacement in Absolute and Relative Forms of Switching	26
DOES IDENTITY HAVE SPACE IN DHARAVI’S REDEVELOPMENT? Understanding the Interrelation of Hybridity and Identity in the Indian Context	24
IMAGINING A DECOLONIZED CITY IN AND FROM AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND	22
RECONSIDERING INCREMENTALISM : Implementing the Mumbai Climate Action Plan	21
ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL LABORATORY: Modernity, Cultural Revival, and Architectural Experiment in Peri‐urban China	20
AESTHETIC POLITICS AND ELITE ‐ DRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN CITIES : The Case of Beautifying Sheger in Addis Ab	19
FROM GLOBALIZING TAIPEI TO LEARNING AMSTERDAM: Referencing as a Politicizing Strategy for Urban Development in Taiwan	18
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UPLIFTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REVITALIZATION ( PANHUO ): ‘Liv	17
CARE MATTERS IN THE ENTANGLED COMMONS : Perspectives on a Temporality of Urgency, Knowledge Co‐production and Infrastructures of Sociality in Diverse Urban Contexts	16
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TEMPORARY ARTWASHING AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE : Curating Gentrification through Real Estate Marketing in Berlin	16
EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona	16
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	15
KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT : The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies	14
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‘ALL EYES ON ME’: The (In)Formal Barriers to Market Trade in Europe	13
NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya	13
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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO ’S RENTAL MARKET : Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities	12

PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York	12
THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA	12
POLICY ‐ CONSTRAINED PARENTAL CHOICE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SEGREGATION : Evidence from Local and Migrant Families in Suz	12
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO‐AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain	12
SOCIOSPATIAL FORMATION OF MIDDLE‐CLASS DISTINCTION: The Educated Middle Classes in Neo‐urban India	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
RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France	10
GREEN INFORMALITIES AS SOCIALLY JUST ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Enduring with Dignity at the Edges of Resilient Development in Dhaka	10
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NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE : The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mob	10
THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?	10
AUGURAL TERRITORIES : On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range	10
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URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy	10
SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘ UNFREEDOMS ’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Hou	10
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THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region	9
RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM : The Solidarity of City and Non‐City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia	9
TAXI , CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH : Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen	9
WHO CAN AFFORD TO BE HUMAN? Struggling for Affordable Housing in East London	9
RECONTEXTUALIZING TRANSIT ART : Cultural Narratives and Visual Governance across Beijing's Subway Network	9
STREETS AS STAGES : Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China	9
TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENTRIFICATION – RESISTANCE NEXUS	8
VERTICAL GEOGRAPHIES, POLYVOCALITY AND THE EVERYDAY IN A DIVIDED CITY	8
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks	8
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Heterogeneous Governance, Claims Making and Forced Eviction in a Megacity	8
JERUSALEM, A HOLY AND CREATIVE CITY: Advisory Practices and the Grounding of Urban Mobilities within the Context of Ethnic Conflict	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
CLASS AT THE CROSSROADS: Reframing Disadvantage in Organizing Daily Wage Work in Western India	7
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL HOUSING INTO AN ASSET CLASS: REITs and the Financialization of Supported Housing in England	7
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona	7
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ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban	7
‘LET'S BEAT CRIME TOGETHER’: Corporate Mobilizations for Security in Karachi	7
‘THEY SUPPRESSED OUR RIGHTS WITH CONCRETE’: Politics of Exclusion and (Im)permanence in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh	7
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements	6
HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS : Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona	6
SPACES OF WITHDRAWAL: Compassionate Cities without Citizens	6
PERI ‐ URBAN EXTRACTIVISM : The Political Economy of ‘Cheap Sprawl’	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
PLACE ‐ FRAMING URBANITY : The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki	6
THE FUTURE SCENARIOS OF CITIES: An Analysis of their Institutional Construction	6
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AGENCY AND POWER OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES: Assembling Micro Infrastructures as Everyday Resistance and Resilience in North Jakarta's Port	5
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PLACE LEADERSHIP AND BRANDING ‐ DRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA : A Political Economy Approach	5
EDUCATION REFORM AND FINANCIALIZATION: Making the Fiscal Crisis of the Schools	5
RACIAL INEQUITY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND GENTRIFICATION: Challenging Compounded Environmental Racisms in the Green City	5
THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization	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
HOW NON ‐ RESIDENTS DERAIL DEFENSIVE DEVELOPMENT : The Magnet School and Failed Wawa Gas Station in Coral Gables, Flor	5
THE BENEFITS OF LARGE‐SCALE, MULTI‐SITE INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: An Example of New Academic Insights and New Funding Possibilities	5
THE CITIES WE CALL HOME: Indigeneity, Race andSettler‐ColonialUrbanisms	5
HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost	5
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MONITORING URBAN DISPLACEMENT : A New Methodology for Tracking Informal Settlement Eviction	5
UNRAVELLED HOMES: Forced Evictions and Home Remaking in Jakarta	5
REWILDING BANGKOK: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests	5
CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19	5
PROPERTY’S SHADOW: Governing Land and Plurality in Durban, South Africa	5
‘MAN MUST CHOP!’: Agency of Potholes, Informal Road Menders and Socioeconomic Survival on a Sub‐Urban Road in Nigeria	5
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DIGITAL TECHNOSCIENTIFIC SOCIALITIES AS AN ENTANGLED COMMONS	4
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CITIES AND THEIR GURUS: The Role of Superstar Consultants in Post‐political Urban Governance	4
FROM NY‐LON TO SILK ? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric	4
WE THE PLUG THO : Energy Democracy and the Politics of Social Reproduction in Atlanta	4
INSURGENT CO‐PRODUCTION: Conflict, Cooperation and the Dialectics of Scale in Thailand's Baan Mankong Program	4
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PREFIGURATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Mobility, Citizenship, and the Agency of Objects	4
MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces	4
NONPROFIT ‐ LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT : The Obama Presidential Cent	4
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang	4
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BEYOND THE TRIAGING OF NEGLECTED THINGS: Connecting Place and Participation Across an Urban System	4
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CAPITAL BATTLES , HABITUS AND SPACE : Urban Segregation in Bursa, Türkiye	4
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