OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environment and Urbanization is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	21
Bulletin Board	19
Bulletin Board	19
Summaries of Articles	13
Recovering the (hi)stories of popular urbanism in revolutionary times: insights from conversations with TUPAU and Taller 5 architects on critical pedagogy, the politics of participation and urban desi	13
Tax reform coalitions for urban development: the politics of property tax reform in Sierra Leone	12
Bulletin Board	12
Book Notes	12
Towards resilient cities: advancing sustainable urban drainage systems in Malawi amid climate change challenges	12
Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change	11
Catalysing urban reform through coalition-building in African cities: key dimensions and typologies	11
Polymorphic grassroots networks and implications for disaster resilience in popular settlements in Sierra Leone, India and Kenya	11
Making rent: how forced migrant families access private rental housing in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon	10
Tired	10
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	10
Life in the Slums . . . Still I Rise	9
Book Notes	9
Critical learning: a pathway towards transformative action for urban resilience	9
Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India	9
Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru	8
Daqing and China’s quest for oil: between survival and ingenuity in times of resource scarcity	8
Revisiting Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State	8
The city the earthquake built: internal displacement, international aid and state–society relations in the “fragile city” of Canaan	8
Fragmented urban water governance: a case study of textile mills and water tanks in colonial Bangalore	8
Critical planning advocacy in solidarity in the pursuit of informal settlement upgrading in Harry Gwala and Slovo Park, Greater Johannesburg	7

Book Notes	7
A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa’s emerging urban geography	7
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	7
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan	7
The future of Gaza: existing plans can frame a locally inclusive and risk-sensitive reconstruction	7
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	7
Bulletin Board	6
The political economy of development: analysing Daqing’s contribution to the formation and technocratic evolution of China’s socialist state	6
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	6
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	6
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	5
Pluralizing the urban waste economy: insights from community-based enterprises in Ahmedabad (India) and Kampala (Uganda)	5
Developing pathways for self-reliance: urban IDPs and the negotiation of livelihood opportunities in Makurdi, Nigeria	5
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	5
How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?	5
Realigning responses to protracted displacement: putting “urban first” in a “world without camps”	4
Inclusive planning and collaboration in support of disadvantaged groups: lessons from the urban food agenda in Chiang Mai, Thailand	4
Pathways to urban equality: trans-local solidarities within the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights	4
Summaries of Articles	4
Bulletin Board	4
Summaries of Articles	4
The complex practices of assessoria técnica popular : challenges of representation in the technical advisory process to the Carlos Marighella Occupation	3
Property rights and household income among the urban poor in Luanda, Angola	3
Wetland gentrification: the African variant on ecological gentrification	3
Tomorrow’s cities: co-designing urban futures for equitable resilience	3
Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city	3
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: data from informal settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai	3
Oil cities, industrial policy and sustainable development: a new historical approach	3
Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro	2
Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature	2
Editorial: Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities	2
Mapping pathways for urban reforms: a critical reflection on the Urban Informality Forum in Harare, Zimbabwe	2
Occupation of vacant buildings in central districts by social movements as a means to deal with climate change in an inclusive way: the cases of cities São Paulo and Natal	2
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	2
An evolving threat to life and livelihoods: comparing the health, economic and political implications of the first two waves of COVID-19 in Bengaluru and Patna slums	2
Book Notes	2
Summaries of Articles	2
Corrigendum to Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	2
Self-reliance programming in urban displacement: a pragmatic approach or a disillusionment?	2
Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	2
Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?	2
Urban reform coalitions for transformative sustainability: reflections and lessons from Durban, South Africa	1
Dakar’s flood drainage canals: assembling urban subjectivities, transforming political spaces	1
Anatomy of an alliance for affordable urban housing	1
Community-led pathways to climate-resilient housing: seasonal agricultural workers’ settlements in Bursa, Türkiye	1
Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia	1
From protesting to proposing: the evolution of community organizations’ involvement in co-managing disaster risk management in Comuna 8, Medellín, Colombia	1
Urban labs beyond Europe: the formation and contextualization of experimental climate governance in five Latin American cities	1
Corrigendum to “Co-producing nature-based solutions: integrating knowledge interfaces in informal settlements in Indonesia”	1
The case for a climate bonus: waste pickers’ perceptions of climate change in Minas Gerais	1

The proliferation of municipal green bonds in Africa and Latin America: the need for a climate justice approach