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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 responses: infrastructure inequality and privileged capacity to transform everyday life in South Africa	47
A changing environment of urban education: historical and spatial analysis of private supplementary tutoring in China	34
A city on the edge: the political ecology of urban green space	26
Enabling participatory planning to be scaled in exclusionary urban political environments: lessons from the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi	20
Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field	16
Editorial: Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city	13
Delivering WASH education at scale: evidence from a global MOOC series	12
Childcare services in cities: challenges and emerging solutions for women informal workers and their children	11
The roles of community resilience and risk appraisal in climate change adaptation: the experience of the Kannagi Nagar resettlement in Chennai	10
Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth	9
Climate change and health in informal settlements: a narrative review of the health impacts of extreme weather events	9
A floating dream: urban upgrading, population control and migrant children’s education in Beijing	8
Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia	8
The value of participatory urban policy councils: engaging actors through policy communities	8
Queering participatory planning	8
A threat to life and livelihoods: examining the effects of the first wave of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing in Bengaluru and Patna slums	8
Climate justice is social justice: articulating people’s rights to the city in Mumbai	7
Limits to and opportunities for scaling participation: lessons from three city-wide urban poor networks in Dhaka, Bangladesh	7
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	6
COVID-19 in real time: comparing the struggle of three low-income neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires	6
The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field	6
Participation as ‘city-making’: a critical assessment of participatory planning in the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi, Kenya	6
Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	5
How does community-managed infrastructure scale up from rural to urban? An example of co-production in community water projects in Northern Pakistan	5
The best glass? Equitable access to quality education in inner-city Kingston, Jamaica	5

“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)	5
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: data from informal settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai	4
Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change	4
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	4
Balancing rationalism with creativity: an architectural studio’s experience of responsive design solutions	4
One step forward, two steps back? Shifting patterns of participation in a former informal settlement in Mexico City	4
Exploring the views of Iranian planning professionals on children’s active involvement in urban planning	4
Framing ‘slums’: global policy discourses and urban inequalities	4
Can cities bounce back better from COVID-19? Reflections from emerging post-pandemic recovery plans and trade-offs	4
Inequality and the social construction of urban disaster risk in multi-hazard contexts: the case of Lima, Peru and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	4
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	4
Mapping participatory planning in Havana: patchwork legacies for a strengthened local governance	3
Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?	3
Area-based approaches and urban recovery in the Pacific: lessons from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu	3
People move, policies don’t: discursive partition against climate-impacted dwellers in urbanizing Bangladesh	3
Towards adaptive and transformative finance for urban areas? A framework to analyse the responsiveness of adaptation finance to urban challenges in the global South	3
Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia	3
Situated perspectives on the city: a reflection on scaling participation through design	3
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	3
Cumulative adaptation and linkages among adaptation, coping and vulnerability: a case of riverside slum households in Phnom Penh, Cambodia	2
Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro	2
Social movements in the context of crisis: waste picker organizations as collaborative public partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Urban fragments in the politics of infrastructure: land claims and livelihood spaces of a fishing community in Chennai	2
Pluralizing the urban waste economy: insights from community-based enterprises in Ahmedabad (India) and Kampala (Uganda)	2
The economic circularity of informality? Evidence from patterns of informal business innovation in Bandung	2
A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa’s emerging urban geography	2
There is no environmental health without public health: exploring the links between sanitation and waterbody health in Bengaluru, India	2
Global development and urban studies: tactics for thinking beyond the North–South binary	2
Sanitation citizenship: state expectations and community practices of shared toilet use and maintenance in urban India	2
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	2
Co-producing knowledge to address disaster risks in informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: pathways toward urban equality?	2
Excluded communities and participatory land-use planning: experience from informal Roma settlements in Serbia	2
Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru	1
Peri-urban rent gap and land value capture by government-led urban development in South Korea	1
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	1
Is rapid urbanization of low-elevation deltas undermining adaptation to climate change? A global review	1
Citizen participation in multiscale planning: the case of “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan” in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2016–2020)	1
Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India	1
Building common understandings of urban inequalities to generate relevant solutions in Lima, Peru	1
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	1
Rethinking urbanization and economic development: a synopsis	1
Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies: weave, sentipensar, mobilize, reverberate, emancipate	1
The proliferation of municipal green bonds in Africa and Latin America: the need for a climate justice approach	1
How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?	1
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	1
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	1