OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environment and Urbanization is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements	153
Contextualizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh	55
COVID-19 responses: infrastructure inequality and privileged capacity to transform everyday life in South Africa	42
Mapping repertoires of collective action facing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal settlements in Latin American cities	38
COVID-19: what is not being addressed	36
A changing environment of urban education: historical and spatial analysis of private supplementary tutoring in China	30
Durban’s 100 Resilient Cities journey: governing resilience from within	28
Getting urban density to work in informal settlements in Africa	28
GIS-based spatial modelling of COVID-19 death incidence in São Paulo, Brazil	25
A city on the edge: the political ecology of urban green space	22
Cities and extreme weather events: impacts of flooding and extreme heat on water and electricity services in Ghana	20
Enabling participatory planning to be scaled in exclusionary urban political environments: lessons from the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi	16
Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below	16
Building just and sustainable cities through government housing developments	15
Exploring the correlation between city size and residential segregation: comparing Chilean cities with spatially unbiased indexes	14
The churn of the land nexus and contrasting gentrification processes in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, Tanzania	13
Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field	12
High rises and low-quality shelter: rental housing dynamics in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	11
Delivering WASH education at scale: evidence from a global MOOC series	11
Urban water security: a comparative study of cities in the arid Americas	10
Incorporating a resilience lens into the social and urban transformation of informal settlements: the participatory upgrading process in Villa 20, Buenos Aires (2016–2020)	10
Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth	9
Childcare services in cities: challenges and emerging solutions for women informal workers and their children	9
Co-producing land for housing through informal settlement upgrading: lessons from a Namibian municipality	9
Editorial: Getting housing back onto the development agenda: the many roles of housing and the many services it should provide its inhabitants	8

Queering participatory planning	7
Housing policies and the roles of local governments in Latin America: recent experiences	7
The roles of community resilience and risk appraisal in climate change adaptation: the experience of the Kannagi Nagar resettlement in Chennai	7
Meeting WASH SDG6: insights from everyday practices in Dar es Salaam	7
Investigating urban vulnerability and resilience: a call for applied integrated research to reshape the political economy of decision-making	6
Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia	6
Mothers, daughters, fathers and sons: intergenerational family social capital and inequalities in Guayaquil, Ecuador	6
Can people on low incomes access affordable housing loans in urban Africa and Asia? Examples of innovative housing finance models from Reall’s global network	6
Community fire response in Nairobi’s informal settlements	6
A floating dream: urban upgrading, population control and migrant children’s education in Beijing	6
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	6
Editorial: Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city	6
How does community-managed infrastructure scale up from rural to urban? An example of co-production in community water projects in Northern Pakistan	5
Climate justice is social justice: articulating people’s rights to the city in Mumbai	4
“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)	4
How different actors shape the real estate market for informal settlements in Lagos	4
Balancing rationalism with creativity: an architectural studio’s experience of responsive design solutions	4
Limits to and opportunities for scaling participation: lessons from three city-wide urban poor networks in Dhaka, Bangladesh	4
Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change	4
Spatial and organizational aspects of anti-eviction strategies	4
The value of participatory urban policy councils: engaging actors through policy communities	4
COVID-19 in real time: comparing the struggle of three low-income neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires	4
Seeing change in urban informal settlements with social network analysis	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
One step forward, two steps back? Shifting patterns of participation in a former informal settlement in Mexico City	3
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	3
Climate change and health in informal settlements: a narrative review of the health impacts of extreme weather events	3
Understanding shelter from a gender perspective: the case of Hawassa, Ethiopia	3
Inclusive shelter provision in Mogadishu	3
Participation as ‘city-making’: a critical assessment of participatory planning in the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi, Kenya	3
Editorial: Acquiring housing – understanding outcomes, improving choices and “leaving no one behind”	3
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: data from informal settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai	2
The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field	2
Towards adaptive and transformative finance for urban areas? A framework to analyse the responsiveness of adaptation finance to urban challenges in the global South	2
Framing ‘slums’: global policy discourses and urban inequalities	2
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	2
International experiences of criminal violence and delivery of urban basic services: the case of electricity	2
Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
The best glass? Equitable access to quality education in inner-city Kingston, Jamaica	2
Area-based approaches and urban recovery in the Pacific: lessons from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu	2
Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia	2
Can cities bounce back better from COVID-19? Reflections from emerging post-pandemic recovery plans and trade-offs	2
Excluded communities and participatory land-use planning: experience from informal Roma settlements in Serbia	2
Situated perspectives on the city: a reflection on scaling participation through design	2
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	2
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	2