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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Notes	28
Citizen participation in multiscale planning: the case of “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan” in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2016–2020)	21
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan	20
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	15
Towards understanding enabling environments for good practices in disaster risk management: an analysis of critical junctures in Manizales, Colombia	13
Wetland gentrification: the African variant on ecological gentrification	11
Oil cities, industrial policy and sustainable development: a new historical approach	11
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	10
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	9
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	8
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	8
Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia	8
A novel approach to work towards gender-responsive urban climate policy	8
Bulletin Board	7
Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city	7
The economic circularity of informality? Evidence from patterns of informal business innovation in Bandung	6
A city on the edge: the political ecology of urban green space	6
Summaries of Articles	6
Bulletin Board	6
Framing ‘slums’: global policy discourses and urban inequalities	6
Area-based approaches and urban recovery in the Pacific: lessons from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu	6
Delivering WASH education at scale: evidence from a global MOOC series	5
Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro	5
Bulletin Board	5
Summaries of Articles	5

Bulletin Board	5
The political economy of development: analysing Daqing’s contribution to the formation and technocratic evolution of China’s socialist state	5
Corrigendum to Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	5
Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature	4
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	4
Editorial: Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city	4
The roles of community resilience and risk appraisal in climate change adaptation: the experience of the Kannagi Nagar resettlement in Chennai	4
Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field	4
Self-reliance programming in urban displacement: a pragmatic approach or a disillusionment?	4
Exploring the views of Iranian planning professionals on children’s active involvement in urban planning	4
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	4
Corrigendum to ““Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)”	4
Book Notes	3
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	3
Is rapid urbanization of low-elevation deltas undermining adaptation to climate change? A global review	3
Inequality and the social construction of urban disaster risk in multi-hazard contexts: the case of Lima, Peru and the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Bulletin Board	3
Rethinking urbanization and economic development: a synopsis	3
Book Notes	3
The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field	2
Book Notes	2
Urban protracted displacement and displacement economies	2
One step forward, two steps back? Shifting patterns of participation in a former informal settlement in Mexico City	2
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	2
Sanitation citizenship: state expectations and community practices of shared toilet use and maintenance in urban India	2
Building common understandings of urban inequalities to generate relevant solutions in Lima, Peru	2
Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	2
Bulletin Board	2
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	2
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	2
Toiling for oil: Daqing, real utopias and the production of livelihood in communist China	2
How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?	2
“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)	2
Editorial: Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities	1
Enabling participatory planning to be scaled in exclusionary urban political environments: lessons from the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi	1
Book Notes	1
Zero Waste household practices in informal settlements: an opportunity to improve the living conditions of the urban poor and address global challenges	1
An assessment of ecosystem degradation and poverty: a case study of Obafemi-Owode local government area, Ogun State, Nigeria	1
Performative legitimation of waste-to-energy infrastructure: incineration politics in Guangzhou low-carbon transition	1
Towards adaptive and transformative finance for urban areas? A framework to analyse the responsiveness of adaptation finance to urban challenges in the global South	1
Queering participatory planning	1
Situated perspectives on the city: a reflection on scaling participation through design	1
The right to the city for urban refugees? Living in the shadow of the camp in Nairobi, Amman and Addis Ababa	1
Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	1