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

Article	Citations
On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka	21
Bulletin Board	20
Bulletin Board	19
Summaries of Articles	13
Towards resilient cities: advancing sustainable urban drainage systems in Malawi amid climate change challenges	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
Bulletin Board	13
Book Notes	12
Tax reform coalitions for urban development: the politics of property tax reform in Sierra Leone	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
Life in the Slums . . . Still I Rise	10
Tired	10
Critical learning: a pathway towards transformative action for urban resilience	10
Making visible concrete’s shadow places: mixing environmental concerns and social inequalities into building materials	10
Making rent: how forced migrant families access private rental housing in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon	10
Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India	9
Book Notes	9
Revisiting Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State	9
Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru	9
The future of Gaza: existing plans can frame a locally inclusive and risk-sensitive reconstruction	8
Daqing and China’s quest for oil: between survival and ingenuity in times of resource scarcity	8
A spatial-demographic analysis of Africa’s emerging urban geography	8
The city the earthquake built: internal displacement, international aid and state–society relations in the “fragile city” of Canaan	8

Critical planning advocacy in solidarity in the pursuit of informal settlement upgrading in Harry Gwala and Slovo Park, Greater Johannesburg	8
Fragmented urban water governance: a case study of textile mills and water tanks in colonial Bangalore	8
Book Notes	7
An agile city? Tactical urbanism and responses to protracted displacement in the City of Amman, Jordan	7
The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone	7
How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam	7
Post-conflict statecraft, land governance and exclusion in Hargeisa, Somaliland	6
Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt	6
Bulletin Board	6
The political economy of development: analysing Daqing’s contribution to the formation and technocratic evolution of China’s socialist state	6
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale	5
Summaries of Articles	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
Sanitation challenges in Dar es Salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems	5
How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas?	5
Pathways to urban equality: trans-local solidarities within the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights	4
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
Summaries of Articles	4
Property rights and household income among the urban poor in Luanda, Angola	4
Bulletin Board	4
Wetland gentrification: the African variant on ecological gentrification	3
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	3
The complex practices of assessoria técnica popular : challenges of representation in the technical advisory process to the Carlos Marighella Occupation	3
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: data from informal settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai	3
Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city	3
Tomorrow’s cities: co-designing urban futures for equitable resilience	3
Oil cities, industrial policy and sustainable development: a new historical approach	3
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
Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions	2
Editorial: Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities	2
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
Book Notes	2
Mapping pathways for urban reforms: a critical reflection on the Urban Informality Forum in Harare, Zimbabwe	2
Editorial: Addressing urban inequalities: co-creating pathways through research and practice	2
Summaries of Articles	2
Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback?	2
Dakar’s flood drainage canals: assembling urban subjectivities, transforming political spaces	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
Urban reform coalitions for transformative sustainability: reflections and lessons from Durban, South Africa	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	1
From protesting to proposing: the evolution of community organizations’ involvement in co-managing disaster risk management in Comuna 8, Medellín, Colombia	1
Corrigendum to “Co-producing nature-based solutions: integrating knowledge interfaces in informal settlements in Indonesia”	1
People move, policies don’t: discursive partition against climate-impacted dwellers in urbanizing Bangladesh	1
Urban labs beyond Europe: the formation and contextualization of experimental climate governance in five Latin American cities	1
Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia	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