OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environment and Urbanization is 4. 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
Climate change and health in informal settlements: a narrative review of the health impacts of extreme weather events	9
Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth	9
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
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
Limits to and opportunities for scaling participation: lessons from three city-wide urban poor networks in Dhaka, Bangladesh	7
Climate justice is social justice: articulating people’s rights to the city in Mumbai	7
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
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
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

Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa	5
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
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