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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements	154
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	39
COVID-19: what is not being addressed	37
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
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	23
Cities and extreme weather events: impacts of flooding and extreme heat on water and electricity services in Ghana	22
Enabling participatory planning to be scaled in exclusionary urban political environments: lessons from the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi	17
Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below	16
Exploring the correlation between city size and residential segregation: comparing Chilean cities with spatially unbiased indexes	15
Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field	14
The churn of the land nexus and contrasting gentrification processes in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, Tanzania	13
Delivering WASH education at scale: evidence from a global MOOC series	11
High rises and low-quality shelter: rental housing dynamics in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	11
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
Childcare services in cities: challenges and emerging solutions for women informal workers and their children	10
Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth	9
Queering participatory planning	8
Editorial: Getting housing back onto the development agenda: the many roles of housing and the many services it should provide its inhabitants	8
Housing policies and the roles of local governments in Latin America: recent experiences	7
Meeting WASH SDG6: insights from everyday practices in Dar es Salaam	7
The roles of community resilience and risk appraisal in climate change adaptation: the experience of the Kannagi Nagar resettlement in Chennai	7

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
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
A floating dream: urban upgrading, population control and migrant children’s education in Beijing	6
Community fire response in Nairobi’s informal settlements	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
How different actors shape the real estate market for informal settlements in Lagos	4
“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE)	4
Balancing rationalism with creativity: an architectural studio’s experience of responsive design solutions	4
Climate change and health in informal settlements: a narrative review of the health impacts of extreme weather events	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