OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Urban and Regional Studies 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis	60
Value ‘stripping’: Affordable housing, institutional investment, and the political economy of municipal debt	19
Work from home and big city out-migration before and after the pandemic	19
The border in common: The Janus-faced place attachment of cross-border regions	19
Winners of the 2022 Jim Lewis Prize	16
Transformation of the state-capital relationship over public land in Turkey	15
Hierarchical tendencies, functional specializations, and (in)stability across European banking centers	15
Winners of the 2025 Jim Lewis Prize	14
Urban circularity as a planning challenge: The ‘forgotten’ pillar of circular city agendas?	14
Energy poverty in the Energy Community region: Interrogating policy formulation and coverage	14
Cultural governance within and across cities and regions: Evidence from the English publicly funded arts sector	14
The financialisation of short-term rentals in Barcelona: Property ownership and the consolidation of a new asset class	14
Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley	13
Marginal housing financialisation in Thessaloniki: Rent gaps, tourism and the hesitance of institutional investors	11
Between the democratization of housing and the neoliberal responsibilization of citizens: The proliferation of co-housing in Viennese city planning	11
Lived experiences of water poverty in Barcelona	11
Firm–education–industry association linkages: Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?	11
The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022)	10
Temporary protection, refugee fatigue and political discontent in European Union cities of refuge	10
Ecology, economy and climate crisis in European urban and regional development	10
Governing the bairro clandestino of Cova da Moura (1974–2015): Decentred and collaborative governance in an informal neighbourhood in Lisbon’s metropolitan area	10
Making it up: Adaptive approaches to bringing freelance cultural work to a cultural ecologies discourse	9
Small and smart municipalities: The evolving priorities and readiness for smart development	8
Corrigendum to “Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy”	8
Determinants of cross-border cultural integration: Case studies of the EU Basque and Upper Rhine cross-border regions	7

‘In but not fully of Europe’: Situating the Ottoman legacy in the heritage initiatives of the European Union and the Council of Europe	7
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions	7
The financialization of rental housing 3.0	7
Anticipating demand shocks: Patient capital and the supply of housing	6
Vertical segregation in the apartment blocks of Athens and Budapest: A comparative study	6
Impact of the Czech–Polish intergovernmental Turów dispute on mental distance and cross-border integration: Avoiding problems, or neighbours?	6
Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope	6
Cities fight for autonomy: A view from an ongoing protest in Israel	6
Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania	6
Engaging with precarious urban futures: From entrepreneurial to grounded cities	6
In search of social equity in entrepreneurialism: The case of Israel’s municipal regeneration agencies	5
The spatial division of precarious labour across the European Union regions: A composite index analysis of the 2008/2009 global economic crisis effects and COVID-19 initial implications	5
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland	5
Tourism pressure as a driver of social inequalities: a BSEM estimation of housing instability in European urban areas	5
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow	5
Permanence and change in urban segregation: Segregation trends in different neighbourhoods of Athens, 1991–2021	5
Exploring the effects of coworking in two European cities: Financialisation flows and consumption patterns in Athens and Berlin	4
Exploring the network of the short-term rental financial complex	4
In search of divided spaces: socio-economic vulnerability and foreign citizens’ settlement patterns in some major cities of northern and southern Italy	4
Three theses on informal housing in Europe	4
A clean and civil city: Local associations and the moral bordering of Parisian public space	4
Navigating regional opportunity spaces: Labour branching towards growing jobs	4
Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move: Interregional migration in Finland	3
The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system	3
Between a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations	3
Corrigendum	3
The economic geography of European Union’s discontent: Lessons from Greece	3
The regularity of informality: Reframing the formal–informal relationship with the help of informal housing in London	3
Toward a fine-grained understanding of informality: Subjective meanings, perceptions, and expectations in informal housing trajectories	3
Violence reduction in a changing European urban context: Frontline practitioner’s understanding of the roots of violence, and why it matters for policy and prevention	3
Housing markets and geographical labour mobility to high-productivity regions: The case of Stockholm	2
Away from the cities? A medium-to-long-term investigation of how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed population spatial patterns in Italy	2
EU Cohesion Policies and interregional inequalities in disruptive times	2
Smart and social? Assessing social value in the EU LEADER programme in rural Estonia	2
Phantom participation in European post-socialist cities: The Belgrade Waterfront expansion	2
Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva	2
The cultural and creative economy in Italy: Spatial patterns in peripheral areas	2
The burden of the border: Precarious citizenship experiences in the wake of the Spanish housing crash	2
The assetisation of housing: A macroeconomic resource	2
Publication Notice	2
Enabling the emergence of shared housing for young adults in post-industrial cities: Between common interests and regulatory challenges	2
Polycentricity of daily urban systems: A misconceived concept and buzzword in ‘metropolitan’ planning practice	2
A union in distress: Contested spatial imaginations, narratives and practices of European (dis)integration	1
Regional divergence in France and international integration: Is foreign direct investment attraction policy part of the problem?	1
From decay to resource: A regenerative community approach to more sustainable development of building infrastructures in rural regions	1
‘Two faces’ of human capital and research and development activities: Effects of related technologies and the regional technology portfolio on total factor productivity in Polish regions	1
Local labour market segmentation and migrant workers’ experiences: The case of the hotel industry in Venice	1
Strengthening the local heart of Europe	1
Challenging the boundaries of exclusive Europeanisation: How young refugees unsettle normative spaces of urban citizenship	1
England’s dreaming? Corridor strategic spatial planning imaginaries, 1965–present	1

Gordon MacLeod	1
Navigating the city: Role of property-market intelligence channels in urban governance networks	1
When smart villages meets rural diversity: Tailoring rural smartness to rural and remote areas	1
Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience	1
Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark	1
New scales of migration governance in the Mediterranean: Regional cities in the spotlight	1
Financialization, dependence, and state regulation: The accumulation strategies of German energy companies in Hungary	1
The role of cities in the reconstruction of Ukraine	1
Urban regeneration projects and the role of municipal officials: A strategy-as-practice perspective	1
What makes cities happy? Factors contributing to life satisfaction in European cities	1
Are peripheral regions in troubled waters for sustainability transitions? A systematic analysis of the literature	1
Winners of the 2023 Jim Lewis Prize	1
Entrepreneurial actions in energy transition: A study of three local energy clusters in Poland	1
The permanent regime of temporary solutions: Housing of forced migrants in Europe as a policy challenge	1