OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Urban Technology is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Where Are Autonomous Vehicles Taking Us?	47
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	41
From the Editor	41
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	32
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	29
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	26
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	22
The Citizen’s Right to the Virtual City: Urban Governance in the Metaverse Through an Exploration of Decentraland	21
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	20
Capitalizing on the “Public Turn”: New Possibilities for Citizens and Civil Servants in Smart City-Making	19
Splintering Volumes: Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and Urban Form	19
From the Editor	18
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	17
SmartnessBeyondthe Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	16
Refracting Urbanism: The Multiple Histories (as well as Geographies) of the Networked City	15
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	15
Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica	14
Urban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact	13
Critical Junctures of Technological Mediation: Infrastructuring a Tracing System Through Commercial Apps in South Korea	13
From the Editor	12
The Role of Psychological-Physical-Physiological Factors in Decision-Making Behavior in Disasters: Insights from an Experimental Study in Gulangyu	11
Unleashing Urban Technology Dynamics: The Interplay of AI Patents, Metropolitan Area Population, and R&D Expenditures in Sustainable Urban Development	10
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	9
Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	9
Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	9

Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City	9
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	9
Co-Designing Planning Support Systems in Urban Science: The Questions They Answer and the Questions They Raise	8
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	7
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	7
From the Editor	7
Do-It-Yourself Street Views and the Urban Imaginary of Google Street View	7
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	7
Holistic Sustainability in Urban Gas Stations: Community Engagement, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Impacts	7
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	7
From the Editor	7
Cyclists as Intelligent Carriers of Space-Time Environmental Information: Crowd-Sourced Sensor Data for Local Air Quality Measurement and Mobility Analysis in the Netherlands	6
Community Smarts in Grassroots Initiatives to Support Cycling and Walking in Large Urban Areas	6
From the Editor	6
Does Mobility Experience Matter? Insights from a Model-Oriented Practice in Zaragoza, Spain	6
Infrastructure Imaginaries, Past, Present, and Future: Living with the Urban Flood in Guwahati, India	6
Sustainable Construction Technologies: Are Construction Firms Ready for Sustainable Cities?	6
Smart Local Governance: The Case of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area in Poland	6
Planning First, Tools Second: Evaluating the Evolving Roles of Planning Support Systems in Urban Planning	6
Downtime on the Microgrid: Architecture, Electricity, and Smart City Islands	5
Investigating Digitally Inflected Intercity Cycle Commuting	5
Planning for Urban Livability: Integrating Socio-Spatial Indicators in City-Making	5
Smart Cities Indicators: How Regional Context and Its Stakeholders Are Essential to Name “The” Smart City	5
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity: A Case Study in Santiago, Chile	4
Sensing Lights: The Challenges of Transforming Street Lights into an Urban Intelligence Platform	4
A New Wave of Urban Sprawl: Influence of Autonomous Vehicles on the Policy Toolkit and Property Tax Revenue of Local Governments	4
Solar Rooftop Systems and the Urban Transition: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? Interrogations from Rewari, India	4
The Infrastructural Imagination	4
Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements	4
Shifting Gears for the Automated Vehicle: Findings from Focus Groups in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area	4
Splintering by Proxy: A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism	3
From Available to Actionable Data: An Exploration of Expert and Re-users Views of Open Data	3
Can Smart Cities Be Sustainable? An Emerging Field of Research	3
The Post-Networked Condition in the Urbanized Periphery: Transforming Water Supply and Sanitation Services in a Southern European Metropolis	3
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach	3
Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality	3
Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process Method to Evaluate Mobility as a Service ( MaaS ) Applications	3
Incorporating Planning Intelligence into Deep Learning: A Planning Support Tool for Street Network Design	2
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure	2
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from the Threshold Effect of Absorptive Capacity	2
Enabling Seamless Interoperability of Digital Systems in Smart Cities Using API: A Systematic Literature Review	2
Uncertainty in Market-Mediated Technology Transfer and Geographical Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Technology Flow	2
Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South	2
Mining the Sequence Pattern of Functional Zones to Analyze the Spatial Layout of Port Cites in Coastal Zones	2
The Neuro-Cognitive Approach to Urban Planning: Wayfinding Behavior Analysis and its Effect on Urban Planning	2
“Danger Zones,” “Death Zones,” and Paradoxes of Infrastructural Space-Making in Manila	2
Immigrants Living in Smart Cities: A Systematic Review of Their Digital Technology Adoption and an Empirical Study on the Adoption of Smart City Applications	2
Smart Technologies for Urban Energy Systems	2