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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective	45
Embodied Precariat and Digital Control in the “Gig Economy”: The Mobile Labor of Food Delivery Workers	32
Splintering Urbanism at 20 and the “Infrastructural Turn”	28
Applications, Experiences, and Challenges of Smart Tourism Development in China	27
Would 3D Digital Participatory Planning Improve Social Sustainability in Smart Cities? An Empirical Evaluation Study in Less-Advantaged Areas	23
The Temporal Incompleteness of Infrastructure and the Urban	23
Perceptions and Attitudes Towards the Deployment of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Insights from Las Vegas, Nevada	22
Estimating E-Scooter Traffic Flow Using Big Data to Support Planning for Micromobility	20
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Sustainable Urban Innovation: An Ambidexterity Perspective toward Smart Cities	18
Autonomous vs. Self-Driving Vehicles: The Power of Language to Shape Public Perceptions	17
Incorporating Planning Intelligence into Deep Learning: A Planning Support Tool for Street Network Design	17
Becoming Smarter through Smart City Pilot Projects: Experiences and Lessons from China since 2013	17
Participatory Development of Planning Support Systems to Improve Empowerment and Localization	17
Planning and Policy Directions for Autonomous Vehicles in Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in the United States	15
First Mile/Last Mile Problems in Smart and Sustainable Cities: A Case Study in Stockholm County	14
Off-Grid Electrical Urbanism: Emerging Solar Energy Geographies in Ordinary Cities	13
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	13
Coupling Social Media and Agent-Based Modelling: A Novel Approach for Supporting Smart Tourism Planning	12
Programming Nature as Infrastructure in the Smart Forest City	11
Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries: Functional Clusters versus Administrative Neighborhoods	11
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	10
Towards a Political Ecology of Caste and the City	10
Co-Designing Planning Support Systems in Urban Science: The Questions They Answer and the Questions They Raise	10
In the Excess of Splintering Urbanism: The Racialized Political Economy of Infrastructure	9
Understanding Chatbot Adoption in Local Governments: A Review and Framework	8

Autonomous Shuttles: What Do Users Expect and How Will They Use Them?	8
Urban and Infrastructural Rhythms and the Politics of Temporal Alignment	8
Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	8
A Common Management Framework for European Smart Cities? The Case of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities Six Nations Forum	8
Splintering by Proxy: A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism	8
From the Guest EditorsSplintering Urbanismat 20: Mapping Trajectories of Research on Urban Infrastructures	7
Do-It-Yourself Street Views and the Urban Imaginary of Google Street View	6
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	6
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	6
“Danger Zones,” “Death Zones,” and Paradoxes of Infrastructural Space-Making in Manila	6
The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Anticipatory Urban Governance: Multi-Scalar Evidence of China’s Transition to City Brains	6
“Smart Cities in Europe” Revisited: A Meta-Analysis of Smart City Economic Impacts	5
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach	5
Urban Electric Hybridization: Exploring the Politics of a Just Transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)	5
A New Wave of Urban Sprawl: Influence of Autonomous Vehicles on the Policy Toolkit and Property Tax Revenue of Local Governments	5
Critical Perspectives on the Smart City: Efficiency Objectives vs Inclusion Ideals	5
City Transit Rider Tweets: Understanding Sentiments and Politeness	4
What Makes a City “Smart” and Who Decides? From Vision to Reality in the USDOT Smart City Challenge	4
Capitalizing on the “Public Turn”: New Possibilities for Citizens and Civil Servants in Smart City-Making	4
Splintering Urbanismand Climate Breakdown	4
Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South	4
Uncertainty in Market-Mediated Technology Transfer and Geographical Diffusion: Evidence from Chinese Technology Flow	4
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	4
The Infrastructural Imagination	4
Smart Local Governance: The Case of the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area in Poland	4
SmartnessBeyondthe Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi	4
From Available to Actionable Data: An Exploration of Expert and Re-users Views of Open Data	4
Planning First, Tools Second: Evaluating the Evolving Roles of Planning Support Systems in Urban Planning	3
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	3
Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities: Developing an Empirical Grounded Research Agenda	3
Sensing Lights: The Challenges of Transforming Street Lights into an Urban Intelligence Platform	3
Cyclists as Intelligent Carriers of Space-Time Environmental Information: Crowd-Sourced Sensor Data for Local Air Quality Measurement and Mobility Analysis in the Netherlands	3
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	3
Shifting Gears for the Automated Vehicle: Findings from Focus Groups in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area	3
Smart Cities and (Smart) Cycling: Exploring the Synergies in Copenhagen and Amsterdam	2
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	2
Stakeholders Engagement in Noise Action Planning Mediated by OGITO: An Open Geo-Spatial Interactive Tool	2
Splintering, Specificity, Unsettlement: A Commentary on Splintering Urbanism	2
Electrical Hybridizations in Cities of the South: From Heterogeneity to New Conceptualizations of Energy Transition	2
Autonomous People: Identity, Agency, and Automated Driving	2
Where Are Autonomous Vehicles Taking Us?	2
Protecting Street Art Rights Using an NFT-Based System	2
Refracting Urbanism: The Multiple Histories (as well as Geographies) of the Networked City	2
Splintering Urbanism @ 20: Reengaging Contradiction, Confinement, and Consumption	2
Solar Rooftop Systems and the Urban Transition: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? Interrogations from Rewari, India	2