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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Gray to Green Communities: A Call to Action on the Housing and Climate Crises	34
The Infrastructural Imagination	32
From the Editor	27
China’s Urban Waste Resource Management Systems: A Case of the Yangtze River Basin	23
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity: A Case Study in Santiago, Chile	23
Playing in Traffic? Exploring the Intersection of Platforms, Agency, and Space in Bicycle Courier Mobilities	22
Crowdsourcing Pleasantness and Safety Perceptions: An Analysis through Multiple Rankings and Socio-Demographic Groups	18
Tweeting during the Pandemic in New York City: Unveiling the Evolving Sentiment Landscape of NYC through a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Geolocated Tweets	17
Planning Support for Smart Cities in the Post-COVID Era	17
Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities	17
Of Flying Cars and Pandemic Urbanism: Splintering Urban Society in the Age of Covid-19	17
Where Are Autonomous Vehicles Taking Us?	14
Splintering Urbanismand Climate Breakdown	13
Coworking Spaces and Well-Being: An Empirical Investigation of Coworkers in Italy	13
Applications, Experiences, and Challenges of Smart Tourism Development in China	12
Shifting Gears for the Automated Vehicle: Findings from Focus Groups in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area	11
Embodied Precariat and Digital Control in the “Gig Economy”: The Mobile Labor of Food Delivery Workers	11
Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process Method to Evaluate Mobility as a Service ( MaaS ) Applications	10
The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Anticipatory Urban Governance: Multi-Scalar Evidence of China’s Transition to City Brains	10
Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture	10
Governing Hybridized Electricity Systems: The Case of Decentralized Electricity in Lebanon	9
Towards a Green Digital City: Digital Economy, Digital Innovation, and Urban Haze Pollution	8
Can Smart Cities Be Sustainable? An Emerging Field of Research	8
Co-Designing Planning Support Systems in Urban Science: The Questions They Answer and the Questions They Raise	8
Sensing Lights: The Challenges of Transforming Street Lights into an Urban Intelligence Platform	8

Towards a Political Ecology of Caste and the City	7
Resource Ecologies, Urban Metabolisms, and the Provision of Essential Services	6
The Smart City – Does the Individual Matter?	6
Planning and Policy Directions for Autonomous Vehicles in Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in the United States	6
From Available to Actionable Data: An Exploration of Expert and Re-users Views of Open Data	6
Autonomous Shuttles: What Do Users Expect and How Will They Use Them?	6
Informational Modeling of Cities: Method and Challenges for Institutional Implementation	5
Becoming Smarter through Smart City Pilot Projects: Experiences and Lessons from China since 2013	5
Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach	5
Stakeholders Engagement in Noise Action Planning Mediated by OGITO: An Open Geo-Spatial Interactive Tool	5
Mapping Roof Materials in Cities for Food, Water, and Energy Production: A Mediterranean Metropolitan Area Case Study	5
Australian Airports and Local Economic Development	5
Critical Perspectives on the Smart City: Efficiency Objectives vs Inclusion Ideals	4
The Role of Digital Management and Smart Technologies for Sports Education in a Dynamic Environment: Employment, Green Growth, and Tourism	4
Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities: Developing an Empirical Grounded Research Agenda	4
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities	4
Mundane Urban Governance and AI Oversight: The Case of Vienna's Intelligent Pedestrian Traffic Lights	4
Do-It-Yourself Street Views and the Urban Imaginary of Google Street View	4
Splintering Volumes: Architecture, Engineering, Finance, and Urban Form	4
Splintered Mobilities as Viral Vector: Mobility Justice and Racial Kinopolitics	4
Splintering Urbanism @ 20: Reengaging Contradiction, Confinement, and Consumption	4
The Role of the Internet of Things in Enhancing Sustainable Urban Energy Systems: A Review of Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Flexible and Resource-Recovery Sanitation Solutions: What Hindered Their Implementation? A 40-Year Swedish Perspective	4
A Hybrid Model for Short-Term Energy Load Prediction Based on Transfer Learning with LightGBM for Smart Grids in Smart Energy Systems	4
Autonomous People: Identity, Agency, and Automated Driving	3
Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City Frankenstein Urbanism: Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence	3
The Times of Splintering Urbanism	3
Personal Spatial Mobilities after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Speculative View	3
Capitalizing on the “Public Turn”: New Possibilities for Citizens and Civil Servants in Smart City-Making	3
Exploring the User Base of Online Neighborhood Networks: Determinants of Online Neighborhood Network Membership and Uses	3
Splintering by Proxy: A Reflection on the Spatial Impacts and Distributed Agency of Platform Urbanism	3
Towards a Typology of Data-Enabled Co-Creation Platforms in Smart Cities and Mapping of Practices in OECD Countries	2
Of Bloatware and Spreadsheets: Nairobi, Chinese Phones, and the Limits of Data Coloniality	2
Urban Resilience T hrough Cognitive Computing Systems	2
Green Building Technology and Sustainable Construction: The Case of Pakistan	2
Exploring Urban Infrastructures from the Experience of Cities in the Global South: Urbanism Models, Policy Mobilities, and the Finances	2
Barriers to Developing a Citizen-Centric Smart City in China: From the Perspective of Citizens’ Sense of Gain	2
Would 3D Digital Participatory Planning Improve Social Sustainability in Smart Cities? An Empirical Evaluation Study in Less-Advantaged Areas	2
A Deep Learning Approach to Identify Potential Sites for Pocket Park Installation in Nanjing, China	2
The Temporal Incompleteness of Infrastructure and the Urban	2
Participatory Development of Planning Support Systems to Improve Empowerment and Localization	2
Toward Urban Resilience? Coping with Blackouts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	2