OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Affairs Review 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Trade-Offs Local Governments Make in the Pursuit of Economic Growth and Equity	21
How Do Local Policy Makers Learn about Climate Change Adaptation Policies? Examining Study Visits as an Instrument of Policy Learning in the European Union	19
Beyond Neoliberalism: A Policy Agenda for a Progressive City	18
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	15
Do “Non-Partisan” Municipal Politicians Match the Partisanship of Their Constituents?	14
Symbols of Gentrification? Narrating Displacement in Los Angeles Chinatown	13
Are You Picking Up What I Am Laying Down? Ideology in Low-Information Elections	13
Municipal Cybersecurity: More Work Needs to be Done	13
The Great Failure: The Roles of Institutional Conflict and Social Movements in the Failure of Regeneration Initiatives in Istanbul	12
Fear of the Unknown: Examining Neighborhood Stigma’s Effect on Urban Greenway Use and Surrounding Communities	12
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy	12
Capitalizing on Collapse: An Analysis of Institutional Single-Family Rental Investors	11
Voting in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Primary Turnout in Milwaukee, Wisconsin	11
A Longitudinal Network Analysis of Intergovernmental Collaboration for Local Economic Development	10
State-Level Influences on Community-Level Municipal Sustainable Energy Policies	9
Understanding the Adoption and Implementation of Body-Worn Cameras among U.S. Local Police Departments	9
The Spatial Articulation of Urban Political Cleavages	9
You Won't be My Neighbor: Opposition to High Density Development	8
Philanthropic Funding for Community and Economic Development: Exploring Potential for Influencing Policy and Governance	8
How Coerced Municipal Amalgamations Thwart the Values of Local Self-Government	8
Predatory Policing, Intersectional Subjection, and the Experiences of LGBTQ People of Color in New Orleans	8
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective	7
Neighborhoods and Felony Disenfranchisement: The Case of New York City	7
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	7
Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	7

Connecting Mayors: The Content and Formation of Twitter Information Networks	7
The Influence of Spatial Density of Nonprofits on Crime	7
Why Political Scientists Should Study Smaller Cities	6
Understanding Urban Retail Vacancy	6
Does an Increased Share of Black Police Officers Decrease Racial Discrimination in Law Enforcement?	6
The Involvement of Business Elites in the Management of Homelessness: Towards a Privatization of Service Provision for Homeless People?	6
Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction	5
Incentives and Austerity: How Did the Great Recession Affect Municipal Economic Development Policy?	5
How Landlords of Small Rental Properties Decide Who Gets Housed and Who Gets Evicted	5
Local Government's Resource Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Capacity, Conservatism, and Contractual Dynamics	5
What Motivates Local Sustainability Policy Action in China? The Case of Low-Carbon City Pilot Program	5
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	5
Does Interlocal Competition Drive Cooperation in Local Economic Development Policies? Evidence on Interlocal Business Parks in Germany	5
Higher Education Centers and College Towns: A Typology of the US Metropolitan Geography of Higher Education	5
Moving to Opportunity, or Aging in Place? The Changing Profile of Low Income and Subsidized Households and Where They Live	5
Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development	5
Working-Class Institutions, Amazon and The Politics of Local Economic Development in Western Queens	5
Investing in Gentrification: The Eligibility of Gentrifying Neighborhoods for Federal Place-Based Economic Investment in U.S. Cities	5
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	4
Local-Level Economic Development Conflicts: Factors that Influence Interactions with Private Land Developers	4
Urban Climate Governance Experimentation in Seoul: Science, Politics, or a Little of Both?	4
Bridging the Gap between Electoral and Participatory Democracy: The Electoral Motivations behind Participatory Budgeting in Chicago	4
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	4
Policing Temporality: Police Officers Reflect on the Role of the Police in Gentrifying a High-Crime Neighborhood	4
Who Benefits From Brownfield Cleanup and Gentrification? Evidence From Chicago	4
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics	4
Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	4
Using Emerging Hot Spot Analysis to Explore Spatiotemporal Patterns of Housing Vacancy in Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Areas	4
Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance	4
Examining the Dynamics Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Progressive City Planning	3
From Community to Public Familiarity: Neighborhood, Sociability, and Belonging in the Neoliberal City	3
Networked Urban Governance: A Socio-Structural Analysis of Transport Strategies in London and New York	3
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	3
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	3
Avoiding Punishment? Electoral Accountability for Local Fee Increases	3
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	3
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice	3
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	3
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	3
Pensions in the Trenches: How Pension Spending Is Affecting U.S. Local Government	3
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	3
Who Banishes? City Power and Anti-homeless Policy in San Francisco	3
The Pictures in Their Heads: How U.S. Mayors Think About Racial Inequality	3
Do Local Immigrant-Welcoming Efforts Increase Immigration? The Detroit Experience	3
Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis	3
“Remember, this is Brightmoor”: Historical Violence, Neighborhood Experiences, and the Hysteresis of Street Life	3
Undermining Sanctuary? When Local and National Partisan Cues Diverge	3
What to Make of Gentrification in Older Industrial Cities? Comparing St. Louis (USA) and Dortmund (Germany)	3
Perception of Health and Well-being Among the Chinese Immigrant Population in Seville (Spain): Does Territorial Concentration Matter?	3
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	3

School Choice as Community Disempowerment: Racial Rhetoric about Voucher Policy in Urban America	3
Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo: Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation	3
Starchitects in Bohemia: An Exploration of Cultural Cities from the “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up”	2
The Dynamic Relationship between Immigrant Politics and Urban Policy Making: Protecting the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants in Boston and Amsterdam	2
Women and Local Politics: Determinants of Women’s Emergence and Success in Elections to Czech Town Councils, 1998–2018	2
The Role of Women in Local Governments: An Analysis of Efficiency in Spain	2
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	2
Sanctuary Policy Adoptions: Assessing the Effects of Ideology and Access to Labor and Housing Markets	2
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	2
The End of the Right to the City: A Radical-Cooperative View	2
Participatory Representation in a Non-Western Context: The Case of Homeowner Associations in Beijing	2
Culture Wars and City Politics, Revisited: Local Councils and the Australia Day Controversy	2
Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew	2
Homeowners Saying “Yes, In My Back Yard”: Evidence from Israel	2
Financial Instability in the Earned Income Tax Credit Program: Can Advanced Periodic Payments Ameliorate Systemic Stressors?	2
How Policy Entrepreneurs Encourage or Hinder Urban Growth Within a Political Market	2
Representation in American Cities: Who Runs for Mayor and Who Wins?	2
Rising Tides or Political Ripcurrents? Gentrification and Minority Representation in 166 Cities	2
“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End	2
Motivations for Mobilization: Comparing Urban and Suburban Residents’ Participation in the Politics of Planning and Development	2
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled	2
How Strong is Local Politics’ Grip on Local Economic Development? The Case of Swiss Small and Medium-Sized Towns	2
Neighborhood Distribution of Unsheltered Homelessness and its Temporal Changes: Evidence from Los Angeles	2
Residential Location and Household Spending: Exploring the Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Transportation and Housing Costs	2
The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Pre-merger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	2
Jurisdictional Size and Residential Development: Are Large-Scale Local Governments More Receptive to Multifamily Housing?	2
“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power	1
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	1
Urban Political Development and the Social Construction of Interests: The Case of Chicago's Dearborn Park	1
Reflections on the Late 1960s	1
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	1
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	1
Neighborhood Economic Change in an Era of Metropolitan Divergence	1
Identifying Plan Perceptions: Higher Education Institutions as Arts and Cultural Anchors	1
Specialized Local Government and Water Conservation Policy in the United States	1
Business Improvement District Enabling Laws in the United States and Germany: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Learning	1
Planning the Barrio: Racial Order and Restructuring in Neoliberal Los Angeles	1
Long Live Marketization for Local Public Spaces: A Study of Scandinavian Managers’ Satisfaction with Private Provider Performance	1
When Cities Borrow State Power: New York State's Empire State Development Corporation in New York City	1
Evaluating the Relationship of Social Service Usage to Neighborhood Community for Older Adults: A Case Study	1
Racialized Real Estate Agency in U.S. Housing Markets: A Research Note	1
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	1
Seeing Like a Neighbor: Rethinking Neighborhoods as Service-oriented Communities	1
“The Echoes of Echo Park”: Anti-Homeless Ordinances in Neo-Revanchist Cities	1
The Problems with Neighbors: An Examination of the Influence of Neighborhood Context Using Large-Scale Administrative Data	1
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	1
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	1
Why do Role Perceptions Matter? A Qualitative Study on Role Conflicts and the Coping Behavior of Dutch Municipal Enforcement Officers	1
Can Citizens Set City Policy? Evidence from a Decentralized Welfare State	1
Motivated Localism: Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts	1
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 1: Progressive Cities, Voters and their Elected Officials, Privatized Services, Neighbors and Neighborhoods, and Housing	1
Revisiting the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Theory of Local Expenditures: Are Private Community Amenities Substitutes for Local Public Services in Residential Choices?	1
“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line	1
Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	1
Can We Bring Culture into the Large-Scale Study of Gentrification? Assessing the Possibilities Using Geodemographic Marketing Data	1
Private Contracting and Citizen Attitudes Toward Local Government	1
Staying Afloat: Planning and Managing Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Risk in Florida’s Coastal Counties	1
Can Institutional Reform Have a Lasting Impact on the Policy Agenda? Evidence From the 10-1 in Austin, TX	1
White Fortressing: How Racial Threat and Conservatism Lead to the Formation of Local Governments	1
The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology	1