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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	22
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	22
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	21
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	21
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	18
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	17
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	16
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	15
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	14
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	13
Do Local Immigrant-Welcoming Efforts Increase Immigration? The Detroit Experience	13
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	12
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	11
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	11
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	11
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	11
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	10
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	10
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	10
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	9
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	9
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	8
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	8
Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018	8
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	7

Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	7
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	7
Motivations for Mobilization: Comparing Urban and Suburban Residents’ Participation in the Politics of Planning and Development	7
Assessing Police Stops of Pedestrians: Toward a New Generation of Benchmarks	7
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	7
School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	7
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	7
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	7
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	7
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	6
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	6
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	6
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	6
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	6
Transforming a Day-Laborer's Quarter into a Service Hub: An Analysis of the Case of Kotobuki in Yokohama, Japan, Using Public Choice and Neo-Hegelian Theories	6
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	6
“Remember, this is Brightmoor”: Historical Violence, Neighborhood Experiences, and the Hysteresis of Street Life	6
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	5
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	5
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	5
Immigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election	5
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives	5
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	5
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	5
An Empirical Examination of Representational Equity in Consolidated Governments, 1965–2002	4
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics	4
Representation in American Cities: Who Runs for Mayor and Who Wins?	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	4
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	4
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future by Joanna Kusiak	4
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	4
“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	3
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	3
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	3
Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	3
Patterns of Force: The Relationship Between Officer-Involved Homicides of Black and Hispanic Citizens and Metropolitan Residential Segregation	3
Book Review: Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur by Hyra, Derek	3
Can Institutional Reform Have a Lasting Impact on the Policy Agenda? Evidence From the 10-1 in Austin, TX	3
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago	3
Spotlighting the Economy: Media Coverage and Mayoral Evaluations	3

Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	3
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	3
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled	3
Black Heritage in the National Register: The Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon	3
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy	3
Undermining Sanctuary? When Local and National Partisan Cues Diverge	3
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	2
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Larry Bennett and the “Black Urban Regime”	2
Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones	2
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	2
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	2
Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	2
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City	2
Local Self-Government Against the State: Resistance of Polish Municipalities to Creeping Centralization	2
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	2
On Their Own Terms: How Informal Settlement Residents Interpret Urban Inclusion and Exclusion Within the Context of Participatory Mechanisms	2
“Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification	2
The Emergence of Environmental Justice in General Plans: Lessons From California's Senate Bill 1000	2
Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race	2
Race and Survival: Examining the Interplay of Demand and Supply Factors on Black-Owned Businesses During Gentrification in New York City	2
Planning for Homelessness: Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and Cities’ Homelessness Responses	2
Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context	2
Local Government's Resource Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Capacity, Conservatism, and Contractual Dynamics	2
A Grassroots Alternative to Urban Shrinkage? A Comparative Analysis of Place Reputational Remaking in Buffalo and Cleveland	2
Understanding Urban Retail Vacancy	2
Investing in Gentrification: The Eligibility of Gentrifying Neighborhoods for Federal Place-Based Economic Investment in U.S. Cities	2
The Effects of Policy-Interested Bureaucrats on State and Local Policymaking	2
Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance	2
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	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
Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020)	1
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Hajnal and Trounstine and the Urban Vote	1
Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID	1
Examining the Dynamics Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Progressive City Planning	1
“The Councilors are the Ones to Blame”: The Symbolic Reproduction of Territorial Boundaries Created by Policy and Planning Decisions	1
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective	1
How Landlords of Small Rental Properties Decide Who Gets Housed and Who Gets Evicted	1
Call and Response? Neighborhood Inequality and Political Voice	1
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	1
Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020	1
Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 2	1
Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis	1
Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe	1
Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	1
Editor's Introduction	1
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	1
Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism	1
The Involvement of Business Elites in the Management of Homelessness: Towards a Privatization of Service Provision for Homeless People?	1
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States	1
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	1
“It’s a Racist Plot”: An Experimental Test of the Racial Defense	1
Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development	1
How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement	1
Impacts of COVID-19 on Business Improvement Districts and Prospects for Recovery: A Survey of Executive Directors in Canada and the United States	1
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice	1
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn	1
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	1
The Problems with Neighbors: An Examination of the Influence of Neighborhood Context Using Large-Scale Administrative Data	1
Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	1
From the Editors: It’s Been our Honor…	1
Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance: Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation	1
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery	1
A Tale of Two Crises: Local Homelessness Policy during Covid-19	1
Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance	1
Bargaining for Benefits: The Dilemmas of Implementing the West Harlem Community Benefits Agreement	1
Urban Social Movement Strategies in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Movements for Housing in São Paulo	1