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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	35
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	29
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	26
State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements	23
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	19
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	19
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	18
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	18
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	17
Book Review: Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston by de Graauw, Els and Shannon Gleeson de GraauwElsGleesonShannon. 2024. Advancing Immigrant Rights in	17
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	15
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	14
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	14
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	13
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	13
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	12
Book Review: The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly by Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi MoisioSamiRossiUgo, The Urban Field:	12
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	12
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	11
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	10
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	10
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	10
Public Transportation Governance Types: An Analytical Framework for Examining Bus Services in the Global South	9
Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo	9

What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	9
An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	8
School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	8
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles	8
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	8
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	8
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	8
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	8
Impact of a Woman Mayor on Women's Local Political Participation. Does Partisanship Matter?	8
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	7
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	7
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	7
Book Review: Affordable Housing in the United States Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter, Affordable Housing in the United States (London, UK: Routledge,	6
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	6
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	6
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	6
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	6
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	6
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	6
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	6
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
When Do Local Governments Discriminate? Lessons from the Diffusion of “LGBT Free Zones” in Poland	5
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	5
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	5
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	5
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	5
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	5
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	5
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	5
Resident (Non)Participation in Croatian Housing Estates	5
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives	4
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	4
Cultured Sites of Contestation: Choosing Between Resistance and Submission to Culture-led Regeneration of Former Military Barracks	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	4
Saviors, Villains, or Allies? Exploring How Nonprofit Developers Navigate Narratives of Gentrification in a Changing City	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Joanna Kusiak, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 188 pp.	4
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
An Expression of Appreciation to our Reviewers	3
Book Review: Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City WeaverTimothy P. R., Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City (Temple Universit	3
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	3
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	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

Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	3
Spotlighting the Economy: Media Coverage and Mayoral Evaluations	3
Book Review: Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur Hyra, Derek. Slow and Sudden Violence—Why and When Uprisings Occur (Berkeley, CA: University of Califo	3
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	3
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	3
Patterns of Force: The Relationship Between Officer-Involved Homicides of Black and Hispanic Citizens and Metropolitan Residential Segregation	3
Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones	3
A Grassroots Alternative to Urban Shrinkage? A Comparative Analysis of Place Reputational Remaking in Buffalo and Cleveland	3
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	3
Wetland and Stream Compensatory Mitigation as a Funding Vehicle for US Public Housing Authorities	3
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	3
Experiences of Policing in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence From Chicago	3
The Emergence of Environmental Justice in General Plans: Lessons From California's Senate Bill 1000	3
Race and Survival: Examining the Interplay of Demand and Supply Factors on Black-Owned Businesses During Gentrification in New York City	2
Measuring Conflict in Local Politics	2
Issue Accountability in Non-Partisan Municipalities: A Case Study	2
Succession Planning for the Future of Intergovernmental Organizations in the United States	2
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	2
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City	2
Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance	2
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	2
Planning for Homelessness: Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and Cities’ Homelessness Responses	2
Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race	2
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Larry Bennett and the “Black Urban Regime”	2
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	2
The Effects of Policy-Interested Bureaucrats on State and Local Policymaking	2
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	2
Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context	2
On Their Own Terms: How Informal Settlement Residents Interpret Urban Inclusion and Exclusion Within the Context of Participatory Mechanisms	2
Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	2
Arrested (Oversight) Development: Civilian Oversight, Law Enforcement, and Federalism	2
“Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification	2
A Tale of Two Crises: Local Homelessness Policy during Covid-19	2
Towards Racial Housing Equity: The Role of CDBG Grants	2
Local Self-Government Against the State: Resistance of Polish Municipalities to Creeping Centralization	2
Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	1
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	1
How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement	1
Regulatory Approaches to Short-Term Rental Accommodation: A Systematic Literature Review for Urban Policy	1
Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 2	1
“The Councilors are the Ones to Blame”: The Symbolic Reproduction of Territorial Boundaries Created by Policy and Planning Decisions	1
Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID	1
Fostering Equitable Transit-Oriented Development via Multi-Sectoral Community Collaborations: Lessons from and for Maryland's Purple Line Corridor Coalition	1
Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	1
Editor's Introduction	1
Sharing Homes and Beds: Baptist-Bootlegger Coalitions and the Politics of Authenticity in the Regulation of Los Angeles's Short-Term Rental Markets	1
Challenges to Equitable and Effective Land Value Capture: Lessons from Mexico City	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
Defensive Development Against Disinvestment: Early Black Gentrification in the History of Fort Greene, Brooklyn	1
Reimagining Public Participation in Urban Development: Insights from Bramfischerville, Johannesburg	1
Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism	1
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective	1
Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance: Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation	1
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	1
From the Editors: It’s Been our Honor…	1
Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development	1
Do Local Governments Listen to the Experts? A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of Local Economic Development Policies	1
Urban Social Movement Strategies in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Movements for Housing in São Paulo	1
Corrigendum to “Moving to Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment”	1
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	1
Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020)	1
Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe	1
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Hajnal and Trounstine and the Urban Vote	1
The Involvement of Business Elites in the Management of Homelessness: Towards a Privatization of Service Provision for Homeless People?	1
Bargaining for Benefits: The Dilemmas of Implementing the West Harlem Community Benefits Agreement	1
A Weak Link in Efforts to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing? Evaluating Public Engagement Processes in Housing Plan Development in Southern California	1
With a Little Help from My Friends? A Longitudinal Network Analysis on Fiscal Stress and Collaboration for Public Service Delivery	1
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States	1
Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020	1
The Quantitative Research on Government Budgeting: A Literature Review on Local Culture Budgets	1
Crime, Policing, and Voter Turnout in Chicago's 2023 and 2019 Mayoral Elections	1
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 3: Homelessness and Eviction, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change, and Urban Expansion in Chinese Cities	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