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

Article	Citations
Beyond Neoliberalism: A Policy Agenda for a Progressive City	24
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	19
Municipal Cybersecurity: More Work Needs to be Done	18
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy	18
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective	16
Voting in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Primary Turnout in Milwaukee, Wisconsin	16
State-Level Influences on Community-Level Municipal Sustainable Energy Policies	15
You Won't be My Neighbor: Opposition to High Density Development	14
How Landlords of Small Rental Properties Decide Who Gets Housed and Who Gets Evicted	12
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	12
Using Emerging Hot Spot Analysis to Explore Spatiotemporal Patterns of Housing Vacancy in Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Areas	11
Why Political Scientists Should Study Smaller Cities	11
The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders	11
Beyond Urban Displacement: Suburban Poverty and Eviction	11
Higher Education Centers and College Towns: A Typology of the US Metropolitan Geography of Higher Education	10
Predatory Policing, Intersectional Subjection, and the Experiences of LGBTQ People of Color in New Orleans	10
Investing in Gentrification: The Eligibility of Gentrifying Neighborhoods for Federal Place-Based Economic Investment in U.S. Cities	10
“The Echoes of Echo Park”: Anti-Homeless Ordinances in Neo-Revanchist Cities	9
Local Government's Resource Commitment to Environmental Sustainability: Capacity, Conservatism, and Contractual Dynamics	9
Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods	9
The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity	9
What to Make of Gentrification in Older Industrial Cities? Comparing St. Louis (USA) and Dortmund (Germany)	8
Understanding Urban Retail Vacancy	8
What Motivates Local Sustainability Policy Action in China? The Case of Low-Carbon City Pilot Program	8
The Involvement of Business Elites in the Management of Homelessness: Towards a Privatization of Service Provision for Homeless People?	8

Case Studies of Urban Metabolism: What Should be Addressed Next?	8
Moving to Opportunity, or Aging in Place? The Changing Profile of Low Income and Subsidized Households and Where They Live	7
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	7
Policing Temporality: Police Officers Reflect on the Role of the Police in Gentrifying a High-Crime Neighborhood	7
Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development	7
Networked Urban Governance: A Socio-Structural Analysis of Transport Strategies in London and New York	6
The Fiscal Impact of County-to-Urban District Conversion in China	6
Does an Increased Share of Black Police Officers Decrease Racial Discrimination in Law Enforcement?	6
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	6
Who Benefits From Brownfield Cleanup and Gentrification? Evidence From Chicago	6
From Community to Public Familiarity: Neighborhood, Sociability, and Belonging in the Neoliberal City	6
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	6
How Policy Entrepreneurs Encourage or Hinder Urban Growth Within a Political Market	6
Jurisdictional Size and Residential Development: Are Large-Scale Local Governments More Receptive to Multifamily Housing?	5
Local-Level Economic Development Conflicts: Factors that Influence Interactions with Private Land Developers	5
Perception of Health and Well-being Among the Chinese Immigrant Population in Seville (Spain): Does Territorial Concentration Matter?	5
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	5
Do Local Immigrant-Welcoming Efforts Increase Immigration? The Detroit Experience	5
Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans	5
Residential Location and Household Spending: Exploring the Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Transportation and Housing Costs	5
Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, New Jersey: The Role of Racial Politics	5
Racial Capitalism and City Politics: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis	5
“Remember, this is Brightmoor”: Historical Violence, Neighborhood Experiences, and the Hysteresis of Street Life	5
Examining the Dynamics Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Progressive City Planning	5
Working-Class Institutions, Amazon and The Politics of Local Economic Development in Western Queens	5
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	5
From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments	4
Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance	4
Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo: Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation	4
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	4
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	4
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice	4
Avoiding Punishment? Electoral Accountability for Local Fee Increases	4
“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End	4
The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology	3
Representation in American Cities: Who Runs for Mayor and Who Wins?	3
Motivated Localism: Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts	3
Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe	3
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	3
Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled	3
The Role of Women in Local Governments: An Analysis of Efficiency in Spain	3
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	3
The End of the Right to the City: A Radical-Cooperative View	3
Neighborhood Distribution of Unsheltered Homelessness and its Temporal Changes: Evidence from Los Angeles	3
The Emergence of Environmental Justice in General Plans: Lessons From California's Senate Bill 1000	3
Undermining Sanctuary? When Local and National Partisan Cues Diverge	3
Landscapes of Remunicipalization: A Critical Literature Review	3
Ecological, Engineering and Community Resilience Policy Adoption in Large US Cities	3
Homeowners Saying “Yes, In My Back Yard”: Evidence from Israel	3
School Choice as Community Disempowerment: Racial Rhetoric about Voucher Policy in Urban America	3

Urban Fault Lines: The Politics of Territorial Restructuring in Nanjing and Ningbo	3
Staying Afloat: Planning and Managing Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Risk in Florida’s Coastal Counties	3
Can Institutional Reform Have a Lasting Impact on the Policy Agenda? Evidence From the 10-1 in Austin, TX	3
The Role of Demographic Data Bias in the Under-Provision of Retail: A Quasi-Experimental Case Study of Low Food Access Neighborhoods in Twenty-Five Southern Metros	2
Specialized Local Government and Water Conservation Policy in the United States	2
“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power	2
Examining the Smart City Generational Model: Conceptualizations, Implementations, and Infrastructure Canada's Smart City Challenge	2
Pandemic-Era Organizing	2
Women and Local Politics: Determinants of Women’s Emergence and Success in Elections to Czech Town Councils, 1998–2018	2
Rising Tides or Political Ripcurrents? Gentrification and Minority Representation in 166 Cities	2
Racialized Real Estate Agency in U.S. Housing Markets: A Research Note	2
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance	2
Motivations for Mobilization: Comparing Urban and Suburban Residents’ Participation in the Politics of Planning and Development	2
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	2
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	2
Revisiting the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Theory of Local Expenditures: Are Private Community Amenities Substitutes for Local Public Services in Residential Choices?	2
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	2
Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance: Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation	2
Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018	2
The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Pre-merger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	2
How Strong is Local Politics’ Grip on Local Economic Development? The Case of Swiss Small and Medium-Sized Towns	2
Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies	2
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	2
Reflections on the Late 1960s	1
Identifying Plan Perceptions: Higher Education Institutions as Arts and Cultural Anchors	1
Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter	1
How Citizens Meet the State: Police Contact, Trust, and Civic Engagement	1
Do Land Banks Mean Progress Toward Socially Equitable Urban Development? Observations from New York State	1
Understanding Support for Municipal Political Parties: Evidence from Canada	1
Planning the Barrio: Racial Order and Restructuring in Neoliberal Los Angeles	1
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	1
Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program	1
An Introduction to Volume 59, Issue 1: Progressive Cities, Voters and their Elected Officials, Privatized Services, Neighbors and Neighborhoods, and Housing	1
Urban Political Development and the Social Construction of Interests: The Case of Chicago's Dearborn Park	1
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	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
Participatory Bias and Participatory Neighborhood Governance: Reanalyzing the Most-Likely Case of the Stockholm Neighborhood Renewal Program	1
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	1
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	1
Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew	1
Eco-gentrification in a Welfare State: How Sustainable City Development Gradually Reduces Social Equity	1
Assessing the Impact of Ferry Transit on Urban Crime	1
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	1
“Listen to the People of Starkville”: Dynamics of (Extra-)Local Political Opposition to Short-Term Rental Regulation in a Small Southern City	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
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	1
Digitalization of Smart City—Sine Qua Non or an Option for Those Interested?	1
Neighborhood Economic Change in an Era of Metropolitan Divergence	1
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	1
The Problems with Neighbors: An Examination of the Influence of Neighborhood Context Using Large-Scale Administrative Data	1
Local Governments, Pandemic Aid, and Community Violence Intervention	1
White Fortressing: How Racial Threat and Conservatism Lead to the Formation of Local Governments	1
Business Improvement District Enabling Laws in the United States and Germany: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Learning	1
Why do Role Perceptions Matter? A Qualitative Study on Role Conflicts and the Coping Behavior of Dutch Municipal Enforcement Officers	1
Long Live Marketization for Local Public Spaces: A Study of Scandinavian Managers’ Satisfaction with Private Provider Performance	1
Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing	1
An Empirical Examination of Representational Equity in Consolidated Governments, 1965–2002	1
When Cities Borrow State Power: New York State's Empire State Development Corporation in New York City	1
Immigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election	1