OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Affairs Review is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	29
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	25
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	24
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	22
Book Review: Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices by Markus Holdo HoldoMarkus, Participatory Sp	21
Housing Vacancy, Structural Decline, and Voter Turnout in South Korea	18
Electing Mayors, Excluding Women? Direct Elections and the Increasing Legislative–Executive Gender Gap in Local Politics	18
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	17
The Early Childhood Care and Education Landscape in Ascending Neighborhoods	17
State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements	15
Book Review: Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston by de Graauw, Els and Shannon Gleeson de GraauwElsGleesonShannon. 2024. Advancing Immigrant Rights in	14
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	14
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	13
Urban Affairs Review : A Retrospective on the 2010s	12
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	12
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	11
Book Review: Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad by Alissa Walter WalterAlissa. (2025). Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad. 330 Pages; Hardcove	9
Book Review: The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly by Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi MoisioSamiRossiUgo, The Urban Field:	9
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	9
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	8
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	8
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	8
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	7
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	7
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	6

School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	6
Silent Decline, Loud Indicators: Depopulation and the Measurement of Per Capita Fiscal Outcomes in Small Municipalities	6
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	6
Attitudes Toward Racial Outgroups During Gentrification	6
Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo	6
Public Transportation Governance Types: An Analytical Framework for Examining Bus Services in the Global South	6
Impact of a Woman Mayor on Women's Local Political Participation. Does Partisanship Matter?	6
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	5
Book Review: The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 by Daniel Wortel-London Wortel-LondonD. (2025). The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and th	5
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	5
Redeveloping Athens: State–Municipal Entrepreneurship in Postcrisis City	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
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	5
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	5
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	5
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	5
Book Review: Affordable Housing in the United States Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter, Affordable Housing in the United States (London, UK: Routledge,	5
An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	5
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
When Cues Collide: Partisan Signals and the Dynamics of Ethnic Voting in Nonpartisan Local Elections	5
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	5
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	5
Resident (Non)Participation in Croatian Housing Estates	5
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles	5
What is the Future of Survey-Based Data Collection for Local Government Research? Trends, Strategies, and Recommendations	4
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	4
Cultured Sites of Contestation: Choosing Between Resistance and Submission to Culture-led Regeneration of Former Military Barracks	4
Saviors, Villains, or Allies? Exploring How Nonprofit Developers Navigate Narratives of Gentrification in a Changing City	4
Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives	4
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	4
When Do Local Governments Discriminate? Lessons from the Diffusion of “LGBT Free Zones” in Poland	4
Corrigendum to Agendas, Coalitions, Resources, and Schemes of Cooperation: Using the Urban Regime Framework to Study Processes of Urban Governance	4
Heirs’ Property in Urban America: A Case Study of Inherited Homeownership in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex	4
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	4
Pandemic-Era Organizing	4
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	4
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	4
Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Times of Crisis: The 2020 Mass Protests and Police Department Social Media	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Joanna Kusiak, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Cambridge University Press, 20	3
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	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: Univ	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
Book Review: Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol by Sanyu A. Mojola MojolaSanyu A.. 2025. Death by Design: P	3
What Drives Local Action? Proactive Reception and Early Integration for Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Polish Cities: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	3
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	3
Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment	3
Wetland and Stream Compensatory Mitigation as a Funding Vehicle for US Public Housing Authorities	3
State-Led Ethno-Gentrification and the Intensification of Minority Political Displacement in Ethno-Nationally Contested Cities	3

Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	3
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	3
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	3
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	3