OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Affairs Review is 4. 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
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	19
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	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
Book Review: Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston by de Graauw, Els and Shannon Gleeson de GraauwElsGleesonShannon. 2024. Advancing Immigrant Rights in	17
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	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
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	13
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	13
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
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	12
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	11
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	11
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	10
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	10
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	10
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

Public Transportation Governance Types: An Analytical Framework for Examining Bus Services in the Global South	9
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
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
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
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	7
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
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
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
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
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
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