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

Article	Citations
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	22
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	22
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	21
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	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
Do Local Immigrant-Welcoming Efforts Increase Immigration? The Detroit Experience	13
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	13
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	12
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
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
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	10
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
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	9
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	9
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	8
Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018	8
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	8
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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