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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Economic Background of City Councilmembers	33
Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects	26
Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review With Reflections on Race, Riots, and the Study of Urban Politics	26
Corrigendum to “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing”	25
Age and Homeownership Drive the Local Turnout Gap	20
Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity	20
State Preemption in Theory and Practice: The Case of Parking Requirements	18
All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, and the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX: Authors’ Response to Commentaries	17
Participatory Civic Media and Democracy: How ‘Documenters’ Make Sense of Their Work	16
Urban Affairs Review: A Retrospective on the 2010s	16
From the Three Rs to the “Culture Wars”? How Australians Perceive Local Government Action on Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, and LGBTQIA + Advocacy	15
Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities	14
Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH	14
‘Whiny, Fake, and I Don't Like Her Hair’: Gendered Assessments of Mayoral Candidates	14
Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of Zoom Public Meetings	12
Local Democracy in America: How Access, Competition, and Place Shape Turnout in Mayoral Races	12
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement: An Illustration of Integrating Photovoice into Story Map	12
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum: A Conjunctural Approach of Ecologist Electoral Victories in Major French Cities in 2020	12
The Business of Improving Neighborhoods. A Critical Overview of Neighborhood-Based Business Improvement Districts (NBIDs) in Sweden	12
Public Transportation Governance Types: An Analytical Framework for Examining Bus Services in the Global South	11
Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England	11
Making Political Representation in Territories of the City: The Role of Mandatos in São Paulo	11
Hello! A Letter from the New Editors	11
Mayors Unchecked: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Local Autonomy in Latin American Municipalities	11
What Date Works Best for You? Changes in Electorate Demographics and Policy Priorities in Concurrent Elections	11

An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States	9
The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica	9
Impact of a Woman Mayor on Women's Local Political Participation. Does Partisanship Matter?	9
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles	9
School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage	9
The Power of Coalitions? Reflections on the Surprising Success of a Progressive Transit Project in Austin, Texas	9
High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters	8
Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California	8
Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections	8
Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality	8
Officer-Involved Killings and the Repression of Protest	8
Working in the Crisis: Practitioners' perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Housing First for Youth Who Experience Homelessness: A Systematic Review	8
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review	7
Mapping Racial Capital: Gentrification, Race and Value in Three Chicago Neighborhoods	7
Book Review: Affordable Housing in the United States by Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter ColburnGreggWalterRebecca J., Affordable Housing in the United States (London	7
Can Economic Growth Reduce Public Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Panel Threshold Model in Chinese Cities	7
The Impact of Congestion Pricing Plan on the Value of Residential Properties: Evidence from Tehran	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
Commoning Experiments in a State-Corporatist City State: The Case of Hong Kong	6
Should We Evict Critical Perspectives on the State-Led Gentrification of Council Estates in London? The Case of Woodberry Down	6
The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics and Public Health	6
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests	6
Resident (Non)Participation in Croatian Housing Estates	6
Local Gun Safety Enforcement, Sheriffs, and Right-Wing Political Extremism	6
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
Pursuing the Promise of Transit Justice: Learning From Austin	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
When Do Local Governments Discriminate? Lessons from the Diffusion of “LGBT Free Zones” in Poland	5
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left	5
Pandemic-Era Organizing	5
Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center	5
Saviors, Villains, or Allies? Exploring How Nonprofit Developers Navigate Narratives of Gentrification in a Changing City	5
Racial Governance in Postwar Chicago: A Multiple Orders Perspective	4
Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes	4
Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019)	4
How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies	4
Black Heritage in the National Register: The Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon	4
Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media	4
Toward a State-led, Market-Enabled Commons: Positioning Urban Civic Energy in East Asia	4
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	4
Locals, Newcomers, and Longtimers: How Business Owners Navigate Culture and Commerce in Gentefying Barrios of Southern California	4
What Drives Adaptation? Evidence from Sea Level Rise Planning in the Southeastern United States	4
Book Review: Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future Joanna Kusiak, Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 188 pp.	4
Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship	4
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers	4
Wetland and Stream Compensatory Mitigation as a Funding Vehicle for US Public Housing Authorities	4
Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures Are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers	4