OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Research & Practice 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring data driven initiatives for smart city development: empirical evidence from techno-stakeholders’ perspective	19
Planning and managing urbanization in the twenty-first century: content analysis of selected African countries’ national urban policies	18
Temporary uses: a new form of inclusive urban regeneration or a tool for neoliberal policy?	17
A framework for using the concept of urban resilience in responding to climate-related disasters	15
Making the slow metropolis by designing walkability: a methodology for the evaluation of public space design and prioritizing pedestrian mobility	15
Regulation of short-term rentals in Lisbon: strike a balance between tourism dependence and urban life	13
Whose space is privately owned public space? Exclusion, underuse and the lack of knowledge and awareness	12
Analysing the role of citizens in urban regeneration: bottom-linked initiatives in Barcelona	11
Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary’s ‘big’ cities	10
Assessing job-access inequity for transit-based workers across space and race with the Palma ratio	10
Smart city. Four approaches to the concept of understanding	9
Governing and financing affordable housing at the intersection of the market and the state: Denmark’s private non-profit housing system	9
Urban planning and policy in Portugal: an overview on the role of EU funds and guidelines	8
E-participation and engagement in urban planning: experiences from the Baltic cities	6
Conceptualising smart cities	6
Retooling local economies: Practitioners’ experiences with and perspectives on plant closures in Ontario	6
A resilient response to the social-economic implications of coronavirus. The case of Snodi Solidali in Turin	6
Introduction to the special issue: between practices and policies. Rethinking urban regeneration in Southern European cities after the crisis	6
The Bristol One City Approach to city governance: New Civic Leadership in action	5
Learning from overtourism; new tourism policy for the city of Rotterdam	5
Evaluating the ‘Dipiao’ policy from the perspectives of relocated peasants: an equitable and sustainable approach to urbanisation?	5
Post-suburban arrival spaces and the frame of ‘welfare offloading’: notes from an Italian suburban neighborhood	5
Assessment of living condition of urban slum dwellers in India in the New Millennium	4
Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: environmental subject formation in Auckland and Mexico City	4
Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments	4

Industrial lands, equity, and economic diversity: a comparative study of planned employment areas in Melbourne, Australia	4
Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans	4
Chongqing People’s Square after 1997: situated publicness of municipal squares in reform-era China	4
Rhythmic processes of temporary use: understanding spatially detached stabilization through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	4
Reconsidering Industrial Policy in Eastern New York, U.S.A.	4
Political graffiti in the political symbolic space of Prague, Czechia	4
Innovations at the edge: how local innovations are established in less favourable environments	4
Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes	4
Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns	4
How can green events accelerate urban sustainability transitions? Insights from eight German regional garden shows	3
Changing use of public spaces in Cairo during COVID-19	3
Some ideas for a post-war recovery of Ukrainian cities	3
Co-producing maintenance and repair: hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana	3
Brick: sustainability through policy	3
Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach	3
Planning for ecosystem services in cities	3
The impacts of neighbourhood governance on residents’ sense of community: a case study of Wuhan, China	3
Housing allowance and the perverse theory of housing outcomes	2
Housing refugees from Ukraine: preliminary insights and learnings from the local response in five European cities	2
Recognizing, supporting and embracing the urban informal economy in Ghana: A local economic development perspective	2
One city, different views: an analysis of cultural schemes on Brussels as a living environment	2
Beyond the decay? Positive patterns in the development of a large housing estate: the case of Olechów-Janów district in Łódź, Poland	2
Perceived benefits and risks of developing mixed communities in New Zealand: implementer perspectives	2
Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia – exploring (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobility	2
The effects of the local and regional conditions and inequalities on urban shrinkage: a multilevel analysis focusing on local population decline	2
Lessons from U.S. rust belt cities for equitable low-growth futures	2
Mashhad urban management practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study to identify challenges, current and future measures	2
Do voluntary civic engagement and non-profit leadership challenge local political leadership in urban development?	2
The influence of EU policy on local policy-making, governance and urban change. Evidence from Porto, Portugal	2
Transferring sustainability: imaginaries and processes in EU funded projects in Thessaloniki	2
Coalitions, agendas, and funding in the public transport arena: exploring urban governance arrangements in two Mexican cities	2
Gatekeepers of local environmental progress? Self-referencing practices of urban bureaucracy	2
Greenways in Athens, Greece:Enhancing connectivity through a greenway network in a contemporary European metropolis	2
Is the effect of Airbnb on the housing market different in medium-sized cities? Evidence from a Southern European city	2
Re-thinking the production of urban built environments in the face of climate change	2
From climate policy pioneers to climate policy leaders? The examples of the eastern German cities of Potsdam and Rostock	2
Innovating local housing policies in a country of homeowners. Insights from an Italian affluent medium-sized city	1
Cities and regional disparities in the European Union: evolving geographies and challenges for Cohesion Policy	1
Tourism in common: policy flows and participatory management in the Tourism Council of Barcelona	1
Necessity as the trigger of invention? The promotion of innovations in Athens and Elefsina	1
Participatory research and planning in practice	1
Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local	1
Capturing spatial inequalities: an analysis of walkable access to open spaces in Lima	1
Towards the ‘just city’? Exploring the attitudes of European city mayors	1
Community self-governance in São Paulo’s informal settlements through the PAA framework	1
The Politics of the EU Urban Agenda: Mobilising the ‘Right to the City’ for European Governance?	1
Residential intensification through a new statutory plan in Auckland: outcome evaluation and stakeholders’ experience	1
Urban impacts of Spain 1982 and Italy 1990 FIFA World Cup: a comparative analysis with more recent sports mega-events	1
Pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation through smart specialization strategies: the case of the lagging Centro region of Portugal	1
An analysis of urban policies and strategies on health and nutrition in Nigeria	1

We’re in this together: Capacities and relationships to enable community resilience	1
Urban villages in China and India: parallels and differences in the village extension process	1
‘Smart’ in another way: the potential of the Fab City approach to reconfigure urban dynamics	1
Urban spectacularisation and social housing : an asymmetrical relation ? The habitations Jeanne-Mance in Montreal’s quartier des spectacles	1
The role of civil society in urban governance: bottom-linked initiatives in Athens	1
Urban environments for healthy ageing – a global perspective	1
Women Leadership at the Apex. The Distinctiveness of Urban Women Mayors in Europe	1
‘Let’s do it together’: fostering social innovation through a university-community collaboration. The ‘Grandangolo’ project in the Aurora neighbourhood in Turin	1
Size matters: action space for sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities	1
Beyond Desakota: the urbanization process and spatial restructuring in contemporary Vietnam	1
Neighbourhood rebuilding and affordable housing in Canadian cities	1
Intra-urban industrial restructuring in the city of Copenhagen: workplaces and employment changes in metro- and non-metro-served areas, 2002-2012	1
Factors and levels of community participation using the example of small-scale regeneration interventions in selected neighbourhood spaces in Polish cities	1
Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: between plans and reality in public-private partnerships	1
Towards new geographies of cohesion in a context of growing inequalities: insights from two social innovation projects in Milan metropolitan area	1
Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna?	1