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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring data driven initiatives for smart city development: empirical evidence from techno-stakeholders’ perspective	21
A framework for using the concept of urban resilience in responding to climate-related disasters	20
Making the slow metropolis by designing walkability: a methodology for the evaluation of public space design and prioritizing pedestrian mobility	16
Regulation of short-term rentals in Lisbon: strike a balance between tourism dependence and urban life	14
Conceptualising smart cities	14
Power relations and local agency: a comparative study of European mining towns	12
Urban planning and policy in Portugal: an overview on the role of EU funds and guidelines	12
Assessing job-access inequity for transit-based workers across space and race with the Palma ratio	11
E-participation and engagement in urban planning: experiences from the Baltic cities	10
Urban renewal policies in the Netherlands in an era of changing welfare regimes	10
Evaluating the ‘Dipiao’ policy from the perspectives of relocated peasants: an equitable and sustainable approach to urbanisation?	8
Discourses and practices of the smart city in Central Eastern Europe: insights from Hungary’s ‘big’ cities	7
Chongqing People’s Square after 1997: situated publicness of municipal squares in reform-era China	7
Retooling local economies: Practitioners’ experiences with and perspectives on plant closures in Ontario	7
Political graffiti in the political symbolic space of Prague, Czechia	6
Housing refugees from Ukraine: preliminary insights and learnings from the local response in five European cities	6
Changing use of public spaces in Cairo during COVID-19	6
How can green events accelerate urban sustainability transitions? Insights from eight German regional garden shows	6
Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments	5
‘Smart’ in another way: the potential of the Fab City approach to reconfigure urban dynamics	5
Post-suburban arrival spaces and the frame of ‘welfare offloading’: notes from an Italian suburban neighborhood	5
The effects of the local and regional conditions and inequalities on urban shrinkage: a multilevel analysis focusing on local population decline	4
The impacts of neighbourhood governance on residents’ sense of community: a case study of Wuhan, China	4
Reconsidering Industrial Policy in Eastern New York, U.S.A.	4
Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach	4

Tourism in common: policy flows and participatory management in the Tourism Council of Barcelona	4
Assessment of living condition of urban slum dwellers in India in the New Millennium	4
Industrial lands, equity, and economic diversity: a comparative study of planned employment areas in Melbourne, Australia	4
Urban impacts of Spain 1982 and Italy 1990 FIFA World Cup: a comparative analysis with more recent sports mega-events	4
Winning city competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans	4
Recognizing, supporting and embracing the urban informal economy in Ghana: A local economic development perspective	4
Rhythmic processes of temporary use: understanding spatially detached stabilization through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	4
Community self-governance in São Paulo’s informal settlements through the PAA framework	4
Some ideas for a post-war recovery of Ukrainian cities	3
An analysis of urban policies and strategies on health and nutrition in Nigeria	3
The influence of EU policy on local policy-making, governance and urban change. Evidence from Porto, Portugal	3
From climate policy pioneers to climate policy leaders? The examples of the eastern German cities of Potsdam and Rostock	3
Co-producing maintenance and repair: hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana	3
The Politics of the EU Urban Agenda: Mobilising the ‘Right to the City’ for European Governance?	3
Urban spectacularisation and social housing : an asymmetrical relation ? The habitations Jeanne-Mance in Montreal’s quartier des spectacles	3
Lessons from U.S. rust belt cities for equitable low-growth futures	3
Planning for ecosystem services in cities	2
Housing allowance and the perverse theory of housing outcomes	2
We’re in this together: Capacities and relationships to enable community resilience	2
Urban villages in China and India: parallels and differences in the village extension process	2
Housing and urbanization policies of Istanbul, Turkey from central to the local	2
Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna?	2
Size matters: action space for sustainability transition among planners in Swedish municipalities	2
Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: between plans and reality in public-private partnerships	2
Gatekeepers of local environmental progress? Self-referencing practices of urban bureaucracy	2
Do voluntary civic engagement and non-profit leadership challenge local political leadership in urban development?	2
Is the effect of Airbnb on the housing market different in medium-sized cities? Evidence from a Southern European city	2
Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia – exploring (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobility	2
Beyond Desakota: the urbanization process and spatial restructuring in contemporary Vietnam	2
Neighbourhood rebuilding and affordable housing in Canadian cities	2
Mashhad urban management practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study to identify challenges, current and future measures	2
Prefigurative urbanization: housing cooperatives, social movements, and the urban transformation question in Harare (Zimbabwe)	2
The role of municipalities in promoting housing affordability: an analysis of three Finnish cities	2
Response to Ryanne Flock’s review of Routledge Handbook of Street Culture published in Urban Research & Practice	1
The role of civil society in urban governance: bottom-linked initiatives in Athens	1
The end of the village: planning the urbanisation of rural China	1
Necessity as the trigger of invention? The promotion of innovations in Athens and Elefsina	1
Participatory research and planning in practice	1
Transect urbanism: readings in human ecology	1
Capturing spatial inequalities: an analysis of walkable access to open spaces in Lima	1
Towards new geographies of cohesion in a context of growing inequalities: insights from two social innovation projects in Milan metropolitan area	1
The smart city and urban governance: the urban transformation of Barcelona, 2011–2023	1
Who and how decides when and where? Drifts and deadlocks in metropolitan governance	1
‘Let’s do it together’: fostering social innovation through a university-community collaboration. The ‘Grandangolo’ project in the Aurora neighbourhood in Turin	1
Survival strategies in inner-city neighborhoods: the case of Colombian and Peruvian migrants in Brussels, Belgium	1
Authenticity and integrity as qualifiers in managing living historic 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
Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City	1
Integrating knowledge forms in public transport planning and policies: the case of the Lisbon metropolitan area	1
Residential intensification through a new statutory plan in Auckland: outcome evaluation and stakeholders’ experience	1

Women Leadership at the Apex. The Distinctiveness of Urban Women Mayors in Europe	1
Cities and regional disparities in the European Union: evolving geographies and challenges for Cohesion Policy	1
Pre-conditions and barriers for territorial innovation through smart specialization strategies: the case of the lagging Centro region of Portugal	1
Putting inclusion into practice: how urban professionals give shape to participatory governance approaches in marginalized neighborhoods	1
Affordable housing alternatives in George Town World Heritage Site: what we have and what is possible	1
Factors and levels of community participation using the example of small-scale regeneration interventions in selected neighbourhood spaces in Polish cities	1