OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Research & Practice is 3. 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