| Towards Habitat III: Confronting the disjuncture between global policy and local practice on Africa's ‘challenge of slums’ S Croese, LR Cirolia, N Graham Habitat International 53, 237-242, 2016 | 102 | 2016 |
| ‘Negotiated planning’: Diverse trajectories of implementation in Nairobi, Addis Ababa, and Harare LR Cirolia, S Berrisford Habitat International 59, 71-79, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
| Towards a multi-scalar reading of informality in Delft, South Africa: Weaving the ‘everyday’with wider structural tracings LR Cirolia, S Scheba Urban Studies 56 (3), 594-611, 2019 | 69 | 2019 |
| Land-based financing in sub-Saharan African cities S Berrisford, LR Cirolia, I Palmer Environment and Urbanization 30 (1), 35-52, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| Politics/matter: Governing Cape Town’s informal settlements A Amin, LR Cirolia Urban Studies 55 (2), 274-295, 2018 | 67 | 2018 |
| Upgrading informal settlements in South Africa: Pursuing a partnership-based approach LR Cirolia, T Görgens, M van Donk, W Smit, S Drimie Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
| Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought NP Simpson, KJ Simpson, CD Shearing, LR Cirolia International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 11 (3), 257-276, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| Incremental housing as a node for intersecting flows of city-making: rethinking the housing shortage in the global South F Van Noorloos, LR Cirolia, A Friendly, S Jukur, S Schramm, G Steel, ... Environment and Urbanization 32 (1), 37-54, 2020 | 51 | 2020 |
| Fractured fiscal authority and fragmented infrastructures: Financing sustainable urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa LR Cirolia Habitat International 104, 102233, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
| (W) Escaping the challenges of the city: A critique of Cape Town’s proposed satellite town LR Cirolia Urban Forum 25 (3), 295-312, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa A Pollio, LR Cirolia Journal of Cultural Economy 15 (4), 508-523, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
| South Africa's Emergency Housing Programme: A prism of urban contest LR Cirolia Development Southern Africa 31 (3), 397-411, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| Remittance micro‐worlds and migrant infrastructure: Circulations, disruptions, and the movement of money LR Cirolia, S Hall, H Nyamnjoh Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47 (1), 63-76, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
| Urban statecraft: The governance of transport infrastructures in African cities LR Cirolia, J Harber Urban Studies 59 (12), 2431-2450, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| Conflicts Between and Within: The ‘Conflicting Rationalities’ of Informal Occupation in South Africa N Ngwenya, LR Cirolia Planning Theory & Practice 22 (5), 691-706, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Overcoming the disjunctures: competing discourses on informal settlements in South Africa LR Cirolia International Development Planning Review 39 (4), 443-459, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Reframing the ‘gap market’: lessons and implications from Cape Town’s gap market housing initiative LR Cirolia Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 31 (4), 621-634, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| Overcoming the challenge of vertical consolidation in South Africa's low-income settlements: a case study of Du Noon R McGaffin, LR Cirolia, M Massyn Urban Forum 26, 59-75, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| From problematisation to propositionality: Advancing southern urban infrastructure debates I Baptista, LR Cirolia Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47 (4), 927-939, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Infrastructure governance in the post-networked city: State-led, high-tech sanitation in Addis Ababa’s condominium housing LR Cirolia, T Hailu, J King, NF da Cruz, J Beall Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 39 (7), 1606-1624, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
