| The Routledge handbook on cities of the global south S Parnell, S Oldfield Routledge, 2014 | 406 | 2014 |
| Waiting for the state: a politics of housing in South Africa S Oldfield, S Greyling Environment and Planning A 47 (5), 1100-1112, 2015 | 159 | 2015 |
| Building unity in diversity: Social movement activism in the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign S Oldfield, K Stokke na, 2006 | 130 | 2006 |
| Accessing the state: Everyday practices and politics in cities of the South C Bénit-Gbaffou, S Oldfield Journal of Asian and African Studies 46 (5), 445-452, 2011 | 111 | 2011 |
| Urban networks, community organising and race: an analysis of racial integration in a desegregated South African neighbourhood S Oldfield Geoforum 35 (2), 189-201, 2004 | 100 | 2004 |
| The centrality of community capacity in state low‐income housing provision in Cape Town, South Africa S Oldfield International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24 (4), 858-872, 2000 | 89 | 2000 |
| Participatory mechanisms and community politics: building consensus and conflict S Oldfield Consolidating developmental local government: Lessons from the South African …, 2008 | 87 | 2008 |
| Who's serving whom? Partners, process, and products in service-learning projects in South African urban geography S Oldfield Journal of Geography in Higher Education 32 (2), 269-285, 2008 | 76 | 2008 |
| The parallel claims of gated communities and land invasions in a Southern city: polarised state responses C Lemanski, S Oldfield Environment and Planning A 41 (3), 634-648, 2009 | 73 | 2009 |
| Straining: Young men working through waithood in Freetown, Sierra Leone B Finn, S Oldfield Africa Spectrum 50 (3), 29-48, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
| Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa S Oldfield, K Stokke Contesting neoliberalism: Urban frontiers, 139-156, 2007 | 57 | 2007 |
| uTshani BuyaKhuluma––The Grass Speaks: the political space and capacity of the South African Homeless People’s Federation M Millstein, S Oldfield, K Stokke Geoforum 34 (4), 457-468, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| Engagement and reconstruction in critical research: negotiating urban practice, policy and theory in South Africa S Oldfield, S Parnell, A Mabin Social & Cultural Geography 5 (2), 285-299, 2004 | 55 | 2004 |
| Between activism and the academy: The urban as political terrain S Oldfield Urban Studies 52 (11), 2072-2086, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| Post-apartheid social polarisations: The creation of sub-urban identities in Cape Town B Lohnert, S Oldfield, S Parnell South African Geographical Journal 80 (2), 86-92, 1998 | 52 | 1998 |
| ‘From the South' S Oldfield, S Parnell The Routledge handbook on cities of the global south, 1-4, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Partial formalization and its implications for community governance in an informal settlement. S Oldfield Urban Forum 13 (2), 2002 | 47 | 2002 |
| Claiming ‘Rights' in the African City: Popular mobilization and the politics of informality C Bénit-Gbaffou, S Oldfield The Routledge handbook on cities of the Global South, 281-295, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| The paradox of ‘free basic water’and cost recovery in Grabouw: increasing household debt and municipal financial loss K Peters, S Oldfield Urban Forum 16 (4), 313-335, 2005 | 37 | 2005 |
| Embedded Autonomy and the challenges of developmental local government S Oldfield Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment, 2002 | 37 | 2002 |
