OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Planning Perspectives 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	30
Pensando as favelas cariocas: história e questões urbanas (volume 1) [Reflecting on Rio’s Favelas: history and urban questions]	24
Displaying planning knowledge: early twentieth-century expositions and the transnational influence on Swedish city planning	22
The bonds of inequality: debt and the making of the American city	21
Correction	17
On the police as infrastructure and managers in the African city	15
The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936	13
Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing programme in a social perspective	11
Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies	10
Greenizing the Chinese city: urban regeneration, state developmentalism, and ecotopia in Shanghai Expo 2010	8
Planning Venice after the Italian Unification: The Development of a Space-based Identity	8
Editing planning perspectives : 40 years of growth and transformation	7
Immigration, employment, and new town initiatives in Hong Kong	6
Fabricating Lureland - a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea	6
From warehouses to high-density streets: a study of the evolution of Canton’s port area along the Pearl River in the nineteenth century	5
Correction	5
Overlapping modernity and tradition: rethinking the danwei as a basic urban unit in modern China	5
A place to remain in the village. Dutch planning cultures and rural housing policies from 1945 onwards	5
From port to ocean capital: governance and city branding in Busan, 1990–2023	5
Soviet specialists’s urban planning technical assistance to China, 1949–1959	4
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy	4
The role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities	4
Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849	4
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) experts’ contribution in the establishment of the University of Patras	4
Quartering as an aspect of Italy’s post-unification urban development: the case of Milan’s parade ground	4

Model Cities at fifty: afterlives	4
‘The freedom of the place during daylight hours’: urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980	4
La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX	3
Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s	3
Planning versus reality: building ‘native’ housing estates in Lomé and Douala, late nineteenth century till 1940	3
International exhibitions and open public spaces: echoes of the times or forerunners?	3
From insulative nature to developmental nature: socio-natural transformation of the coastal space of Shenzhen Bay (1950–2017)	3
Ngā pūtahitanga/Crossings: the 2022 joint conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand and the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group	3
规画:中国空间规划与人居营建	3
Pensando as Favelas Cariocas: Memória e Outras Abordagens Teóricas [Thinking the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: memory and other theoretical approaches]	3
Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism	3
Path dependency in aesthetic control management within Turkish planning history	3
Sustainable urban agriculture: new frontiers	3
The water heritage of China: the polders of Tai Lake Basin as continuing landscape	3
Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo	3
Layers of reconstruction: the planning history of disaster-prone Kamaishi	3
What would the RPAA do?	3
Seminars on urban design and the constitution of the discipline in mid-1980s Brazil	3
Epidemics, the issue of control and the grid: a nineteenth-century perspective from Buenos Aires	3
Working-class suburban housing, homeownership and urban social movements during Francoism in Barcelona, 1939–1975	3
The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history	3
Correction	3
Unsettling a sanitary enclave: malaria at Mian Mir (1849–1910)	2
Planning social housing in 1960s Türkiye: policies, institutions, and projects	2
八大重点城市规划——新中国成立初期的城市规划历史研究 (第二版) [The Planning of Eight Key New Industrial Cities: Urban Planning History of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s (Second Version)]	2
Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy	2
The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto	2
From monumentality to diversity – Lourenço Marques between the urban plans of Aguiar and Azevedo (1950-1970)	2
Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors	2
Through the bridges: the Black Cultural Association in São Paulo, urban planning and the contours of the white city	2
Port-railway connection in Setúbal (Portugal) – an understanding of the past for a sustainable future	2
Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine	2
Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926)	2
The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey	2
States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean	2
Shaping early twentieth century Rome: the AACAR and the contributions of Filippo Galassi and Gustavo Giovannoni	2
Résonnances oasiennes. Approches sensibles de l’urbain au Sahara [Resonances from the Oases. Sensitive approaches to the urban in the Sahara]	2
Urban design in the 20th century: a history	2
Where there’s a will, is there a way? Reflections on the institutional afterlife of the London Docklands Development Corporation	2
‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959	2
Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks	1
A queer New York: geographies of lesbians, dykes, and queers	1
Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937	1
‘Living beyond its present means’: World Bank push and local pushback over lowest-cost housing for postcolonial Dakar	1
The modernity of the Regional Planning Association of America	1
Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification	1
Correction	1
Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters: the American Red Cross programmes presented at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 1915	1
From the attempts to create a modern city to its globalization: a historiography of the Spanish international exhibitions (1888–2008)	1
Affordable housing in the 1910s–1930s: new narratives on unbeaten tracks	1

Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China	1
Charles Rice, Atrium	1
Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history	1
The city in the city – architecture and change in London’s financial district	1
Everyday sectarianism in urban Lebanon: infrastructures, public services, and power	1
Deconstructing Cerdá: historical approaches in his three urban planning theories (1855–1867)	1
Historia y memoria de villas y favelas	1
A 2200-year-old document of planning history: the border city planning system in Chao Cuo’s memorials to the throne	1
Building Roma Capitale: knowing and interpreting the city of the past (1870–1925)	1
‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History	1
The assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land	1
A research agenda for US land use and planning law	1
Standardizing play in the century of the car: the building information cards as shapers of the ideal urban childhood in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s	1
Taming ‘wild’ Vienna? The handling of informal settlements by the planning authorities – perspectives, discourse, (counter)actions in the interwar and post-war periods	1
Exhibitionary urbanism: International Expos and city planning, 1851–2025	1
Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro	1
Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history	1
Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland: transformation, symbolic form and national identity	1
Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]	1
Community green: rediscovering the enclosed spaces of the garden suburb tradition	1
The Renewal of Post-war Manchester: planning, Architecture and the State	1
An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal	1
Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core	1
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England	1
Photographs and the practice of history: a short primer	1
Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue of the Americas. New York, biography of a street] Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue o	1
Theorizing the postcolonial city of Kuching: the socio-spatial production of colonial logistics	1
La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina [The city of hygienists. Health reforms and utopias in Umbertine Italy]	1
Joint City: cross-border planning diffusion, local elites, and planning practices – case studies of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan and Swatow, 1898–1945	1
Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje	1
Atlas histórico del urbanismo español	1
Development of cultural heritage conservation planning in China	1
Désir de nature dans le Grand Tunis. Pour une végétalisation de la ville dense [Desire of nature in greater Tunis. In favour of a vegetalisation of the dense city]	1
The Human Settlement : Erwin Anton Gutkind's fascination with Africa and critique of modern design	1
Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square	1
À l’échelle du quartier. Histoire d’une notion d’urbanisme (1890-1960) [At the neighborhood scale. History of a concept in urban planning (1890–1960)]	1
The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration	1
The location of a railway station and its impact on urban planning in colonial Lahore 1846–1947	1
Urbanizing Suburbia: hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing, and the remaking of the Outer European City	1
Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin	1
Ebenezer Howard: inventor of the garden city	1
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city: growth, post-growth, and the reimagining of the capital	1
Ambivalent republican and Roman models for Washington D.C.	1
Landed internationals. Planning cultures, the academy and the making of the modern Middle East	1
Davids and the Goliath at Downtown: why central Auckland’s largest post-war urban renewal scheme could not be stopped	1
Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad	1
Im Gleichschritt. Der Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin im Nationalsozialismus	1
Housing matters in the 1970s: foundations, legacies, and impacts from the national laboratory for civil engineering’s research in Portugal	1
Le prolétariat ne se promène pas nu. Moscou en projets [The proletariat does not walk naked. Moscow through its projects]	1