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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	28
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	20
Correction	16
The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936	14
Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing programme in a social perspective	13
Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies	10
On the police as infrastructure and managers in the African city	8
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
A place to remain in the village. Dutch planning cultures and rural housing policies from 1945 onwards	5
Correction	5
The role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities	5
Soviet specialists’s urban planning technical assistance to China, 1949–1959	5
Overlapping modernity and tradition: rethinking the danwei as a basic urban unit in modern China	4
Quartering as an aspect of Italy’s post-unification urban development: the case of Milan’s parade ground	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
From port to ocean capital: governance and city branding in Busan, 1990–2023	4
Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849	4
From warehouses to high-density streets: a study of the evolution of Canton’s port area along the Pearl River in the nineteenth century	4
What would the RPAA do?	3

Model Cities at fifty: afterlives	3
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) experts’ contribution in the establishment of the University of Patras	3
Planning versus reality: building ‘native’ housing estates in Lomé and Douala, late nineteenth century till 1940	3
Epidemics, the issue of control and the grid: a nineteenth-century perspective from Buenos Aires	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
From insulative nature to developmental nature: socio-natural transformation of the coastal space of Shenzhen Bay (1950–2017)	3
The water heritage of China: the polders of Tai Lake Basin as continuing landscape	3
Pensando as Favelas Cariocas: Memória e Outras Abordagens Teóricas [Thinking the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: memory and other theoretical approaches]	3
Path dependency in aesthetic control management within Turkish planning history	3
Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s	3
Layers of reconstruction: the planning history of disaster-prone Kamaishi	3
Correction	3
International exhibitions and open public spaces: echoes of the times or forerunners?	3
The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history	3
Working-class suburban housing, homeownership and urban social movements during Francoism in Barcelona, 1939–1975	3
La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX	3
Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism	3
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy	3
Seminars on urban design and the constitution of the discipline in mid-1980s Brazil	3
规画:中国空间规划与人居营建	3
Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo	3
Shaping early twentieth century Rome: the AACAR and the contributions of Filippo Galassi and Gustavo Giovannoni	3
Sustainable urban agriculture: new frontiers	3
Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors	2
Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy	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
States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean	2
The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey	2
Unsettling a sanitary enclave: malaria at Mian Mir (1849–1910)	2
Port-railway connection in Setúbal (Portugal) – an understanding of the past for a sustainable future	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
Through the bridges: the Black Cultural Association in São Paulo, urban planning and the contours of the white city	2
Where there’s a will, is there a way? Reflections on the institutional afterlife of the London Docklands Development Corporation	2
Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926)	2
Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin	2
Planning social housing in 1960s Türkiye: policies, institutions, and projects	2
Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine	2
‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959	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
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
Taming ‘wild’ Vienna? The handling of informal settlements by the planning authorities – perspectives, discourse, (counter)actions in the interwar and post-war periods	1
Influenza pandemic and the development of public health infrastructure in Bombay city, 1919–1935	1
Affordable housing in the 1910s–1930s: new narratives on unbeaten tracks	1
Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland: transformation, symbolic form and national identity	1
Housing matters in the 1970s: foundations, legacies, and impacts from the national laboratory for civil engineering’s research in Portugal	1
The assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land	1

Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters: the American Red Cross programmes presented at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 1915	1
The Renewal of Post-war Manchester: planning, Architecture and the State	1
Davids and the Goliath at Downtown: why central Auckland’s largest post-war urban renewal scheme could not be stopped	1
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England	1
Historia y memoria de villas y favelas	1
‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History	1
Building Roma Capitale: knowing and interpreting the city of the past (1870–1925)	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
Ebenezer Howard: inventor of the garden city	1
Correction	1
Urbanizing Suburbia: hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing, and the remaking of the Outer European City	1
Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification	1
The location of a railway station and its impact on urban planning in colonial Lahore 1846–1947	1
Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]	1
Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history	1
Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad	1
Charles Rice, Atrium	1
A 2200-year-old document of planning history: the border city planning system in Chao Cuo’s memorials to the throne	1
An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal	1
Development of cultural heritage conservation planning in China	1
Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje	1
Joint City: cross-border planning diffusion, local elites, and planning practices – case studies of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan and Swatow, 1898–1945	1
La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina [The city of hygienists. Health reforms and utopias in Umbertine Italy]	1
Atlas histórico del urbanismo español	1
Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks	1
Urban planning history of Malawi: case study of the capital Lilongwe	1
The Human Settlement : Erwin Anton Gutkind's fascination with Africa and critique of modern design	1
Community green: rediscovering the enclosed spaces of the garden suburb tradition	1
Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history	1
Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core	1
Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square	1
From the attempts to create a modern city to its globalization: a historiography of the Spanish international exhibitions (1888–2008)	1
The city in the city – architecture and change in London’s financial district	1
The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration	1
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city: growth, post-growth, and the reimagining of the capital	1
Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro	1
Ambivalent republican and Roman models for Washington D.C.	1
Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China	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
Le prolétariat ne se promène pas nu. Moscou en projets [The proletariat does not walk naked. Moscow through its projects]	1
Deconstructing Cerdá: historical approaches in his three urban planning theories (1855–1867)	1
A queer New York: geographies of lesbians, dykes, and queers	1