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Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Morphology is 0. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging the gaps: urban morphology 20 years on	22
A little prehistory of Urban Morphology	20
Reading and understanding the built environment of Quebec (Canada): the result of thirty years of research	16
Fringe belts and planning	15
How we view cities: a green-space enigma?	13
Anne Vernez Moudon (1945–2025)	7
The relationship between urban form and land-use regulation in China: the case of Nanjing	5
Mental maps of urban morphology	5
Architectural typology and urban morphology: towards a typological reading of urban housing buildings	5
From rural plots to urban superblocks A. A. Kantarek, K. Kwiatkowski and I. Samuels	4
Overcoming anglophone squint	4
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	4
Time as a significant dimension in urban form research	4
The changing face of urban morphology: achievements and challenges	3
Urban form and the activities of daily life: implications for sustainability. Towards an ISUF agenda for the study of suburbs	3
2 Reports	3
Il faut tourner la page	3
An organizational need in studies of Kurdish urban form	3
Comparing studies of urban form	2
Practical aspects of morphological research in urban renewal projects	2
Mapping the conceptual system of an urban theory and its evolution: a text analysis of space syntax conference papers over 20 years	2
Obituary: Antony D. King (1931-2022)	2
The concept of the morphological region: developments and prospects	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
The study of urban form in Lithuania during the second half of the twentieth century	2

[Book notes, PDF]	2
Urban morphogenesis and fractal pattern: scaling invariance of traditional Islamic cities in Algeria	2
Making connections	2
Urban morphology, smart sustainability and space colonization	2
Recent changes in urban morphology	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
Towards a more integrated approach	2
Thinking cross-culturally	1
Brazilian urban morphology S. de A.P. Costa	1
Looking East: urban morphology in China, Japan and Korea	1
Conservation, heritage and urban morphology	1
Urban morphological research and practice	1
Residential building types as an evolutionary process: the Guangzhou area, China	1
An Italian focus and beyond	1
The adaptive application of the typological map: from the Italian approach to Chinese historic areas	1
Understanding and shaping urban landscape character	1
Assessing a quarter-century of Urban Morphology	1
Agents of change, power, and resistance in the patterns of change of an industrial heritage district: the case of Bellavista, Chile (1970‒2019)	1
An intellectual legacy for ISUF	1
Seeking an integrated approach to urban form: tasks ahead	1
Urban morphology and computers	1
Urban landscapes as ensembles	1
In pursuit of Whitehand’s neighbour effect: uncovering the hidden principles of plot configuration and urban morphogenesis	1
ISUF and Urban Morphology: 25 years on and counting	1
Mapping trends and hotspots of urban morphology research in the past 55 years: a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and Bibliometrix	1
Evaluating the linkage between visual complexity and aesthetics of street-elevations using the fractal dimension assessment method	1
Urban morphology and policy: bridging the gap	1
4 Reports	1
A century of urban morphology?	1
Review article: A new urban historical atlas: viewing the best of the past	1
5 Reports	1
Taking a broader view	1
Completing the foundations	1
Obituary: J. W. R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	1
The problem of teaching urban morphology and the ISSUM experiment	0
Typomorphology and the crisis of Chinese cities F. Chen	0
What do we know about urban form?	0
From Como to Alnwick: in pursuit of Caniggia and Conzen	0
Obituary: Exploring the frontiers of space: Bill Hillier (1937–2019)	0
The role of building morphotypes in rural planning processes	0
Investigating space morphology in disaster: the role of spatial-syntactic and morpho- logical elements in vulnerability of earthquake-prone historical urban areas	0
Determining different spatial layouts in urban heritage areas by using a multiple-criteria decision making method	0
Historical geography, urban morphology and green space	0
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities	0
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	0
Cultural heritage attractors: does spatial configuration matter? Applications of macro- and micro-spatial configurative analysis in the historic urban area of Rome	0
Early Neolithic settlements on the Lower Yangtze River, China	0
City fortifications and the form of European cities, with special reference to Croatia	0
The only thing that is constant is change	0
TOD2	0

From types to regions: a quantitative approach to the characterization of urban form	0
Exploring changes in an emerging city of the Global South: a spatio-temporal analysis of built-up density in Hanoi	0
Translating 'Alnwick' into Portuguese	0
The study of urban form in Lithuania during the second half of the twentieth century	0
Assessing green space structure through urban morphological analysis: the Çağlayan neighbourhood in Northern Nicosia, Cyprus	0
Rebuilding the relationship between urban morphology and environmental psychology	0
A-M. Châtelet, M. Denès and C. Mazzoni (2014) La ville parfaitement imparfaite	0
See and find: using ‘resolution’ as a starting-point and framework to teach urban morphology in schools of architecture	0
Understanding place in the Netherlands H. Bienstman	0
The place of urban morphology in the North American academic programs – an overview	0
Reconstructing ‘urban architecture’ with borrowing typomorphology in China	0
Obituary: Christopher Alexander (1936-2022)	0
The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology	0
Urban morphology as a theatre of power: the Pombaline paradox of secularization and enlightened authoritarianism in Lisbon (1755–1805)	0
The form-based development plan: bridging the gap between theory and practice in urban morphology	0
Translating 'Alnwick' into Portuguese	0
Positioning Urban Morphology	0
The problem of Euro-American myopia	0
Information explosion and intellectual challenge	0
From explanation to prescription	0
The elusive common denominator in understanding urban form M.P. Conzen	0
Assessing green space structure through urban morphological analysis: the Çağlayan neighbourhood in Northern Nicosia, Cyprus	0
A pre-Neolithic ritual centre: Göbekli-Tepe, Turkey	0
Towards the authentication of urban pattern through fractal analysis: the case of Blida, Algeria	0
Urban morphology, formation and transformation of urban form	0
Quality, consistency and coverage	0
Becoming an urban morphologist: Michael P. Conzen	0
Urban form and transitional zones in hillside cities: morphological analysis of Yuzhong District, Chongqing	0
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities	0
Urban Morphology as an emerging interdisciplinary field	0
ISUF programme 2025–29	0
Historicity and urban form in the digital era	0
ISUF after 20 years: reculer pour mieux sauter	0
The study of urban form in Slovenia	0
Bringing order to urban morphology?	0
The problem of separate worlds	0
Crossing boundaries: towards a more integrated approach?	0
Early medieval origins of Ypres	0
Linking disciplines: typological process and spatial process	0
A new map of Alnwick	0
Urban morphological classics?	0
Why Urban Morphology?	0
After Versailles	0
The study of territory and the role of history in applied research in urban morphology G. Cataldi	0
Some thoughts on urban greenspace form	0
Taking a world view	0
Change and continuity	0
Management of fringe belts: redevelopment or protection	0
Planning the fringe belts	0
The need for change in the study of urban form	0
4 Reports	0
Typo-morphological inequities in urban green spaces: park design and informal adaptation in Delicias de Villa, Peru	0
[Book notes, PDF]	0
Italian urban morphology: the geographical perspective of Umberto Toschi E. Ravazzoli	0
Social and spatial impacts of changing urban form in Ayazağa, Turkey	0
3 Reports	0
From theory-building to institution-building: the contributions of Anne Vernez Moudon to urban morphology	0
Philippe Panerai (1940‒2023)	0
UN-Habitat Brazil urban circuit: urban morphology facing climate challenges	0
Coming of age in Cincinnati	0
The ecological perspective: Jeremy Whitehand’s last contribution to fringe-belt studies	0
On the two basic types of urban greenspace form	0
Learning the language of urban morphology	0
Early medieval origins of Ypres	0
Urban conservation and urban morphology in Kiruna, Sweden	0
4 Reports	0
Urban morphology: how interdisciplinary? how international?	0
Obituary: J. W. R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	0
Pre-ceramic early urban coastal Peru	0
Meeting of minds?	0
The adaptive application of the typological map: from the Italian approach to Chinese historic areas	0
Evolving suburbs: measuring US subdivision street patterns over time	0
Using urban form to increase the capacity of cities to manage noise and air quality	0
How international is Urban Morphology?	0