OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Morphology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Morpho: a methodology for assessing urban form	46
Thinking about urban fringe belts: a Mediterranean perspective	17
The concept of the morphological region: developments and prospects	17
The form-based development plan: bridging the gap between theory and practice in urban morphology	16
Residential building types as an evolutionary process: the Guangzhou area, China	13
Urban Morphology as an emerging interdisciplinary field	12
The elusive common denominator in understanding urban form M.P. Conzen	8
Assessing a quarter-century of Urban Morphology	7
Brazilian urban morphology S. de A.P. Costa	5
Alnwick: conservation or transformation?	4
Typomorphology and the crisis of Chinese cities F. Chen	4
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	3
Urban morphology: how interdisciplinary? how international?	3
Seeking an integrated approach to urban form: tasks ahead	3
Urban morphological research and practice	3
Bridging the gaps: urban morphology 20 years on	3
Applications of morphological regionalization in urban conservation: the case of Bulaq Abulela, Cairo	3
A little prehistory of Urban Morphology	3
Assessing green space structure through urban morphological analysis: the Çağlayan neighbourhood in Northern Nicosia, Cyprus	2
Combining the historico-geographical and configurational approaches to urban morphology: the historical transformations of Ludlow, UK and Chinatown, Singapore	2
Crossing boundaries: towards a more integrated approach?	2
Diffusion of urban morphological ideas	2
The ecological perspective: Jeremy Whitehand’s last contribution to fringe-belt studies	2
A new complementary model for integrating historico-geographical and configurational approaches: the case of Famagusta	2
Mapping post-socialist changes in urban tissues: a comparative study of Belgrade and Krakow	2

The need for change in the study of urban form	2
The problem of teaching urban morphology and the ISSUM experiment	1
Becoming an urban morphologist: Jeremy W. R. Whitehand	1
Meeting of minds?	1
Conservation, heritage and urban morphology	1
A new complementary model for integrating historico-geographical and configurational approaches: the case of Famagusta	1
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities	1
Mapping the conceptual system of an urban theory and its evolution: a text analysis of space syntax conference papers over 20 years	1
Assessing green space structure through urban morphological analysis: the Çağlayan neighbourhood in Northern Nicosia, Cyprus	1
Alnwick: conservation or transformation?	1
Reconsidering the morphological understanding of traditional Chinese cities: a study of the early spatial modernization of Suzhou, 1880–1949	1
Time as a significant dimension in urban form research	1
Information explosion and intellectual challenge	1
Urban morphological regions, plan units and terminological exactitude	1
An integrated spatial strategy for the inner fringe belt as an operational entity	1
How international is Urban Morphology?	1
Recent changes in urban morphology	1
Becoming an urban morphologist: Jeremy W. R. Whitehand	1
The changing face of urban morphology: achievements and challenges	1
City fortifications and the form of European cities, with special reference to Croatia	1
Townscaper (Software review)	1
Overcoming anglophone squint	1
Combining the historico-geographical and configurational approaches to urban morphology: the historical transformations of Ludlow, UK and Chinatown, Singapore	1
Applications of morphological regionalization in urban conservation: the case of Bulaq Abulela, Cairo	1
Translating 'Alnwick' into Portuguese	1
The adaptive application of the typological map: from the Italian approach to Chinese historic areas	1
Obituary: Exploring the frontiers of space: Bill Hillier (1937–2019)	1
Bringing order to urban morphology?	1
Field survey in Conzenian morphological regionalization	1