Urban Design International

Papers
(The median citation count of Urban Design International 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Commentary: beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation?22
Correction to: Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research18
Green urban evaluation index for the central districts of cities in developing countries: case of Jordan17
Resilient university campus in the city in COVID and post-COVID era—recommendations, guidelines, and evidence from research in Italy and Poland16
Investigating socio-spatial effects of design interventions with computational methods: A case study on Bursa Uludağ University Görükle Campus15
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods, Hesam Kamalipour, Patricia Aelbrecht, and Nastaran Peimani (eds.), Routledge, 2023, £205.00, 578pp, ISBN: 9780367768058 and Research Handbook o14
A critical review for Cairo’s green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors13
Correction to: Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities11
Urban form and sustainability in Arctic cities: An assessment of energy efficiency, solar access, and accessibility10
A parametric approach to plot-based urban design: A climate-responsive algorithmic control for the generation of urban block10
Musings on theorizing, co-producing, designing, and encountering the public space10
Assessment of the effect of the design of a public garden on the biophilic behavior of its users in Guelma (northeastern Algeria)10
Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities10
Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form. Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer. Paul Jenkins and Harry Smith. Routledge, 2023, $39.19 (paperback), 268 pages, ISBN 97804155869318
Urban design and walkability revisited7
In the images of development: city design in the Global South, Tridib Banerjee, The MIT Press, 2021, 520 pp, $45, Hardcover7
Urban design leadership: part 3, through a single national lens7
Impact of ground-floor façade functionality and permeability on pedestrian behaviour and social interactions: A mixed-methods study enhancing urban environmental quality6
Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research6
Jazdów: an island of real-and-imagined sustainability6
Urban design in China5
Public Space, Vikas Mehta, Routledge, 2023, £27.99, 268 pp, ISBN: 97810321370255
Planning from Mars, urban design from Venus5
What if “sense of place” is already strong? An in-depth investigation in an award-winning American neighbourhood5
Publisher Correction: Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits5
Reimagining urban design futures: Innovative theories and practices from the Global South5
Building with superblocks: Study of Gulf corporation cities4
The emerging trend of converting abandoned elevated infrastructure into linear parks: state of the arts and categories of intervention4
Visual conflict in urban landscape design: A study on the influence of street signboards on the saliency of greenery4
Integrating objective spatial data and route perceptions through GIS-supported citizen science for a holistic urban walkability assessment4
Microenvironments: towards a socio-spatial understanding of territorial expression for urban design4
Winter City in translation: The Winter Cities movement and the design of an Arctic Norwegian City4
A citizen perspective on designing driverless streets4
Designing for possibility in public space: affordance, assemblage, and ANT4
Correction to: Urban design and walkability revisited4
Mapping a framework for social–ecological resilience in reimaging of abandoned spaces4
Plot transformation and effects on public space in eight verticalized neighborhoods of the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile4
Arctic urban space affordances: Discussing residential urban design in Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat3
Revisiting liveability and adaptability in urban design3
Multidimensional analyses of walkability in city centres by using mobile methodologies: Beşiktaş and Delft experiences3
Reconceptualising urban liveability: a quantitative assessment of inhabitant needs in Colombo, Sri Lanka3
UDI editorial winter issue 20253
Correction: Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing: case study of Generalštab, Belgrade3
Contemporary approaches to healthy and livable public spaces: Proximity, flexibility, and diversification2
Planning and Urban Design for Attractive Arctic Cities. David Chapman, Kristina L. Nilsson, Jennie Sjöholm, Routledge, 2025, £36.99 (paperback), 232 pages, ISBN 97810323727162
UDI editorial: resilience, well-being and urban design2
Smell-waking as a cognitive mapping tool: investigating the smellscape of Syrian food for placemaking in Cairo’s outskirts2
Exploring the interplays between urban morphology and greenery on infectious disease cases: Evidence from 1500 US communities2
Women Reclaiming the City: International Research on Urbanism, Architecture and Planning, Tigran Haas, 2023, £85.00, 337 pages, ISBN: 978-1-5381-6265-12
Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong2
Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits1
Correction: Reflective practice as a basis for building a sustainable public space: the case of Kartuzy1
Single-family courtyard houses in Poland: conditions and perspectives for development based on the example of Krakow1
Publisher Correction: Revisiting critical regionalism from an urbanistic perspective: A generative typomorphology for contextual urban design1
A narrative-led approach for the revitalization of places of memory: a case study of Haiyan moat waterfront (Zhejiang, China)1
From ornament to infrastructure: Designing subway murals through a visual element framework for spatial and cultural integration1
Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile1
James T. White and John Punter (Eds), Condoland: the planning, design, and development of Toronto's CityPlace1
How to design a sustainable street network for neighbourhoods: an empirical study of China’s inner cities from the perspective of spatial configuration1
Urban systems, when they conurbate: The diachronic-configurational approach to detect the shifting of centrality in Versilia1
Spatial equity assessment in urban open spaces: Development of an objectively measured walkability index for women in Monastir, Tunisia1
Urban governance: Public space management and ‘what’s in common’1
Publisher Correction: A parametric approach to plot-based urban design: A climate-responsive algorithmic control for the generation of urban block1
Introduction to the UDI special issue—Reflections on Balkan urbanism1
Digital intervention in the city: a conceptual framework for digital placemaking1
Physical–virtual publicness of public space: An assessment framework1
Potential of GenAI for thematic analysis in urban design: a pilot study on the sense of place1
Comprehensive evaluation method of rooftop views in high-density urban areas: a case study of Guangzhou’s historic district1
Pedestrian accessibility in spatial gridiron organisations: a measure by regarding visual graph analysis1
Urban mosaic in modernity mosaic: Understanding urban transformation in Poland1
Contesting social housing demolition through community co-design: The Alton Estate’s People’s Plan1
Learning from context: Rethinking planning education through urban design in Central America1
Social and cultural transformation of urban form: some insights from the MENA region1
Urban design in (post)-Arctic cities1
Publisher Correction: Assessment of the effect of the design of a public garden on the biophilic behavior of its users in Guelma (northeastern Algeria)1
From design to behaviour: a public interaction-based evaluation of public space quality in resilient urban design1
Plans and outcomes for mixed use in new apartment buildings: A Gothenburg programme for suburban infills1
The relationship between planning policy and city-centre vitality and form, and an urban design-based strategy: The cases of Birmingham and Stafford, UK1
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