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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Commentary: beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation?	26
Correction to: Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	19
Investigating socio-spatial effects of design interventions with computational methods: A case study on Bursa Uludağ University Görükle Campus	17
Modelling urban elements and patterns as shape grammars: lessons from an urban design studio in Singapore	12
Resilient university campus in the city in COVID and post-COVID era—recommendations, guidelines, and evidence from research in Italy and Poland	12
Green urban evaluation index for the central districts of cities in developing countries: case of Jordan	11
Correction to: Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	10
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 o	10
Musings on theorizing, co-producing, designing, and encountering the public space	9
Urban form and sustainability in Arctic cities: An assessment of energy efficiency, solar access, and accessibility	8
Regeneration and children’s neighborhood knowledge: A cross-sectional cognitive mapping study in Istanbul	8
Assessment of the effect of the design of a public garden on the biophilic behavior of its users in Guelma (northeastern Algeria)	8
A parametric approach to plot-based urban design: A climate-responsive algorithmic control for the generation of urban block	8
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 9780415586931	8
Jazdów: an island of real-and-imagined sustainability	6
Urban design leadership: part 3, through a single national lens	6
Urban design and walkability revisited	6
In the images of development: city design in the Global South, Tridib Banerjee, The MIT Press, 2021, 520 pp, $45, Hardcover	6
Planning from Mars, urban design from Venus	5
A citizen perspective on designing driverless streets	5
Reimagining urban design futures: Innovative theories and practices from the Global South	5
Impact of ground-floor façade functionality and permeability on pedestrian behaviour and social interactions: A mixed-methods study enhancing urban environmental quality	5
Integrating objective spatial data and route perceptions through GIS-supported citizen science for a holistic urban walkability assessment	5
What if “sense of place” is already strong? An in-depth investigation in an award-winning American neighbourhood	5
Public Space, Vikas Mehta, Routledge, 2023, £27.99, 268 pp, ISBN: 9781032137025	5

Publisher Correction: Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	5
Interpreting public space through a publicness–typology approach: An exploratory study of public spaces in Shanghai, China	5
Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	5
Building with superblocks: Study of Gulf corporation cities	4
The emerging trend of converting abandoned elevated infrastructure into linear parks: state of the arts and categories of intervention	4
Designing for possibility in public space: affordance, assemblage, and ANT	4
Mapping a framework for social–ecological resilience in reimaging of abandoned spaces	4
Microenvironments: towards a socio-spatial understanding of territorial expression for urban design	4
Visual conflict in urban landscape design: A study on the influence of street signboards on the saliency of greenery	4
Correction to: Urban design and walkability revisited	4
UDI editorial winter issue 2025	3
Expanding the urban design toolbox: Counter-mapping for gender inclusion	3
Arctic urban space affordances: Discussing residential urban design in Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat	3
Correction: Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing: case study of Generalštab, Belgrade	3
Winter City in translation: The Winter Cities movement and the design of an Arctic Norwegian City	3
Reconceptualising urban liveability: a quantitative assessment of inhabitant needs in Colombo, Sri Lanka	3
Revisiting liveability and adaptability in urban design	3
Women Reclaiming the City: International Research on Urbanism, Architecture and Planning, Tigran Haas, 2023, £85.00, 337 pages, ISBN: 978-1-5381-6265-1	2
Planning and Urban Design for Attractive Arctic Cities. David Chapman, Kristina L. Nilsson, Jennie Sjöholm, Routledge, 2025, £36.99 (paperback), 232 pages, ISBN 9781032372716	2
UDI editorial: resilience, well-being and urban design	2
Contemporary approaches to healthy and livable public spaces: Proximity, flexibility, and diversification	2
Exploring the interplays between urban morphology and greenery on infectious disease cases: Evidence from 1500 US communities	2
Multidimensional analyses of walkability in city centres by using mobile methodologies: Beşiktaş and Delft experiences	2
Smell-waking as a cognitive mapping tool: investigating the smellscape of Syrian food for placemaking in Cairo’s outskirts	2
Plans and outcomes for mixed use in new apartment buildings: A Gothenburg programme for suburban infills	1
The relationship between planning policy and city-centre vitality and form, and an urban design-based strategy: The cases of Birmingham and Stafford, UK	1
Urban design in (post)-Arctic cities	1
Introduction to the UDI special issue—Reflections on Balkan urbanism	1
Deciphering physical disorder of urban street space in China’s rust belt: Identification, perception, and interpretation through street-view images	1
Spatial equity assessment in urban open spaces: Development of an objectively measured walkability index for women in Monastir, Tunisia	1
Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands	1
Publisher Correction: Revisiting critical regionalism from an urbanistic perspective: A generative typomorphology for contextual urban design	1
Urban systems, when they conurbate: The diachronic-configurational approach to detect the shifting of centrality in Versilia	1
Urban mosaic in modernity mosaic: Understanding urban transformation in Poland	1
Publisher Correction: A parametric approach to plot-based urban design: A climate-responsive algorithmic control for the generation of urban block	1
Physical–virtual publicness of public space: An assessment framework	1
Pedestrian accessibility in spatial gridiron organisations: a measure by regarding visual graph analysis	1
Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong	1
Territorial restructuring and collective land governance in a community context: The Aurès region, Algeria	1
A narrative-led approach for the revitalization of places of memory: a case study of Haiyan moat waterfront (Zhejiang, China)	1
Quantitative evaluation of spatial nodes in linear cultural heritage tourism routes: a case study of the Beijing Central Axis	1
The socio-spatial roles of public space as an enabler for community resilience	1
Form, power, and ideology: Typomorphological insights into CIAM-Alger’s “Muslim housing” projects in colonial Algiers during the 1950s	1
Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	1
Contesting social housing demolition through community co-design: The Alton Estate’s People’s Plan	1
How to design a sustainable street network for neighbourhoods: an empirical study of China’s inner cities from the perspective of spatial configuration	1
Learning from context: Rethinking planning education through urban design in Central America	1
Digital intervention in the city: a conceptual framework for digital placemaking	1
Teachers, traditions, and transitions: Challenges to urban design within Polish planning education	1
James T. White and John Punter (Eds), Condoland: the planning, design, and development of Toronto's CityPlace	1

Potential of GenAI for thematic analysis in urban design: a pilot study on the sense of place	1
Comprehensive evaluation method of rooftop views in high-density urban areas: a case study of Guangzhou’s historic district	1
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
Social and cultural transformation of urban form: some insights from the MENA region	1
Emerging knowledge on the social dimension of urban design	1
New emerging urban design tools	1
Correction: Reflective practice as a basis for building a sustainable public space: the case of Kartuzy	1
From ornament to infrastructure: Designing subway murals through a visual element framework for spatial and cultural integration	1
Single-family courtyard houses in Poland: conditions and perspectives for development based on the example of Krakow	1
Counter-mapping the lived experiences of ageing residents in historic Beijing: An acupoint–meridian approach through film	1
Urban governance: Public space management and ‘what’s in common’	1
Socio-spatial evaluation of transitional spaces between local streets and apartment buildings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	1
From design to behaviour: a public interaction-based evaluation of public space quality in resilient urban design	1