OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	18
Commentary: beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation?	16
Resilient university campus in the city in COVID and post-COVID era—recommendations, guidelines, and evidence from research in Italy and Poland	11
A typological approach to the transformation of cave dwellings in Baishe Village, Shaanxi, China	10
Green urban evaluation index for the central districts of cities in developing countries: case of Jordan	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	9
A critical review for Cairo’s green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors	9
Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	8
Correction to: Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	8
Public’s perceptions of urban identity of Thessaloniki, Greece	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	7
Jazdów: an island of real-and-imagined sustainability	7
Musings on theorizing, co-producing, designing, and encountering the public space	7
Urban design and walkability revisited	6
Urban identity, perception, and urban design	5
What if “sense of place” is already strong? An in-depth investigation in an award-winning American neighbourhood	4
More than ‘urban character’: an introduction to the concept of fengmao and fengmao-led planning and design in China	4
Public Space, Vikas Mehta, Routledge, 2023, £27.99, 268 pp, ISBN: 9781032137025	4
Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	4
Urban design in China	4
Reimagining urban design futures: Innovative theories and practices from the Global South	4
In the images of development: city design in the Global South, Tridib Banerjee, The MIT Press, 2021, 520 pp, $45, Hardcover	4
High-density mobile LiDAR for measuring urban streetscape features	3
Building with superblocks: Study of Gulf corporation cities	3
Designing for possibility in public space: affordance, assemblage, and ANT	3

Plot transformation and effects on public space in eight verticalized neighborhoods of the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile	3
Microenvironments: towards a socio-spatial understanding of territorial expression for urban design	3
Publisher Correction: Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	3
Revisiting the public health-urban design nexus in the post-pandemic era	3
UDI editorial: resilience, well-being and urban design	2
Contemporary approaches to healthy and livable public spaces: Proximity, flexibility, and diversification	2
The emerging trend of converting abandoned elevated infrastructure into linear parks: state of the arts and categories of intervention	2
Reconceptualising urban liveability: a quantitative assessment of inhabitant needs in Colombo, Sri Lanka	2
Multidimensional analyses of walkability in city centres by using mobile methodologies: Beşiktaş and Delft experiences	2
Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong	2
Correction to: Urban design and walkability revisited	2
Image-oriented design control in China: a case study from Nanjing	2
Correction: Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing: case study of Generalštab, Belgrade	2
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
James T. White and John Punter (Eds), Condoland: the planning, design, and development of Toronto's CityPlace	2
Following the process: unfolding how form-based code—as a travelling concept—has been adapted within the social, cultural, and architectural context of Riyadh	2
Mapping a framework for social–ecological resilience in reimaging of abandoned spaces	2
Smell-waking as a cognitive mapping tool: investigating the smellscape of Syrian food for placemaking in Cairo’s outskirts	2
Social and cultural transformation of urban form: some insights from the MENA region	1
Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	1
Pedestrian accessibility in spatial gridiron organisations: a measure by regarding visual graph analysis	1
A typological approach to maintain character in historic urban areas	1
Correction to: Urban design in China	1
Cognitive, behavioral, social, and cultural characteristics of the city and urban design	1
Emerging knowledge on the social dimension of urban design	1
Introduction to the UDI special issue—Reflections on Balkan urbanism	1
Plans and outcomes for mixed use in new apartment buildings: A Gothenburg programme for suburban infills	1
A narrative-led approach for the revitalization of places of memory: a case study of Haiyan moat waterfront (Zhejiang, China)	1
Correction: Reflective practice as a basis for building a sustainable public space: the case of Kartuzy	1
Friction space and the re(dis)covery of urban roads	1
Deciphering physical disorder of urban street space in China’s rust belt: Identification, perception, and interpretation through street-view images	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
Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile	1
Digital intervention in the city: a conceptual framework for digital placemaking	1
Single-family courtyard houses in Poland: conditions and perspectives for development based on the example of Krakow	1
New emerging urban design tools	1
Toward a social responsibility-based model for urban design education	1