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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid-19 pandemic and public spaces: improving quality and flexibility for healthier places	54
After Covid-19: urban design as spatial medicine	33
Covid-19 as an “invisible other” and socio-spatial distancing within a one-metre individual bubble	28
Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty: forms of informality and urban health emergencies	24
Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul	20
All change. Has COVID-19 transformed the way we need to plan for a healthier and more equitable food environment?	14
Space and spatial practices in times of confinement. Evidence from three European countries: Austria, France and Poland	13
On the spontaneous beauty of cities: neither design nor chaos	12
Street network or functional attractors? Capturing pedestrian movement patterns and urban form with the integration of space syntax and MCDA	11
Towards an antifragile urban form: a research agenda for advancing resilience in the built environment	11
Assessing walkability in hot arid regions: the case of downtown Abu Dhabi	10
Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile	10
Public’s perceptions of urban identity of Thessaloniki, Greece	9
Developing an analytical framework for liveable streets in Shanghai	8
Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Elements that affect foreign tourists’ satisfaction: a case study in Seoul, Korea	7
Exploring the use of restorative component scale to measure street restorative expectations	6
The influence of location, planning and design features on residents’ satisfaction with security in public housing estates in Lagos, Nigeria	6
Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands	6
Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	6
When a city must be a tree: rethinking the spatial approach to fighting epidemics based on the notion of ‘intermediate confinement’	5
Urban design, safety, livability, & accessibility	5
Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement framework template	5
Hybrid method for measuring the accessibility and safety of students’ walking routes in car-dominated campuses	5
Multidimensional analyses of walkability in city centres by using mobile methodologies: Beşiktaş and Delft experiences	5

Mapping a framework for social–ecological resilience in reimaging of abandoned spaces	4
Squandering the territorial capital in the Balkans? Urban megaprojects between global trends and local incentives	4
Work in and for a Healthy City	4
Place attachment and identity in shrinking cities: anticipating decline by combining perceptions of locals and visitors in Chōfu, Japan	4
Changing approaches to green infrastructure design: from modernism to the future: Warsaw case study	4
An urban plan evaluation for park accessibility: a case in Izmir (Türkiye)	4
A typological approach to maintain character in historic urban areas	4
Urban design and walkability revisited	3
Urban identity, perception, and urban design	3
Urban design and informal settlements: placemaking activities and temporary architectural interventions in BaSECo compound	3
Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing: case study of Generalštab, Belgrade	3
The planners’ response to COVID-19	3
A critical review for Cairo’s green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors	3
Digital intervention in the city: a conceptual framework for digital placemaking	3
Nathan Phillips Square: mediating intercultural encounter through urban design	3
Social and cultural transformation of urban form: some insights from the MENA region	3
The assessment of the quality of campus public spaces as key parts of the learning landscape: experience from a crowdsensing study on the Third Campus of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland	2
The emerging community planning in the super-blocks of New Belgrade	2
Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong	2
Designing for possibility in public space: affordance, assemblage, and ANT	2
Scale or size? An analysis of the factors that affect building density: evidence from high-density central urban zones in Asia	2
Co-production of privately owned public space: Who, why, when, and how?	2
The controversial impact of pedestrian guardrails on road crossing behaviours. Evidence from Hong Kong	2
A typological approach to the transformation of cave dwellings in Baishe Village, Shaanxi, China	2
Resilient university campus in the city in COVID and post-COVID era—recommendations, guidelines, and evidence from research in Italy and Poland	2
Ramming attacks, pedestrians, and the securitization of streets and urban public space: a case study of New York City	2
The urban food forest: Creating a public edible landscape	2
What if “sense of place” is already strong? An in-depth investigation in an award-winning American neighbourhood	2
Plot transformation and effects on public space in eight verticalized neighborhoods of the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile	2
Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	1
Successful criteria for placemaking process in contested spaces: evaluation of non-governmental organisations at Ledra Street Crossing Point in Nicosia	1
Urban design leadership: part 1, the styles of leadership	1
Cognitive, behavioral, social, and cultural characteristics of the city and urban design	1
High-density mobile LiDAR for measuring urban streetscape features	1
Green urban evaluation index for the central districts of cities in developing countries: case of Jordan	1
Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	1
Extracting a local pattern language: a case study of Khartoum’s City Centre	1
Following the process: unfolding how form-based code—as a travelling concept—has been adapted within the social, cultural, and architectural context of Riyadh	1
The research-practice gap: comparing planning and morphologically based proposals	1
UDI editorial: resilience, well-being and urban design	1
How Information and Communication Tools (ICT) affect the processes and decision-making in professional urban design practice?	1
Knowledge evolution in transit-oriented development: a comparative bibliometric analysis of International versus Chinese publications	1
Influences of urban design on perceived social attributes and quality of life: a comparative study in two English neighbourhoods	1
Toward a social responsibility-based model for urban design education	1
Single-family courtyard houses in Poland: conditions and perspectives for development based on the example of Krakow	1
More than ‘urban character’: an introduction to the concept of fengmao and fengmao-led planning and design in China	1