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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid-19 pandemic and public spaces: improving quality and flexibility for healthier places	46
After Covid-19: urban design as spatial medicine	31
“In the evening, I don’t walk in the park”: The interplay between street lighting and greenery in perceived safety	28
Covid-19 as an “invisible other” and socio-spatial distancing within a one-metre individual bubble	23
Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty: forms of informality and urban health emergencies	19
Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul	17
Inclusive public space: rethinking practices of mitigation, adaptation and transformation	15
Conviviality by design: the socio-spatial qualities of spaces of intercultural urban encounters	14
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	11
Assessing walkability in hot arid regions: the case of downtown Abu Dhabi	10
Integrating agent-based modeling, serious gaming, and co-design for planning transport infrastructure and public spaces	9
Sidewalk design in multi-cultural settings: a study of street furniture layout and design	9
On the spontaneous beauty of cities: neither design nor chaos	9
Towards deliberative democracy through the democratic governance and design of public spaces in the South African capital city, Tshwane	8
Towards an antifragile urban form: a research agenda for advancing resilience in the built environment	8
Design as if bus stops mattered: exploring the potential role of public transport stops in the urban environment	7
“Rail villages” in Hong Kong: development ratio and design factors	7
Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Rethinking place-making: aligning placeness factors with perceived urban design qualities (PUDQs) to improve the built environment in historical districts	7
Public’s perceptions of urban identity of Thessaloniki, Greece	6
The spatial configuration and publicness of the university campus: interaction, discovery, and display on De Uithof in Utrecht	6
Developing an analytical framework for liveable streets in Shanghai	6
Street network or functional attractors? Capturing pedestrian movement patterns and urban form with the integration of space syntax and MCDA	5
When a city must be a tree: rethinking the spatial approach to fighting epidemics based on the notion of ‘intermediate confinement’	5

Hybrid method for measuring the accessibility and safety of students’ walking routes in car-dominated campuses	5
Urban identity, perception, and urban design	4
The influence of location, planning and design features on residents’ satisfaction with security in public housing estates in Lagos, Nigeria	4
A typological approach to maintain character in historic urban areas	4
Cognitive responses to urban environments: behavioral responses in lab and field conditions	4
Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	4
Urban design, safety, livability, & accessibility	4
Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile	4
Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement framework template	4
Elements that affect foreign tourists’ satisfaction: a case study in Seoul, Korea	3
Nathan Phillips Square: mediating intercultural encounter through urban design	3
Multidimensional analyses of walkability in city centres by using mobile methodologies: Beşiktaş and Delft experiences	3
Exploring the use of restorative component scale to measure street restorative expectations	3
The production of intercultural urban landscapes, a multi-scalar approach: the case of Ballarò, Palermo	3
Work in and for a Healthy City	3
Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands	3
Squandering the territorial capital in the Balkans? Urban megaprojects between global trends and local incentives	3
Lateral-privatisation of the publics: Hong Kong’s spatial struggles	2
Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing: case study of Generalštab, Belgrade	2
Correction to: Affective urbanism: towards inclusive design praxis	2
An urban plan evaluation for park accessibility: a case in Izmir (Türkiye)	2
A typological approach to the transformation of cave dwellings in Baishe Village, Shaanxi, China	2
Ramming attacks, pedestrians, and the securitization of streets and urban public space: a case study of New York City	2
Place attachment and identity in shrinking cities: anticipating decline by combining perceptions of locals and visitors in Chōfu, Japan	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
The planners’ response to COVID-19	2
What if “sense of place” is already strong? An in-depth investigation in an award-winning American neighbourhood	2
Resilient university campus in the city in COVID and post-COVID era—recommendations, guidelines, and evidence from research in Italy and Poland	2
Scale or size? An analysis of the factors that affect building density: evidence from high-density central urban zones in Asia	2
Mapping a framework for social–ecological resilience in reimaging of abandoned spaces	2
The emerging community planning in the super-blocks of New Belgrade	2
Urban design and informal settlements: placemaking activities and temporary architectural interventions in BaSECo compound	2
A critical review for Cairo’s green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors	2
Changing approaches to green infrastructure design: from modernism to the future: Warsaw case study	2
Successful criteria for placemaking process in contested spaces: evaluation of non-governmental organisations at Ledra Street Crossing Point in Nicosia	1
Smart plot division: generating a plot-based strategy for the restoration of the old south historic urban area in Nanjing	1
The urban food forest: Creating a public edible landscape	1
Correction to: Grassroots urbanism in contemporary São Paulo	1
Kong at the Gates: guerrilla urbanism and the possibility of resistance	1
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	1
Digital intervention in the city: a conceptual framework for digital placemaking	1
Knowledge evolution in transit-oriented development: a comparative bibliometric analysis of International versus Chinese publications	1
The controversial impact of pedestrian guardrails on road crossing behaviours. Evidence from Hong Kong	1
The research-practice gap: comparing planning and morphologically based proposals	1
More than ‘urban character’: an introduction to the concept of fengmao and fengmao-led planning and design in China	1
Enhancement and revitalization of public spaces in the historic centre of the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador)	1
Extracting a local pattern language: a case study of Khartoum’s City Centre	1
Toward a social responsibility-based model for urban design education	1
Cognitive, behavioral, social, and cultural characteristics of the city and urban design	1
High-density mobile LiDAR for measuring urban streetscape features	1

Social and cultural transformation of urban form: some insights from the MENA region