OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Planning Perspectives 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Planning history and everyday urban change: an appreciation of J.W.R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	22
Pensando as favelas cariocas: história e questões urbanas (volume 1) [Reflecting on Rio’s Favelas: history and urban questions]	18
Editorial	18
The bonds of inequality: debt and the making of the American city	14
Correction	12
The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936	11
Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing program in a social perspective	11
Interrogating voices from the past: making use of oral testimony in planning historical research	10
Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies	8
Planning Venice after the Italian Unification: The Development of a Space-based Identity	6
On the police as infrastructure and managers in the African city	6
Bratislava (un)planned city	5
The role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities	5
Fabricating Lureland - a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea	5
Immigration, employment, and new town initiatives in Hong Kong	4
A place to remain in the village. Dutch planning cultures and rural housing policies from 1945 onwards	4
Quartering as an aspect of Italy’s post-unification urban development: the case of Milan’s parade ground	4
Overlapping modernity and tradition: rethinking the danwei as a basic urban unit in modern China	4
Soviet specialists’s urban planning technical assistance to China, 1949–1959	4
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy	3
Skelmersdale: design and implementation of a British new town, 1961–1985	3
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) experts’ contribution in the establishment of the University of Patras	3
Path dependency in aesthetic control management within Turkish planning history	3
Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s	3
Il progetto del mondo. Doxiadis, città e futuro 1955–65 (The project of the world. Doxiadis, city and future 1955–65)	3

‘The freedom of the place during daylight hours’: urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980	3
Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism	3
Seminars on urban design and the constitution of the discipline in mid-1980s Brazil	3
Model Cities at fifty: afterlives	3
Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849	3
Working-class suburban housing, homeownership and urban social movements during Francoism in Barcelona, 1939–1975	2
La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX	2
Planning versus reality: building ‘native’ housing estates in Lomé and Douala, late nineteenth century till 1940	2
Ngā pūtahitanga/Crossings: the 2022 joint conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand and the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group	2
Shaping early twentieth century Rome: the AACAR and the contributions of Filippo Galassi and Gustavo Giovannoni	2
Résonnances oasiennes. Approches sensibles de l’urbain au Sahara [Resonances from the Oases. Sensitive approaches to the urban in the Sahara]	2
The water heritage of China: the polders of Tai Lake Basin as continuing landscape	2
Layers of reconstruction: the planning history of disaster-prone Kamaishi	2
Pensando as Favelas Cariocas: Memória e Outras Abordagens Teóricas [Thinking the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: memory and other theoretical approaches]	2
The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history	2
Housing the nascent middle class: the first high-rise planned community in post-war Hong Kong	2
Port-railway connection in Setúbal (Portugal) – an understanding of the past for a sustainable future	2
Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine	2
规画:中国空间规划与人居营建	2
What would the RPAA do?	2
Ciudad de bloques. Reflexiones retrospectivas y prospectivas sobre los polígonos de vivienda ‘modernos’ [City of Slabs. Retrospective and Prospective Reflections on ‘Modern’ Housing Estates]	2
Epidemics, the issue of control and the grid: a nineteenth-century perspective from Buenos Aires	2
Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo	2
八大重点城市规划——新中国成立初期的城市规划历史研究 (第二版) [The Planning of Eight Key New Industrial Cities: Urban Planning History of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s (Second Version)]	2
Correction	2
Deconstructing Cerdá: historical approaches in his three urban planning theories (1855–1867)	1
Building Roma Capitale: knowing and interpreting the city of the past (1870–1925)	1
Unsettling a sanitary enclave: malaria at Mian Mir (1849–1910)	1
States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean	1
Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937	1
Festival cities – culture, planning and urban life	1
Through the bridges: the Black Cultural Association in São Paulo, urban planning and the contours of the white city	1
From monumentality to diversity – Lourenço Marques between the urban plans of Aguiar and Azevedo (1950-1970)	1
Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin	1
The Human Settlement : Erwin Anton Gutkind's fascination with Africa and critique of modern design	1
Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history	1
The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration	1
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city: growth, post-growth, and the reimagining of the capital	1
La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina [The city of hygienists. Health reforms and utopias in Umbertine Italy]	1
Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje	1
Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core	1
Housing Haussmann’s Paris: the politics and legacy of Second Empire redevelopment	1
Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China	1
The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto	1
Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926)	1
‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959	1
Davids and the Goliath at Downtown: why central Auckland’s largest post-war urban renewal scheme could not be stopped	1
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England	1
An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal	1
Standardizing play in the century of the car: the building information cards as shapers of the ideal urban childhood in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s	1

The location of a railway station and its impact on urban planning in colonial Lahore 1846–1947	1
Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro	1
Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square	1
Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history	1
Housing matters in the 1970s: foundations, legacies, and impacts from the national laboratory for civil engineering’s research in Portugal	1
Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks	1
Influenza pandemic and the development of public health infrastructure in Bombay city, 1919–1935	1
Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]	1
Historia y memoria de villas y favelas	1
The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey	1
Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy	1
Urban design in the 20th century: a history	1
The modernity of the Regional Planning Association of America	1
Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue of the Americas. New York, biography of a street] Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue o	1
The assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land	1
Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters: the American Red Cross programmes presented at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 1915	1
Development of cultural heritage conservation planning in China	1
Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland: transformation, symbolic form and national identity	1
Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification	1
Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad	1