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

Article	Citations
Editorial	31
Pensando as favelas cariocas: história e questões urbanas (volume 1) [Reflecting on Rio’s Favelas: history and urban questions]	25
The bonds of inequality: debt and the making of the American city	22
Displaying planning knowledge: early twentieth-century expositions and the transnational influence on Swedish city planning	22
Correction	18
Editing planning perspectives : 40 years of growth and transformation	15
On the police as infrastructure and managers in the African city	14
The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936	11
Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing programme in a social perspective	11
Planning Venice after the Italian Unification: The Development of a Space-based Identity	8
Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies	8
Greenizing the Chinese city: urban regeneration, state developmentalism, and ecotopia in Shanghai Expo 2010	7
Fabricating Lureland - a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea	7
Immigration, employment, and new town initiatives in Hong Kong	6
A place to remain in the village. Dutch planning cultures and rural housing policies from 1945 onwards	6
Correction	5
From port to ocean capital: governance and city branding in Busan, 1990–2023	5
From warehouses to high-density streets: a study of the evolution of Canton’s port area along the Pearl River in the nineteenth century	5
Quartering as an aspect of Italy’s post-unification urban development: the case of Milan’s parade ground	5
The role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities	5
Overlapping modernity and tradition: rethinking the danwei as a basic urban unit in modern China	5
Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849	4
Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism	4
Model Cities at fifty: afterlives	4
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy	4

‘The freedom of the place during daylight hours’: urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980	4
Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s	4
Soviet specialists’s urban planning technical assistance to China, 1949–1959	4
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) experts’ contribution in the establishment of the University of Patras	4
Seminars on urban design and the constitution of the discipline in mid-1980s Brazil	4
Working-class suburban housing, homeownership and urban social movements during Francoism in Barcelona, 1939–1975	3
Layers of reconstruction: the planning history of disaster-prone Kamaishi	3
What would the RPAA do?	3
Beyond a ‘tool of empire’: initiating China’s first tramway project in the treaty-port of Tianjin	3
Port-railway connection in Setúbal (Portugal) – an understanding of the past for a sustainable future	3
International exhibitions and open public spaces: echoes of the times or forerunners?	3
The water heritage of China: the polders of Tai Lake Basin as continuing landscape	3
Sustainable urban agriculture: new frontiers	3
Path dependency in aesthetic control management within Turkish planning history	3
From insulative nature to developmental nature: socio-natural transformation of the coastal space of Shenzhen Bay (1950–2017)	3
The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history	3
Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo	3
Shaping early twentieth century Rome: the AACAR and the contributions of Filippo Galassi and Gustavo Giovannoni	3
Planning versus reality: building ‘native’ housing estates in Lomé and Douala, late nineteenth century till 1940	3
La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX	3
Pensando as Favelas Cariocas: Memória e Outras Abordagens Teóricas [Thinking the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: memory and other theoretical approaches]	3
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	3
Correction	3
Planning social housing in 1960s Türkiye: policies, institutions, and projects	3
Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine	2
Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy	2
The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey	2
States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean	2
The location of a railway station and its impact on urban planning in colonial Lahore 1846–1947	2
À l’échelle du quartier. Histoire d’une notion d’urbanisme (1890-1960) [At the neighborhood scale. History of a concept in urban planning (1890–1960)]	2
The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto	2
Urban design in the 20th century: a history	2
Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors	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
Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin	2
Exhibitionary urbanism: International Expos and city planning, 1851–2025	2
Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926)	2
Résonnances oasiennes. Approches sensibles de l’urbain au Sahara [Resonances from the Oases. Sensitive approaches to the urban in the Sahara]	2
Through the bridges: the Black Cultural Association in São Paulo, urban planning and the contours of the white city	2
Where there’s a will, is there a way? Reflections on the institutional afterlife of the London Docklands Development Corporation	2
‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959	2
Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]	2
Correction	2
Architecture and Urbanism in a contact zone: histories of difference migrancy and dwelling in Kolkata	1
Community green: rediscovering the enclosed spaces of the garden suburb tradition	1
Deconstructing Cerdá: historical approaches in his three urban planning theories (1855–1867)	1
Taming ‘wild’ Vienna? The handling of informal settlements by the planning authorities – perspectives, discourse, (counter)actions in the interwar and post-war periods	1
Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history	1
‘Living beyond its present means’: World Bank push and local pushback over lowest-cost housing for postcolonial Dakar	1
An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal	1

Joint City: cross-border planning diffusion, local elites, and planning practices – case studies of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan and Swatow, 1898–1945	1
Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China	1
Atlas histórico del urbanismo español	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 assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land	1
Davids and the Goliath at Downtown: why central Auckland’s largest post-war urban renewal scheme could not be stopped	1
Urbanizing Suburbia: hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing, and the remaking of the Outer European City	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
Colonial legacies and contemporary urban planning practices in Dhaka, Bangladesh	1
Housing matters in the 1970s: foundations, legacies, and impacts from the national laboratory for civil engineering’s research in Portugal	1
When land became property in Lebanon. The transformation of land codes since 1858 and its implications on planning and public lands	1
Everyday sectarianism in urban Lebanon: infrastructures, public services, and power	1
Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history	1
Tra simili, Storie incrociate dei quartieri italiani del secondo dopoguerra [Of the same type: connected stories of Italian neighbourhoods since the Second World War]	1
Theorizing the postcolonial city of Kuching: the socio-spatial production of colonial logistics	1
Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core	1
Ebenezer Howard: inventor of the garden city	1
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city: growth, post-growth, and the reimagining of the capital	1
A research agenda for US land use and planning law	1
The city in the city – architecture and change in London’s financial district	1
‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History	1
Building Roma Capitale: knowing and interpreting the city of the past (1870–1925)	1
A 2200-year-old document of planning history: the border city planning system in Chao Cuo’s memorials to the throne	1
Development of cultural heritage conservation planning in China	1
The Human Settlement : Erwin Anton Gutkind's fascination with Africa and critique of modern design	1
The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration	1
Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje	1
Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters: the American Red Cross programmes presented at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 1915	1
Charles Rice, Atrium	1
Historia y memoria de villas y favelas	1
Replacing place with space: the influences and the challenges of the new norm on the Milan-Cortina Winter Games 2026	1
Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape	1
The Renewal of Post-war Manchester: planning, Architecture and the State	1
Planning culture evolving through accumulations of the vicious cycle of practices: an investigation route for Turkey and beyond	1
Désir de nature dans le Grand Tunis. Pour une végétalisation de la ville dense [Desire of nature in greater Tunis. In favour of a vegetalisation of the dense city]	1
Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification	1
For the defence of Florence: site-specific urbanism versus sanitary planning	1
Affordable housing in the 1910s–1930s: new narratives on unbeaten tracks	1
Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro	1
Photographs and the practice of history: a short primer	1
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England	1
A queer New York: geographies of lesbians, dykes, and queers	1
Ambivalent republican and Roman models for Washington D.C.	1
Le prolétariat ne se promène pas nu. Moscou en projets [The proletariat does not walk naked. Moscow through its projects]	1
Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks	1
Im Gleichschritt. Der Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin im Nationalsozialismus	1
Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937	1
The modernity of the Regional Planning Association of America	1
From the attempts to create a modern city to its globalization: a historiography of the Spanish international exhibitions (1888–2008)	1
Unplanned rapid urban growth in Birjand, Iran (1986–2022)	1
Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad	1
New York City’s 1939–40 and 1964–65 World’s Fairs: from Valley of Ashes to grandiose twenty-first century projects	1
La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina [The city of hygienists. Health reforms and utopias in Umbertine Italy]	1
From Model Reform Country to Critic: Chile and its cooperation with the USA in urban planning and housing under Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964–1970)	1
Landed internationals. Planning cultures, the academy and the making of the modern Middle East	1
Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland: transformation, symbolic form and national identity	1
The pursuit of permanence: regulating land for socio-economic stability in a colonial Massachusetts town	1
Urban lowlands: a history of neighborhoods, poverty, and planning	1
Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square	1