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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Planning history and everyday urban change: an appreciation of J.W.R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	23
Pensando as favelas cariocas: história e questões urbanas (volume 1) [Reflecting on Rio’s Favelas: history and urban questions]	21
Editorial	19
The bonds of inequality: debt and the making of the American city	16
Correction	15
Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies	12
Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing programme in a social perspective	11
The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936	10
Interrogating voices from the past: making use of oral testimony in planning historical research	7
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
Displaying planning knowledge: early twentieth-century expositions and the transnational influence on Swedish city planning	5
Immigration, employment, and new town initiatives in Hong Kong	5
Fabricating Lureland - a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea	5
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 role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities	4
A place to remain in the village. Dutch planning cultures and rural housing policies from 1945 onwards	4
Il progetto del mondo. Doxiadis, città e futuro 1955–65 (The project of the world. Doxiadis, city and future 1955–65)	3
La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX	3
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy	3
Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism	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

Pensando as Favelas Cariocas: Memória e Outras Abordagens Teóricas [Thinking the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: memory and other theoretical approaches]	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
Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849	3
Seminars on urban design and the constitution of the discipline in mid-1980s Brazil	3
What would the RPAA do?	3
Model Cities at fifty: afterlives	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
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
The water heritage of China: the polders of Tai Lake Basin as continuing landscape	2
Epidemics, the issue of control and the grid: a nineteenth-century perspective from Buenos Aires	2
规画:中国空间规划与人居营建	2
Port-railway connection in Setúbal (Portugal) – an understanding of the past for a sustainable future	2
‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959	2
Festival cities – culture, planning and urban life	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
International exhibitions and open public spaces: echoes of the times or forerunners?	2
Planning versus reality: building ‘native’ housing estates in Lomé and Douala, late nineteenth century till 1940	2
Layers of reconstruction: the planning history of disaster-prone Kamaishi	2
Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo	2
Shaping early twentieth century Rome: the AACAR and the contributions of Filippo Galassi and Gustavo Giovannoni	2
Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy	2
Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine	2
Urban design in the 20th century: a history	2
The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history	2
Working-class suburban housing, homeownership and urban social movements during Francoism in Barcelona, 1939–1975	2
Housing the nascent middle class: the first high-rise planned community in post-war Hong Kong	2
Correction	2
The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto	2
Through the bridges: the Black Cultural Association in São Paulo, urban planning and the contours of the white city	2
Résonnances oasiennes. Approches sensibles de l’urbain au Sahara [Resonances from the Oases. Sensitive approaches to the urban in the Sahara]	2
The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey	1
La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina [The city of hygienists. Health reforms and utopias in Umbertine Italy]	1
A research agenda for US land use and planning law	1
Charles Rice, Atrium	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
Taming ‘wild’ Vienna? The handling of informal settlements by the planning authorities – perspectives, discourse, (counter)actions in the interwar and post-war periods	1
Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China	1
Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters: the American Red Cross programmes presented at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 1915	1
The assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land	1
Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland: transformation, symbolic form and national identity	1
The location of a railway station and its impact on urban planning in colonial Lahore 1846–1947	1
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city: growth, post-growth, and the reimagining of the capital	1
Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history	1
From monumentality to diversity – Lourenço Marques between the urban plans of Aguiar and Azevedo (1950-1970)	1
Housing matters in the 1970s: foundations, legacies, and impacts from the national laboratory for civil engineering’s research in Portugal	1
Where there’s a will, is there a way? Reflections on the institutional afterlife of the London Docklands Development Corporation	1
Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro	1
Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926)	1

From the attempts to create a modern city to its globalization: a historiography of the Spanish international exhibitions (1888–2008)	1
Deconstructing Cerdá: historical approaches in his three urban planning theories (1855–1867)	1
Affordable housing in the 1910s–1930s: new narratives on unbeaten tracks	1
The modernity of the Regional Planning Association of America	1
Ebenezer Howard: inventor of the garden city	1
The Human Settlement : Erwin Anton Gutkind's fascination with Africa and critique of modern design	1
‘Living beyond its present means’: World Bank push and local pushback over lowest-cost housing for postcolonial Dakar	1
Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks	1
The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration	1
Davids and the Goliath at Downtown: why central Auckland’s largest post-war urban renewal scheme could not be stopped	1
Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification	1
Unsettling a sanitary enclave: malaria at Mian Mir (1849–1910)	1
Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad	1
Influenza pandemic and the development of public health infrastructure in Bombay city, 1919–1935	1
States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean	1
Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square	1
Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje	1
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England	1
The city in the city – architecture and change in London’s financial district	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
Urbanizing Suburbia: hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing, and the remaking of the Outer European City	1
Development of cultural heritage conservation planning in China	1
Urban planning history of Malawi: case study of the capital Lilongwe	1
An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal	1
Planning capital cities: a cultural district in Canada’s capital region	1
Building Roma Capitale: knowing and interpreting the city of the past (1870–1925)	1
Community green: rediscovering the enclosed spaces of the garden suburb tradition	1
Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937	1
Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history	1
Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]	1
Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core	1
Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin	1
Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors	1
Historia y memoria de villas y favelas	1