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Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Morphology is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging the gaps: urban morphology 20 years on	57
Reading and understanding the built environment of Quebec (Canada): the result of thirty years of research	20
On the form and function of grid plans	18
A little prehistory of Urban Morphology	18
How we view cities: a green-space enigma?	16
Architectural typology and urban morphology: towards a typological reading of urban housing buildings	13
The relationship between urban form and land-use regulation in China: the case of Nanjing	12
Mental maps of urban morphology	7
From rural plots to urban superblocks A. A. Kantarek, K. Kwiatkowski and I. Samuels	5
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	4
Overcoming anglophone squint	4
The changing face of urban morphology: achievements and challenges	3
Il faut tourner la page	3
[Book notes, PDF]	3
Jan Nijman (2020) Amsterdam's canal district: origins, evolution, and future prospects	3
Time as a significant dimension in urban form research	3
Urban form and the activities of daily life: implications for sustainability. Towards an ISUF agenda for the study of suburbs	3
2 Reports	3
Unmasking an urban morphologist	3
Urban morphology, smart sustainability and space colonization	2
Reconsidering the morphological understanding of traditional Chinese cities: a study of the early spatial modernization of Suzhou, 1880–1949	2
The concept of the morphological region: developments and prospects	2
Practical aspects of morphological research in urban renewal projects	2
Making connections	2
The study of urban form in Lithuania during the second half of the twentieth century	2

Comparing studies of urban form	2
Mapping the conceptual system of an urban theory and its evolution: a text analysis of space syntax conference papers over 20 years	2
Recent changes in urban morphology	2
Seeking an integrated approach to urban form: tasks ahead	1
[Book notes, PDF]	1
[Book notes, PDF]	1
Brazilian urban morphology S. de A.P. Costa	1
Assessing a quarter-century of Urban Morphology	1
Obituary: J. W. R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	1
The adaptive application of the typological map: from the Italian approach to Chinese historic areas	1
Urban morphological research and practice	1
On the form and function of grid plans	1
A century of urban morphology?	1
Towards a more integrated approach	1
Urban morphology and computers	1
Vítor Oliveira (2021) Morphological research in planning, urban design and architecture	1
Conservation, heritage and urban morphology	1
Review article: A new urban historical atlas: viewing the best of the past	1
Completing the foundations	1
Agents of change, power, and resistance in the patterns of change of an industrial heritage district: the case of Bellavista, Chile (1970‒2019)	1
Urban morphology and policy: bridging the gap	1
4 Reports	1
Urban morphology and artificial intelligence	1
Obituary: Antony D. King (1931-2022)	1
An intellectual legacy for ISUF	1
Thinking cross-culturally	1
Urban landscapes as ensembles	1
5 Reports	1
Unmasking an urban morphologist	1
Looking East: urban morphology in China, Japan and Korea	1
Coming of age in Cincinnati	0
The place of urban morphology in the North American academic programs – an overview	0
A pre-Neolithic ritual centre: Göbekli-Tepe, Turkey	0
What do we know about urban form?	0
Forma Quadrata Britanniae: the case of Londinium	0
Historical geography, urban morphology and green space	0
Field survey in Conzenian morphological regionalization	0
Information explosion and intellectual challenge	0
The only thing that is constant is change	0
Understanding and shaping urban landscape character	0
Morpho: a methodology for assessing urban form	0
Social and spatial impacts of changing urban form in Ayazağa, Turkey	0
Taking a broader view	0
Forma Quadrata Britanniae: the case of Londinium	0
Typomorphology and the crisis of Chinese cities F. Chen	0
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities	0
The study of urban form in Lithuania during the second half of the twentieth century	0
In pursuit of Whitehand’s neighbour effect: uncovering the hidden principles of plot configuration and urban morphogenesis	0
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	0
Historicity and urban form in the digital era	0

Linking disciplines: typological process and spatial process	0
Italian urban morphology: the geographical perspective of Umberto Toschi E. Ravazzoli	0
Mapping post-socialist changes in urban tissues: a comparative study of Belgrade and Krakow	0
Early Neolithic settlements on the Lower Yangtze River, China	0
The problem of separate worlds	0
Using urban form to increase the capacity of cities to manage noise and air quality	0
Translating 'Alnwick' into Portuguese	0
City fortifications and the form of European cities, with special reference to Croatia	0
Thinking about urban fringe belts: a Mediterranean perspective	0
After Versailles	0
Urban morphology: how interdisciplinary? how international?	0
The urban form of ancient Chinese capital cities	0
How international is Urban Morphology?	0
The problem of Euro-American myopia	0
The form-based development plan: bridging the gap between theory and practice in urban morphology	0
Becoming an urban morphologist: Michael P. Conzen	0
Assessing green space structure through urban morphological analysis: the Çağlayan neighbourhood in Northern Nicosia, Cyprus	0
From explanation to prescription	0
From Como to Alnwick: in pursuit of Caniggia and Conzen	0
Understanding place in the Netherlands H. Bienstman	0
Meeting of minds?	0
Investigating space morphology in disaster: the role of spatial-syntactic and morpho- logical elements in vulnerability of earthquake-prone historical urban areas	0
Reconsidering the morphological understanding of traditional Chinese cities: a study of the early spatial modernization of Suzhou, 1880–1949	0
An Italian focus and beyond	0
Towards the authentication of urban pattern through fractal analysis: the case of Blida, Algeria	0
Urban Morphology as an emerging interdisciplinary field	0
Laura Anna Pezzetti (2020) Rewriting urban strata in China	0
Learning the language of urban morphology	0
Reconstructing ‘urban architecture’ with borrowing typomorphology in China	0
The ecological perspective: Jeremy Whitehand’s last contribution to fringe-belt studies	0
Residential building types as an evolutionary process: the Guangzhou area, China	0
Urban morphological classics?	0
Obituary: Christopher Alexander (1936-2022)	0
Quality, consistency and coverage	0
Early medieval origins of Ypres	0
The adaptive application of the typological map: from the Italian approach to Chinese historic areas	0
Urban form and transitional zones in hillside cities: morphological analysis of Yuzhong District, Chongqing	0
4 Reports	0
Obituary: Exploring the frontiers of space: Bill Hillier (1937–2019)	0
Urban conservation and urban morphology in Kiruna, Sweden	0
Cultural heritage attractors: does spatial configuration matter? Applications of macro- and micro-spatial configurative analysis in the historic urban area of Rome	0
Hélène Noizet and Anne-Sophie Clémençon (2021) Faire ville: entre planifié et impensé, la fabrique ordinaire des formes urbaines	0
Evolving suburbs: measuring US subdivision street patterns over time	0
[Book notes, PDF]	0
Pre-ceramic early urban coastal Peru	0
Rebuilding the relationship between urban morphology and environmental psychology	0
Taking a world view	0
Translating 'Alnwick' into Portuguese	0
4 Reports	0
A-M. Châtelet, M. Denès and C. Mazzoni (2014) La ville parfaitement imparfaite	0
The need for change in the study of urban form	0
Philippe Panerai (1940‒2023)	0
The study of territory and the role of history in applied research in urban morphology G. Cataldi	0
Urban morphology and artificial intelligence	0
The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology	0
ISUF and Urban Morphology: 25 years on and counting	0
The elusive common denominator in understanding urban form M.P. Conzen	0
The problem of teaching urban morphology and the ISSUM experiment	0
Bringing order to urban morphology?	0
Townscaper (Software review)	0
Why Urban Morphology?	0
From types to regions: a quantitative approach to the characterization of urban form	0
The study of urban form in Iran	0
ISUF after 20 years: reculer pour mieux sauter	0
Obituary: J. W. R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	0
Field survey in Conzenian morphological regionalization	0
Assessing green space structure through urban morphological analysis: the Çağlayan neighbourhood in Northern Nicosia, Cyprus	0
A new map of Alnwick	0
The study of urban form in Iran	0
Mapping post-socialist changes in urban tissues: a comparative study of Belgrade and Krakow	0
Positioning Urban Morphology	0
Crossing boundaries: towards a more integrated approach?	0
From theory-building to institution-building: the contributions of Anne Vernez Moudon to urban morphology	0
Early medieval origins of Ypres	0
3 Reports	0