OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Morphology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging the gaps: urban morphology 20 years on	22
A little prehistory of Urban Morphology	20
Reading and understanding the built environment of Quebec (Canada): the result of thirty years of research	16
Fringe belts and planning	15
How we view cities: a green-space enigma?	13
Anne Vernez Moudon (1945–2025)	7
Mental maps of urban morphology	5
Architectural typology and urban morphology: towards a typological reading of urban housing buildings	5
The relationship between urban form and land-use regulation in China: the case of Nanjing	5
Large-scale urban development and the possibility of new models in fringe-belt studies: the question of the ‘umbrella fringe belt’	4
Time as a significant dimension in urban form research	4
From rural plots to urban superblocks A. A. Kantarek, K. Kwiatkowski and I. Samuels	4
Overcoming anglophone squint	4
Urban form and the activities of daily life: implications for sustainability. Towards an ISUF agenda for the study of suburbs	3
2 Reports	3
Il faut tourner la page	3
An organizational need in studies of Kurdish urban form	3
The changing face of urban morphology: achievements and challenges	3
Urban morphogenesis and fractal pattern: scaling invariance of traditional Islamic cities in Algeria	2
Making connections	2
Urban morphology, smart sustainability and space colonization	2
Recent changes in urban morphology	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
Towards a more integrated approach	2
Comparing studies of urban form	2

Practical aspects of morphological research in urban renewal projects	2
Mapping the conceptual system of an urban theory and its evolution: a text analysis of space syntax conference papers over 20 years	2
Obituary: Antony D. King (1931-2022)	2
The concept of the morphological region: developments and prospects	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
The study of urban form in Lithuania during the second half of the twentieth century	2
[Book notes, PDF]	2
An intellectual legacy for ISUF	1
Seeking an integrated approach to urban form: tasks ahead	1
Urban morphology and computers	1
Urban landscapes as ensembles	1
In pursuit of Whitehand’s neighbour effect: uncovering the hidden principles of plot configuration and urban morphogenesis	1
ISUF and Urban Morphology: 25 years on and counting	1
Mapping trends and hotspots of urban morphology research in the past 55 years: a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and Bibliometrix	1
Evaluating the linkage between visual complexity and aesthetics of street-elevations using the fractal dimension assessment method	1
Urban morphology and policy: bridging the gap	1
4 Reports	1
A century of urban morphology?	1
Review article: A new urban historical atlas: viewing the best of the past	1
5 Reports	1
Taking a broader view	1
Completing the foundations	1
Obituary: J. W. R. Whitehand (1938–2021)	1
Thinking cross-culturally	1
Brazilian urban morphology S. de A.P. Costa	1
Looking East: urban morphology in China, Japan and Korea	1
Conservation, heritage and urban morphology	1
Urban morphological research and practice	1
Residential building types as an evolutionary process: the Guangzhou area, China	1
An Italian focus and beyond	1
The adaptive application of the typological map: from the Italian approach to Chinese historic areas	1
Understanding and shaping urban landscape character	1
Assessing a quarter-century of Urban Morphology	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