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Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Design International 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
Correction to: Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	24
Commentary: beauty in urban design - oppression or emancipation?	16
Green urban evaluation index for the central districts of cities in developing countries: case of Jordan	13
Resilient university campus in the city in COVID and post-COVID era—recommendations, guidelines, and evidence from research in Italy and Poland	12
A typological approach to the transformation of cave dwellings in Baishe Village, Shaanxi, China	11
Correction to: Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	10
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods, Hesam Kamalipour, Patricia Aelbrecht, and Nastaran Peimani (eds.), Routledge, 2023, £205.00, 578pp, ISBN: 9780367768058 and Research Handbook o	10
A critical review for Cairo’s green open spaces dynamics as a prospect to act as placemaking anchors	9
Musings on theorizing, co-producing, designing, and encountering the public space	9
Public’s perceptions of urban identity of Thessaloniki, Greece	8
Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	8
Jazdów: an island of real-and-imagined sustainability	7
Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form. Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer. Paul Jenkins and Harry Smith. Routledge, 2023, $39.19 (paperback), 268 pages, ISBN 9780415586931	7
Urban identity, perception, and urban design	6
Assessing human emotional responses to the design of public spaces around subway stations: a human factors research	5
Urban design and walkability revisited	5
In the images of development: city design in the Global South, Tridib Banerjee, The MIT Press, 2021, 520 pp, $45, Hardcover	5
Public Space, Vikas Mehta, Routledge, 2023, £27.99, 268 pp, ISBN: 9781032137025	5
Revisiting the public health-urban design nexus in the post-pandemic era	4
Plot transformation and effects on public space in eight verticalized neighborhoods of the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile	4
Urban design in China	4
What if “sense of place” is already strong? An in-depth investigation in an award-winning American neighbourhood	4
High-density mobile LiDAR for measuring urban streetscape features	4
Reimagining urban design futures: Innovative theories and practices from the Global South	4
Building with superblocks: Study of Gulf corporation cities	4

Designing for possibility in public space: affordance, assemblage, and ANT	4
Publisher Correction: Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	4
Image-oriented design control in China: a case study from Nanjing	3
Reconceptualising urban liveability: a quantitative assessment of inhabitant needs in Colombo, Sri Lanka	3
The emerging trend of converting abandoned elevated infrastructure into linear parks: state of the arts and categories of intervention	3
Microenvironments: towards a socio-spatial understanding of territorial expression for urban design	3
Mapping a framework for social–ecological resilience in reimaging of abandoned spaces	3
Correction to: Urban design and walkability revisited	3
Correction: Reshaping approaches of architectural heritage devastated through bombing: case study of Generalštab, Belgrade	3
Exploring the interplays between urban morphology and greenery on infectious disease cases: Evidence from 1500 US communities	2
Multidimensional analyses of walkability in city centres by using mobile methodologies: Beşiktaş and Delft experiences	2
Women Reclaiming the City: International Research on Urbanism, Architecture and Planning, Tigran Haas, 2023, £85.00, 337 pages, ISBN: 978-1-5381-6265-1	2
Plans and outcomes for mixed use in new apartment buildings: A Gothenburg programme for suburban infills	2
Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile	2
Contemporary approaches to healthy and livable public spaces: Proximity, flexibility, and diversification	2
UDI editorial: resilience, well-being and urban design	2
James T. White and John Punter (Eds), Condoland: the planning, design, and development of Toronto's CityPlace	2
Digital intervention in the city: a conceptual framework for digital placemaking	2
Smell-waking as a cognitive mapping tool: investigating the smellscape of Syrian food for placemaking in Cairo’s outskirts	2
Waterfront development and planning control: a case study of Victoria Dockside in Hong Kong	2
Pedestrian accessibility in spatial gridiron organisations: a measure by regarding visual graph analysis	2
Correction: Reflective practice as a basis for building a sustainable public space: the case of Kartuzy	1
A narrative-led approach for the revitalization of places of memory: a case study of Haiyan moat waterfront (Zhejiang, China)	1
Single-family courtyard houses in Poland: conditions and perspectives for development based on the example of Krakow	1
Social and cultural transformation of urban form: some insights from the MENA region	1
Cognitive, behavioral, social, and cultural characteristics of the city and urban design	1
On the spontaneous beauty of cities: neither design nor chaos	1
Urban systems, when they conurbate: The diachronic-configurational approach to detect the shifting of centrality in Versilia	1
How to design a sustainable street network for neighbourhoods: an empirical study of China’s inner cities from the perspective of spatial configuration	1
Introduction to the UDI special issue—Reflections on Balkan urbanism	1
New emerging urban design tools	1
Deciphering physical disorder of urban street space in China’s rust belt: Identification, perception, and interpretation through street-view images	1
Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands	1
A typological approach to maintain character in historic urban areas	1
Evaluating microscale walkability: a comparative analysis of street audits	1
Correction to: Urban design in China	1
Friction space and the re(dis)covery of urban roads	1
Emerging knowledge on the social dimension of urban design	1
Toward a social responsibility-based model for urban design education	1