OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Design International is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid-19 pandemic and public spaces: improving quality and flexibility for healthier places	46
After Covid-19: urban design as spatial medicine	31
“In the evening, I don’t walk in the park”: The interplay between street lighting and greenery in perceived safety	29
Covid-19 as an “invisible other” and socio-spatial distancing within a one-metre individual bubble	24
Informal urbanism in the state of uncertainty: forms of informality and urban health emergencies	20
Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul	17
Conviviality by design: the socio-spatial qualities of spaces of intercultural urban encounters	15
Inclusive public space: rethinking practices of mitigation, adaptation and transformation	15
All change. Has COVID-19 transformed the way we need to plan for a healthier and more equitable food environment?	14
Space and spatial practices in times of confinement. Evidence from three European countries: Austria, France and Poland	11
Assessing walkability in hot arid regions: the case of downtown Abu Dhabi	10
Towards an antifragile urban form: a research agenda for advancing resilience in the built environment	9
On the spontaneous beauty of cities: neither design nor chaos	9
Rethinking place-making: aligning placeness factors with perceived urban design qualities (PUDQs) to improve the built environment in historical districts	8
Towards deliberative democracy through the democratic governance and design of public spaces in the South African capital city, Tshwane	8
Public’s perceptions of urban identity of Thessaloniki, Greece	7
Design as if bus stops mattered: exploring the potential role of public transport stops in the urban environment	7
Lockdown in a disneyfied city: Kraków Old Town and the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Developing an analytical framework for liveable streets in Shanghai	6
The spatial configuration and publicness of the university campus: interaction, discovery, and display on De Uithof in Utrecht	6
Street network or functional attractors? Capturing pedestrian movement patterns and urban form with the integration of space syntax and MCDA	6
Hybrid method for measuring the accessibility and safety of students’ walking routes in car-dominated campuses	5
When a city must be a tree: rethinking the spatial approach to fighting epidemics based on the notion of ‘intermediate confinement’	5
Urban design, safety, livability, & accessibility	4
Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile	4

Measuring age-friendliness based on the walkability indices of older people to urban facilities	4
Urban identity, perception, and urban design	4
Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands	4
Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement framework template	4
Elements that affect foreign tourists’ satisfaction: a case study in Seoul, Korea	4
Cognitive responses to urban environments: behavioral responses in lab and field conditions	4
The influence of location, planning and design features on residents’ satisfaction with security in public housing estates in Lagos, Nigeria	4
A typological approach to maintain character in historic urban areas	4