Most cited papers in Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Urban Design and Spatial Analysis?
The most cited paper in Urban Design and Spatial Analysis is "The Production of Space" (Erik A. Swyngedouw, Henri Lefebvre, 1992), with 9,675 citations. Next come "Simulating dynamical features of escape panic" (4,954) and "EU 7 FP project Governing urban divercity: Creating social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyper-diversified cities (DIVERCITIES) – The case of Warsaw" (3,214).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 404 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Production of Space Erik A. Swyngedouw, Henri Lefebvre · Economic Geography | Jul 1992 | 9,675 |
| 2 | Simulating dynamical features of escape panic Dirk Helbing, Illés J. Farkas, Tamás Vicsek · Nature | Sep 2000 | 4,954 |
| 3 | EU 7 FP project Governing urban divercity: Creating social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyper-diversified cities (DIVERCITIES) – The case of Warsaw Korcelli-Olejniczak, Ewa · RCIN (Digital Repository of the Scientifics Institutes) (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) | 2017 | 3,214 |
| 4 | Built Environment Correlates of Walking Brian E. Saelens, Susan Handy · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | Jul 2008 | 1,930 |
| 5 | Simulation of pedestrian dynamics using a two-dimensional cellular automaton Carsten Burstedde, Kai Klauck, Andreas Schadschneider et al. · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | Jun 2001 | 1,783 |
| 6 | Landscape change and the urbanization process in Europe Marc Antrop · Landscape and Urban Planning | 30 Apr 2003 | 1,638 |
| 7 | Natural movement: or, configuration and attraction in urban pedestrian movement B Hillier, Alan I. Penn, J Hanson et al. · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | 1993 | 1,574 |
| 8 | OSMnx: New methods for acquiring, constructing, analyzing, and visualizing complex street networks Geoff Boeing · Computers Environment and Urban Systems | 7 Jul 2017 | 1,565 |
| 9 | Measuring the Unmeasurable: Urban Design Qualities Related to Walkability Reid Ewing, Susan Handy · Journal of Urban Design | 21 Nov 2008 | 1,532 |
| 10 | The Origins of Scaling in Cities Luís M. A. Bettencourt · Science | 20 Jun 2013 | 1,515 |
| 11 | A Self-Modifying Cellular Automaton Model of Historical Urbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area Keith Clarke, Stacy Hoppen, Leonard Gaydos · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | Apr 1997 | 1,453 |
| 12 | The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities Michael Batty · Science | 7 Feb 2008 | 1,438 |
| 13 | The Point of Triangulation Veronica A. Thurmond · Journal of Nursing Scholarship | Sep 2001 | 1,354 |
| 14 | The Experience of Living in Cities Stanley Milgram · Science | 13 Mar 1970 | 1,272 |
| 15 | Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function Michael Batty, Paul Longley | 1994 | 1,223 |
| 16 | How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters Mehdi Moussaïd, Dirk Helbing, Guy Théraulaz · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 18 Apr 2011 | 1,212 |
| 17 | Sustainable Urban Forms Yosef Rafeq Jabareen · Journal of Planning Education and Research | 11 Aug 2006 | 1,210 |
| 18 | Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions Jianguo Wu · Landscape and Urban Planning | 4 Mar 2014 | 1,146 |
| 19 | Cellular Automata and Fractal Urban Form: A Cellular Modelling Approach to the Evolution of Urban Land-Use Patterns Roger W. White, Guy Engelen · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space | Aug 1993 | 1,119 |
| 20 | Loose-coupling a cellular automaton model and GIS: long-term urban growth prediction for San Francisco and Washington/Baltimore Keith Clarke, Leonard Gaydos · International Journal of Geographical Information Systems | Nov 1998 | 1,071 |
| 21 | To Take Hold of Space: Isovists and Isovist Fields Michael L. Benedikt · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | Mar 1979 | 1,025 |
| 22 | Nodes, paths and edges: Considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment Patricia L. Brantingham, Paul Jeffrey Brantingham · Journal of Environmental Psychology | Mar 1993 | 1,001 |
| 23 | From Isovists to Visibility Graphs: A Methodology for the Analysis of Architectural Space Alasdair Turner, Maria Doxa, David O’Sullivan et al. · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | Feb 2001 | 963 |
| 24 | The shortest path through many points Jillian Beardwood, John H. Halton, J. M. Hammersley · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Oct 1959 | 963 |
| 25 | Multiple equilibria and structural transition of non-monocentric urban configurations Masahisa Fujita, Hideaki Ogawa · Regional Science and Urban Economics | May 1982 | 953 |
| 26 | Urban land teleconnections and sustainability Karen C. Seto, Anette Reenberg, Christopher G. Boone et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | May 2012 | 905 |
| 27 | The Compact City Fallacy Michaël Neuman · Journal of Planning Education and Research | 4 Aug 2005 | 901 |
| 28 | Compact, Dispersed, Fragmented, Extensive? A Comparison of Urban Growth in Twenty-five Global Cities using Remotely Sensed Data, Pattern Metrics and Census Information Annemarie Schneider, Curtis E. Woodcock · Urban Studies | 13 Feb 2008 | 893 |
| 29 | The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory Allen John Scott, Michael Storper · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 31 Mar 2014 | 869 |
| 30 | Central Facilities Location Charles ReVelle, Ralph W. Swain · Geographical Analysis | 1970 | 855 |
| 31 | The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | 25 Aug 2006 | 832 |
| 32 | Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times Philip C. Emmi · Journal of the American Planning Association | 31 Jan 2008 | 791 |
| 33 | Self-Organizing Pedestrian Movement Dirk Helbing, Péter Molnár, Illés J. Farkas et al. · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design | Jun 2001 | 758 |
| 34 | Cellular automata models for the simulation of real-world urban processes: A review and analysis Inés Santé, Andrés Manuel García, David Miranda et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning | 12 Apr 2010 | 758 |
| 35 | The network analysis of urban streets: A dual approach Sergio Porta, Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 24 Feb 2006 | 756 |
| 36 | Integration of logistic regression, Markov chain and cellular automata models to simulate urban expansion Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Marco Helbich, Wolfgang Kainz et al. · International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 27 Jan 2012 | 755 |
| 37 | Centrality measures in spatial networks of urban streets Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora, Sergio Porta · Physical Review E | 24 Mar 2006 | 718 |
| 38 | The concept of accessibility: A search for an operational form David R. Ingram · Regional Studies | Jul 1971 | 707 |
| 39 | Shelf management and space elasticity Xavier Drèze, Stephen J. Hoch, Mary E. Purk · Journal of Retailing | Dec 1994 | 671 |
| 40 | Issues in sustainable transportation Todd Alexander Litman, David Burwell · International Journal of Global Environmental Issues | 2006 | 668 |
| 41 | Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades Liqun Sun, Ji Chen, Qinglan Li et al. · Nature Communications | 23 Oct 2020 | 654 |
| 42 | Modeling urban dynamics through GIS-based cellular automata Michael Batty, Yichun Xie, Zhanli Sun · Computers Environment and Urban Systems | May 1999 | 649 |
| 43 | Are European cities becoming dispersed? Marjo Kasanko, José I. Barredo, Carlo Lavalle et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning | 11 Apr 2005 | 643 |
| 44 | A global comparative analysis of urban form: Applying spatial metrics and remote sensing Jingnan Huang, Xixi Lu, Jefferey M. Sellers · Landscape and Urban Planning | 29 Mar 2007 | 632 |
| 45 | Urban Morphology as an emerging interdisciplinary field Anne Vernez Moudon · Urban Morphology | 27 Mar 1997 | 630 |
| 46 | Energy consumption and urban texture Carlo Ratti, Nick V. Baker, Koen Steemers · Energy and Buildings | 19 Jan 2005 | 628 |
| 47 | Network and Psychological Effects in Urban Movement Bill Hillier, S. Iida · Lecture notes in computer science | 2005 | 624 |
| 48 | The role of spatial metrics in the analysis and modeling of urban land use change Martin Herold, Helen Couclelis, Keith Clarke · Computers Environment and Urban Systems | 6 Feb 2004 | 624 |
| 49 | Modeling crowd evacuation of a building based on seven methodological approaches Xiaoping Zheng, Tingkuan Zhong, Mengting Liu · Building and Environment | 7 Apr 2008 | 615 |
| 50 | High-resolution integrated modelling of the spatial dynamics of urban and regional systems Roger W. White, Guy Engelen · Computers Environment and Urban Systems | Sep 2000 | 605 |
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