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Urban Development and Cultural Heritage

Urban Development and Cultural Heritage is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 8k research works in it since 1954. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of sustainable urban development, cultural heritage preservation, and community participation. It covers topics such as sustainable urban futures, cultural tourism, heritage management, urban revitalization, compact cities, and the social sustainability of public spaces. The cluster emphasizes the importance of preserving cultural landscapes and local identity in the context of urban development.

  • Sustainable Urban Futures
  • Cultural Tourism
  • Heritage Management
  • Urban Revitalization
  • Community Participation
  • Cultural Landscapes
  • Compact Cities
  • Social Sustainability
  • Public Spaces
  • Local Identity
Research works
8k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
799
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
77% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urban Development and Cultural Heritage

Which countries lead Urban Development and Cultural Heritage research?

By volume, Poland and Ukraine publish the most (1k and 52 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 1k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 52 works
  3. 3 Lithuania 51 works
  4. 4 Russia 50 works
  5. 5 United States 43 works
  6. 6 Czechia 40 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 18 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 17 works
  9. 9 China 13 works
  10. 10 Latvia 12 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Poland: 77.2%Ukraine: 4.0%Lithuania: 3.9%Russia: 3.8%6 others listed: 11.0%77%largest
Poland1,005 · 77.2%Ukraine52 · 4.0%Lithuania51 · 3.9%Russia50 · 3.8%6 others listed143 · 11.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Urban Development and Cultural Heritage research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Urban Development and Cultural Heritage research, followed by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Jagiellonian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 70 works
  2. 2 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 56 works
  3. 3 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 48 works
  4. 4 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 45 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 43 works
  6. 6 University of WarsawPoland 40 works
  7. 7 University of WrocławPoland 30 works
  8. 8 Lodz University of TechnologyPoland 26 works
  9. 9 Cracow University of TechnologyPoland 26 works
  10. 10 University of GdańskPoland 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urban Development and Cultural Heritage?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urban Development and Cultural Heritage include Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas.

  1. 1 Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas Lithuania 56k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Urban Development and Cultural Heritage?

The most cited paper in Urban Development and Cultural Heritage is "The Place-shaping Continuum: A Theory of Urban Design Process" (Matthew Carmona, 2013), with 326 citations. Next come "Shrinking cities and resource-based economy: The economic restructuring in China's mining cities" (309) and "Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities" (307).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Place-shaping Continuum: A Theory of Urban Design Process Matthew Carmona · Journal of Urban Design Open access 10 Dec 2013 326
2 Shrinking cities and resource-based economy: The economic restructuring in China's mining cities Sylvia Y. He, Jeongwoo Lee, Tao Zhou et al. · Cities 11 Aug 2016 309
3 Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities Agata Cieszewska · Landscape and Urban Planning Sep 2000 307
4 Planning Shrinking Cities Justin B. Hollander, Karina Pallagst, Terry Schwarz et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 26 Oct 2009 300
5 Shrinking cities: Notes for the further research agenda Katrin Großmann, Marco A. Bontje, Annegret Haase et al. · Cities 5 Sep 2013 297
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Urban Development and Cultural Heritage research done?

The largest centres of Urban Development and Cultural Heritage research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Łódź (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krakow, Gliwice and Łódź.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 217 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 148 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 89 works
  4. 4 ŁódźPoland 77 works
  5. 5 LublinPoland 62 works
  6. 6 WrocławPoland 56 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 47 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 46 works
  9. 9 GliwicePoland 45 works
  10. 10 VilniusLithuania 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrakowPL · 26.3 works246×
  2. GliwicePL · 45.5 works119×
  3. ŁódźPL · 76.6 works83×
  4. PoznańPL · 88.8 works65×
  5. KrakowPL · 148.3 works64×
  6. KatowicePL · 47.3 works63×
  7. ToruńPL · 21.2 works59×
  8. LublinPL · 61.7 works58×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Urban Development and Cultural Heritage than the world average.

See Urban Development and Cultural Heritage on the map

Where is the best place to study Urban Development and Cultural Heritage?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellonian University and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 11.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Silesi…University of ŁódźJagiellonian Univers…Adam Mickiewicz Univ…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 69.022.3%98.5×26 +4.1%
2Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 50.97.0%57.1×48 +12.1%
3Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 48.14.2%109.8×56 -6.3%
4University of ŁódźPoland 47.38.2%119.9×43 -27.9%
5Cracow University of TechnologyPoland 45.317.1%259.5×26 -62.1%
6Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 44.94.2%145.9×45 -3.0%
7University of WarsawPoland 43.68.5%61.8×40 -12.3%
8Lodz University of TechnologyPoland 42.79.6%163.1×26 +22.0%
9University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland 39.324.5%44.1×10 -48.4%
10Krakow University of EconomicsPoland 39.29.7%211.5×16 +32.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Urban Development and Cultural Heritage, country by country

Is Urban Development and Cultural Heritage research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Urban Development and Cultural Heritage as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0065% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Urban Development and Cultural Heritage0.0062% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Urban Development and Cultural Heritage over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Urban Development and Cultural Heritage9.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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