Michael Southworth

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Southworth is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Urban Studies and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Southworth has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Building and Construction, 5 papers in Urban Studies and 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Michael Southworth's work include Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (11 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (5 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (4 papers). Michael Southworth is often cited by papers focused on Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (11 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (5 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (4 papers). Michael Southworth collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ireland. Michael Southworth's co-authors include Eran Ben‐Joseph, Peter M. Owens, Ann Forsyth, Balaji Parthasarathy, Kevin Lynch, Lloyd Rodwin, Robert D. Hollister, Lawrence Susskind and Galen Cranz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research and Journal of Urban Planning and Development.

In The Last Decade

Michael Southworth

27 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Designing the Walkable City 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Designing the Walkable City
    2005 635 citations Michael Southworth Journal of Urban Planning and Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Southworth United States 17 1.2k 720 551 337 299 28 2.0k
Carme Miralles‐Guasch Spain 25 1.5k 1.3× 363 0.5× 473 0.9× 403 1.2× 217 0.7× 107 2.1k
John Zacharias China 24 810 0.7× 720 1.0× 610 1.1× 243 0.7× 132 0.4× 77 1.9k
Sugie Lee South Korea 27 1.3k 1.1× 522 0.7× 627 1.1× 643 1.9× 186 0.6× 178 2.7k
John L. Renne United States 22 1.6k 1.3× 503 0.7× 193 0.4× 194 0.6× 161 0.5× 71 2.1k
Jan Gehl Denmark 13 744 0.6× 799 1.1× 676 1.2× 319 0.9× 483 1.6× 27 2.2k
Yingling Fan United States 30 2.2k 1.9× 535 0.7× 669 1.2× 289 0.9× 98 0.3× 105 3.1k
Randall Crane United States 17 2.0k 1.6× 611 0.8× 197 0.4× 250 0.7× 167 0.6× 29 2.5k
Joachim Scheiner Germany 30 2.3k 1.9× 370 0.5× 297 0.5× 203 0.6× 130 0.4× 124 2.9k
Oriol Marquet Spain 32 1.6k 1.3× 342 0.5× 835 1.5× 369 1.1× 117 0.4× 95 2.5k
Kevin Manaugh Canada 26 2.4k 2.0× 535 0.7× 437 0.8× 237 0.7× 123 0.4× 93 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Southworth

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Southworth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Southworth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Southworth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Southworth based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Southworth. Michael Southworth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Southworth, Michael. (2020). Listening to the city. Journal of Urban Design. 25(5). 556–560. 2 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (2016). Learning to make liveable cities. Journal of Urban Design. 21(5). 570–573. 24 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael, et al.. (2012). People in the Design of Urban Places. Journal of Urban Design. 17(4). 461–465. 12 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael, et al.. (2011). Beyond placelessness: place identity and the global city. 511–525. 12 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (2005). Reinventing Main Street: From Mall to Townscape Mall. Journal of Urban Design. 10(2). 151–170. 58 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (2005). Designing the Walkable City. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 131(4). 246–257. 635 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lynch, Kevin & Michael Southworth. (2005). Echar a perder: un análisis del deterioro. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 5 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael & Eran Ben‐Joseph. (2004). Reconsidering the Cul-de-sac. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 24(24). 28–33. 22 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (2003). New Urbanism and the American Metropolis. Built Environment. 29(3). 210–226. 27 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (2003). Measuring the Liveable City. Built Environment. 29(4). 343–354. 46 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (2001). Wastelands in the Evolving Metropolis. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael & Balaji Parthasarathy. (1997). The suburban public realm II: Eurourbanism, new urbanism and the implications for urban design in the American metropolis. Journal of Urban Design. 2(1). 9–34. 17 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael & Balaji Parthasarathy. (1996). The suburban public realm I: Its emergence, growth and transformation in the American metropolis. Journal of Urban Design. 1(3). 245–263. 22 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael & Eran Ben‐Joseph. (1995). Street Standards and the Shaping of Suburbia. Journal of the American Planning Association. 61(1). 65–81. 97 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael & Peter M. Owens. (1993). The Evolving Metropolis: Studies of Community, Neighborhood, and Street Form at the Urban Edge. Journal of the American Planning Association. 59(3). 271–287. 242 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael. (1989). Theory and practice of contemporary urban design: a review of urban design plans in the United States. Town Planning Review. 60(4). 369–369. 30 indexed citations
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Rodwin, Lloyd, et al.. (1981). Cities and City Planning. 17 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael, et al.. (1978). Ornamental ironwork : an illustrated guide to its design, history & use in American architecture. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Southworth, Michael, et al.. (1973). Environmental Quality in Cities and Regions. Town Planning Review. 44(3). 231–231. 11 indexed citations

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