| Buildings must die: A perverse view of architecture S Cairns, JM Jacobs (No Title), 2014 | 249* | 2014 |
| 'A Tall Storey... but, a Fact Just the Same': The Red Road High-rise as a Black Box JM Jacobs, S Cairns, I Strebel Urban Studies 44 (3), 609-629, 2007 | 174 | 2007 |
| Drifting: architecture and migrancy S Cairns Routledge, 2004 | 144 | 2004 |
| The SAGE handbook of architectural theory G Crysler, H Heynen, S Cairns Sage, 2011 | 126 | 2011 |
| Doing building work: Methods at the interface of geography and architecture JM Jacobs, S Cairns, I Strebel Geographical Research 50 (2), 126-140, 2012 | 84 | 2012 |
| Ecologies of dwelling: maintaining high‐rise housing in Singapore JM Jacobs, S Cairns The new Blackwell companion to the city, 79-95, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
| The modern touch: interior design and modernisation in post-independence Singapore JM Jacobs, S Cairns Environment and Planning A 40 (3), 572-595, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| Semantic 3D City Database—An enabler for a dynamic geospatial knowledge graph A Chadzynski, N Krdzavac, F Farazi, MQ Lim, S Li, A Grisiute, P Herthogs, ... Energy and AI 6, 100106, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| Windows: Re-viewing red road JM Jacobs, SR Cairns, I Strebel Scottish Geographical Journal 124 (2-3), 165-184, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| Materialising vision: Performing a high-rise view JM Jacobs, S Cairns, I Strebel Visuality/Materiality, 133-152, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Semantic city planning systems (SCPS): A literature review A von Richthofen, P Herthogs, M Kraft, S Cairns Journal of Planning Literature 37 (3), 415-432, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
| Tendencies and trajectories: Feminist approaches in architecture J Rendell The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory. London: Sage, 85-106, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| Troubling real-estate: reflecting on urban form in Southeast Asia S Cairns Critical reflections on cities in Southeast Asia, 101-123, 2002 | 26 | 2002 |
| Cognitive mapping the dispersed city S Cairns Urban Space and Cityscapes, 192-205, 2006 | 24 | 2006 |
| Re-Surfacing: Architecture, Wayang, and the “Javanese House” S Cairns Postcolonial space (s), 73-88, 1997 | 19 | 1997 |
| Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore–A viewpoint forum JPD Addie, M Acuto, KC Ho, S Cairns, HP Tan Cities 88, 252-260, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Introduction: shifting paradigms and concerns H Heynen, G Wright Sage; London, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| Singapore's void decks S Cairns, JM Jacobs, J Yingying, R Padawangi, S Siddique, E Tan World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| The stone books of orientalism S Cairns Colonial Modernities, 61-76, 2007 | 14 | 2007 |
| Debilitating city-centricity: Urbanization and urban-rural hybridity in Southeast Asia S Cairns Routledge handbook of urbanization in Southeast Asia, 115-129, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
