OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the American Planning Association is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	116
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	59
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	57
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	47
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	36
Centennial Reflections: A Century of Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities	33
Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles	31
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	30
Anatomy of Good Planning: How Structured Decision Support Provides a More Human-Centered Planning Framework Using Your Head, Heart, and Gut	26
Advancing Pedestrian Models: A Comparative Review and Vision for the Future	22
Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement	21
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	20
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	19
Cases of a “Not so New” Suburban Reality in the United States *Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism*	19
The Place Man	18
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	17
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	16
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification	16
Land Use and Road Safety: Understanding the Persistence of Vulnerable Road User Deaths and Injuries in the United States	15
Crossing Great Divides: City and Country in Environmental and Political Disorder	15
Productive Frictions	14
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	13
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	13
Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	13
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	13

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	13
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	13
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	13
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	12
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	12
Urban Informality: An Introduction	11
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	11
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	11
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	10
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	9
The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929 *The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1*	9
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	9
Introduction to Housing, 3rd edition	9
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	8
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	8
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	8
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	8
Planning With a Basic Income	8
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	8
A Trauma-Informed Planning Framework (TIPF) for Immigrant Belonging	8
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	7
Closing the Climate Gap	7
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	7
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	7
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	7
“The Big Ship Turns Around Slowly”: An Evaluation of Equity and Justice in Ontario Climate Action Plans	7
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	7
What’s Missing From Supply-Side Progressivism?	6
Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data	6
Who Is Planning the Smart City? *Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future* Susan Flynn(Ed.)(2022). The University of Chicag	5
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	5
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	5
Land Use Restrictiveness and Mortgage Access: How Regulatory Environments Condition Racial and Income Disparities in Loan Approvals and Pricing	5
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	5
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	5
Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century	5
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	5
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	5
Do State Accessory Dwelling Unit Reforms Promote Multigenerational Living? Evidence from California	4
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	4
Symbiotic Planning Theory: The CORE Framework for Human–AI Cocreation in Urban Planning	4
Transit-Oriented Development, Public Participation, and Mobile Home Residence: A Case Study of a Vulnerable Community in Fort Worth, Texas	4
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	4
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis	4
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	4
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	4
How Right-of-Way Adaptations Support Urban Resilience: Pandemic Streateries and Social Interactions in Seattle’s University District	3
From Mandates to Outcomes: How Federal Policies Shape Local Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation	3
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	3

High Rises and Housing Stress	3
“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	3
Unplanned Food Access	3
Gentrification-Induced Displacement, Destination Neighborhoods, and Destination Houses for Low-Income Households in Columbus, Ohio	3
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	3
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives *Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer T*	3
The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi The Right To Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi	3
Adaptability of Low-Income Communities in Postdisaster Relocation	2
Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big PlanH. Pike Oliver and C. Michael Stockstill (2022). Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, Wil	2
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	2
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	2
Essential JAPA Style	2
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	2
Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America	2
Housing in the United States: The Basics	2
Logistics of Zoning, Zoning for Logistics: Toward Healthy and Equitable Development for Urban Freight	2
Rethinking Public Space and Urban Mobility	2
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	2
Manufacturing Urban Form: Could Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?	2
Gentrifiers of Color: Class Inequalities in Ethnic/Racial Neighborhood Displacement	2
Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy	2
HeatReady Neighborhoods: A Planning Rubric for Extreme Heat	2
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet	2
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America	2
Disrupting the Speculative City: Property, Power and Community Resistance in London	2
Race, Space, and Trauma	2
Affordable Housing in the United States	2
Can Board Games Introduce City Planning Concepts to a Wider Audience?	2