OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the American Planning Association is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	89
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	59
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	54
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	41
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	31
The Urban Planning Imagination	29
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	28
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	28
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	27
Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles	25
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	23
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	22
Centennial Reflections: A Century of Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities	21
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	21
“Tax Discrimination District”	20
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
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	18
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	18
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	18
Productive Frictions	18
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	16
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	15
Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	14
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	13
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	13

Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	12
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	11
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	11
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	11
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	11
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	11
Urban Informality: An Introduction	11
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	10
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*	10
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	9
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	9
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	9
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	9
Planning With a Basic Income	9
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	9
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	8
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	8
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	8
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	8
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	8
Closing the Climate Gap	7
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	7
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	7
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	7
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	7
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	7
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	6
Who Is Planning the Smart City? *Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future* Susan Flynn(Ed.)(2022). The University of Chicag	6
What’s Missing From Supply-Side Progressivism?	6
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	6
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	6
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	6
Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century	6
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	6
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	6
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	6
High Rises and Housing Stress	5
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	5
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	5
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	5
Planning for the Common Good	5
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis	5
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	5
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	5
Safe at Home?	4
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	4
From Mandates to Outcomes: How Federal Policies Shape Local Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation	4
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives *Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer T*	4
Manufacturing Urban Form: Could Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?	4
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	4

“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	4
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	4
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	4
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	4
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	4
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	4
Unplanned Food Access	4
Gentrifiers of Color: Class Inequalities in Ethnic/Racial Neighborhood Displacement	3
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	3
Essential JAPA Style	3
Public Views on the Reallocation of Street Space Due to COVID-19	3
Racism by Design?	3
Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy	3
HeatReady Neighborhoods: A Planning Rubric for Extreme Heat	3
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	3
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	3