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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Density Aggravate the COVID-19 Pandemic?	503
Urban Heat Management and the Legacy of Redlining	119
Riders Who Avoided Public Transit During COVID-19	55
Exclusionary Zoning	36
Planning for Extreme Heat	33
Using Exploratory Scenarios in Planning Practice	31
Racial Equity in Planning Organizations	28
Are We Planning for Equity?	27
Using Big and Open Data to Analyze Transit-Oriented Development	26
Jobs–Housing Balance Re-Re-Visited	26
Cultural Insights for Planners: Understanding the Terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx	24
Tools of the Trade?	24
Making Room for the River	23
Evaluating Hong Kong’s Spatial Planning in New Towns From the Perspectives of Job Accessibility, Travel Mobility, and Work–Life Balance	23
Transitioning From Urban Climate Action to Climate Equity	22
Off the Grid…and Back Again?	21
Estimating Pedestrian Flows on Street Networks	20
Toward Mobility Justice	19
Planning and Development Challenges in Western Gateway Communities	18
Planning for Regional Food Equity	18
Social Distancing and Cultural Bias	17
Mandated Planning for Climate Change	16
Meeting Climate, Mobility, and Equity Goals in Transportation Planning Under Wide-Ranging Scenarios	16
Equity in Accessibility	15
Recent Relocation Patterns Among Older Adults in the United States	15

Flint (MI) Missed an Opportunity to “Right Size” With Its Water Crisis	14
Does Local Ownership of Vacant Land Reduce Crime?	14
Tracking Our Footsteps	14
Procedural Vulnerability and Its Effects on Equitable Post-Disaster Recovery in Low-Income Communities	13
Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform	13
Upzoning and Single-Family Housing Prices	11
Age-Unfriendly by Design	10
Planning for Disaster-Induced Relocation of Communities	10
The Width and Value of Residential Streets	10
The Institutional Dynamics of Land Use Planning	10
Feeling Like an “Odd Duck”	9
Including Preservation in Planning	9
Pop-Up Cycleways	9
Transit-Induced Gentrification or Vice Versa?	9
The Moving Mapper	9
Why Detailing Spatial Equity Matters in Water and Sanitation Evaluations	9
Planning for Dissent	8
“Like a Fish Out of Water”	8
Right Sizing Flint’s Infrastructure in the Wake of the Flint Water Crisis Would Constitute an Additional Environmental Injustice	8
Community-Centered Climate Planning	8
Affordable Housing Without Public Subsidies	8
Urban Planning for Health Equity Must Employ an Intersectionality Framework	8
Toward Accessibility-Based Planning	8
Planning for Climate Change	7
Public Views on the Reallocation of Street Space Due to COVID-19	7
Keys to the Car	7
Our Diversity Is Our Strength	7
Greenspace After a Disaster: The Need to Close the Gap With Recovery for Greater Resilience	7
Theories and Planning Theories	7
Why Latino Vendor Markets Matter	7
Plans Versus Political Priorities	7
Buying Access One Trip at a Time	7
The Right to (Re)Shape the City	6
Utilitarian Bicycling and Mental Wellbeing	6
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	6
How Does an Expansion of Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Affect Housing Supply?	6
Transferring Vacant Lots to Private Ownership Improves Care and Empowers Residents	6
Housing Single Women	6
Redrawing the Planners’ Circle	6
Do Industrial Preservation Policies Protect and Promote Urban Industrial Activity?	6
What Is a Forecast for?	5
Planning as Bargaining	5
Can ChatGPT Evaluate Plans?	5
Housing Affordability Crisis and Inequities of Land Use Change	5
Minus Minimums	5
Speaking to the Future	5
Who Is Planning for Environmental Justice—and How?	5
Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning?	5
The Urban Infrastructure of Care	5
Shifts Toward the Extremes	5

Toward Evidence-Based Urban Planning	4
“The Past We Step Into and How We Repair It”	4
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
Early Lessons From Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance	4
Planning for and Against Vehicular Homelessness	4
The Impact of Residential Densification on Perceptions of Public Space	4
A Case of (Decreasing) American Exceptionalism	4
Planning and Food Sovereignty in Conflict Cities	4
Open Streets for Whom?	4
“Can You Imagine What’s Happened in Durham?”	4
Human Rights and the City: A View From Canada	4
Recovery Capacity of Small Nonprofits in Post-2017 Hurricane Puerto Rico	3
Value Creation, Capture, and Destruction	3
Safe at Home?	3
Facilitating Online Participatory Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Immigrant Legal Status and Commute Mode Choice for Hispanics in the United States	3
Affordable but Marginalized	3
Disaster Assistance Winners and Losers	3
Getting to Root Causes	3
Does Discretion Delay Development?	3