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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Urban Planning Imagination	82
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	65
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	43
Transit-Induced Gentrification or Vice Versa?	42
Times Square Remade: The dynamics of urban change	38
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	31
“Tax Discrimination District”	29
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	24
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	21
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	20
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	20
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	20
Multiscalar Deliberative Transportation Planning	19
Dhaka’s Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity	19
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	19
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good	16
Right Sizing Is Not What You Think It Is	16
Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis	16
Recent Relocation Patterns Among Older Adults in the United States	15
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	15
Shifts Toward the Extremes	15
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020	14
Productive Frictions	14
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*	13
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	13

Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	13
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	12
The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood	12
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	12
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	11
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	11
Procedural Vulnerability and Its Effects on Equitable Post-Disaster Recovery in Low-Income Communities	11
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	11
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	11
On Common Ground	11
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	10
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	10
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	10
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	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
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking	9
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	9
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	8
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	8
Planning With a Basic Income	8
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	8
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	8
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	7
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	7
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	6
Green, Fair, and Prosperous: Paths to a Sustainable Iowa	6
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	6
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	6
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	5
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	5
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	5
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	5
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	5
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	5
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	5
Closing the Climate Gap	5
Who Is Planning the Smart City? *Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future* Susan Flynn(Ed.)(2022). The University of Chicag	5
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	5
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	5
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	4
Correction	4
Planning for the Common Good	4
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	4
Safe at Home?	4
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	4
The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the FutureThe Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the FutureAdam J	4
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	4
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	4
Riders Who Avoided Public Transit During COVID-19	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

Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	4
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	4
Unplanned Food Access	3
Essential JAPA Style	3
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	3
Racism by Design?	3
Notes From the Review Editor	3
Public Views on the Reallocation of Street Space Due to COVID-19	3
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesMaking Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesGeorge C. Galster(2019). University of Chicago Press. 401 pages. $55 (paperback)	3
“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	3
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	3
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	3
Gentrifiers of Color: Class Inequalities in Ethnic/Racial Neighborhood Displacement	3
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	3
Race, Space, and Trauma	3
Evaluating Geodesign for Community-Based Tribal Planning	3
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	3
Planning for Dissent	3
Community-Centered Climate Planning	3
Recovery Capacity of Small Nonprofits in Post-2017 Hurricane Puerto Rico	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
Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesUneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesJennifer Clark(2020). Columbia University Press. 328 pages. $30 (paperback)	3