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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	97
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	52
The Urban Planning Imagination	47
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	46
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	41
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	36
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	33
Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement	32
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	30
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	29
Advancing Pedestrian Models: A Comparative Review and Vision for the Future	28
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	26
Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles	26
Centennial Reflections: A Century of Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities	22
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	22
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*	21
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	21
Land Use and Road Safety: Understanding the Persistence of Vulnerable Road User Deaths and Injuries in the United States	20
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	19
Productive Frictions	19
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	17
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	16
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification	16
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	15
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	15

Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	15
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	15
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	14
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	14
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	14
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	13
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	13
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	13
Urban Informality: An Introduction	13
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	13
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	12
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	12
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*	12
A Trauma-Informed Planning Framework (TIPF) for Immigrant Belonging	12
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	12
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	12
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	12
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	11
Planning With a Basic Income	11
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	11
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	10
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	10
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	10
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	10
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	8
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	8
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	8
Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data	8
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	8
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	8
Closing the Climate Gap	8
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	7
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	7
Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century	7
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	7
What’s Missing From Supply-Side Progressivism?	7
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	7
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	7
“The Big Ship Turns Around Slowly”: An Evaluation of Equity and Justice in Ontario Climate Action Plans	7
Land Use Restrictiveness and Mortgage Access: How Regulatory Environments Condition Racial and Income Disparities in Loan Approvals and Pricing	6
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	6
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	6
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	6
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	6
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	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
Planning for the Common Good	6
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	6
Safe at Home?	5
Gentrification-Induced Displacement, Destination Neighborhoods, and Destination Houses for Low-Income Households in Columbus, Ohio	5

Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	5
How Right-of-Way Adaptations Support Urban Resilience: Pandemic Streateries and Social Interactions in Seattle’s University District	5
Symbiotic Planning Theory: The CORE Framework for Human–AI Cocreation in Urban Planning	5
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis	5
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
From Mandates to Outcomes: How Federal Policies Shape Local Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation	4
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	4
“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	4
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Disrupting the Speculative City: Property, Power and Community Resistance in London	4
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	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
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
Manufacturing Urban Form: Could Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?	3
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	3
Rethinking Public Space and Urban Mobility	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
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	3
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	3
Affordable Housing in the United States	3
Unplanned Food Access	3
Essential JAPA Style	3
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America	3
Logistics of Zoning, Zoning for Logistics: Toward Healthy and Equitable Development for Urban Freight	3