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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	84
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	51
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	51
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	37
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	31
The Urban Planning Imagination	28
“Tax Discrimination District”	26
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	24
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	24
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	23
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	23
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	22
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good	20
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	20
Centennial Reflections: A Century of Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities	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
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020	18
Dhaka’s Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity	17
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	17
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	16
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	16
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	15
Productive Frictions	14
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	12
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	12

Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	12
On Common Ground	11
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	11
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	11
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	11
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	11
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	10
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	10
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking	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
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	9
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	9
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	9
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	8
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	8
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	8
Planning With a Basic Income	8
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	8
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	7
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	7
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	7
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	7
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	6
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	6
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	6
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	6
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	6
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	6
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	6
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	6
Closing the Climate Gap	6
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	6
Green, Fair, and Prosperous: Paths to a Sustainable Iowa	6
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	5
Planning for the Common Good	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
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	5
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	5
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	5
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	4
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	4
From Mandates to Outcomes: How Federal Policies Shape Local Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation	4
Manufacturing Urban Form: Could Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?	4
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	4
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	4
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	4
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	4

Unplanned Food Access	4
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	4
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis	4
Safe at Home?	4
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	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
Logistics of Zoning, Zoning for Logistics: Toward Healthy and Equitable Development for Urban Freight	3
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	3
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	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
HeatReady Neighborhoods: A Planning Rubric for Extreme Heat	3
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	3
Racism by Design?	3
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America	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
Essential JAPA Style	3
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	3