European Planning Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of European Planning Studies is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery92
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities83
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making67
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal57
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation51
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism43
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.041
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City40
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands38
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town35
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation35
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US32
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens31
Emerging social innovation ecosystems – a case study of urban development in Finland28
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece27
Correction27
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law26
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency26
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective26
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges25
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions25
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland25
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France25
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations25
Improving incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent development of metropolitan types in the US and Europe23
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls22
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations22
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon21
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency21
Spatio-temporal analysis of built-up area dispersion: evidence from South Aegean Islands19
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?19
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?19
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry18
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts17
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view17
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters16
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology16
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)15
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond15
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities15
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context15
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s15
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management15
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen15
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area15
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing15
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds15
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India14
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully14
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’14
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design13
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism13
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future13
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas12
Are spatial plans transformative for biodiversity and ecosystem services? Insights from seven European countries12
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning12
Regional inequality in Türkiye: a new determination method12
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions12
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake12
Incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent situations and complementary opportunities11
Who supports what? How startups navigate through the support organizations of an entrepreneurial ecosystem11
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions11
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis11
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective10
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings10
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future10
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland10
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises10
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries10
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism10
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region9
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden9
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway9
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland9
China's Belt and Road Initiative, Marine Transportation and Energy Infrastructure at Sines, Portugal and Piraeus, Greece with the ‘Athenian Riviera’ Mass Tourism Gigaproject9
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)9
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity9
Asset sourcing dynamics for green industry path development9
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools9
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply9
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data9
A comprehensive review of regional innovation policy research: policy paradigms, evolution and underexplored topics9
Science and productivity in European firms: how do regional innovation modes matter?8
Branding soft spaces8
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 20408
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?8
Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union , by Max Holleran, Palgra8
The role of industry 4.0 and open innovation practices in the renewal path of an industrial cluster8
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond8
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach8
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)8
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales8
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden8
Participatory urban planning in post-socialist Budapest: insights from urban development documents (1990-present)8
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead8
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”8
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective8
Cluster emergence, development and organisation in contrasting institutional settings: insights from United Kingdom and Norway8
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems8
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia7
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam7
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination7
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region7
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives7
Small-town renaissance: bridging technology, heritage and planning in shrinking Italy7
Flexible geographies of new working spaces7
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective7
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model7
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach7
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions7
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts7
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously6
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level6
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)6
The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions6
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal6
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain6
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe6
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies6
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe6
A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning6
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies6
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development6
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities6
Behind the Big Box: understanding the planning-development dialectic of large distribution centres in Europe6
Water demand of urban Portuguese households by population trajectory and region6
Neo-endogenous development initiatives tackling rural depopulation. The case of LEADER in Spain's Andalusian region6
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context5
How big things get done: the surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration How big things get done: the surprising factors behind every 5
Density as an indicator of sustainable urban development: insights from Helsinki?5
The role of assets and variegated constellations of organizational- and system-level agency in regional transformation5
Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design , By Alexander Wilson5
Correction5
Predicting land-use dynamics in the Venlo-Düsseldorf borderland: a GIS-based study5
The citizens have participated – what now? An action research study of factors impacting the use of participatory citizen knowledge in planning processes5
Moving beyond townscape to eventscape: comparison of Lisbon and Istanbul5
Responsible innovation for addressing grand societal challenges: the role of social innovation, exaptation, and retrovation5
Examining the dynamics of European renewable energy clusters: insights into technological collaboration5
The behavioural-institutional dimensions of regional development: values, personality psychology and culture5
Beyond the bloc(k): unpacking residential choices in the Bucharest-Ilfov metropolitan area5
Courtyards of Krakow’s old town: greenery in the context of improving the housing environment5
Digital business activities in the peripheral regions of Germany: patterns and key enabling factors5
Towards a greener future?  Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions5
Air transport impact on the regional development of Western Europe: a study on potential airport accessibility and international border effects5
New industrial urbanism designing places for production5
Valuing culture and creativity impacts in a global technological era: reshaping the analytical framework5
Co-evolutionary heritage reuse: a European multiple case study perspective5
SME clusters as the driving force behind the popularization of slow fashion5
Global production networks and regional innovation systems: contrasting or complementary policy implications?5
Environmental acceptability of suburban sprawl around two differently sized Czech cities5
‘Transitory urbanism’ for the creative industries in a top-down regeneration process (Nantes, France)5
Correction4
Are clustering and R&D institutions in post-socialist states functional tools for sustainable development?4
Mind the border! Agents and functions to shape regional challenge-oriented innovation policy4
Post-growth planning. cities beyond the market economy Post-growth planning. cities beyond the market economy , edited by Federico Savini, António Ferreira and Kim von S4
Multiple transformations, coordination and public goods. Tbilisi and the search for planning as collective strategy4
The role of networks and relatedness in the birth of new industries. In search of incomplete innovative arrangements4
The green transition as boundary object? On green cross-border collaboration in the Danish-German borderlands4
Changes in planning approach: a comparative study of digital government policies in South Korea and Denmark4
Real estate dynamics and city–region linkages in small post-industrial towns: the case of the Swiss canton Glarus4
Regional monitoring frameworks for the circular economy: implications from a territorial perspective4
Industrial legacy, contemporary views: narratives on industrial heritage and its development in Czechia4
Understanding zoning in Central and Eastern European spatial planning: between control and flexibility4
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal4
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts4
Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town4
Climate governance experiments: current practices and their meta-governance embedding in Berlin’s solar energy transition4
A new beginning? Spatial planning and research in Europe between 1945 and 1975 A new beginning? Spatial planning and research in Europe between 1945 and 1975 , by Detlef4
Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation4
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises4
Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship4
Incomplete regional innovation systems, territorial servitization and the distant hybridization of manufacturing and knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) industries: the case of collaborative 4
Patterns of collaboration for technology transfer in Spanish universities4
Tourism planning and development in Western Europe4
Festival Cities. Culture, Planning and Urban Life3
Born to innovate, not to produce: three decades of compared change, evolution and innovation in the dynamic Marshallian Industrial Districts of Spain and Italy3
Beyond R&D: a configurational approach to open innovation in the Veneto region3
Inclusive urban planning for and with children: planning green playgrounds in Barcelona and Utrecht3
Living innovation machines: modelling innovation in time and space variable-geometry territorial units using machine learning3
Economic impact of road transportation infrastructure projects: the case of Egnatia Odos Motorway3
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development3
Sustainable development, just transition and rural resilience: tailor-made solutions for global challenges. View from Poland3
Reshore production now: how to rebuild manufacturing and restore high wages, high profits, and national prosperity in the USA3
The transformative potential of inward investment on industrial cluster development: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales3
The urban planning imagination. A critical international introduction3
Challenges of an integrated management of public space3
Access to information and public participation: evaluating the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Europe3
Small industrial towns in Moravia: a comparison of the production and post-productive eras3
Knowledge sourcing by multi-plant firms in Europe3
Regional innovation policies and directionality: exploring the role of conditionality*3
Advancing innovation in manufacturing firms: knowledge base combinations in a local productive system3
Knowledge might not be enough: acceptance of energy communities across the urban-rural divide3
The effect of value chain importance on regional economic recovery3
Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions3
Make digitalized places for experimentation work: unravelling and governing transformative dynamics of FabLabs and Makerspaces3
Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno3
What type of emerging green path is the Nordic battery industry on: importation or new creation?3
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis3
The place-based conditions of planning central areas of regional cities as places of residence3
Land oversupply. How rigid land-use planning and legal certainty hinder new policy for Flanders3
Liveability under shrinkage: initiatives in the ‘capital of pessimism’ in Finland3
Incomplete regional innovation arrangements and emerging general purpose-technologies3
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic3
The evolution of Cohesion Policy in 40 years of economic policy agenda3
Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region3
Capturing the achievements made by Interreg? Insights from cross border cooperation between Spain and Portugal3
Green urban areas as ecological indicators: combining in situ data and satellite products3
Innovation districts as strategic urban projects: the emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation3
The development of urban transnational spaces in the world city: the Japanese case in Düsseldorf, Germany2
On inducing innovation in endogenous rural development. A living lab experiment2
Accounting for cultural heritage management: resilience, sustainability and accountability2
Does Smart Specialisation improve any innovation subsidy effect on regional productivity? The Portuguese case2
Plural planning theories: cherishing the diversity of planning2
Economic impact of smart specialization policy in the context of multilevel governance: the Hungarian case2
Evidence of creative clusters in Portugal2
Dynamic recombinant relatedness and its role for regional innovation2
Urban Design and Planning for Age-Friendly Environments Across Europe: North and South Developing Healthy and Therapeutic Living Spaces for Local Contexts 2
Cittaslow: Degrowth approach or place promotion? An analysis exemplified by the case of Artà, Mallorca2
Anticipating structural changes? effects of automation and digitalization on cross-border commuting in low-skilled manual jobs2
Operationalizing affordances for public space: artefacts and their various uses2
Who are those new entrants? Dissecting types of foreign capital entrance in traditional industrial districts2
Conserving and managing historical urban landscape an integrated morphological approach2
Complexity theories and ethnographies in planning for leisure-led regional development2
Urban sustainability responsibilities of the European planning profession in the next decades2
Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach2
Cities, change, and conflict a political economy of urban life2
How cities become brands developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully (1st edition)2
Biophilia in Polish spa towns from spatial planning perspective2
Sustainability-oriented innovation in smart tourism challenges and pitfalls of technology deployment for sustainable destinations2
Exploiting the technology-driven structural shift to creative work in regional catching-up: toward an institutional framework2
The regressive planning practice of private sector planners under the pressure of political and market forces in Turkey2
Accessibility through commoning. New perspectives for inclusive cities and beyond2
Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban planning: greening cities, shaping cities2
Opening up spatial planning to the participation of children and youth: the Swedish experience2
Agglomeration, regional specialization and firm performance: revisiting and unravelling the old riddle2
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices2
Urban planning for climate change Urban planning for climate change , by Barbara Norman, Routledge, London, 2022, 196 pages, £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 97803674859932
Heterogeneity of urban manufacturing – a statistical analysis of manufacturing companies in three German cities2
Key enabling technologies (KETs) in the technological space: embeddedness and regional knowledge creation2
Technology change in industrial districts: how do firms respond to change? Lessons for policymakers2
The distribution of geographical indications across Europe. Reflecting spatial patterns and the role of policy2
Analysing how destinations reach sustainability through digitalisation: a semi-qualitative approach2
Clusters in times of uncertainty: Japanese and European perspectives2
Innovation, human capital and economic growth in Turkish cities: do city dynamics play a role?2
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