European Planning Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of European Planning Studies is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities77
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery71
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation59
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal56
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making51
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism48
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.045
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City37
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks37
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town35
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens34
Emerging social innovation ecosystems – a case study of urban development in Finland34
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US33
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands32
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation31
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions30
Correction30
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective27
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency26
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece25
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations24
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland24
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France23
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges23
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls23
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations22
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?22
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law22
Improving incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent development of metropolitan types in the US and Europe21
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland20
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency20
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon19
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
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen18
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts18
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond18
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities17
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)17
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view16
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stron16
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area15
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s15
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds15
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters14
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context14
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)14
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology14
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism13
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing13
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design13
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’13
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises12
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully12
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism12
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India12
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future12
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future12
Who supports what? How startups navigate through the support organizations of an entrepreneurial ecosystem11
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis11
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning , by Vedik Basetti, Chandan Kumar11
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas11
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons11
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions10
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity10
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings10
Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan10
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries10
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions10
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake10
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden10
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland9
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools9
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond9
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)9
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply9
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region9
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective9
China's Belt and Road Initiative, Marine Transportation and Energy Infrastructure at Sines, Portugal and Piraeus, Greece with the ‘Athenian Riviera’ Mass Tourism Gigaproject9
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway9
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data9
Asset sourcing dynamics for green industry path development9
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection9
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems8
Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union , by Max Holleran, Palgra8
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective8
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
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”8
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 20408
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden8
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach8
Branding soft spaces8
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?8
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives8
Participatory urban planning in post-socialist Budapest: insights from urban development documents (1990-present)8
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead8
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model7
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam7
Publishers’ Note7
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions7
The role of industry 4.0 and open innovation practices in the renewal path of an industrial cluster7
Flexible geographies of new working spaces7
Just city planning competitions in Helsinki: between the power of image and many images of power7
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach7
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia7
The growing inequalities in Italy – North/South – and the increasing dependency of the successful North upon German and French industries7
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective , edited by M7
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain6
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination6
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level6
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development6
Neo-endogenous development initiatives tackling rural depopulation. The case of LEADER in Spain's Andalusian region6
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation6
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence6
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities6
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies6
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal6
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
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously6
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts6
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)6
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region6
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context5
Responsible innovation for addressing grand societal challenges: the role of social innovation, exaptation, and retrovation5
The citizens have participated – what now? An action research study of factors impacting the use of participatory citizen knowledge in planning processes5
Air transport impact on the regional development of Western Europe: a study on potential airport accessibility and international border effects5
‘Transitory urbanism’ for the creative industries in a top-down regeneration process (Nantes, France)5
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe5
Regional monitoring frameworks for the circular economy: implications from a territorial perspective5
Examining the dynamics of European renewable energy clusters: insights into technological collaboration5
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
Moving beyond townscape to eventscape: comparison of Lisbon and Istanbul5
A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning5
Predicting land-use dynamics in the Venlo-Düsseldorf borderland: a GIS-based study5
Behind the Big Box: understanding the planning-development dialectic of large distribution centres in Europe5
Environmental acceptability of suburban sprawl around two differently sized Czech cities5
The role of assets and variegated constellations of organizational- and system-level agency in regional transformation5
Valuing culture and creativity impacts in a global technological era: reshaping the analytical framework5
New industrial urbanism designing places for production5
Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges5
Towards a greener future?  Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions5
Digital business activities in the peripheral regions of Germany: patterns and key enabling factors5
The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions5
Courtyards of Krakow’s old town: greenery in the context of improving the housing environment5
Global production networks and regional innovation systems: contrasting or complementary policy implications?5
Co-evolutionary heritage reuse: a European multiple case study perspective5
Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design , By Alexander Wilson5
Economic impact of road transportation infrastructure projects: the case of Egnatia Odos Motorway4
Tourism planning and development in Western Europe4
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
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
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal4
Mind the border! Agents and functions to shape regional challenge-oriented innovation policy4
Are clustering and R&D institutions in post-socialist states functional tools for sustainable development?4
Changes in planning approach: a comparative study of digital government policies in South Korea and Denmark4
Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region4
Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions4
Where innovation meets directionality: an index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges4
Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship4
Correction4
Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town4
SME clusters as the driving force behind the popularization of slow fashion4
The economic effects of politically connected entrepreneurs on the quality and rate of regional entrepreneurship4
Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation4
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts4
The effect of value chain importance on regional economic recovery4
Liveability under shrinkage: initiatives in the ‘capital of pessimism’ in Finland4
The role of networks and relatedness in the birth of new industries. In search of incomplete innovative arrangements4
Multiple transformations, coordination and public goods. Tbilisi and the search for planning as collective strategy4
Climate governance experiments: current practices and their meta-governance embedding in Berlin’s solar energy transition4
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
Real estate dynamics and city–region linkages in small post-industrial towns: the case of the Swiss canton Glarus4
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises4
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic4
The evolution of Cohesion Policy in 40 years of economic policy agenda3
Capturing the achievements made by Interreg? Insights from cross border cooperation between Spain and Portugal3
Ontologies of live-work mix in Amsterdam, Brussels and Stockholm: an institutionalist approach drawing on path dependency3
Key enabling technologies (KETs) in the technological space: embeddedness and regional knowledge creation3
Born to innovate, not to produce: three decades of compared change, evolution and innovation in the dynamic Marshallian Industrial Districts of Spain and Italy3
Access to information and public participation: evaluating the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Europe3
The interplay between KIBS and manufacturers: a scoping review of major key themes and research opportunities3
Knowledge might not be enough: acceptance of energy communities across the urban-rural divide3
Make digitalized places for experimentation work: unravelling and governing transformative dynamics of FabLabs and Makerspaces3
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development3
The place-based conditions of planning central areas of regional cities as places of residence3
Biophilia in Polish spa towns from spatial planning perspective3
Heterogeneity of urban manufacturing – a statistical analysis of manufacturing companies in three German cities3
Challenges of an integrated management of public space3
Land oversupply. How rigid land-use planning and legal certainty hinder new policy for Flanders3
Knowledge sourcing by multi-plant firms in Europe3
The urban planning imagination. A critical international introduction3
Advancing innovation in manufacturing firms: knowledge base combinations in a local productive system3
Living innovation machines: modelling innovation in time and space variable-geometry territorial units using machine learning3
The transformative potential of inward investment on industrial cluster development: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales3
Festival Cities. Culture, Planning and Urban Life3
‘Urban Design and Planning for Age-Friendly Environments Across Europe: North and South Developing Healthy and Therapeutic Living Spaces for Local Contexts’3
What type of emerging green path is the Nordic battery industry on: importation or new creation?3
Beyond R&D: a configurational approach to open innovation in the Veneto region3
Innovation districts as strategic urban projects: the emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation3
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis3
Incomplete regional innovation arrangements and emerging general purpose-technologies3
Reshore production now: how to rebuild manufacturing and restore high wages, high profits, and national prosperity in the USA3
Regional innovation policies and directionality: exploring the role of conditionality*3
Dynamic recombinant relatedness and its role for regional innovation2
Cittaslow: Degrowth approach or place promotion? An analysis exemplified by the case of Artà, Mallorca2
Innovation, human capital and economic growth in Turkish cities: do city dynamics play a role?2
Institutional ethnography: a transformative mode of inquiry in the renovation of a Brussels high-rise housing estate2
The regressive planning practice of private sector planners under the pressure of political and market forces in Turkey2
Conserving and managing historical urban landscape an integrated morphological approach2
Urban sustainability responsibilities of the European planning profession in the next decades2
Economic impact of smart specialization policy in the context of multilevel governance: the Hungarian case2
Small industrial towns in Moravia: a comparison of the production and post-productive eras2
Plural planning theories: cherishing the diversity of planning2
Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno2
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices2
Agglomeration, regional specialization and firm performance: revisiting and unravelling the old riddle2
Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban planning: greening cities, shaping cities2
Exploiting the technology-driven structural shift to creative work in regional catching-up: toward an institutional framework2
Clusters in times of uncertainty: Japanese and European perspectives2
Does Smart Specialisation improve any innovation subsidy effect on regional productivity? The Portuguese case2
The development of urban transnational spaces in the world city: the Japanese case in Düsseldorf, Germany2
Accounting for cultural heritage management: resilience, sustainability and accountability2
Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach2
Green urban areas as ecological indicators: combining in situ data and satellite products2
Cities, change, and conflict a political economy of urban life Cities, change, and conflict a political economy of urban life , Nancy Kleniewski and Alexander R. Thomas,2
On inducing innovation in endogenous rural development. A living lab experiment2
Urban planning for climate change Urban planning for climate change , by Barbara Norman, Routledge, London, 2022, 196 pages, £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 97803674859932
From sonic experiences to urban planning innovations2
Corporate responsibility and place leadership in rural digitalization: the case of Hidden Champions2
Operationalizing affordances for public space: artefacts and their various uses2
Sustainability-oriented innovation in smart tourism challenges and pitfalls of technology deployment for sustainable destinations2
Who are those new entrants? Dissecting types of foreign capital entrance in traditional industrial districts2
The distribution of geographical indications across Europe. Reflecting spatial patterns and the role of policy2
Complexity theories and ethnographies in planning for leisure-led regional development2
Technology change in industrial districts: how do firms respond to change? Lessons for policymakers2
Opening up spatial planning to the participation of children and youth: the Swedish experience2
How cities become brands developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully (1st edition)How cities become brands developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully (1st edition), by Eric Hausler 2
Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany1
An overview of the River Contract tool: new aims in planning and protected areas issues1
European cities, international relations and some popular connotations1
Buildings for people: responsible real estate development and planning1
Agents of change in old-industrial and non-metropolitan regions of Europe1
Uses and practices of digital services in a situation of mobility: evolution versus revolution? The case of the Champs Elysées1
From policies to outcomes: multi-level analysis of the influence of regional planning on land take1
How to support cultural heritage-led development in Italian inner areas: a multi-methodological evaluation approach1
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