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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery75
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities60
Navigating re-borderings: resilience strategies of national minorities in border regions49
The geography behind planning conformance: distribution of resources as the main factor of success in strategic planning48
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.040
How urban planning can reduce energy consumption – Eight Planning Principles38
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City29
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US29
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation29
A comparative assessment of the efficacy of rural depopulation policies in Spain: a system dynamics approach27
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town27
Emerging social innovation ecosystems – a case study of urban development in Finland25
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands25
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens25
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations24
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece24
Foresight on spatial mobility during green and digital transitions: insights from five European regions23
Embedding the mission-oriented approach in smart specialization strategies: an exploratory assessment22
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency21
Spatio-temporal analysis of built-up area dispersion: evidence from South Aegean Islands21
Improving incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent development of metropolitan types in the US and Europe20
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland19
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France19
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective18
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges18
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law18
Correction18
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions17
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?16
City walls reimagined: unveiling adaptive potentials of Istanbul Land Walls16
Deep relational work: intermediary actors fostering supportive social environments in collaborative transition governance16
An overall assessment of the impact of EU b-solutions in the EU16
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen15
Reducing EU cross-border administrative-legal environmental barriers via EU b-solutions15
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry15
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?15
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond14
Beyond GDP in an island region: constructing a capability-oriented well-being index for Corsica14
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities14
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology13
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area13
Designing sustainable and resilient cities: small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management13
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context13
Carbon-washing sustainable mobility: the case of Metro Mondego in Coimbra, Portugal12
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)12
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s12
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts12
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing12
Repositioning national borders: measuring the national border effects through the lens of cross-border cultural network12
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters11
Shifting demand conditions and green regional industrial path development: the food industry in Southern Sweden11
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India11
Polytraps in European rural mountainous regions: an expert view11
Homes and flows in new urban neighbourhoods: logistics planning insights from three pioneering cities11
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds11
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions10
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions10
Who supports what? How startups navigate through the support organizations of an entrepreneurial ecosystem10
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design10
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully10
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future10
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning10
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas10
Incomplete innovative arrangements: divergent situations and complementary opportunities10
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future10
Multilevel policy and green regional industrial path development: the automotive industry in Western Sweden10
Regional inequality in Türkiye: a new determination method10
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism10
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’10
Are spatial plans transformative for biodiversity and ecosystem services? Insights from seven European countries9
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply9
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools9
From strategies to results. Assessing the role of contemporary art for tourism development in Turin9
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region9
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings9
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises9
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
A comprehensive review of regional innovation policy research: policy paradigms, evolution and underexplored topics8
Knowledge inflows and outflows in collaborative spaces. The study of makerspaces in Central European countries8
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden8
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity8
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland8
Logistics development and land recycling: a geography of missed opportunities?8
Asset sourcing dynamics for green industry path development8
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data8
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway8
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective8
Galata – the urban form in the comparative analysis of maps of two periods8
Are city playgrounds truly for everyone? Comparative assessment of inclusive design in Austria and Türkiye8
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond8
Participatory urban planning in post-socialist Budapest: insights from urban development documents (1990-present)7
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead7
Governing circular cities: the case of innovative plot handover process7
Public green space adaptation and real estate market dynamics: the politics of designing resilient and just green spaces7
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales7
Science and productivity in European firms: how do regional innovation modes matter?7
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden7
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach7
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems7
Tracking 20 years of urban sprawl and policy gaps: the case of Cyclades islands, Greece7
Regional banks and industrial employment – findings from a comparison of European countries7
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 20407
Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union , by Max Holleran, Palgra7
(Un)Regulating discretion in development control: tall-building approvals in Limassol, Cyprus7
Revisiting the growth–inequality nexus in Italian regions: inter-regional inequality and regional traps7
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”7
Cluster emergence, development and organisation in contrasting institutional settings: insights from United Kingdom and Norway7
Branding soft spaces7
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective7
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)7
Small-town renaissance: bridging technology, heritage and planning in shrinking Italy7
The role of industry 4.0 and open innovation practices in the renewal path of an industrial cluster7
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia6
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model6
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam6
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously6
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives6
Cross-border functional areas (CBFA): a multi-indicator definition at the European level6
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective6
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development6
Flexible geographies of new working spaces6
Toward an urban logistics design: programming logistics in mixed-use urban projects in Île-de-France6
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination6
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions6
Regional patterns of well-being: an assessment of subjective factors and local opportunities5
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies5
From territorial captivity to connectivity: uneven impacts of rural infrastructure investments in left-behind rural areas5
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal5
Water demand of urban Portuguese households by population trajectory and region5
Correction5
Design and build competitions as tools for urban transition in a context of land scarcity5
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe5
What shapes planners’ perceptions of citizens’ trustworthiness?5
A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning5
Neo-endogenous development initiatives tackling rural depopulation. The case of LEADER in Spain's Andalusian region5
The citizens have participated – what now? An action research study of factors impacting the use of participatory citizen knowledge in planning processes5
Can the twin transition backfire? Backlash dynamics in the wine industry5
Environmental acceptability of suburban sprawl around two differently sized Czech cities5
The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions5
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts5
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain5
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region5
The geography of exclusion: cumulative causation and the persistence of lagging regions5
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe5
Predicting land-use dynamics in the Venlo-Düsseldorf borderland: a GIS-based study5
Air transport impact on the regional development of Western Europe: a study on potential airport accessibility and international border effects5
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)5
Digital business activities in the peripheral regions of Germany: patterns and key enabling factors4
Moving beyond townscape to eventscape: comparison of Lisbon and Istanbul4
New industrial urbanism designing places for production4
Industrial legacy, contemporary views: narratives on industrial heritage and its development in Czechia4
The behavioural-institutional dimensions of regional development: values, personality psychology and culture4
Why does the effectiveness of European innovation policies fail to enhance business performance in Galicia (Spain)?4
Towards a greener future?  Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions4
Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design , By Alexander Wilson4
Agglomeration patterns of rural collaborative spaces: a comparative spatial analysis of Rhineland-Palatinate and Catalonia4
SME clusters as the driving force behind the popularization of slow fashion4
Responsible innovation for addressing grand societal challenges: the role of social innovation, exaptation, and retrovation4
Courtyards of Krakow’s old town: greenery in the context of improving the housing environment4
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context4
Density as an indicator of sustainable urban development: insights from Helsinki?4
Planning for renewables in an uncertain world: key takeaways from analysing the German onshore approach4
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 4
The role of assets and variegated constellations of organizational- and system-level agency in regional transformation3
Liveability under shrinkage: initiatives in the ‘capital of pessimism’ in Finland3
Mind the border! Agents and functions to shape regional challenge-oriented innovation policy3
Advancing innovation in manufacturing firms: knowledge base combinations in a local productive system3
Real estate dynamics and city–region linkages in small post-industrial towns: the case of the Swiss canton Glarus3
Make digitalized places for experimentation work: unravelling and governing transformative dynamics of FabLabs and Makerspaces3
Austria and Poland under the EU Floods Directive: vulnerability perspectives in flood risk management3
Knowledge might not be enough: acceptance of energy communities across the urban-rural divide3
The effect of value chain importance on regional economic recovery3
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal3
Space and the precariat: labour and land uses in Neoliberal cities and regions3
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 S3
Beyond the bloc(k): unpacking residential choices in the Bucharest-Ilfov metropolitan area3
Examining the dynamics of European renewable energy clusters: insights into technological collaboration3
Living innovation machines: modelling innovation in time and space variable-geometry territorial units using machine learning3
Correction3
Inclusive urban planning for and with children: planning green playgrounds in Barcelona and Utrecht3
Universities developmental role in the EU second-tier periphery: identifying structural constraints to inform agency debates3
Reshore production now: how to rebuild manufacturing and restore high wages, high profits, and national prosperity in the USA3
Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region3
Incomplete regional innovation arrangements and emerging general purpose-technologies3
The role of networks and relatedness in the birth of new industries. In search of incomplete innovative arrangements3
Climate governance experiments: current practices and their meta-governance embedding in Berlin’s solar energy transition3
The green transition as boundary object? On green cross-border collaboration in the Danish-German borderlands3
Understanding zoning in Central and Eastern European spatial planning: between control and flexibility3
Mapping flows, shaping spaces: a review of data-driven approaches to EU cross-border regions3
Integrated participatory visioning for a shared and desired spatial energy future3
Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions3
Sustainable development, just transition and rural resilience: tailor-made solutions for global challenges. View from Poland3
Tourism planning and development in Western Europe3
Startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems – a case study of the metropolitan area of Porto3
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development3
Internationalizing cluster organizations on market terms3
The evolution of Cohesion Policy in 40 years of economic policy agenda3
Changes in planning approach: a comparative study of digital government policies in South Korea and Denmark3
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises3
Incomplete regional innovation systems, territorial servitization and the distant hybridization of manufacturing and knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) industries: the case of collaborative 3
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 Detlef3
Urban planning for climate change Urban planning for climate change , by Barbara Norman, Routledge, London, 2022, 196 pages, £34.99 (paperback), ISBN 97803674859932
Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban planning: greening cities, shaping cities2
Small industrial towns in Moravia: a comparison of the production and post-productive eras2
Accounting for cultural heritage management: resilience, sustainability and accountability2
Cities, change, and conflict a political economy of urban life2
Urban Design and Planning for Age-Friendly Environments Across Europe: North and South Developing Healthy and Therapeutic Living Spaces for Local Contexts 2
The place-based conditions of planning central areas of regional cities as places of residence2
Plural planning theories: cherishing the diversity of planning2
Bitter aftertaste? The effect of Brexit on British craft beer export2
The Next Catch : spotting surging entrepreneurial ecosystems2
Zero-sum thinking in regional development? – Green and/or inclusive socio-economic development dynamics in challenged regions2
Articulating iconic architecture, heritage and public perceptions through digital narratives in Eleftheria Square, Nicosia2
The transformative potential of inward investment on industrial cluster development: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales2
Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship2
Heterogeneity of urban manufacturing – a statistical analysis of manufacturing companies in three German cities2
Biophilia in Polish spa towns from spatial planning perspective2
Who are those new entrants? Dissecting types of foreign capital entrance in traditional industrial districts2
Agglomeration, regional specialization and firm performance: revisiting and unravelling the old riddle2
Capturing the achievements made by Interreg? Insights from cross border cooperation between Spain and Portugal2
Complexity theories and ethnographies in planning for leisure-led regional development2
Festival Cities. Culture, Planning and Urban Life2
Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach2
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis2
Key enabling technologies (KETs) in the technological space: embeddedness and regional knowledge creation2
Historic building stock in tension: controversial urban transformations in Budapest2
Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno2
Geographies of collaboration: exploring inter-municipal collaboration in Sweden2
Challenges of an integrated management of public space2
What type of emerging green path is the Nordic battery industry on: importation or new creation?2
Beyond R&D: a configurational approach to open innovation in the Veneto region2
On inducing innovation in endogenous rural development. A living lab experiment2
Conserving and managing historical urban landscape an integrated morphological approach2
Sustainability-oriented innovation in smart tourism challenges and pitfalls of technology deployment for sustainable destinations2
How cities become brands developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully (1st edition)2
Accessibility through commoning. New perspectives for inclusive cities and beyond2
Innovation districts as strategic urban projects: the emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation2
Technology change in industrial districts: how do firms respond to change? Lessons for policymakers2
Knowledge sourcing by multi-plant firms in Europe2
Economic impact of smart specialization policy in the context of multilevel governance: the Hungarian case2
Access to information and public participation: evaluating the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Europe2
Dynamic recombinant relatedness and its role for regional innovation2
Born to innovate, not to produce: three decades of compared change, evolution and innovation in the dynamic Marshallian Industrial Districts of Spain and Italy2
Regional innovation policies and directionality: exploring the role of conditionality*2
Land oversupply. How rigid land-use planning and legal certainty hinder new policy for Flanders2
Evidence of creative clusters in Portugal2
Cluster management and policy learning: the value of strategic intelligence1
Urban sustainability commitment in Germany – attempts to nail a pudding to the wall1
Buildings for people: responsible real estate development and planning1
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