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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Critical dictionary on borders, cross-border cooperation and European integration99
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks61
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism61
A drop in the sea or catalyst for change: diverse effects of the place-based approach in Europe52
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism52
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery44
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities , By Babu Jacob43
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation42
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal38
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.036
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making35
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City34
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US31
Leveraging national opportunities for regional transformation: multi-scalar system-building and legitimation in a Swiss industrial town30
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: an assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation29
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands28
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens28
High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations28
Correction26
Regional planning strategies: understanding the implementation of a new strategic tool in Norwegian planning law25
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements24
COVID-19 and the housing market. Evidence from England and Wales, and France24
Is low-density a viable territorial category for enhancing EU cohesion policy implementation?23
Effects of ‘Covidfencing’ on cross-border commuting: a case of Czech-German borderland23
In the blind spot: ethnic retailing in Helsinki and the spontaneous placemaking of abandoned spaces23
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency22
EU smart specialization policy between experimentation and accountability: dynamic policy cycle perspective22
Territorial assets and SMEs competitiveness: the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece22
Diagrams as a comparative tool to understand the territorial evolution of port city regions21
Railway stations as public space: how to promote rail journeys via multi-functional railway stations20
Related and unrelated variety and convergence to technological frontier: empirical evidence for Polish regions20
Small and medium-sized towns in Italy: policy gaps and institutional challenges20
Exposing the role of relational capabilities in business–research–government cooperation: examples from the transition towards a bioeconomy in Finland20
The 15-minute city concept and new working spaces: a planning perspective from Oslo and Lisbon19
Disentangling the ‘capacity to act': variegated resources of individuals exerting change agency18
A scenario planning framework for (post-)pandemic tourism in European destinations18
Resilient urban environments: planning for livable cities18
Learning as imitation or mimesis: how ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers?17
Leveraging land-value capture in contexts of urban austerity: evidence from the Grand Paris Express (France)17
Navigating networks – to make a difference: the support base composition of local change agents in Amsterdam, Birmingham, Glasgow and Copenhagen16
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
Wine Tourism and Sustainability: The Economic, Social and Environmental Contribution of the Wine Industry16
Everything must change for us to remain the same. Resilience in the face of disruptive innovations in industrial districts15
Assessing social value derived from social innovation capacity: a review on the European urban context15
‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond15
Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology14
Open innovation dynamics and evolution in the mobile payment industry – comparative analysis among Daegu, Cardiff, and Nanjing14
Cluster policy: the challenging and complex horizon in the 2020s14
How real will the metaverse be? Exploring the spatial impact of virtual worlds14
Examining local action groups as territorial development polities: CLLD in Lisbon Metropolitan Area14
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning Artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart city planning , by Vedik Basetti, Chandan Kumar13
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms and Industry 4.0 in firms and clusters13
Post-Covid tourism planning: based on the Azores residents’ perceptions about the development of regional tourism13
Building and nurturing grassroots innovation: A policy framework based on the local commons13
A systemic perspective for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP)13
A sustainable afterlife for post-industrial sites: balancing conservation, regeneration and heritage tourism13
Rescaling public transport planning in Sweden: investigating the continued planning at the scale ‘left behind’13
European planning studies at 30 – past, present and future12
Economic and environmental cost of traffic congestion in India12
How cities become brands: developing city brands purposefully and thoughtfully12
Green Infrastructure: planning strategies and environmental design12
The role of cross-border cooperation programme in de-marginalisation of peripheral border regions12
Regional economic resilience: insights from five crises11
Smart cities in Europe and Asia urban planning and management for a sustainable future11
Enhancing firm resilience: how the Valencian textile cluster responded to COVID-19-induced GVC disruptions11
Do natural disasters accelerate sustainability transitions? Insights from the Central Italy earthquake11
The role of immigrant human capital in Danish second-tier towns and rural areas11
Is it enough to enable freight? Modes of governance for urban logistics in Norway10
Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data10
Place branding and marketing from a policy perspective building effective strategies for places (1st edition)10
Urban planning and urban health: attempts at innovation in line with local planning tools10
Integrating green infrastructures in spatial planning: a scrutiny of regional tools in Sardinia, Italy10
Circular economy adoption at the regional level: a neo-institutional perspective10
The development of polysubcentric network in the context of metropolitanization: evidence from Poland10
Urban ‘beautification’ and its discontents: the erosion of urban commons in Milan10
How exceptions to land use regulations enter planning legislation. The Flemish case of rebuilding non-conforming dwellings10
Exploring local spatial planning as practices of process design in the Stockholm region, Sweden10
Governance robustness put to the test by Covid-19. The case of Local Area Plans in the Lombardy Region10
Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply Property, planning and protest: the contentious politics of housing supply , by Quintin Bradle10
Exploratory analysis of seaplane operations in Greece: insights of a survey and SWOT analysis10
New collaborations and novel innovations: the role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity9
Regional selectivity of innovative progress: Industry 4.0 and digitization ahead9
Exceptional architecture, learning processes, and the contradictory performativity of norms and standards9
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach9
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond9
Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification9
Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn9
Mining activity and island landscape issues: evidence from Cyclades islands, Greece9
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales9
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”9
Change agency and path development in peripheral regions: from pulp production towards eco-industry in Lapland9
Identifying cross-border functional areas: conceptual background and empirical findings from Polish borderlands9
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection9
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 20409
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead9
Publishers’ Note8
Branding soft spaces8
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems8
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model8
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives8
Flexible geographies of new working spaces8
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective8
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
Integrating logistics into urban planning: best practices from Paris and Rotterdam8
Smart specialisation strategies: towards an outward-looking approach8
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany8
Role of distinct export strategies in regional growth. A multi-regional input-output approach (PReMMIA)8
The growing inequalities in Italy – North/South – and the increasing dependency of the successful North upon German and French industries8
Disclosing the logics of non-statutory regional planning: the case of Sweden8
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia8
Comparing ICT-related future development trends in shrinking cities: resident and decision-maker perceptions7
Revealing the circularities in farmers’ market networked infrastructure of Western Anatolia7
Rural public places: specificity and importance for the local community (case study of four villages)7
The re-coding of rural development rationality: tracing EU Governmentality and Europeanisation at the local level7
Cooperation for innovation in liberal market economies: STI and DUI innovation modes in SMEs in the United Kingdom7
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective , edited by M7
Regional visa-waiver program for open tourism development7
The actors’ role in industrial districts facing the challenge of technologies 4.0 between absorption and dissemination7
Facing Covid-19: the digitalization path of Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence7
An ecosystemic model for the technological development of social entrepreneurship: exploring clusters of social innovation7
Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously7
Responsible research and innovation in Europe: empirical evidence from regional planning initiatives in Austria, Norway, and Spain7
Does regional innovation policy really work for Industry 4.0? Evidence for industrial districts7
What drives global value chains of FDI at sub-national regions? Roles of agglomeration economies7
Post-pandemic opportunities for low-density territories: insights and implications from Portuguese case studies7
Strengthening place attachment through place-sensitive participatory regional policy in a less developed region7
Spatial governance and planning systems vis-à-vis land consumption in Europe6
‘Transitory urbanism’ for the creative industries in a top-down regeneration process (Nantes, France)6
Star architecture projects and the geographies of innovation across the construction supply chain: the case of the Elbphilharmonie6
Just city planning competitions in Helsinki: between the power of image and many images of power6
The embeddedness of companies in regional energy transitions6
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context6
Environmental acceptability of suburban sprawl around two differently sized Czech cities6
The citizens have participated – what now? An action research study of factors impacting the use of participatory citizen knowledge in planning processes6
Behind the Big Box: understanding the planning-development dialectic of large distribution centres in Europe6
A climate report gone missing – power mechanisms in Swedish national transport planning6
Spatial concentration of the ICT sector in the digital age in Central and Eastern Europe6
Identifying the determinants of vacuum tube high-speed train development with technology roadmapping – a study from Poland6
Moving beyond townscape to eventscape: comparison of Lisbon and Istanbul6
Global production networks and regional innovation systems: contrasting or complementary policy implications?6
Circular cities: planning for circular development in European cities6
Event management in sport, recreation, and tourism: theoretical and practical dimensions (4th Edition)6
Circularities in territories: opportunities & challenges6
The Korean approach to Industry 4.0: the 4th Industrial Revolution from regional perspectives6
Towards a greener future?  Environment and economic recovery in old industrial regions6
Responsible innovation for addressing grand societal challenges: the role of social innovation, exaptation, and retrovation6
Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design Digital Participatory Planning. Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design , By Alexander Wilson5
The bigger the better? The new ‘macro’ regions in France in the lens of territorial changes in Europe5
Are clustering and R&D institutions in post-socialist states functional tools for sustainable development?5
The economic effects of politically connected entrepreneurs on the quality and rate of regional entrepreneurship5
The role of assets and variegated constellations of organizational- and system-level agency in regional transformation5
Examining the dynamics of European renewable energy clusters: insights into technological collaboration5
Valuing culture and creativity impacts in a global technological era: reshaping the analytical framework5
Density as an indicator of sustainable urban development: insights from Helsinki?5
Regional innovation systems in an era of grand societal challenges: reorientation versus transformation5
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 Detlef5
The Randstad: a polycentric metropolis?5
Mind the border! Agents and functions to shape regional challenge-oriented innovation policy5
Co-evolutionary heritage reuse: a European multiple case study perspective5
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
Regional monitoring frameworks for the circular economy: implications from a territorial perspective5
Where innovation meets directionality: an index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges5
Correction5
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 S5
Courtyards of Krakow’s old town: greenery in the context of improving the housing environment5
New industrial urbanism designing places for production5
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises4
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal4
Changes in planning approach: a comparative study of digital government policies in South Korea and Denmark4
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
Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship4
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic4
Regional innovation policies and directionality: exploring the role of conditionality*4
Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions4
Mapping the cross-border cooperation ‘galaxy’: an exploration of scalar arrangements in Europe4
Living innovation machines: modelling innovation in time and space variable-geometry territorial units using machine learning4
Patterns of collaboration for technology transfer in Spanish universities4
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions4
Multiple transformations, coordination and public goods. Tbilisi and the search for planning as collective strategy4
Make digitalized places for experimentation work: unravelling and governing transformative dynamics of FabLabs and Makerspaces4
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development4
Advancing innovation in manufacturing firms: knowledge base combinations in a local productive system4
Challenges in strategies for socioeconomic democratization. Assessing solidarity economy policies in Barcelona4
Liveability under shrinkage: initiatives in the ‘capital of pessimism’ in Finland4
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts4
The lifestyles of millennial coworkers in urban spaces: the case of Tel-Aviv4
Inside out, exploring residential spaces during COVID-19 lockdown from the perspective of architecture students4
Reshore production now: how to rebuild manufacturing and restore high wages, high profits, and national prosperity in the USA4
Tourism planning and development in Western Europe4
Place-based development and spatial justice4
New working spaces in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area: understanding location factors and implications for planning4
The effect of value chain importance on regional economic recovery4
Introduction to the special issue – cultural mega-events and heritage: challenges for European cities4
Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region4
Land oversupply. How rigid land-use planning and legal certainty hinder new policy for Flanders3
Studying abandoned settlements’ renaissance in the context of rural geography: perspectives for Prespes, Greece3
The transformative potential of inward investment on industrial cluster development: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales3
Anatomy of a techno-creative community – the role of brokers, places, and events in the emergence of projection mapping in Nantes3
The transition of regional innovation systems to Industry 4.0: the case of Basque Country and Catalonia3
Festival Cities. Culture, Planning and Urban Life3
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 3
Ontologies of live-work mix in Amsterdam, Brussels and Stockholm: an institutionalist approach drawing on path dependency3
Plural planning theories: cherishing the diversity of planning3
Access to information and public participation: evaluating the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Europe3
Knowledge sourcing by multi-plant firms in Europe3
The interplay between KIBS and manufacturers: a scoping review of major key themes and research opportunities3
Beyond R&D: a configurational approach to open innovation in the Veneto region3
Key enabling technologies (KETs) in the technological space: embeddedness and regional knowledge creation3
‘Urban Design and Planning for Age-Friendly Environments Across Europe: North and South Developing Healthy and Therapeutic Living Spaces for Local Contexts’3
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance: questioning the public good in urban innovation practices3
Economic impact of smart specialization policy in the context of multilevel governance: the Hungarian case3
Shifting prominence of places and times: multiple centralities of socialist Brno3
Growth and decline in rural Spain: an exploratory analysis3
Innovation districts as strategic urban projects: the emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation3
The urban planning imagination. A critical international introduction3
Economic impact of road transportation infrastructure projects: the case of Egnatia Odos Motorway3
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
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,3
Heterogeneity of urban manufacturing – a statistical analysis of manufacturing companies in three German cities3
What type of emerging green path is the Nordic battery industry on: importation or new creation?3
Innovation, human capital and economic growth in Turkish cities: do city dynamics play a role?2
Spatial evolution in the light of innovative transformation: the impact of policies and institutions in divergent situations2
Small industrial towns in Moravia: a comparison of the production and post-productive eras2
Corporate responsibility and place leadership in rural digitalization: the case of Hidden Champions2
Social capital and characteristics of economic dualism as determinants of regional resilience2
The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem in the European Union: evidence from the digital platform economy index2
Unveiling intra-rural divides: investigating decline and prosperity in rural areas. The case study of southern Italy2
Weaving a foundational narrative – place-making and change in an old-industrial town in East Germany2
From sonic experiences to urban planning innovations2
The regressive planning practice of private sector planners under the pressure of political and market forces in Turkey2
Pubs and pints, crims and crimes: exploring the relationship between public houses and crime2
The development of urban transnational spaces in the world city: the Japanese case in Düsseldorf, Germany2
Clusters in times of uncertainty: Japanese and European perspectives2
Perspectives on proximity tourism planning in peri-urban areas2
Developing city-regional governance capacity: the case of skill formation in the Gothenburg city-region2
The role of institutional entrepreneurship in transformation of the national innovation system: the case study of Lithuania2
Discourse as a carrier of history: wine tourism in the Negev and its evolution2
The death and life of Malmi neighbourhood shopping street: is ethnic retail a catalyst for public life recovery in Helsinki?2
Institutional ethnography: a transformative mode of inquiry in the renovation of a Brussels high-rise housing estate2
Bridging the urban-rural digital divide: taxonomy of the best practice and critical reflection of the EU countries’ approach2
Operationalizing affordances for public space: artefacts and their various uses2
Path dependence, ‘lock-in’ and rural housing outcomes: insights from Ireland2
Public land for urban food policy? A critical data-analysis of public land transactions in the Ghent city region (Belgium)2
Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture legacy narrative: a selective heritage?2
Estate regeneration and its discontents. Public housing, place and inequality in London2
Exploiting the technology-driven structural shift to creative work in regional catching-up: toward an institutional framework2
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