OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Planning Theory & Practice 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
On Beauty	41
Democracy and Urban Form	33
A Critical Examination of Land Value Capture Tools to Generate Affordable Housing in Toronto	23
Pushing Boundaries: Integrating Real Estate Studies Into Planning Scholarship	23
Truth, Lies or Allies? The Agency of Estimates	20
Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent	18
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing	16
Regulate or Be Regulated: The Institutional Entrepreneurship of Developers	15
Entangled Rationalities: Planning Responses to Informal Housing Practices Within Middle-Income Neighbourhoods in Nairobi City, Kenya	14
Digital Participation Models as Public Engagement Tools in Planning: A Concept Exploration	14
The Organization of Representation: The Composition and Responsibilities of Ad Hoc Committees in Planning Processes in the U.S	13
Pinning down Urban Acupuncture: From a Planning Practice to a Sustainable Urban Transformation Model?	13
“Above All, Look at Your Own Reality!”: Patsy Healey and the Future of Planning African Cities	13
Troubled Times	12
New Urban Sustainability Policies: Deleuze and Local Innovation Versus Policy Mobility	11
The Challenge of the Digital Public Sphere: Finnish Experiences of the Role of Social Media in Participatory Planning	10
Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England	9
On Not Mis-Managing Inevitable Interdependence	9
Planning and the Value of Land	9
Mountain Territories: The Need to Approach Territorial Planning and Governance	8
Handling Compounded Uncertainty in Spatial Planning and Humanitarian Action in Unexpected Floods in Wayanad, Kerala: Towards a Contextualised Contingency Planning Approach	8
Planning for the Future of Onshore Wind Farms through Adopting a Broader Temporal Approach	8
The Productive Role of Future Expectations in Participatory Spatial Planning. A Case Study on Urban Park Development in The Netherlands	8
Spatial Visioning: Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda	7
Remembering Patsy Healey: Inspirations, Encounters and Enduring Impacts	7

Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand	7
News from Somewhere?	6
Realizing the Transformative Potential of Experimentation in Planning	6
What Are the Limits to Smart Innovation? The Digital Underground Initiative and New Frontiers of “Smartness” in Singapore	6
Technocratic Urban Development: Large Digital Corporations as Power Brokers of the Digital Age	6
Collaboration in Adaptation Planning: Power Clusters and Opportunities for Governance Arrangements in Metro-Boston	6
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda	6
Establishment of a New Planning System in Ukraine: Institutional Change Between Europeanization and Post-Socialist Path Dependence	5
The Possibilities for Legally Pluralistic Planning: An Exploration of Haudenosaunee Planning Law	5
Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide	5
Just Energy Transitions	5
Revisiting Structure and Agency: The Perception and Materialisation of Risk in Property Development and Investment	5
Collaborative Planning in an Undemocratic Setting: What Can We Learn from a Short-Lived Experiment in Hong Kong?	5
The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey’s Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy	5
Patsy Healey: More Than an Intellectual ¹	5
School-Centered Community Development and a Quest for Spatial Justice: Exploring Competing Theories of Action in Baltimore	5
The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World	5
Micropolitics in Participatory Processes: The Impact of Ableism and Other ‘Hidden’ Power Structures on Equitable Participation and Outcomes	4
Technology-Oriented Community-Engaged Learning in Urban Planning	4
Green and Socially Sustainable City Discourse, White Spatial Epistemology: The Reproduction of Racial Landscape Injustice and Segregation in Swedish Planning	4
Confronting Anxiety and Uncertainty in Planning: New Insights for Advancing Justice	4
Systems Approaches to Planning: From Control, Self-Organisation and Power to Normal Accidents	4
Planning Standards and Spatial (in)Justice	4
Spatial Planning Reform in China: The Multi-Plan Integration (MPI) Reform	4
Parallel Careers and Guilt by Association: On Misreading Patsy Healey	3
Planning and knowledge – How new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities	3
The Power of Interruptions	3
On Transformation and Gaslighting	3
Israeli Real-Estate Buzz – Planning Discourse and Media Coverage	3
Enhancing Villager Participation in Remote Rural China Through the Co-Creation of ‘Small Gardens’: A Case Study of Hongtang Village	3
Inspirations in Planning	3
Places Matter. Memories of Places Where I Met Patsy Healey	3
Planning for Risky Play: From Child-Safe Playgrounds Towards Adventurous Urban Areas	3
Governmental Logics in Commercialised Planning Practices. The Case of Local Authority Pre-Application Negotiations in the English Planning System	3
Wrestling with Context	3
Social Value Creation Through Bottom-up Urban Development: Mechanisms of Self-Organization	2
What Makes Local Planning Effective in a Megacity? The Overlapping Agendas and Scale Inconsistencies in Developing Buenos Aires’ Affordable Land Markets	2
Rethinking Commercial Space as Livelihood Space for Self-Contained New Town Development: A Reflexive Analysis of Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong	2
Patsy Healey – In Theory and Practice	2
Practicing Co-operation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism Practicing Co-operation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism , by Andrew Zitcer, University of Minnesota Press, 2021, 272	2
Neighborhood	2
Progress in Placemaking	2
How Can Co-Creation Support Capacity Building for Adaptive Spatial Planning? Exploring Evidence from a Co-Creative Planning Process in The Netherlands	2
Disability Justice and Urban Planning	2
Reparative Urban Science: Challenging the Myth of Neutrality and Crafting Data-Driven Narratives	2
Rethinking Communities, Land and Governance: Land Reform in Scotland and the Community Ownership Model	2
Conversations: Between Noise and Silence… in the 15 Minute City and the University	2
On Theories and Practices of Collective Action and Sustained Cooperation	2
Centering Equity and Justice in Participatory Climate Action Planning: Guidance for Urban Governance Actors	2
Dreams of Mud and Concrete: Dissonant Memory Landscapes and the Struggle over Infrastructure Development in Los Platanitos, Dominican Republic	2

Characterising the Ultimate Ends of Municipal Land Policy: An Analysis of Land Policy Aim Setting in Finnish Municipalities	2
Planned Out: The Discriminatory Effects of Planning’s Regulation of Small Houses in Multiple Occupation in England	2
Rethinking Gentrification and Displacement: Modeling the Demographic Impact of Urban Regeneration	2
How Planners Might Improvise in the Face of Power: Waking Up Theory for Practice	1
On the Cognitive Mechanics of Planning Judgment	1
Professional Lobbying in Urban Planning: Publicity Management and Transparency Discourse on a Collision Course?	1
The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design	1
A Computer Must Never Make a Planning Decision	1
Between Fixed and Flexible. Soft Planning and Informality in the Regeneration of Kalasatama, Helsinki	1
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options	1
Planning, Pluralism, Markets: Experiences from Post-Socialist Varna	1
‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Rethinking City Street Transformations through the Lens of Epistemic Justice	1
A Pragmatist Approach to Insurgencies: Experience, Lived Situations and Public Problems	1
‘Dealing’ with Governance and Planning? The Limits of Urban Intrapreneurialism	1
Scrutinising the Plan-Ability of Outdoor Recreation in the Swedish Compact City: Continuing and Discontinuing Modernist Planning Legacies	1
The Housing We Need by 2050 for a Sustainable and Equitable Future	1
Unravelling the Spatial Arrangement of the 15-Minute City: A Comparative Study of Shanghai, Melbourne, and Portland	1
Organising Everyday Planning Practice for Reduced Residential Segregation: Understanding the Strategic-Operational Gap from the Inside	1
Reflections on Post-Growth Planning: Practices of ‘Undoing’ (De-Urbanisation and Deconstruction) and Methodology for Eco-Social Transition	1
Municipal Undergreening: Framing the Planning Challenges of Implementing Green Infrastructure in Marginalized Communities	1
The Giant in the Niche: Planning Green Megaprojects as Urban Experimentation	1
Complexity, Responsibility and Care: An Intertwined Perspective on Planning	1
Housing for People, Not for Profit: Models of Community-Led Housing	1
Turn of Events: Community Events as a Practice for Inquiry in Public Space Research	1
Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides	1
Shareholding Land Readjustment Led by Local Government During Peri-Urbanization: The Case of Zhaoqing, China	1
The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth	1