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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
On Beauty	34
Pushing Boundaries: Integrating Real Estate Studies Into Planning Scholarship	26
Approaching Negotiations in Urban Redevelopment Projects: A Multiple Case Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Community Benefit Agreements	21
Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent	18
Truth, Lies or Allies? The Agency of Estimates	17
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing	16
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
Regulate or Be Regulated: The Institutional Entrepreneurship of Developers	13
Communities, Heritage and Planning: Towards a Co-Evolutionary Heritage Approach	13
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Cities Plan, Transform and Learn	13
Charting New Ground: Between Tactical Urbanism and Strategic Spatial Planning	12
New Urban Sustainability Policies: Deleuze and Local Innovation Versus Policy Mobility	12
“Above All, Look at Your Own Reality!”: Patsy Healey and the Future of Planning African Cities	12
The Challenge of the Digital Public Sphere: Finnish Experiences of the Role of Social Media in Participatory Planning	12
Pinning down Urban Acupuncture: From a Planning Practice to a Sustainable Urban Transformation Model?	12
Planning and the Value of Land	11
Mountain Territories: The Need to Approach Territorial Planning and Governance	11
Planning for the Future of Onshore Wind Farms through Adopting a Broader Temporal Approach	10
On Not Mis-Managing Inevitable Interdependence	10
Design Governance, Austerity and the Public Interest: Planning and the Delivery of ‘Well-Designed Places’ in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland	9
Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England	9
Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand	8
Handling Compounded Uncertainty in Spatial Planning and Humanitarian Action in Unexpected Floods in Wayanad, Kerala: Towards a Contextualised Contingency Planning Approach	8
The Productive Role of Future Expectations in Participatory Spatial Planning. A Case Study on Urban Park Development in The Netherlands	8

Establishment of a New Planning System in Ukraine: Institutional Change Between Europeanization and Post-Socialist Path Dependence	7
Just Energy Transitions	7
Tired, But Hopeful	7
The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey’s Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy	7
News from Somewhere?	7
Spatial Visioning: Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda	7
Revisiting Structure and Agency: The Perception and Materialisation of Risk in Property Development and Investment	7
Technocratic Urban Development: Large Digital Corporations as Power Brokers of the Digital Age	7
Disruptive Localism – How Far Does Clientelism Shape the Prospects of Neighbourhood Planning in Deprived Urban Communities?	6
The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World	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
Collaborative Planning in an Undemocratic Setting: What Can We Learn from a Short-Lived Experiment in Hong Kong?	5
Micropolitics in Participatory Processes: The Impact of Ableism and Other ‘Hidden’ Power Structures on Equitable Participation and Outcomes	5
The Possibilities for Legally Pluralistic Planning: An Exploration of Haudenosaunee Planning Law	5
Planning Just Futures	5
The Fall of Statues? Contested Heritage, Public Space and Urban Planning	5
Spatial Planning Reform in China: The Multi-Plan Integration (MPI) Reform	4
Parallel Careers and Guilt by Association: On Misreading Patsy Healey	4
Confronting Anxiety and Uncertainty in Planning: New Insights for Advancing Justice	4
Israeli Real-Estate Buzz – Planning Discourse and Media Coverage	4
Governmental Logics in Commercialised Planning Practices. The Case of Local Authority Pre-Application Negotiations in the English Planning System	4
Wrestling with Context	4
Technology-Oriented Community-Engaged Learning in Urban Planning	4
Planning Standards and Spatial (in)Justice	4
Planning for Risky Play: From Child-Safe Playgrounds Towards Adventurous Urban Areas	4
Green and Socially Sustainable City Discourse, White Spatial Epistemology: The Reproduction of Racial Landscape Injustice and Segregation in Swedish Planning	4
Systems Approaches to Planning: From Control, Self-Organisation and Power to Normal Accidents	4
Planning and knowledge – How new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities	3
Rethinking Gentrification and Displacement: Modeling the Demographic Impact of Urban Regeneration	3
Shopping and Urbanity: Emerging Assemblages of Main Street, Mall, and Power Centre	3
Conversations: Between Noise and Silence… in the 15 Minute City and the University	3
Optimising Nudges in Public Space: Identifying and Tackling Barriers to Design and Implementation	3
Progress in Placemaking	3
The Power of Interruptions	3
Inspirations in Planning	3
On Theories and Practices of Collective Action and Sustained Cooperation	2
Neighborhood	2
Dreams of Mud and Concrete: Dissonant Memory Landscapes and the Struggle over Infrastructure Development in Los Platanitos, Dominican Republic	2
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie: Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee	2
How Can Co-Creation Support Capacity Building for Adaptive Spatial Planning? Exploring Evidence from a Co-Creative Planning Process in The Netherlands	2
What Makes Local Planning Effective in a Megacity? The Overlapping Agendas and Scale Inconsistencies in Developing Buenos Aires’ Affordable Land Markets	2
Reparative Urban Science: Challenging the Myth of Neutrality and Crafting Data-Driven Narratives	2
Centering Equity and Justice in Participatory Climate Action Planning: Guidance for Urban Governance Actors	2
Disability Justice and Urban Planning	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
Rethinking Commercial Space as Livelihood Space for Self-Contained New Town Development: A Reflexive Analysis of Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong	2
Characterising the Ultimate Ends of Municipal Land Policy: An Analysis of Land Policy Aim Setting in Finnish Municipalities	1
Complexity, Responsibility and Care: An Intertwined Perspective on Planning	1
‘Dealing’ with Governance and Planning? The Limits of Urban Intrapreneurialism	1

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design	1
PATSY HEALEY IS DEAD: Long Live Contingent Universalism	1
Planning, Pluralism, Markets: Experiences from Post-Socialist Varna	1
Housing for People, Not for Profit: Models of Community-Led Housing	1
Notice of Duplicate Publication	1
The Giant in the Niche: Planning Green Megaprojects as Urban Experimentation	1
On the Cognitive Mechanics of Planning Judgment	1
How Planners Might Improvise in the Face of Power: Waking Up Theory for Practice	1
Planned Out: The Discriminatory Effects of Planning’s Regulation of Small Houses in Multiple Occupation in England	1
Health Equity: A Case for Ethical Placemaking	1
Municipal Undergreening: Framing the Planning Challenges of Implementing Green Infrastructure in Marginalized Communities	1
Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides	1
‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Rethinking City Street Transformations through the Lens of Epistemic Justice	1
Planning the Liveable If Not the Ideal: Frontline Planners’ Discretionary Actions and Inequalities in Everyday Intermittent Water Supply Planning in Tiruppur, India	1
Declaration of Interdependence	1
A Pragmatist Approach to Insurgencies: Experience, Lived Situations and Public Problems	1
Professional Lobbying in Urban Planning: Publicity Management and Transparency Discourse on a Collision Course?	1
Rethinking Communities, Land and Governance: Land Reform in Scotland and the Community Ownership Model	1
Displacing Conflicting Goals in Planning for Sustainability? Insights from Three Norwegian Cities	1
Shareholding Land Readjustment Led by Local Government During Peri-Urbanization: The Case of Zhaoqing, China	1
Scrutinising the Plan-Ability of Outdoor Recreation in the Swedish Compact City: Continuing and Discontinuing Modernist Planning Legacies	1
The Redevelopment of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: A Case for Trauma-Informed Urban Planning Practices	1
A Computer Must Never Make a Planning Decision	1
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options	1
A Catalyst for Innovation? A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Potential of Urban Experiments to Transform Urban Planning Practices	1
The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth	1
An Archive of Political Possibilities?	1
Unravelling the Spatial Arrangement of the 15-Minute City: A Comparative Study of Shanghai, Melbourne, and Portland	1