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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Planning and 3D Spatial Media: Progress, Prospects, and the Knowledge and Experiences of Local Government Planners in Ireland	21
Subnational and Dynamic Conceptualisations of Planning Culture: The Culture of Regional Planning and Regional Planning Cultures in Finland	20
E-Scooters: A New Smart Mobility Option? The Case of Brisbane, Australia	18
The Future of Urban Cemeteries as Public Spaces: Insights from Oslo and Copenhagen	18
Disability Justice and Urban Planning	16
Older People, Town Centres and the Revival of the ‘High Street’	16
Pandemic Challenges to Planning Prescriptions: How Covid-19 is Changing the Ways We Think about Planning	14
Planning Just Futures	13
Planning Solidarity? From Silence to Refusal	13
Repair and Healing in Planning	12
Design Actions for the Global Gaze. Evolution and Contradictions of Temporary Installations in San Francisco’s Public Space	12
Governance Factors Shaping Greenspace Provision: From Theory to Practice	12
Institutional Barriers in the Coproduction of Knowledge for Transportation Planning	11
Assessing Spatial Planning Outcomes – A Novel Framework Based on Conformance and Governance Capacities	11
From a ‘World Factory’ to China’s Bay Area: A Review of the Outline of the Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	10
Charting New Ground: Between Tactical Urbanism and Strategic Spatial Planning	10
Planning and the Post-Pandemic City	10
Displacing Conflicting Goals in Planning for Sustainability? Insights from Three Norwegian Cities	10
Recasting Provisional Urban Worlds in the Global South: Shacks, Shanties and Micro-Stalls	10
The Point is Still to Change it	10
Communities, Heritage and Planning: Towards a Co-Evolutionary Heritage Approach	9
From Exploratory Scenarios to Plans: Bridging the Gap	9
Comparative Rural Planning Cultures	9
Planning for the Future?	9
Explaining Uncertainty Avoidance in Megaprojects: Resource Constraints, Strategic Behaviour, or Institutions?	8

Multiple Dimensions of Strategic Spatial Planning: Local Authorities Navigating between Rationalities in Competitive and Collaborative Settings	8
Spanning Boundaries Between Policy and Practice: Strategic Urban Planning in Gothenburg, Sweden	8
Time, Temporality, and Planning – Comments on the State of Art in Strategic Spatial Planning Research	7
Critical Heat Studies: Deconstructing Heat Studies for Climate Justice	7
Shopping and Urbanity: Emerging Assemblages of Main Street, Mall, and Power Centre	7
The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth	7
Ideology and Institutional Change: The Case of the English National Planning Policy Framework	6
Spaces of Becoming: Lessons for Planners from the Square Movements	6
Planning for Age-Friendly Cities	6
Design Governance, Austerity and the Public Interest: Planning and the Delivery of ‘Well-Designed Places’ in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland	6
Forced Eviction by Another Name: Neoliberal Urban Development in Manila	6
Tired, But Hopeful	6
Post-Pandemic Planning: Beyond “Stifling Paradigms”. Achieving Transformation Requires Grappling with the Tiresome and Low Profile	6
Approaching Negotiations in Urban Redevelopment Projects: A Multiple Case Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Community Benefit Agreements	6
Ethnographic Knowledge in Urban Planning – Bridging the Gap between the Theories of Knowledge-Based and Communicative Planning	6
Planning for an Older and Digital Future: Opportunities and Challenges of Age-Friendly E-Participation in China	5
Municipal Undergreening: Framing the Planning Challenges of Implementing Green Infrastructure in Marginalized Communities	5
Housing for People, Not for Profit: Models of Community-Led Housing	5
Policing the Campus: Police Communications and near-Campus Development across Atlanta’s University Communities	5
Planners in Politics, Politicians in Planning	5
The Intermediating Role of Municipal Urban Planners in Online Discussions with Citizens	5
Planning, Pluralism, Markets: Experiences from Post-Socialist Varna	5
Enhancing the Use of Flood Resilient Spatial Planning in Dutch Water Management. A Study of Barriers and Opportunities in Practice	5
Unravelling Decision-Making Processes on Location Choices for High-Speed Railway Stations in China: A Comparison of Shenzhen, Lanzhou and Jingmen	4
Ensuring Public Access to Green Spaces in Urban Densification: The Role of Planning and Property Rights	4
Planning for Town Centre “Smart-Decline”/“Rightsizing”: A New Lens for Strategy Development and Research?	4
Optimising Nudges in Public Space: Identifying and Tackling Barriers to Design and Implementation	4
Governmental Logics in Commercialised Planning Practices. The Case of Local Authority Pre-Application Negotiations in the English Planning System	4
‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Rethinking City Street Transformations through the Lens of Epistemic Justice	4
Resistance and Response in Planning	4
Pinning down Urban Acupuncture: From a Planning Practice to a Sustainable Urban Transformation Model?	4
Options Analysis as Context-Responsiveness in Practice: Integrating Diagnosis, Expertise, and Negotiation (Refining Communicative Planning and Critical Pragmatism)	4
The Limits of Planning: Avoidance, Concealment, and Refusal of Religious Diversity in Northeast Italy	4
Public Planner – A Deliberative Authority	4
Inert Resilience and Institutional Traps: Tackling Bureaucratic Inertias Towards Transformative Social Learning and Capacity Building for Local Climate Change Adaptation	4
Rethinking Religion and Secularism in Urban Planning	4
A Catalyst for Innovation? A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Potential of Urban Experiments to Transform Urban Planning Practices	4
What Can Local Climate Planning Learn from COVID-19? Transform the City – It Saves the Climate and Lowers the Risk of Pandemics	4
The Redevelopment of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: A Case for Trauma-Informed Urban Planning Practices	4
Compensating Downzoning. A Comparative Analysis of European Compensation Schemes in the Light of Net Land Neutrality	4
Planning Standards and Spatial (in)Justice	3
“A Difficult Balancing Act”: What Planning Involves	3
On Beauty	3
How to Engage Reflexively with Messy Presents and Potential Futures: An Audio Walk for Planners	3
Rethinking Gentrification and Displacement: Modeling the Demographic Impact of Urban Regeneration	3
The Structural Challenge of Power and Whiteness in Planning: Evidence From Historic Black Cemetery Restoration	3
The City We Want: Against the Banality of Urban Planning Research	3
Planning for a Just Energy Transition: If Not Now, When?	3
School-Centered Community Development and a Quest for Spatial Justice: Exploring Competing Theories of Action in Baltimore	2
“Shared Language” Or “Straitjacket”? The Hidden Costs of Legitimising Participation Through Standardised Frameworks	2

Centering Equity and Justice in Participatory Climate Action Planning: Guidance for Urban Governance Actors	2
Public Entrepreneurship in Private Land Markets: Contracting Dilemmas around Selling Amsterdam’s Major Prison	2
The Challenge of the Digital Public Sphere: Finnish Experiences of the Role of Social Media in Participatory Planning	2
Trends in Resource Capacity and Collaboration for City Sustainability: Implications for Planning Research and Practice	2
When Politicians Call for “Better” Planning, it’s Time to Worry	2
The Fall of Statues? Contested Heritage, Public Space and Urban Planning	2
The Spatial, Material and Temporal Dimensions of Planning Regulations: A Legal Geography Perspective	2
Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides	2
Continuous Planning: Innovations from Practice in Stavanger (Norway) and Belgrade (Serbia)	1
From a ‘World Factory’ to China’s Bay Area: A Review of the Outline of the Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	1
Planning and knowledge – How new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities	1
Reflections on a Post-Covid Environmental Perspective: Claiming for Planning a Share in the Legacy of American Anthropologist Loren Eiseley	1
Technocratic Urban Development: Large Digital Corporations as Power Brokers of the Digital Age	1
Handling Compounded Uncertainty in Spatial Planning and Humanitarian Action in Unexpected Floods in Wayanad, Kerala: Towards a Contextualised Contingency Planning Approach	1
Whose Knowledge Counts in the Planning of Urban Sustainability? – Investigating Handbooks for Nudging and Participation	1
Public Norms and Aspirations: the Turn to Institutions in Action	1
The Promotion of Sustainable Development Principles Through the Design Review Process. The Case of the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel	1
The Power of Interruptions	1
Wrestling with Context	1
How Planners Might Improvise in the Face of Power: Waking Up Theory for Practice	1
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options	1
Experimental Urban Planning: Tensions Behind the Proliferation of Urban Laboratories in Latin America	1
Pushing Boundaries: Integrating Real Estate Studies Into Planning Scholarship	1
Planning and the Value of Land	1
Planning, Art, and Aesthetics	1
The Design of Protest: Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space	1
Disruptive Localism – How Far Does Clientelism Shape the Prospects of Neighbourhood Planning in Deprived Urban Communities?	1
Conversations: Between Noise and Silence… in the 15 Minute City and the University	1
Bridging State and Society: College Students’ Collaborative Participation in Rural Construction in China	1
Professional Lobbying in Urban Planning: Publicity Management and Transparency Discourse on a Collision Course?	1
Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand	1
A Temporary Space Where Development and Planning Emergencies Meet? Notes on an International Building Exhibition (IBA) in the Cross-Border Territories of France and Luxembourg	1
Learning from Mistakes: Reflective Planning, Simple Junctures, and Institutional Change	1
Judith Innes	1
Is Local Planning Really ‘Local’? National Planning Context as a Determining Factor for Local Discourse	1
Accepting Depoliticisation? Council Members’ Attitudes Towards Public-Public Contracts in Spatial Planning	1
On Teaching Planning Theory and Practice: Four Striking Exercises	1
Entangled Rationalities: Planning Responses to Informal Housing Practices Within Middle-Income Neighbourhoods in Nairobi City, Kenya	1
Progress in Placemaking	1
Spatial Planning for Smart Sustainable Development?	1