Planning Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Planning Theory 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The framing of power in communicative planning theory: Analysing the work of John Forester, Patsy Healey and Judith Innes28
Theorizing urban social spaces and their interrelations: New perspectives on urban sociology, politics, and planning20
Pluriversal planning scholarship: Embracing multiplicity and situated knowledges in community-based approaches20
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning16
Theorizing communal trauma: Examining the relationship between race, spatial imaginaries, and planning in the U.S. South15
On planning, planning theories, and practices: A critical reflection13
Beyond soft planning: Towards a Soft turn in planning theory and practice?12
Actors, arenas and aims: A conceptual framework for public participation11
Provincializing planning: Reflections on spatial ordering and imperial power11
Between virtue and profession: Theorising the rise of professionalised public participation practitioners10
Ontological diversity in urban self-organization: Complexity, critical realism and post-structuralism10
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda9
When vagueness is a strategic resource for planning actors9
The Social Deal: Urban regeneration as an opportunity for In-Place Social Mobility8
Creative or instrumental planners? Agency and structure in their institutional and political economy context6
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective6
‘Landscape of exception’: Power inequalities and ethical planning challenges in the landscape transformation of south-eastern Sicily6
A critical realist theory of ideology: Promoting planning as a vanguard of societal transformation6
The trajectory of the right to the city in Recife, Brazil: From belonging towards inclusion5
A new framework for imagining the climate commons? The case of a Green New Deal in the US5
Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand5
Normalising spatial vulnerability in the era of climate crisis? Private property, informality, and post-disaster planning in peri-urban east Attica/Greece5
Why public participation isn’t a tool for democratizing planning. A comment5
What can urban policies and planning really learn from John Rawls? A multi-strata view of institutional action and a canvas conception of the just city5
Rethinking collaborative planning in China: Does the communicative or agonistic planning theory matter?5
Ordinary neighbourhoods4
Planning as polycentric: Institutionalist lessons for communicative and collaborative planning in Global South contexts4
Rationality revisited: Politicisation through planning rationality against the rationality of power3
Do planning concepts matter? A Lacanian interpretation of the urban village in a British context3
Institutionalization of public interest in planning: Evolving mechanisms of public representation in China’s urban regeneration policymaking3
Is the pandemic a hope for planning? Two doubts3
Planning out abjection? The role of the planning profession in post-apartheid South Africa3
Revisiting the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Towards a properly urban ontology3
Peri-urban planning: A landscape perspective3
Reply2
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices2
Model-theory interaction in urban planning: A critical review2
Hardin’s legacy as a need for a ‘commoning turn’ in planning2
Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi2
Co-producing knowledge in action: Reflecting from the Main Bhi Dilli campaign for equitable planning in Delhi2
Outside-in: Co-production and the spatial planning systems in Italy and England2
After Hardin2
¡Eso no se dice’!: Exploring the value of communication distortions in participatory planning2
Planning and Crisis, Planning in Crisis1
How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’1
Scale-dependent complexity in administrative units and implications for data-driven decision-making models1
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies1
Are radical and insurgent planning (truly) at odds with a nonviolent conception of liberal planning?1
The democratization of planning would be helped by a democratization of theory1
The Construction of Legality in Everyday Practices of Planning1
From fish to land grabbing - a note on the transition of the concept of “common property” in property rights research under two traditions1
Innovation in strategic planning: Social innovation and co-production under a common analytical framework1
The online conversion framework: Understanding antagonism, planning theory, and social media1
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities1
Towards a new ‘old’ theory for planning in China: The potential of Huang-Lao thought1
Editorial: Planning theory and the planning discipline1
Planning by Exception: The Regulation of Nairobi’s Margins1
Power dynamics and self-organizing urbanism. A comment1
A Lacanian understanding of urban development plans under the neoliberal discourse1
Collaborative research for transitioning to Climate-Neutral Cities – contouring a prospective framework for integrated planning1
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