OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Land fictions: The commodification of land in city and country	33
‘¡Eso no se dice’!: Exploring the value of communication distortions in participatory planning	20
Collaborative research for transitioning to Climate-Neutral Cities – contouring a prospective framework for integrated planning	19
Problematising use conformity in spatial regulation: Religious diversity and mosques out of place in Northeast Italy	15
Finding common ground on the threshold: An experiment in critical urban learning	15
Is the pandemic a hope for planning? Two doubts	14
Book Review: McFarlane – Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds	11
Model-theory interaction in urban planning: A critical review	11
The making of good public plans Phronesis, Phronetic Planning Research and Assemblage Thinking	11
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities	10
The democratization of planning would be helped by a democratization of theory	10
Knowledge coproduction at the periphery of the urban and academia: Insights from Acapulco’s metropolitan area	9
Peri-urban planning: A landscape perspective	9
Co-producing knowledge in action: Reflecting from the Main Bhi Dilli campaign for equitable planning in Delhi	8
On the researcher as parasite	7
Do planning concepts matter? A Lacanian interpretation of the urban village in a British context	6
Race, Faith and Planning in Britain	6
The problem of “power” in planning theory	6
Pluriversal planning scholarship: Embracing multiplicity and situated knowledges in community-based approaches	6
After Hardin	6
The online conversion framework: Understanding antagonism, planning theory, and social media	6
Book Review: Planners in Politics: Do they Make a Difference?	5
Ontological diversity in urban self-organization: Complexity, critical realism and post-structuralism	5
Conversions: The emerging informalisation of housing in the Global North	5
Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation	4

Beyond the blinders: Disclosing the episteme of land ownership to re-frame legal and economic values in planning	4
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices	4
Revisiting the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Towards a properly urban ontology	3
Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade	3
Response to E.R. Alexander’s Comment on “Actors, arenas and aims: A conceptual framework for public participation”	3
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning	3
Are radical and insurgent planning (truly) at odds with a nonviolent conception of liberal planning?	3
Understanding is what planners do – Towards a hermeneutic perspective on planning practice and research	3
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies	3
Book Review: Political change through social innovation	3
Power dynamics and self-organizing urbanism. A comment	3
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time’	3
Book review: Co-Crafting the Just City: Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor	2
Celebrating Vanessa Watson (1950 – 2021)	2
Hope and care in dark times: A follow-up essay	2
Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi	2
Planning as polycentric: Institutionalist lessons for communicative and collaborative planning in Global South contexts	2
Bomba planning and the pursuit of a just recovery	2
Strategic planning for degrowth: What, who, how	2
Celebrating Michael Gunder (1954-2021)	2
Planning as an instituting process. Overcoming Agamben’s despair using Esposito’s political ontology	2
A dynamic justice framework for analyzing conceptions of justice: the case of urban development projects	1
Book Review: Urban futures: Planning for city foresight and city visions	1
Theorizing communal trauma: Examining the relationship between race, spatial imaginaries, and planning in the U.S. South	1
Outside-in: Co-production and the spatial planning systems in Italy and England	1
Between virtue and profession: Theorising the rise of professionalised public participation practitioners	1
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine	1
Rationality revisited: Politicisation through planning rationality against the rationality of power	1
ARL Reader Planungstheorie	1
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective	1
Provincializing planning: Reflections on spatial ordering and imperial power	1
What might decoloniality look like in praxis?	1
From fish to land grabbing - a note on the transition of the concept of “common property” in property rights research under two traditions	1
Towards eco-political becoming: Planning rural livelihoods in a more-than-human world	1