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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Care-full’ planning: Towards an ethics and politics of care in planning39
On the researcher as parasite27
Power dynamics and self-organizing urbanism. A comment27
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies24
Understanding is what planners do – Towards a hermeneutic perspective on planning practice and research21
Book Review: Political change through social innovation17
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time’15
Hope and care in dark times: A follow-up essay15
What might decoloniality look like in praxis?13
Strategic planning for degrowth: What, who, how11
Institutionalization of public interest in planning: Evolving mechanisms of public representation in China’s urban regeneration policymaking10
Celebrating Luigi Mazza (1937 – 2023)9
Book review: Handbook on planning and power GunderMichaelGrangeKristinaWinklerTanja, (eds), Handbook on planning and power. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA.7
A conceptual framework for public participation: Suggestions for a better fit7
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda7
Towards eco-political becoming: Planning rural livelihoods in a more-than-human world7
Book Review: Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning6
Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy: A response to Rydin6
Thinking Sideways: A Plea for “Weak Theory”6
Promoting socio-spatial and cognitive justice through critical pedagogies6
Rise of Flexibility and Complexity Research in Planning Literature: With What Consequences, for Whom, and Why?6
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities5
‘¡Eso no se dice’!: Exploring the value of communication distortions in participatory planning5
Knowledge coproduction at the periphery of the urban and academia: Insights from Acapulco’s metropolitan area5
Land fictions: The commodification of land in city and country5
Problematising use conformity in spatial regulation: Religious diversity and mosques out of place in Northeast Italy5
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices4
Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation4
Book Review: Urban futures: Planning for city foresight and city visions4
After Hardin4
A new framework for imagining the climate commons? The case of a Green New Deal in the US3
Reply3
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine3
Rethinking collaborative planning in China: Does the communicative or agonistic planning theory matter?3
Attention economics, artificial intelligence, and the future of the planning profession3
“Re-futuring” planning3
Outside-in: Co-production and the spatial planning systems in Italy and England3
Book review: Pragmatic Spatial Planning: Practical Theory for Professionals by Charles Hoch3
Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade2
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning2
Bomba planning and the pursuit of a just recovery2
Revisiting the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Towards a properly urban ontology2
Sufficiency planning: A model of planning in an era of polycrisis2
Planning as an instituting process. Overcoming Agamben’s despair using Esposito’s political ontology2
Are radical and insurgent planning (truly) at odds with a nonviolent conception of liberal planning?2
Book Review: Alternative planning history and theory Pojani, Dorina (2023, Editor) Alternative planning history and theory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023, pp 240. ISBN: 9780367743895. [Titel anhand 2
Co-producing knowledge in action: Reflecting from the Main Bhi Dilli campaign for equitable planning in Delhi2
Conversions: The emerging informalisation of housing in the Global North2
Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi2
Scale-dependent complexity in administrative units and implications for data-driven decision-making models2
Digitization processes at the neighborhood scale: Infrastructure, governance, community, and practices1
From exchange value to social value of real estate development: A Planner’s perspective1
How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’1
Insisting on not being addressed in that way: Ideology, subjection and agency in the context of spatial planning1
Building illusory unity with Ernesto Laclau – Why ‘closure’ should not be a dirty word in planning theory1
Heating up the sauna: Analogue model unraveling the creativity of public participation1
Innovation in strategic planning: Social innovation and co-production under a common analytical framework1
A postgrowth response to Savini’s degrowth vision1
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