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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Social innovation as a ‘magic concept’ for policy-makers and its implications for urban governance	35
Agonistic planning theory revisited: The planner’s role in dealing with conflict	31
A manifesto for planning after the coronavirus: Towards planning of care	28
The framing of power in communicative planning theory: Analysing the work of John Forester, Patsy Healey and Judith Innes	22
Experiencing vertical living: Affects, atmospheres, and technology	19
Swiss land improvement syndicates: ‘Impure’ Coasian solutions?	16
Pluriversal planning scholarship: Embracing multiplicity and situated knowledges in community-based approaches	15
Deciphering posthumanism: Why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene	15
Our curious silence about kindness in planning: Challenges of addressing vulnerability and suffering	15
Theorizing urban social spaces and their interrelations: New perspectives on urban sociology, politics, and planning	12
What collaborative planning practices lack and the design cycle can offer: Back to the drawing table	12
Theorizing communal trauma: Examining the relationship between race, spatial imaginaries, and planning in the U.S. South	10
Provincializing planning: Reflections on spatial ordering and imperial power	10
On planning, planning theories, and practices: A critical reflection	9
Ontological diversity in urban self-organization: Complexity, critical realism and post-structuralism	8
‘Surveying was a kind of writing on the land’: The economics of land division as town planning	7
Informal landscapes and the performative placing of insurgent planning	7
When vagueness is a strategic resource for planning actors	7
Beyond soft planning: Towards a Soft turn in planning theory and practice?	6
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning	6
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda	6
Between virtue and profession: Theorising the rise of professionalised public participation practitioners	6
Why public participation isn’t a tool for democratizing planning. A comment	5
Creative or instrumental planners? Agency and structure in their institutional and political economy context	5
If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing	4

Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective	4
The trajectory of the right to the city in Recife, Brazil: From belonging towards inclusion	4
A new framework for imagining the climate commons? The case of a Green New Deal in the US	4
Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand	4
A critical realist theory of ideology: Promoting planning as a vanguard of societal transformation	4
Do planning concepts matter? A Lacanian interpretation of the urban village in a British context	3
The Social Deal: Urban regeneration as an opportunity for In-Place Social Mobility	3
‘Landscape of exception’: Power inequalities and ethical planning challenges in the landscape transformation of south-eastern Sicily	3
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies	3
Natural or artificial? A reflection on a complex ontology	3
Normalising spatial vulnerability in the era of climate crisis? Private property, informality, and post-disaster planning in peri-urban east Attica/Greece	2
Rationality revisited: Politicisation through planning rationality against the rationality of power	2
Planning as polycentric: Institutionalist lessons for communicative and collaborative planning in Global South contexts	2
Model-theory interaction in urban planning: A critical review	2
Rudolf Otto’s ‘the Absolute Other’ and a radical postsecular urban contextualization	2
Actors, arenas and aims: A conceptual framework for public participation	2
Reply	2
Beyond a liberal reading ofinsurgentin transformative planning practices	2
Planning out abjection? The role of the planning profession in post-apartheid South Africa	2
‘Neoliberalism:’ Throw it around or throw it away?	2
Institutionalization of public interest in planning: Evolving mechanisms of public representation in China’s urban regeneration policymaking	2
Is the pandemic a hope for planning? Two doubts	2
Knowing, acting, doing	1
Heating up the sauna: Analogue model unraveling the creativity of public participation	1
The essential state: Pandemic, norms and values, and the new authoritarianism	1
After Hardin	1
Peri-urban planning: A landscape perspective	1
The democratization of planning would be helped by a democratization of theory	1
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 city	1
The Construction of Legality in Everyday Practices of Planning	1
Ordinary neighbourhoods	1
Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi	1
Are radical and insurgent planning (truly) at odds with a nonviolent conception of liberal planning?	1
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies	1
‘¡Eso no se dice’!: Exploring the value of communication distortions in participatory planning	1
Planning and Crisis, Planning in Crisis	1
Editorial: Planning theory and the planning discipline	1
Outside-in: Co-production and the spatial planning systems in Italy and England	1
A Lacanian understanding of urban development plans under the neoliberal discourse	1
Revisiting the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Towards a properly urban ontology	1
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities	1
Collaborative research for transitioning to Climate-Neutral Cities – contouring a prospective framework for integrated planning	1
Towards a new ‘old’ theory for planning in China: The potential of Huang-Lao thought	1
Hardin’s legacy as a need for a ‘commoning turn’ in planning	1