OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the American Planning Association is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	80
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	45
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	37
The Urban Planning Imagination	35
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	30
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	27
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	25
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	23
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	22
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	21
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	21
“Tax Discrimination District”	19
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	18
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good	17
Cases of a “Not so New” Suburban Reality in the United States *Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism*	17
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020	16
Dhaka’s Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity	16
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	16
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	15
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	14
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	13
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	12
Productive Frictions	12
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	11
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	11

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	11
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	11
Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	10
On Common Ground	9
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	9
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	9
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	9
The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929 *The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1*	9
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	9
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	9
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking	9
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	8
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	8
Planning With a Basic Income	8
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	7
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	7
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	7
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	6
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	6
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	6
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	6
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	6
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	6
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	6
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	6
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	6
Closing the Climate Gap	5
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	5
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	5
Who Is Planning the Smart City? *Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future* Susan Flynn(Ed.)(2022). The University of Chicag	5
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	5
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	5
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	5
Green, Fair, and Prosperous: Paths to a Sustainable Iowa	5
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	5
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	5
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	5
Planning for the Common Good	4
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	4
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the FutureThe Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the FutureAdam J	4
Safe at Home?	4
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	4
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	4
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	4
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	4
Rethinking Public Space and Urban Mobility	3
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	3
High Rises and Housing Stress	3
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	3

Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives *Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer T*	3
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesMaking Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesGeorge C. Galster(2019). University of Chicago Press. 401 pages. $55 (paperback)	3
Racism by Design?	3
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	3
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	3
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	3
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	3
Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesUneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesJennifer Clark(2020). Columbia University Press. 328 pages. $30 (paperback)	3
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	3
The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi The Right To Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi	3
“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	3
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	3
Unplanned Food Access	3
Essential JAPA Style	3