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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	91
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	50
The Urban Planning Imagination	46
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	43
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	40
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	33
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	32
Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement	30
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	29
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	27
Centennial Reflections: A Century of Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities	26
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	25
Advancing Pedestrian Models: A Comparative Review and Vision for the Future	24
Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles	21
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*	21
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	21
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	20
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification	19
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	19
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	19
Productive Frictions	17
Land Use and Road Safety: Understanding the Persistence of Vulnerable Road User Deaths and Injuries in the United States	15
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	15
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	14
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	14

Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	14
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	14
Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	14
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	14
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	13
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	13
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	12
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	12
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	12
Urban Informality: An Introduction	12
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*	12
A Trauma-Informed Planning Framework (TIPF) for Immigrant Belonging	11
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	11
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	11
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	11
Planning With a Basic Income	11
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	11
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	11
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	11
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	10
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	10
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	10
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	10
What’s Missing From Supply-Side Progressivism?	9
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	8
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	8
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	8
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	8
Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data	8
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	7
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	7
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	7
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	7
Closing the Climate Gap	7
“The Big Ship Turns Around Slowly”: An Evaluation of Equity and Justice in Ontario Climate Action Plans	7
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	6
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	6
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	6
Who Is Planning the Smart City? *Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future* Susan Flynn(Ed.)(2022). The University of Chicag	6
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	6
Planning for the Common Good	6
Land Use Restrictiveness and Mortgage Access: How Regulatory Environments Condition Racial and Income Disparities in Loan Approvals and Pricing	6
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	6
Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century	6
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	6
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	6
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	6
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	6
Symbiotic Planning Theory: The CORE Framework for Human–AI Cocreation in Urban Planning	5
Gentrification-Induced Displacement, Destination Neighborhoods, and Destination Houses for Low-Income Households in Columbus, Ohio	5

Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	5
How Right-of-Way Adaptations Support Urban Resilience: Pandemic Streateries and Social Interactions in Seattle’s University District	5
Safe at Home?	5
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	4
“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	4
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
From Mandates to Outcomes: How Federal Policies Shape Local Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation	4
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	4
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives *Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer T*	4
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	4
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis	4
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	3
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America	3
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	3
Essential JAPA Style	3
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	3
Unplanned Food Access	3
Disrupting the Speculative City: Property, Power and Community Resistance in London	3
Affordable Housing in the United States	3
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	3
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	3
Manufacturing Urban Form: Could Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?	3
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	3
Rethinking Public Space and Urban Mobility	3