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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Advancing Equity Planning Now	76
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America	61
Times Square Remade: The dynamics of urban change	43
Implementing Equity: Planners, Officials, and Equity Policy	37
Planning for Disaster Recovery: Planner Perspectives and Experiences	30
Navigating ADA Compliance	28
Reinventing the Chinese City	28
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	23
Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation Amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, Ohio	21
The 1949 Housing Act as Cold War Diplomacy	20
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between	19
Designing the Global City: Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central SydneyDesigning the Global City: Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central SydneyRobert Freesto	19
Toward a Transformative Planning Infrastructure	19
Understanding Affordability: The Economics of Housing MarketsUnderstanding Affordability: The Economics of Housing MarketsGeoffrey Meen and Christine Whitehead(2020). Bristol University Press. 336 pag	18
The Effects of Enhanced Information Utilization in Collaborative Hazard Mitigation Planning	16
Better Planning Practice Lies in a Community-Based, Analysis-Informed Process	16
The Grants Pass v. Johnson Ruling: Decriminalizing Homelessness Is the First Step in Solving America’s Housing Crisis	16
Editorial	16
Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia: Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia: Community-Based Infrastru	14
Blue Architecture: Water, Design, and Environmental Futures *Blue Architecture: Water, Design, and Environmental Futures* Brook M	13
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet *The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet*	13
Who Is Planning the Smart City? *Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future* Susan Flynn(Ed.)(2022). The University of Chicag	13
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	12
The Urban Planning Imagination	11
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	11

Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America	10
What Tense Is a Plan	10
American Dreams, American Nightmares: Culture & Crisis in Residential Real Estate From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
From Infrastructural Repair to Reparative Planning	10
Reflections on the Editorial	10
The Properties of Whiteness	10
Justice at Work: The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities	10
Complete Community	9
Can ChatGPT Evaluate Plans?	9
Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy	9
Platform-Enabled Informality?	8
Who Should Pay to Protect Trees? Tree Protection, Regulatory Takings, and Unconstitutional Conditions	8
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	8
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	8
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	8
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis	8
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	8
A Sustainable and Equitable Approach to Financing Multimodal Transportation Alternatives in Metropolitan Areas	8
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	7
Transit-Induced Gentrification or Vice Versa?	7
Planning for Extreme Heat	7
A Case of (Decreasing) American Exceptionalism	7
Who Is Planning for Environmental Justice—and How?	7
Planning for Disaster-Induced Relocation of Communities	7
Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South	6
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next	6
The Greening of America’s Building Codes: Promises and Paradoxes	6
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	5
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	5
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	5
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	5
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World	5
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	5
High Rises and Housing Stress	5
Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis	5
Multiscale Analysis of Pedestrian Crossing Distance	4
Planning Theories Struggle at the Intersections of Gendered, Colonized, and Racialized Bodies	4
Beyond Crises	4
Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City	4
The Invest in Youth Long Beach Coalition	4
Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport	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
America’s Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning *America’s Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning* Robert C. Ellickson (20	4
Planning for the Common Good	4
The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile *The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Ur*	4
Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans: From Theory to Practice	4
Keys to the Car	4
Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City	4
Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt	4
Zoning Incentives	3

For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers	3
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	3
Can We Retrofit Suburban Arterials?	3
“Tax Discrimination District”	3
Serial Participation in Urban Planning	3
Pilots and Shifting Public Sentiment: Evidence From e-Scooters in Eugene (OR)	3
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns	3
Urban Green Spaces: Public Health and Sustainability in the United States	3
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	3
Beyond the Golden Shovel	3
Value Creation, Capture, and Destruction	3
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	3
Does Discretion Delay Development?	3
Megaregions and America’s Future *Megaregions and America’s Future* Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang, and Frederick R. Steiner(2022). L	3
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	3
Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge	3
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America’s Postindustrial Era	3
Buying Access One Trip at a Time	3
What Is a Contribution in Planning Research?	3
Representation and Wage Gaps in the Planning Profession	3
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?	3
Are Traffic Studies “Junk Science” That Don’t Belong in Court?	3