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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	85
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	68
Times Square Remade: The dynamics of urban change	44
The Urban Planning Imagination	38
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	35
Transit-Induced Gentrification or Vice Versa?	26
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	24
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	23
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	22
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	22
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	20
Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis	20
“Tax Discrimination District”	20
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	20
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good	19
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	16
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020	15
Multiscalar Deliberative Transportation Planning	15
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*	15
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	15
Dhaka’s Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity	14
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	14
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	14
Productive Frictions	13
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	13

The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	12
Shifts Toward the Extremes	12
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	12
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	12
The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood	12
Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	11
On Common Ground	11
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	11
Procedural Vulnerability and Its Effects on Equitable Post-Disaster Recovery in Low-Income Communities	10
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	10
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	10
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	9
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	9
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	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
Planning With a Basic Income	9
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking	9
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	8
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	8
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	8
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	8
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	7
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	7
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	7
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	6
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	6
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	6
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	6
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	6
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	5
Closing the Climate Gap	5
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	5
Planning for the Common Good	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
Green, Fair, and Prosperous: Paths to a Sustainable Iowa	5
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	5
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	5
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	5
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	5
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	5
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	5
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	5
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	5
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Safe at Home?	4
Riders Who Avoided Public Transit During COVID-19	4
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	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
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	4

“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	4
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	4
Unplanned Food Access	4
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	4
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	4
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	4
Community-Centered Climate Planning	4
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
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America	3
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	3
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	3
Recovery Capacity of Small Nonprofits in Post-2017 Hurricane Puerto Rico	3
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	3
Essential JAPA Style	3
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesMaking Our Neighborhoods, Making Our SelvesGeorge C. Galster(2019). University of Chicago Press. 401 pages. $55 (paperback)	3
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	3
Notes From the Review Editor	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