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

Article	Citations
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence	67
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change	58
The Urban Planning Imagination	43
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue	33
Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices	31
Just Distribution of Tree Canopy? A Digital Approach to Tree Equity	29
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems	28
Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy	28
Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals	25
“Tax Discrimination District”	24
Digital Technology Use and Future Expectations	23
Navigating Forward: Sustaining and Enhancing JAPA ’s Legacy of Impact	22
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	22
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*	20
Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles	20
Centennial Reflections: A Century of Shaping Tomorrow’s Cities	20
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century The Changing American Neighborhood Alan Mallach and T	20
Productive Frictions	19
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences	18
Homeownership and the White–Black Wealth Gap	16
Can TODs Include Affordable Housing?	15
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion?	15
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World	14
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing	13
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles	13

Urban Informality: An Introduction	11
Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis	11
Is Housing Assistance Associated With Mental Health?	11
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge	11
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It	11
Group Reflective Practice for Planning Commissioners	11
From Rational Planning to Communicative Planning: Exploring the Roles of Responsible Planners in Beijing	10
The State of Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Freight Planning in the United States	10
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*	10
The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People and Ideas	9
Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn *Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn<*	9
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City	9
Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility	9
Planners in Publicly Traded Firms	9
Planning With a Basic Income	8
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System	8
Libraries Are Resilience Hubs	8
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth	8
Measuring Transit Equity of an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System	8
Closing the Climate Gap	7
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America	7
Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture *Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture* Bruce Kin	7
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time	7
Expanding Affordable Middle Housing Options in Single-Family Neighborhoods	6
The Housing and Planning Act of 2024	6
“The Big Ship Turns Around Slowly”: An Evaluation of Equity and Justice in Ontario Climate Action Plans	6
Power of Persuasion: How Planners Shape Decisions Through Communication	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
Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems	6
What’s Missing From Supply-Side Progressivism?	6
Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities	6
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice	6
Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness	6
What Does the Job Market Want From Planners? Using Online Job Descriptions to Measure the Demand for Planning Skills Identity	5
Practitioner Perceptions of City-Subcontracted Community Organizing	5
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment	5
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics *Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics* Chandan Deuskar (2022). Universit	5
Planning for the Common Good	5
Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century	5
Inclusive Creative Placemaking Through Participatory Mural Design in Springfield (MA)	5
The Housing Act of 1949 in Images	5
Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru, Japan, 1965–2017	4
Using Natural Language Processing to Read Plans	4
Placing U.S. Federal Housing Policy on a Secure Foundation: The SHELTER Plan	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
An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas	4
Who Owns Municipal Housing Bonds? Asset Managers and the Affordable Housing Crisis	4
Deciphering Public Voices in the Digital Era	4
Manufacturing Urban Form: Could Mobile Home Parks Be Good Urbanism?	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

“Missing” No More: Planners Should Harness Private Developers to Build Middle Housing	4
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World	4
Safe at Home?	4
High Rises and Housing Stress	4
Improving the Quality of Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through State Mandate: The Case of California	4
Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States	4
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America	3
Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency	3
Essential JAPA Style	3
Zoning for Infill Development: San Antonio’s Create-Your-Own Zoning District	3
Racism by Design?	3
In the Images of Development: City Design in the Global South	3
This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration	3
Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy	3
From Mandates to Outcomes: How Federal Policies Shape Local Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation	3
Unplanned Food Access	3