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Papers

(The TQCC of Planning Perspectives is 1. 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
Editorial	41
The bonds of inequality: debt and the making of the American city	16
Correction	15
Radical planning history in times of crisis: navigating the radical catch	14
On the police as infrastructure and managers in the African city	11
The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936	10
The black tax – 150 years of theft, exploitation, and dispossession in America	8
Greenizing the Chinese city: urban regeneration, state developmentalism, and ecotopia in Shanghai Expo 2010	8
Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing programme in a social perspective	8
Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies	7
Deconstructing amenity: the unrealized nuclear power sites of Edern (Llŷn Peninsula, Wales) and Hamstead (Isle of Wight, England)	6
The city beautiful, the city sustainable, the city profitable: what changed in Chicago’s planning priorities after a century?	6
Editing Planning Perspectives : 40 years of growth and transformation	6
Overlapping modernity and tradition: rethinking the danwei as a basic urban unit in modern China	6
Fabricating Lureland - a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea	6
Immigration, employment, and new town initiatives in Hong Kong	6
Displaying planning knowledge: early twentieth-century expositions and the transnational influence on Swedish city planning	6
A place to remain in the village. Dutch planning cultures and rural housing policies from 1945 onwards	5
Quartering as an aspect of Italy’s post-unification urban development: the case of Milan’s parade ground	5
From port to ocean capital: governance and city branding in Busan, 1990–2023	5
From warehouses to high-density streets: a study of the evolution of Canton’s port area along the Pearl River in the nineteenth century	5
Correction	5
Model Cities at fifty: afterlives	4
The role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities	4
Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849	4

Artificial Intelligence and the problems of authorship	4
Soviet specialists’s urban planning technical assistance to China, 1949–1959	4
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) experts’ contribution in the establishment of the University of Patras	3
‘The freedom of the place during daylight hours’: urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980	3
Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism	3
Sustainable urban agriculture: new frontiers	3
Post compact city: Brasília’s modernist void in the context of the twenty-first-century urbanization	3
What would the RPAA do?	3
Path dependency in aesthetic control management within Turkish planning history	3
Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s	3
Layers of reconstruction: the planning history of disaster-prone Kamaishi	3
Working-class suburban housing, homeownership and urban social movements during Francoism in Barcelona, 1939–1975	3
Pensando as Favelas Cariocas: Memória e Outras Abordagens Teóricas [Thinking the favelas of Rio de Janeiro: memory and other theoretical approaches]	3
Seminars on urban design and the constitution of the discipline in mid-1980s Brazil	3
The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy	3
La ciudad latinoamericana: una figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX	3
From insulative nature to developmental nature: socio-natural transformation of the coastal space of Shenzhen Bay (1950–2017)	3
Beyond a ‘tool of empire’: initiating China’s first tramway project in the treaty-port of Tianjin	3
Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine	2
International exhibitions and open public spaces: echoes of the times or forerunners?	2
Port-railway connection in Setúbal (Portugal) – an understanding of the past for a sustainable future	2
The water heritage of China: the polders of Tai Lake Basin as continuing landscape	2
Where there’s a will, is there a way? Reflections on the institutional afterlife of the London Docklands Development Corporation	2
‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959	2
From the attempts to create a modern city to its globalization: a historiography of the Spanish international exhibitions (1888–2008)	2
Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history	2
Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors	2
八大重点城市规划——新中国成立初期的城市规划历史研究 (第二版) [The Planning of Eight Key New Industrial Cities: Urban Planning History of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s (Second Version)]	2
The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design: global perspectives from architectural history	2
Correction	2
Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy	2
Urban design in the 20th century: a history	2
À l’échelle du quartier. Histoire d’une notion d’urbanisme (1890-1960) [At the neighborhood scale. History of a concept in urban planning (1890–1960)]	2
From past to present: the role of municipalities in shaping the urban form in Kosovo	2
Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin	2
Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926)	2
Through the bridges: the Black Cultural Association in São Paulo, urban planning and the contours of the white city	2
Résonnances oasiennes. Approches sensibles de l’urbain au Sahara [Resonances from the Oases. Sensitive approaches to the urban in the Sahara]	2
Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo	2
Ngā pūtahitanga/Crossings: the 2022 joint conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand and the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group	2
Planning social housing in 1960s Türkiye: policies, institutions, and projects	2
The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey	2
Correction	2
The location of a railway station and its impact on urban planning in colonial Lahore 1846–1947	2
States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean	2
Instituições de Urbanismo no Brasil, 1930-1979 [Institutions of Urbanism in Brazil 1930-1979]	2
The Renewal of Post-war Manchester: planning, Architecture and the State	1
Theorizing the postcolonial city of Kuching: the socio-spatial production of colonial logistics	1
Italy builds abroad. Architettura italiana oltre confine 1945-1989 [Italian architecture across the border, 1945-1989]	1
On anniversaries and milestones: Planning Perspectives at 40	1

Development of cultural heritage conservation planning in China	1
Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad	1
Community green: rediscovering the enclosed spaces of the garden suburb tradition	1
Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square	1
Architecture and Urbanism in a contact zone: histories of difference migrancy and dwelling in Kolkata	1
The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration	1
From Model Reform Country to Critic: Chile and its cooperation with the USA in urban planning and housing under Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964–1970)	1
Southern regionalism: social science and regional-national planning in the interwar U.S. South	1
Housing matters in the 1970s: foundations, legacies, and impacts from the national laboratory for civil engineering’s research in Portugal	1
Becoming dissonance: the path of recent urban heritage in Casablanca (Morocco)	1
Atlas histórico del urbanismo español	1
Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China	1
Planning culture evolving through accumulations of the vicious cycle of practices: an investigation route for Turkey and beyond	1
Mainstreaming a regional planning discourse within the UN technical assistance programme: Ernest Weissmann and the post-war international collaboration	1
Reassembling transnational planning knowledge in the 1950s-Taiwan: Chunghsing New Village as Cold War urbanism	1
Ebenezer Howard: inventor of the garden city	1
Side by side yet worlds apart: revisiting Bomonti’s urban transformation	1
Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937	1
A 2200-year-old document of planning history: the border city planning system in Chao Cuo’s memorials to the throne	1
Ambivalent republican and Roman models for Washington D.C.	1
Replacing place with space: the influences and the challenges of the new norm on the Milan-Cortina Winter Games 2026	1
Désir de nature dans le Grand Tunis. Pour une végétalisation de la ville dense [Desire of nature in greater Tunis. In favour of a vegetalisation of the dense city]	1
The renewal of historic urban areas in Morocco: challenges and limits on the new ‘housing at risk of collapse’ policy	1
Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core	1
Joint City: cross-border planning diffusion, local elites, and planning practices – case studies of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan and Swatow, 1898–1945	1
The Human Settlement : Erwin Anton Gutkind's fascination with Africa and critique of modern design	1
Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history	1
Deconstructing Cerdá: historical approaches in his three urban planning theories (1855–1867)	1
The transformation of Beijing as a dual Olympic city: growth, post-growth, and the reimagining of the capital	1
When land became property in Lebanon. The transformation of land codes since 1858 and its implications on planning and public lands	1
Postmodern architecture in socialist Poland: transformation, symbolic form and national identity	1
Tra simili, Storie incrociate dei quartieri italiani del secondo dopoguerra [Of the same type: connected stories of Italian neighbourhoods since the Second World War]	1
Bioregional urbanism: reflecting on the legacy of the RPAA through the lens of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt	1
Imperial spectacle and emergency shelters: the American Red Cross programmes presented at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 1915	1
Urban lowlands: a history of neighborhoods, poverty, and planning	1
Modern heritage, planning failure, and urban transformation: the demolition of the Hôtel du Lac in Tunis	1
Have the Olympics outgrown cities? A longitudinal comparative analysis of the growth and planning of the Olympics and former host cities	1
Landed internationals. Planning cultures, the academy and the making of the modern Middle East	1
Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue of the Americas. New York, biography of a street] Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue o	1
New York City’s 1939–40 and 1964–65 World’s Fairs: from Valley of Ashes to grandiose twenty-first century projects	1
The Character of Towns: An Approach to Conservation	1
Exhibitionary urbanism: International Expos and city planning, 1851–2025	1
Anthonie Thomas Lubertus Rouwenhorst Mulder: a pioneer of modern port city planning in nineteenth-century Japan	1
Le prolétariat ne se promène pas nu. Moscou en projets [The proletariat does not walk naked. Moscow through its projects]	1
Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks	1
Im Gleichschritt. Der Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin im Nationalsozialismus	1
Historia y memoria de villas y favelas	1
Everyday sectarianism in urban Lebanon: infrastructures, public services, and power	1
A small-scale city caught between two opposing local development approaches: Lefke- North Cyprus	1
Assessing the Legacy of Planning in the South	1
The assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land	1
Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification	1
Standardizing play in the century of the car: the building information cards as shapers of the ideal urban childhood in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s	1
Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje	1
Catherine Bauer and Mel Webber: collaborators at Berkeley	1
Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro	1
Taming ‘wild’ Vienna? The handling of informal settlements by the planning authorities – perspectives, discourse, (counter)actions in the interwar and post-war periods	1
Urbanizing Suburbia: hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing, and the remaking of the Outer European City	1
The pursuit of permanence: regulating land for socio-economic stability in a colonial Massachusetts town	1
The quest for spatial quality in Dutch national planning between the 1980s and 2020s	1
Charles Rice, Atrium	1
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023	1
A research agenda for US land use and planning law	1
La città degli igienisti. Riforme e utopie sanitarie nell’Italia umbertina [The city of hygienists. Health reforms and utopias in Umbertine Italy]	1
Nordic urban planning culture and transnational influences in 1850–2025	1
Pueblos de Colonización. Miradas a un Paisaje Inventado [Colonization towns. Glances at an invented landscape]	1
Affordable housing in the 1910s–1930s: new narratives on unbeaten tracks	1
Unplanned rapid urban growth in Birjand, Iran (1986–2022)	1
‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History	1
The modernity of the Regional Planning Association of America	1
‘Living beyond its present means’: World Bank push and local pushback over lowest-cost housing for postcolonial Dakar	1
An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal	1
Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape	1
Photographs and the practice of history: a short primer	1
The city in the city – architecture and change in London’s financial district	1