OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Planning Studies is 6. 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
Critical dictionary on borders, cross-border cooperation and European integration	96
Learning to reflect collectively: how to create the right environment for discussing participatory planning practice?	61
Housing dynamics around Romania’s developing cities: the high demand for specific planning instruments in functional urban areas	59
Transnational architecture and urbanism: rethinking how cities plan, transform, and learn	52
Analysis of high streets of Istanbul: a proposal for strategic management approach	52
Developing city-regional governance capacity: the case of skill formation in the Gothenburg city-region	41
Post-growth planning. cities beyond the market economy Post-growth planning. cities beyond the market economy , edited by Federico Savini, António Ferreira and Kim von S	41
What’s the future for planning in a time of democratic retreat, white supremacy and silence	38
Where innovation meets directionality: an index to measure regional readiness to deal with societal challenges	35
Reviving strategic spatial planning for the challenges ahead	35
Urban agriculture in public space. Planning and designing for human flourishing in Northern European cities and beyond	35
The European digital economy drivers of digital transition and economic recovery	33
Building on decay: urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship in Italy through culture and the arts	32
The Randstad: a polycentric metropolis?	32
A new beginning? Spatial planning and research in Europe between 1945 and 1975 A new beginning? Spatial planning and research in Europe between 1945 and 1975 , by Detlef	30
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal	29
Dimensions of (post-)viral tourism revival: actions and strategies from the perspectives of policymakers in Portugal	27
Unveiling intra-rural divides: investigating decline and prosperity in rural areas. The case study of southern Italy	26
Short-term gains and long-term challenges to learning from mega-event planning in the city of Genoa	26
Estate regeneration and its discontents. Public housing, place and inequality in London	25
Peripheral implications of national innovation: insights from the Israeli experience	24
Patterns of collaboration for technology transfer in Spanish universities	23
The emergence of artificial intelligence in the regional sciences: a literature review	23
Branding soft spaces	22
Technology Advances and Innovation in Wine Tourism: New Managerial Approaches and Cases	22

Greenfield FDIs as a catalyst for technological collaborations between European regions and emerging countries	21
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action: an analysis of Dutch collective infrastructure decision-making	21
Tourism Planning and Development in Western Europe	21
Mapping the state of the art of creative cluster research: a bibliometric and thematic analysis	19
The lifestyles of millennial coworkers in urban spaces: the case of Tel-Aviv	19
Pubs and pints, crims and crimes: exploring the relationship between public houses and crime	19
Artificial intelligence in Urban planning and design: technologies, implementation, and impacts	18
Against Entrepreneurship: A Critical Examination	18
The role of institutional entrepreneurship in transformation of the national innovation system: the case study of Lithuania	17
Review of research into urban experimentation in the fields of sustainability transitions and environmental governance	16
Inside out, exploring residential spaces during COVID-19 lockdown from the perspective of architecture students	16
Reducing border barriers for cross-border commuters in Europe via the EU b-solutions initiative	16
A critical analysis of the role of the urban climate resilience nexus in London	16
Social capital and characteristics of economic dualism as determinants of regional resilience	15
Changes in planning approach: a comparative study of digital government policies in South Korea and Denmark	15
Multiple transformations, coordination and public goods. Tbilisi and the search for planning as collective strategy	14
Are current road investments exacerbating spatial inequalities inside European peripheral regions?	14
Seeking pathways for sustainable urban tourism: a critical deconstruction of Berlin's approach for city-compatible tourism	14
How does Industry 4.0 affect the relationship between centre and periphery? The case of manufacturing industry in Germany	14
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: how to upgrade through regional policy, FDI and trade Harnessing global value chains for regional development: how to upgrade th	14
Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities Governing locally institutions, policies and implementation in Indian cities , By Babu Jacob	14
“European regional policy and development forgotten regions and spaces”	14
Active mobility-oriented urban development: a morpho-syntactic scenario for a mid-sized town	14
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: from mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism	14
Regional preconditions to shape interpath relations across regions: two cases from the Austrian food sector	13
The role of regional innovation systems in mission-oriented innovation policy: exploring the problem-solution space in electrification of maritime transport	13
The cost of suburbanization: spending on environmental protection	13
Knowledge brokerage needs in building care robotics innovation ecosystems and networks	13
Comparing city practitioners’ and residents’ perceptions of a liveable neighbourhood in Finland	13
Perspectives on proximity tourism planning in peri-urban areas	13
Mining activity and island landscape issues: evidence from Cyclades islands, Greece	13
A drop in the sea or catalyst for change: diverse effects of the place-based approach in Europe	13
Digitalization in land-use planning: effects of digital plan data on efficiency, transparency and innovation	13
Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions	12
Public land for urban food policy? A critical data-analysis of public land transactions in the Ghent city region (Belgium)	12
Transitions in planning: transformative policy visions of the circular economy and blue bioeconomy meet planning practice	12
Path dependence, ‘lock-in’ and rural housing outcomes: insights from Ireland	12
Coping with peripheralization in small cities. What is the role of human agency?	12
Start-ups formation in Italy: the role of regional innovation systems	12
Identifying cross-border functional areas: conceptual background and empirical findings from Polish borderlands	11
City-regions in Central Eastern Europe: emerging metropolitan territorialities in post-socialist planning systems	11
Weaving a foundational narrative – place-making and change in an old-industrial town in East Germany	11
A multilevel approach to firm interrelationships across European regions	11
Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises	11
Are clustering and R&D institutions in post-socialist states functional tools for sustainable development?	10
City and transportation planning: an integrated approach	10
What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective	10
The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem in the European Union: evidence from the digital platform economy index	10
Correction	10
Local culture and change agency in old industrial places: spinning forward and digging deeper	10

‘European port cities and urban regeneration exploring cultural and sporting mega events at the water’s edge’	10
Spatial patterns of manufacturing sectors and digitalisation in Hungary in the age of Industry 4.0	10
Gentrification and diversity. Rebranding Milan’s Chinatown	10
A communities of practice approach to promoting regional circular economy innovation: evidence from East Wales	9
A mega-event in a small city: community participation, heritage and scale in the case of Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture	9
Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture legacy narrative: a selective heritage?	9
Exceptional architecture, learning processes, and the contradictory performativity of norms and standards	9
The role of landmarks in shaping Tirana’s urban identity: the shift from socialist to post-socialist city	9
Place-leadership and power in the futures domain: the case of Euskadi 2040	9
Forces impacting the real estate market environment in shrinking cities: possible drivers of future development	8
Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	8
The Olympics Legacy, debt crisis and exceptional strategic planning: the case of Athens	8
Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union , by Max Holleran, Palgra	8
Employers, the state and highly skilled migration: an employer-based study on ICT sector companies in Finland	8
Patent actor-network formation from regional innovation to open innovation: a comparison between Europe and China	8
‘Made in Germany’ how companies approach Circular Economy on Linked-In	8
Reterritorialisation of agricultural activities in land-use and food planning: comparing the Netherlands and France	8
Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region	8
Causes of opposition to residential development: a survey-framing experiment from the Czech Republic	8
Framing daily life in sprawl: Flanders urbanized space from a cinematic perspective	8
Quantum jump in biopharmaceutical industry: a case of Korea’s catching up with Europe and US	8
Activity types, thematic domains, and stakeholder constellations: explaining civil society involvement in Amsterdam’s smart city	8
Climate governance experiments: current practices and their meta-governance embedding in Berlin’s solar energy transition	8
Contingency, decision, unfinished planning: let’s quarrel more!	8
Living innovation machines: modelling innovation in time and space variable-geometry territorial units using machine learning	8
Seeing the city: interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of the urban	8
Anatomy of a techno-creative community – the role of brokers, places, and events in the emergence of projection mapping in Nantes	8
Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities	8
Geographies of (in)justice and the (in)effectiveness of place-based policies in Greece	8
Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice: a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe	8
The green-restructuring of clusters: investigating a biocluster's transition using a complex adaptive system model	8
Culture and heritage as a means to foster quality of life? The case of Wrocław European Capital of Culture 2016	7
A tale of urban experimentation in three Swedish municipalities	7
Introduction to the special issue – cultural mega-events and heritage: challenges for European cities	7
Spatial imaginaries and the politics of inter-regional transport infrastructure development in Northern England	7
Challenges in strategies for socioeconomic democratization. Assessing solidarity economy policies in Barcelona	7
Overcoming the barriers: cross-border convergence in Portugal and Spain between 2000 and 2018	7
Acquisitions, spatial heterogeneity and economic impacts in Central European non-metro-politan regions	7
Sustainable suburban mobilities – planning practices and paradoxes	7
The role of clusters in addressing societal challenges in European regions	7
Overcoming the limitations to co-production in shrinking cities: insights from Latvia, France, and the Netherlands	6
Changing industrial trajectories through business model innovation: a case study of the oil and gas industry in Norway	6
The planning contribution in a disoriented continent*	6
A marriage of inconvenience: the coupling of spatial planning to European environmental policy	6
Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions	6
Urban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions	6
Place-based development and spatial justice	6
What are the driving factors for implementing participatory budgeting? A case study from Czechia	6
Climate resilient urban areas: governance, design, and development in coastal delta cities	6
Beyond a transport node? What residents want from transforming railway stations	6
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives	6
The effect of value chain importance on regional economic recovery	6
Advancing innovation in manufacturing firms: knowledge base combinations in a local productive system	6
Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship	6
The topology of planning theories: a systematization of planning knowledge	6
Delayed arrival: planning, competition and conflict in the Rail Baltic terminal project in Tallinn, Estonia	6
Unveiling the impact of foreign investment entry in industrial clusters: the case of Castelló and Sassuolo	6
Governance networks for sustainable cities: connecting theory and practice in Europe	6
Economic impact of road transportation infrastructure projects: the case of Egnatia Odos Motorway	6
Liveability under shrinkage: initiatives in the ‘capital of pessimism’ in Finland	6
Aesthetics of Gentrification. Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City	6
A policy proposal to deal with excessive cultural tourism	6