OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Planning Theory & Practice 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
On Beauty	36
Approaching Negotiations in Urban Redevelopment Projects: A Multiple Case Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Community Benefit Agreements	28
Pushing Boundaries: Integrating Real Estate Studies Into Planning Scholarship	26
A Critical Examination of Land Value Capture Tools to Generate Affordable Housing in Toronto	19
Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent	17
Truth, Lies or Allies? The Agency of Estimates	17
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing	16
Entangled Rationalities: Planning Responses to Informal Housing Practices Within Middle-Income Neighbourhoods in Nairobi City, Kenya	15
Regulate or Be Regulated: The Institutional Entrepreneurship of Developers	14
Charting New Ground: Between Tactical Urbanism and Strategic Spatial Planning	14
Digital Participation Models as Public Engagement Tools in Planning: A Concept Exploration	13
Communities, Heritage and Planning: Towards a Co-Evolutionary Heritage Approach	13
Pinning down Urban Acupuncture: From a Planning Practice to a Sustainable Urban Transformation Model?	12
New Urban Sustainability Policies: Deleuze and Local Innovation Versus Policy Mobility	12
“Above All, Look at Your Own Reality!”: Patsy Healey and the Future of Planning African Cities	12
The Challenge of the Digital Public Sphere: Finnish Experiences of the Role of Social Media in Participatory Planning	12
Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England	11
On Not Mis-Managing Inevitable Interdependence	10
Mountain Territories: The Need to Approach Territorial Planning and Governance	10
Planning and the Value of Land	10
Planning for the Future of Onshore Wind Farms through Adopting a Broader Temporal Approach	9
Handling Compounded Uncertainty in Spatial Planning and Humanitarian Action in Unexpected Floods in Wayanad, Kerala: Towards a Contextualised Contingency Planning Approach	8
Design Governance, Austerity and the Public Interest: Planning and the Delivery of ‘Well-Designed Places’ in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland	8
The Productive Role of Future Expectations in Participatory Spatial Planning. A Case Study on Urban Park Development in The Netherlands	8
Remembering Patsy Healey: Inspirations, Encounters and Enduring Impacts	7

Technocratic Urban Development: Large Digital Corporations as Power Brokers of the Digital Age	7
Revisiting Structure and Agency: The Perception and Materialisation of Risk in Property Development and Investment	7
Spatial Visioning: Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda	7
Tired, But Hopeful	7
Just Energy Transitions	7
News from Somewhere?	7
Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand	7
Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda	7
The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey’s Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy	7
Establishment of a New Planning System in Ukraine: Institutional Change Between Europeanization and Post-Socialist Path Dependence	6
Disruptive Localism – How Far Does Clientelism Shape the Prospects of Neighbourhood Planning in Deprived Urban Communities?	6
The Possibilities for Legally Pluralistic Planning: An Exploration of Haudenosaunee Planning Law	5
Collaborative Planning in an Undemocratic Setting: What Can We Learn from a Short-Lived Experiment in Hong Kong?	5
The Fall of Statues? Contested Heritage, Public Space and Urban Planning	5
Patsy Healey: More Than an Intellectual ¹	5
Micropolitics in Participatory Processes: The Impact of Ableism and Other ‘Hidden’ Power Structures on Equitable Participation and Outcomes	5
School-Centered Community Development and a Quest for Spatial Justice: Exploring Competing Theories of Action in Baltimore	5
Planning Just Futures	5
The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World	5
Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide	5
Planning Standards and Spatial (in)Justice	4
Confronting Anxiety and Uncertainty in Planning: New Insights for Advancing Justice	4
Systems Approaches to Planning: From Control, Self-Organisation and Power to Normal Accidents	4
Green and Socially Sustainable City Discourse, White Spatial Epistemology: The Reproduction of Racial Landscape Injustice and Segregation in Swedish Planning	4
Technology-Oriented Community-Engaged Learning in Urban Planning	4
Shopping and Urbanity: Emerging Assemblages of Main Street, Mall, and Power Centre	3
Places Matter. Memories of Places Where I Met Patsy Healey	3
Planning and knowledge – How new forms of technocracy are shaping contemporary cities	3
The Power of Interruptions	3
Rethinking Gentrification and Displacement: Modeling the Demographic Impact of Urban Regeneration	3
Israeli Real-Estate Buzz – Planning Discourse and Media Coverage	3
Planning for Risky Play: From Child-Safe Playgrounds Towards Adventurous Urban Areas	3
Parallel Careers and Guilt by Association: On Misreading Patsy Healey	3
Centering Equity and Justice in Participatory Climate Action Planning: Guidance for Urban Governance Actors	3
Wrestling with Context	3
Spatial Planning Reform in China: The Multi-Plan Integration (MPI) Reform	3
Governmental Logics in Commercialised Planning Practices. The Case of Local Authority Pre-Application Negotiations in the English Planning System	3
Conversations: Between Noise and Silence… in the 15 Minute City and the University	3
Inspirations in Planning	2
Optimising Nudges in Public Space: Identifying and Tackling Barriers to Design and Implementation	2
Disability Justice and Urban Planning	2
Progress in Placemaking	2
How Can Co-Creation Support Capacity Building for Adaptive Spatial Planning? Exploring Evidence from a Co-Creative Planning Process in The Netherlands	2
On Theories and Practices of Collective Action and Sustained Cooperation	2
Social Value Creation Through Bottom-up Urban Development: Mechanisms of Self-Organization	2
Neighborhood	2
Practicing Co-operation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism Practicing Co-operation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism , by Andrew Zitcer, University of Minnesota Press, 2021, 272	1
Complexity, Responsibility and Care: An Intertwined Perspective on Planning	1
Health Equity: A Case for Ethical Placemaking	1
Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides	1

Municipal Undergreening: Framing the Planning Challenges of Implementing Green Infrastructure in Marginalized Communities	1
Housing for People, Not for Profit: Models of Community-Led Housing	1
Patsy Healey – In Theory and Practice	1
How Planners Might Improvise in the Face of Power: Waking Up Theory for Practice	1
What Makes Local Planning Effective in a Megacity? The Overlapping Agendas and Scale Inconsistencies in Developing Buenos Aires’ Affordable Land Markets	1
Reparative Urban Science: Challenging the Myth of Neutrality and Crafting Data-Driven Narratives	1
The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth	1
‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Rethinking City Street Transformations through the Lens of Epistemic Justice	1
An Archive of Political Possibilities?	1
Scrutinising the Plan-Ability of Outdoor Recreation in the Swedish Compact City: Continuing and Discontinuing Modernist Planning Legacies	1
The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design	1
Shareholding Land Readjustment Led by Local Government During Peri-Urbanization: The Case of Zhaoqing, China	1
Planning, Pluralism, Markets: Experiences from Post-Socialist Varna	1
Professional Lobbying in Urban Planning: Publicity Management and Transparency Discourse on a Collision Course?	1
Unravelling the Spatial Arrangement of the 15-Minute City: A Comparative Study of Shanghai, Melbourne, and Portland	1
Planned Out: The Discriminatory Effects of Planning’s Regulation of Small Houses in Multiple Occupation in England	1
Dreams of Mud and Concrete: Dissonant Memory Landscapes and the Struggle over Infrastructure Development in Los Platanitos, Dominican Republic	1
Creating Flexible Plans for an Uncertain Future: From Exploratory Scenarios to Adaptive Plans With Real Options	1
Characterising the Ultimate Ends of Municipal Land Policy: An Analysis of Land Policy Aim Setting in Finnish Municipalities	1
On the Cognitive Mechanics of Planning Judgment	1
The Redevelopment of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children: A Case for Trauma-Informed Urban Planning Practices	1
A Computer Must Never Make a Planning Decision	1
The Giant in the Niche: Planning Green Megaprojects as Urban Experimentation	1
Declaration of Interdependence	1
‘Dealing’ with Governance and Planning? The Limits of Urban Intrapreneurialism	1
Rethinking Communities, Land and Governance: Land Reform in Scotland and the Community Ownership Model	1
Rethinking Commercial Space as Livelihood Space for Self-Contained New Town Development: A Reflexive Analysis of Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong	1
Reflections on Post-Growth Planning: Practices of ‘Undoing’ (De-Urbanisation and Deconstruction) and Methodology for Eco-Social Transition	1