Planning Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Planning Theory 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the researcher as parasite37
‘Care-full’ planning: Towards an ethics and politics of care in planning24
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time’20
Power dynamics and self-organizing urbanism. A comment16
Understanding is what planners do – Towards a hermeneutic perspective on planning practice and research15
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies15
Book Review: Political change through social innovation14
What might decoloniality look like in praxis?13
Hope and care in dark times: A follow-up essay11
Strategic planning for degrowth: What, who, how10
Institutionalization of public interest in planning: Evolving mechanisms of public representation in China’s urban regeneration policymaking9
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda8
Towards eco-political becoming: Planning rural livelihoods in a more-than-human world8
Celebrating Luigi Mazza (1937 – 2023)8
Book review: Handbook on planning and power GunderMichaelGrangeKristinaWinklerTanja, (eds), Handbook on planning and power. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA.7
A conceptual framework for public participation: Suggestions for a better fit6
Rise of Flexibility and Complexity Research in Planning Literature: With What Consequences, for Whom, and Why?6
Thinking Sideways: A Plea for “Weak Theory”6
For the War Yet to Come, Planning Beirut’s Frontiers5
¡Eso no se dice’!: Exploring the value of communication distortions in participatory planning5
Book Review: Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning5
Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy: A response to Rydin5
Promoting socio-spatial and cognitive justice through critical pedagogies5
Problematising use conformity in spatial regulation: Religious diversity and mosques out of place in Northeast Italy4
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities4
Land fictions: The commodification of land in city and country4
Knowledge coproduction at the periphery of the urban and academia: Insights from Acapulco’s metropolitan area4
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices3
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine3
Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation3
Reply3
Do planning concepts matter? A Lacanian interpretation of the urban village in a British context3
After Hardin3
Book Review: Urban futures: Planning for city foresight and city visions3
Rethinking collaborative planning in China: Does the communicative or agonistic planning theory matter?2
Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand2
Conversions: The emerging informalisation of housing in the Global North2
Model-theory interaction in urban planning: A critical review2
The Construction of Legality in Everyday Practices of Planning2
Outside-in: Co-production and the spatial planning systems in Italy and England2
Co-producing knowledge in action: Reflecting from the Main Bhi Dilli campaign for equitable planning in Delhi2
Are radical and insurgent planning (truly) at odds with a nonviolent conception of liberal planning?2
Book review: Pragmatic Spatial Planning: Practical Theory for Professionals by Charles Hoch2
A new framework for imagining the climate commons? The case of a Green New Deal in the US2
Revisiting the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Towards a properly urban ontology2
Planning as an instituting process. Overcoming Agamben’s despair using Esposito’s political ontology2
Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade1
Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi1
Innovation in strategic planning: Social innovation and co-production under a common analytical framework1
Building illusory unity with Ernesto Laclau – Why ‘closure’ should not be a dirty word in planning theory1
Insisting on not being addressed in that way: Ideology, subjection and agency in the context of spatial planning1
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning1
Book review: Alternative planning history and theory by Dorina Pojana Pojani, Dorina (2023, Editor) Alternative Planning History and Theory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023, pp 240. ISBN: 9780367743891
Scale-dependent complexity in administrative units and implications for data-driven decision-making models1
How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’1
Digitization processes at the neighborhood scale: Infrastructure, governance, community, and practices1
Bomba planning and the pursuit of a just recovery1
From exchange value to social value of real estate development: A Planner’s perspective1
Heating up the sauna: Analogue model unraveling the creativity of public participation1
Actors, arenas and aims: A conceptual framework for public participation1
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