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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
On the researcher as parasite37
‘Care-full’ planning: Towards an ethics and politics of care in planning25
Understanding is what planners do – Towards a hermeneutic perspective on planning practice and research21
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies21
Power dynamics and self-organizing urbanism. A comment18
Book Review: Political change through social innovation17
Hope and care in dark times: A follow-up essay15
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time’15
What might decoloniality look like in praxis?14
Strategic planning for degrowth: What, who, how12
Institutionalization of public interest in planning: Evolving mechanisms of public representation in China’s urban regeneration policymaking10
Book review: Handbook on planning and power GunderMichaelGrangeKristinaWinklerTanja, (eds), Handbook on planning and power. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA.9
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda9
Celebrating Luigi Mazza (1937 – 2023)9
Towards eco-political becoming: Planning rural livelihoods in a more-than-human world8
Thinking Sideways: A Plea for “Weak Theory”7
Rise of Flexibility and Complexity Research in Planning Literature: With What Consequences, for Whom, and Why?7
Book Review: Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning6
Promoting socio-spatial and cognitive justice through critical pedagogies6
A conceptual framework for public participation: Suggestions for a better fit6
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities5
Problematising use conformity in spatial regulation: Religious diversity and mosques out of place in Northeast Italy5
Land fictions: The commodification of land in city and country5
‘¡Eso no se dice’!: Exploring the value of communication distortions in participatory planning5
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices5
Knowledge coproduction at the periphery of the urban and academia: Insights from Acapulco’s metropolitan area5
Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy: A response to Rydin5
Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation4
Do planning concepts matter? A Lacanian interpretation of the urban village in a British context4
Book Review: Urban futures: Planning for city foresight and city visions4
After Hardin4
Outside-in: Co-production and the spatial planning systems in Italy and England3
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine3
Co-producing knowledge in action: Reflecting from the Main Bhi Dilli campaign for equitable planning in Delhi3
A new framework for imagining the climate commons? The case of a Green New Deal in the US3
Book review: Pragmatic Spatial Planning: Practical Theory for Professionals by Charles Hoch3
Sufficiency planning: A model of planning in an era of polycrisis3
Attention economics, artificial intelligence, and the future of the planning profession3
Rethinking collaborative planning in China: Does the communicative or agonistic planning theory matter?3
Reply3
Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand3
Are radical and insurgent planning (truly) at odds with a nonviolent conception of liberal planning?2
Activist Co-production for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade2
Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi2
Scale-dependent complexity in administrative units and implications for data-driven decision-making models2
Revisiting the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Towards a properly urban ontology2
Conversions: The emerging informalisation of housing in the Global North2
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: 9780367743892
Bomba planning and the pursuit of a just recovery2
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning2
Planning as an instituting process. Overcoming Agamben’s despair using Esposito’s political ontology2
Insisting on not being addressed in that way: Ideology, subjection and agency in the context of spatial planning2
Heating up the sauna: Analogue model unraveling the creativity of public participation1
A postgrowth response to Savini’s degrowth vision1
Innovation in strategic planning: Social innovation and co-production under a common analytical framework1
Digitization processes at the neighborhood scale: Infrastructure, governance, community, and practices1
How to plan for discontinuity? Equipping ‘anticipatory assemblages’ with ‘archives of the future’1
From exchange value to social value of real estate development: A Planner’s perspective1
Building illusory unity with Ernesto Laclau – Why ‘closure’ should not be a dirty word in planning theory1
Actors, arenas and aims: A conceptual framework for public participation1
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