Planning Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Planning Theory is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Care-full’ planning: Towards an ethics and politics of care in planning37
On the researcher as parasite25
The temporal governance of planning in England: Planning reform, Uchronia and ‘proper time’20
Power dynamics and self-organizing urbanism. A comment19
Book Review: Political change through social innovation17
The empire of the narrative: Plan making through the prism of classical and postclassical narratologies15
Understanding is what planners do – Towards a hermeneutic perspective on planning practice and research14
Hope and care in dark times: A follow-up essay14
What might decoloniality look like in praxis?14
Strategic planning for degrowth: What, who, how11
Institutionalization of public interest in planning: Evolving mechanisms of public representation in China’s urban regeneration policymaking10
Towards eco-political becoming: Planning rural livelihoods in a more-than-human world9
Book review: Handbook on planning and power GunderMichaelGrangeKristinaWinklerTanja, (eds), Handbook on planning and power. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA.8
Celebrating Luigi Mazza (1937 – 2023)8
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda7
Promoting socio-spatial and cognitive justice through critical pedagogies6
Thinking Sideways: A Plea for “Weak Theory”6
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
Land fictions: The commodification of land in city and country5
Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy: A response to Rydin5
Problematising use conformity in spatial regulation: Religious diversity and mosques out of place in Northeast Italy5
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
Knowledge coproduction at the periphery of the urban and academia: Insights from Acapulco’s metropolitan area4
After Hardin4
Do planning concepts matter? A Lacanian interpretation of the urban village in a British context4
Alliances, allyship and activism: The value of international partnerships for co-producing just cities4
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices4
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