OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Social innovation as a ‘magic concept’ for policy-makers and its implications for urban governance	36
Agonistic planning theory revisited: The planner’s role in dealing with conflict	32
A manifesto for planning after the coronavirus: Towards planning of care	29
The framing of power in communicative planning theory: Analysing the work of John Forester, Patsy Healey and Judith Innes	23
Experiencing vertical living: Affects, atmospheres, and technology	19
Deciphering posthumanism: Why and how it matters to urban planning in the Anthropocene	17
Swiss land improvement syndicates: ‘Impure’ Coasian solutions?	16
Our curious silence about kindness in planning: Challenges of addressing vulnerability and suffering	15
Pluriversal planning scholarship: Embracing multiplicity and situated knowledges in community-based approaches	15
Theorizing urban social spaces and their interrelations: New perspectives on urban sociology, politics, and planning	13
What collaborative planning practices lack and the design cycle can offer: Back to the drawing table	12
Theorizing communal trauma: Examining the relationship between race, spatial imaginaries, and planning in the U.S. South	11
Provincializing planning: Reflections on spatial ordering and imperial power	10
On planning, planning theories, and practices: A critical reflection	9
Ontological diversity in urban self-organization: Complexity, critical realism and post-structuralism	8
Informal landscapes and the performative placing of insurgent planning	7
‘Surveying was a kind of writing on the land’: The economics of land division as town planning	7
When vagueness is a strategic resource for planning actors	7
Storytelling otherwise: Decolonising storytelling in planning	7
Beyond soft planning: Towards a Soft turn in planning theory and practice?	6
Co-production and the issue of urban up-scaling and governance change in the global south: The case of Uganda	6
Between virtue and profession: Theorising the rise of professionalised public participation practitioners	6
Why public participation isn’t a tool for democratizing planning. A comment	5
Creative or instrumental planners? Agency and structure in their institutional and political economy context	5
A new framework for imagining the climate commons? The case of a Green New Deal in the US	4

Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire: Insights from a southern (European) perspective	4
The trajectory of the right to the city in Recife, Brazil: From belonging towards inclusion	4
If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing	4
Commoning or being commoned? Institutions, politics, and the role of the state in collective housing policy in Bangkok, Thailand	4
A critical realist theory of ideology: Promoting planning as a vanguard of societal transformation	4