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Most cited papers in Urban Studies
What are the most cited papers in Urban Studies?
The most cited paper in Urban Studies is "Dilemmas in a general theory of planning" (Horst W. J. Rittel, Melvin M. Webber, 1973), with 15,625 citations. Next come "A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region" (9,808) and "Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment" (6,049).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 937 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dilemmas in a general theory of planning Horst W. J. Rittel, Melvin M. Webber · Policy Sciences | Jun 1973 | 15,625 |
| 2 | A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region Waldo Tobler · Economic Geography | Jun 1970 | 9,808 |
| 3 | Proximity and Innovation: A Critical Assessment Ron A. Boschma · Regional Studies | 14 Jan 2005 | 6,049 |
| 4 | Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Mark Jackson · Emotion, space and society | 20 Nov 2010 | 4,757 |
| 5 | Global Burden of Tuberculosis Christopher Dye, S Scheele, Paul >Dolin et al. · JAMA | 18 Aug 1999 | 2,973 |
| 6 | Pesquisa qualitativa: tipos fundamentais Arilda Schmidt Godoy · Revista de Administração de Empresas | Jun 1995 | 2,949 |
| 7 | Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore · Antipode | Jul 2002 | 2,852 |
| 8 | Governance as theory: five propositions Gerry Stoker · International Social Science Journal | Mar 1998 | 2,745 |
| 9 | Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? Maria Lewicka · Journal of Environmental Psychology | 21 Oct 2010 | 2,734 |
| 10 | Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts Ann Markusen · Economic Geography | Jul 1996 | 2,447 |
| 11 | Struggling with the Creative Class Jamie Peck · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | Dec 2005 | 2,395 |
| 12 | The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions Gabe Knott-Fayle · Annals of Leisure Research | 5 Jun 2019 | 2,364 |
| 13 | New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy Neil Smith · Antipode | Jul 2002 | 2,360 |
| 14 | Design: Cultural probes William W. Gaver, T. C. Dunne, Elena Pacenti · interactions | 1999 | 2,293 |
| 15 | The Microfinance Promise Jonathan Morduch · Journal of Economic Literature | Dec 1999 | 2,272 |
| 16 | The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it) Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose · Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society | 29 Dec 2017 | 2,175 |
| 17 | A Space for Place in Sociology Thomas F. Gieryn · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 2000 | 2,130 |
| 18 | The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies Caroline O. N. Moser · World Development | 1998 | 2,014 |
| 19 | The Meaning of "Aging in Place" to Older People Janine L. Wiles, Annette Leibing, Nancy Guberman et al. · The Gerontologist | 7 Oct 2011 | 1,993 |
| 20 | The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal Kevin Morgan · Regional Studies | Jul 1997 | 1,941 |
| 21 | The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid C. K. Prahalad, Stuart L. Hart · Revista Eletrônica de Estratégia & Negócios | 24 Aug 2010 | 1,925 |
| 22 | The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability Nicola Dempsey, Glen Bramley, Sinéad Power et al. · Sustainable Development | 26 May 2009 | 1,915 |
| 23 | Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability Barney Cohen · Technology in Society | 22 Dec 2005 | 1,908 |
| 24 | The social construction of scale Sallie A. Marston · Progress in Human Geography | Jun 2000 | 1,803 |
| 25 | Hypergraph Neural Networks Yifan Feng, Haoxuan You, Zizhao Zhang et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | 17 Jul 2019 | 1,743 |
| 26 | Solid waste management challenges for cities in developing countries Lilliana Abarca-Guerrero, Ger Maas, William Hogland · Waste Management | 23 Oct 2012 | 1,695 |
| 27 | The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration Risa I. Palm · Political Geography Quarterly | Jul 1986 | 1,598 |
| 28 | Geographies of responsibility Doreen Massey · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography | Mar 2004 | 1,588 |
| 29 | The health benefits of urban green spaces: a review of the evidence Andrew CK Lee, Ravi Maheswaran · Journal of Public Health | 10 Sep 2010 | 1,580 |
| 30 | Cities and the Creative Class Richard L. Florida · City and Community | Mar 2003 | 1,529 |
| 31 | Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages G. John Ikenberry, Saskia Sassen · Foreign Affairs | 2006 | 1,519 |
| 32 | Why landscapes of the past are important for the future Marc Antrop · Landscape and Urban Planning | 24 Dec 2003 | 1,513 |
| 33 | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed R. Bin Wong · Political Science Quarterly | 1999 | 1,507 |
| 34 | Ordinary cities: between modernity and development Azat Zana Gündoğan, Martin J. Murray · Cultural Geographies | 2007 | 1,477 |
| 35 | The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity David B. Nieborg, Thomas Poell · New Media & Society | 25 Apr 2018 | 1,460 |
| 36 | Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization Ananya Roy · Planning Theory | 12 Jan 2009 | 1,433 |
| 37 | A Review of the Research Literature on Evidence-Based Healthcare Design Roger S. Ulrich, Craig Zimring, Xuemei Zhu et al. · HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal | Apr 2008 | 1,427 |
| 38 | Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity Ash Amin · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space | Jun 2002 | 1,392 |
| 39 | Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism Ananya Roy · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 11 Feb 2011 | 1,355 |
| 40 | The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets Michael Heller · Harvard Law Review | 1998 | 1,350 |
| 41 | Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems Paul M. Hirsch · American Journal of Sociology | 1972 | 1,345 |
| 42 | Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets Joseph E. Stiglitz · The World Bank Economic Review | 1990 | 1,338 |
| 43 | Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable? Reid Ewing · Journal of the American Planning Association | 31 Mar 1997 | 1,336 |
| 44 | World Development Report 2009: reshaping economic geography Allen John Scott · Journal of Economic Geography | 23 Apr 2009 | 1,322 |
| 45 | The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory Ananya Roy · Regional Studies | 12 May 2008 | 1,312 |
| 46 | Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and trends Greg Richards · Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 3 Jul 2018 | 1,294 |
| 47 | In the Social Factory? Rosalind Gill, Andy C. Pratt · Theory Culture & Society | Dec 2008 | 1,288 |
| 48 | The Experience of Living in Cities Stanley Milgram · Science | 13 Mar 1970 | 1,272 |
| 49 | Industrial Clusters: Complexes, Agglomeration and/or Social Networks? Ian R. Gordon, Philip McCann · Urban Studies | Mar 2000 | 1,270 |
| 50 | Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh Shahidur R. Khandker · The World Bank Economic Review | 31 Aug 2005 | 1,266 |
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