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Urban Planning and Landscape Design

Urban Planning and Landscape Design is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 3.5k research works in it since 1954. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of ecological wisdom and its application in urban planning and design, with a focus on sustainability, ecosystem services, and socio-ecological practice. It delves into the works of influential figures like Patrick Geddes and Ian McHarg, while also examining real-world examples such as the Dujiangyan Irrigation Scheme and the implications of COVID-19 on urban resilience. The cluster emphasizes the integration of ecological knowledge and practical wisdom in managing urban and natural ecosystems.

  • Ecological Wisdom
  • Urban Planning
  • Landscape Urbanism
  • Socio-Ecological Practice
  • Sustainability
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Patrick Geddes
  • Ian McHarg
  • Dujiangyan Irrigation Scheme
  • COVID-19 Resilience
Research works
3.5k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
365
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urban Planning and Landscape Design

Which countries lead Urban Planning and Landscape Design research?

By volume, Italy and the United States publish the most (297 and 115 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 297 works
  2. 2 United States 115 works
  3. 3 China 59 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 52 works
  5. 5 France 37 works
  6. 6 Australia 31 works
  7. 7 Spain 27 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 23 works
  9. 9 Russia 19 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 19 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Italy: 43.7%United States: 17.0%China: 8.7%United Kingdom: 7.6%6 others listed: 23.1%44%largest
Italy297 · 43.7%United States115 · 17.0%China59 · 8.7%United Kingdom52 · 7.6%6 others listed157 · 23.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Urban Planning and Landscape Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, Politecnico di Milano publishes the most Urban Planning and Landscape Design research, followed by University of Florence and Sapienza University of Rome.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 34 works
  2. 2 University of FlorenceItaly 27 works
  3. 3 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 26 works
  4. 4 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 12 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  6. 6 University of BolognaItaly 10 works
  7. 7 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 9 works
  8. 8 University of Naples Federico IIItaly 9 works
  9. 9 University of GenoaItaly 8 works
  10. 10 University of CagliariItaly 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urban Planning and Landscape Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urban Planning and Landscape Design include Anselm L. Strauss.

  1. 1 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Urban Planning and Landscape Design?

The most cited paper in Urban Planning and Landscape Design is "The Triumph of the City: How our Greatest Invention Makes us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier" (Paul E. Hodges, Scott Alan Carson, 2012), with 1,097 citations. Next come "Land, terrain, territory" (930) and "Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies" (471).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Triumph of the City: How our Greatest Invention Makes us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier Paul E. Hodges, Scott Alan Carson · The Social Science Journal Dec 2012 1,097
2 Land, terrain, territory Stuart Elden · Progress in Human Geography Open access 21 Apr 2010 930
3 Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies Brian William Head · Policy and Society Open access 9 Jul 2018 471
4 The Food System Kameshwari Pothukuchi, Jerome L. Kaufman · Journal of the American Planning Association 30 Jun 2000 457
5 Urban Environments: Issues on the Peri-Urban Fringe Dávid Simon · Annual Review of Environment and Resources Review 30 Jul 2008 435
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Urban Planning and Landscape Design research done?

The largest centres of Urban Planning and Landscape Design research in 2022-now are Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy), Florence (Italy) and Turin (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Florence and Milan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MilanItaly 50 works
  2. 2 RomeItaly 47 works
  3. 3 FlorenceItaly 33 works
  4. 4 TurinItaly 16 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  6. 6 NaplesItaly 13 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 12 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 11 works
  9. 9 VeniceItaly 11 works
  10. 10 BolognaItaly 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FlorenceIT · 33.2 works42×
  2. MilanIT · 50.1 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Urban Planning and Landscape Design than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Urban Planning and Landscape Design?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino and University of Florence score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%15%mean 7.6375%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Politecnico di TorinoDelft University of …Politecnico di MilanoUniversity of Florence
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Politecnico di MilanoItaly 62.78.7%55.4×34 +15.8%
2Politecnico di TorinoItaly 53.512.0%31.0×12 -14.7%
3University of FlorenceItaly 43.86.2%53.9×27 +80.5%
4Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 42.610.4%16.1×9 -45.6%
5Sapienza University of RomeItaly 34.93.7%26.0×26 +48.9%
6University of BolognaItaly 28.16.1%14.1×10 +132.5%
7University of Naples Federico IIItaly 22.410.4%14.8×9 -52.8%
8University of GenoaItaly 13.43.6%30.1×8 +343.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Urban Planning and Landscape Design, country by country

Is Urban Planning and Landscape Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Urban Planning and Landscape Design.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Urban Planning and Landscape Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0030% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Urban Planning and Landscape Design0.0052% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Urban Planning and Landscape Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Urban Planning and Landscape Design10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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