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Urban Planning and Valuation

Urban Planning and Valuation is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 8.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on sustainable urban development and planning, with an emphasis on topics such as transferable development rights, sustainability, urban regeneration, public-private partnerships, economic evaluation, cultural heritage, spatial decision support systems, multi-criteria analysis, real estate market dynamics, and land use. The papers explore various models, methodologies, and case studies related to managing growth, land-use control, energy efficiency, historical building preservation, and the economic and environmental impacts of urban development.

  • Transferable Development Rights
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Regeneration
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Economic Evaluation
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Spatial Decision Support System
  • Multi-Criteria Analysis
  • Real Estate Market
  • Land Use
Research works
8.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
922
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urban Planning and Valuation

Which countries lead Urban Planning and Valuation research?

By volume, Italy and China publish the most (1.1k and 143 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 143 works
  3. 3 United States 111 works
  4. 4 Spain 72 works
  5. 5 France 61 works
  6. 6 Germany 59 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 52 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 38 works
  9. 9 India 34 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 32 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: 64.4%China: 8.4%United States: 6.6%Spain: 4.3%6 others listed: 16.3%64%largest
Italy1,088 · 64.4%China143 · 8.4%United States111 · 6.6%Spain72 · 4.3%6 others listed276 · 16.3%

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

Which institutions lead Urban Planning and Valuation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Politecnico di Milano publishes the most Urban Planning and Valuation research, followed by Sapienza University of Rome and University of Naples Federico II.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 80 works
  2. 2 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 78 works
  3. 3 University of Naples Federico IIItaly 72 works
  4. 4 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 54 works
  5. 5 University of FlorenceItaly 53 works
  6. 6 University of BasilicataItaly 33 works
  7. 7 University of Reggio CalabriaItaly 30 works
  8. 8 University of CataniaItaly 30 works
  9. 9 University of PalermoItaly 29 works
  10. 10 University of BolognaItaly 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urban Planning and Valuation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urban Planning and Valuation include F. Stuart Chapin, S. D’Auria and Massimo Filippi.

  1. 1 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  2. 2 S. D’Auria France 130k citations
  3. 3 Massimo Filippi Italy 129k citations
  4. 4 P. Giacomelli Switzerland 112k 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 Valuation?

The most cited paper in Urban Planning and Valuation is "Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to identify highly autocorrelated areas: the case of spatial distribution in financially compromised farms" (Carlos R. García‐Alonso, Leonor M. Pérez, Juan Carlos Fernández Fernández, 2011), with 1,450 citations. Next come "The origins and evolution of scenario techniques in long range business planning" (1,195) and "Predicting land-use change" (964).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to identify highly autocorrelated areas: the case of spatial distribution in financially compromised farms Carlos R. García‐Alonso, Leonor M. Pérez, Juan Carlos Fernández Fernández · Annals of Operations Research Open access 19 Jan 2011 1,450
2 The origins and evolution of scenario techniques in long range business planning Ron Bradfield, GEORGE N. WRIGHT, George A. Burt et al. · Futures 25 May 2005 1,195
3 Predicting land-use change A. Veldkamp, Éric F. Lambin · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment Open access Jun 2001 964
4 Eliciting Expert Knowledge in Conservation Science Tara G. Martin, Mark A. Burgman, Fiona M. Fidler et al. · Conservation Biology Open access 26 Jan 2012 841
5 Strategic (Spatial) Planning Reexamined Louis Albrechts · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design 26 Aug 2004 746
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Urban Planning and Valuation research done?

The largest centres of Urban Planning and Valuation research in 2022-now are Rome (Italy), Milan (Italy), Naples (Italy) and Turin (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Potenza, Reggio Calabria and Venice.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 RomeItaly 181 works
  2. 2 MilanItaly 117 works
  3. 3 NaplesItaly 93 works
  4. 4 TurinItaly 69 works
  5. 5 FlorenceItaly 57 works
  6. 6 BariItaly 35 works
  7. 7 VeniceItaly 34 works
  8. 8 PotenzaItaly 33 works
  9. 9 Reggio CalabriaItaly 30 works
  10. 10 CataniaItaly 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PotenzaIT · 32.9 works210×
  2. Reggio CalabriaIT · 30.4 works190×
  3. VeniceIT · 34.4 works50×
  4. L’AquilaIT · 20.8 works49×
  5. CagliariIT · 22.2 works48×
  6. NaplesIT · 93.2 works40×
  7. FiscianoIT · 24.2 works39×
  8. CataniaIT · 30.3 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Urban Planning and Valuation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Basilicata, Sapienza University of Rome and Politecnico di Torino 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%10%20%mean 11.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Basili…University of SalernoPolitecnico di TorinoSapienza University …
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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
1University of BasilicataItaly 76.121.3%286.3×33 -9.0%
2Sapienza University of RomeItaly 64.08.7%35.7×78 +10.3%
3Politecnico di TorinoItaly 63.112.6%64.1×54 -29.6%
4University of SalernoItaly 58.817.8%44.1×24 -16.8%
5Politecnico di MilanoItaly 56.16.9%59.2×80 -28.6%
6University of CagliariItaly 54.812.0%56.7×22 -1.9%
7University of Naples Federico IIItaly 53.66.0%53.0×72 -20.5%
8University of FlorenceItaly 52.44.1%47.1×53 +43.0%
9Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 51.615.5%10.2×13 -35.2%
10Polytechnic University of BariItaly 51.39.5%106.5×24 -8.5%

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 Valuation, country by country

Is Urban Planning and Valuation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Valuation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0088% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Urban Planning and Valuation0.0092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Urban Planning and Valuation 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 Valuation10.4% 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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