Urbanization and City Planning
Urbanization and City Planning is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 26.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the phenomenon of urban shrinkage, particularly in post-socialist contexts, analyzing the causes, effects, and policy responses to population loss, vacant land management, suburbanization, and socio-spatial disparities. It delves into the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in declining cities and examines the dynamics of reurbanization and demographic change.
- Shrinking Cities
- Urban Decline
- Post-Socialist Urbanism
- Socio-Spatial Disparities
- Vacant Land Management
- Suburbanization
- Population Loss
- Resilient Urban Transition
- Housing Abandonment
- Sustainability in Declining Cities
- Research works
- 24k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 6.2k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 26.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +18% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Urbanization and City Planning research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (500 and 480 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 500 works
- 2 United States 480 works
- 3 Poland 335 works
- 4 Germany 334 works
- 5 Russia 244 works
- 6 United Kingdom 239 works
- 7 Japan 191 works
- 8 Italy 162 works
- 9 France 118 works
- 10 Hungary 111 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Urbanization and City Planning research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Urbanization and City Planning research, followed by Politecnico di Milano and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 40 works
- 2 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 29 works
- 3 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 27 works
- 4 University of WarsawPoland 24 works
- 5 University of ŁódźPoland 22 works
- 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 21 works
- 7 University of BelgradeSerbia 20 works
- 8 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 18 works
- 9 The University of TokyoJapan 17 works
- 10 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 17 works
Who are the leading researchers in Urbanization and City Planning?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Urbanization and City Planning include Peter Nijkamp and Nicholas Bloom.
- 1 Peter Nijkamp Netherlands 2k citations
- 2 Nicholas Bloom United States 1.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Urbanization and City Planning research done?
The largest centres of Urbanization and City Planning research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Warsaw (Poland) and Budapest (Hungary). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tirana, Dortmund and Vilnius.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- TiranaAL · 20.9 works22×
- DortmundDE · 27.6 works18×
- VilniusLT · 29.4 works12×
- ŁódźPL · 31.8 works12×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Urbanization and City Planning than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Urbanization and City Planning?
Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, University of Wrocław and University of Belgrade 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Politecnico di MilanoItaly | 69.5 | 30.9% | 10.1× | 29 | +145.0% |
| 2 | University of WrocławPoland | 60.8 | 33.0% | 15.2× | 13 | +204.3% |
| 3 | University of BelgradeSerbia | 59.9 | 30.4% | 8.0× | 20 | +153.1% |
| 4 | University of ŁódźPoland | 59.8 | 25.4% | 19.3× | 22 | +131.9% |
| 5 | West Pomeranian University of Technology in SzczecinPoland | 58.7 | 40.0% | 25.7× | 8 | +296.7% |
| 6 | University of NisSerbia | 58.0 | 13.0% | 24.7× | 17 | +591.5% |
| 7 | University of WarsawPoland | 57.5 | 25.7% | 11.3× | 24 | +56.6% |
| 8 | Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland | 57.0 | 18.6% | 16.2× | 27 | +86.6% |
| 9 | Charles UniversityCzechia | 56.9 | 44.8% | 7.0× | 13 | +124.2% |
| 10 | University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland | 56.8 | 36.5% | 11.9× | 9 | +443.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Urbanization and City Planning research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 18% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Urbanization and City Planning.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.