Most cited papers in Urbanization and City Planning

Urbanization and City Planning

What are the most cited papers in Urbanization and City Planning?

The most cited paper in Urbanization and City Planning is "A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region" (Waldo Tobler, 1970), with 9,808 citations. Next come "Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things" (4,757) and "The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)" (2,175).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 341 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region Waldo Tobler · Economic Geography	Jun 1970	9,808
2	Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Mark Jackson · Emotion, space and society	20 Nov 2010	4,757
3	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 Open access	29 Dec 2017	2,175
4	Why landscapes of the past are important for the future Marc Antrop · Landscape and Urban Planning	24 Dec 2003	1,513
5	Ordinary cities: between modernity and development Azat Zana Gündoğan, Martin J. Murray · Cultural Geographies	2007	1,477
6	The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets Michael Heller · Harvard Law Review	1998	1,350
7	Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable? Reid Ewing · Journal of the American Planning Association	31 Mar 1997	1,336
8	The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory Ananya Roy · Regional Studies	12 May 2008	1,312
9	Society: Realizing China's urban dream Xuemei Bai, Peijun Shi, Yansui Liu · Nature Open access	4 May 2014	1,174
10	Urban agglomeration: An evolving concept of an emerging phenomenon Chuanglin Fang, Danlin Yu · Landscape and Urban Planning Open access	6 Mar 2017	1,016
11	Land, terrain, territory Stuart Elden · Progress in Human Geography Open access	21 Apr 2010	930
12	Collaborative planning: Shaping places in fragmented societies Mark Tewdwr‐Jones · Journal of Rural Studies	Apr 1998	915
13	Seeing Through the ‘Good Farmer's’ Eyes: Towards Developing an Understanding of the Social Symbolic Value of ‘Productivist’ Behaviour Rob J.F. Burton · Sociologia Ruralis Open access	19 Mar 2004	893
14	Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by ‘increasing vs. decreasing balance’ land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages Hualou Long, Yurui Li, Yansui Liu et al. · Land Use Policy	24 May 2011	883
15	Shrinking Cities: Urban Challenges of Globalization Cristina Martínez-Fernández, Ivonne Audirac, Sylvie Fol et al. · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	Feb 2012	878
16	Discipline and punishment: The birth of prison P Benoit, o̊Manhattan Borough Director · Journal of Criminal Justice	1980	858
17	Interrelationship of Migration and Housing in Slovakia Peter Sika, Jarmila Vidová · Electronic Sumy State University Institutional Repository (Sumy State University) Open access	Oct 2017	805
18	Greening the Rust Belt: A Green Infrastructure Model for Right Sizing America's Shrinking Cities Joseph Schilling, Jonathan Logan · Journal of the American Planning Association	9 Sep 2008	765
19	New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance Mark Davidson, Loretta Lees · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space	Jul 2005	715
20	Gentrification and the Rent Gap Neil Smith · Annals of the Association of American Geographers	Sep 1987	703
21	Social and Ethnic Segregation in Europe: Levels, Causes, and Effects S. Musterd · Journal of Urban Affairs	19 Jul 2005	658
22	Thinking cities through elsewhere Jennifer Robinson · Progress in Human Geography	21 Aug 2015	652
23	The trajectories of European cities, 1960–2005 Ivan Nicholas Turok, Vlad Mykhnenko · Cities	19 Apr 2007	643
24	Are European cities becoming dispersed? Marjo Kasanko, José I. Barredo, Carlo Lavalle et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning	11 Apr 2005	643
25	Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges Hannah Gosnell, Jesse Abrams · GeoJournal	7 Jul 2009	636
26	Challenges and the way forward in China’s new-type urbanization Mingxing Chen, Weidong Liu, Dadao Lu · Land Use Policy Open access	Aug 2015	624
27	The allocation and management of critical resources in rural China under restructuring: Problems and prospects Hualou Long, Shuangshuang Tu, Dazhuan Ge et al. · Journal of Rural Studies Open access	31 Mar 2016	619
28	The Polycentric Urban Region: Towards a Research Agenda Robert C. Kloosterman, S. Musterd · Urban Studies	Apr 2001	596
29	Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City Loretta Lees · Urban Studies	Nov 2003	583
30	Residential preferences and neighborhood racial segregation: A test of the schelling segregation model William A. V. Clark · Demography Open access	Feb 1991	576
31	The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form Lorraine Cairnes · URBAN DESIGN International	Sep 1996	556
32	It all used to be better? Different generations on continuity and change in urban children's daily use of space Lia Karsten · Children s Geographies	29 Nov 2005	550
33	Amenities Drive Urban Growth Terry Nichols Clark, Richard Lloyd, Kenneth K. Wong et al. · Journal of Urban Affairs	Dec 2002	541
34	Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA: A Comparison of Transformation Patterns and Local Strategies Thorsten Wiechmann, Karina Pallagst · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	Feb 2012	529
35	Alternative Explanations for Inner-City Gentrification: A Canadian Assessment David Ley · Annals of the Association of American Geographers	Dec 1986	522
36	Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism Fulong Wu · Urban Studies Open access	5 Sep 2017	519
37	Urban villages under China's rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods Yuting Liu, Shenjing He, Fulong Wu et al. · Habitat International	16 Sep 2009	509
38	Socioeconomic segregation in European capital cities. Increasing separation between poor and rich S. Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham et al. · Urban Geography Open access	16 Sep 2016	504
39	Sustainable urban form for Chinese compact cities: Challenges of a rapid urbanized economy Haiyan Chen, Beisi Jia, Stephen Siu Yu Lau · Habitat International	5 Sep 2007	504
40	Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960–2000 Neil Brenner · Review of International Political Economy	Jun 2004	487
41	The new urban crisis: How our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class – And what we can do about it Amitrajeet A. Batabyal · Regional Studies	28 Nov 2017	478
42	Building new countryside in China: A geographical perspective Hualou Long, Yansui Liu, Xiubin Li et al. · Land Use Policy	25 Jul 2009	478
43	The Treatment of Space and Place in the New Strategic Spatial Planning in Europe Patsy Healey · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	24 Feb 2004	475
44	The financialisation of rental housing: A comparative analysis of New York City and Berlin Desiree Fields, Sabina Uffer · Urban Studies	31 Jul 2014	470
45	Soft Spaces, Fuzzy Boundaries, and Metagovernance: The New Spatial Planning in the Thames Gateway Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space	3 Dec 2008	469
46	Urban administrative restructuring, changing scale relations and local economic development in China Laurence J.C. · Political Geography	16 Dec 2004	469
47	Measuring Gentrification and Displacement in Greater London Rowland Atkinson · Urban Studies Open access	2000	467
48	Small Cities? Towards a Research Agenda David Bell, Mark Jayne · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research	Sep 2009	465
49	Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia Alexander V. Prishchepov, Daniel B. Müller, Maxim Dubinin et al. · Land Use Policy	24 Jul 2012	462
50	Conceptualizing Urban Shrinkage Annegret Haase, Dieter Rink, Katrin Großmann et al. · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space Open access	2014	453

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