The papers listed below are the thirty research papers downloaded most often from the Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design website in the last twelve months. The papers are ranked in order of their popularity, such that the paper ranked 1 has been downloaded most often. The list is updated monthly, with statistics based upon a rolling twelve-month period. The figure in parentheses is the year in which the paper was published in print.
| 1 | | Urban form and social sustainability: the role of density and housing type (2009)
| | | Glen Bramley, Sinéad Power |
| 2 | | How good is volunteered geographical information? A comparative study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey datasets (2010)
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| | Mordechai Haklay |
| 3 | | Mobile Landscapes: using location data from cell phones for urban analysis (2006)
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| | Carlo Ratti, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Sarah Williams, Dennis Frenchman |
| 4 | | Social networks, mobility biographies, and travel: survey challenges (2008)
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| | K W Axhausen |
| 5 | | The privatization of public space: modeling and measuring publicness (2011)
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| | Jeremy Németh, Stephen Schmidt |
| 6 | | Sprawl retrofit: sustainable urban form in unsustainable places (2011)
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| | Emily Talen |
| 7 | | Moral obligations, planning, and the public interest: a commentary on current British practice (2000)
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| | Heather Campbell, Robert Marshall |
| 8 | | Strategic (spatial) planning reexamined (2004)
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| | Louis Albrechts |
| 9 | | The communicative turn in planning theory and its implications for spatial strategy formations (1996)
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| | P Healey |
| 10 | | Sustainable cities: transport, energy, and urban form (1997)
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| | D Banister, S Watson, C Wood |
| 11 | | Policy and planning for large-infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures (2007)
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| | Bent Flyvbjerg |
| 12 | | Do mountains exist? Towards an ontology of landforms (2003)
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| | Barry Smith, David M Mark |
| 13 | | Types of gated communities (2004)
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| | Jill Grant, Lindsey Mittelsteadt |
| 14 | | How to make housing sustainable? The Dutch experience (2005)
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| | Hugo Priemus |
| 15 | | Why are the design and development of public spaces significant for cities? (1999)
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| | A Madanipour |
| 16 | | Integrating urban form and demographics in water-demand management: an empirical case study of Portland, Oregon (2010)
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| | Vivek Shandas, G Hossein Parandvash |
| 17 | | Public participation, GIS, and cyberdemocracy: evaluating on-line spatial decision support systems (2001)
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| | Steve Carver, Andrew Evans, Richard Kingston, Ian Turton |
| 18 | | Ice-ray: a note on the generation of Chinese lattice designs (1977)
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| | G Stiny |
| 19 | | More of the same is not enough! How could strategic spatial planning be instrumental in dealing with the challenges ahead? (2010)
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| | Louis Albrechts |
| 20 | | Studying cities to learn about minds: some possible implications of space syntax for spatial cognition (2012)
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| | Bill Hillier |
| 21 | | A qualitative GIS approach to mapping urban neighborhoods with children to promote physical activity and child-friendly community planning (2010)
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| | Pamela Wridt |
| 22 | | Topological analysis of urban street networks (2004)
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| | Bin Jiang, Christophe Claramunt |
| 23 | | Measuring urban compactness in UK towns and cities (2002)
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| | Elizabeth Burton |
| 24 | | Public participation and the art of governance (2001)
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| | John Pløger |
| 25 | | Simulating demography and housing demand in an urban region under scenarios of growth and shrinkage (2012)
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| | Steffen Lauf, Dagmar Haase, Ralf Seppelt, Nina Schwarz |
| 26 | | Space syntax (1976)
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| | B Hillier, A Leaman , P Stansall, M Bedford |
| 27 | | Introduction to shape and shape grammars (1980)
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| | G Stiny |
| 28 | | Relationships between land use, socioeconomic factors, and travel patterns in Britain (2001)
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| | Dominic Stead |
| 29 | | A decade on: reflections on the Resource Management Act 1991 and the practice of urban planning in New Zealand (2001)
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| | Harvey C Perkins, David C Thorns |
| 30 | | The animals of architecture: some census results on N-omino populations for N = 6, 7, 8 (1974)
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| | L March, R Matela |
