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 | | Strategic (spatial) planning reexamined (2004)
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| | Louis Albrechts |
| 3 | | Measures of spatial accessibility to health care in a GIS environment: synthesis and a case study in the Chicago region (2003)
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| | Wei Luo, Fahui Wang |
| 4 | | Measuring urban sprawl: how can we deal with it? (2008)
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| | Amnon Frenkel, Maya Ashkenazi |
| 5 | | Types of gated communities (2004)
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| | Jill Grant, Lindsey Mittelsteadt |
| 6 | | How to make housing sustainable? The Dutch experience (2005)
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| | Hugo Priemus |
| 7 | | Cartographic analysis in urban morphology (2009)
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| | Paulo Pinho, Vitor Oliveira |
| 8 | | Moral obligations, planning, and the public interest: a commentary on current British practice (2000)
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| | Heather Campbell, Robert Marshall |
| 9 | | The mixed success of nodes as a smart growth planning policy (2009)
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| | Pierre Filion |
| 10 | | Measuring the public costs and benefits of brownfield versus greenfield development in the Greater Toronto area (2002)
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| | Christopher A De Sousa |
| 11 | | Land-use policy and planning, theorizing, and modeling: lost in translation, found in complexity? (2008)
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| | Helen Briassoulis |
| 12 | | Self-organizing pedestrian movement (2001)
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| | Dirk Helbing, Péter Molnár, Illés J Farkas, Kai Bolay |
| 13 | | A behavioral simulation model for metropolitan policy analysis and planning: residential location and housing market components of UrbanSim (2000)
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| | Paul Waddell |
| 14 | | Institutional barriers to sustainable construction (2002)
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| | Ellen M van Bueren, Hugo Priemus |
| 15 | | Determination of thresholds of visual impact: the case of wind turbines (2002)
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| | Ian D Bishop |
| 16 | | Sustainable urban development and the challenge of policy integration: an assessment of planning tools for integrating spatial and environmental planning in the Netherlands (2009)
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| | Hens Runhaar, Peter P J Driessen, Laila Soer |
| 17 | | Using the SLEUTH urban growth model to simulate the impacts of future policy scenarios on urban land use in the Baltimore – Washington metropolitan area (2004)
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| | Claire A Jantz, Scott J Goetz, Mary K Shelley |
| 18 | | Gated housing estates in the Arab world: case studies in Lebanon and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2002)
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| | Georg Glasze, Abdallah Alkhayyal |
| 19 | | The shape of urban experience: a reevaluation of Lynch’s five elements (2006)
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| | Quentin Stevens |
| 20 | | Urban sprawl and the cost of public services (2003)
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| | John I Carruthers, Gudmundur F Ulfarsson |
| 21 | | An integrated evaluation method of accessibility, quality of life, and social interaction (2008)
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| | Kenji Doi, Masanobu Kii, Hitomi Nakanishi |
| 22 | | Segueways into cyberspace: multiple geographies of the digital divide (2001)
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| | Barney Warf |
| 23 | | Constructing climate change scenarios of urban heat island intensity and air quality (2008)
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| | Robert L Wilby |
| 24 | | Explaining changes in walking and bicycling behavior: challenges for transportation research (2009)
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| | Kevin J Krizek, Susan L Handy, Ann Forsyth |
| 25 | | Public participation and the art of governance (2001)
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| | John Pløger |
| 26 | | Space, behavior, and environmental perception in open-plan offices: a prospective study (2009)
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| | Mahbub Rashid, Jean Wineman, Craig Zimring |
| 27 | | Why do residential developers prefer large exurban lots? Infrastructure costs and exurban development (2009)
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| | Rayman Mohamed |
| 28 | | Accessibility Analyst: an integrated GIS tool for accessibility analysis in urban transportation planning (2004)
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| | Suxia Liu, Xuan Zhu |
| 29 | | GIS-based geocoding methods for area-based addresses and 3D addresses in urban areas (2009)
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| | Jiyeong Lee |
| 30 | | Space syntax: some inconsistencies (2004)
|
| | Carlo Ratti |
