Most downloaded papers 

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 Using the ART-MMAP neural network to model and predict urban growth: a spatiotemporal data mining approach (2008)
Weiguo Liu, Karen C Seto
2 Strategic (spatial) planning reexamined (2004)
Louis Albrechts
3 Measuring urban sprawl: how can we deal with it? (2008)
Amnon Frenkel, Maya Ashkenazi
4 Land-use policy and planning, theorizing, and modeling: lost in translation, found in complexity? (2008)
Helen Briassoulis
5 The shape of urban experience: a reevaluation of Lynch’s five elements (2006)
Quentin Stevens
6 Policy and planning for large-infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures (2007)
Bent Flyvbjerg
7 Public participation, GIS, and cyberdemocracy: evaluating on-line spatial decision support systems (2001)
Steve Carver, Andrew Evans, Richard Kingston, Ian Turton
8 Types of gated communities (2004)
Jill Grant, Lindsey Mittelsteadt
9 Planning models for the provision of affordable housing (2007)
Michael P Johnson
10 Measuring the public costs and benefits of brownfield versus greenfield development in the Greater Toronto area (2002)
Christopher A De Sousa
11 Moral obligations, planning, and the public interest: a commentary on current British practice (2000)
Heather Campbell, Robert Marshall
12 The New Zealand Resource Management Act: an exercise in delivering sustainable development through an ecological modernisation agenda (2007)
Tony Jackson, Jennifer Dixon
13 Site planning and guiding principles of hi-tech parks in China: Shenzhen as a case study (2008)
Chuanglin Fang, Yichun Xie
14 Modeling urban growth in data-sparse environments: a new approach (2007)
Michail Fragkias, Karen C Seto
15 Internet GIS for public participation (2001)
Zhong-Ren Peng
16 Modeling the value of view in high-rise apartments: a 3D GIS approach (2007)
Shi-Ming Yu, Sun-Sheng Han, Chee-Hian Chai
17 Self-organizing pedestrian movement (2001)
Dirk Helbing, Péter Molnár, Illés J Farkas, Kai Bolay
18 Space syntax: some inconsistencies (2004)
Carlo Ratti
19 Viewsphere: a GIS-based 3D visibility analysis for urban design evaluation (2007)
Perry Pei-Ju Yang, Simon Yunuar Putra, Wenjing Li
20 Does the compact-city paradigm foster sustainability? An empirical study in Taiwan (2006)
Jen-Jia Lin, An-Tsei Yang
21 Measures of spatial accessibility to health care in a GIS environment: synthesis and a case study in the Chicago region (2003)
Wei Luo, Fahui Wang
22 Challenges in evaluating models of geographic complexity (2007)
Steven M Manson
23 Determinants of land-use change patterns in the Netherlands (2004)
Peter H Verburg, Jan R Ritsema van Eck, Ton C M de Nijs, Martin J Dijst, Paul Schot
24 Predicting the scenic beauty value of mapped landscape changes in a mountainous region through the use of GIS (2007)
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Ian D Bishop, Peter Bebi
25 The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and structure in everyday encounters with space (2007)
Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell
26 Privatized suburbia: the planning implications of private roads (2007)
Jill Grant, Andrew Curran
27 A GIS-based irregular cellular automata model of land-use change (2007)
Daniel Stevens, Suzana Dragićević
28 A geographic automata model of residential mobility (2007)
Paul M Torrens
29 Accessibility Analyst: an integrated GIS tool for accessibility analysis in urban transportation planning (2004)
Suxia Liu, Xuan Zhu
30 Towards the evaluation, description, and creation of soundscapes in urban open spaces (2007)
Mei Zhang, Jian Kang