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