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 Strategic (spatial) planning reexamined (2004)
Louis Albrechts
3 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
4 Measuring urban sprawl: how can we deal with it? (2008)
Amnon Frenkel, Maya Ashkenazi
5 Types of gated communities (2004)
Jill Grant, Lindsey Mittelsteadt
6 How to make housing sustainable? The Dutch experience (2005)
Hugo Priemus
7 Cartographic analysis in urban morphology (2009)
Paulo Pinho, Vitor Oliveira
8 Moral obligations, planning, and the public interest: a commentary on current British practice (2000)
Heather Campbell, Robert Marshall
9 The mixed success of nodes as a smart growth planning policy (2009)
Pierre Filion
10 Measuring the public costs and benefits of brownfield versus greenfield development in the Greater Toronto area (2002)
Christopher A De Sousa
11 Land-use policy and planning, theorizing, and modeling: lost in translation, found in complexity? (2008)
Helen Briassoulis
12 Self-organizing pedestrian movement (2001)
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)
Paul Waddell
14 Institutional barriers to sustainable construction (2002)
Ellen M van Bueren, Hugo Priemus
15 Determination of thresholds of visual impact: the case of wind turbines (2002)
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)
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)
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)
Georg Glasze, Abdallah Alkhayyal
19 The shape of urban experience: a reevaluation of Lynch’s five elements (2006)
Quentin Stevens
20 Urban sprawl and the cost of public services (2003)
John I Carruthers, Gudmundur F Ulfarsson
21 An integrated evaluation method of accessibility, quality of life, and social interaction (2008)
Kenji Doi, Masanobu Kii, Hitomi Nakanishi
22 Segueways into cyberspace: multiple geographies of the digital divide (2001)
Barney Warf
23 Constructing climate change scenarios of urban heat island intensity and air quality (2008)
Robert L Wilby
24 Explaining changes in walking and bicycling behavior: challenges for transportation research (2009)
Kevin J Krizek, Susan L Handy, Ann Forsyth
25 Public participation and the art of governance (2001)
John Pløger
26 Space, behavior, and environmental perception in open-plan offices: a prospective study (2009)
Mahbub Rashid, Jean Wineman, Craig Zimring
27 Why do residential developers prefer large exurban lots? Infrastructure costs and exurban development (2009)
Rayman Mohamed
28 Accessibility Analyst: an integrated GIS tool for accessibility analysis in urban transportation planning (2004)
Suxia Liu, Xuan Zhu
29 GIS-based geocoding methods for area-based addresses and 3D addresses in urban areas (2009)
Jiyeong Lee
30 Space syntax: some inconsistencies (2004)
Carlo Ratti