Most downloaded papers 

The papers listed below are the thirty research papers downloaded most often from the Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 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.


A list of the 'Revisiting ..." papers by authors of the most downloaded papers each year are here.


1 Getting involved in plan making: participation and stakeholder involvement in local and regional spatial strategies in England (2010)
Mark Baker, Stephen Hincks, Graeme Sherriff
2 Ethnic-minority businesses in the UK: a review of research and policy developments (2008)
Monder Ram, Trevor Jones
3 The governance of sustainable development: taking stock and looking forwards (2008)
Andrew Jordan
4 Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability (2006)
Richard Cowell, Susan Owens
5 The implementation of EU environmental policy: a policy problem without a political solution? (1999)
A Jordan
6 Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance? (2001)
Dan Bloomfield, Kevin Collins, Charlotte Fry, Richard Munton
7 Face-to-face, buzz, and knowledge bases: sociospatial implications for learning, innovation, and innovation policy (2007)
Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen, Jan Vang
8 Policy networks and advocacy coalitions: explaining policy change and stability in UK industrial pollution policy? (2000)
Adrian Smith
9 The limits of property-led regeneration (1993)
R Imrie, H Thomas
10 What are we gaining from stakeholder involvement? Observations from environmental planning in the Great Lakes (2001)
Thomas C Beierle, David M Konisky
11 The rise of urban growth coalitions, UK-style? (1991)
A Harding
12 Urban regime theory in comparative perspective (1994)
G Stoker, K Mossberger
13 Spatial planning, devolution, and new planning spaces (2010)
Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton
14 Discourse coalitions and the Australian climate change policy network (2000)
Harriet Bulkeley
15 Urban regeneration in London Docklands: a five-year policy review (1988)
A Church
16 Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK (2009)
Heather Lovell, Harriet Bulkeley, Susan Owens
17 The challenge of expenditure-assignment reform in Russia (1994)
J Martinez-Vazquez
18 Representing people, representing nature, representing the world (2001)
John O'Neill
19 Urban policy in the Thatcher decade: English inner-city policy, 1979-90 (1991)
P Lawless
20 Measurement of spatial equity (1993)
M Truelove
21 Informal local taxation in developing countries (1992)
R Prud'homme
22 Revenue sharing in Russia (1994)
R Bahl, S Wallace
23 Overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation—a question of multilevel governance? (2010)
Helene Amundsen, Frode Berglund, Hege Westskog
24 The spatial theory of electoral competition: instability, institutions, and information (1983)
D Austen-Smith
25 The greening of the EU: the Common Agricultural Policy and the Structural Funds (1999)
A Lenschow
26 City Challenge: sustainable process or temporary gesture? (1995)
S Davoudi, P Healey
27 Regulatory federalism in the European Community (1992)
G Majone
28 Regional Development Agencies and the knowledge economy: harnessing the potential of universities (1999)
J B Goddard, P Chatterton
29 Collective order and economic coordination in industrial agglomerations: the technopoles of Southern California (1990)
A J Scott, A S Paul
30 High-technology industry and regional development in Britain: the case of the Cambridge phenomenon (1989)
D E Keeble