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.

1 Retrieving the baby from the bathwater: slum upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
Sumila Gulyani, Ellen M Bassett
2 Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability (2006)
Richard Cowell, Susan Owens
3 Immigrant entrepreneurship, institutional discrimination, and implications for public policy: a case study in Toronto (2007)
Carlos Teixeira, Lucia Lo, Marie Truelove
4 Corporations and the governance of environmental risk (2007)
Andrew Gouldson, Jan Bebbington
5 Cities and regions competing in the global economy: knowledge and local development policies (2007)
Edward J Malecki
6 Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance? (2001)
Dan Bloomfield, Kevin Collins, Charlotte Fry, Richard Munton
7 Locating and explaining area-based urban initiatives: New Deal for Communities in England (2004)
Paul Lawless
8 Towards sustainability: is integrated appraisal a step in the right direction? (2007)
Sue Kidd, Thomas B Fischer
9 Universities, innovation, and territorial development: a review of the evidence (2007)
Helen Lawton Smith
10 Corporate governance, reputation, and environmental risk (2007)
Michael Power
11 Cost - benefit analysis and environmental policymaking (2001)
Nick Hanley
12 Neighbourhood regeneration and New Labour's third way (2001)
Steven Tiesdell, Philip Allmendinger
13 Regional planning tensions: planning for economic growth and sustainable development in two contrasting English regions (2003)
David Counsell, Graham Haughton
14 Therapeutic landscapes in hospital design: a qualitative assessment by staff and service users of the design of a new mental health inpatient unit (2007)
Sarah Curtis, Wil Gesler, Kathy Fabian, Susan Francis, Stefan Priebe
15 Beauty and the beast? BP’s and Exxon’s positions on global climate change (2000)
Ian H Rowlands
16 Path dependency and the implementation of environmental regulation (2007)
Elizabeth Kirk, Alison Reeves, Kirsty Blackstock
17 Face-to-face, buzz, and knowledge bases: sociospatial implications for learning, innovation, and innovation policy (2007)
Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen, Jan Vang
18 Towards glocal leadership: taking up the challenge of new local governance in Europe? (2007)
Lionel Martins, José Manuel Rodríguez Álvarez
19 Participatory methods for water resources planning (2006)
Giorgos Kallis, Nuno Videira, Paula Antunes, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Clive L Spash, Harry Coccossis, Serafin Corral Quintana, Leandro del Moral, Dionisia Hatzilacou, Gonçalo Lobo, Alexandra Mexa, Pilar Paneque, Belen Pedregal Mateos, Rui Santos
20 Reshaping spaces of local governance? Community strategies and the modernisation of local government in England (2006)
Mike Raco, Gavin Parker, Joe Doak
21 Policy networks and advocacy coalitions: explaining policy change and stability in UK industrial pollution policy? (2000)
Adrian Smith
22 The governance of sustainable development: taking stock and looking forwards (2008)
Andrew Jordan
23 Balancing concentration and dispersion? Public policy and urban structure in Toronto (2000)
Pierre Filion
24 Varieties of glocalisation: the international economic strategies of Amsterdam, Manchester, and Zurich compared (2007)
Nico van der Heiden, Pieter Terhorst
25 Urban societies and dominant political coalitions in the internationalization of cities (2007)
Bernard Jouve
26 Cooperation and the capacity for control: regulatory styles and the evolving influence of environmental regulations in the UK (2004)
Andy Gouldson
27 Is urban regeneration good for health? Perceptions and theories of the health impacts of urban change (2002)
Sarah Curtis, Ben Cave, Adam Coutts
28 What are we gaining from stakeholder involvement? Observations from environmental planning in the Great Lakes (2001)
Thomas C Beierle, David M Konisky
29 Social and environmental accounting, auditing, and reporting: a potential source of organisational risk governance? (2007)
Jan Bebbington, Ian Thomson
30 Boundary work: knowledge, policy, and the urban environment (2006)
Susan Owens, Judith Petts, Harriet Bulkeley