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Journal of the American Planning Association Template

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About the Journal of the American Planning Association format

Journal of the American Planning Association is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Urbanization and City Planning, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation.

PublisherTaylor & Francis
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago, T&F)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of the American Planning Association 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inUrbanization and City Planning Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies Human auditory perception and evaluation Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Urban Planning and Governance
ISSN0194-4363
Citation impact (2-yr)2.55
h-index161
i10-index1,267
Total citations121,485
Top institutions publishing hereTwitter (United States)
Journal websitewww.tandfonline.com
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Papers published in Journal of the American Planning Association per year

77
2014
74
2015
56
2016
72
2017
58
2018
72
2019
111
2020
89
2021
92
2022
93
2023
92
2024
82
2025

Citation impact of Journal of the American Planning Association by publication year

2.4K
2014
1.8K
2015
1.5K
2016
2.3K
2017
630
2018
2.7K
2019
2.7K
2020
1.6K
2021
928
2022
509
2023
472
2024
49
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of the American Planning Association

Travel and the Built Environment

Reid Ewing, Robert Cervero · 13 May 2010

Problem: Localities and states are turning to land planning and urban design for help in reducing automobile use and related social and environmental costs. The effects of such strategies on travel demand have not been generalized in recent years from the multitude of available studies. Purpose: We conducted a meta-analysis of the built environment-travel literature…

5,172 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning

Ananya Roy · 30 Jun 2005

Many of the significant urban transformations of the new century are taking place in the developing world. In particular, informality, once associated with poor squatter settlements, is now seen as a generalized mode of metropolitan urbanization. This article focuses on urban informality to highlight the challenges of dealing with the “unplannable” exceptions to the order…

2,185 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Impervious Surface Coverage: The Emergence of a Key Environmental Indicator

Chester Arnold, C. James Gibbons · 30 Jun 1996

Abstract Planners concerned with water resource protection in urbanizing areas must deal with the adverse impacts of polluted runoff. Impervious surface coverage is a quantifiable land-use indicator that correlates closely with these impacts. Once the role and distribution of impervious coverage are understood, a wide range of strategies to reduce impervious surfaces and their impacts…

2,128 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People

Neil Smith · 1 Oct 1979

Abstract Consumer sovereignty hypotheses dominate explanations of gentrification but data on the number of suburbanites returning to the city casts doubt on this hypothesis. In fact, gentrification is an expected product of the relatively unhampered operation of the land and housing markets. The economic depreciation of capital invested in nineteenth century inner-city neighborhoods and the…

1,737 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities?: Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development

Scott Campbell · 30 Sep 1996

Abstract Nothing inherent in the discipline steers planners either toward environmental protection or toward economic development—or toward a third goal of planning: social equity. Instead, planners work within the tension generated among these three fundamental aims, which, collectively, I call the “planner's triangle,” with sustainable development located at its center. This center cannot be reached…

1,645 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Journal of the American Planning Association template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of the American Planning Association use?
Journal of the American Planning Association uses Author–year (Chicago, T&F) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of the American Planning Association 12 (3): 45–58.
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