Normative versus Actual Methodologies in Planning Research: A Hybrid Picture

Toit, Jacques du; Boshoff, Nelius; Mariette, Niclesse

doi:10.1177/0739456x16658095

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“…Berke and Godschalk 2009; Ewing and Cervero 2010; Fang 2015; Park, Huang, and Newman 2016; Stevens 2017), and meta-research articles (cf. Du Toit, Boshoff, and Mariette 2017; Goldstein and Carmin 2007; Goldstein and Maier 2010; Lyles and Stevens 2014; Sanchez 2017; Stevens, Lyles, and Berke 2014) having been published in the past decade or so.…”

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Why Do Some Articles in Planning Journals Get Cited More than Others?

Stevens

Park

Tian

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Journal of Planning Education and Research

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The planning literature has taken a recent interest in journal article citation counts, which are often used to measure the scholarly impact of articles, authors, or university departments. However, little is known about the factors that determine citation counts for planning-related articles. We find that citation counts in planning vary across planning topics and are also influenced by other journal, author, and article-related factors. We provide recommendations to planning researchers for increasing the impact of their research, and advise consumers of citation counts in planning to consider making particular adjustments to the counts to make them more meaningful.

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Why Do Some Articles in Planning Journals Get Cited More than Others?

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Park

Tian

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Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…Within the 2012 JPER symposium dedicated to the engagement of planning research with practice, Campbell (2012) argued that planning research has increasingly abandoned any ambition to make the world a better place and made a plea for researchers to change direction towards a more engaged approach to scholarship. More recently, Du Toit, Boshoff and Mariette (2017) discussed the scarcity of academic publications coming out of action research, raising concerns regarding its real compatibility with academic publishing conventions. As already addressed elsewhere (Saija 2014b), this issue of compatibility comes from some of the epistemological differences between action research and traditional research, which lead to substantial dissimilarities in their written outcomes.…”

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An Argument for Action Research-Inspired Participatory Mapping

Saija

Pappalardo

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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After decades of both enthusiasm and criticism over participatory mapping in planning, some scholars are accusing it of being an empty ritual, unable to deal with substantial issues or being servile in the face of power. This article presents a participatory mapping and planning experience carried out by an action-research partnership in the Simeto valley (Italy). It claims that reframing participatory mapping through action research means both dealing directly with power and addressing substantial issues. Action research-based mapping’s effectiveness is related less to mappers’ ability to map spatial changes and more to the impact that mapping has on the mappers themselves.

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“…The absence of experimental methods is not unique to the Journal of the American Planning Association. A review of the methods used by planners in the Journal of Planning Education and Research similarly shows that planners rarely experiment (Du Toit et al, 2017). We understand that experimentation is rare in planning because it is difficult.…”

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The Impact of Residential Densification on Perceptions of Public Space

Honey-Rosés¹,

Zapata²

2021

Journal of the American Planning Association

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Problem, research strategy, and findings: City leaders are under pressure to increase urban residential density to provide affordable housing and meet sustainability objectives. Yet despite the advantages of urban densification, communities throughout North America persistently oppose new developments and housing projects in their neighborhoods. The impact of residential densification on the quality of life for existing residents is ambiguous. In this study we focus on measuring the impact of one key aspect of urban densification: the perceived quality of public space. We use an experimental design to increase pedestrians and stationary users in a pedestrianized green street for randomly selected periods over 3 weeks. We collected surveys with and without our pedestrian treatment and find that adding users to a residential street decreased the perceived quality of the space overall. The changes in perceptions were small yet significant and illustrate the real tradeoffs that planners must consider when increasing urban density in cities, especially in lower density residential communities.Takeaway for practice: Increasing the number of public users in a residential neighborhood may slightly decrease the perceived quality of the public space. Women's perceptions differ from those of men, and women are more sensitive to the addition of public users. We illustrate how planners may use public life experiments to anticipate how the public might respond to future changes in the public realm.

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Normative versus Actual Methodologies in Planning Research: A Hybrid Picture

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Why Do Some Articles in Planning Journals Get Cited More than Others?

Why Do Some Articles in Planning Journals Get Cited More than Others?

An Argument for Action Research-Inspired Participatory Mapping

The Impact of Residential Densification on Perceptions of Public Space

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