Louis Albrechts

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Louis Albrechts is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis Albrechts has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Urban Studies, 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 11 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Louis Albrechts's work include Urban Planning and Governance (21 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (11 papers) and Rural development and sustainability (11 papers). Louis Albrechts is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (21 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (11 papers) and Rural development and sustainability (11 papers). Louis Albrechts collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Slovakia. Louis Albrechts's co-authors include Patsy Healey, Klaus R. Kunzmann, Alessandro Balducci, E Swyngedouw, Angela Barbanente, Valeria Monno, Peter Roberts, Frank Moulaert, Guy Baeten and Pieter Van den Broeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Studies and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Louis Albrechts

68 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Louis Albrechts Belgium	25	1.2k	674	592	528	381	70	2.8k
Mark Tewdwr‐Jones United Kingdom	32	1.5k 1.3×	886 1.3×	492 0.8×	766 1.5×	520 1.4×	143	3.7k
Graham Haughton United Kingdom	28	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	447 0.8×	695 1.3×	288 0.8×	115	3.3k
Andreas Faludi Netherlands	34	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 2.6×	580 1.0×	590 1.1×	464 1.2×	140	4.0k
Tim Richardson United Kingdom	30	678 0.6×	707 1.0×	406 0.7×	848 1.6×	214 0.6×	76	2.8k
Ernest R. Alexander United States	24	691 0.6×	332 0.5×	376 0.6×	390 0.7×	166 0.4×	70	2.1k
Andrew E. G. Jonas United Kingdom	35	1.8k 1.5×	1.5k 2.3×	743 1.3×	1.4k 2.6×	225 0.6×	94	4.5k
Pauline Mc̱Guirk Australia	33	1.1k 0.9×	450 0.7×	358 0.6×	727 1.4×	157 0.4×	94	2.7k
Philip Allmendinger United Kingdom	22	783 0.7×	465 0.7×	182 0.3×	294 0.6×	183 0.5×	58	1.6k
Susan S. Fainstein United States	31	2.3k 1.9×	737 1.1×	380 0.6×	1.9k 3.5×	197 0.5×	83	4.6k
Eric Sheppard United States	34	1.1k 0.9×	846 1.3×	415 0.7×	1.5k 2.8×	194 0.5×	93	4.0k

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Albrechts, Louis. (2017). Revival: The Changing Institutional Landscape of Planning (2001). 4 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis. (2016). Some ingredients for revisiting strategic spatial planning. 405–420. 2 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis. (2015). Ingredients for a More Radical Strategic Spatial Planning. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 42(3). 510–525. 84 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis & Alessandro Balducci. (2013). Practicing Strategic Planning: In Search of Critical Features to Explain the Strategic Character of Plans. disP - The Planning Review. 49(3). 16–27. 123 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis, et al.. (2010). Strategische Ruimtelijke Projecten: maatschappelijk en ruimtelijk vernieuwend. 2 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis. (2010). More of the Same is Not Enough! How Could Strategic Spatial Planning Be Instrumental in Dealing with the Challenges Ahead?. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 37(6). 1115–1127. 114 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis. (2009). From Strategic Spatial Plans to Spatial Strategies. 10(1). 142–145. 3 indexed citations

Healey, Patsy, David E. Booher, Jacob Torfing, et al.. (2008). Civic Engagement, Spatial Planning and Democracy as a Way of LifeCivic Engagement and the Quality of Urban PlacesEnhancing Effective and Democratic Governance through Empowered Participation: Some Critical ReflectionsOne Humble Journey towards Planning for a More Sustainable Hong Kong: A Need to Institutionalise Civic EngagementCivic Engagement and Urban Reform in BrazilSetting the Scene. Planning Theory & Practice. 9(3). 379–414. 35 indexed citations

Albrechts, Louis. (2006). Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning. Town Planning Review. 77(5). 633. 4 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis. (2006). Shifts in Strategic Spatial Planning? Some Evidence from Europe and Australia. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 38(6). 1149–1170. 166 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis. (2005). Creativity as a Drive for Change. Planning Theory. 4(3). 247–269. 54 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis. (2004). A challenge for the global planning community. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 24(1). 26–27. 4 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis & Pieter Van den Broeck. (2004). From discourse to facts: The case of the ROM project in Ghent, Belgium. Town Planning Review. 75(2). 127–150. 14 indexed citations

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Teitz, Michael B., Ann Forsyth, Dowell Myers, & Louis Albrechts. (2004). Responses to the Graduate Planning School Study. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 24(1). 23–27. 4 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis, Jan Schreurs, & Pieter Van den Broeck. (2003). In Search of Indicators and Processes for Strengthening Spatial Quality: The Case of Belgium. Built Environment. 29(4). 288–295. 5 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis, Patsy Healey, & Klaus R. Kunzmann. (2003). Strategic Spatial Planning and Regional Governance in Europe. Journal of the American Planning Association. 69(2). 113–129. 303 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis. (2001). The revival of strategic spatial planning. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 92(3). 385–386. 123 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis. (2001). How to Proceed from Image and Discourse to Action: As Applied to the Flemish Diamond. Urban Studies. 38(4). 733–745. 3 indexed citations

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Baeten, Guy, E Swyngedouw, & Louis Albrechts. (1999). Politics, Institutions and Regional Restructuring Processes: From Managed Growth to Planned Fragmentation in the Reconversion of Belgium's Last Coal Mining Region. Regional Studies. 33(3). 247–258. 42 indexed citations

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Albrechts, Louis. (1997). Genesis of a Western European Spatial Policy?. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 17(2). 158–167. 10 indexed citations

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