Category Archives: planning

Where Do the Top Planning Scholars Come From?

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

My recent analyses of the 2015 citation data considered the school where urban planning faculty are currently teaching.  In a 2013 Planetizen article, I looked at where planning faculty received their degrees, which showed many of these schools did not … Continue reading →

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Another Way to Slice the Data: Performance by Rank

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

To control for departments with more senior faculty that have higher citation rates, I used the median number of citations for ranking purposes (see 2015 rankings).  As might be expected, there is significant skewness in the data, attributable to a … Continue reading →

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What Is Planning?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Tom Sanchez

By analyzing the areas of expertise and interests of 851 undergraduate and graduate planning faculty members, Tom Sanchez investigates what planning is, what it is not, and what it could be.  Read more…

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