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Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid?

Overview of attention for article published in Planning Theory, February 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 270)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid?
Published in
Planning Theory, February 2009
DOI 10.1177/1473095208099300
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 529 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 142 26%
Student > Master 94 17%
Researcher 44 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 40 7%
Student > Bachelor 28 5%
Other 71 13%
Unknown 131 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 244 44%
Arts and Humanities 44 8%
Environmental Science 33 6%
Design 26 5%
Engineering 20 4%
Other 32 6%
Unknown 151 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 September 2026.
All research outputs
#6,745,805
of 34,795,682 outputs
Outputs from Planning Theory
#43
of 270 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,015
of 255,503 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Planning Theory
#3
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,795,682 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 270 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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