Ten Years of British Town Planning Research: A Case of Town Planning Review

This paper makes a statistic analysis on Town Planning Review (TPR) from 2002 to 2011, from the following aspects: journal capacity, number of articles, authors' organizations and nationalities, journal's international vision, publication lag, research area and popular issues. It puts forward some characteristics during the past 10 years such as increasing of capacity, diversity ofauthorsandshorteningofpublicationlag.�Itfindsoutthatthepopularissues� and literature outbreak period coincided with the big events influenced by planning policy adjustment and the journal centenary. Then this paper explores the new research trends of the UK's town planning in recent ten years by three main research fields of "spatial planning", "community planning and participation" and "regeneration and renewal".