| Urban planning and the development process D Adams UCL Press/Routledge, 1994 | 496* | 1994 |
| Greenfields, brownfields and housing development D Adams, C Watkins Blackwell Science, 2002 | 325* | 2002 |
| Shaping places: urban planning, design and development D Adams, S Tiesdell Routledge, 2012 | 279 | 2012 |
| Planners as market actors: Rethinking state–market relations in land and property D Adams, S Tiesdell Planning Theory & Practice 11 (2), 187-207, 2010 | 248 | 2010 |
| Brownfield development: A comparison of North American and British approaches D Adams, C De Sousa, S Tiesdell Urban studies 47 (1), 75-104, 2010 | 227 | 2010 |
| Urban renewal in Hong Kong: transition from development corporation to renewal authority D Adams, EM Hastings Land Use Policy 18 (3), 245-258, 2001 | 222 | 2001 |
| Ownership constraints to brownfield redevelopment D Adams, A Disberry, N Hutchison, T Munjoma Environment and Planning A 33 (3), 453-477, 2001 | 197 | 2001 |
| The value of planning D Adams, C Watkins Royal Town Planning Institute: London, UK, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
| Exploring the ‘notional property developer’as a policy construct D Adams, R Croudace, S Tiesdell Urban Studies 49 (12), 2577-2596, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Planning, public policy and property markets D Adams, C Watkins, M White Blackwell Publishing, 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| Why not build faster?: Explaining the speed at which British house-builders develop new homes for owner-occupation D Adams, C Leishman, C Moore Town Planning Review 80 (3), 291-315, 2009 | 85 | 2009 |
| The changing regulatory environment for speculative housebuilding and the construction of core competencies for brownfleld development D Adams Environment and Planning A 36 (4), 601-624, 2004 | 84 | 2004 |
| Urban design in the real estate development process S Tiesdell, D Adams Wiley Blackwell, 2011 | 78 | 2011 |
| Housing supply and brownfield regeneration in a post-Barker world: is there enough brownfield land in England and Scotland? T Dixon, D Adams Urban Studies 45 (1), 115-139, 2008 | 70 | 2008 |
| Design matters: major house builders and the design challenge of brownfield development contexts S Tiesdell, D Adams Journal of Urban Design 9 (1), 23-45, 2004 | 66 | 2004 |
| The availability of land for inner city development: a case study of inner Manchester CD Adams, AE Baum, BD MacGregor Urban Studies 25 (1), 62-76, 1988 | 66 | 1988 |
| Planning, public policy and property markets: Current relations and future challenges D Adams, C Watkins, M White Planning, public policy & property markets, 239-251, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Housebuilder networks and residential land markets D Adams, C Leishman, C Watkins Urban studies 49 (4), 705-720, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Active and passive behaviour in land ownership CD Adams, HG May Urban Studies 28 (5), 687-705, 1991 | 58 | 1991 |
| Managing urban land: the case for urban partnership zones D Adams, A Disberry, N Hutchison, T Munjoma Regional Studies 35 (2), 153-162, 2001 | 54 | 2001 |
