| Unleashing the power of planning to create disaster-resistant communities RJ Burby, T Beatley, PR Berke, RE Deyle, SP French, DR Godschalk, ... Journal of the American Planning Association 65 (3), 247-258, 1999 | 390 | 1999 |
| Making governments plan: State experiments in managing land use RJ Burby, PJ May JHU Press, 1997 | 379 | 1997 |
| The influence of state planning mandates on local plan quality PR Berke, SP French Journal of planning education and research 13 (4), 237-250, 1994 | 376 | 1994 |
| Coping with floods: the land use management paradox RJ Burby, SP French Journal of the American Planning Association 47 (3), 289-300, 1981 | 233 | 1981 |
| Plan Quality and Mitigating Damage from Natural Disasters: A Case Study of the Northridge Earthquake with Planning Policy Considerations AC Nelson, SP French Journal of the American Planning Association 68 (2), 194-207, 2002 | 229 | 2002 |
| Atlanta and the Olympics: A one-year retrospective SP French, ME Disher Journal of the American Planning Association 63 (3), 379-392, 1997 | 204 | 1997 |
| The future of GIS in planning: Converging technologies and diverging interests WJ Drummond, SP French Journal of the American Planning Association 74 (2), 161-174, 2008 | 193 | 2008 |
| Hazard assessment: The factual basis for planning and mitigation RE Deyle, SP French, RB Olshansky, RG Paterson Cooperating with nature: confronting natural hazards and land use planning …, 1998 | 171 | 1998 |
| Sharing environmental risks: How to control governments' losses in natural disasters RJ Burby (No Title), 1991 | 129 | 1991 |
| Flood plain land use management: A national assessment RJ Burby, SP French, BA Cigler, EJ Kaiser, DH Moreau | 111 | 1985 |
| Assessment of energy production potential from tidal streams in the United States KA Haas, HM Fritz, SP French, BT Smith, V Neary Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States), 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Using aerial imagery and GIS in automated building footprint extraction and shape recognition for earthquake risk assessment of urban inventories L Sahar, S Muthukumar, SP French IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 48 (9), 3511-3520, 2010 | 83 | 2010 |
| Measuring the structure of US metropolitan areas, 1970–2000: Spatial statistical metrics and an application to commuting behavior J Yang, S French, J Holt, X Zhang Journal of the American Planning Association 78 (2), 197-209, 2012 | 77 | 2012 |
| Plans, code enforcement, and damage reduction: Evidence from the Northridge earthquake RJ Burby, SP French, AC Nelson Earthquake Spectra 14 (1), 59-74, 1998 | 76 | 1998 |
| California planning agency experiences with automated mapping and geographic information systems SP French, LL Wiggins Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 17 (4), 441-450, 1990 | 74 | 1990 |
| Street connectivity and urban density J Peponis, D Allen, S French, M Scoppa, J Brown 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, 1-12, 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Neighborhood commuting environment and obesity in the United States: An urban–rural stratified multilevel analysis X Zhang, JB Holt, H Lu, S Onufrak, J Yang, SP French, DZ Sui Preventive medicine 59, 31-36, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| National geodatabase of tidal stream power resource in USA Z Defne, KA Haas, HM Fritz, L Jiang, SP French, X Shi, BT Smith, ... Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (5), 3326-3338, 2012 | 57 | 2012 |
| Computer adoption and use in California planning agencies: Implications for education SP French, LL Wiggins Journal of Planning Education and Research 8 (2), 97-108, 1989 | 50 | 1989 |
| Risk assessment, modeling and decision support: strategic directions A Bostrom, SP French, SJ Gottlieb Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 | 46 | 2008 |
