• Theme A describes a shift from regulatory land-use control toward proactive development and economic growth aims in planning, with growth management, dealmaking, and revitalization as core tools [1], [5], [11], [10], [19], [18].

• Theme B captures the historical lineage of planning ideas—garden cities, suburban middle landscapes, and early modernist planning—tracing roots of current suburban form and regional planning through works on Unwin, Rowe, Stein, and Dutch Netherlands 1920–1945 [3], [6], [14], [15], [9].

• Theme C highlights discourse, ideology, and framing in planning—analyses of how language, power dynamics, and crisis-management rhetoric shape plan content, regulation, and siting decisions [2], [5], [16], [13].

• Theme D centers on modelling and evaluating land-use–transport interactions, including international studies, model testing, and policy convergence in dockland and port-city contexts [17], [8], [18].