Drawing the Knowledge Map of the International and Domestic Scientific Cooperation Network for Housing Planning in the 21st Century

Many of the world's prestigious scientific researches that have been conducted in the field of housing planning show that housing provision and related policies in developing countries, especially for low-income urban groups, have become one of the most important urban challenges and have numerous economic consequences. It has also had its negative social and political consequences. The increasing growth of published researches and articles in this field makes a comprehensive and systematic review of studies in this field necessary, transparency and justice.

In this regard, the aim of this article is to portray the prevailing situation in the study of the field of housing planning and policy through descriptive and comparative analysis of English articles published in the period from 2000 to 2022 in this field, including international and Iranian authors who adapt it portrays world studies and Iran. For this purpose, first, frequently used keywords related to housing planning were searched in Web of Science and Science Direct databases and retrieved as research data. The analysis of these articles was done using scientometric methods as well as micro and macro indicators of social network analysis and using VOSviewer software.

In this research, while introducing authors and universities that had a relatively high degree of centrality, it was found that the most emphasis of these articles was on themes such as Poverty, Facility, Price, Income, Market, Housing Affordability, Quantity and Quality. In Iran, in addition to these 10 fields, researchers have also been widely active in other fields such as physical resilience, natural resilience, housing policy, etc.

In addition to helping to better understand the specialized literature of housing planning, the finding of this research help to identify the existing research gaps in Iraninan and World studies in this field and can also open the way for the future study and research paths of researches in this field.