| ‘Capital of Culture—you must be having a laugh!’Challenging the official rhetoric of Liverpool as the 2008 European cultural capital P Boland Social & Cultural Geography 11 (7), 627-645, 2010 | 162 | 2010 |
| The construction of images of people and place: Labelling Liverpool and stereotyping Scousers P Boland Cities 25 (6), 355-369, 2008 | 149 | 2008 |
| On the waterfront: Neoliberal urbanism and the politics of public benefit P Boland, J Bronte, J Muir Cities 61, 117-127, 2017 | 107 | 2017 |
| Unpacking the theory-policy interface of local economic development: an analysis of Cardiff and Liverpool P Boland Urban Studies 44 (5-6), 1019-1039, 2007 | 101 | 2007 |
| Regional development strategies: a European perspective J Alden, P Boland Routledge, 2013 | 97 | 2013 |
| Sonic geography, place and race in the formation of local identity: Liverpool and Scousers P Boland Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 92 (1), 1-22, 2010 | 91 | 2010 |
| Sexing up the city in the international beauty contest: The performative nature of spatial planning and the fictive spectacle of place branding P Boland The Town Planning Review, 251-274, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
| Fashioning a City of Culture:‘life and place changing’or ‘12 month party’? P Boland, B Murtagh, P Shirlow International Journal of Cultural Policy 25 (2), 246-265, 2019 | 65 | 2019 |
| Contested multi‐level governance: Merseyside and the European structural funds P Boland European Planning Studies 7 (5), 647-664, 1999 | 63 | 1999 |
| The relationship between spatial planning and economic competitiveness: the ‘path to economic nirvana’or a ‘dangerous obsession’? P Boland Environment and Planning A 46 (4), 770-787, 2014 | 61 | 2014 |
| British drugs policy: Problematizing the distinction between legal and illegal drugs and the definition of thedrugs problem' P Boland Probation Journal 55 (2), 171-187, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| Contested heritages and cultural tourism B Murtagh, P Boland, P Shirlow International Journal of Heritage Studies 23 (6), 506-520, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Urban governance and economic development: a critique of Merseyside and Objective 1 status P Boland European urban and regional studies 7 (3), 211-222, 2000 | 32 | 2000 |
| Neoliberal place competition and culturephilia: explored through the lens of Derry~Londonderry P Boland, B Murtagh, P Shirlow Social & Cultural Geography 21 (6), 788-809, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| A ‘planning revolution’or an ‘attack on planning’in England: digitization, digitalization, and democratization P Boland, A Durrant, J McHenry, S McKay, A Wilson International planning studies 27 (2), 155-172, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| Merseyside and Objective 1 status, 1994-1999: Implications for the next programming period P Boland Regional Studies 33 (8), 788-792, 1999 | 23 | 1999 |
| Community asset transfer and strategies of local accumulation B Murtagh, P Boland Social & Cultural Geography 20 (1), 4-23, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Wales and objective 1 status: learning the lessons or emulating the errors? european briefing P Boland European Planning Studies 12 (2), 249-270, 2004 | 16 | 2004 |
| “Community” economic development in Knowsley, Merseyside. Rhetoric versus reality P Boland Local Economy 14 (3), 214-231, 1999 | 15 | 1999 |
| Regional Development Strategies in Europe: A Summary of the Key Issues P Boland Regional Development Strategies, 296-304, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
