Urban Planning (ISSN: 2183-7635) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal in the field of urban studies.
With the aim of sparking discussions and providing new perspectives on the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of urban life, the journal welcomes multidisciplinary approaches to the study of town and city planning, design, development, and renewal.
Open Access: free to read and share, with an article processing charge for accepted papers to offset production costs (more details here).
Indexing: Web of Science (ESCI), Scopus, and other databases.
| Mediating Policy to Mix Making Spaces | |||||||||
| Nina Rappaport | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 December 2025 | |||||||||
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| Aligning Heritage Conservation and Climate Mitigation Through Adaptive Reuse | |||||||||
| Liam James Heaphy and Philip Crowe | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 26 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Sustainable Heritage Buildings: The Impact on Heritage Values, Energy Performance, and CO2 Emissions | |||||||||
| Maarten Vieveen, Aron Banninga, Tamizhselvan Munuswamy and Tineke van der Schoor | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Berlin Mix (Berliner Mischung) Revisited: An Inventory of Commercial Courtyards | |||||||||
| Fiona Lingenhöle, Andreas Brück and Lech Suwala | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Zero‐Emission and Zero Demolition: Promoting Conservation Interests Through the Implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive | |||||||||
| Anna Donarelli | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Integrating Manufacturing: Strategies and Legal Approaches Dealing With Noise Conflicts in German Urban Planning | |||||||||
| Kerstin Meyer, Lars Sievers, Stefan Gärtner, Johanna Schoppengerd and Anne Söfker-Rieniets | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post‐2030 Agenda | |||||||||
| Florian Koch, Sarah Beyer, Kerstin Krellenberg and Julia Wesely | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 12 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| National Urban Policies as Instruments for Global Urban Agendas Localization: Lessons From Argentina | |||||||||
| Francesca Ferlicca | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Cross‐Sectoral (Healthy) Urban Food Environment Planning | |||||||||
| Veronica Barry, Claudia Carter, Peter Larkham and David Adams | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Transformative Bottom‐Up Change in Highly Dynamic Food Environments: Learning From Living Labs in Africa | |||||||||
| Ardjan Vermue, Henk Renting, Celine Termote, Consolata Musita, Claudia Segreto and Sigrid Wertheim-Heck | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Rethinking Urban Sustainability Monitoring: Lessons Learnt From the SDG Indicators for Municipalities in Germany | |||||||||
| Oliver Peters and Valeska Liedloff | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Heritage in a Circular Economy: Integrating Conservation, Resource Management, and Community Engagement | |||||||||
| Johannes Warda, Georg Schiller and Robert Knippschild | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 5 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Microclimate Assessment and Outdoor Human Comfort Enhancement of a Historic Village in Sardinia, Italy | |||||||||
| Giulia Cherchi, Alessandro Santus, Donatella Rita Fiorino and Simone Ferrari | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 5 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Reviewing Environmental Benefits of Urban Manufacturing: Arguments and Evidence for Carbon, Resource, and Space Efficiency | |||||||||
| Marius Angstmann, Kerstin Meyer, Stefan Gärtner and Leonard Can Stratmann | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Smart and Resilient Infrastructure in the Wake of Climate Change | |||||||||
| Dillip Kumar Das and Varuvel Devadas | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 22 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| Carbon Footprint Planning: Quantifying Local and State Mitigation Opportunities for 700 California Cities | |||||||||
| Christopher M. Jones, Stephen M. Wheeler and Daniel M. Kammen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2018 | |||||||||
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| Green Gentrification, Social Justice, and Climate Change in the Literature: Conceptual Origins and Future Directions | |||||||||
| Roberta Cucca, Michael Friesenecker and Thomas Thaler | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 March 2023 | |||||||||
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| Mobility as a Service: A Critical Review of Definitions, Assessments of Schemes, and Key Challenges | |||||||||
| Peraphan Jittrapirom, Valeria Caiati, Anna-Maria Feneri, Shima Ebrahimigharehbaghi, María J. Alonso González and Jishnu Narayan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 June 2017 | |||||||||
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| Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking | |||||||||
| Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019 | |||||||||
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| Social Innovation as a Driver of Urban Transformation? The Case of Planning Approaches in the Dominican Republic | |||||||||
| Abdelillah Hamdouch and Andiel Galvan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 January 2019 | |||||||||
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| Planning the Smart City With Young People: Teenagers’ Perceptions, Values and Visions of Smartness | |||||||||
| Simeon Shtebunaev, Silvia Gullino and Peter J. Larkham | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 April 2023 | |||||||||
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| All Work and No Play? Facilitating Serious Games and Gamified Applications in Participatory Urban Planning and Governance | |||||||||
| Cristina Ampatzidou, Katharina Gugerell, Teodora Constantinescu, Oswald Devisch, Martina Jauschneg and Martin Berger | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 March 2018 | |||||||||
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| Green Infrastructure and Biophilic Urbanism as Tools for Integrating Resource Efficient and Ecological Cities | |||||||||
| Giles Thomson and Peter Newman | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 January 2021 | |||||||||
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| Reimagining the Future of the Sydney CBD: Reflecting on Covid-19-Driven Changes in Commercial and Residential Property Trends | |||||||||
| Gabriela Quintana Vigiola, Juaneé Cilliers and Luis Hernando Lozano-Paredes | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 July 2022 | |||||||||
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| From Vision to Reality: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Different Urban Planning Phases | |||||||||
| Frank Othengrafen, Lars Sievers and Eva Reinecke | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2025 | |||||||||
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| Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre | |||||||||
| Andrzej Zieleniec | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 June 2018 | |||||||||
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| Mobility as a Service: A Critical Review of Definitions, Assessments of Schemes, and Key Challenges | |||||||||
| Peraphan Jittrapirom, Valeria Caiati, Anna-Maria Feneri, Shima Ebrahimigharehbaghi, María J. Alonso González and Jishnu Narayan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 June 2017 | |||||||||
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| Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South | |||||||||
| Vanessa Watson | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 2016 | |||||||||
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| From Vision to Reality: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Different Urban Planning Phases | |||||||||
| Frank Othengrafen, Lars Sievers and Eva Reinecke | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2025 | |||||||||
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| New Urbanism: Past, Present, and Future | |||||||||
| Ajay Garde | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 22 December 2020 | |||||||||
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| Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking | |||||||||
| Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019 | |||||||||
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| The Death and Life of Collaborative Planning Theory | |||||||||
| Robert Goodspeed | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 14 November 2016 | |||||||||
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| Data‐Driven Urban Digital Twins and Critical Infrastructure Under Climate Change: A Review of Frameworks and Applications | |||||||||
| Mingyu Zhu and Jiayi Jin | |||||||||
| Review | Open Access | Published: 28 August 2025 | |||||||||
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| Data-Driven Participation: Algorithms, Cities, Citizens, and Corporate Control | |||||||||
| Matthew Tenney and Renee Sieber | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 4 July 2016 | |||||||||
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| Carbon Footprint Planning: Quantifying Local and State Mitigation Opportunities for 700 California Cities | |||||||||
| Christopher M. Jones, Stephen M. Wheeler and Daniel M. Kammen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 April 2018 | |||||||||
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| Transforming a Central Tokyo Park Into a Cutting‐Edge Commercial Complex: Miyashita Park, Shibuya | |||||||||
| Junichi Hasegawa | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 2 December 2025 | |||||||||
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| The Social Zipper: Redefining the Role of Streets in Disadvantaged Housing Estates | |||||||||
| Lene Wiell Nordberg, Rikke Borg Sundstrup, Marie Stender, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Mette Mechlenborg and Claus Bech-Danielsen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 2 December 2025 | |||||||||
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| From Survival to Solidarity: Reclaiming Santiago’s Streets and Plazas Through Food, Care, and Collective Resistance in Ollas Comunes | |||||||||
| Francisco García and Francisco Vergara-Perucich | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 20 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Modern Board Games: Can They Be Geogames? | |||||||||
| Micael Sousa, Ítalo Sousa de Sena, Chiara Cocco, Gabriel Mota and Grace Houser | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 19 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| Playful Reconfigurations: Learning, Making, and Playing Geogames for Urban Participation | |||||||||
| Nick Förster, Matti Drechsel, Gerhard Schubert and Frank Petzold | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 19 November 2025 | |||||||||
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