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.
| Within the Flows: Participatory 3D Scanning in Asian Techno‐Industrial Hinterlands | |||||||||
| Richard Müller | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| City as Canvas: Situating Digital Layers Across Urban Spaces | |||||||||
| Valerio Signorelli | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| Embedding Virtual Reality in Urban Planning Workflows: Resource‐Efficient Participation Using Existing Spatial Data | |||||||||
| Marc Schwarzkopf, Miriam Reichert, Holger Hoffmann and Angelika C. Bullinger‐Hoffmann | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| A Participatory Urban Digital Twin Development Roadmap for Climate‐Responsive Urban Planning: The Case of İzmir, Türkiye | |||||||||
| Gamze Altındaş, Zeynep Özçam, Gamze Dane and Koray Velibeyoğlu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| Compact or Balanced: Evaluating Spatial Contradictions in Population and Housing Objectives Within Irish Planning Policy | |||||||||
| Michael K. Hayes | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Rise of Newcomer Governance: Local Power, Participation, and the Contradictions of Suburban Growth | |||||||||
| Márton Bagyura, Gergely Olt and Adrienne Csizmady | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| Sustainable Urbanity at the Fringe? Principles of Present‐Day Urban Expansions in Germany (2008–2025) | |||||||||
| Randi Bornmann, Peter Gotsch and Uwe Altrock | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 16 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| Preliminary Decision‐Making Processes in Suburban Residential Developments | |||||||||
| Stephan Große and Thomas Krüger | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| Digital Tools for Inclusive Planning in West Texas: Between Participation and the (Un)Sustainability of Datafication | |||||||||
| Asma Mehan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| Digital Waste and Communicative Noise in Age‐Friendly Municipal Communication | |||||||||
| Conchi Campillo-Alhama, Miguel-Ángel Mateo-Pérez, María-Esther García-Martínez and Alba Santa-Soriano | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| From Participatory Sensing to Co‐Designed Portscapes: Building Resilient and Equitable Futures in Tyneside’s Sustainable Transition | |||||||||
| Jiayi Jin and Mingyu Zhu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 2 September 2026 | |||||||||
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| “Town Built From Fleeting Matter”: Audiowalking San’ya’s Hidden Histories as Practice‐Led Spatial Inquiry | |||||||||
| Lisa Woite | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Combining Paid Work and Care Work in Suburbia? Planning Perspectives and Everyday Experiences in Munich‐Freiham (Germany) | |||||||||
| Henriette Bertram, Sarah Mente and Johanna Niesen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Patterns of Current Urban Expansion in Germany: A Comparative Analysis of Five City Regions | |||||||||
| Michael Swiacki, Henning Nuissl and Yuri Agista | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Spatial Computing and the Phygital City: Towards Digital Habitation | |||||||||
| Andrew Hudson-Smith | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 August 2026 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking | |||||||||
| Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South | |||||||||
| Vanessa Watson | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 2016 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South | |||||||||
| Vanessa Watson | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 2016 | |||||||||
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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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| Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Public Space: Contemporary Challenges in Vienna and Helsinki | |||||||||
| Miriam Haselbacher, Kanerva Kuokkanen, Emilia Palonen and Ursula Reeger | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 September 2024 | |||||||||
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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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