Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-7635

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Urban Planning (ISSN: 2183-7635) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies aimed at advancing understandings and ideas of humankind’s habitats — villages, towns, cities, megacities — in
order to promote progress and quality of life.

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.

Hyper-Competitive Industrial Markets: Implications for Urban Planning and the Manufacturing Renaissance
Jessica Ferm
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Urban Revitalisation Between Artisanal Craft and Green Manufacturing: The Case of Brisbane’s Northgate Industrial Precinct
Greg Hearn, Marcus Foth, Diego Camelo-Herrera and Glenda Amayo Caldwell
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Next Generation Small Urban Manufacturing: Apprentices’ Perspective on Location Factors, Mixed-Use, and Shared Spaces
Kerstin Meyer
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Departures From the Norm: Innovative Planning for Inclusive Manufacturing
Mark Pendras, Adam Nolan and Ashleigh Williams
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Auditing, Revealing and Promoting Industry in the London Borough of Southwark
Jane Clossick and Mark Brearley
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Sensing Urban Manufacturing: From Conspicuous to Sensible Production
Ottavia Cima and Ewa Wasilewska
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Regulating Sustainable Production
Carl Grodach, Liz Taylor, Declan Martin and Joe Hurley
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Place-Based Climate-Proofing of Commercial and Industrial Areas: Inventory and Guidelines From a Regional Planning Perspective
Cordula Schwappach, Elke Beyer and Lech Suwala
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes
Yonn Dierwechter and Mark Pendras
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 21 November 2023
Built Space Hinders Lived Space: Social Encounters and Appropriation in Large Housing Estates
Katja Friedrich and Stefanie Rößler
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 October 2023
Reading Publicness: Meaningful and Spontaneous Encounters in Beirut During a Time of Crisis
Roula El-Khoury, Rachelle Saliba and Tamara Nasr
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 October 2023
Improvisation and Planning: Engaging With Unforeseen Encounters in Urban Public Space
Anne-Lene Sand, Anniken Førde, John Pløger and Mathias Poulsen
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 October 2023
The Role of the Body in Pandemic Geographies of Encounter: Anti-Restriction Protesters Between Collective Action and Political Violence
Sabine Knierbein and Richard Pfeifer
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 October 2023
Visually Impaired Persons and Social Encounters in Central Melbourne
Shirin Pourafkari
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 October 2023
Negotiating Difference on Public Transport: How Practices and Experiences of Deviance Shape Public Space
Louise Sträuli
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 October 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
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
Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany
Ayham Dalal, Amer Darweesh, Philipp Misselwitz and Anna Steigemann
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 December 2018
Data-Driven Participation: Algorithms, Cities, Citizens, and Corporate Control
Matthew Tenney and Renee Sieber
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 July 2016
Revealing Cultural Ecosystem Services through Instagram Images: The Potential of Social Media Volunteered Geographic Information for Urban Green Infrastructure Planning and Governance
Paulina Guerrero, Maja Steen Møller, Anton Stahl Olafsson and Bernhard Snizek
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 June 2016
Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South
Vanessa Watson
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 2016
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
Urban Gardening and Green Space Governance: Towards New Collaborative Planning Practices
Sofia Nikolaidou, Tanja Klöti, Simone Tappert and Matthias Drilling
Article | Open Access | Published: 29 February 2016
From Ephemeral Planning to Permanent Urbanism: An Urban Planning Theory of Mega-Events
Eva Kassens-Noor
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 March 2016
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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
Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre
Andrzej Zieleniec
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 June 2018
Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South
Vanessa Watson
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 2016
Data-Driven Participation: Algorithms, Cities, Citizens, and Corporate Control
Matthew Tenney and Renee Sieber
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 July 2016
The Death and Life of Collaborative Planning Theory
Robert Goodspeed
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 14 November 2016
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
Theory of Place in Public Space
Mark Del Aguila, Ensiyeh Ghavampour and Brenda Vale
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany
Ayham Dalal, Amer Darweesh, Philipp Misselwitz and Anna Steigemann
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 December 2018
Planners in the Future City: Using City Information Modelling to Support Planners as Market Actors
Emine Mine Thompson, Paul Greenhalgh, Kevin Muldoon-Smith, James Charlton and Michal Dolník
Article | Open Access | Published: 29 March 2016
Urban Gardening and Green Space Governance: Towards New Collaborative Planning Practices
Sofia Nikolaidou, Tanja Klöti, Simone Tappert and Matthias Drilling
Article | Open Access | Published: 29 February 2016
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Migrants in the Old Train Wagons Borderland in Thessaloniki: From Abandonment to Infrastructures of Commοning
Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, Paschalis Arvanitidis and Zacharias Valiantzas
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 7 December 2023
Social Media Groups in Interaction With Contested Urban Narratives: The Case of Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia
Tim Mavrič and Neža Čebron Lipovec
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 7 December 2023
The Indifference of Transport: Comparative Research of “Infrastructural Ruins” in the Gauteng City-Region and Greater Maputo
Margot Rubin, Lindsay Blair Howe, Sarah Charlton, Muhammed Suleman, Anselmo Cani, Lesego Tshuwa and Alexandra Parker
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 7 December 2023
Conceptualizing Place Borders as Narrative: Observations From Berlin-Wedding, a Neighbourhood in Transformation
Martin Barthel and James W. Scott
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 7 December 2023
The Soundscape and Listening as an Approach to Sensuous Urbanism: The Case of Puerta del Sol (Madrid)
Cristina Palmese, José Luis Carles Arribas and Alejandro Rodríguez Antolín
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 5 December 2023
Digital Feminist Placemaking: The Case of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement
Asma Mehan
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 5 December 2023
A Review of The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods
Aminreza Iranmanesh
Book Review | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 November 2023
An Empirical Test of Pedestrian Activity Theories Within Informal Settlements
Yael Borofsky, Stephanie Briers and Isabel Günther
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 November 2023
“The Citizen” as a Ghost Subject in Co-Producing Smart Sustainable Cities: An Intersectional Approach
Leika Aruga, Hilde Refstie and Hilde Nymoen Rørtveit
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 November 2023
Differences in Active Travel Between Immigrants in an Active and Less Active Mobility Culture
Koen Faber, Simon Kingham, Lindsey Conrow and Dea van Lierop
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 23 November 2023
Planning-Related Protest as a Key to Understanding Urban Particularities
Grischa Frederik Bertram and Gerhard Kienast
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 November 2023
Digital Participatory Model as Part of a Data-Driven Decision Support System for Urban Vibrancy
Gülce Kırdar and Gülen Çağdaş
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 November 2023
Beyond the Blind Spot: Enhancing Polyphony Through City Planning Activism Using Public Participation GIS
Eveliina Harsia and Pilvi Nummi
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 15 November 2023
Spatial Integration of Refugees: Towards a Post-Migrant Approach
Juliana Canedo and Hassan Elmouelhi
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 15 November 2023
Comparing Hybrid Urbanisms in the Global South: Water Delivery Configurations in Peru and Ghana
Christian Rosen and Nina Gribat
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 8 November 2023
Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim
Aline Suter, Lars Kaiser, Martin Dušek, Florin Hasler and Simone Tappert
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 8 November 2023
Participatory Budgeting and Placemaking: Concepts, Methods, and Practices
Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Juan A. García-Esparza and Kinga Kimic
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 3 November 2023
Revealing the Community’s Interpretation of Place: Integrated Digital Support to Embed Photovoice Into Placemaking Processes
Juan A. García-Esparza and Matej Nikšič
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 October 2023
National Map of Security Threats as a Citizen Involvement Tool for Planning Safer Urban Public Spaces
Paulina Polko and Kinga Kimic
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 October 2023
Sharing for Health, Inclusion, and Sustainability: The Co-Production of Outdoor Equipment Lending in Norway
Espen Eigil Barratt-Due Solum, Anniken Førde and Monica Guillen-Royo
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 October 2023
Discovering the Significance of Housing Neighbourhoods by Assessing Their Attributes With a Digital Tool
Lidwine Spoormans, Wessel de Jonge, Darinka Czischke and Ana Pereira Roders
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 26 October 2023
Transformations of the Beirut River: Between Temporary and Permanent Liminality
Christine Mady
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 24 October 2023
The Interweaving of Everyday and Structural Perspectives: Exploring Suburban Struggles of Everyday Life
Marius Mlejnek and Petra Lütke
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 September 2023
Housing Pathways of the “Missing People” of Public Housing and Resettlement Programs: Methodological Reflections
Raffael Beier
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 September 2023
Structural Transformations and Everyday Spatial Consequences in Austerity Ireland: An Embedded Comparative Approach
Sander van Lanen
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 September 2023
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