Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-7635

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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.

Eurovision and the City: “United by Music” Meets “Malmö against Genocide”
Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Adriana de La Peña, Laleh Foroughanfar, Jennie Gustafsson, Lorena Melgaço and Chiara Valli
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 19 May 2025
Spacing the Post‐Political Critique: Dealing With Politics and Spatial Dissonance in Suburban Planning
Emil Pull and Jørn Cruickshank
Article | Open Access | Published: 19 May 2025
A Socio‐Spatial Extension of the Local Climate Zone Typology: Its Potential in Computational Planning Support Systems
Athanasios Votsis, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Milla Mikkola, Dina Babushkina, Aija Staffans, Tiina Merikoski and Stan Geertman
Article | Open Access | Published: 19 May 2025
A Decision Support Model for Assessing Co‐Creation: The Bee Path Project
Tina Jukić and Sanja Vrbek
Article | Open Access | Published: 19 May 2025
Strategic Spatial Opportunities for Local Food Distribution: Urban Accessibility of Community Gardens in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
Andreas Wesener, Shannon Davis and Guanyu Chen
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 May 2025
How Democratic Is Just Enough? Critical Reflections on the Transformative Potential of the Berlin Food Policy Council
Lea Loretta Zentgraf
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 May 2025
Co‐Creation in Automated Public Space Lighting Design: Enhancing Safety and Reducing Light Pollution
Jan Cudzik, Michał Nessel and Victor Moczarski
Article | Open Access | Published: 14 May 2025
Temporal Entanglements, Fragmented Spaces: Planning, Politics, and Place Rhythms
Aysegul Can, Lakshmi Priya Rajendran and NezHapi-Dellé Odeleye
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2025
Temporalities for, of, and in Planning: Exploring Post-Growth, Participation, and Devolution Across European Planning Reforms
Lucía Cerrada Morato, Agnieszka Zimnicka and Judi Wilson
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2025
The Poly-Rhythmic City: Urban Community Land Trusts as Opposition to the Slow Violence of Housing Development
Robert Read, NezHapi-Dellé Odeleye, Alison Hirst and Alison Pooley
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2025
Walkability and Flood Resilience: Public Space Design in Climate‐Sensitive Urban Environments
Jakub Gorzka, Izabela Burda and Lucyna Nyka
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2025
help Them help Themselves: A Toolkit to Facilitate Transformative Community‐Based Climate Change Adaptation
Subhashree Nath
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 April 2025
"Where Is the Time?": Time Poverty and Women's Urban Mobility Narratives in Kochi, India
Fathima Zehba M. P., Lakshmi Priya Rajendran and Mohammed Firoz C.
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 April 2025
Space-Shaping Through Rhythmic Interventions for Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Perspectives
Robin A. Chang and Pinar Sefkatli
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 April 2025
Making Places: From Non-Place to User-Generated Space Through a Diversity of Media
Weijue Wang, Mark Tewdwr-Jones and Valerio Signorelli
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 April 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
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
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
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
Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
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
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
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
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
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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Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre
Andrzej Zieleniec
Article | Open Access | Published: 12 June 2018
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
Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South
Vanessa Watson
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 2016
Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
The Death and Life of Collaborative Planning Theory
Robert Goodspeed
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 14 November 2016
Data-Driven Participation: Algorithms, Cities, Citizens, and Corporate Control
Matthew Tenney and Renee Sieber
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 July 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
New Urbanism: Past, Present, and Future
Ajay Garde
Article | Open Access | Published: 22 December 2020
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
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