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.
| Embracing the Liminality of Common Spaces: A Proposal for an Analytical Framework to Interpret Temporary Uses | |||||||||
| Danny Casprini, Marta Dell'Ovo and Alessandra Oppio | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Who Cares When the Ground Shakes? “Standing By” Uncertain Urban Futures Through Configurations of Care | |||||||||
| Liubov Chernysheva | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Navigating Urban Futures: Canal Istanbul and Contested Visions of Governance in Turkey | |||||||||
| Ülkü Doğanay and İnan Özdemir Taştan | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 3 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Taking Up Some Space: How Urban Space Use Supports Material Circularity in Outdoor Public Spaces | |||||||||
| Quirien Reijtenbagh, Hsinko Cinco Yu, Daan Schraven, Marian Bosch-Rekveldt and Hilde Remøy | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 1 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| (Food) Justice in the Interim? Temporary Urban Gardening, Welfare Activation, and Plural Valuation | |||||||||
| Julija Bakunowitsch | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 1 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Caring Temporalities: The Role of Urban Space for the Liveability of Fluidly Housed Youth | |||||||||
| Wiebke Stadtlander, Birgit Hausleitner and Caroline Newton | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 25 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Making Time Matter: Intermittent Urbanism and the Politics of Staying | |||||||||
| Graça Índias Cordeiro, André Barata, Alessia Allegri, Rita Ochoa and Chloé Darmon | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Reframing the Nexus Between Forced Migration and Urban Resilience: Discussing Impacts on Urban Futures | |||||||||
| Annegret Haase and Janine Pößneck | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 20 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Planning With Machines, Dreaming With People: Relational Accountability and the Future of AI‐Driven Urbanism in Africa | |||||||||
| Dodzi Koku Hattoh | |||||||||
| Commentary | Open Access | Published: 18 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Resilience as Community Capacity in a City Under Existential Threat: The Case of Slavutych, Ukraine | |||||||||
| Olena Kononenko, Talja Blokland and Olena Dronova | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 18 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Frontiers of Urban Resilience: Multi‐Hazard Risks and Nonlinear Recovery Pathways in a Conflict‐Exposed City | |||||||||
| Nadiia Antonenko, Daria Malchykova and Ihor Pylypenko | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Co‐Designing Futuring Capacities in Municipalities: Futures Bazaar Goes National | |||||||||
| Sofia Lundmark | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 May 2026 | |||||||||
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| Negotiating Possibilities in Shrinking Cities: Potentials, Challenges, and Policy Implications | |||||||||
| Bettina Knoop and Robert Knippschild | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 15 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Planning Approaches Liaised With Justification and Relation to Growth: Missing Link in the Shrinkage Context? | |||||||||
| Anni Saviaro, Sari Hirvonen-Kantola and Helka-Liisa Hentilä | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 April 2026 | |||||||||
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| Negotiating “Left‐Behindness” and Migration‐Related Diversity in (New) Arrival Spaces | |||||||||
| Hannah Brill, Norma Schemschat, Heike Hanhörster, Nils Hans, Lara Hartig and Isabel Ramos Lobato | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 April 2026 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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