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.

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A Quanti-Qualitative Approach to Alexander’s Harmony-Seeking Computations
Alice Rauber and Romulo Krafta
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Patterns of Growth: Operationalizing Alexander’s “Web Way of Thinking”
Michael W. Mehaffy
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Social Sustainability and Alexander’s Living Structure Through a New Kind of City Science
Tarina Levin, Stefan Sjöberg, Bin Jiang and Stephan Barthel
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
The Pattern Language Approach as a Bridge Connecting Formal and Informal Urban Planning Practices in Africa
Priscilla Namwanje, Víctor Muñoz Sanz and Roberto Rocco
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
A World of a Thousand Independent Regions: Confronting the Ever-Increasing Refugee Problem
Hans Joachim Neis and Pamanee Chaiwat
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Centers in the Event Domain: A Retake on the Wholeness of Urban Spaces
Ridvan Kahraman
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
The Structure That Structures Us
Jaap Dawson
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
A Grid Is Not a Tree: Toward a Reconciliation of Alexander’s and Martin’s Views of City Form
Ngoc Hong Nguyen, Khaled Alawadi and Sara Al Hinai
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Community and Privacy in a Hyper-Connected World
Roderick J. Lawrence
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Navigating Approaches to the Use of Pattern Language Theory in Practice
Ruihua Chen, Marina Bos-de Vos, Ingrid Mulder and Zoë van Eldik
Article | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Christopher Alexander As An Architectural Thinker
Almantas Samalavičius
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
Introduction: Toward a “Post-Alexandrian” Agenda
Michael W. Mehaffy and Tigran Haas
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 24 August 2023
The Effects of Urban Polycentricity on Particulate Matter Emissions From Vehicles: Evidence From 102 Chinese Cities
Mi Ye, Ben Derudder, Lei Jiang, Freke Caset and Yingcheng Li
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 July 2023
Drivers’ Perspectives of Car Dependence
David Metz
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 July 2023
Mobility Hubs: A Way Out of Car Dependency Through a New Multifunctional Housing Development?
Arvid Krüger and Uwe Altrock
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 July 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
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
Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
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
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
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
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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Next Generation Small Urban Manufacturing: Apprentices’ Perspective on Location Factors, Mixed-Use, and Shared Spaces
Kerstin Meyer
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 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
Regulating Sustainable Production
Carl Grodach, Liz Taylor, Declan Martin and Joe Hurley
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 20 September 2023
Shaping the New Vistula Spit Channel: Political, Economic, and Environmental Aspects
Justyna Breś and Piotr Lorens
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 6 September 2023
How the Depths of the Danish Straits Shape Gdańsk's Port and City Spatial Development
Karolina A. Krośnicka and Aleksandra Wawrzyńska
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 6 September 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 29 August 2023
Searching for Reconnection: Environmental Challenges and Course Changes in Spatial Development Along Shanghai’s Shipping Channels
Harry den Hartog
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 29 August 2023
The (Re)Industrialised Waterfront as a “Fluid Territory”: The Case of Lisbon and the Tagus Estuary
João Pedro Costa, Maria J. Andrade and Francesca Dal Cin
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 25 August 2023
Pathologies of Porosity: Looming Transitions Along the Mississippi River Ship Channel
Joshua Alan Lewis
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 22 August 2023
Prospective of an Inland Waterway System of Shipping Canals in Skikda (Algeria)
Amira Ghennaï, Said Madani and Carola Hein
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 17 August 2023
The Spatio-Functional Role of Navigable Urban Canals in the City: Cases From London and Amsterdam
Merve Okkali Alsavada and Kayvan Karimi
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 17 August 2023
“Hot+Noisy” Public Space: Conviviality, “Unapologetic Asianness,” and the Future of Vancouver’s Chinatown
Lise Mahieus and Eugene McCann
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 August 2023
Built Space Hinders Lived Space: Social Encounters and Appropriation in Large Housing Estates
Katja Friedrich and Stefanie Rößler
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 10 August 2023
Potential Impact of Waterway Development on Cultural Landscape Values: The Case of the Lower Vistula
Anna Golędzinowska
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 31 July 2023
Visually Impaired Persons and Social Encounters in Central Melbourne
Shirin Pourafkari
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 July 2023
Negotiating Difference on Public Transport: How Practices and Experiences of Deviance Shape Public Space
Louise Sträuli
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 28 July 2023
The Texas Coast: Ship Channel Network of the Petroleum Age
Alan Lessoff
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 21 July 2023
A New Shipping Canal Through the Vistula Spit as a Political and Transportation Project
Piotr Marciniak
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 17 July 2023
A Catalyst Approach for Smart Ecological Urban Corridors at Disused Waterways
Sara Biscaya and Hisham Elkadi
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 17 July 2023
Flows as Makers and Breakers of Port-Territory Metabolic Relations: The Case of the Loire Estuary
Annabelle Duval and Jean-Baptiste Bahers
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 14 July 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 | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 14 July 2023
Geographies of Encounter, Public Space, and Social Cohesion: Reviewing Knowledge at the Intersection of Social Sciences and Built Environment Disciplines
Patricia Aelbrecht and Quentin Stevens
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 14 July 2023
The Forks Market: Cosmopolitan Canopy, Conviviality, and Class
Sonia Bookman
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 30 June 2023
Review of UK Inland Waterways Transportation From the Hydrodynamics Point of View
Momchil Terziev, Jonathan Mosse, Rosemary Norman, Kayvan Pazouki, Richard Lord, Tahsin Tezdogan, Charlotte Thompson, Dimitrios Konovessis and Atilla Incecik
Review | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 16 June 2023
Conviviality in Public Squares: How Affordances and Individual Factors Shape Optional Activities
Hannah Widmer
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 16 June 2023
The Coining of Convivial Public Space: Homelessness, Outreach Work, and Interaction Order
Robin James Smith, Jonathan Ablitt, Joe Williams and Tom Hall
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 15 June 2023
Strengthening Social Ties While Walking the Neighbourhood?
Troy D. Glover, Luke Moyer, Joe Todd and Taryn Graham
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 1 June 2023
“It’s a Two-Way Thing”: Symbolic Boundaries and Convivial Practices in Changing Neighbourhoods in London and Tshwane
Susanne Wessendorf and Tamlyn Monson
Article | Open Access | Ahead of Print | Last Modified: 25 May 2023
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