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.
| “Wanted” vs “Unwanted”: Different Faces of Suburbanisation in Polish Cities—The Case of Gdańsk | |||||||||
| Aleksandra Wróbel and Piotr Lorens | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Time After Time: Community‐Led Participation in Urban Development Practices in Rotterdam | |||||||||
| Francisco Santos, Alice Jelmini, Pierre Kauter and Chiara Mazzarella | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Suburbanization in Metropolitan Barcelona: Contradictions Between Ideals, Ownership, and Sustainable Urbanism | |||||||||
| Carles Crosas‐Armengol, Joan Solà-Font and Joan Florit-Femenias | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Between Commitment and Constraint: Children’s Well‐Being in New Suburban Open Space Planning Practice | |||||||||
| Tilmann Teske, Sarah Friedel and Angela Million | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 August 2026 | |||||||||
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| Creating Synthetic Road Networks Using Large Language Models: An Iterative Calibration Framework | |||||||||
| Adam Kasiński and Przemysław Szufel | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 27 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| Urban Futures in Times of Disruption | |||||||||
| Oksana Zaporozhets, Annegret Haase and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 21 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Future of World Heritage Cities: Heritage Governance and New Urban Commons | |||||||||
| Iuliia Eremenko | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| Large Housing Estates in Germany’s Major Cities: A Last Bastion of Affordable Housing? | |||||||||
| Stefan Siedentop, Maximilian Schartmann and Melissa Münster | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 July 2026 | |||||||||
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| Radical Heritage: The Introduction of Urban Fallows and the Value of Cyclical Rest | |||||||||
| Cagri Sanliturk and Robert Schmidt | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Found in Lostness: Community Visions for Multiple Future‐Making | |||||||||
| Ekaterina Lapina‐Kratasiuk, Oksana Zaporozhets and Sophia Reidl | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 29 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| AI for Urban Resilience in Africa: Pest Detection in Cabo Verde Using Convolutional Neural Networks | |||||||||
| Sónia Semedo, Olavo Teixeira and Anaxímeno Brito | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Communicative Solidarity: Networked Resistance to Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Urban Spaces | |||||||||
| Ekaterina Kalinina and Paola Sartoretto | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 24 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Leveraging a Street Festival for Lasting Transformation in a UNESCO World Heritage Neighbourhood | |||||||||
| Corina Regales and Ilja Simons | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Refugees as Urban Stakeholders: Lessons From Reception of Ukrainians in German Cities | |||||||||
| Valeria Lazarenko and Annegret Haase | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 17 June 2026 | |||||||||
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| Reclaiming Disruption: Pathways to Hopeful Urban Futures | |||||||||
| Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Oksana Zaporozhets, Annegret Haase, Valeria Lazarenko and Moritz Kasper | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 June 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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