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.
| Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post‐2030 Agenda | |||||||||
| Florian Koch, Sarah Beyer, Kerstin Krellenberg and Julia Wesely | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 12 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| National Urban Policies as Instruments for Global Urban Agendas Localization: Lessons From Argentina | |||||||||
| Francesca Ferlicca | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 12 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Cross‐Sectoral (Healthy) Urban Food Environment Planning | |||||||||
| Veronica Barry, Claudia Carter, Peter Larkham and David Adams | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Transformative Bottom‐Up Change in Highly Dynamic Food Environments: Learning From Living Labs in Africa | |||||||||
| Ardjan Vermue, Henk Renting, Celine Termote, Consolata Musita, Claudia Segreto and Sigrid Wertheim-Heck | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Rethinking Urban Sustainability Monitoring: Lessons Learnt From the SDG Indicators for Municipalities in Germany | |||||||||
| Oliver Peters and Valeska Liedloff | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 10 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Microclimate Assessment and Outdoor Human Comfort Enhancement of a Historic Village in Sardinia, Italy | |||||||||
| Giulia Cherchi, Alessandro Santus, Donatella Rita Fiorino and Simone Ferrari | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 5 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Heritage in a Circular Economy: Integrating Conservation, Resource Management, and Community Engagement | |||||||||
| Johannes Warda, Georg Schiller and Robert Knippschild | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 5 November 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Reviewing Environmental Benefits of Urban Manufacturing: Arguments and Evidence for Carbon, Resource, and Space Efficiency | |||||||||
| Marius Angstmann, Kerstin Meyer, Stefan Gärtner and Leonard Can Stratmann | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 23 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Smart and Resilient Infrastructure in the Wake of Climate Change | |||||||||
| Dillip Kumar Das and Varuvel Devadas | |||||||||
| Editorial | Open Access | Published: 22 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Baltic Spas in the Face of Climate Change: In Search of Resilience | |||||||||
| Anna Golędzinowska and Maciej Ganczarek | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 22 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Conceptualizing the Digital Food Environment: A Framework | |||||||||
| Sabrina Ionata Granheim, Liv Elin Torheim, Laura Terragni and Miranda Thurston | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 20 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Orchestrating Circular Fashion in the Productive City: A Digital Platform Ecosystem Framework | |||||||||
| Younghyun Kim, Mariangela Lavanga, Amanda Brandellero and Adrian Hill | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Multiple Geographies of Commons‐Based Peer Production | |||||||||
| Danai Liodaki, Markus Sattler, Vangelis Papadimitropoulos and Thilo Lang | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 15 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Lessons From Climate and Pandemic‐Induced Disruptions in Building Public Transport Resilience | |||||||||
| Esperance Munezero Hirwa and Mohamed M. H. Mostafa | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Enhancing Water Infrastructure Resilience in Response to Climate Change: Evidence From South Africa | |||||||||
| Joy Tuoyo Adu | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 13 October 2025 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| More Articles... |
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking | |||||||||
| Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| More Articles... |
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| New Urbanism: Past, Present, and Future | |||||||||
| Ajay Garde | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 22 December 2020 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Theory of Place in Public Space | |||||||||
| Mark Del Aguila, Ensiyeh Ghavampour and Brenda Vale | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| More Articles... |