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.
| Nested Urban Scales: A Pervasive Geogame Model for Collective Energy Efficiency and Action | |||||||||
| Malini Srivastava and Mariangel Meza | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 28 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Placemaking, Livability, and Revitalization in Tokyo: Lessons in Sustainable Urban Regeneration | |||||||||
| Eduard Hauska and Raffaele Pernice | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 28 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Realities and Challenges of Residential Management in Detached Housing Areas in Japan | |||||||||
| Yuna Matsubayashi and Hiroko Saito | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 28 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Regeneration of Commercial Spaces in the Urban Centres of Japanese Local Cities | |||||||||
| Agim Kërçuku and Shin Aiba | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Sustainable Commercial Urbanism in Japan: Hiroshima’s Shopping Anatomy | |||||||||
| Carlos J. L. Balsas | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| “Can She Handle It?” Women Delivery Drivers and the Gendered Politics of Hanoi’s Streets | |||||||||
| Sarah Turner and Ngô Thúy Hạnh | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 26 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Geogames’ Environments as Hosts for the Collective Expression of Emotions in Urban Space | |||||||||
| Jan Szot, Edyta Sobieraj and Franciszek Krysztofiak | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Undertrack (Re)Fill: Transforming Railway Infrastructure Into Community Spaces in Japan | |||||||||
| Miguel Freitas Silva | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| From Survival to Solidarity: Reclaiming Santiago’s Streets and Plazas Through Food, Care, and Collective Resistance in Ollas Comunes | |||||||||
| Francisco García and Francisco Vergara-Perucich | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Shrinkage as an Opportunity? Local Cultures, Power Structures, and Spaces of Possibility in Two Communities in Lusatia | |||||||||
| Franz Erhard, Silvia Mann, Emilia Socha and Julian Borchard | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Campus Changer: A Serious Geogame for Transforming the Main Campus of the Warsaw University of Technology | |||||||||
| Agnieszka Wendland, Kornel Samociuk, Anna Szalwa, Iker Bengoetxea Arruti, Urszula Szczepankowska-Bednarek, Jacek Wesołowski, Joanna Wnuk and Robert Olszewski | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| Night‐Time Urbanism and Sustainable Regeneration: Play, Public Space, and Revitalisation in Tokyo and Melbourne | |||||||||
| Sidh Sintusingha and Alice Covatta | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Social Zipper: Redefining the Role of Streets in Disadvantaged Housing Estates | |||||||||
| Lene Wiell Nordberg, Rikke Borg Sundstrup, Marie Stender, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Mette Mechlenborg and Claus Bech-Danielsen | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| The Reurbanization That Never Was: Governance Challenges in Poland’s Suburbanizing Cities | |||||||||
| Katarzyna Kajdanek | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 19 January 2026 | |||||||||
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| From City‐Builder to Geogame: A Geodesign Process for Participatory Urban Planning | |||||||||
| Paul Cureton, Paul Coulton, Lisha He and Yuxuan Zhao | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 14 January 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | |||||||||
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Theory of Place in Public Space | |||||||||
| Mark Del Aguila, Ensiyeh Ghavampour and Brenda Vale | |||||||||
| Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019 | |||||||||
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