Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-7635

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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.

The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Hilary Davis, Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell and Callum Parker
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 20 March 2025
Participatory Interventions: Digital Crowd Mapping Perceptions of Safety in Public Space
Gill Matthewson, Nicole Kalms and Jess Berry
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 March 2025
Connecting to the Sea: A Place-Based Study of the Potential of Digital Engagement to Foster Marine Citizenship
Katharine Willis and Ashita Gupta
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 March 2025
Co-Creating Change: Seedbed Interventions as Catalysts for Equitable Urban Planning—The Case of Umeå
Julia Gäckle, Mariia Chebotareva, Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Jannis Meul, Ilkka Väänänen, Shreya Utkarsh, Axel Timpe, Frank Lohrberg, Taru Suutari, Eva Maaherra Lovheim and Tadhg MacIntyre
Article | Open Access | Published: 13 March 2025
Co-Designing Urban Interventions Through the Lens of SDGs: Insights From the IN-HABIT Project in Nitra, Slovakia
Katarína Melichová and Michal Hrivnák
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 March 2025
Reshaping Social Spaces After Socialism Through Citizen Participation: The Case of Novo Sarajevo’s Post-Conflict Neighborhoods
Isra Tatlić and Nermina Zagora
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 March 2025
Participatory Retrofitting Through Extended Planners in Tanzanian Urban Areas
Manyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch and Fredrick Bwire Magina
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 February 2025
Community Mobilisation Through Translation: A Sustainable Framework for Participatory Planning
Xiaohong Tan, Yongjian Xu and Guangye Rui
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 February 2025
Informing Heritage Conservation Through Diverse Experiences: The Case of the Leuven Town Hall
Negin Eisazadeh, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen and Claudine Houbart
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2025
AI-Supported Participatory Workshops: Middle-Out Engagement for Crisis Events
Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Marius Hoggenmüller, Alexandra Crosby, Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu and Weidong Huang
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 January 2025
The People and the Fire Tree: Co-Designing a Bushfire Early Warning System to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals
Axel Munoz Rivas, Hilary Davis and Sonja Pedell
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 January 2025
Urban Beekeepers and Local Councils in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Honeybees Are Valuable Allies in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Dara Dimitrov
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 January 2025
Introduction: AI for and in Urban Planning
Tong Wang and Neil Yorke-Smith
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2025
What Is My Plaza for? Implementing a Machine Learning Strategy for Public Events Prediction in the Urban Square
Jumana Hamdani, Pablo Antuña Molina, Lucía Leva Fuentes, Hesham Shawqy, Gabriella Rossi and David Andrés León
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2025
The Potentials and Limitations of Agent-Based Models for Urban Digital Twins: Insights From a Surveillance and Behavioral Nudging Simulation
Sarah Shtaierman, Catarina Fontes and Christoph Lütge
Article | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2025
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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
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
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
Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
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
Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South
Vanessa Watson
Article | Open Access | Published: 6 December 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
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
New Urbanism: Past, Present, and Future
Ajay Garde
Article | Open Access | Published: 22 December 2020
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
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