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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 — villages, towns, cities, megacities — in
order to promote progress and quality of life.

Open Access: free to read and share, with an article processing charge for accepted papers to offset production costs (more details here).

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The Cultural Construction of the Domestic Space in France: Women’s Lived Experience and the Materialization of Customs
Francesca Romana Forlini
Article | Open Access | Published: 15 April 2024
Handbook, Standard, Room: The Prescription of Residential Room Types in Sweden Between 1942 and 2023
Daniel Movilla Vega and Lluis Juan Liñán
Article | Open Access | Published: 11 April 2024
Compact Housing for Incremental Growth: The K206 RDP Project in Alexandra, Johannesburg
Afua Wilcox, Nelson Mota, Marietta Haffner and Marja Elsinga
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 April 2024
Adaptive Reuse of High-Rise Buildings for Housing: A Study of Istanbul Central Business District
Ayşe Zeynep Aydemir and Tomris Akın
Article | Open Access | Published: 2 April 2024
Co-Production in the Urban Setting: Fostering Definitional and Conceptual Clarity Through Comparative Research
Dahae Lee, Patricia Feiertag and Lena Unger
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
Co-Production Between Insurgency and Exploitation: Promises and Precarities of a Traveling Concept
Sophie Schramm
Commentary | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
Co-Production Boundaries of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Regeneration: The Case of a Healthy Corridor
Beatriz Caitana and Gonçalo Canto Moniz
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
Sharing for Health, Inclusion, and Sustainability: The Co-Production of Outdoor Equipment Lending in Norway
Espen Eigil Barratt-Due Solum, Anniken Førde and Monica Guillen-Royo
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
Co-Production for Equitable Governance in Community Climate Adaptation: Neighborhood Resilience in Houston, Texas
Dalia Munenzon
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
Digital Platforms as (Dis)Enablers of Urban Co-Production: Evidence From Bengaluru, India
Deepa Kylasam Iyer and Francis Kuriakose
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
“The Citizen” as a Ghost Subject in Co-Producing Smart Sustainable Cities: An Intersectional Approach
Leika Aruga, Hilde Refstie and Hilde Nymoen Rørtveit
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
Focusing on Actors, Scaling-Up, and Networks to Understand Co-Production Practices: Reporting From Berlin and Santiago
Paola Alfaro d’Alençon and Diego Moya Ortiz
Article | Open Access | Published: 28 March 2024
The Influence of Space Standards on Housing Typologies: The Evolution of the Nuclear Family Dwelling in England
Lucia Alonso Aranda
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 March 2024
Domestic Cartographies: A Post-Occupancy Ethnographic Assessment of Barcelona’s Social Housing Strategies, 2015–2023
Raül Avilla-Royo and Ibon Bilbao
Article | Open Access | Published: 22 March 2024
The Lifestyles of Space Standards: Concepts and Design Problems
Alvaro Arancibia
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 March 2024
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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
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
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
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
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
The Transformative Power of Social Innovation in Urban Planning and Local Development
Torill Nyseth and Abdelillah Hamdouch
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 24 January 2019
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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
Strengthening Community Sense of Place through Placemaking
Peter J. Ellery and Jane Ellery
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 June 2019
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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World Heritage Day

On this World Heritage Day, we have compiled a list of articles that, especially today, are of particular relevance. This special collection is available until the end of the day, and, as always, all articles are completely free to download (open access).

Domesticity as Nation Building in the United Arab Emirates
Sophie A. Johnson
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 March 2024
Social Media Groups in Interaction With Contested Urban Narratives: The Case of Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia
Tim Mavrič and Neža Čebron Lipovec
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 January 2024
Discovering the Significance of Housing Neighbourhoods by Assessing Their Attributes With a Digital Tool
Lidwine Spoormans, Wessel de Jonge, Darinka Czischke and Ana Pereira Roders
Article | Open Access | Published: 16 January 2024
Potential Impact of Waterway Development on Cultural Landscape Values: The Case of the Lower Vistula
Anna Golędzinowska
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 September 2023
Bombed Cities: Legacies of Post-War Planning on the Contemporary Urban and Social Fabric
Seraphim Alvanides and Carol Ludwig
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 23 February 2023
From Reconstruction to Urban Preservation: Negotiating Built Heritage After the Second World War
Birgit Knauer
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 February 2023
Post-Second World War Reconstruction of Polish Cities: The Interplay Between Politics and Paradigms
Łukasz Bugalski and Piotr Lorens
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 February 2023
Continuity and Change: Socio-Spatial Practices in Bamberg's World Heritage Urban Horticulture
Heike Oevermann, Daniel Keech, Marc Redepenning, Li Fan and Patricia Alberth
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Endangered Urban Commons: Lahore’s Violent Heritage Management and Prospects for Reconciliation
Helena Cermeño and Katja Mielke
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
A Bourdieusian Framework for Understanding Public Space Heritage Transformations: Riga’s Castle Square
Helena Gutmane
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Portraying Urban Change in Alfama (Lisbon): How Local Socio-Spatial Practices Shape Heritage
Catarina Fontes and Graça Índias Cordeiro
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Conservation Planning and the Development Trajectory of the Historic Core of Worcester, England
Heather Barrett
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Impacts of Change: Analysing the Perception of Industrial Heritage in the Vogtland Region
Leo Bockelmann
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Patterns of Detachment: Spatial Transformations of the Phosphate Industry in el-Quseir, Egypt
Mirhan Damir, Martin Meyer and Hellen Aziz
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Permanences Against Cultural Amnesia: Reconstructing the Urban Narrative of the Rum Community of Fener, Istanbul
Ilgi Toprak
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Urban Heritage Rehabilitation: Institutional Stakeholders’ Contributions to Improve Implementation of Urban and Building Regulations
Cilísia Ornelas, João Miranda Guedes, Isabel Breda-Vázquez, Virginia Gallego Guinea and Alessandra Turri
Article | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
Urban Heritage in Transformation: Physical and Non-Physical Dimensions of Changing Contexts
Frank Eckardt and Aliaa AlSadaty
Editorial | Open Access | Published: 30 January 2023
When Modern Housing Built Optimistic Suburbia: A Comparative Analysis Between Lisbon and Luanda
Inês Rodrigues
Article | Open Access | Published: 29 July 2022
Conservation of Beirut’s Urban Heritage Values Through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach
Ibtihal Y. El-Bastawissi, Rokia Raslan, Hiba Mohsen and Hoda Zeayter
Article | Open Access | Published: 23 February 2022
Digital Placemaking for Urban Regeneration: Identification of Historic Heritage Values in Taiwan and the Baltic States
Chih-ming Shih, Sandra Treija, Kęstutis Zaleckis, Uģis Bratuškins, Chi-Hui Chen, Yen-Hung Chen, Charles Tzu Wei Chiang, Laura Jankauskaitė-Jurevičienė, Jūratė Kamičaitytė, Alisa Koroļova, Huei-Chen Lee, Arnis Lektauers and Aušra Mlinkauskienė
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 November 2021
Digital Excavation of Mediatized Urban Heritage: Automated Recognition of Buildings in Image Sources
Tino Mager and Carola Hein
Article | Open Access | Published: 26 June 2020
Crowdsourcing Local Knowledge with PPGIS and Social Media for Urban Planning to Reveal Intangible Cultural Heritage
Pilvi Nummi
Article | Open Access | Published: 29 March 2018
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