Papers addressing the design and planning of the built environment, emphasizing the interfaces between theory, practice and urban policy.
Aims and scope
Urban Design and Planning publishes international refereed papers addressing the design and planning of the built environment, with emphasis on the interfaces between urban theory, policy and practice.

The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for critical discussion and debate that aim to address the complex nature of urban design and planning, and explore its multiple socio-cultural, physical, economic and environmental dimensions. It offers a valuable resource for all those concerned with the quality of the built environment such as urban designers, urbanists, architects, planners, landscape architects, and academic scholars involved in architectural and planning research, education and practice.

Topics covered by the journal sit at the intersection of disciplines (sustainability, urbanism, urban design, planning, architecture, and landscape architecture); the intersection of spatial scales including their core and periphery (Cities, Neighbourhoods, Streets, and Buildings); and at the intersection of theoretical and contemporary thoughts, policies, practices and applications in urban design and planning.

We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit original research articles, case studies, and critical articles on topics including, but not limited to the following:

adaptive and synergistic urban design and planning
case studies: success stories as well as failures
environmental planning and eco urban development
evidence-based decision-making in urban design and planning
future planning and urban design education
governance and political in urban design and planning
health and wellbeing
local identity, place character and sense of place
master planning and design code
participatory placemaking and co-production in urban design
physical, social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects of topics such as; sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods
preservation, conservation and cultural heritage
property development in practice
streets design and public spaces
sustainable urban design and planning
tactical and temporary urbanism
the integration of concepts such as resilience and climate adaption into urban design and planning
the role of sustainability assessment in the urban design process
urban morphology, typology, and forms
theory and history of urban design and planning
townscape and aesthetics
urban design value
urban infrastructure and transport systems
urban regeneration, and
the new types of professionalism required to reconcile the conflicting demands placed upon urban design and planning