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New issues of Planning Journals
23/08/2010 - Planning Theory and Practice, Vol 11(2)
The interface explores the work of Peter Marris, sociologist, planning consultant, and pedagogue. Throughout his long career, Marris extended his analysis of how the powerful push uncertainty onto the powerless. For an audience in urban planning, he demonstrated how to analyze the personal societal consequences of complex public decisions. For an audience in sociology, psychiatry, and psychology, he connected theories of loss and attachment to broader questions of urban policy. Contributions from Dolores Hayden, Bish Sanyal, Ann Forsyth, Hemalata Dandekar, Keith Pezzoli and James Throgmorton provide a series of analytical and personal reflections on Marris’s work.

The section includes a series of pieces from Marris himself which will fascinate newcomers to his thought and remind those familiar with his work of its wit, versatility, and intellectual rigour. We are very proud that they include a hitherto unpublished set of lecture notes, ‘Reflections on Planning Theory’.
17/05/2010 - European Journal of Spatial Development, April 2010
  • Paper A new article has been published in the EJSD containing an assessment of the positioning of the concept of territorial governance: Umberto Janin Rivolin, 2010.
19/02/2010 - Urban Research & Practice, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2009 : Polycentric territorial development in Central Europe: concepts and practice
18/02/2010 - New issues of Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning:
21/11/2009 - New issues of Progress in Planning

Recent issues
  • 72(1) Responsibilities of theorists: the case of communicative planning theory. Tore Sager
  • 72(2) Dwelling in the metropolis: reformed urban blocks 1890–1940 as a model for the sustainable compact city. Wolfgang Sonne
  • 72(3) ‘The planned city sweeps the poor away…’: urban planning and 21st century urbanisation. Vanessa Watson
  • 72(4) Special issue: Shaken, shrinking, hot, impoverished and informal: emerging research agendas in planning. Hilda Blanco and Marina Alberti (guest editors),  Robert Olshansky, Stephanie Chang, Stephen M. Wheeler, John Randolph, James B. London, Justin B. Hollander, Karina M. Pallagst, Terry Schwarz, Frank J. Popper, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse, Vanessa Watson
Forthcoming issue
  • 73(1) Special issue: Governing global city regions in China and the West. Ronald K. Vogel (guest editor), H. V. Savitch, Jiang Xu, Anthony G. O. Yeh, Weiping Wu, Andrew Sancton, Paul Kantor, Peter Newman, Takashi Tsukamoto, Peter T. Y. Cheung, Jianfa Shen, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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30/10/2009 - CEBE Transactions, The online journal of the Centre for Education in the Built Environment, Volume 6, Issue 2, September 2009.
CEBE Transactions is a peer reviewed journal publishing case studies, project reports, essays, research findings, reviews and other work relating to teaching, learning, scholarship and the research-teaching-consultancy link in Built Environment disciplines. This volume also includes a contribution by Deborah Peel and Paula Rosas, winners of AESOP 2008 Excellence in Teaching Prize.

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Calls for papers
Deadline 20/07/2010 - Call for Papers: TeMA, the Journal of the University of Naples Federico II Department of Urban and Regional Planning – n°3/2010 “Moving for Leisure”
TeMA, focuses on the relationships among Land Use Planning, Mobility and Environment. The next issue of TeMA Journal “Moving for Leisure” invites articles that explore the relationship between City and
Leisure Mobility focusing in detail on the following topics:
  • Touristic urban phenomenon and mobility
  • Impacts of touristic and leisure mobility on urban environment.
  • Innovative transport solution for urban mobility and vertical connections
Further details on the topic, instructions for abstract submission and information on the review process are available on the TeMA website (Section Call for papers).
Short proposal submission deadline 15/06/2010 - Call for Chapter Proposals: Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities. A book edited by Dr. Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun, Gazi University, TURKEY.
The overall aim of the book is to develop an understanding of how different perspectives of sustainable development, urban planning-design and technological development interact through administrative as well as community collaborations and which measures can be taken in the settlements to reduce climate change. This book will contain discussions and a variety of cases which fills a gap in this field. In this book, different perspectives on eco-tech cities, eco-settlements, eco-engineering and construction in the localities, technologies used in urban design and sustainable transportation can be interpreted in a variety of ways.
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Deadline 20/04/2010 - Call for Papers: TeMA, the Journal of the University of Naples Federico II Department of Urban and Regional Planning – n°2/2010 “City and Logistics”
TeMA, focuses on the relationships among Land Use Planning, Mobility and Environment. The next issue of TeMA Journal “City and Logistics” invites articles that explore the relationship between City and Logistics focusing in detail on the following topics:
  • innovative solutions to regulate commercial vehicles access, circulation and parking in urban centers
  • urban freight mobility models
  • modal split of good transport in urban areas
  • impact of logistic and transport infrastructures in urban areas
  • innovative practices that integrate city logistics goals and environmental quality of urban areas
  • city logistics actions and initiatives in mobility and urban planning
  • coordination and integration between city logistics and land use planning
Further details on the topic, instructions for abstract submission and information on the review process are available on the TeMA website (Section Call for papers).
Call for Papers by WEIMARPOLIS, Bauhaus-University Weimar. WEIMARPOLIS is the online journal dedicated to the field of urbanism, a non-profit and open-access journal launched by the Alumni-Association European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.
3 calls for papers by Territoires en mouvement, the journal of Geography and Planning of the University of Lille. Topics:
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Call for Papers: TeMA, the Journal of the University of Naples Federico II Department of Urban and Regional Planning – Volume 2010
TeMA, focuses on the relationships among Land Use Planning, Mobility and Environment. According to this general aim, each issue is devoted to a different topic. TeMA invites scholars and practitioners to submit articles according to the different topics that will be faced in 2010:
  • Urban Planning and Mobility,
  • City and Logistics
  • Moving for Leisure
  • Large/Small Urban Projects.
The detailed description of the topics, the deadlines and instructions for abstract submission and further details on the review process, are available on the TeMA website (Section Call for papers).
Deadline 31/01/2010 - Nakhara - Journal of Environmental Design and Planning - Call for papers "Dynamic City: Land, Water and Culture"
Manuscripts can be sent electronically to: jnakhara@chula.ac.th
More information and Submission Guidelines
Deadline 15/01/2009 - Critical Planning, UCLA Urban Planning Journal, call for papers on "Resilience"
For its 17th volume
(Summer 2010), Critical Planning invites articles that explore the question of resilience empirically, theoretically, and historically in specific urban contexts around the world. We welcome papers and creative projects that investigate resilience in relation to: theoretical problems (sustainability, development, scale, diversity); ongoing environmental/ecological concerns (climate change, dwindling natural resources); the changing urban built environment (sprawl, the rural/urban interface); unfolding civil conflict and struggle (urban social movements); movements of people (migration and refugee flows); evolving socioeconomic regimes (neoliberalism, market socialism); and the interplay of political ideologies and collective imaginaries, among other topics.
Further information on the journal's website
Deadline 31/05/2009 - Call for contributions to a book on "New Neighbourhoods in Europe"
In the framework of the the Laboratorio Cittadinanza/Workshop on Citizenship, in cooperation between the Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Planum and the University Rome 3, the project “New Neighbourhoods in Europe” aims to produce a volume with contributions of PhD researchers reflecting on the emergence of new neighbourhoods in the European City. We are kindly inviting students -in the field of urban heritage, urban studies, urban planning, architecture and other related disciplines- to send in an abstract for a chapter in the planned book. Relevant subjects:
  • The political side of new developments, studying the form of urbanity (or citizenship) implicit in the design of new settlements
  • Accessibility to public space and public goods in the neighbourhoods
  • The innovative or traditional feature and life-styles that these neighbourhoods implicitly foster
  • The contextual and political factors influencing the concept and design of these neighbourhoods
  • The contribution with innovation and the new economy
Send an abstract of no more than 400 words explaining the case study that you would like to bring in and how your chapter will be addressing one or more of these subjects. Send it to both editors before the 31st of May. Those selected will be invited to a workshop to guideline the research, and to homogeneize the quality of the contributions. The book should than be produced within 2010.
Contact : M. Cremaschi - F. Eckardt
Deadline 15/12/2008 - Call for papers for the Special issue of 'Planning, Practice and Research': The future of green belts
The issue is intended as a follow-up to a special issue of Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2007, vol. 50 no. 5) and the book Green belts in the 21st Century (2008, Ashgate). We particularly encourage new and emerging scholars and those who bring an alternative or international perspective to green belts. We are specifically interested in themes that address the following areas among others:
  • green belts, coastal communities and the role of climate change
  • community initiated, managed and planned green belts
  • sustainability and green belts
  • National parks as green belts
  • sprawl and green belts
  • green belt alternatives
The final deadline for submission to the special issue is the end of March 2009, with publication expected at the beginning of 2010.
Submit a 300 word abstract  by 15th of December.
Further information on the acceptable format for publication in PPR
Deadline 07/11/2008 - Call for papers Participation in Planning: New Directions in Theory and Practice.
Over the last decade participation in planning has risen up the research and policy agendas. Governments around the world have been keen to assert their participatory credentials through reformed planning systems and ‘innovatory’ techniques. Theoretical understandings of these shifts have explored, among other things, their connections with emerging forms of participatory governance and associated debates about whether these can be typified as neo-liberal or collaborative. Much on participation has focused on exploring the possibilities and limitations of revised planning systems at national and local levels within the context of the debates on governance.  While this has produced much useful work, we would argue that there are opportunities for moving on current debates and research in a variety of ways.
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Please send abstracts or any questions you may have to either of the joint editors: Sue Brownill, Oxford Brookes University - Gavin Parker, University of Reading
Deadline 30/09/2008 - Call for papers : Centenary Papers in Town Planning Review
In 2010 the Town Planning Review will be celebrating its centenary. To mark this important milestone, the Editors are proposing to publish a series of review papers that record and reflect on the state-of-the-art in a range of topics within the general field of town and regional planning. Appropriate topics include urban regeneration, environmental planning and management, strategic and regional planning, sustainable urban development, rural planning and development, transport  planning, planning and urban governance, planning methods, planning theory, urban design, planning history and planning education. The review papers should be written for an international audience and should therefore communicate in clear straightforward English, avoiding wherever possible the extensive use of academic and professional jargon. Papers may focus on research, on professional practice or on a combination of the two. The preferred length of papers is 8,000 – 10,000 words. The Editors would welcome expressions of interest and would be pleased to discuss the scope and content of proposed papers. If you would like to contribute, please get in touch with one of the Editors:
Deadline 15/03/2008 - Call for papers: Projections, the Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Projections, the Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, focuses on the most innovative and cutting edge research in planning. Each volume is devoted to a different topic of interest to planning scholars, students, and professionals. As a peer-reviewed publication, Projections welcomes original high quality submissions at the vanguard of planning theory and practice. Volume 9 of Projections explores the diversity of and progress in planning for sustainable transport. It is titled: "Planning for Sustainable Transportation: an International Perspective".
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Deadline 25/02/2008 - Call for papers in International Planning Studies : Demographic Changes and the New Landscapes for Planning
International Planning Studies aims at improving and enhancing discussion and exchange on current and emerging planning issues; on the development of theoretical and methodological framework; and on innovative perspectives within the field. Within these aims, IPS opens a call for papers on the topic of ‘Demographic Changes and the New Landscapes for Planning’.
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Deadline 17/12/2007 - Call for papers in International Planning Studies : What is left of planning?
Pursuing its mission to improve and enhance discussion and exchange on current and emerging issues in planning from a critical perspective, IPS opens a call for papers focussing on ‘What is left of planning?’. The editors would be interested in a broad range of contributions from theoretical and historical analyses of the rise of neo-liberal thinking in planning through to reports and reflections by planning practitioners on local practices which have challenged orthodoxy from a left point of view. Selected papers will be published in a special issue edited by Michael Edwards and John Lovering in Spring 2008.
Any query to the editors or Denise Phillips
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