About this journal

Aims and scope

The Journal of Urban Design is a scholarly international journal which advances theory, research and practice in urban design.

There is a growing recognition of the need for urban design in shaping, managing and improving the quality of the urban environment. It is now considered one of the core knowledge components of planning and architectural education and practice. Thus, increasing numbers of architects, planners, surveyors, landscape architects and other professions concerned with the quality of urban development are specialising in urban design.

The Journal of Urban Design provides a new forum to bring together those contributing to this re-emerging discipline and enables researchers, scholars, practitioners and students to explore its many dimensions. The Journal publishes original articles in specialised areas such as urban aesthetics and townscape; urban structure and form; sustainable development; urban history, preservation and conservation; urban regeneration; local and regional identity; design control and guidance; property development; practice and implementation.

Peer Review Statement

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two referees.

Practice Notes are anonymously refereed by at least one referee after the initial screening by the editor.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 208K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.4 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 4.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.181 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.701 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 2 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 42 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 19 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 12% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor:
Professor Taner Oc - The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK & University of Nottingham, UK

North American Associate Editor:
Professor Michael Southworth - Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, USA

European Associate Editor:
Professor Matthew Carmona
- The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK

Deputy Editor:
Professor Elisabete Cidre -
The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.

Book Reviews Editors:
North and South America - Professor Rachel Berney -
Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, USA
Europe - Anthony Grout - University College London, UK

Editorial Assistant:
Anthony Grout
- University College London, UK

Reviews to be sent to: UCL, Central House, 14 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN, UK.

International Advisory Board:

Tribid Banerjee - USC, USA

Jonathan Barnett - Pennsylvania, USA

Diane Brand - Auckland, New Zealand

Eran Ben-Joseph - MIT, USA

Peter Bosselmann - Berkeley, USA<

Georgia Butina-Watson - Oxford Brookes, UK

Jay Chatterjee - Cincinnati, USA

Mark C. Childs - Albuquerque, USA

Renee Chow - Berkeley, USA

Alexander Cuthbert - New South Wales, Australia

Kristen Day - NYU-Poly, USA

Claudio de Magalhães , UCL, UK

Kim Dovey - Melbourne, Australia

Renia Ehrenfeucht - Albuquerque, USA

Nan Ellin - Denver, USA

Jennifer Evans-Cowley - North Texas, USA

Terry Farrell - London, UK

Ann Forsyth - Cambridge, USA 

Karen Franck - New Jersey, USA

Robert Freestone - New South Wales, Australia David Gordon - Queens, Canada

Aspa Gospodini - Thessaly, Greece

Gary Hack - Pennsylvania, USA

Robin Hickman - UCL, UK

Susan Handy - Berkeley, USA

Tim Heath - Nottingham, UK

Klaus Kunzmann - Berlin, Germany

Jon Lang - New South Wales, Australia

Peter Larkham - Birmingham City, UK

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris - UCLA, USA

Ali Madanipour - Newcastle, UK

Elizabeth Mcdonald - Berkeley, USA

Vikas Mehta - Cincinnati, USA

Anne Moudon - Washington, USA

Jack Nasar - Ohio, USA

Jeremy Nemeth - Colorado, USA

John Punter - Cardiff, UK

Marion Roberts - Westminster, UK

Brent Ryan - MIT, USA

Fahriye Sancar - Colorado, USA

Stephan Schmidt - Cornell, USA

Marichela Sepe - Naples, Italy

Philip Speranza - Oregon, USA

Frederik Steiner - Pennsylvania, USA

Quentin Stevens - RMIT, Australia

Emily Talen - Chicago, USA

Dogan Tirtiroglu, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Tim Townshend - Newcastle, UK

Jacob Wagner - Kansas, USA

Stephen M. Wheeler - Davis, USA

James White - Glasgow, UK

Helen Woolley - Sheffield, UK

John Zacharias - Beijing, China

Antoine Zammit - Msida, Malta

Abstracting and indexing

Journal of Urban Design is currently indexed and abstracted in CSA Abstracts; Dietrich's Index Philosophicus; EBSCOhost (Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier Academic Source Complete, Academic Source Premier, Advanced Placement Source, Business Source Corporate, Art & Architecture Complete, Art & Architecture Index Current Abstracts, Environment Complete, Environment Index, Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, MegaFILE, Public Affairs Index, SocINDEX, SocINDEX with Full Text, Sustainability Reference Center, TOC Premier Urban Studies Abstracts); GEOBASE; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur; Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur; OCLC (ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online, Periodical Abstracts); ProQuest (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library, Social Sciences Module); Scopus and Swets.

Open access

Journal of Urban Design is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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