About this journal

Urban Research & Practice is a well-established and exciting journal that publishes a wide range of original academic research articles along with innovative articles on policy and practice. The journal is published in association with EURA (European Urban Research Association), is a cross-disciplinary journal, with a focus on urban studies.

Urban Research & Practice seeks to reflect and further enhance the rich diversity of thought, approach and research that currently characterises the study of urban areas in Europe and elsewhere. As such it aims to be a key part of the renaissance of Urban Studies currently taking place, making contributions to academic research and policy development. The journal publishes research of the highest quality relating to the challenges facing urban environments today. Another key aim of the journal is to seek to bridge the intellectual and geographical 'divides' that currently exist in the field of urban affairs - specifically the North/South divide and the East/West divide and also divides between distinct academic disciplines.

The journal includes papers that:

• provide a systematic description of :
• urban issues
• urban developments
• urban policies or
• urban policy-making and policy implementation
• seek to explain variations in urban policies or urban governance cross-sectorally or cross-nationally or that seek to explain such variations over time
• analyse and/or evaluate the effects of urban policies or process of urban governance
• analyse European and International factors that impact on urban areas, urban policies and urban governance
• urban sustainability (environmental, economic and social dimensions)

• Policy articles, practice articles and book reviews

  As well as traditional academic papers, the journal also publishes policy reviews, practice and project reports and book reviews. The policy section focuses on new policies launched at the European, national and regional levels that are of relevance to a wider audience. The practice and project report section focuses on innovative projects, conferences and events being carried out at a local level (in cities or regions).

  Peer Review Statement

  All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by two independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized.

  "With the renewed world-wide interest in cities, Urban Research & Practice fills an important gap and provides a valuable forum for high quality, interdisciplinary urban research and policy analysis."
  Professor Ivan Turok
  University of Glasgow, UK

  "International in scope and multi-disciplinary in ambition, Urban Research & Practice provides an important forum for the latest thinking from the worlds of academia and the urban professions. It is unmatched by any other journal of its kind."
  Professor Paul Kantor
  Department of Political Science, Fordham University, New York, USA

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• 20% discount on Personal subscriptions for Urban Design Group Members! Contact customer services on +44 (0)20 7017 5544 or [email protected]
• Special Print & Online subscription rate of €42 for EURA members. Contact +44 (0)20 7017 5543 or [email protected] to subscribe (Quote YB16601W)
• Free Article - City futures: politics, economic crisis, and the American model of urban development

Members of the European Urban Research Association (EURA) can receive an individual print and online subscription to Urban Research & Practice at a special society member rate of €42. Contact +44 (0)20 8052 0501 or [email protected] to subscribe. (Quote YB16601W)

Members of the Urban Design Group can get a 20% discount on Personal subscriptions to Urban Research & Practice . Contact customer services on +44 (0)20 7017 5544 or [email protected]

The European Urban Research Association (EURA) was launched at an international conference held in Brussels, Belgium in September 1997 after the proposal to create a new association of urban researchers was first discussed at an international seminar on 'Shaping the Urban Future' held in Bristol, England, in July 1994.

Aims and objectives

The aims of the European Urban Research Association are

• To provide a forum for people from different disciplines and policy backgrounds to exchange information about findings from research on towns and cities as the basis for closer cooperation
• To encourage interdisciplinary and cross-national approaches to research in and education for urban and regional studies as a professional and academic field
• To bridge the gap between academic, professional and policy interests, inform public debate and improve the quality of urban policy

Our urban future

At a time when global forces are strengthening and localism struggles to reassert itself, there is a need to re-examine the place which cities take in the social and economic order. Figures speak for themselves, as the world population grows, the future is largely urban:

EURA is mainly European through its membership and expertise. As the world goes urban, it is therefore timely to review and reflect the role and function of the city in a changing Europe, examine European cities' similar characteristics (of history and heritage, of design and built form, of politics, governance and democracy, of economic function, of social structure and association) and their distinctive features.

However, Europe is only a small part of our urban future. In a world that is both globalising and urbanising at the same time it makes no sense for urban researchers to limit their perspective to experience within a single continent. Hence, from the outset the European Urban Research Association (EURA) has welcomed dialogue with scholars from countries beyond the frontiers of 'Europe'.

For more information about EURA click here.