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Journal of Urbanism - International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

Journal of Urbanism

International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

New title for 2008
Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 2
Frequency: 3 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1754-9175
Online ISSN: 1754-9183
 

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Urbanism is a multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on human settlement and its relation to the idea of sustainability, social justice and cultural understanding. The content focuses on Urban Regeneration, New Urbanism, European Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism, Urban Sustainability, Smart Growth, Livable Communities, Transit-Orientated Development, Walkable Communities and more. It highlights research on the various concepts, methods and theories on creating an attitude of sustainability toward urban form.

Example Topics of Interest to the Journal

  • The relative impact of design on environmental perception, social justice, affordability, the real estate market, transportation, the environment and urban livability
  • Polices designed to promote urbanism: assessments of outcome
  • Models and outcomes for public participation methods
  • Market performance of mixed-use projects
  • Transportation effects of new urbanism
  • Affordable housing, new urbanism and smart growth
  • The measurement of urban form and pattern
  • Studies of living preferences
  • Effects of walkable communities on children and the elderly
  • Crime and new urbanism
  • Post-occupancy evaluation of new urbanist projects
  • Environmental performance of low vs. high density development
  • The rural-urban transect in theory and practice
  • Social capital and the built environment
  • The role of historical preservation in the urban sustainability movement
  • Theories of urban architecture and urbanism
  • Urban Morphology

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