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URBAN DESIGN International

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URBAN DESIGN International serves as a platform for research, practical advice, and international discussion among scholars, academics, and professionals in the multidisciplinary field of urban design.

  • Publishes original articles, book reviews, and expert commentaries.
  • Serves as an indispensable resource for urban designers, architects, planners, landscape architects, developers, and academic researchers.
  • Offers valuable content ranging from indepth papers to a continuously updated calendar of international events.
  • It addresses critical topics shaping the urban design agenda, including: urban form, governance, policy, and innovation in urban design practice and research.
Editors
  • Patricia Aelbrecht
  • Karina Landman
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Journal Impact Factor
2.2 (2025)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.0 (2025)
Submission to first decision (median)
15 days
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194.7k (2025)

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Pluralising Urban Design Theory

Approximately two decades ago, Cuthbert’s influential interventions called for urban design to consolidate itself as a discipline through sustained...

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Latest issue

Volume 31, Issue 2

Special Issue: Urban Design in (Post)arctic Cities

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This journal has 73 open access articles

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  • Calls for Papers

    There are currently two open Calls for Papers at the journal: Co-Producing and Co-Inhabiting Social Infrastructure in Creative and Transformative Ways: New Forms, Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities and Pluralising Urban Design Theory.

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Electronic ISSN
1468-4519
Print ISSN
1357-5317
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