Urban Transformations is an inter- and transdisciplinary open access journal. We offer a publishing and discussion platform for people engaged in science, policy and practice, targeting real-life impact. We invite contributions that address transformative urban change, and help to practically shape it towards sustainability.
Aims and scope
Urban transformations are of vital importance for the future of humanity and ecosystem Earth. They demand deep and accelerated changes in urban patterns and processes across all spheres of life, and from local to global. New knowledge on the subject, dynamics and directions of urban change is dearly needed to shift current development trajectories in the global North and South towards sustainability.
We invite contributions from any disciplines addressing these issues. The journal seeks to deepen and broaden current understandings theoretically, empirically and methodologically. There is a need for novel perspectives, drawing on ontological and epistemological multiplicity, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. We welcome comparative research designs, as well as innovative methods and techniques. Special attention will be given to outcomes from science-practice co-production and co-design.
We welcome the following article types:
- Research Original research work on the subject, dynamics or direction of urban transformations.
- Review Reviews explore, question, interpret or synthesize the available urban transformation literature on a selected topic.
- Frontiers paper Frontiers papers propose new research topics, approaches or concepts for advancing the science and practice of urban transformations.
- Perspective Short discussions that present thought-provoking arguments from researchers or practitioners.
- Focus point Succinct and informative reports on outstanding practice cases of urban transformations.
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Anticipating experimentation as the ‘the new normal’ through urban living labs 2.0: lessons learnt by JPI Urban Europe
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Enhancing the contribution of urban living labs to sustainability transformations: towards a meta-lab approach
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Deliberating the knowledge politics of smart urbanism
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Feminist urban living labs and social sustainability: lessons from Sweden
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Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities
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Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes
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Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City
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How EU-funded Smart City experiments influence modes of planning for mobility: observations from Hamburg
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Transformation of urban brownfields through co-creation: the multi-functional Lene-Voigt Park in Leipzig as a case in point
Sustainable Earth is the sister journal of Urban Transformations.
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Speed
155 days to first decision for all manuscripts
155 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
406 days from submission to acceptance
32 days from acceptance to publicationUsage
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