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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.
Listen to the podcast interview with the Editors-in-Chief to discover more about the journal.
This collection aims to critically review recent innovations in planning and their relation to the way transformative urban change is prepared, initiated, and sustained.
This collection explores co-production as a mode of scientific enquiry and how it can contribute to urban sustainability transitions and transformations.
Urban transformations are of vital importance for the future of humanity and ecosystem Earth. 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. Priority will be given to outcomes from science-practice co-production and co-design.
Do you have an idea for a novel topic that should be discussed in Urban Transformations? Be a Guest Editor and advance the field through an article collection. We invite proposals with a strong editorial concept that offer new insights and perspectives.
You can find further information about the requirements and submit your idea on our article collection proposals page.
Marc Wolfram is Director of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) and full professor for spatial development at Dresden University of Technology. He has an interdisciplinary academic background and extensive experience as a consultant and senior investigator in Europe (2002-2012), doing collaborative research on diverse urban sustainability issues with stakeholders at all levels. He also worked as an associate professor in South Korea (2013-19), pioneering research on transformative urban change dynamics, and advising global city networks, UN bodies and funding agencies. He has published widely in leading journals, and is a board member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS).
Niki Frantzeskaki is Professor on Urban Sustainability Transitions and Director of the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Niki has published close to 100 peer-reviewed articles and in 2017 and 2018 released three books on urban sustainability transitions. She has also edited 15 special issues in top-ranked journals about sustainability and sustainability transitions. She is coordinating research on environmental governance, and urban sustainability transitions by leading and being involved in a portfolio of research projects with research institutes across Europe, Canada, Brazil and Australia. She is actively contributing as an author in CBO, GEO-5, GEO-6 and IPBES assessments.
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