Urban Planning

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2025, volume 10

The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Hilary Davis, Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell and Callum Parker

Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on the Integration of AI Into Walkability Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review

Yasin Delavar, Sarah Gamble and Karla Saldana-Ochoa

What Is My Plaza for? Implementing a Machine Learning Strategy for Public Events Prediction in the Urban Square

Jumana Hamdani, Pablo Antuña Molina, Lucía Leva Fuentes, Hesham Shawqy, Gabriella Rossi and David Andrés León

Simulating Complex Urban Behaviours With AI: Incorporating Improved Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulation Models

Solon Solomou and Ulysses Sengupta

A Machine Learning Approach to Adapt Local Land Use Planning to Climate Change

Julia Forster, Stefan Bindreiter, Birthe Uhlhorn, Verena Radinger-Peer and Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

Speculative Criminality at Home: Bypassing Tenant Rights Through Police Surveillance in Detroit’s Rental Housing

Rae Baker

From Vision to Reality: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Different Urban Planning Phases

Frank Othengrafen, Lars Sievers and Eva Reinecke

The Potentials and Limitations of Agent-Based Models for Urban Digital Twins: Insights From a Surveillance and Behavioral Nudging Simulation

Sarah Shtaierman, Catarina Fontes and Christoph Lütge

The Potential of AI in Information Provision in Energy-Efficient Renovations: A Narrative Review of Literature

C. Koray Bingöl, Tong Wang, Aksel Ersoy and Ellen van Bueren

In Praise of Diversity in Participatory Heritage Planning Empowered by Artificial Intelligence: Windcatchers in Yazd

Mahda Foroughi, Tong Wang and Ana Pereira Roders

Placemaking Through Time in Nepal: Conceptualising the Historic Urban-Rural Landscape of Kathmandu

Xiang Ren, Sangeeta Singh, Abhishek Bhutoria and Huriye Armağan Doğan

Connecting to the Sea: A Place-Based Study of the Potential of Digital Engagement to Foster Marine Citizenship

Katharine Willis and Ashita Gupta

Participatory Retrofitting Through Extended Planners in Tanzanian Urban Areas

Manyama Majogoro, Oswald Devisch and Fredrick Bwire Magina

Local Voices, Global Goals: Participatory Planning for Localizing the UN SDGs in UNESCO Heritage Site Management

Iuliia Eremenko and Tymoteusz Kraski

Participatory Interventions: Digital Crowd Mapping Perceptions of Safety in Public Space

Gill Matthewson, Nicole Kalms and Jess Berry

Temporal Dynamics of Power Distribution in Mobile Urban Co-Policies: A Southern Analytical Framework

Laura Sobral, Predrag Milić and Burcu Ateş

Co-Creating Change: Seedbed Interventions as Catalysts for Equitable Urban Planning—The Case of Umeå

Julia Gäckle, Mariia Chebotareva, Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Jannis Meul, Ilkka Väänänen, Shreya Utkarsh, Axel Timpe, Frank Lohrberg, Taru Suutari, Eva Maaherra Lovheim and Tadhg MacIntyre

Community Mobilisation Through Translation: A Sustainable Framework for Participatory Planning

Xiaohong Tan, Yongjian Xu and Guangye Rui

The People and the Fire Tree: Co-Designing a Bushfire Early Warning System to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals

Axel Munoz Rivas, Hilary Davis and Sonja Pedell

Co-Designing Urban Interventions Through the Lens of SDGs: Insights From the IN-HABIT Project in Nitra, Slovakia

Katarína Melichová and Michal Hrivnák

AI-Supported Participatory Workshops: Middle-Out Engagement for Crisis Events

Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Marius Hoggenmüller, Alexandra Crosby, Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu and Weidong Huang

Urban Beekeepers and Local Councils in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Honeybees Are Valuable Allies in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Dara Dimitrov

Informing Heritage Conservation Through Diverse Experiences: The Case of the Leuven Town Hall

Negin Eisazadeh, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen and Claudine Houbart

Reshaping Social Spaces After Socialism Through Citizen Participation: The Case of Novo Sarajevo’s Post-Conflict Neighborhoods

Isra Tatlić and Nermina Zagora

Introduction: AI for and in Urban Planning

Tong Wang and Neil Yorke-Smith

2024, volume 9

Planned Socio-Spatial Fragmentation: The Normalisation of Gated Communities in Two Mexican Metropolises

Emma R. Morales

Can Acceptance of Urban Shrinkage Shift Planning Strategies of Shrinking Cities From Growth to De-Growth?

Marjan Marjanović, Marcelo Sagot Better, Nikola Lero and Zorica Nedović-Budić

An Empirical Test of Pedestrian Activity Theories Within Informal Settlements

Yael Borofsky, Stephanie Briers and Isabel Günther

Spatial Appropriations Over Europe’s Borderland: El Principe’s Growth as a Vestige of Colonial Urbanism

Mari Paz Agundez

Transformations of the Beirut River: Between Temporary and Permanent Liminality

Christine Mady

Migrants in the Old Train Wagons Borderland in Thessaloniki: From Abandonment to Infrastructures of Commοning

Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, Paschalis Arvanitidis and Zacharias Valiantzas

The Liminality of Subcultural Spaces: Tokyo’s Gaming Arcades as Boundary Between Social Isolation and Integration

Heide Imai and Lisa Woite

Bordering Practices in a Sustainability-Profiled Neighbourhood: Studying Inclusion and Exclusion Through Fluid and Fire Space

Maria Eidenskog and Wiktoria Glad

Subaltern Politics at Urban Borderlands

Harshavardhan Jatkar

Discovering the Significance of Housing Neighbourhoods by Assessing Their Attributes With a Digital Tool

Lidwine Spoormans, Wessel de Jonge, Darinka Czischke and Ana Pereira Roders

Conceptualizing Place Borders as Narrative: Observations From Berlin-Wedding, a Neighbourhood in Transformation

Martin Barthel and James W. Scott

Economic–Sanitation–Environmental (Dis)Connections in Brazil: A Trans-Scale Perspective From Minas Gerais State and BH Microregion

Norma Valencio, Arthur Valencio, Gabriel G. Carvalho and Murilo S. Baptista

Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim

Aline Suter, Lars Kaiser, Martin Dušek, Florin Hasler and Simone Tappert

Revealing the Community’s Interpretation of Place: Integrated Digital Support to Embed Photovoice Into Placemaking Processes

Juan A. García-Esparza and Matej Nikšič

Social Media Groups in Interaction With Contested Urban Narratives: The Case of Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia

Tim Mavrič and Neža Čebron Lipovec

Digital Feminist Placemaking: The Case of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement

Asma Mehan

Beyond the Blind Spot: Enhancing Polyphony Through City Planning Activism Using Public Participation GIS

Eveliina Harsia and Pilvi Nummi

National Map of Security Threats as a Citizen Involvement Tool for Planning Safer Urban Public Spaces

Paulina Polko and Kinga Kimic

Participatory Budgeting and Placemaking: Concepts, Methods, and Practices

Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Juan A. García-Esparza and Kinga Kimic

Digital Participatory Model as Part of a Data-Driven Decision Support System for Urban Vibrancy

Gülce Kırdar and Gülen Çağdaş

Inhabiting Flyover Geographies: Flows, Interstices, and Walking Bodies in Karachi

Aseela Haque

The Soundscape and Listening as an Approach to Sensuous Urbanism: The Case of Puerta del Sol (Madrid)

Cristina Palmese, José Luis Carles Arribas and Alejandro Rodríguez Antolín

Sharing for Health, Inclusion, and Sustainability: The Co-Production of Outdoor Equipment Lending in Norway

Espen Eigil Barratt-Due Solum, Anniken Førde and Monica Guillen-Royo

“The Citizen” as a Ghost Subject in Co-Producing Smart Sustainable Cities: An Intersectional Approach

Leika Aruga, Hilde Refstie and Hilde Nymoen Rørtveit

Digital Platforms as (Dis)Enablers of Urban Co-Production: Evidence From Bengaluru, India

Deepa Kylasam Iyer and Francis Kuriakose

Focusing on Actors, Scaling-Up, and Networks to Understand Co-Production Practices: Reporting From Berlin and Santiago

Paola Alfaro d’Alençon and Diego Moya Ortiz

Co-Production Boundaries of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Regeneration: The Case of a Healthy Corridor

Beatriz Caitana and Gonçalo Canto Moniz

Co-Production for Equitable Governance in Community Climate Adaptation: Neighborhood Resilience in Houston, Texas

Dalia Munenzon

Totalitarian Flower Pavilion: The Dubious Post-Socialist Legacy of Contemporary Eastern European Cities

Łukasz Drozda

Effects and Consequences of Authoritarian Urbanism: Large-Scale Waterfront Redevelopments in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Novi Sad

Nebojša Čamprag

The Continuous Reproduction of Contradictions in the Urban Development of New Belgrade’s Central Area

Ivan Kucina

Transforming Public Spaces in Post-Socialist China’s Danwei Neighbourhoods: The Third Dormitory of the Party Committee of Shandong Province

Tao Shi, Fangjie Guo and Yali Zhang

Orchestration of Markets and Bureaucratic Knowledge Production in the Moscow Transportation Reform

Egor Muleev

Calibrating the Parallax View: Understanding the Critical Moments of the Yugoslav Post-Socialist Turn

Dalia Dukanac, Marija Milinković and Anđelka Bnin-Bninski

Decentralization in Ukraine: Reorganizing Core–Periphery Relations?

Sophia Ilyniak

Energy Renovation and Inhabitants’ Health Literacy: Three Housing Buildings in Paris

Yaneira Wilson and Yankel Fijalkow

Enabling Multiple Outcomes: Strategic Spatial Planning in a Shrinking City-Region

Janne Oittinen and Raine Mäntysalo

Adaptive Reuse of High-Rise Buildings for Housing: A Study of Istanbul Central Business District

Ayşe Zeynep Aydemir and Tomris Akın

(Post-)Socialist Housing and Aging in Neoliberal Riga

Aija Lulle

Captured by Political Power: More-Than-Neoliberal Urban Development and Planning in Post-Socialist Hungary

Gergely Olt, Adrienne Csizmady, Márton Bagyura and Lea Kőszeghy

Going Back to School: Reflecting on School Space as “Shared Space” to Shape Cities and Communities

Jua Cilliers, Shanaka Herath and Sumita Ghosh

Shrinking Cities for Economic Growth? Insights From the Housing Sector

António Ferreira, Kim C. von Schönfeld, Fanny Augis and Paulo Conceição

Compact Housing for Incremental Growth: The K206 RDP Project in Alexandra, Johannesburg

Afua Wilcox, Nelson Mota, Marietta Haffner and Marja Elsinga

The Cultural Construction of the Domestic Space in France: Women’s Lived Experience and the Materialization of Customs

Francesca Romana Forlini

Heating Standards and Obsolescence in Post-War Britain’s Homes for Today and Tomorrow

Savia Palate

The Influence of Space Standards on Housing Typologies: The Evolution of the Nuclear Family Dwelling in England

Lucia Alonso Aranda

Domesticity as Nation Building in the United Arab Emirates

Sophie A. Johnson

Upwind Despite Headwind? Degrowth Transformations Amidst Shrinkage and Eroding Democracy in an East German Small Town

Anton Brokow-Loga and Frank Eckardt

The Lifestyles of Space Standards: Concepts and Design Problems

Alvaro Arancibia

Does Reduced Space Result in Fewer Rights? Controlled Shrinking in the Urban Renewal of Genoa

Agim Kërçuku

Citizen Participation, Digital Agency, and Urban Development

Simone Tappert, Asma Mehan, Pekka Tuominen and Zsuzsanna Varga

Manifesting the Imagined Homeless Body: A Case Study of the Men’s Social Services Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Oliver Moss and Adele Irving

Handbook, Standard, Room: The Prescription of Residential Room Types in Sweden Between 1942 and 2023

Daniel Movilla Vega and Lluis Juan Liñán

Domestic Cartographies: A Post-Occupancy Ethnographic Assessment of Barcelona’s Social Housing Strategies, 2015–2023

Raül Avilla-Royo and Ibon Bilbao

Post-Growth Ambitions and Growth-Based Realities in Sustainable Land-Use Planning

Christian Lamker and Thomas Terfrüchte

Sufficiency Initiatives and Municipalities: Opportunities and Limitations for Bringing People and Politics Together

Michael Buschka, Philipp Schepelmann, Fiona Breucker and Jenny Kurwan

Multiscalar Governance of Shrinkage in the Netherlands: Past, Present… Future?

Marco Bontje

Assessing Industrial Heritage Through Collaborative Counter-Mapping: A Case Study of Salts Mill, UK

Wenyan Jin and Jiayi Jin

The Shrinking City as a Testing Ground for Urban Degrowth Practices

Maurice Hermans, Joop de Kraker and Christian Scholl

Social-Ecological Urbanism as a Research Perspective to Analyse Transportation Inequalities in the Region of Łódź, Poland

Małgorzata Hanzl and Bartłomiej Olczak

Transition Processes in Dutch Spatial Planning and Water Management: A Shift to the Natural

Zoë van Eldik, Wim Timmermans and Wim de Haas

Industrial Heritage and Pathways for Cultural-Creative Development in Bamberg, Germany

Heike Oevermann, Even Smith Wergeland and Susanne Hanika

Pro- and Contra-Coalition: Governing the Rise and Fall of Creative Industrial Parks in China

Xueying Chen, Li Fan and Zhikui Cao

Prevailing Issues and Actions in Urban Best Practices Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Fabio Capra-Ribeiro

From Social Barriers to Transformative Planning in Energy Transitions: Learning from Norwegian Planners' Perspectives

Bradley Loewen

Cultivating Urban Agriculture Policies: Local Government Entrepreneurs’ Strategies in Three Brazilian Cities

Marcela Alonso Ferreira, Giselle Mendonça Abreu, Camila Nastari Fernandes, Vitória Leão, Jaqueline Ferreira and Juliana Luiz

Participatory Climate Action: Reflections on Community Diversity and the Role of External Experts

Connor Smith, Finlay Bain-Kerr and Dan van der Horst

Towards More Equitable Urban Greening: A Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Co-Governance

Eleanor Chapman, Viktor Bukovszki, Martina van Lierop, Silvia Tomasi and Stephan Pauleit

Resistance to Being Listed Industrial Heritage? The Conflicts and Dilemma of Heritage-Making During Land Banking in Guangzhou

Xiaohong Tan and Uwe Altrock

Towards a “Freiburg Model” of Housing for the Common Good? Fostering Collaborative Housing in Urban Development

Benedikt Schmid, Carola Fricke and Cathrin Zengerling

Industrial Heritage and Citizen Participation: The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ivrea, Italy

Matilde Ferrero, Martha Friel, Erica Meneghin and Mariangela Lavanga

Co-Production Between Insurgency and Exploitation: Promises and Precarities of a Traveling Concept

Sophie Schramm

Laissez-Faire or Sensitive Policymaking: The Legacy of Creative Clusters on Brownfield Sites in Berlin

Uwe Altrock

Contested Ecological Transition in Small and Medium-Sized Cities: The Case of Rochefort, France

Fabian Lévêque and Guillaume Faburel

Co-Production in the Urban Setting: Fostering Definitional and Conceptual Clarity Through Comparative Research

Dahae Lee, Patricia Feiertag and Lena Unger

Laying the Foundations for a Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework: Reflections From an International, Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Lynne O. Cairns, Rongedzayi Fambasayi, Rejoice Shamiso Katsidzira, Predrag Milić, Jua Cilliers and Paula Barros

Challenges and Opportunities for a Local Government Implementing a Human Rights Policy in Australia

Karien Dekker, Abigail Lewis, Yingyi Luo and Alexandra Ciaffaglione

Spatial Politics of Cultural Production: Negotiating Workspaces and Resisting Displacement at Industrial Heritage Sites in Berlin

Janet Merkel

Ordinary vs. Extraordinary: An Urban Comparison in the Delta Po Area

Stefano Tornieri

Trans-Local Climate Politics in Ordinary Cities: From Local Agenda 21 to Transition Towns to Climate Emergency Declarations

Anton Brokow-Loga and Grischa Frederik Bertram

Urban Borderlands: Difference, Inequality, and Spatio-Temporal In-Betweenness in Cities

Deljana Iossifova and David Kostenwein

Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Public Space: Contemporary Challenges in Vienna and Helsinki

Miriam Haselbacher, Kanerva Kuokkanen, Emilia Palonen and Ursula Reeger

An Urban Equalisation Strategy for Managing the Transition to Climate Resilience in an Ordinary Italian City

Riccardo Privitera

“Arctic-tecture”: Teaching Sustainable Urban Planning and Architecture for Ordinary Arctic Cities

Jing Ma and Agatino Rizzo

Infrastructure Transitions in Southern Cities: Organising Urban Service Delivery for Climate and Development

Lucy Oates and Andrew Sudmant

Housing Norms and Standards: The Design of Everyday Life

Sam Jacoby and Seyithan Özer

Urban Sustainability in Arctic Cities: Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Ava Soroudi, Agatino Rizzo and Jing Ma

Urban Microclimate Impact on Vertical Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Panels

Max Spett, Kevin Lau and Agatino Rizzo

From Decline to Renewal? Understanding Children’s Relationship With Nature in the Wake of Covid-19

Daniel Kaplan

Walking to School: What Streets Do Children Prefer?

Nafsika Michail and Ayse Ozbil Torun

Arrival Infrastructuring at a Southern European Gate: Public Action and Spaces in Palermo, Italy

Martina Bovo and Eléonore Bully

“Where Do Children Go?”: Exploring Children’s Daily Destinations With Children, Parents, and Experts

Zahra Tavakoli, Owen Waygood, Shabnam Abdollahi and Antonio Paez

Digital Arrival Infrastructures: Housing Platforms and Residency Governance in Berlin’s Rental Sector

Leah Aaron

Understanding the Factors Affecting Traffic Danger for Children: Insights From Focus Group Discussions

Shabnam Abdollahi, Owen Waygood, Zahra Tavakoli, Marie-Soleil Cloutier and Irène Abi-Zeid

“Activism Is a Good Means to Connect Things”: Brokering as World-Making Against Competitive Tendering in Newcomer Support

Lieke van der Veer

Challenging Child-Friendly Urban Design: Towards Inclusive Multigenerational Spaces

Daniel Kaplan

Children’s Perspectives of Neighbourhood Spaces: Gender-Based Insights From Participatory Mapping and GIS Analysis

Ayse Ozbil Torun, Ilayda Zelal Akın, Heval Bingol, Margaret Anne Defeyter and Yucel Can Severcan

From Tolerating Informality to Formalizing Prohibition: Religious Practices of West African Migrants in France (1960s–2020s)

Laura Guérin

Earned Income Tax Credit Plus: A New Way to House the Working Poor

Peter Dreier and Seva Rodnyansky

Expanding the Social Rental Housing Stock in Flanders: Money Isn’t the Problem

Sien Winters, Emmanuel Dockx and Katleen Van den Broeck

Looking for Daisies: The Hidden Attraction and Arrival Infrastructures of Welcoming Spaces in Rural Spain

Laura Oso and Leticia Santaballa

“We Stretched the Rules”: How Street-Level Bureaucrats in Schools Shape Newcomers’ Access to Resources

Heike Hanhörster and Cornelia Tippel

Homes for Ukraine: Arrival Infrastructures and the UK’s “New Bespokism”

Silke Zschomler and Mette Louise Berg

New House, New Furniture, New Room: Children’s Pandemic Landscapes of Care in Chile

Susana Cortés-Morales, Inés Figueroa, Ana Vergara del Solar and Paola Jirón

Opening Doors to Affordable Rental Housing: Perspectives of Private Suburban Owners With Unused Housing Space

Mona Bergmann, Ulrike Fettke and Elisabeth Wacker

Exploring Elementary School Children’s Interaction at the School Threshold: Evidence From Athens, Greece

Natalia Bazaiou

Mapping Brussels' Displaced Housing Ecosystem: Palais des Droits’ Post-Eviction Geographies and “Weird Alliances”

Tasneem Nagi, Luce Beeckmans and Viviana d'Auria

Understanding Well-Being Through Children’s Eyes: Lessons for Shaping the Built Environment

Angela Million, Katrin Schamun and Susann Fegter

Identifying the Affordable Housing Shortage: A Study for Oklahoma

Francesco Cianfarani, Shawn Schaefer and Kalyan Mutukundu

Beyond Car-Centred Adultism? Exploring Parental Influences on Children’s Mobility

Catarina Cadima, Kim von Schönfeld and António Ferreira

No City for Workers: Housing Affordability Trends and Public Policy Implications in Milan

Massimo Bricocoli and Marco Peverini

Temporalities of Arrival: Burundian Barbershops as an Arrival Infrastructure in a South African Township

Nomkhosi A. Mbatha and Leah Koskimaki

Active but not Independent: Children’s School Travel Patterns in a Compact-City Environment in Greece

Garyfallia Katsavounidou, Elpiniki Voutsa and Sofia Sepetzi

Arrival Brokers and Commercial Infrastructuring for and With Migrant Newcomers in Dortmund, Germany

Miriam Neßler

Multiscalar and In/Formal: Infrastructuring Refugee Arrival in Disempowered Cities

Norma Schemschat

Young Latinas/os’ Environmental Commitments: The Case of Waste

Miriam Solis, Sergio Morales, Noah Cohen, Katherine Pérez-Quiñones, Ana Chatham, Janice Hagerman, Marisa Oliva and Carmen R. Valdez

Un/doing Displacement in Vienna: Tenants’ Agency and Their Co-Produced Spatio-Temporal Experiences Under Economic Pressure

Judith Schnelzer

Keeping Faith: Faith-Based Organizations as Urban Migration Infrastructures for Illegalized Migrants in Rotterdam

Carola Vasileiadi and Thomas Swerts

Post-Socialist Neoliberalism: Towards a New Theoretical Framework of Spatial Production

Gabriel Schwake and Aleksandar Staničić

Walkability and Parental Safety Perceptions as Determinants of Children’s School Commutes: A Systematic Review

Catarina Cadima and Paulo Pinho

Urban Shrinkage, Degrowth, and Sustainability: An Updated Research Agenda

Joop de Kraker, Christian Scholl and Marco Bontje

Transformative Local Governments: Addressing Social Urban Challenges by Bringing People and Politics Together

Jua Cilliers, Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Gareth Wall and Paula Barros

Industrial Heritage and Cultural Clusters: More Than a Temporary Affair?

Janet Merkel and Uwe Altrock

Reimagining Urban Spaces for Children: Insights and Future Directions

Garyfallia Katsavounidou and Sílvia Sousa

Housing Affordability Crisis: How Can We Address It?

Ajay Garde and Qi Song

Urban In/Formalities: How Arrival Infrastructures Shape Newcomers’ Access To Resources

Martina Bovo, Miriam Neßler, Heike Hanhörster and Susanne Wessendorf