Journal of Urban Design

2011 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Taner Oc, Professor Michael Southworth, Professor Matthew Carmona and Dr Elisabete Cidre

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Volume 30, issue 2, 2025

Active (and healthy) ageing in the built environment pp. 141-142

Elisabete Cidre

Avoiding ‘bungalow legs’: active ageing and the built environment pp. 143-152

Rose Gilroy and Tim Townshend

Active ageing in urban environments: a reflexive critique of simplistic binaries pp. 153-155

Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson

Paths to good health in old age: comprehensive approaches pp. 156-158

Ann Forsyth

Wicked problem of silver mobility: perspectives on ‘bungalow legs’ pp. 159-161

Jan K. Kazak

Urban games and ageing people. Designing better places for community pp. 162-169

Marichela Sepe

The need for measurable evidence-based design recommendations for age-friendly cities and communities pp. 170-174

Joost van Hoof and Hannah R. Marston

Reflections on avoiding ‘bungalow legs’: active ageing and the built environment pp. 175-178

Catharine Ward Thompson

Ageing together: a policy case study analysis of socio-spatial inequities for older adults pp. 179-202

Victor Perez-Amado, Samantha Biglieri, Vinaya Mani and Roslyn Vijayakumar

Chinese American older adults in urban and suburban public spaces: a comparative examination of two Los Angeles settings pp. 203-222

Chendi Zhang and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

High streets, ageing and well-being pp. 223-253

Luca Brunelli, Harry Smith and Ryan Woolrych

Volume 30, issue 1, 2025

Designing healthier cities to improve life quality: unveiling challenges and outcomes in two Spanish cases pp. 1-30

Federico Camerin and Davide Longato

The evolution of spatial codes in informal urbanism: analysis of residential patterns in Palestinian-Israeli towns pp. 31-51

Maisa Totry, Idan Hauz, Nurit Alfasi and Itzhak Benenson

Street luminance and night-time walking comfort: a new perspective for the urban lighting design pp. 52-70

Chiara Burattini, Fabio Bisegna and Livio De Santoli

Navigating modernity: young adults’ perspective on urban transformation in three Lima neighbourhoods pp. 71-92

Miguel Córdova Ramírez

Surveying blind and visually impaired people about the accessibility and usability of urban parks in Hungary pp. 93-113

György Csomós and Jenő Zsolt Farkas

Human cognition and emotions for human-centred design in vertical interior urban spaces pp. 114-137

Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Tian Cheng, Wang Zhang and Saijal Sharma

Fundamentals of planning cities for healthy living pp. 138-139

Ebru Ergöz Karahan

Volume 29, issue 6, 2024

Making the trade-offs between parking and placemaking visible and actionable pp. 629-645

Jake Wiersma and Luca Bertolini

Language matters: types of informal built landscapes in global metropolitan regions pp. 646-668

Shelagh McCartney

Assessing children’s affective perception of school squares in Lombardy, Italy pp. 669-689

Dafni Riga and Federica Bianchi

Do urban renewal programs make suburbs safer? A fine-grained GIS and space syntax study of an urban renewal project in the city of Toulouse pp. 690-715

Dounia Laouar, Youcef Mokrane and Christophe Claramunt

Patterns of retail gentrification on inner-city main streets in Stockholm: the role of privatized property ownership pp. 716-734

Rosa Danenberg

Revisiting façade design and its contribution to the urban experience in the 21st century pp. 735-752

Jessica Pineda-Zumaran and Marizela Alpaca-Chavez

The sustainable urban design handbook pp. 753-755

Mark C. Childs

Public space: notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential pp. 755-756

Ali Madanipour

Volume 29, issue 5, 2024

Are well-designed places possible? A model of design governance intervention in the planning, design and development of new neighbourhoods pp. 495-516

James T. White, Tom Kenny, Flora Samuel, Chris Foye, Gareth James and Bilge Serin

Night-time and strategies for regeneration in two medium-sized town centres pp. 517-535

Marion Roberts

How to transform urban spaces and mobility: a framework for analysing street experiments pp. 536-556

Julia Kinigadner, Benjamin Büttner, Ana Rivas de Gante and Simone Aumann

Aestheticizing authenticity: entrepreneurial practices of business owners in Seoul’s gentrifying neighbourhood pp. 557-575

Hesu Yoon

Towards a pattern language for green space design in high density urban developments pp. 576-597

Shile Zhou, Steffen Nijhuis and Rients Dijkstra

Implementation of urban climate-responsive design strategies: an international overview pp. 598-623

Sjoerd Brandsma, Sanda Lenzholzer, Gerrit J. Carsjens, Robert D. Brown and Silvia Tavares

Eco-responsive environments: a framework for settlement design pp. 624-626

Mike Biddulph

Atlas of informal settlement: understanding self-organized urban design pp. 626-628

Emily Talen

Volume 29, issue 4, 2024

The disappearing grid: how the Canadian government changed suburban community design, 1944-69 pp. 371-399

David Gordon and Matthew Harding

Does restorativeness support liveliness on commercial streets? pp. 400-427

Paula Barros and Vikas Mehta

Reconceptualizing urban identity: a study of Hanoi’s form and pattern languages from 1873 to 1902 pp. 428-451

Ngoc Hong Nguyen

Proxy wars, the parklet, and the university: challenges for urban design pp. 452-467

N. Jarman and E. Stratford

Complementarity between urban land uses: a temporal analysis pp. 468-485

Geruza Kretzer, Milena Kanashiro and Renato Tibiriçá de Saboya

Understanding fracture, inconsistency and the mnemonic in urban form pp. 486-494

Alexander Cuthbert and Gusti Ayu Made Suartika

Volume 29, issue 3, 2024

Correction pp. ci-ci

The Editors

‘I will stay here’: public space and social inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 263-279

Fernando Gutiérrez

Unravelling retail diversity through its spatial relationship with social vulnerability and tourism pressures in Barcelona pp. 280-300

Irene Gómez-Varo, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Carme Miralles-Guasch and Oriol Marquet

Exploring criteria for reallocating road space dynamically: lessons from a workshop with experts pp. 301-317

Gabriel Valença, Filipe Moura and Ana Morais de Sá

Is public transit meeting the needs of women? A gender audit of two Asian metro systems pp. 318-341

Nirma Yossa, Cherin Kim, Dorina Pojani and Neil Sipe

Attract or repel: how street features shape pedestrians’ leisure walks in cities pp. 342-362

M. Gath-Morad, P. O. Plaut and Y. E. Kalay

Territory gained: establishing urban design as the ‘4th’ design discipline pp. 363-365

Philip Black

Street-level architecture: the past, present, and future of interactive frontages pp. 365-367

Robert Fishman

Architecture and retrenchment: neoliberalization of the Swedish model across aesthetics and space, 1968–1994 pp. 367-369

Martin Søberg

Volume 29, issue 2, 2024

The ‘cooling urban water environments’ concept: potential for application in practice pp. 147-166

João Cortesão, Sytse Koopmans, Sanda Lenzholzer, Gert-Jan Steeneveld and Bert G. Heusinkveld

The effects of small Water Cool(ing) Islands on body temperature pp. 167-183

Hope Hui Rising and Li Deng

Iterative urban design and transport simulation using Sketch MATSim pp. 184-207

Tanvi Maheshwari, Pieter Fourie, Sergio Arturo Ordoñez Medina and Kay W. Axhausen

Children’s and parents’ perceptions on safe routes to schools: a mixed-methods study investigating factors influencing active school travel pp. 208-230

Ritwik Swain, Prue Oswin, Verity Truelove and Grégoire S. Larue

Playful, portable, pliable interventions into street spaces: deploying a ‘playful parklet’ across Melbourne’s suburbs pp. 231-251

Quentin Stevens, Dale Leorke, Ha Minh Hai Thai, Troy Innocent and Carlo Tolentino

Architecture after Covid pp. 252-253

Mattias Kärrholm

Essential urban design pp. 253-255

Ivor Samuels

Routledge handbook of urban public space use, design, and management pp. 255-257

Mark C. Childs

Introduction to space syntax in urban studies pp. 257-259

Silvia Spolaor

Why public space matters pp. 259-261

Patricia Aelbrecht

Implementing urban design: green, civic, and community strategies pp. 261-262

Brenda Case Scheer

Volume 29, issue 1, 2024

Introduction pp. 1-3

Elisabete Cidre

The ethics of co-design pp. 4-22

Pablo Sendra

Alton Action – our experience of co-design pp. 23-24

Angus Robertson

Co-design in a community pp. 25-29

Toby Laurent Belson

The ethics of co-design: a commentary pp. 30-31

Leslie Barson

Co-design ethics in action: Oakland Shoreline Leadership Academy pp. 32-34

Maria Katticaran

The ethics of co-design: a commentary pp. 35-38

Tridib Banerjee

Co-design: equal collaborators but different roles pp. 39-42

Jonathan Barnett

The imperatives of TOD regulations: facilitating sustainability and predictability of built-form pp. 43-58

Ajay Garde and Qi Song

Refining urban design governance: an investigation of the urban design assessment processes in Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 59-78

David Batchelor

The notion of the node: disentangling and conceptualizing infrastructure nodes in the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai pp. 79-97

Sophie Leemans, Erik Van Daele and Maarten Gheysen

Comprehensive evaluation approach in the assessment of play value of playgrounds: case of Balçova, İzmir pp. 98-121

İpek Kaştaş-Uzun and Oylum Dikmen-Güleryüz

Feel the atmosphere: a qualitative study on spatial experiences in contemporary Muße architecture pp. 122-141

Anna Pritzen, Vanessa M.-J. Aeschbach, Sonja Ehret and Roland Thomaschke

Engaged urban pedagogy: participatory practices in planning and place-making pp. 142-144

Rob Cowan

Sustaining a city’s culture and character. Principles and best practices pp. 144-146

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