Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew Hardy and Emily Talen

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Volume 18, issue 1, 2025

Measuring child-friendly cities: developing and piloting an indicator assessment tool for sustainable neighborhood planning pp. 1-27

Nelya Rakhimova, Devon McAslan and David Pijawka

Designing an equitable city: confronting gentrification in studio pedagogy pp. 28-51

Aseem Inam

The sidewalk ballet in the age of social distancing: interactive geospatial mapping to study NYC’s pandemic urbanism pp. 52-74

Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Cheng Gong, Harrison Yu, Ilan Mandel and Wendy Ju

Lost in translation: colonial heritage and Amnesia in an African city: Maputo’s City of Cement pp. 75-97

Lisandra Franco de Mendonça

Italian neologisms to name diffuse urbanization. Relationships between specialised language and urbanism actions pp. 98-111

Chiara Barattucci

Urban policy transfer and paradigm shift: the City of Sydney Strategic Plan 1971 pp. 112-131

Robert Freestone and Sarah Baker

Adaptive urban design to cope with heavy rainfall in the Historic Centre: a masterplan for Ferrara (Italy) pp. 132-152

Marika Fior

Unparalleled prospect: COVID-19 and the expansion of public space pp. 153-156

Vikas Mehta

COVID-19’s impact on local planning and urban design practice: focusing on tactical urbanism and the public realm with respect to low income communities pp. 157-163

Joongsub Kim

Volume 17, issue 4, 2024

Insights into placemaking, senior people, and digital technology: a systematic quantitative review pp. 525-554

Peyman Najafi, Masi Mohammadi, Pascale M. Le Blanc and Pieter van Wesemael

Design & assessing the flood risk management paradigm shift: an interdisciplinary study of Vlissingen, the Netherlands pp. 555-576

Fransje Hooimeijer, Andres Diaz, Andrea Bortolotti, Qian Ke, Jasper van der Heuvel and Jeremy Bricker

A systematic review of planning policies for community wellbeing pp. 577-595

Sara Alidoust, Nikita Gleeson and Fahimeh Khalaj

Spatial configuration and social sustainability in urban neighborhoods pp. 596-614

Maryam Roosta, Mahsa Chizfahm Daneshmandian and Ali Reza Sadeghi

Domestic deities: Indo-Caribbean spatial territorialization and sacred space in South Richmond Hill, Queens pp. 615-643

Gregory Marinic

North American street design for the coronavirus pandemic: a typology of emerging interventions pp. 644-662

Kelly Gregg, Paul Hess, Jason Brody and Anne James

Can digital technologies for city-making engage its users to build parklets in Vienna? - Citizen participation in the context of the platform city pp. 663-689

J. C. Carvajal Bermúdez and R. König

Volume 17, issue 3, 2024

Resisting gentrification, reclaiming urban spaces: Latin urbanisms in London pp. 361-378

Patria Román-Velázquez

What design for Urban Design Justice? pp. 379-400

Francesca Piazzoni, Jocelyn Poe and Ettore Santi

Real estate market trends in the first new urbanist town: seaside, Florida pp. 401-422

Khalida Lifam Marthya and Mark David Major

Exploring the “eco-ness” of South Africa’s eco-estates pp. 423-442

Anjali Mistry and Manfred Spocter

Railopolis: City within A City pp. 443-463

Iman Banerjee

Self-organizing or organizing one another? Cycling groups’ participation to planning pp. 464-486

Guillaume Béliveau Côté, Geneviève Cloutier, Émilie Houde-Tremblay and Chedrak Sylvain De Rocher Chembessi

The urban fabric and fear of crime: the case of the compact city of Bilbao, Spain pp. 487-508

Ezequiel Collantes and Andrea Diaz Rozas

Travel mode choice in the North-eastern Indian City of Kohima: lessons from empirical study pp. 509-523

Tumbenthung Y Humtsoe

Volume 17, issue 2, 2024

Informal placemaking: social activism and practices of art and culture pp. 165-168

Ayse Erek and Katalin Krasznahorkai

Cultural placemaking in the black suburbs of the tourist city pp. 169-189

Otávio Raposo and Jordi Nofre

Former military barracks as places for informal placemaking in Italy. An inventory for new insights pp. 190-213

Federico Camerin

In your face! Bringing Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial to Thuringia: reaffirming German memory culture through creative place-taking pp. 214-224

Tanja Schult and Tim Cole

Informal feminist placemaking: a new perspective on urban activism and gender equality pp. 225-236

Asma Mehan

Who’s streets, our streets: the evolution of street asphalt art and the transformation of liminal spaces for social change pp. 237-252

Nicola Davis Bivens, DeMond S. Miller and John T. Mills

Direct action placemaking: transgressive interventions on the margins of Rome pp. 253-273

Patrick Düblin

Place-making and place-taking: memories from Tirana pp. 274-294

Gilda Hoxha

Canta la Calle. Sonic affirmation and the politics of the carnivalesque in Cádiz pp. 295-320

Carlos Garrido Castellano

Informal placemaking and energy transition: a review of trends on community-led energy initiatives for social justice pp. 321-336

Alexandra Delgado-Jiménez

Madrid Soundscape Map: listening and identity_ MADLIST pp. 337-355

Cristina Palmese and Jose Luis Carles

Designing healthy and liveable cities: creating sustainable urban regeneration pp. 356-357

Pekka Tuominen

City, history, and knowledge pp. 357-359

Heike Oevermann

Volume 17, issue 1, 2024

Urban form and the socioeconomic and environmental dimensions of cities pp. 1-23

Vítor Oliveira

Implementation of the New Urban Agenda on a local level: an effective community engagement methodology for human-centred urban design pp. 24-46

Silvia G. Tavares, David Sellars, Karine Dupré and Gregor H. Mews

Romantic relationships and the built environment: a case study of a U.S. college town pp. 47-68

Clio Andris and Seolha Lee

Building in common: (re)integrating social services and community space in church redevelopment projects pp. 69-88

Clara Shipman and Matti Siemiatycki

Changes in urban fabric – a cause or a result of an innovation district? pp. 89-110

Ilona Morawska, Karolina Anielska, Jacek Gądecki and Łukasz Afeltowicz

How street quality influences the walking experience: an inquiry into the perceptions of adults with diverse ages and disabilities pp. 111-136

T. Bozovic, E. Hinckson, T. Stewart and M. Smith

Assessing the relationship between sidewalk walkability and pedestrians’ travel behaviors in hot arid regions: Khobar, Saudi Arabia pp. 137-163

Ali AlQahtany, Hatem Touman Abdelhamid, Abdulmalik Shinawi, Abdulrahman AlQahtani and Nawaf Mohamed Alshabibi

Volume 16, issue 4, 2023

Conviviality in the city: experience-based spatial design against the segregation of places pp. 407-429

Katja Maununaho, Eeva Puumala and Henna Luoma-Halkola

Child, play, and urban space: a historical overview and a holistic paradigm for child-centered urbanism pp. 430-446

Garyfallia Katsavounidou

Examining the streets of Kabalagala’s CBD Using Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) pp. 447-479

Hillary Shiverenje Songole

Assessing the COVID-19 outbreak effects on active mobility of men in comparison with women pp. 480-497

Amin Shaer, Meysam Rezaei and Behnam Moghani Rahimi

Factors affecting social sustainability in the historical city centres of Iran pp. 498-527

Arman Mirzakhani, Mateu Turró and Mostafa Behzadfar

New towns: the dilemma of newness and Genius Loci. The case of Bouinan, Algeria pp. 528-547

Mustapha Ben-Hamouche

Volume 16, issue 3, 2023

Understanding informal functional mix: morphogenic mapping of Old Dhaka pp. 267-285

Fatema Meher Khan, Elek Pafka and Kim Dovey

Implementation of a Place Game tool in the city of Rotterdam to enhance urban resilience to climate change through placemaking pp. 286-309

Konstantina Vidou and Dionysis Latinopoulos

Women’s mobilities and perceived safety: urban form matters. Evidence from three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá pp. 310-340

Paola Pucci, Giovanni Vecchio and Erika Andrea Gallego Vega

Becoming walkable: relational and contextual effects of enhanced walkability pp. 341-357

Soroush Masoumzadeh, Caryl Bosman and Natalie Osborne

‘Just right’ urbanism? Beyond communitarian ideals in Stockholm’s compact neighbourhoods pp. 358-379

Crystal V. Olin and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett

Expanding in the mountains: spatial patterns of urban form in a rapidly urbanising small city of Vietnam pp. 380-406

Thi-Thanh-Hiên Pham, Jérémy Gelb and Isabelle Gagnon

Volume 16, issue 2, 2023

Lest we forget: media predictions of a post-Covid-19 urban future pp. 125-141

Dorina Pojani and Sara Alidoust

In and out of place in Federation Square pp. 142-167

Jonathan Daly

Streets, density, and the superblock: neighborhood planning units and street connectivity in Abu Dhabi pp. 168-195

Khaled Alawadi, Ngoc Hong Nguyen, Eiman Alrubaei and Martin Scoppa

Does café culture drive artistic enclaves? pp. 196-220

Hyesun Jeong

Unpacking Latino urbanisms: a four-part thematic framework around culturally relevant responses to structural forces pp. 221-241

Andrea Garfinkel-Castro

Framing the beholder’s visual experience: an investigation of perspectival thinking for urban design pp. 242-265

Hiroaki Hata and Ernest Sternberg

Volume 16, issue 1, 2023

Public space privatisation: are users concerned? pp. 1-18

Els Leclercq and Dorina Pojani

Walkability: a review of trends pp. 19-41

Rob Shields, Edmar Joaquim Gomes da Silva, Thiago Lima e Lima and Nathalia Osorio

Millennials and the contested urban legacy of post-war modernist social housing in the UK pp. 42-64

Patricia Simoes Aelbrecht and Aidan While

Star architecture projects and their effects: tracing the evidence pp. 65-83

J. Dreher, N. Alaily-Mattar and Alain Thierstein

The influence of family relations on the housing preferences of Millennials in Depok, Indonesia pp. 84-100

Joko Adianto, Rossa Turpuk Gabe and Muhammad Akmal Farraz

Safety-critical events in bicycle lanes in Jongno, Seoul pp. 101-124

Jiwoon Jeong, Youngjun Park and Sohyun Park