Planning Perspectives

2013 - 2026

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Volume 41, issue 4, 2026

African urban planning histories pp. 921-926

Carlos Nunes Silva

Planning’s promises: reflections on South African experiences in the African context pp. 927-946

Philip Harrison and Alison Todes

Spatial plan quality trends in post-apartheid South African municipalities pp. 947-971

Danie J. Du Plessis

A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia pp. 973-994

Mojca Smode Cvitanović and Melita Čavlović

Spatial planning legacies and unauthorized land occupations in South Africa’s urban peripheries pp. 995-1017

Abraham R. Matamanda, Leemisa S. Matooane, Johannes I. Bhanye, Kgosi Mocwagae and Lochner Marais

Planning after the fact pp. 1019-1044

Noor Mazhar

Between codification and custom: law 08/15, informality, and Islamic urban ethics in postcolonial Béchar pp. 1045-1066

Houcine Abdelmalek

Becoming dissonance: the path of recent urban heritage in Casablanca (Morocco) pp. 1067-1083

Romeo Carabelli

The renewal of historic urban areas in Morocco: challenges and limits on the new ‘housing at risk of collapse’ policy pp. 1085-1104

Manon Troux and Pascale Philifert

Grounding infrastructure: community ownership of an international cooperation project in Kibera, Nairobi pp. 1105-1122

Sarah Williams and Gabriella Y. Carolini

Water practices: communal water rights in Moroccan river oases in times of climate change pp. 1123-1143

Heide Studer

‘Crony planning’: limits to the public-private partnership model in urban marketplace modernization in Lagos, Nigeria pp. 1145-1174

Hakeem Bishi

The quest for inclusive transit-oriented development in Mangaung, South Africa pp. 1175-1196

Mareli Hugo, Verna Nel and Johannes Bhanye

Exploring factors influencing the characteristics of historic cities: the case of the Ancient City of Pingyao, China pp. 1197-1218

Xu Kaixin, Ito Hiromu and Li Changze

Using Jiehua (Ruler Paintings) to investigate the complex interaction between space and behaviour in the historical riverside market: a study of Shantang Street, Suzhou, China pp. 1219-1247

Lu Ye, Jiahui Tang and Huibin Wang

The evolution of the habitat concept: social, technological, and environmental influences on housing design pp. 1249-1267

İmran Gümüş Battal

Urban growth and informal settlements in Mashhad, Iran: historical trajectories and planning challenges pp. 1269-1287

Mahdi Gheitasi

The longue durée of a flood: studying urban landscape transformations from a disaster resilience perspective pp. 1289-1309

Mesut Dinler, Giulia Bergamo and Alice Bisso

Untold stories. On women, gender and architecture in Denmark pp. 1311-1315

Monica Prencipe and Chiara Monterumisi

The Modern British City 1945–2000 pp. 1317-1319

Miles Glendinning

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism pp. 1321-1323

Christopher Silver

Critical planning futures: new directions in planning theory pp. 1325-1327

Jason Slade

Volume 41, issue 3, 2026

Centring the South: new scholarship on southern planning history pp. 587-591

Katie E. Marages

Assessing the Legacy of Planning in the South pp. 593-608

Christopher Silver

Convict leasing and streetcar suburbs: unfree labour, New South urbanism, and the making of modern Atlanta pp. 609-630

Jay Atkins

The ‘Beginning of the end’ for the Atlanta Way? Not so fast pp. 631-651

Dan Immergluck

Integrated resource planning for Atlanta: from regional industrial planning to planning for energy democracy in the data center boom pp. 653-671

Nikki Luke

Politics, policy and rural-urban house-building divergence, England 1945–1973 pp. 673-700

Keith Hoggart

Radical planning history in times of crisis: navigating the radical catch pp. 701-714

Gabriel Schwake

Anthonie Thomas Lubertus Rouwenhorst Mulder: a pioneer of modern port city planning in nineteenth-century Japan pp. 715-733

Kazumasa Iwamoto

In search of a pattern for historic centres reconstruction: urban morphology of post-war cities of the Recovered Territories, Poland pp. 735-761

Łukasz Musiaka, Marcin Feltynowski, Robert Szmytkie and Bartosz Bartosiewicz

The nirvana of the ancient bazaar: a case study of the West Barn Bazaar urban area, Lianhu District, Xi'an pp. 763-788

Zhan Jingyi, Yilin Liu, Guanyu Wei and Tianle Huang

The historical reconfiguring of communities in Ningbo, 1844–1936 pp. 789-815

Panpan Jin and Naoto Nakajima

Spatial practices, alienation and utopian visions: Shanghai’s Rose New Village in 1933 pp. 817-839

Qing Zhao, Siyu Chen and Mei Yang

Ideology at stake: unfolding Ludovico Quaroni’s plans for Syria and Tunisia pp. 841-864

Filippo De Dominicis

Stephen Ramos (1970–2026): an appreciation pp. 865-874

John R. Gold, Carola Hein, Sonia Hirt, Richard Hu, Carmen Díez Medina, Javier Monclús, Clément Orillard and Gabriel Schwake

Bandar Kung: a Persian Gulf port town and its formation as an urban and trading Centre during the seventeenth-century A.D pp. 875-897

Javid Ahmed Bhat

Ibero-American territories in a multipolar world. Report on the 4th Ibero-American Congress of Urban History, São Paulo, 24–28 November 2025 pp. 899-904

Renato Leão Rego

Informal cities. Histories of governance and inequality in Latin Europe, Latin America, and colonial north Africa pp. 905-906

Valeria Snitcofsky

Right to the road: how marginalized American motorists fought to drive and park pp. 907-908

Lauren Ames Fischer

The City Beautiful and the globalization of urban planning pp. 909-911

Conrad Kickert

Urban planning in Nazi Germany: attack, triumph, terror in the European context, 1933–1945 pp. 913-915

Karl Friedhelm Fischer

Enmarcando la ciudad planificada en América Latina, 1940–1980: Desarrollo, territorio y planes sectoriales [Framing the planned city in Latin America, 1940–1980: development, territory, and sectoral plans] pp. 917-918

Leandro Benmergui

Architectes français au Moyen-Orient (1930–1980) pp. 919-920

Nora Lafi

Volume 41, issue 2, 2026

Artificial Intelligence and the problems of authorship pp. 281-285

John R. Gold

Planning history and the challenge of AI: reflections upon a second edition of the Routledge handbook of planning history pp. 287-313

Carola Hein

‘The freedom of the place during daylight hours’: urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980 pp. 315-336

Sally Watson

Revisiting early city planning competitions: Per O. Hallman and the art of city building in Helsinki-Töölö and Gothenburg pp. 337-376

Andreea C. Blaga

Shaping and transposing: an analysis of the impacts of case law on the evolution of planning practice in twentieth century England & Wales pp. 377-395

Oliver Botea Carr

Production of urban farms: shaping the behavior and attitudes of individuals in the workers’ landscape – the Atatürk Forest Farm in early modern Türkiye pp. 397-427

Hasan Doğan

The causes of Olympic stadium cost overruns from 2000 to 2020 pp. 429-448

Maike Weitzmann and Holger Preuss

Advancing regional and community planning in Australia: the contribution of the Office of Frank Heath 1939–1948 pp. 449-475

Catherine Townsend, David Nichols and Robert Freestone

Industrial land in the planning imaginary – the role and place of industry in strategic plans for Melbourne, 1929–2017 pp. 477-498

Elizabeth Jean Taylor, Carl Grodach and Joe Hurley

Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s pp. 499-526

Maria Fernanda Derntl

Planning regeneration through building industry and urban design: the Architecture of the Karst Group in the framework of the economic perspectives of the Osimo Treaty (1975–1989) pp. 527-549

Raimondo Mercadante

Post compact city: Brasília’s modernist void in the context of the twenty-first-century urbanization pp. 551-561

Luciana Saboia, Guilherme Lassance, Carolina Pescatori and Cauê Capillé

Deconstructing amenity: the unrealized nuclear power sites of Edern (Llŷn Peninsula, Wales) and Hamstead (Isle of Wight, England) pp. 563-574

Wenna Potter

Pueblos de Colonización. Miradas a un Paisaje Inventado [Colonization towns. Glances at an invented landscape] pp. 575-577

Gaia Caramellino

Italy builds abroad. Architettura italiana oltre confine 1945-1989 [Italian architecture across the border, 1945-1989] pp. 577-579

Paolo Scrivano

Building modern Scotland: a social and architectural history of the new towns, 1947–1997 pp. 579-581

James Greenhalgh

The black tax – 150 years of theft, exploitation, and dispossession in America pp. 581-583

Joseph A. Rodriguez

Up in the Air – a history of high-rise Britain pp. 584-586

Miles Glendinning

Volume 41, issue 1, 2026

On anniversaries and milestones: Planning Perspectives at 40 pp. 1-7

John R. Gold and Carola Hein

Editing Planning Perspectives: 40 years of growth and transformation pp. 9-20

Peter J. Larkham

‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History pp. 21-37

Robert Freestone

The Planning Perspectives Contribution to African Planning History: achievements and opportunities pp. 39-50

Robert Home

Nordic urban planning culture and transnational influences in 1850–2025 pp. 51-70

Laura Kolbe

The city beautiful, the city sustainable, the city profitable: what changed in Chicago’s planning priorities after a century? pp. 71-89

Sonia A. Hirt and Sarah Z. Beeson

Catherine Bauer and Mel Webber: collaborators at Berkeley pp. 91-109

Ellen Shoshkes and Sy Adler

Planning histories and the environmental turn pp. 111-121

Filippo De Pieri

Decolonizing Planning Perspectives: opportunities for the future pp. 123-139

Juliet Davis and Clare Melhuish

Epistemic decolonization of urban and regional planning and its historiography: towards planning otherwise pp. 141-165

Luce Beeckmans

Through the camera lens: the role of photography in shaping planning histories pp. 167-184

Wes Aelbrecht and Laura Bowie

The potential of geospatial technologies and open data in planning history pp. 185-202

Yvonne van Mil, Carola Hein and Vincent Baptist

Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors pp. 203-220

Stephen V. Ward

Wanderers above the fog: revisiting 1980s modernity and postmodernity with Berman and Harvey pp. 221-231

John R. Gold

Tomorrow never knows: Cities of Tomorrow on the edge of 40 pp. 233-239

Stephen J. Ramos

Werner Hegemann: Architect of transatlantic urbanism. The American Vitruvius: an architects' handbook of civic art pp. 241-244

Javier Monclús

The Character of Towns: An Approach to Conservation pp. 244-246

John Pendlebury

Eventful Cities: Cultural Management and Revitalisation pp. 247-251

Margaret M. Gold

Planning culture evolving through accumulations of the vicious cycle of practices: an investigation route for Turkey and beyond pp. 253-279

Tugce Sanli