"Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions for landscape change. Landscapes are visible and integrative social-ecological systems with variable spatial and temporal dimensions. They have expressive aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities that are perceived and valued by people in multiple ways and invite actions resulting in landscape change. Landscapes are increasingly urban in nature and ecologically and culturally sensitive to changes at local through global scales. Multiple disciplines and perspectives are required to understand landscapes and align social and ecological values to ensure the sustainability of landscapes. The journal is based on the premise that landscape science linked to planning and design can provide mutually supportive outcomes for people and nature.
Landscape science brings landscape ecology and urban ecology together with other disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields to identify patterns and understand social-ecological processes influencing landscape change. Landscape planning brings landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape and ecological engineering, and other practice-oriented fields to bear in processes for identifying problems and analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating desirable alternatives for landscape change. Landscape design brings plans, designs, management prescriptions, policies and other activities and form-giving products to bear in effecting landscape change. The implementation of landscape planning and design also generates new patterns of evidence and hypotheses for further research, providing an integral link with landscape science and encouraging transdisciplinary collaborations to build robust knowledge and problem solving capacity (Provided by Publisher)."
Cities publishes articles on many aspects of urban planning and policy. It distinguishes itself by providing an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information among urban planners, policy makers and analysts, and urbanists from all disciplines.
The primary aims of the journal are to analyze and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.
Topics covered include: urban adaptation to climate change; gentrification and housing; homelessness and welfare services; urban management; public-private sector cooperation; development and planning problems; urban regeneration; neighborhood conservation and urban design; immigration and international labor migration; urban politics; urban theory; urban governance; smart cities and regions; infrastructure; livability and quality of life; greening; and the complexities of creating sustainable cities (Provided by Publisher).
The Journal of Urban Design is a scholarly international journal which advances theory, research and practice in urban design.
There is a growing recognition of the need for urban design in shaping, managing and improving the quality of the urban environment. It is now considered one of the core knowledge components of planning and architectural education and practice. Thus, increasing numbers of architects, planners, surveyors, landscape architects and other professions concerned with the quality of urban development are specialising in urban design.
The Journal of Urban Design provides a new forum to bring together those contributing to this re-emerging discipline and enables researchers, scholars, practitioners and students to explore its many dimensions. The Journal publishes original articles in specialised areas such as urban aesthetics and townscape; urban structure and form; sustainable development; urban history, preservation and conservation; urban regeneration; local and regional identity; design control and guidance; property development; practice and implementation (Provided by Publisher).
The University of Manchester Library provides full access to this journal from 1996 (Volume 1, Issue 1) to the present day.
Journal of Property Research is an international journal of research, particularly applied research, into property investment and development.
There are two major areas of focus:
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The University of Manchester Library provides access to this journal across multiple platforms from 1996 (Volume 13, Issue 1) to the present day. Please take note of the specific date ranges associated with each platform.
Urban, Planning and Transport Research
Urban, Planning and Transport Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of urban, planning, and transport research.
The journal aims to provide a multi-disciplinary platform of theoretical and empirical contributions across urban studies, planning, and transport studies. It seeks to disseminate this new research to a global audience.
The journal has five sections: Transportation Policy & Planning, Mobilities & Geographies, Social & Economic Development, Urban Planning & Development, and Community Development (Provided by Publisher).
The University of Manchester Library provides full access to this journal from 2013 (Volume 1, Issue 1) to the present day.
Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Resources, Environment and Sustainability is a peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal aiming at publishing high-quality original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields. The publications emphasize sustainable resource utilization, associated environmental stresses, and potential solutions to achieve resource and environmental sustainability (Provided by publisher).
The University of Manchester Library provides access to content from this journal from 2020 (issue 1) to the present day.
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Relevant journals relating Planning, Property and Environmental Management:
The above list comprises titles suggested by academic staff and a selection of the high ranking journals sourced from Scopus for 'Environmental Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law', 'Geography, Planning and Development', and 'Urban Studies' based on Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) ranking. For more information on the SNIP ranking metric, please visit Elsevier's Measuring a Journal's Impact page.
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