Planning Practice & Research

This special issue of Planning Practice and Research invites scholars and practitioners to contribute their works on in documenting and/or alleviating planning problems concerning the widespread violation of rights in cities across the world, be it the ban on erecting a tent on public properties, prohibition on protesting peacefully about social causes including Black Lives Matter, or locating places of worship, homeless shelters, or affordable housing.
The issue intends to take stock of the challenges encountered and any progress made at the local level by exploring the meaning of people’s experiences in the realization of human and other related forms of rights. In addition, the issue aims to examine the philosophical, political and legal aspects of rights in their various forms—human, Indigenous, housing, property, and various others embedded in or encompassing these, and how they are related to urban planning issues.
Focusing on how or even whether municipal governments or planners are responding to the challenges, critical overviews of the current state of planning from the rights perspective are welcome.

Submit your proposal for a paper in the form of a 200-300 word abstract to the theme issue editor, Sandeep Agrawal at [email protected]. Invitations to submit full papers will be made shortly after.

We welcome research papers based on original empirical research on planning practice. We also encourage contributions from practitioners in the form of insightful reviews and illustrations of practice or comments setting out a personal reflection on the topic. Original research papers should be no longer than 7,000 words, practice reviews 5,000 words, and comments 2,000 words. All word limits exclude references and figures. Shorter contributions are welcome.

Authors should not submit papers to the journal until they have been reviewed and agreed for submission by the theme editor.

When submitting the final manuscript, authors should select ‘special issue article’ in the drop down menu on the first page of Editorial Manager, irrespective of the type of paper. Original research paper submissions will be subject to the standard double-anonymous review process.  Practice reviews and comments will be reviewed by the theme editors and editorial board with reference to other independent reviewers if needed. Note that an invitation to submit a paper is not a guarantee that the paper will be accepted and published. However, we are here to help and provide guidance if needed.

Papers will be published online as soon as they have been accepted by the editorial team on the advice of reviewers, normally within three weeks. The special issue will be published when the final set of papers is complete. Authors will be allowed generous time for the revision of papers and submission of final drafts. If final papers are not submitted within a reasonable time, they may be omitted from the special issue with the option to publish at a later date.

For questions about submission of papers write to the PPR Editor, Vincent Nadin, [email protected].

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