Critical Planning
Last updated ISSN 1522-9807
Critical Planning is published by UCLA Department of Urban Planning in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Critical Planning concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urbanization and City Planning
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Architecture, Design, and Social History
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
Key facts
| Publisher | UCLA Department of Urban Planning |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1522-9807 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 114 |
| Publishing since | 2001 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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