Planning Theory
Last updated ISSN 1473-0952
Planning Theory is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Planning Theory concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Rural development and sustainability
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1473-0952, 1741-3052 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 757 |
| Publishing since | 1991 |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201559/title |
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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