Planning Theory & Practice
Last updated ISSN 1464-9357
Planning Theory & Practice is published by Routledge 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 Planning Theory & Practice concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Rural development and sustainability
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Legal Cases and Commentary
Key facts
| Publisher | Routledge |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1464-9357, 1470-000X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,244 |
| Publishing since | 2000 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/rptp20/current |
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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