Journal of Urbanism

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability Special Special Issue on: The Design of the Public Realm: Emerging Theories and Practices; Guest editors: Patricia Aelbrecht and Ceren Sezer. Volume 18, Issue 4 of Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

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our latest special issue featuring the topic of The Design of the Public Realm: Emerging Theories and Practices with guest editors Patricia Simoes Aelbrecht and Ceren Sezer has unfolded finally with a great lineup of articles...
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Bike lanes and sidewalk extensions speed emergency vehicle response times because there are no cars there. That’s the key.

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials Objectives To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge. Design Systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Data sources: Medlin...

Love this short and pithy research paper published in BMJ.
www.bmj.com/content/327/...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution.
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What works? What doesn’t?

When it comes to climate solutions, Project Drawdown has you covered.

Americans are hungry for community. So why don’t we have more European-style squares? | CNN As travel abroad has become common for more Americans, many have enjoyed Europe’s vibrant squares. Why doesn’t the United States have more of that kind of gathering spot and is change afoot?

“While over half of the households in the US want to live in walkable places … less than 8 percent of the built environment is walkable” www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/t...

As Paris keeps showing the world, the moment we stop treating neighborhood streets as exclusively places to move and store cars, and start designing them as places to live, everything changes... cooler blocks, safer streets, cleaner air, stronger community, & real public space.

This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Some proposed climate “solutions” just don’t stack up against an objective, evidence-based perspective.

That’s why the Drawdown Explorer calls these “Not Recommended” climate solutions.

This is an increasing problem for all journals... editors, keep your eyes open!

We're enormously excited to launch a new Call for Papers!

The 15-Minute City: Spatial, Environmental & Social Dimensions

Guest Editors: Annika Lundkvist & Verónica Saud
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Sustainable healthy cities: building for the future | ECA Short courses in Art, Architecture & Design during the Venice Biennale in Italy. Receive insider knowledge, advance your career and learn about the cultural cluster of Venice.

Scholarship(s) available for this summer school held annually in Venice. An opportunity to think about the future of cities while embedded in Venice.
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The worst offenders seem to be generic proposals for special issues, clearly written by AI and with not a single reference to literature - not even AI generated fake literature.

Important for academic posters here!

Also, Bluesky doesn't suppress posts with links.

Much better than the 'other place'/

Accessing embodied knowledge of place: a method This paper presents the method “Direct Me”, a method designed to access embodied knowledge of place answering the question of how, that many papers extolling the importance of embodied knowledge le...

Open access

Research Article

Accessing embodied knowledge of place: a method

@Natalie Bamford

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One of the greatest achievements of the car industry is convincing business owners that parking spaces lead to more revenue.

Visual by Urbis

A reminder that Amsterdam wasn't always like it is now, and that change is possible - anywhere.

We see some of this coming in submissions to Journal of Urbanism, but - I hope! - we can detect and eliminate it

Design & assessing the flood risk management paradigm shift: an interdisciplinary study of Vlissingen, the Netherlands Mean sea level rise (SLR) could increase up to 2m by 2100, which would see damage caused by coastal flooding in Europe increase from €1.25bn per annum currently to €961bn in just over 80 years. Urb...

Design & assessing the flood risk management paradigm shift: an interdisciplinary study of Vlissingen, the Netherlands
Fransje Hooimeijer, Andres Diaz, Andrea Bortolotti, Qian Ke, Jasper van der Heuvel & Jeremy Bricker
Pages: 555-576
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Insights into placemaking, senior people, and digital technology: a systematic quantitative review How placemaking involves senior people and implements cutting-edge technology is a question that this review aims to shed light on. This paper provides a systematic quantitative review of 26 origin...

Research Articles
Insights into placemaking, senior people, and digital technology: a systematic quantitative review | 📷
Peyman Najafi, Masi Mohammadi, Pascale M. Le Blanc & Pieter van Wesemael
Pages: 525-554 | DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2022.2076721
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Our last issue for 2024 is now online ! Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2024 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
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Speed limit reductions on our Thursday agenda.✅

This is for arterials and collectors. We are already on track to reduce speed limits on local streets in 2025.

Why? Safety. Slow streets are safer streets.

(Yes we are also doing engineering.)

urbanism books at phinney books

always good to see a local book shop with a cities and urbanism section. ran into @seattlebikeblog.com in the wild - and @sarabronin.bsky.social's 'keys to the city' was in stock too.

support your local book shop people! (at @tomnissley.bsky.social's phinney books)

Cut and Paste Streetscape! #shitplanning #urbanism

Pleased to see that Journal of Urbanism co-editor @susanparham.bsky.social is now here!

Food as a public service for people and pollinators: evidence-based insights from regenerative placemaking in New Zealand—the Waharoa living lab This action research project transformed a former bowling green into a public, inclusive, edible landscape in Waharoa, Aotearoa-New Zealand, where everyone is welcome to help themselves to fruits a...

NEW RESEARCH Article
Food as a public service for people and pollinators: evidence-based insights from regenerative placemaking in New Zealand—the Waharoa living lab
Barbara Ribeiro, David E. Pattemore, Adam Morris, Leo Baldwin-Ramult & Daniel J. Exeter
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Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability Volume 17, Issue 4 of Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

Our latest edition is now online! Print editions will be with subscribers shortly.
Table of contents is here:
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