Our Practice

We publish five times a year with the Royal Town Planning Institute. We include both quantitative and qualitative papers, as well as encouraging contributions on controversial subjects and responses to previously published items.  While the journal promotes an eclectic interest in space and place, its central theoretical and practical concerns are: 

• social justice, sustainability, the implications of technology for planning

• ethics, epistemology, power, participation

• complexity, mobility, spatiality and spatial scales

Our Process

Planning Theory and Practice research articles undergo double-blind peer review by a minimum of three independent reviewers. 

Interface and Debates and Reflections articles are commissioned by the Editors on specific themes, and all commissions are subject to rigorous editorial review and revision prior to a decision about publication.

Interface, Debates and Reflections

Our innovative Interface section makes a space for dialogue between the academic and practitioner communities, stimulating analytical reflection on practice and practical engagement with theory.  Each issue of Interface offers a rich investigation into a chosen theme, welcoming diverse perspectives on an issue of current and coming relevance.