Building and Landscapes

Aims & Scope

Buildings & Landscapes is the leading source for scholarly work on vernacular architecture of North America and beyond.

The journal continues VAF’s tradition of scholarly publication going back to the first Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture in 1982.

Published through the University of Minnesota Press since 2007, the journal moved from one to two issues per year in 2009.

Buildings & Landscapes examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls.

The journal’s contributorsundefinedhistorians and architectural historians, preservationists and architects, geographers, anthropologists and folklorists, and others whose work involves documenting, analyzing, and interpreting vernacular formsundefinedapproach the built environment as a windows into human life and culture, basing their scholarship on both fieldwork and archival research.

The editors encourage submission of articles that explore the ways the built environment shapes everyday life within and beyond North America.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.101

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29909

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• <em>Research Notes:</em> The Hidden Cityscapes of Informal Housing in Suburban Los Angeles and the Paradox of Horizontal Density

  Citation: 22

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• “Dreams of Oriental Romance”: Reinventing Chinatown in 1930s Los Angeles

  Citation: 16

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• “Until the Lord Come Get Me, It Burn Down, Or the Next Storm Blow It Away”: The Aesthetics of Freedom in African American Vernacular Homestead Preservation

  Citation: 15

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• “Part of Who We Are”: Using Old Buildings to Foster Citizenship in North Africa (Oran, Algeria, and Casablanca, Morocco)

  Citation: 9

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• Architectures of West African Enslavement

  Citation: 7

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• The Dunbar High School Dilemma: Architecture, Power, and African American Cultural Heritage

  Citation: 6

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• Athens or Anarchy? Soapbox Oratory and the Early Twentieth-Century American City

  Citation: 4

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• Mapping the Slave Trade in Richmond and New Orleans

  Citation: 3

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• Disappearing the Enslaved: The Destruction and Recovery of Richmond's Second African Burial Ground

  Citation: 3

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• <em>Viewpoint</em>: When Tourism Is History: Travel and the Construction of the Past in Cooperstown, New York

  Citation: 3

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