Planning Perspectives

Aims & Scope

Planning Perspectives is the premier international journal of history, planning and the environment.

It is edited from University College London, University of California at San Diego, Technical University of Delft and Glasgow School of Art.

We offer a peer-reviewed forum for scholars pursuing the histories of planning, plans and planners, and provide book reviews of all significant publications in the major languages.

Contributions to Planning Perspectives must report original historical research in manuscripts of up to 10,000 words.

Papers of a comparative or thematic nature are welcomed.

No historical period is excluded.

The journal is affiliated to the International Planning History Society (IPHS), the interdisciplinary network for planning historians worldwide.

In order to raise awareness of current work in the field, IPHS has its own section in the journal, peer-reviewed on the same basis as regular papers but with shorter contributions of no more than 4,000 words.

The section editor welcomes manuscripts on research in progress and historiographical essays, as well as personal reminiscences, accounts of archival sources or datasets, reports of conferences, symposia and seminars and announcements of relevance to IPHS members.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.9
2024	0.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.585

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	36

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	9932

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	209

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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 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.

• Urban development through hosting international events: a history of the Olympic Games

  Citation: 224

  Authors: Brian, Stephen

• Taking path dependence seriously: an historical institutionalist research agenda in planning history

  Citation: 210

  Authors: Andre

• Urban planning as a tool of power and social control in colonial Africa

  Citation: 160

  Authors: Ambe J.

• The Million Homes Programme: a review of the great Swedish planning project

  Citation: 150

  Authors: THOMAS, SONJA

• Good segregation, bad segregation

  Citation: 139

  Authors: Ceri

• Mega‐sporting events in urban and regional policy: a history of the Winter Olympics

  Citation: 127

  Authors: STEPHEN, BRIAN

• The Barcelona model: and an original formula? From ‘reconstruction’ to strategic urban projects (1979–2004)

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Francisco-Javier

• Reconstructing South Africa’s cities? The making of urban planning 1900–2000

  Citation: 102

  Authors: Alan, Dan

• The dark side of the grid: power and urban design

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Jill

• Modernist housing estates in European cities of the Western and Eastern Blocs

  Citation: 52

  Authors: Javier, Carmen

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