Quarterly Journals of Urban and Regional Development Planning

The main objective of Urban and Regional Development Planning is to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers to discuss their most recent findings related to urban and regional development. By doing so, the journal hopes to improve the status of the field in Iran and in the world and to find solutions to theoretical and practical problems the profession is faced with. To serve this purpose, researchers are encouraged to submit their unpublished, original, full-length papers for potential publication in the journal. 

The journal is set to publish original articles on a wide range of issues including;

• Urban and regional planning
• Urban and regional development
• Urban and regional management and maintenance
• Construction management
• City planning
• Residential Construction
• Commercial Construction
• Industrial Construction

The main objective:

Development of theoretical and practical knowledge boundaries of urban and regional planning in Iran

Side objectives:

• Design of content and methodological innovations to analyze and solve urban and regional planning issues
• Promotion of multidisciplinary knowledge (social justice, environmental ethics, power, and conflict of interest, etc.) in the field of urban and regional planning
• Strengthening approaches and methods of urban and regional management

Main axes:

• Urban and regional development planning
• Managing the spatial development of the city and region
• Criticism and examination of lessons learned from the experience of national, regional, and local development programs in Iran
• Evaluating the environmental, economic, and social consequences of urban and regional policies
• Examining and criticizing urban and regional governance structures

Secondary axes:

• Urban and regional planning theory

strategic spatial planning, collaborative planning, cooperative planning, review, and evaluation of urban and regional development documents, etc.

• Theory in urban and regional planning

Housing planning, transportation planning, tourism planning, urban and regional economic planning, environmental planning, rural planning, urban and regional resilience, metropolitan planning, planning of areas with spatial loss, planning areas of historical value, planning for informal settlements, etc.

• Approaches and methods of urban and regional management and governance

Quantitative methods and modeling in urban and regional planning, qualitative methods in urban and regional planning, research methods in urban and regional planning, methods of teaching urban and regional planning, etc.

• Urban and regional planning methods

Quantitative methods and modeling in urban and regional planning, qualitative methods in urban and regional planning, research methods in urban and regional planning, methods of teaching urban and regional planning, etc.

To let individual researchers and libraries have access to the most recent research findings in the field, the journal allows open-access to its articles. This journal utilizes the Magiran and Noormags preservation systems to create a distributed archiving system for individual and libraries and to permit libraries stakeholders to create permanent archives of the journal.