Since 1935, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association ( JAPA ) has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policymakers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas.
JAPA publishes double-anonymized peer reviewed, original research and analysis. It aspires to bring insight to planning the future, to air a variety of perspectives, to publish the highest quality work, and to engage readers.
JAPA is interested in manuscripts that examine historical or contemporary planning experience, broadly defined, in domestic or global contexts, and that do at least one of the following:
- contribute to the theoretical and conceptual foundation of planning;
- improve the link between planning and successful policy implementation;
- advance the methods used in planning practice and planning research;
- explain empirical relationships important to planning;
- interpret noteworthy physical, economic, and social phenomena that have spatial dimensions; or
- analyze significant consequences of planning approaches, processes, and contexts.
JAPA prefers vivid and direct writing in the active voice. We particularly seek timely papers that offer significant research news.
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Peer Review Policy: All Research Articles, Review Essays, and Planning Viewpoints submitted to this journal undergo a “double-anonymous” peer review by two to three referees. Book Reviews are editorially reviewed by the Book Review Editor. Commentaries are editorially reviewed by the Editor.
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