We are pleased to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning, has now reached its target for 2024. This means that this year’s content from our planning and development journals, Town Planning Review (TPR) and International Development Planning Review (IDPR), is now available to read freely via Open Access alongside content from 2023 and 2022!

As leading planning and development journals, TPR and IDPR provide a forum for communication between researchers and students, policy analysts and practitioners. We are proud to bring the latest content to all readers and researchers in the field.

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Thank you!

We have reached this year’s target with the support of the institutions that renewed their subscription to the journals, we would like to say thank you for making Open Access possible for 2024.

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TPR Volume 95.1 includes a Viewpoint reflecting on the normalisation of poor quality in England’s low-income housing; the latest Abercrombie Lecture and the unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing the field of spatial planning; and commentary on the concept of ‘green infrastructure’. You will also find articles on how the ‘Standard Method’ fails to govern England’s housing requirement, and urban development, emergence and co-production in Galway, Ireland. The issue closes with a conference report from the yearly conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR), Ann Arbor, 1–5 May 2023, and reviews of the latest books in the field.

TPR Volume 95.2 includes a Viewpoint that explores the cycle of heritage sites being developed and promoted as tourist attractions, alongside articles on the trend for positivism in planning practice that is widening the theory–practice gap; the political implications of conflicts over new housebuilding for Conservative-led governments in England since 2010; sensory considerations for age-friendly planning and design; and analysis of land-use plans. The issue also includes two conference reports.

Read TPR’s 2024 content Open Access >

IDPR Volume 46.1 is a special issue that explores the country-of-origin effects of foreign direct investment within East Asia.

IDPR Volume 46.2 features a Viewpoint focusing on the two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that could be the key to realising SDGs during their remaining half-life, alongside articles on scaling low-income housing delivery in Kenya and the Philippines; the evolution of Mexico’s housing governability system; large-scale urban road corridors development and urban sprawl in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana; the economic rationale of Land Readjustment in Korean contexts; and an interrogation of the priorities that must inform a critical post-SDG development agenda.

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Words from the Editors

It is tremendous news that LUP has again reached its target for Open Planning. Crucially, this ensures that International Development Planning Review (IDPR) will continue to be available to readers across the globe. The journal is committed to working with and supporting scholars from all across the world, and a first step in this is ensuring that our content is as widely available as possible. As co-editors of IDPR, we firmly believe that the Open Planning initiative is vital to supporting this agenda and helps ensure our content is available to all.
– Dan Hammett and Glyn Williams, co-editors of International Development Planning Review.

Reaching out to new readers and authors is an important part of our work as Editors and the Open Planning model can only help in that endeavour.
– John Sturzaker, co-editor of Town Planning Review.

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Subscribers receive exclusive access to the archive

As well as supporting the move to Open Access, those institutions who have subscribed to the journals are given access to their archives, which have been made available for the first time. TPR is the world’s oldest planning journal and subscribers receive 110 years of archive. IDPR, providing an interdisciplinary platform for the critical study of development related practices, planning and policy in the global South, has 42 years of archive available to subscribers.

If you would like your institution to have access to the journal’s archives, please use the links below to recommend a subscription to your librarian:

Recommend IDPR to your librarian to access the archive >
Recommend TPR to your librarian to access the archive >

Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) members and affiliates receive a 15% discount on new subscriptions to LUP Open Planning. Contact subscriptions@liverpool.ac.uk for more information.

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