We are delighted to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning, has successfully met its target for 2025. As a result, this year’s content from our esteemed planning and development journals, Town Planning Review (TPR) and International Development Planning Review (IDPR), is now freely accessible via Open Access.

As prominent journals in the field of planning and development, TPR and IDPR serve as vital platforms for dialogue among researchers, students, policy analysts, and practitioners. We are excited to make this valuable body of knowledge available to all, fostering greater collaboration and advancing scholarship in the field. The Subscribe to Open model also supports Open Access publishing, when the subscription threshold is met, authors publish free of charge.

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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 2025.

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Inside the latest issues

TPR Volume 96.1 explores critical topics in planning and urban policy, including participatory design in Michigan, planning’s role in UK political manifestos, self-organisation in Java’s transport systems, healthier food environments in England, and fare-free transit in France. A report on the 18th Annual PLPR Conference highlights key discussions bridging academia and practice, offering insights into global planning challenges. The issue closes with reviews of the latest books in the field.

TPR Volume 96.2 includes ‘Imperial and Colonial Amnesia of European Planning Academics – The Case of AESOP’s Eurocentrism’ by the late Professor Benjamin Davy. You can read a blog post from the editors who highlight the significance of the piece and pay tribute to Professor Davy. This issue also covers the transformation of socialist-era housing into eco-villages, urban planners’ views on digital change, active travel in northern England’s rustbelt, and an analysis of PlanTech. You will also find a report from the 5th International Conference on Urban Affairs and reviews of the latest books in the field.

IDPR Volume 47.1 is a special issue titled Governing the Pandemic, it is based around papers presented at the 2023 conference ‘The Pandemic and Urban Governance: Changing State-Society Relationships and Learning from COVID-19’, held at Ahmedabad University. The papers, stemming from research in India, Colombia, Nigeria, and South Africa, address key governance challenges, including the exceptionality of pandemic measures, strained urban state capacity, technological and policy changes, and the potential for new state-society partnerships.

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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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Would you like to access the TPR and IDPR archives?

We are pleased to offer subscribers exclusive access to the archives of the journals, in addition to supporting the transition to Open Access, subscribing institutions gain access to a wealth of historical content.

Town Planning Review (TPR) provides 110 years of archived material, while International Development Planning Review (IDPR) offers 42 years. These archives offer valuable insights for researchers, educators, and practitioners. 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 discount on new subscriptions to LUP Open Planning. Contact subscriptions@liverpool.ac.uk for more information.

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