Journals, Urban Studies

Impact of lockdowns on housing perceptions among the urban population: implications for local policies | Town Planning Review 96.5 Featured Article

‘Impact of lockdowns on housing perceptions among the urban population: implications for local policies’, by Eliška Vejchodská and Hana Brůhová Foltýnová is the Featured Article from Town Planning Review 96.5. Read it Open Access.

Journals, open access, Urban Studies

Featured in Town Planning Review 95.5: Reshaping essential public spaces and services: towards socio-spatial justice in a post-pandemic era

We hear from Sara Edge, Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, and Jennifer Dean on their article which looks at reshaping essential public spaces and services in our post-pandemic era.

Journals, open access

Longer-term perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for urban planning

For this latest Featured Article the editors of Town Planning Review are highlighting the Editorial from TPR 95.4. This issue is the first of two special issues focused upon the pandemic and its continued after-effects, and it is available to read Open Access as part of LUP Open Planning.

Journals, open access

Featured in International Development Planning Review 46.2: Ecologies of sustainable development goals: a mid-term perspective

We hear from Daanish Mustafa, Perdita Matson, Erin Roberts, and Justin Sharpe on their article which looks at gender equality and responsible consumption and production as the core SDGs within the SDG ecosystem approach which they propose.

Journals, Literature, Modern Languages

Introducing ‘Unmasking the Red Death’: examining Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ in light of lockdowns and the COVID-19 pandemic

We are delighted to introduce Unmasking the Red Death, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open. Contributions examine Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death in light of lockdowns and the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring the central role that culture can have in times of crisis. Here, the co-editor of the collection, Emily Baker explains how this open access collection of articles came about and the research context and thinking that informs it.