Journals, News, open access, Urban Studies

LUP Open Planning has reached its target! Celebrating Open Access for 2025

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.

Journals, News

IDPR/DevGRG Early Career Prize Winners Announced

We are delighted to share that the joint winners of the IDPR/Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) (RGS-IBG) Early Career Prize have now been announced!

Journals, open access

The Politics of Africa’s Urban-Industrialisation

We hear from Selam Robi on their paper 'The politics of Africa’s urban–industrialisation: authoritarian centralisation and policy integration', selected as the Featured Article in IDPR 46.3 and available to read Open Access.

Journals, News

Journals and publishers facing issues from fraudulent sites: Part II

In April this year, we published a blog to highlight the issues journals and publishers are facing from fraudulent/copied/hijacked sites. This is a second, follow up post, to share further investigations and work we have been doing since.

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.