“The current pressures on Phnom Penh’s urban environment caused by neoliberalism and the rise of China as a global and economic political actor create an environment of dispossession and displacement for the urban poor where land title is not sufficient to guarantee tenure security.”- Johanna Brugman on her article 'Uncovering the individual/collective divide in planning responses to informal settlements as a structural cause of tenure insecurity in Phnom Penh, Cambodia', the latest Featured Article from IDPR. Available to read for free via Open Access.
Open for Climate Justice: Open Access Week 2022
The theme of this year’s International Open Access week is ‘Open for Climate Justice’. The theme seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. In this spirit we have complied a reading list of the latest research from our Planning journals, Town Planning Review (TPR) and International Development Planning Review (IDPR), that examines climate resilience, environmental justice, energy access, and climate-change research, and is available to read Open Access.
Celebrating LUP Open Planning success: leading planning journals now available Open Access through new subscribe to open model
We are pleased to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning has now reached its target for 2022. This means that this year's content for our planning and development journals, Town Planning Review and International Development Planning Review, is now available via Open Access!
Featured in International Development Planning Review 44.2: The value of development researchers: structural racism, universities and UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)
New to the blog: “Given that development research is almost exclusively focused on countries in the so-called global South and on Southern issues of inequity as lived by bodies racialised as Black and Brown, the treatment of people who we call ‘southern researchers’ is particularly noteworthy and egregious”- Kamna Patel and Ala’a Shehabi on their article 'The value of development researchers: structural racism, universities and UK Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)', the latest Featured Article from IDPR, available #FreetoRead.
Featured in International Development Planning Review 44.1: Urban equality and the SDGs: three provocations for a relational agenda
New to the blog: “This paper is borne out of my simultaneous fascination and frustration with the Sustainable Development Goals”- Stephanie Butcher on her article 'Urban equality and the SDGs', the latest Featured Article from IDPR, available #FreetoRead.
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