Sector knowledge: Journal of Urbanism – International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

Journal Summary: The Journal of Urbanism is a multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on human settlement and its relation to the idea of sustainability, social justice and cultural understanding. It is concerned with the relative impact of design on environmental perception, urban livability and the experience of space.

The journal addresses a wide range of urban concerns, and aims, by publishing research from a variety of theoretical, methodological and conceptual perspectives, to create an attitude of sustainability toward urban form.

Publisher: Routledge

Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjou20/current

Access: Subscription; some open access

Journal Type: Academic peer reviewed

Academic journals: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development

Journal summary: The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (JCHMSD) stimulates and encourages research devoted to the sustainable development of cultural heritage and to the positive contribution of cultural heritage management towards a sustainable environment. The coverage includes:
Cultural heritage – assessment, management, marketing and publicity, tangible and intangible dimensions
Sustainable development – preservation, conservation, restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, demolition, best practices, unsustainable development and consequent threats e.g. urban developments, large-scale agriculture, mining activity
Cultural heritage and sustainable development – legislation, Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment, effects of climate change, ecological sustainability, social sustainability, economic sustainability
The role of research and scholarship
Teaching & curriculum development

Publisher: Emerald

Website: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=JCHMSD

Access: Subscription; some open access

Journal type: Academic peer-reviewed

Academic journals: International Journal of Tourism Cities

Journal summary: The International Journal of Tourism Cities (IJTC) provides an international forum for the critical study of urban tourism and tourism cities. The journal aims to be inter-disciplinary in its appreciation of tourism cities and tourism in urban areas, and welcomes original, theoretically-informed articles from those involved in the planning, management or marketing of tourism in city destination or places adjoining urban areas.
Urban tourism and travel cover many disciplines and impinge on numerous aspects of daily life within cities. Moreover, they play a key role in domestic and international tourism in most countries, and cities often function as key travel gateways and tourism destinations.  The journal particularly encourages contributions on contemporary topics and issues in urban tourism including smart cities and tourism, environmental impact and sustainable tourism development in cities, citizen and stakeholder involvement in tourism, city destination governance, and the development of policies and standards for city tourism development. IJTC is the official journal of the International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA). 

IJTC has four distinct purposes:

• To encourage greater research and scholarship related to tourism in urban settings.
• To stimulate more interdisciplinary research on tourism in cities, particularly the integration of tourism and urban studies theories and principles.
• To generate more research studies on tourism at the edge of cities, where urban and rural areas converge.
• To create more literature on best practices in city tourism worldwide through in-depth analyses and the production of exemplary case studies.

Publisher: Emerald

Website: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/ijtc

Access: Subscription; some open access articles

Journal type: Academic peer reviewed