Critical Planning: UCLA Urban Planning Journal,

Published Since: 1993

Critical Planning is the graduate student-run journal of the UCLA Urban Planning Department, producing one volume annually. Since 1993, Critical Planning has served as a forum for the urban studies and planning communities to debate current issues, showcase emerging research, and propose new ideas concerning cities and regions. The journal attracts submissions from scholars, graduate students, and practitioners from across disciplinary boundaries and from around the world. Through our double-blind peer-review process, Critical Planning is committed to identifying and publishing insightful scholarly research with a critical approach. As one of the cores of intellectual life in the Urban Planning Department, the journal provides a convivial space for rigorous debate. Our public programs—including lectures, exhibitions, film screenings, and symposia—extend this work to audiences in Los Angeles and beyond. Critical Planning reaches an international subscriber base of urban planning scholars, students, practitioners, libraries, bookstores, and enthusiasts.

Latest Issue

"Resilient Cities": Critical Planning: UCLA Urban Planning Journal, Volume 17, Summer 2010
Critical Planning's newest volume explores concepts of resiliency and how it can be engaged as both a theoretical concept and as a model for shaping planning practices. Through a collection of papers that range from Damascus to America's rust-belt, this volume offers a multidisciplinary questioning of resiliency. The result is a truly global volume, with articles that extend, critique, and reconstruct the concept of resilience from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and in a range of empirical and historical contexts.

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Table of Contents

Editorial Note: Planning for Resilience?
Orly Linovski

Towards a Research Agenda on Transformative Resilience: Challenge and Opportunities for Post-Trauma Urban Ecosystems
Kevin Fox Gotham and Richard Campanella

Metropolitan Planning and Resilience Thinking: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Cathy Wilkinson, Libby Porter and Johan Colding

Lost in Translation: Resilience, Social Agency, and Water Planning in Tucson, Arizona
Majed Akhter, Kerri Jean Ormerod and Christopher A. Scott

Translating Resilience into the Urban Context: Past Successes and Future Uncertainties in Tokyo
Yoichi Kumagai, Robert B. Gibson and Pierre Filion

Urban Loopholes: Tactics of Survival and Manifestations of Desires in Damascus
Ying Zhou

Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Re-imagining Resilience in the Light of the Great Recession
Susan Christopherson

The Shadows of L.A.
Per-Johan Dahl

Sa ou fe, se li ou we: Rebuilding Governance in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Tisha Holmes

Recycling the City: Darning Downtown Phoenix
Nan Ellin and Kelly Turner

Book Review: What is a City? Re-thinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina
Garett Ballard-Rosa

Critical Planning is a double-blind peer-reviewed publication. Feature articles are generally between 5,000 and 7,000 words, while shorter articles are between 1,000 and 3,000 words. We encourage submissions that incorporate cross-disciplinary, multi-scalar, multi-sited, transnational, and/or mixed-method approaches. We also welcome submissions of photographs, maps, art, or design projects.

Staff

Managing Editor
Orly Linovski

Editorial Board
Imge Akcakaya
Jonathan Bell
Jenny Goldstein
Yogi Hendlin
Nicholas Lustig
Deirdre Pfeiffer
Tristan Sturm
Elise Youn

Editorial Coordinator
Chandini Singh

Design Editor
Morgan Chee

Development Manager
Ava Bromberg

Summer Office Manager
Fallon James

Resources

ISSN (Print): 1522-9807

Website: http://www.criticalplanning.org

Contact

Email: critplan@gmail.com

Critical Planning
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Los Angeles , CA 90095-1656