Aim & Scope
Urban 21 Journal is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal that takes its name and main motivation from the theme of “city and urbanization in the 21st century”. Since urbanization is becoming an increasingly critical phenomenon today, the journal aims to encourage the publication of up-to-date research on urban and urbanization processes.
In the 21st century, urban and urbanization phenomena have become one of the main issues on the global agenda with their economic, social, political and environmental dimensions. Today, a significant portion of the world's population lives in cities, and cities face multifaceted challenges such as global warming and climate change, environmental degradation, noise pollution, traffic congestion, rapid depletion of natural resources, infrastructure inadequacies and security problems, as well as rapid transformation in information and communication technologies. In this context, Urban 21 Journal aims to contribute to the production of academic knowledge by including scientific studies on the transformations in urban and urbanization processes, original research on structural and managerial problems faced by cities, theoretical discussions and applied case studies.
Urban 21 Journal includes academic studies such as book reviews, articles (opinion, research, review) related to urban and urbanization issues from the fields of social sciences and humanities on the following topics:
📌 Management & Planning
🏛️ Public Administration
🏢 Local Governments
🚨 Disaster Management
🌆 Urban and Urbanization Policies
🏗️ Urban Transformation Practices
🤖 Smart Cities
📌 Environment and Sustainability
🌱 Environmental Policies
🔋 Sustainability Studies
♻️ Waste and Recycling
📌 Technology
📡 Technology Driven Research
🧑💻Kamu and Digital Transformation in Local Governments
🔬Disaster Technologies
🏠City Technologies
📌 Socioeconomic, Cultural and Historical Perspective
🏛️ Architecture
📜 History
👥 Sociology
🌍 Anthropology
⛏️ Archaeology
🗺️ Geography
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