Urban and Regional Planning

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Urban and Regional Planning

ISSN Online: 2575-1697
ISSN Print: 2575-1689
Current Issue: Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2024
DOI: 10.11648/j.urp
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Thank you to all the peer reviewers who generously donated their time and expertise to Urban and Regional Planning publications. Your contributions are invaluable in maintaining the high-quality standards of our publications.

  • Dr. Andrea Fanfoni
    Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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  • Dr. Toriqul Bashar
    Institute for Social Policy Housing and Equalities Research, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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  • Dr. Juncheng Yang
    Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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    School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Dr. Christina Barbarousi
    Department of Political Science and Public Administration, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Dr. Marco Marucci
    L’Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica Sostenibile (IRCrES), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy
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    Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
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  • Assoc. Prof. Lily Chi
    Department of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
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    Department of Law, Lumière University Lyon 2, Lyon, France
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    Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
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  • Assoc. Prof. Michelle Douglas
    Department of Design and Creative Technology, Torrens University Australia, Brisbane, Australia
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  • Dr. Ali Soltani
    Department of Injury Studies, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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