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Buildings and Cities is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, academic journal publishing high quality research and analysis on the interplay between the different scales of the built environment.
Our Aims and Scope explains our range of topics, types of papers and focus on policy, practices and outcomes.
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Read our 10 principles that provide the values underpinning our journal. These broadly explain the ethos and aspirations for what we do.
In addition to being a peer-review journal, we provide an intellectual space for engagement between researchers, practitioners and policy makers.
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Meet our international editorial board members with diverse backgrounds and knowledge.
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Meet our practitioner panel who advise us on Briefing Notes for practitioners and policymakers. We make research accessible not only for academics, but also for the end-users of research: policymakers, practitioners, clients and occupants.
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Latest Commentaries
Cities-Scale Research to Address Climate Change
Gerald Mills (University College Dublin) considers the big challenges for cities amid global climate change (GCC) and discusses the need for an inter-disciplinary approach among urban climate sciences to overcome obstacles. A distinction is made between global climate science, which focusses on Earth-scale outcomes, and urban climate science, which refers to processes and impacts at city-scales, including buildings, streets and neighbourhoods.
Climate Change, Overshoot and the Demise of Large Cities
William E. Rees (University of British Columbia) explains why urbanisation has been a significant contributor to ecological overshoot (when human consumption and waste generation exceeds the regenerative capacity of supporting ecosystems) and climate change.1 Civil society needs to begin designing a truly viable future involving a ‘Plan B’ for orderly local degrowth of large cities.