About the Journal
Aims and scope
Ciudades is a scientific journal of annual periodicity, founded in 1993 and edited by the Instituto Universitario de Urbanística of the University of Valladolid (Spain), whose object is urbanism in a broad sense and that addresses the academic world as well as the citizenship interested in urban and territorial issues from various disciplines.
The journal was born within the area of knowledge of Urban and Regional Planning with the vocation to promote the debate on the city and with the perspective of a better knowledge of urban phenomena. It refers to both theoretical and propositional approaches and to their interrelation with other disciplines such as architecture, engineering, geography, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, economics and ecology.
The complexities and contradictions affecting cities are always on debate. Professionals and scholars of urban planning need to know urban and territorial phenomena and benefit from the promotion of a rooted culture that is sometimes little known or ignored, and yet constantly evolving.
Ciudades proposes the study of cities and urban planning with a critical sense, from a theoretical approach and with a transdisciplinary intention, with the conviction of the need for planning and with the idea that urban planning must be a public function to serve everybody. Therefore, it aims to be a mean of scientific dissemination of research and proposals for intervention that address, critically, all those issues related to urban knowledge and planning, which affect cities, territories and landscapes.
Institutional affiliation
This journal is owned by the University of Valladolid (Spain), which provides its digital hosting and is responsible for its maintenance and management through Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid (EdUVa) and the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC). The University of Valladolid guarantees open access to the contents of the journal. The works published in the journal will be included in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid, guaranteeing their long-term preservation.
Editorial policy
Edition, open access and gratuity
Ciudades is edited by the Instituto Universitario de Urbanística of the University of Valladolid as electronic journal (ISSN-E 2445-3943) and, with a limited edition with institutional purposes, as paper journal (ISSN 1133-6579). The issues published on paper, by tradition and by their partial condition of monographs, also have their own ISBN. Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid is a technical co-editor, as manager of the journals’ platform of the University of Valladolid (Revistas UVa).
Ciudades is a non-profit publication that adheres to the principles of the Open Access movement. It enables free and immediate access to its content in order to make research freely available to the public, thus fostering greater global knowledge sharing. In addition, the submission, review and publication of articles are completely free of charge for authors.
Open Access policy and copyright notice
This journal enables free and immediate access to its content to foster global knowledge.
All contents published in Ciudades are under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
- Attribution: any use of the work authorized by the license will be required to acknowledge authorship.
Authors continue to own their work and may republish their articles by other means without having to seek permission, as long as they state that the work was originally published in Ciudades.
Assignment of DOI, preservation of digital files and prevention of plagiarism
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to all articles published in Ciudades.
For their digital preservation, the articles will be housed on the journals’ platform (Revistas UVa) and the institutional repository (UVaDOC) of the University of Valladolid, as well as on many other platforms and repositories outside the University of Valladolid, such as Dialnet. They will also be archived by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (STIC) de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).
The journal has a plagiarism prevention tool provided by the Servicio de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (STIC) de la Universidad de Valladolid. The tool StrikePlagiarism is currently used.
