Dear urban planning and studies scholars, This is a general call for submissions to the Journal of the American Planning Association. As the incoming editor, I write to remind everyone of JAPA's mission to publish the very best scholarship aimed at improving the professional practice of urban and rural development and planning, broadly speaking. With a hard copy subscription base approaching 9,000, a rapidly growing electronic reader base, and a very engaged, rotating editorial board of leading scholars, JAPA provides researchers an unusually deep, wide and influential international audience.
More to the point, the times call for all of us to ramp up our efforts to better understand the world around us, and then to advise policy makers to act on an informed basis. I take this opportunity to make a special request that you consider JAPA for your new work toward this end. In addition to its extremely high visibility and historical prestige, we promise one of the shortest review turn-arounds available. For those unfamiliar with JAPA, the current Summer 2010 issue, including articles on federal housing policy, air quality and environmental justice, groundwater, and planning for the dead, is available for electronic subscribers here: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g788746734~db=all. For everyone, a free article from that issue by two of the leading scholars in land use and transportation, Reid Ewing and Robert Cervero, is available at this link: "Travel and the Built Environment: A Meta-Analysis." The next quarterly issue is devoted to the special topic of Planning for Climate Change. For details of the submission process, including the required preparation of a webstract, please visit the web site of the publisher, Taylor and Francis, here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rjpaauth.asp. The JAPA page of the sponsoring organization, the American Planning Association, here: http://www.planning.org/japa. Note that the formal submission process continues to be either to send a webstract to the current editor, David Sawicki, for feedback on a proposed paper, or to send a full webstract and paper to JAPA for review. We expect to have the editorial infrastructure reestablished at UCLA by October. Very best, Randall Crane Professor, UCLA and Incoming Editor, JAPA [email protected] 310-951-3576 http://www.publicaffairs.ucla.edu/randall-crane
