Editorial note: A centenary in prospect and a development programme

Abstract

The purpose of this Note is to provide readers with an introduction to some new and some continuing developments in the Town Planning Review as it reaches the centenary of its first publication in 1910. Such occasional moves have happened periodically during the past one hundred years as new circumstances have intervened and as opportunities and priorities have changed. Drawing on readership surveys and consultations with the Editorial Board, the editors and publishers have worked together to establish a centenary development programme for the Review over the next few years so as to enhance and update the author and readership services provided by the journal. Three main features of the programme addressed in this Note are: (a) new appointments to extend the TPR's reach in North America; (b) provisions to provide extended electronic access for authors and readers; and (c) calls for wider engagement in the authorship of continuing and some newer content features. New editorial appointments Since the earliest days of its publication, Town Planning Review has published papers and reviews on topics authored far from its traditional editorial base in Liverpool. From Volume 20 and its re-founding in the late 1940s, under the editorship of Gordon Stephenson, the Review took a step further in drawing in not only other colleagues in Britain as co-editors, but also Frederick J. Adams of MIT and later Clarence Stein from North America. That direct international collaboration and involvement in the editorial team is being renewed from Volume 80 and it is our pleasure as publisher and editors to introduce two new editors from North America - Armando Carbonell and Mickey Lauria. Armando Carbonell is chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also teaches in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Armando Carbonell writes: Planning policies in such traditional areas as land use, housing, transport and environment are currently all subject to change as we respond to chaotic financial, housing and real estate markets, geopolitical tensions, large-scale urbanisation and climate change. These are interesting times indeed and suggest the scope for a new feature to be developed in the Review focusing on planning policy and practice. As an editor I look forward to bringing the experience of practitioner, academic and 'policy wonk' to the task of securing international contributions to the journal that bridge policy research and planning strategy, and that evaluate the performance of past policies and programmes in terms of their results 'on the ground'. Mickey Lauria, the Immediate Past President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and a past editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, is a Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Community Growth and Change in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at the Clemson University, South Carolina. Mickey Lauria writes: As an editor of Town Planning Review I look forward to building on my previous editorial experience and publications on, for instance, community-based development organisations, urban redevelopment and politics and planning, as well as on my current research interests in patterns and impacts of housing foreclosures and abandonment, planning practices and smart growth, the historical analysis of preservation conflicts, and neighbourhood conditions and planning issues involving race and class. Aside from regular editorial duties, I am keen to develop a steady stream of manuscripts from North American planning educators by promoting the journal at conferences and encouraging presenters to submit their best work to TPR. New Editorial Board members The re-founded Town Planning Review of 1949 also included a diverse international group of 'editorial advisers', fulfilling a task now undertaken by the members of the Editorial Board. …