Urbanisation
Geography, Earth & Environmental Science
‘Urbanisation’, anchored at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India, is a response to a particular moment of 21st century global urbanisation within an increasingly re-arranged world. It aims to publish comparative as well as collaborative interdisciplinary scholarship that will illuminate the global urban condition beginning with a firm footprint in the Global South, i.e. the countries of Asia, Africa and South America.
A platform that brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on the urban, it is equally interested in critical and reflexive discussions on diverse forms and sectors of urban practice. It seeks to do so not only to inform urban theory, policy and practice but also to enable the construction of diverse forms of knowledge and knowledge production needed to enable us to understand contemporary urban life.
The Journal seeks to:
- Promote theorisation of urban processes from the perspective of a wide range of practices that shape urban life.
- Publish comparative as well as collaborative interdisciplinary scholarship that will illuminate the global urban condition beginning with a firm footprint in the Global South.
- Provide a platform that brings together and puts into conversation interdisciplinary scholarship on the urban.
- Provide a platform that allows critical and reflexive discussion from and on diverse forms and sectors of urban practice.
- Enable diverse forms of knowledge and knowledge production particularly those that bridge the theory-practice divide as well as disciplinary and methodological boundaries.
- Learn from and inform urban policy and practice across a range of domains and sectors.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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The journal aims to:
- Provide a platform to understand contemporary global urbanisation with a firm footprint in the global South.
- Build on this new knowledge to re-think the epistemological canon of urbanisation and its associated systems and processes.
- Reflexively engage with and theorise practice.
To enable these, submissions are encouraged across a variety of sections which are unique to the journal format, such as the following:
- General Articles (4000-10,000 words)
- Writing from Practice (up to 10,000 words)
- Learning and Pedagogy (4000-6000 words)
- On Method (4000-6000 words)
- Evaluations and Assessments (4000-6000 words)
- Review (Book/Film/Exhibition) (800–1,500 words)
- Visual Essay (3–5 pieces of original work, i.e., paintings/sketches and/or photographs)
- Poetry (3 poems or 1 long poem)
| Aromar Revi | Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Rahul Mehrotra | Professor of Urban Design and Planning and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |
| Om Mathur | Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| David Satterthwaite | Editor, Environment and Urbanization and Senior Associate, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK |
| Amir Bazaz | Associate Dean – IIHS School of Environment and Sustainability; IIHS School of Systems and Infrastructure; Head – Infrastructure and Climate, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Ketaki Ghoge | Lead – Director’s Office, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Amlanjyoti Goswami | Chief – Legal & Regulation, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru, India |
| Jagdish Krishnaswamy | Dean – IIHS School of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Neethi P | Lead - Academics & Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Pooja Sagar | Lead – IIHS Word Lab, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Chandni Singh | Lead – IIHS Practice Programme, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Junaid Ahmad | Vice President Operations, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, Washington DC, USA |
| Adriana Allen | Professor, Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK |
| Xuemei Bai | Distinguished Professor, Urban Environment and Human Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Eugenie Birch | Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education, Penn Institute for Urban Research, Philadelphia, USA |
| Michael Cohen | Director, Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs, Milano School of International Affairs, The New School, New York, USA |
| Bert de Vries | Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| David Dodman | Director General, IHS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Devesh Kapur | Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Asia Programs Director at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA |
| Sander van der Leeuw | Director Emeritus, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Arizona State University, Tempe, USA |
| Brian McGrath | Professor of Urban Design, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA |
| Peter Newman | Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
| Susan Parnell | Global Challenges Research Professor, School of Geography, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK |
| Sheela Patel | Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Mumbai, India |
| Srinath Reddy | Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India |
| Debra Roberts | Professor Willem Schermerhorn Chair, Faculty of Geo-Information Science, University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| Jennifer Robinson | Chair of Human Geography, University College London, UK |
| Ananya Roy | Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Bish Sanyal | Professor, Director of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
| Karen Seto | Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, USA |
| Awadhendra Sharan | Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India |
| Abdoumaliq Simone | Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK |
| Rafael Tuts | Director, Global Programme Division, UN Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Ishani Debroy | Senior Associate – IIHS Word Lab, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Lubna Duggal | Senior Consultant – IIHS Word Lab, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
| Namrata Nirmal | External Consultant – IIHS Word Lab, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India |
Submission Guidelines for Urbanisation
1. All editorial correspondence and manuscripts submission should be sent by e-mail to: submission@urbanisationjournal.com
2. Authors will be provided with a copyright form once the contribution is accepted for publication. The submission will be considered as final only after the filled-in and signed copyright form is received.
3. Articles should be written in MS Word, Times New Roman font, and should be submitted in soft copy. Contributors must provide their affiliations and complete postal and e-mail addresses with their articles. In case there are two or more authors, the corresponding author’s name and contact details should be specified clearly.
4. All images submitted (for photo essays as well as other submissions) should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi and 1500 pixels and their format should be TIFF or JPEG. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavor). All photographs/scanned images should be provided separately.
5. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and 4–6 keywords.
6. Use British rather than American spellings (‘programme’ not ‘program’; ‘labour’ not ‘labor’). Where alternate forms exist, choose ‘ise’ spellings instead of ‘ize’.
7. Use single quotes throughout. Double quotes only to be used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
8. Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
9. The following conventions should be used when using hyphens, en dash, em dash:
- Use hyphens (-) to create compound words and to break a word across lines
- Use an en dash (–) for a range of numbers e.g. 75–80
- Use an em dash (—) to mark an explanatory element in a sentence.
10. Use ‘twentieth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements, use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent, not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
11. Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimised, but used consistently.
12. Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). All Figures and Tables should be cited in the text. Sources for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions.
13. Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work. In each reference, authors’ names are inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. after the sixth author’s name.
a) Chronological listing: If more than one work by the same author(s) is cited, they should be listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.
b) Sentence case: In references, sentence case (only the first word and any proper noun are capitalized – e.g., ‘The software industry in India’) is to be followed for the titles of papers, books, articles, etc.
c) Title case: In references, Journal titles are put in title case (first letter of all words except articles and conjunctions are capitalized – e.g., Journal of Business Ethics).
d) Italicize: Book and Journal titles are to be italicized.
14. Citations and References should adhere to the guidelines below (based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition). Some examples are given below:
a) In text citations:
One work by one author: (Kessler, 2003, p. 50) or ‘Kessler (2003) found that among the epidemiological samples..’.
One work by two authors: (Joreskog & Sorborn, 2007, pp. 50–66) or Joreskog and Sorborn (2007) found that..
One work by three or more authors: (Basu, Banerji & Chatterjee, 2007) [first instance]; Basu et al. (2007) [Second instance onwards].
Groups or organizations or universities: (University of Pittsburgh, 2007) or University of Pittsburgh (2007).
Authors with same surname: Include the initials in all the in-text citations even if the year of publication differs, e.g., (I. Light, 2006; M.A. Light, 2008).
Works with no identified author or anonymous author: Cite the first few words of the reference entry (title) and then the year, e.g., (‘Study finds’, 2007); (Anonymous, 1998).
If abbreviations are provided, then the style to be followed is: (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2003) in the first citation and (NIMH, 2003) in subsequent citations.
· Two or more works by same author: (Gogel, 1990, 2006, in press)
· Two or more works with different authors: (Gogel, 1996; Miller, 1999)
· Secondary sources: Allport's diary (as cited in Nicholson, 2003).
References:
b) Books:
Patnaik, Utsa (2007). The republic of hunger. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
c) Edited Books:
Amanor, Kojo S., & Moyo, S. (Eds) (2008). Land and sustainable development in Africa. London and New York: Zed Books.
d) Translated books:
Amin, S. (1976). Unequal development (trans. B. Pearce). London and New York: Monthly Review Press.
e) Book chapters:
Chachra, S. (2011). The national question in India. In S. Moyo and P. Yeros (Eds), Reclaiming the nation (pp. 67–78). London and New York: Pluto Press.
f) Journal articles:
Foster, J.B. (2010). The financialization of accumulation. Monthly Review, 62(5), 1-17. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225 [DOI number optional]
g) Newsletter article, no author:
Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang intiative conference. (2006, November/December). OOJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncrjs.gov/html
[Please do not place a period at the end of an online reference.]
h) Newspaper article:
Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.
i) In-press article:
Briscoe, R. (in press). Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/5780/1/ECSRAP.F07.pdf
j) Non-English reference book, title translated into English:
Real Academia Espanola. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua espanola [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (22nd ed.). Madrid, Spain: Author.
k) Special issue or section in a journal:
Haney, C., & Wiener, R.L. (Eds) (2004). Capital punishment in the United States [Special Issue]. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 10(4), 1-17.
15. Book reviews must have details like name of author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages and price.
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