The ''Environment and Planning'' journals are five

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s. They are interdisciplinary journals with a spatial focus of primary interest to human geographers and city planners. The journals are also of interest to the scholars of

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political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

urban planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

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and

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. The five journals are: * ''Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space'': The original ''Environment and Planning'' journal, launched in 1969. It focuses on urban and

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issues. * ''Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science'': Introduced in 1974 as 'Planning and Design' to provide a focus on methodological urban issues, focusing again on the design and planning methods,

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and

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. * ''Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space'': Established in 1983 as 'Government and Policy'. Beginning in 2017, the focus changed to critical and interdisciplinary research on the 'spatialization of politics and the politicization of spatial relations'. * ''Environment and Planning D: Society and Space'': Launched as ''Society and Space'' in 1979 and joined the ''Environment and Planning'' series in 1983. Initially devoted to human geography, the journal is now broadening its scope and welcomes submissions from geography, cultural studies, economics,

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

, sociology, politics,

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, architecture, planning,

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, and

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. * ''Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space'': focussing on nature and society issues launched in 2018. In the 2001

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in the United Kingdom, the highest number of submissions from geographers were articles from ''Environment and Planning A'', with ''Environment and Planning D'' fourth in the list. The journals were published by Pion, a small publisher, until 2015, when Pion was taken over by SAGE.

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