Call For Articles for The PUBLIC SPACE Journal's of First Issue

Revista ESPAÇO PÚBLICO |The PUBLIC SPACE Journal: Calls are now open for articles for the inaugural Issue 1, with the theme “The search for a better common space”, which will feature texts/articles by recognised national and international experts, some of whom are members of the journal's Scientific Council.

Public space is a space for meeting and sharing, whose perception and meaning vary according to its design, context and practices, acquiring different values for each person. It is no longer seen as a simple dichotomy between public and private space, but rather as the provisional result of a construction that results from a process moulded by public policies, management and social, ecological (or environmental) interactions. Public space, whether more or less natural or artificial, modest or monumental, for enjoyment or contemplation, truly public or concessioned (or privatised?) and in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, is vital for collective life, political action, social interaction and personal development.

For the first issue of this magazine dedicated to it, the call for articles asks for contributions to find ways of thinking about it and projecting it into the future, in all its diversity, in the face of contemporary challenges, particularly those of inclusion and sustainability. 

 

SUBMITTING ARTICLES

Revista ESPAÇO PÚBLICO |The PUBLIC SPACE Journal crosses the fields of architecture, urban planning, geography and landscape architecture, providing a comprehensive understanding of the built environment and its relationship with the natural world. Its articles are intended to explore the complex interactions between human activities, the design of space and the environment, public life, cultural practice, urban design, political action, social interaction and personal development, technology, social and environmental sustainability and climate resilience.

The journal is an opportunity to publish interdisciplinary, original, written and graphic material that will interest a large number of senior and junior researchers.

 

Periodicity: biannual publication (last day of May / last day of November).

Submission process: 1) Submissions via OJS; 2) Single-blind peer-review process.

Submission procedure: authors must register on the OJS platform and submit the theoretical or review article (between 3,000 and 6,000 words) or the visual/graphic essay (between 6 and 8 pages, plus text between 1,000 and 2,000 words) via the platform.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of articles or essays

Until the last day of May | Reviewers' decision on proposals until the end of July | Publication of the volume in November.

Until the last day of November | Reviewers' decision on proposals by the end of January | Publication of the volume in May.

  

EDITORIAL TEAM

Fernando Brandão Alves – FEUP | CITTA

José Rio Fernandes – FLUP | CEGOT

Paulo Farinha Marques – FCUP | CIBIO

Teresa Cálix – FAUP | CEAU