Focuses on the history of city and regional planning, with particular emphasis on the Americas. Covers the full range of topics embraced by city and regional planning history, including planning history in the Americas, transnational planning experiences, planning history pedagogy, planning history in planning practice, the intellectual roots of the planning processes, and planning history historiography.

Provides scholars and professionals with the latest research, analyses, and discussion on the history of cities and urban societies throughout the world. Presents original research by distinguished authors from the variety of fields concerned with urban history. Each insightful issue offers the latest scholarship on such topics as public housing, migration, urban growth, and more.

A forum for planning educators and scholars to present results from teaching and research that advance the profession and improve planning practice. The journal covers planning theory, planning practice, and planning pedagogy, as well as disciplines drawn upon by planners such as urban geography, welfare economics, interest-group politics, and policy analysis.

Publishes research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policymakers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Examines the built world--houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls--that make up the spaces that most people experience every day. Strongly based on fieldwork and archival research that views buildings as windows into human life and culture.

Publishes research on ’the city,’ cities and their futures, urbanization from multiple perspectives and commentary on the contemporary urban world.

Reflects the interest of those concerned with the planning of the environment who seek to provide explanations for the origins & consequences of planning ideas, methods & activities.

Articles and book reviews about contemporary urban issues for social scientists. Information about public policies, programs, social change and administration.

Since 1978, The Public Historian has made its mark as the definitive voice of the public history profession, providing historians with the latest scholarship and applications from the field.