About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL) is a biannual open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish innovative and original papers on cultural heritage in the built environment as a set of creative practices.

The focus will be the European city, with a particular attention to its transformations within the global metropolis and its flows of people, capitals, goods and ideas.

Cultural heritage is considered as a set of practices able to produce economic and social changes within cities rather than a static repository of listed objects to be preserved. Through a series of call for papers and thematic sections, the journal provides a space of reflection on the ideas, the technologies, the actors and the practices that continuously produce and re-negotiate cultural heritage as a common good - a space for democracy, participation and citizenship. The journal’s ambition is to constitute a practice-oriented platform for knowledge exchange bringing together academics from various disciplinary backgrounds, policy makers and NGOs.

Topics will include, but will not be limited to:

• Politics of cultural heritage
• Historic cities and global culture: citizenship, migrations and the postcolonial city
• Urban History as politics/urban history for policies
• Economies and management of collective values
• Culture and cities in the Anthropocene
• Aesthetics and philosophy of the city
• Technologies for cultural heritage and digital humanities
• Heritage and digital democracy
• Cultural heritage as urban commons
• Culture, cities and social innovation

The European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes is scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary areas 08 (civil engineering and architecture) and 11 (history, philosophy, pedagogy and psychology).

Section Policy

Positions

This section includes invited essays and articles.

Main Section

It includes 4-5 double-blind, peer-reviewed papers per issues, responding to a thematic call for paper. Article length, maximum 6,000 words including footnotes and bibliography.

Practices

Edited by Cristina Garzillo and Cécile Houpert. This section includes case studies, projects and narratives in various formats—including videos, images, short stories, photo essays.

Miscellanea

Peer-reviewed articles not related to the issue’s call for papers. Articles are typically 6,000 words long, including footnotes and bibliography.

Écosophies

Edited by Manola Antonioli. A thematic section accepting open and invited submissions according to a permanent call for papers. Article length, maximum 6,000 words including footnotes and bibliography.

Anthropocene

Edited by Antonio Lucci. A thematic section accepting open and invited submissions according to a permanent call for papers. Article length, maximum 6,000 words including footnotes and bibliography.

Culture and sustainable development

Opinion

Notes

Notes, including overviews of calls for papers, European projects, books review, work in progress and other current issues.

Peer Review Process

CPCL releases two thematic call for papers a year for the main section, and accepts open submissions for permanent thematic sections.

Submitted papers will be first assessed for quality and suitability by the CPCL Editors-in-chief and Editors. Papers are returned as unsuitable for review when they do not conform to the preferences discussed above. Papers that are considered for review will be submitted for plagiarism detection through iThenticate. Once evaluated, papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees.

This means that the reviewers and the authors don’t know each other’s identity. To facilitate this, the authors need to ensure that manuscripts submitted on the CPCL platform are anonymized. Reviewers are chosen on the base of their expertise and knowledge on the selected paper topics.

Publication Frequency

CPCL is a biannual journal.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Code of Conduct

The European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

• ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
• BASE – Bielefield Academic Search Engine
• DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
• ERIH PLUS -– European Reference Index for the Humanities
• Google Scholar – Academic search engine
• ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
• SCOPUS – Elsevier’s Abstract and Citation Database
• Worldcat – The world’s largest library catalog

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
http://www.depositolegale.it/editori-aderenti/

Publisher

Department of Architecture
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Viale del Risorgimento, 2
40136 – Bologna (Italy)

Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning
Technical University Delft

Building 8
Julianalaan, 134
2628 – BL Delft (Netherlands)

Sponsors

• Dept. of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering, University of Bologna
• Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna
• Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna
• Athens Institute of Fine Arts
• Instituto de Ciéncias Sociais, University of Lisbon
• Faculty of Architecture, SS. Cyril and Methodius, University of Skopje
• Dept. of Construction Economics and Property Management, VGTU, Vilnius
• Environment Department, University of York
• EUROCITIES
• ICLEI

Sources of Support

The European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes is part of the actions of the ROCK project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730280.