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Overview
The journal Urban Development Issues (UDI) is a scientific quarterly (ISSN:  2544-624X print, 2544-6258 online) published by the leading Polish institution for spatial planning and urban studies, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. Published for over 14 years now (fully in English between 2017 and 2020, currently in English and in Polish), the journal has changed its scope from being the strong voice of practice to making a valuable scientific contribution to contemporary urban studies. 

Aim
There are many great journals accepting papers on city-related research. How is UDI different from the others? We cherish papers devoted to the identification of urban phenomena or the analysis of the processes that shape cities, but we want them to be treated as a contribution to a more in-depth discussion of the conditions of urban development. Our aim is that every paper published in UDI should bring science closer to an understanding of urban development issues and look for effective tools to resolve them.  
 
Scope

The effectiveness of spatial planning tools
The description of a particular spatial plan is always very informative. From UDI’s perspective, it cannot reduce the content of a paper. We expect spatial planning papers to express clearly how they contribute to the discussion on changing paradigms in planning.    

Transportation and mobility
Even the most innovative solutions in transportation may not be a common solution for urban development issues everywhere. We expect a much wider look from authors at the complexity of mobility and the choices that people make in this area. We encourage them to ask questions about the importance of cultural factors in choosing means of transportation. We’re waiting for comparative studies but at the same time, we expect a strong awareness of why human spatial behaviour differs globally, regionally and locally. 
 
Urban regeneration vs gentrification
The presentation of different examples of regeneration projects is always interesting, selections of those that could work as good practice even more so. To publish a paper that deals with urban regeneration in UDI, authors always have to go further in looking for a greater understanding of what constitutes good practice in urban regeneration and how to make it more resilient to gentrification. We even encourage our authors to ask provocative questions: Is urban regeneration possible without gentrification? Should we treat gentrification only as a negative effect of other processes or solutions or maybe our authors could propose ways to control gentrification so that one can use the good that emanates from it?   
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Urban sprawl and hyper-urbanisation
The world of science is very aware of all the negative consequences arising from both these issues. UDI is a great place not only to present their further socio-economic outcomes but is also very open to studies devoted to the modelling of land use and population distribution changes using different planning tools.  
 
The areas of urban studies described above shouldn’t be recognised as any kind of limitation of content. We are open to publishing works from every area of urban studies. We are very proud that UDI is a place open to authors that represent different disciplines. Our strength is also our diversity of spatial scales. We encourage authors to work on selected cases. We believe that every place is worth being researched, but authors are expected to explain if a given case is being researched because its features are somehow representative of a larger group or because of its uniqueness. We want to be a journal that helps us understand the complexity of urban and urbanised space, which is an important development issue in itself. 

Karol Janas
​Editor-in-chief 

The project of transformation of the journal from Polish to English, its internationalization as well as preparation of its digital archive and implementation of its editorial policy concerning publication ethics has been finacially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland (grant No. 841/P-DUN/2016, project duration: 2016-2017).
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CURRENT ISSUE

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Recent papers

​​Marek Grochowicz
Sytuacja branży gastronomicznej w pierwszych miesiącach trwania pandemii COVID-19 na przykładzie Krakowa
​Situation of the gastronomy industry in the first months of the pandemic on the Krakow example
Ilona Morawska
Morfologia innowacji. Instytucje otoczenia przedsiębiorstw innowacyjnych jako element przestrzeni miejskiej na przykładzie Krakowa
Morphology of innovation. Elements of innovative environment in urban space
Paweł Pistelok, Piotr Salata-Kochanowski
Inwestycje w przestrzeni publicznej z inicjatywy mieszkańców
Investments in public space at the initiative of residents
Marta Ziółkowska, Katarzyna Kudłacz
Rewitalizacja w miastach tracących funkcje społeczno-gospodarcze – przegląd działań
Urban regeneration in the cities losing socio-economic functions – overview of activities
Ewelina Cienkosz
Demograficzny aspekt kurczenia się polskich miast
Demographic aspect of Polish shrinking cities
Katarzyna Spadło
Zapotrzebowanie na narzędzia urbanistyki operacyjnej do prowadzenia polityki rozwoju na obszarach rewitalizacji w Polsce
Need for operational planning tools to conduct development policy in the revitalisation areas in Poland
Paulina Basińska
Problemy mieszkaniowe w procesach rewitalizacji na przykładzie województw: opolskiego, świętokrzyskiego i warmińsko-mazurskiego
Residential problems in urban regeneration processes – cases of the Opolskie, Świętokrzyskie and Warmińsko-
-Mazurskie Voivodeships
Barbara Kluza, Krzysztof Kluza
Mieszkania komunalne – wyzwanie dla polityki mieszkaniowej państwa w świetle badań wybranych miast
Public housing - a challenge for the state policies based on a research in selected Polish cities
Antoni Matuszko, Barbara Zastawniak
Obliczanie zapotrzebowania na nowe tereny rozwojowe w toku sporządzania bilansu terenów – propozycje i wskazania
Calculation of demand for new development areas during the preparation of the land balance – proposals and indications
Piotr Ogórek, Mateusz Kulig
Analiza polityk przestrzennych jednostek samorządu terytorialnego w granicy ośrodka metropolitalnego na przykładzie Krakowa
Analysis of spatial policies of local government units at the border of a metropolitan center on the example of Krakow
Ilona Morawska, Magdalena Zalasińska
Zielona infrastruktura jako element skutecznego planowania przestrzennego
Green infrastructure as an element of effective spatial planning
Ewa Goras, Jacek Popiela
Transport w planowaniu miejscowym – problemy okiem praktyka
The rules of the land balance preparation for development purposes
prof. dr hab. Stanisław Belniak, prof. dr hab. Marek Bryx
Leszek 
(Wspomnienie o śp. Profesorze Leszku Kałkowskim)

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