About
Focus and Scope
Cities People Places journal is the official journal associated with the ‘Cities People & Places’ (ICCPP) Annual Conference being organized by the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Two ICCPP conferences were held in Colombo in 2013 and 2014 and these have established the event as a credible academic endeavor that can bring together academics and practitioners in the fields of urban design, architecture and allied arts. By generating a mass and diversity of knowledge on urban spaces, people and places in cities, the conference is contributing to a greater understanding of cities and urban settlement systems in the modern world. This publication consolidates the development of this knowledge to be made available to a wider spectrum of academics and practitioners.
The aims of the journal are to:
- Promote scholarly activities of the Sri Lankan academics engaged in urban research.
- Promote a multi-disciplinary understanding of cities and urban spaces, by encouraging academic papers by architects, engineers, planners, geographers, ethnographers, psychologists and many others and by applying multi-disciplinary perspectives.
- Promote the development of a holistic view of the city by focusing upon people and places.
- Act as a catalyst for urban research.
- Act as a catalyst for people oriented urban policy making particularly in the Asian region.
All articles published in the journal are deposited with Crossref
Publication Frequency
Cities, People, Places publishes two issues per volume; to be published in January and July.
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.
Archiving Policy
This journal is available for LOCKSS harvesting, to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. See LOCKSS harvesting start page.