The Journal of Urban Academy is dedicated to advancing multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research within the conceptual framework of a “city’s academy,” focusing on urban areas where over 80% of the world’s population resides. The journal seeks to publish integrative studies that explore the architectural, administrative, economic, environmental, and engineering dimensions of cities, alongside literary and cultural analyses rooted in the language and identity of urban life. These contributions aim to transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines, fostering a comprehensive understanding of cities and promoting their development into more prosperous, sustainable, and livable environments—both in Turkey and globally.

By adopting a bi-monthly publication schedule (six issues per year), The Journal of Urban Academy aims to accelerate scholarly engagement with urban issues and provide timely, high-quality contributions to the institutional growth of cities, thereby enhancing their value within global civilization.

In this context:

• Prioritizes and promotes multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research.
• Recognizes the cultural and ethnographic identities of cities as integral to world heritage, aiming to cultivate public awareness of this significance.
• Seeks to strengthen the global recognition of urban culture as a vital component of shared human heritage.
• Emphasizes the preservation and promotion of prehistoric urban heritage, particularly in culturally rich regions such as Anatolia, and highlights the cultural diversity of world cities.
• Operates as an international, peer-reviewed (double-blind with at least three reviewers per article), open-access electronic journal published six times a year.

RECOMMENDATIONS ON QUALITY STANDARDS

Researchers engaged in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary fields—particularly in urbanization and urban studies—are strongly encouraged to utilize the ISO 37120 standard as a foundational framework in their work. ISO 37120 provides a globally recognized set of indicators for measuring city services and quality of life, promoting data-driven and systematic approaches to urban research.
In alignment with this standard, studies should be structured around the following 17 key categories: Economy; Education; Energy; Environment; Finance; Fire and Emergency Response; Governance; Health; Recreation; Safety; Shelter; Solid Waste; Telecommunications and Innovation; Transportation; Urban Planning; Wastewater; Water and Sanitation.
Incorporating these categories into research design ensures methodological rigor, enhances comparability across studies, and supports the development of sustainable, efficient, and resilient urban systems.

The Journal of Urban Academy welcomes submissions from a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary fields related to urbanization and urban development. These include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Political and Administrative Sciences: Public administration, local governments, political science, international relations, urban sociology, urban law, urban crime, gender studies, social psychology, building inspection, disaster and emergency management, site management, migration governance, social engineering
• Environmental Sciences: Environmental management and systems, environmental policy, environmental impact assessment (EIA), sustainability and circular economy, environmental challenges, climate change, environmental economics, and renewable energy
• Urban Planning and Design: Urban architecture, urban design, regional and city planning, urban transformation, conservation and regeneration, landscape planning and design, smart cities, resilient cities, geographic information systems (GIS), land use and management, urban geography, psychogeography, urban information systems, urban transportation, urban morphology, zoning law, settlement history, urban archaeology, and the conservation of cultural and natural heritage
• Architecture and Design: Building systems, building physics, construction materials and technologies, building biology, universal design, architectural survey and restoration, architectural history, interior and industrial design, smart buildings, building information modelling (BIM), construction management, adaptive reuse, digital design, virtual environments, and AI in architecture
• Engineering: Transportation and traffic engineering, coastal engineering, environmental engineering, intelligent transportation systems, geomatics, geotechnical and geological engineering, and disaster resilience
• Transport and Logistics: Transportation management, urban logistics, disaster logistics, maritime affairs, and international trade
• History and Society: History of civilization, political history, art history, archaeology, etymology, ethnography, migration studies, and warfare
• Economics and Business: Urban and regional economics, communication technologies, real estate valuation and management, human resources management, organizational psychology, governance, quality management systems, local government finance, macroeconomic relations, public budgeting, and war economy
• Health and Safety: Public health, hospital management, civil and national defense, emergency preparedness, security, and disaster management
• Tourism and Gastronomy: Tourism management, gastronomy, recreation management, tourism policies, health tourism, and faith tourism

Through the integration and interaction of these diverse disciplines, the journal seeks to publish comprehensive studies that advance knowledge on urban development, promote sustainable urban futures, and support evidence-based policy and practice.

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