title: Landscape and Urban Planning
text: # Landscape and Urban Planning
  
  Landscape and Urban Planning is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It covers landscape science (including landscape planning, design, and architecture), urban and regional planning, landscape and ecological engineering, landscape and urban ecology, and other practice-oriented fields. The editors-in-chief are Joan I. Nassauer (University of Michigan) and Peter H. Verburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
  
  ## History
  
  The journal was established in 1974 as Landscape Planning under founding editor-in-chief Arnold E. Weddle. In 1986 the journal was renamed and merged with the journal Urban Ecology. In 1988 the journal also incorporated Reclamation and Revegetation Research.
  
  ## Editors-in-chief
  
  ### Landscape and Urban Planning
  
  The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of Landscape and Urban Planning:
  
  * Joan I. Nassauer (University of Michigan): June 2014–present
  * Peter H. Verburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): October 2018 – present
  * Wei-Ning Xiang (Tongji University): November 2011–October 2018
  * Paul H. Gobster (United States Forest Service): October 2010–June 2014
  * Jon E. Rodiek (Texas A&M University): 1991–September 2010
  * Michael M. McCarthy (Texas A&M University): 1991–June 1992
  * Arnold E. Weddle (University of Sheffield): 1974–1990
  
  ### Urban Ecology
  
  The following persons have been editor-in-chief of Urban Ecology:
  
  * Amos Rapoport (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee): April 1981 – 1986
  * Royce LaNier (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee): 1975–March 1981
  
  ### Reclamation and Revegetation Research
  
  The following persons have been editor-in-chief of Reclamation and Revegetation Research:
  
  * Mohan K. Wali (University of North Dakota): 1982–1988
  * Edward M. Watkin (Mine Waste Reclamation, Guelph, Ontario): 1983–1988
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * BIOSIS Previews
  * Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  * Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  * Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  * GEOBASE
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  * Scopus
  * Urban Studies Abstracts
  * The Zoological Record
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 5.144.
  
  