VOLUME 50

To celebrate the momentous occasion of Carolina Planning Journal’s 50th anniversary, we have TWO Calls for Papers this year. Written pieces will be showcased in the Journal’s 50th volume, with more details below.

(1) Design in Planning and the Environment
(2) Reflections: 50 Years of Carolina Planning

CALL FOR PAPERS #1:

DESIGN IN PLANNING AND THE ENVIRONMENT

“All that we do, almost all the time, is design, for design is basic to all human activity. The planning and patterning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end constitutes the design process.”

– Victor Papanek

At its core, design can be conceptualized as intentionally creating for a purpose. In doing so, we demonstrate and communicate our values and priorities.

The origins of the modern planning profession have its roots in public health, social work, and architecture. Primarily through architecture, design has always been an essential thread of planning. The disciplines of design and planning are intertwined through their overlapping impacts and focus on urban form and the environment, as well as their approaches for defining and addressing challenges. Analyzing planning and environment-related strategies through the lens of design makes space for both critique and creativity.

We invite students, faculty, researchers, and professionals from a broad range of disciplines to submit proposals that explore design and design frameworks in planning and the environment. We encourage creative approaches to the topic, communicated through written pieces, visual components, or a combination of the two. For more multimedia-based ideas, please consider our more flexible web-based format, the blog Angles (https://www.carolinaangles.com).

Example topics include, but are not restricted to:
  • URBAN DESIGN, and the analysis and (re)imagination of urban form, and how it shapes the experiences, uses, environment, and perceptions of a place.
  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN, analyzing or creating holistic, and perhaps circular, interactions between human and ecological systems.
  • SYSTEM AND INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN, highlighting networks, and how they affect the built environment and ecological systems; and how more iterations could function.
  • POLICY DESIGN, and how the impact of a policy compares to the challenge it set out to address, and how the policy could be better designed.
  • DESIGN THINKING IN PLANNING, by applying a design lens through problem framing, ideation, or other design techniques to a specific circumstance or challenge. Consider “how might we” style questions.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • By September 30, 2024, interested authors should submit a 2-page proposal. Proposals should include a title, a description of the proposed topic and its significance, a summary of the literature or landscape (if appropriate), and a preliminary list of references (not counted toward the page limit). Final papers typically do not exceed 3,000 words. Submit proposals and questions to  CarolinaPlanningJournal@gmail.com.
  • By October 21, 2024, Carolina Planning Journal will notify authors regarding their proposals. Authors will submit the <3,000-word draft by early January along with a short biography, an abstract, and any relevant graphics. Editors will work with authors on drafts over the winter.
  • The Journal will be published at the end of Spring 2025. Carolina Planning Journal reserves the right to edit articles accepted for publication, subject to the author’s approval, for length, style, and content considerations.

CALL FOR PAPERS #2:

REFLECTIONS: 50 YEARS OF CAROLINA PLANNING

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Carolina Planning Journal, the oldest student-run planning journal in the country, we invite students, faculty, alumni, researchers, and professionals to write a piece that reflects on or is in conversation with an article published in any of the previous 49 volumes of the Carolina Planning Journal. These reflections, paying homage to the journal’s history, will accompany the articles on Design in Planning and the Environment in the 50th volume.

Final reflection pieces should be between 1000-1500 words and may include graphics.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • By September 30, 2024, interested authors should submit a one-page proposal. Proposals should include the title of the chosen CPJ article referenced or reflected on and its volume, an abstract for the reflection piece, and a preliminary list of any additional references (not counted toward the page limit).
  • Submit proposals and questions to  CarolinaPlanningJournal@gmail.com.
  • By October 21, 2024, Carolina Planning Journal will notify authors regarding their proposals. Authors will submit the <1500-word draft by early January along with a short biography, an abstract, and any relevant graphics. Editors will work with authors on drafts over the winter.
  • The Journal will be published at the end of Spring 2025. Carolina Planning Journal reserves the right to edit articles accepted for publication, subject to the author’s approval, for length, style, and content considerations.