urbe

The first number of the Brazilian Journal of Urban Management, called urbe, is OUT NOW!

It is available for free at: www.pucpr.br/urbe

Authough it's a Brazilian journal, it accepts papers from different countries in 4 languages (Portugues, Spanish, English and French), as long as the subjects fit to the journal's agenda on urban issues and urban studies.

Urbe is edit by me and other two colleagues, Tomas Moreira (PUCPR) and Christian Silva (UTFPR).

One of the main attributes of urbe is to be open to scholars and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, including urban and regional planning, urban management, architecture and urbanism, administration, public policy, human geography, environmental engineering, political science, social communication, law, economics, civil engineering, philosophy, geology, informatics, information systems, social service, sociology, and tourism, among others.

Urbe publishes theoretical as well as empirical original studies of issues that directly or indirectly affect the spatial organization conditions of cities and regions in developing and developed countries.

The journal is a publication of the Postgraduate Program in Urban Management (PPGTU) at Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), and is published twice a year.

Thus, the editorial approach of urbe prioritizes the interdisciplinary debate on urban management using research outcomes as well as theoretical and empirical discussions from diverse thematic areas, such as:

- Urban and regional development;

- Urban economy;

- Urban epistemology;

- Natural resources management;

- Public management;

- Governance and urban networks;

- Electronic governance;

- Urban mobility;

- Urban planning;

- Municipal strategic planning;

- Public policy;

- Information systems;

- Urban and regional sustainability;

- Urban law;

- Urban sociology;

- Urban geography;

- Perception and urban landscape;

- Urban design.

Publisher

Editora Universitária Champagnat

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná

Rua Imaculada Conceição,1155-Prado Velho

CEP 80215-901-Cx. Postal 16.210

Tel.: +55 (41) 3271-1577 – FAX: +55 (41) 3271-1770

Curitiba - Paraná - Brazil

E-mail: editora.champagnat@pucpr.br

Editorial Board

Adrian Atkinson (TU Berlin)

Alex Abiko (Poli-USP)

Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro (IPPUR-UFRJ)

Bernard Declève (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Brasilmar Nunes (SOC/UNB)

Eduardo José Viola (UNB)

Ermínia Maricato (FAU-USP)

Jefferson Andronio Ramundo Staduto (UNIOESTE)

José Antonio Pinho (UFBA)

Ladislau Dowbor (PUCSP)

Marco A. Arbage Lobo (UNAMA)

Martin Smolka (Lincoln Institute)

Nabil Georges Bonduki (FAU-USP)

Pedro Jacobi (USP - PROCAM)

Raquel Rolnik (FAU-USP)

Richard Morin (Université du Québec á Montréal)

Stephan Tomerius (University of Applied Sciences Trier)

Stephen Graham (Durham University)

Susana Finquelievich (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Tomás Lapa (UFPE)

Consulting Board

Alessandro Aurigi (Newcastle University)

Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado (TU Delft)

Azael Rangel Camargo (EESC-USP)

Bernardo Arantes do Nascimento Teixeira (UFSCar)

Carlos Hardt (PUCPR)

Carlos Leite (Universidade Mackenzie)

Carlos Mello Garcias (PUCPR)

Carlos Monteiro de Andrade (EESC-USP)

Carlos Nassi (COOPE-UFRJ)

Clovis Ultramari (PUCPR)

Daniel Joseph Hogan (UNICAMP)

Deborah peel (Liverpool University)

Dominique Boullier (Université Rennes II)

Emmanuel Antonio dos Santos (ITA)

Eneida Maria Souza Mendonça (Universidade Federal de Vitória)

Eulalia Portela (EESC-USP)

Fábio Duarte (PUCPR)

Francisco Comaru (UFABC)

Guillermo Foladori (UFPR)

Jandir Ferreira de Lima (UNIOESTE)

João Sette Whitaker Ferreira (FAU-USP)

José Marcos Pinto da Cunha (UNICAMP)

Keneth Kruckemeyer (MIT)

Luiz Eduardo Aragon Vaca (UFPA)

Maria Sylvia M. Saes (USP)

Mariana Fix (FACAM, Campinas)

Mauricio Hernandez-Bonilla (Universidad Veracruzana)

Michael Peterek (Universidade de Frankfurt)

Miroslawa Czerny (University of Warsaw)

Nelson Baltrusis (Universidade Católica de Salvador)

Nelson Saule Jr (PUCSP)

Oklinger Mantovaneli Jr (FURB)

Peter Brand (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Ricardo Siloto da Silva (UFSCar)

Rosana Aparecida Baeninger (UNICAMP)

Rubén Pesci (FLACAM)

Samira Kauchakje (PUCPR)

Tamara Cohen Egler (IPPUR-UFRJ)

Victor Brunfaut (ISACF, La Cambre)