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Author & reviewer support during COVID-19

Author & reviewer support during COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the ways in which Buildings & Cities operates during this disruptive period and we have decided to continue our activities with increased levels of understanding, support and flexibility.

Buildings & Cities is proactively taking measures to support our editors, reviewers and authors - no matter what individual or collective issues they are facing.

We will assist scholars wishing to publish during this difficult time.

We fully understand that people face a variety of difficult challenges at the moment and are respectful that some people may not be able to take part in the publishing process at the moment.

We equally understand that others will find it beneficial to engage with the wider academic community, especially as many meetings and conferences have been postponed or cancelled. In particular, the continuation of publishing activities may be crucial for many Early Career Researchers.

The Editors will do our best to provide additional support, guidance or time in order to enable those who wish to, to take part in whatever capacity they are able:

  • We will support those who cannot take part for a period of time in whatever ways we can and are appropriate. 
  • We will understand and respect the inevitable delays that will emerge during this period.

If you have a concern, please contact the editors via the 'Contact us' webpage or by email.

The Editorial Team respect and appreciate all of the extraordinary people we have the opportunity to work with and send you our best wishes as we navigate the coming months.



Latest Peer-Reviewed Journal Content

Journal Content

Youth engagement in urban living labs: tools, methods and pedagogies
N Charalambous, C Panayi, C Mady, T Augustinčić & D Berc

Co-creating urban transformation: a stakeholder analysis for Germany’s heat transition
P Heger, C Bieber, M Hendawy & A Shooshtari

Placemaking living lab: creating resilient social and spatial infrastructures
M Dodd, N Madabhushi & R Lees

Church pipe organs: historical tuning records as indoor environmental evidence
B Bingley, A Knight & Y Xing

A framework for 1.5°C-aligned GHG budgets in architecture
G Betti, I Spaar, D Bachmann, A Jerosch-Herold, E Kühner, R Yang, K Avhad & S Sinning

Net zero retrofit of the building stock [editorial]
D Godoy-Shimizu & P Steadman

Co-learning in living labs: nurturing civic agency and resilience
A Belfield

The importance of multi-roles and code-switching in living labs
H Noller & A Tarik

Researchers’ shifting roles in living labs for knowledge co-production
C-C Dobre & G Faldi

Increasing civic resilience in urban living labs: city authorities’ roles
E Alatalo, M Laine & M Kyrönviita

Co-curation as civic practice in community engagement
Z Li, M Sunikka-Blank, R Purohit & F Samuel

Preserving buildings: emission reductions from circular economy strategies in Austria
N Alaux, V Kulmer, J Vogel & A Passer

Urban living labs: relationality between institutions and local circularity
P Palo, M Adelfio, J Lundin & E Brandão

Living labs: epistemic modelling, temporariness and land value
J Clossick, T Khonsari & U Steven

Co-creating interventions to prevent mosquito-borne disease transmission in hospitals
O Sloan Wood, E Lupenza, D M Agnello, J B Knudsen, M Msellem, K L Schiøler & F Saleh

Circularity at the neighbourhood scale: co-creative living lab lessons
J Honsa, A Versele, T Van de Kerckhove & C Piccardo

Positive energy districts and energy communities: how living labs create value
E Malakhatka, O Shafqat, A Sandoff & L Thuvander

Built environment governance and professionalism: the end of laissez-faire (again)
S Foxell

Co-creating justice in housing energy transitions through energy living labs
D Ricci, C Leiwakabessy, S van Wieringen, P de Koning & T Konstantinou

HVAC characterisation of existing Canadian buildings for decarbonisation retrofit identification
J Adebisi & J J McArthur

Simulation and the building performance gap [editorial]
M Donn

Developing criteria for effective building-sector commitments in nationally determined contributions
P Graham, K McFarlane & M Taheri

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Latest Commentaries

COP30 Report

COP30 Report

Matti Kuittinen (Aalto University) reflects on his experience of attending the 2025 UN Conference of the Parties in Belém, Brazil. The roadmaps and commitments failed to deliver the objectives of the 2025 Paris Agreement. However, 2 countries - Japan and Senegal - announced they are creating roadmaps to decarbonise their buildings. An international group of government ministers put housing on the agenda - specifying the need for reduced carbon and energy use along with affordability, quality and climate resilience.

Building-Related Research: New Context, New Challenges

Raymond J. Cole (University of British Columbia) reflects on the key challenges raised in the 34 commissioned essays for Buildings & Cities 5th anniversary. Not only are key research issues identified, but the consequences of changing contexts for conducting research and tailoring its influence on society are highlighted as key areas of action.

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