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.

Landscape and Urban Planning
The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of Landscape and Urban Planning:
 * Puay Yok Tan (National University of Singapore): June 2021–present
 * Peter H. Verburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): October 2018–May 2024
 * Joan I. Nassauer (University of Michigan): June 2014–2021
 * 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 2022 impact factor of 9.1.