Papers

Paper (including research papers, research designs, and reviews) seeks discussion on the structure and function of landscape and the law of relation between them, and the natural and cultural process and their relation in landscape, the relation between landscape as an integrated system and human social system, especially the service to human society provided by landscape (including producing and supporting service, environmental conditioning service, and cultural service in recreation, aesthetics, education, and spiritual belief).

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Views & Criticisms

Making comprehensive analysis and criticism related phenomenon and design works, inspiring and provoking thoughts on practice through topic-oriented discussion, dialogue and criticism from multiple perspectives and disciplines.

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Thematic Practices, Experiments & Processes

As an international platform for design and communication, most recent and quality landscape architecture works will be presented in this journal, showing exploration and experiment of landscape architecture in solving environmental issues happening in China and the world. Critical and innovative efforts and practice will be encouraged; while rejecting and avoiding obsolete, pedantic or inflexible works.

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Submission Approaches

1. English manuscripts need to be submitted via the ScholarOne system or sent to the email address (lafrontiers@foxmail.com). Please click here to download the ScholarOne Manuscripts Operating Instructions.

2. Please click here to download Article Copyright Statement and click here to download the timelines for peer review and editing process.

Important Changes

For manuscripts submitted in English

From Issue 1 of 2022, only the article title, abstract, keywords, author(s)’ information, highlights, and graphical abstract will be translated into Chinese, which will be presented following the English text.

Highlights and graphical abstract

To better spread research to more audience, LA Frontiers requires to provide highlights and graphical abstract for each article.

Highlights consist of a short collection of 3~5 bullet points that convey the innovations and core findings of the article. For articles of Papers, the practical conclusions should be reinforced; for articles of Thematic Practices, a summative theoretical framework of the practice is recommended.

A graphical abstract is a single, concise, pictorial, and visual summary of the main findings. This could either be the concluding figure from the article or a figure that is specially designed for the purpose, which captures the content of the article for readers at a single glance.

Notes and Declarations

1. We will inform the authors via telephone or email when we receive the articles, then the manuscripts will be first reviewed by editors and sent to peer review by the editorials and professionals in related fields.

2. Articles of projects sponsored or awarded by national and provincial, and ministerial level natural science foundation have publishing priority. Please provide the detailed name of the research fund(s) and the project number.

3. No multiple submissions within 4 months. If you have not received any feedback information after 4 months, you can do anything with your articles

4. We do not send back your manuscripts regardless of whether reception or rejection (please note if special requirement is applicable), please maintain the original copy of your articles.

5. Articles will be published in accordance with the scheduled plans, instead of following the sequence of submission.

6. Make sure of providing your detailed address, postal code, email address, telephone, mobile phone for contact.

7. Materials required for submission: text, figures, highlights, graphical abstract, Publishing Requirements (Papers/ Views & Criticisms/ Thematic Practices), and Article Copyright Statement.

Topics to Focus

To better serve the needs of researchers and practitioners, LA Frontiers proposes the following five topics to welcome more frontier research in the next few years from 2022.

1) Planning and Design for Climate Change Adaption and Biodiversity Conservation;

2) Territorial Spatial Planning and Ecological Restoration;

3) Urban Renewal and Rural Development;

4) Design Justice and Human Well-being;

5) Education, Design Research, and Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods.