The forthcoming special issue of pnd – rethinking planning is dedicated to urban housing instruments. It examines the underlying objectives and looks at their applications and (un)intended effects. There is a wide range of instruments, but at the same time they are interrelated in ways that can be synergistic or contradictory or reveal gaps in their interaction. Academic and practitioner perspectives are therefore needed to cover the scope from analysis to implementation and to shed light on apparent conditions of success and failure.

Interested authors are invited to please submit an abstract with 1500 - 2000 characters (including spaces) by 9^th May 2025 to neu-denken@pt.rwth-aachen.de.