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Submit an Abstract!
CATE Special Issue on Urban Vacant Land and Community Access

CATE is currently accepting submissions for an upcoming special issue, which is being published following a two-day event called “Turning Vacant Acres into Community Resources” that took place in April 2014 in New York City. One section of the special issue, called “Learning From Practice,” will showcase the real-life experiences of the practitioners who attended the symposium. Symposium participants will share their challenges, strategies, best practices, and success stories with the larger public interested in transforming vacant land for the common good.

This call for papers is intended to solicit contributions for a complementary section of the issue called “Findings From Research,” which will highlight original, empirical or theoretical research surrounding urban vacant land as a community resource. Research topics may be related, but not limited, to some of the symposium themes, including:

  • identifying opportunities and facilitating transformations of urban vacant land;
  • protecting community access to land;
  • developing models for predictable land tenure; and
  • establishing long term land management for community open spaces.

Interested contributors should first submit an abstract to CATE Editors. Use the “submit article” link on the CATE homepage (www.catejournal.org) and follow the instructions. For type of submission, choose “Special Topic Article: Urban Vacant Land and Community Access.”

Abstracts are due by December 1, 2014, with the following expected timeline for issue publication:

December 1, 2014 Abstracts due to journal
January 2015 Notification of manuscript acceptance
April 2015 Full draft due to journal
Summer 2015 Peer Reviews & Revisions
Autumn 2015 Articles published

Questions? Contact one of the Special Issue Guest Editors: