About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Revista Científica de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, AU, is an open-access electronic publication dedicated to disseminating original research findings that encompass territorial, urban, and architectural scales, and their relationships with design and the visual arts, within the fields of theory and history, planning, design, conservation, construction technologies, management, and education, among others.
AU pays special attention to issues related to habitat, sustainability, the built environment, and the restoration of heritage buildings, particularly in developing countries, and is also interested in topics related to the training of professionals in architecture, urban planning, and design.
AU guarantees the quality of its publications through a rigorous selection process of submitted manuscripts, which are subjected to a peer review process. AU has an editorial board composed of prominent academics from various institutions and countries, and a panel of reviewers of international standing in their respective fields.
AU is a publication of the Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae, part of the Ministerio de Educación Superior de Cuba (MES). It is registered with the National Registry of Serial Publications (RNPS 2064) and certified by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente de Cuba (CITMA).
AU is the successor to the journal published in print format between 1980 and 2007 (ISSN 0258-591X), which, since 2001, has been published in digital format (ISSN 1815-5898). Starting in January 2025, the journal adopted a continuous publication model, without numbered issues, replacing the previous practice of publishing three issues per year, which had been in effect until volume 45, corresponding to 2024.
Arquitectura y Urbanismo has three sections: Con Criterio (With Criteria), Del Reino de este Mundo (From the Kingdom of this World), and Academics.
AU provides immediate, open access to all its content.
This journal does not charge any monetary fees for submission, review, processing, evaluation, publication, or downloading of articles (APCs, article processing charges) to authors and/or institutions.
Subjects:
AU journal publishes original research results spanning territorial, urban, and architectural scales, and their relationships with design and the visual arts, within the fields of theory and history, planning, design, conservation, construction technologies, management, and training, among others.
AU pays special attention to issues of habitat, sustainability, the built environment, and the restoration of built heritage, particularly in developing countries, and is also interested in issues related to the training of professionals in architecture, urban planning, and design.
Audience:
Architects, urban planners, designers, art historians, whether researchers, teachers and professionals in general, who work in any of the branches of architecture, urban planning and other related specialties.
Creative Commons License:
All content in the journal Arquitectura y Urbanismo is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. This must be expressly stated where applicable.
Continuous Publication by Volume:
Starting in 2025, the journal adopted the Continuous Publication by Volume format, identified in the Volume title as Continuous Publication. This allows for faster visibility of articles, as each one will be published upon completion of the editorial process.
Objective:
To offer a space for the communication and sharing of original research and project results that span territorial, urban, and architectural scales, and their relationships with design and the visual arts, within the fields of theory and history, planning, design, conservation, construction technologies, management, and education, among others.
Mission:
To contribute to the development of scientific and technical knowledge in the thematic areas it covers, through the dissemination of results of excellence derived from research and projects aimed at solving relevant and current problems in the theory and practice of the profession, for the benefit of society and the built environment.
Vision:
AU's vision is to establish itself as a leading publication within its geographic area through sustained improvement in the quality of its editorial process.
Online Submissions:
The article must be sent to the Editorial Board via email: revistaau@tesla.cujae.edu.cu
revistaarquitecturayurbanismo@gmail.com
The journal is currently preparing the OJS system for this process.
The author in charge of correspondence must submit, along with the article, the Cover Letter, which includes the Authors' Contribution Statement, using the CRediT Taxonomy.
All articles must comply with the Guidelines for authors and be submitted using the journal's Template.
On average, the editorial process from the receipt of an article to its publication can vary between four and fifteen weeks.
Plagiarism detection policy
This journal penalizes plagiarism and fraudulent data in documents, publishing the same article in more than one journal, copying and using textual information from any document, using data, images, and other resources without the authorization of all the natural or legal authors of the work, using information that has not been consulted from the original source by some of the authors of the document, modifying or distorting the meaning and context of information contained in other works, as well as any other inappropriate use that alters the integrity of the information.
To detect plagiarism, the journal's editors and referees use the free software Plagiarisma. It can detect plagiarism in more than 190 languages, uses different search engines, and supports a large number of document extensions.
