Jurnal Wilayah dan Kota (JWK) was born in 2014. In the early years of publication, the Journal was an information medium for an internal discussion forum of the academic community in the Regional and City Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science  of Universitas Komputer Indonesia. JWK is a part of Indonesian Planning School Association (ASPI).

 The first period or pioneering period of the journal. During this period, the journal had printed ISSN (2355-7281) with the journal name Jurnal Wilayah dan Kota, managed by the Regional and City Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science of Universitas Komputer Indonesia.

The second period or the development period of the journal. In this period the Online ISSN was obtained (2655-9234) in early 2019 and the journal's writing name was slightly changed to Jurnal Wilayah dan Kota (JWK) , managed by the Regional and City Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science of Universitas Komputer Indonesia.  

The third period or period of strengthening of the journal is from 2017 until now, marked by the specific transformation of the design cover and the dimension of the journal from B5 (18,2 cm x 15,7 cm) to A4 (21,0 cm x 29,7 cm) as well as the new journal logo. it is also during this period the journal is published to the Online Journal System of Universitas Komputer Indonesia (OJS UNIKOM) with OJS web Address: https://ojs.unikom.ac.id/index.php/wilayahkota/index