Sustainability and Engineering Design

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce a Topical Collection on “Sustainability and Engineering Design” of the journal Sustainability, which we believe will make great contributions to this research area.

Designing future cities, the infrastructure that underpins them, and their components requires a foresight-based, holistic, truly crossdisciplinarity approach. Systems thinking sits at the heart of design and brings together insights from a spectrum of disciplines, including urban planning, big data analysis and AI, materials (responsive, bio-inspired, and bio-mediated), social sciences and psychology, environmental sciences, geography, hydrogeology, and geo-environmental engineering, mechatronics, computer systems, and renewable energies disciplines. Cities are designed to be adaptable to the changing environment, population and demography, and cultural and socioeconomic trends; they are designed to be citizen-centric and to minimize cascading system failure in the times of natural and anthropogenic hazards. 

We look forward to receiving your submissions to this Topical Collection on, but not limited to, the above topics.

Prof. Dr. Hassan Abdalla
Dr. Arya Assadi Langroudi
Collection Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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