Towards Equitable and Sustainable Urban Space: Introduction to Special Issue on “Urban Land and Sustainable Development”
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Background and Progress
3. Research Themes, Topics and Questions
- Patterns and trajectories of urban land use change
- Drivers of urban land expansion/sprawl
- Urban land use, metropolitan development and global change
- Urban land and economic/social/environmental sustainability
- Sustainable land use policies and practices
- Urban land use: patterns, restructuring, efficiency and equity
- Urban land expansion/sprawl: directions, structures, dynamics/trajectories, drivers
- Land development: globalization, development zones, mega projects, global(izing) cities, and “land grabs”, space/place/geography as agents
- Urban land use policy and governance; role of institutions
- Global-local: effects of globalization, land development and global change
- Urban land and economic/social/environmental equity and sustainability
- Sustainable land use and urban development policies and practices
- Methodology: ESDA, spatial regression, GWR, multi-agent based modeling, spatiotemporal dynamics, joint decision-making scenario analysis, etc.
- What are the nature, structure and trajectory of urban land expansion, sprawl and development in different contexts?
- What are the underlying mechanisms and the main drivers of urban land use change? What is sustainable urban land use in the context of increasing global urban population and climate change and how can it be achieved?
- What implications do the practices of urban land use have on sustainable development at the local, regional, and global scales?
- What are the governance and political processes?
- How to measure the roles of geography, contexts and institutions?
- How are urban land use and sustainability displayed in terms of convergence/divergence, dimension, scale and time?
- How to use developments in GIS and big data to advance our knowledge?
- What are the theoretical and policy implications of the research?
4. Content and Contribution of the Special Issue
4.1. Multi-Scalar Patterns and Mechanisms of Urban Land Expansion
4.2. New Dimensions of Urban Land Use and Urban Space
4.3. Effects of Urban Land Use Change
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Wei, Y.D. Towards Equitable and Sustainable Urban Space: Introduction to Special Issue on “Urban Land and Sustainable Development”. Sustainability 2016, 8, 804. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8080804
Wei YD. Towards Equitable and Sustainable Urban Space: Introduction to Special Issue on “Urban Land and Sustainable Development”. Sustainability. 2016; 8(8):804. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8080804
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei, Yehua Dennis. 2016. "Towards Equitable and Sustainable Urban Space: Introduction to Special Issue on “Urban Land and Sustainable Development”" Sustainability 8, no. 8: 804. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8080804
APA StyleWei, Y. D. (2016). Towards Equitable and Sustainable Urban Space: Introduction to Special Issue on “Urban Land and Sustainable Development”. Sustainability, 8(8), 804. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8080804