Resilience and Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Planning: Policies, Practices, Strategies and Visions, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Architecture (ISSN 2673-8945).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 2734
Special Issue Editors
Interests: disaster risk reduction and resilience; post-disaster housing; climate change adaptation; sustainable development; urbanization in the Asia-Pacific; community-based approaches
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Interests: community resilience; disaster management; incremental housing; post-disaster housing recovery and reconstruction; governance and city planning; informal settlements; migrants and refugees studies; women empowerment and resilience
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Interests: disaster risk reduction; disaster policy; architecture; heritage; innovation; disaster governance; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The production and development of the built environment relates strongly to the fields of architecture and urban planning. The built environment experiences severe impacts from disasters: these have become both more frequent and intense around the world due to climate change and other human actions such as urbanization, requiring research on architectural design and urban planning that contributes to resilience. On the other hand, the built environment itself causes environmental impacts through the consumption of energy, land-use change, and pressure on ecosystems, among a variety of other factors. Thus, research-informed policies, practices, and strategies relating to the built environment are necessary, requiring innovative and forward-thinking visions for a resilient and sustainable future. The built environment is multifaceted, with its manifestations determined by economic levels, political systems, demography, and natural resources. Therefore, contextual approaches and solutions in architecture and urban planning are essential to produce a diverse range of research findings. This Special Issue serves as a platform to assemble such recent and innovative research findings relating to resilience and sustainability in the fields of architecture and urban planning, and, through being open access, can disseminate this knowledge widely at a time when the world is facing critical challenges posed by disasters, climate change, and environmental transformation. The discussions in this Special Issue will focus on (but are not limited to) the following thematic areas:
- Hazard-resistant design and construction;
- Sustainable design and building materials;
- Building codes and regulations for disaster resilience and sustainability;
- Sustainable urban planning and development;
- Disaster-resilient and strategic land use planning;
- Infrastructure planning for disaster resilience;
- Post-disaster planning of resettlement and reconstruction;
- Post-disaster housing with ‘building back better’ strategies;
- Design and planning for marginal and vulnerable populations;
- Housing and infrastructure in informal settlements;
- Social, cultural, and political factors in architecture and urban planning for resilience and sustainability;
- Public, private, and not-for-profit investments and partnerships for disaster-resilient and sustainable architecture and urban planning.
Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed
Dr. Sandra Carrasco
Dr. Ranit Chatterjee
Dr. Thomas Cooper-Johnson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hazard-resistant construction
- post-disaster reconstruction
- sustainable design and planning
- urban planning for disaster resilience
- building codes
- planning regulations
- infrastructure planning
- housing design
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