Sustainable Urban Transformation: Buildings, Policy and Technology
A Special Issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309) belonging to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 192
Editors
Interests: territorial space optimization; carbon peaking; carbon neutrality; low-carbon transition of land use
Interests: sustainable land use and climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rapid urbanization, growing energy demand and the escalating impacts of climate change are placing unprecedented pressure on cities to pursue more sustainable and low-carbon development pathways. Buildings are central to this transition, as they represent a major share of urban energy consumption and carbon emissions and are closely interconnected with land use, urban form, infrastructure and human activities. Despite advances in energy efficiency, renewable energy and low-carbon technologies, achieving meaningful urban decarbonization requires more than isolated technological solutions. Integrated approaches that combine technological innovation with effective policies, spatial planning, land-use strategies and evidence-based decision-making are increasingly essential.
This Special Issue aims to advance interdisciplinary research on pathways toward energy-efficient, low-carbon and sustainable cities. It welcomes theoretical, empirical and methodological studies addressing building energy performance, urban energy consumption, carbon emissions and mitigation, low-carbon technologies, land-use and spatial planning, policy instruments and other emerging approaches that contribute to sustainable transformation of the built environment.
Dr. Shuang Gao
Dr. Li'na Liu
Dr. Yuqu Wang
Dr. Jieyu Wang
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- sustainable urban transformation
- building energy efficiency
- urban energy consumption
- low-carbon development
- carbon emissions and mitigation
- low-carbon technologies
- urban and land-use planning
- climate and energy policy
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