Urban Housing and Real Estate in Transition
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editors
Interests: housing financialization; housing policy; housing segregation; social equity; migration and housing; residential satisfaction; private rental sector; comparative housing systems; urban sociology; political economy of housing
Interests: urban renewal; community participation; social equity; neighborhood regeneration; sustainable urban development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: urban renewal; built environment management; energy retrofit; neighborhood regeneration; sustainable urban development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: housing choice behavior; high skilled migration; sustainable development and land characteristics; real estate taxation; urban housing resilience under climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban real estate markets and housing systems are undergoing fundamental restructuring as cities navigate competing pressures from financialization, demographic shifts, climate adaptation, and technological innovation. These transformations reshape urban governance, alter stakeholder power dynamics, and produce differentiated outcomes for housing affordability, spatial equity, and community well-being. This Special Issue seeks to advance critical understanding of how political–economic forces, policy interventions, and built environment characteristics interact to influence urban development trajectories and residential experiences.
We invite contributions that integrate perspectives from geography, sociology, planning, and economics to examine real estate and housing as contested terrains of urban studies. Of particular interest are studies employing innovative methodologies to capture the complexity of stakeholder interactions, policy outcomes, and lived experiences in evolving urban contexts.
Topics of interst include the following:
- Real estate financialization and housing affordability dynamics;
- Political economy of urban development and housing policy;
- Built environment impacts on health, well-being, and social equity;
- Stakeholder interactions in urban planning and development processes;
- Climate adaptation strategies and their socio-economic implications;
- Migration, demographic change, and urban housing market responses;
- Technological innovation in urban governance and real estate practices;
- Comparative analysis of urban development models and policy transfer.
Dr. Bo Li
Dr. Xinyue Fu
Dr. Ruopeng Huang
Dr. Chi Jin
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- real estate markets
- urban renewal
- housing financialization
- urban governance
- climate adaptation
- migration and mobility
- built environment
- housing affordability
- smart buildings
- energy transition
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