Advances in Computational Analytics for Urban Planning and Design: Methods, Technologies and Practices

Dear Colleagues,

Urban planning and design have played pivotal roles in urban growth and preparing cities for the future. The methods, technologies and practices utilized in urban planning and design evolve with innovations in computational analytics, such as Big Data, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Computational analytics allows for interactive analysis and disseminating reproducible workflows that weave together code, visuals and narratives. Computational analytics is used in urban projects to generate an intelligent, flexible and sharable process involving municipalities, planners, urban designers and developers. This Special Issue seeks to collect cutting-edge studies using computational analytics or related approaches to explore innovative insights into urban planning and design.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Novel computational methods and instruments to support urban planning and design generation;
• Parametric modeling and simulation of urban space or buildings;
• Geographical information analysis of various urban territory types, e.g., island cities, seaside cities, etc.;
• Estimation of urban energy and resource consumption for low-carbon development;
• Grammars, algorithms and scripts for design automation;
• Practices of urban projects using computational analytics.

Dr. Yingyi Zhang
Dr. Huan Zhang
Prof. Dr. Qunli Zhang
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-blind 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.