Sustainable Urban Development and Real Estate Analysis
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: 10 February 2026 | Viewed by 1354
Special Issue Editors
Interests: strategic public sector finance; stranded assets; knowledge exchange
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Sustainable Urban Development and Real Estate Analysis”, aims to synthesize research on innovative theories, approaches, or practices related to sustainable urban development and real estate analysis. The urban environment has long been held as a key factor in achieving sustainability objectives through reducing the carbon emissions of buildings and promoting the more efficient and fair use of space and place. However, there is considerable ambiguity around the notion of sustainability in urban development, with regular tension between notions of environmental and financial sustainability. This tension has been intensified recently with uncertainty surrounding the long-term viability of large sections of the built environment—for example, in the face of increasing numbers of people working from home and electing to purchase products from the internet. In turn, this has led to questions regarding the configuration and future use of existing buildings and how those invested in this situation can consider it from the point of view of investment profiling, valuation, property management, leasing, and development appraisal. Original theoretical and experimental work, case studies, and comprehensive review papers are invited to examine the situation further.
Relevant topics to this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following subjects:
- Incorporating sustainability in new urban development.
- Adaptation and adaptive re-use of existing buildings and locations.
- Sustainable retrofit of existing buildings.
- New modes of working, for example hybrid working and live-work models and the impact on real estate management and investment.
- Workspace transition strategies.
- Alternative methods and perspectives for examining and analysing the built environment and real estate processes.
- Future market trends and risk analysis.
- Advanced property technology, AI incorporation and blockchain based transactions.
- Health and well-being in the built environment.
Dr. Kevin Muldoon-Smith
Dr. Leo Moreton
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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.
Keywords
- real estate sustainability
- real estate innovation
- real estate adaptation
- real estate transition strategies
- real estate retrofit
- real estate technology
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