Healthy and Resilient Cities: Urban Spatial Planning, Design and Governance
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 1876
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban governance; spatial planning; resilience; digital transformation; urban creativity
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Interests: digital urban development; spatial planning; smart cities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With a greater concentration of people and economic activities in urban areas, cities are playing an increasingly important role in the response to current challenges and threats to all human beings, such as epidemics, climate change, economic crisis, poverty and other disruptive shocks. This raises an urgent research agenda for scholars around the world to search for new knowledge, approaches and solutions in order to create healthy and resilient environments (physically and socially) for a growing number of urban inhabitants. However, to develop healthy and resilient cities, it requires integrated thinking and approaches from a broad range of disciplines, e.g., urban planning and design, geography, public-health administration, environmental and ecological studies, economics and sociology. Concerning, in particular, the significant impacts of COVID-19 over the past few years, the former model of urban development and governance is in great need of revisiting, through a multi-sectoral strategy. Therefore, these studies focusing on new epistemology and concepts (e.g., healthy cities, resilient cities, age-friendly cities, child-friendly cities, smart cities, green cities, low-carbon cities, etc.), and the empirical research in the fields of environmental behavior, social equality and sustainability (within, in particular, the urban context), as well as the studies providing novel methods and technologies in spatial planning, urban design, assessment of ecological vulnerability and resilience, that could be helpful to promote urban security and wellbeing, are especially welcome to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Jinliao He
Dr. Guangliang Xi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- healthy cities
- resilient cities
- smart cities
- environmental behavior
- spatial planning
- urban design
- social equality
- urban governance
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