Urban Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 39292
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial analysis; environment; environmental impact assessment; land use planning; natural resource management; mapping; spatial statistics; sustainability; geoinformation; geographical analysis
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Interests: big data for spatial governance; GIScience; spatial analysis and modeling; machine learning
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Interests: GIS and spatial analysis and modeling; agent-based models and spatiotemporal simulation; cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing; complex adaptive spatial systems; land use and land cover change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the progress of urbanization in the world, urban spatial planning involves various processes, such as arranging urban functional zones, transportation systems, public spaces, and public resources. It has become a critical research topic because cities are becoming overpopulated and resources are becoming scarce. Moreover, because of continuous threats of extreme environmental events, it is important to evaluate their impacts on urban developments and potential policy implications. Meanwhile, uncontrolled urban development may increase government budgets and the likelihood of unnecessary losses (e.g., damage and loss of property, loss of lives, economic recession, or environmental pollution). Therefore, urban spatial planning has become significant as it plays an important role in guiding urban systems to develop in a direction that improves human welfare and promotes global sustainability. This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in Urban Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development. We gather papers that explore new theories, cutting-edge methodologies, and intriguing case studies regarding the understanding, planning, modeling, and optimization of urban landscapes, especially the social-ecological systems that underpin sustainable urban development. Policy-related research is welcomed to study the complexity of various decision-making processes of urban planning and development from a broad spectrum of disciplines. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: geovisualization and geovisual analytics for understanding urban systems; innovative algorithms for urban spatial planning and design; address challenges in big data-driven spatial urban planning; green cities through urban planning; new approaches or improvements of existing urban modeling approaches; sustainability in contemporary cities; urban landscape and ecological system; urban dynamics and its environmental repercussions; spatiotemporal analytics of urban social-ecological systems; new approaches to identify patterns of urban landscape changes; modeling social-ecological processes influencing urban development; and solutions for disentangling urban-rural links.
Dr. Jianxin Yang
Dr. Minrui Zheng
Dr. Wenwu Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban planning
- sustainable development
- landscape ecology
- spatiotemporal modeling
- social-ecological systems
- land use and land cover change
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