Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development, Second Edition
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 2174
Special Issue Editors
Interests: big data and smart city; housing and community planning; travel behaviour; urban development and spatial planning
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Interests: urban and rural development research and planning; housing and community development planning; urban renewal and social space
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Interests: spatial planning; urban analysis; optimization of urban space; spatiotemporal analysis; fuzzy set theory; changes in land use and land cover
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the Special Issue "Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development", we are happy to announce the opening of a second volume.
The buzzword "Sustainable development" has exerted significant impacts on urban planning, housing, land development and urban policy across the world. A common assumption made by researchers and authorities is that planning improves the sustainability of an area. Accordingly, various sustainable planning strategies have been adopted to promote high-quality urban and land development. Research in this area aims to unveil the sustainable implications of urban and land planning in a more holistic manner, thus shedding light on the dynamic relationships between different domains of planning and sustainability issues across the world.
For this Special Issue, we invite contributions that link planning strategies to sustainable urban and land development, either through empirical research or conceptual/theoretical works, examining any key processes, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Sustainable planning;
- Urban and land development;
- Smart city;
- Urban vibrancy;
- Urban resilience;
- Social integration;
- Urban green space;
- Land spatial pattern.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Zongcai Wei
Prof. Dr. Yuting Liu
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Biłozor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable urban development
- urban renewal
- urban commercial space
- social sustainability
- urban green space
- urban resilience
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