Big Data-Driven Urban Spatial Perception
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational modeling; big data and AI for planning; innovation geography; low-carbon planning
Interests: digital urban development; spatial planning; smart cities
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Interests: big data and urban planning; smart city planning
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Interests: urban informatics; urban science; GIScience; geospatial data science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, rapid global urbanization has exacerbated critical urban challenges, including inefficient governance, resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and traffic congestion. Urban spatial perception, which characterizes urban spatial features based on human behavioral patterns, is pivotal for deciphering urban dynamics, optimizing public resource allocation, and enhancing spatial quality. Big data offers transformative potential by integrating multi-source information to record, in real time, diverse population movements, public sentiment in urban spaces, and environmental conditions. This capability presents a ripe opportunity to shift urban spatial perception from experience-driven to data-driven paradigms. Furthermore, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology can generate richer and more accurate insights into travel patterns, urban mobility and transportation, spatial vitality and quality, resource utilization efficiency, crime prediction, and public health and urban environments. These technologies also facilitate deeper mechanistic explanations of the underlying causes and interactions shaping urban systems.
The goal of this Special Issue is to invite academics and practitioners to submit original research articles and reviews to provide insights on big data-driven urban spatial perception.
For this Special Issue, we invite you to submit original research articles and reviews to provide insights on big data and urban land use planning. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Urban mobility and transportation;
- Human mobility and urban activity patterns;
- Urban spatial perception and city image;
- Sentiment analysis in urban spaces;
- Urban safety and crime prediction;
- Public health and urban environments.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Helin Liu
Dr. Guangliang Xi
Prof. Dr. Feng Zhen
Dr. Mingshu Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban mobility and transportation
- human mobility and urban activity patterns
- urban spatial perception and city image
- sentiment analysis in urban spaces
- urban safety and crime prediction
- public health and urban environments
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