Smart City and Architectural Design, Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid and sometimes unexpected socio-demographic, cultural, economic, technological, and environmental transformations, alongside the growth in global population and of urban complex agglomerations (characterized by a multilayer structure of elements and interactions), lead to profound changes in human life: our society is facing many challenges that need citizens, stakeholders, governments, and the urban environment to be smart, resilient, and flexible. In such a varied and dynamic context, “smart cities” can reach their social, economic, technological, environmental, or cultural goals using advanced knowledge information, communication patterns, and digital data strategies, tools, and techniques, considering the heterogeneity of data to be a strength and a driving force for the enhancement and development of  “smartness”. The concept of the “smart city” comes with interesting challenges and opportunities, even in contexts with radically different socio-environmental characteristics: with appropriate consistency, the development of the “”smartness“” concept can positively impact both the historic centers of consolidated cities and vulnerable communities in developing countries.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) with theoretical and methodological advances and operational and applied studies to provide insights into the broad concept of smart cities in relation to urban and spatial planning, urban and architectural design, innovative technologies, and policies that can improve future approaches to the issue of “smartness”, sustainability, and flexibility at the local (building and block) and urban scale.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Urban sustainability;
• Urban resilience;
• Urban regeneration;
• Urban flexibility;
• Healthy cities;
• Smart solutions for climate change in the urban environment;
• Smart cities;
• Smart people and smart citizens;
• Urban design;
• Building efficiency;
• Smart energy management;
• Energy Community;
• Vulnerable communities;
• Urban Vulnerabilities.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Elisabetta Maria Venco
Dr. Chiara Garau
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Giorgi
Guest Editors

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• urban and spatial planning policies
• sustainable and smart planning
• urban life quality
• urban environment
• digital transition
• smart cities

• Smart City and Architectural Design in Land (5 articles)