Community-Based Land Dynamics in Urban Transformation: Perceptions, Reconfigurations, and Sustainable Land-Use Strategies
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 548
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Interests: landscape architecture; geo-environmental studies; sustainable development; environment and land-based education
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Interests: public health; urban green space; cultural heritage
Interests: landscape architecture planning and design; landscape visual assessment; heritage urban landscapes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Against the backdrop of rapid global urbanization, urban land transformation has become an irreversible trend. Communities, as fundamental units of cities, are embedded within complex land systems that integrate spatial, social, and ecological dimensions. Urban transformation reshapes land-use patterns, alters landscape multifunctionality, and redefines human–land relationships, posing critical challenges to sustainable development. Understanding how community-based land use changes in the context of urban transformation, how land governance contributes to spatial reconfiguration, and how to balance land tenure security with ecological resilience is critical to advancing land systems science and policy. This Special Issue seeks interdisciplinary contributions that bridge land-use transitions, community-based land management, and socio-ecological systems in urban contexts. We emphasize studies that address the intersection of land dynamics with human perceptions, technological innovations, and governance frameworks.
High-quality original research (qualitative and quantitative) is welcome on the following topics, including but not limited to:
- Perceptions of urban land transformation and its socio-cultural impacts;
- Equity in land access and perceived land tenure security;
- Spatial restructuring of community land systems (e.g., brownfield regeneration, green infrastructure);
- Cultural memory and heritage in landscape evolution;
- Landscape and land fragmentation and its effects on social networks;
- Adaptive reuse of industrial land for community resilience;
- Low-carbon land-use planning and eco-community design;
- Land governance models for participatory decision-making;
- Integrating ecosystem services into land-use optimization (e.g., urban wetlands, green corridors);
- AI and big data for land use change modeling;
- Remote sensing applications in community land monitoring.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Katsunori Furuya
Dr. Xin-Chen Hong
Dr. Jing Xie
Dr. Jiaying Shi
Dr. Shixian Luo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- perception of land-use changes
- land-use reconfiguration in urban communities
- sustainable land management strategies
- technological innovations in land system analysis
- qualitative and quantitative research
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