Urban and Peri-Urban Environment: Searching for Sustainable Planning, Design and Management Solutions
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 March 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: visual resource management; landscape assessment; cultural ecosystem services; wetland assessment
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Interests: urban ecology; urban biodiversity and design; landscape architecture; garden history; garden restoration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Landscape architecture and design research is becoming increasingly popular due to rapid urbanization and its impacts on the urban and peri-urban environment. Constant mitigation and sprawl of urban areas is an imperative and it is important to know which natural and designed landscapes are most suitable and can be used as an inspiration for sustainable solutions. Such knowledge is crucial to achieving sustainable urbanization while maintaining and improving urban and peri-urban areas as well as providing a healthy and biodiverse environment for urban residents.
Thus, innovative research that is supported by computational approaches, field studies and spatial analysis to expand the knowledge on sustainable urbanization is in high demand. In this Special issue, we invite researchers to share their state-of-the-art work on landscape architecture and design combined with sustainable maintenance and management solutions, and other research fields such as urban blocks, urban green-blue infrastructure, public places, and architectural and design amenities related to urban and peri-urban environmental engineering to better cope with the urbanization phenomenon.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about sustainable urban and periurban landscape planning, design and management.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
Peri-urban landscape restoration;
Sustainable architecture, design and, management of open and public spaces;
Design and management of green and blue urban infrastructure spaces;
Sustainable urban design;
Planning and maintenance of peri-urban areas; and
Enhancement of environment and human health and psychological benefits.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Richard Smardon
Prof. Dr. Maria Ignatieva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- planning
- landscape design
- management
- urban
- peri-urban
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