Enhancing Biodiversity-Friendly Built Environments in Line with the New European Bauhaus
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 December 2025 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: eco-friendly built environment; architecture and culture; designing in line with nature
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: climate responsive urban design; nature-based solutions; revaluing built environment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The acknowledgement of urban biodiversity as a complex phenomenon is imperative for the development of a balanced urban ecosystem. Consequently, the overarching objective of this Special Issue is to enhance critical thinking about ecological and landscape resilience and environmental stability; to introduce air, water, and soil quality improvements; to minimize light and noise pollution; to provide habitat corridors, sustainable food systems, shelter, and nesting places; to enhance well-being; and to implement different eco-social awareness strategies in line with the New European Bauhaus (NEB).
This Special Issue centers on transdisciplinary research (in the form of original research articles and review papers) and design experiences (place- and problem-based design and education), and seeks articles that explore approaches from multiple perspectives including, but not limited to, the following:
- Re-naturing measures, nature and built environment protection, conservation and management, supporting biodiversity and reclaiming a critical position in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas and communities;
- Creating resilience at multiple scales and avoiding maladaptation in the journey to climate neutrality;
- Considering the values and principles of the NEB with a portfolio of participatory, gamified, citizen-science-based methods to engage neighborhoods inclusively;
- Implementing healthy principles such as therapeutic urban gardens and new and sustainable urban and peri-urban infrastructure enhancements;
- Presenting innovative solutions to transform the environments of tomorrow in a sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful way, thus enhancing biodiversity-friendly built environments.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Enhancing a biodiversity-friendly built environment in line with the values and principles of the New European Bauhaus;
- Climate-resilient regeneration and renaturing for, by, and with vulnerable neighborhoods in Europe;
- Revaluing urban planning and design for nature- and heritage-focused built environment protections;
- Resilient, inclusive, healthy, and green rural, coastal, and urban communities;
- Reshaping resilient urban landscapes through green, food-led urban and peri-urban infrastructure enhancement.
Contributors are encouraged to undertake holistic, multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research and design projects from various disciplinary fields, including architecture, urbanism, planning, geography, ecology, landscape architecture, and the applied arts. Contributions should aim to address creative, eco-friendly, and biodiversity-friendly research and practice solutions of different scopes and scales. Furthermore, they should seek to promote a nature-culture approach, emphasizing the linkages between ecological and social values and the functions of urban land.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Ana Nikezić
Dr. Sladjana Lazarevic
Dr. Marco Acri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- built environment
- biodiversity friendly
- regeneration and renaturing
- socio-ecological well-being
- resilient landscapes, urban planning, and design
- green rural, coastal, and urban communities
- New European Bauhaus
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