Urban Landscapes for Well-Being: Designing Resilient Spaces for Healthier Communities
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 8 September 2025 | Viewed by 343
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial planning; land use/cover change; ecological conservation and restoration
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Interests: ecological and environmental effects of urbanization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban residents’ health and well-being are facing unprecedented shocks and challenges due to issues including high-density living environments, ecological issues, and insufficient public spaces, which are being caused by rapid global urbanization. Urban planning and landscape design are seen as crucial strategies in addressing these problems. Therefore, understanding how urban planning and landscape design can enhance community health and resilience and subsequently improve urban residents’ well-being is essential in sustainable urban development. Our goal in launching this Special Issue is to showcase new scientific papers exploring the mechanisms behind how urban landscapes influence human well-being and how effectively they can be harnessed. We invite submissions including, but not limited to, original empirical studies and scholarly reviews on conceptual and methodological advances and on interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research paradigms.
For this Special Issue, we welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Multi-functional urban space evolution and its effects;
- Impacts of urban landscapes on residents’ well-being;
- Innovative methods for resilient urban planning and landscape design.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Jie Zeng
Dr. Wanxu Chen
Prof. Dr. Wei Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilient cities
- urban resilience
- urban landscapes
- human well-being
- ecosystem services
- information services
- spatial governance
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