GIS Implementation in Sustainable Urban Planning—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2026 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geospatial big data exploration; hydraulic fracturing; landscape epidemiology; remote sensing; ecological systems; geospatial modeling
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Interests: GIS; remote sensing; environment and ecology
Interests: urban and rural development; urban planning; urban transformation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are currently experiencing a geospatial technology revolution era. Geospatial technologies, especially the integration of Geographical Information (GI) science, GI system, and GI data science technologies, play critical roles in strategy development, decision-making, and society planning. As urban areas are complex systems that include the physical, population, human, and cultural environments, their development and sustainability require diverse spatial information from multiple dimensions.
Besides the populations, resources, and environments related to urban poverty and segmentation, urban development also faces serious challenges caused by climate change. Recently, extreme floods, drought, and heat have caused severe damage in different cities worldwide. Social and environmental (in)justice and equity issues have emerged as complicated crises in cities in both developing and developed regions. Geographical Information Systems (GISs) provide and explore vector data, raster data, and their integration and enable geospatial intelligent data mining and deep learning for smart decision-making and policy development to address the challenges from both inside and outside of cities. This makes cities more resistant to abnormal natural and human impacts.
This Special Issue aims to highlight novel and innovative GIS applications related to urban studies and urban planning to address the challenges currently faced by cities, as discussed above.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:
- Urban and regional planning;
- Land use and planning;
- Functional city zoning and planning;
- Urban infrastructure and analysis;
- Urban transportation and management;
- Urban forest and management;
- Urban hazards and analysis;
- Crime mapping and analysis;
- Solid waste mapping and management;
- Urban resilience and sustainability.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Qingmin Meng
Dr. Haibin Gu
Dr. Yongchun Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience and sustainability
- urban development and planning
- land use and planning
- zoning and mapping
- infrastructure analysis
- urban forest
- urban hazards
- crime analysis and mapping
- urban ecology
- urban environments
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