Sustainable Urban Built Environment: Evaluating and Optimization of Morphological and Temporal Dimensions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3191
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental psychology and behavior; place-making; livable community; urban design
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: urban social sensing; data mining of human activities in geographical space; human movement in urban space
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Interests: measurement and mechanism of spatiotemporal behavior; urban heritage; computational design and environmental behavior simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid urbanization, the process of increasing urban populations, and the growth of cities, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and it is estimated that by 2050, two-thirds of the global population will reside in cities. Urbanization brings both opportunities and challenges, such as access to resources, employment opportunities, and improved infrastructure, but also overcrowding, poverty, and environmental problems. The current status of urbanization varies widely between countries and regions. Despite these differences, urbanization continues to shape the world and impact the lives of billions of people. A well-designed urban built environment can improve access to resources, support economic growth, enhance public health and safety, and create a sense of community and identity. It is important to consider the impacts of urban built environments to ensure that cities are developed in a way that is equitable, sustainable, and livable for all, as urban built environment can significantly affect the quality of life of city residents. With the development of mobile internet, IoTs, and big data, we have increasing opportunities to better understand the physical and socioeconomic environment of urban regions.
Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on investigating the interdisciplinary phenomena of the urban built environment, and how to sense, evaluate, and optimize urban built environment for sustainable planning and development. This Special Issue also offers a platform to share the latest accomplishments and research findings on issues of human–place interaction, especially those with profound theoretical, methodological, and practical implications and those focusing on new theories, data, variables, models, sites, and implications, contributing to the literature in environmental psychology, culture, urban design, tourism, policy making, and related events.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Advanced tools and knowledge related to understand urban BEs;
- Restorative BEs factors and outcomes;
- Bridging multi-scale analysis and design among cities, communities, and buildings;
- Understanding the values of BEs from the perspectives of social, economic, and cultural sustainability in cities and societies;
- Urban sensing with big geographical data.
Prof. Dr. Xin Li
Dr. Tao Jia
Prof. Dr. Yuan Li
Prof. Dr. Abeer Elshater
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban morphology
- urban built environment
- urban design
- urban space
