Territorial Management and Urban Regeneration: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Territorial management seeks to ensure the conditions for a balanced use of natural soil to preserve the durability and availability of essential environmental values when carrying out human activities. In the same sense, regeneration processes aim at responding to the challenges and opportunities that transforming existing urban areas into more diverse and welcoming neighborhoods can result in, taking advantage of their effects on the broader scale of the city. These are two processes that are integrated as they combine physical, environmental, and socioeconomic measures into the same action strategy.

The Urban Regeneration process is recognized as one of the most comprehensive and effective tools that the territorial management process can adopt to promote more inclusive, safer, resilient, and sustainable cities.

This Special Issue aims at bringing together different contributions that reflect different levels of approach and governance, as well as other possibilities for urban intervention, to exchange, compare, and contrast international experiences that promote sustainability at the local level. The opportunity to highlight good practices and discuss concepts, data, methodologies, and challenges is understood as a guaranteed success for the communication of research carried out by academics, scientists, and professionals, in addition to the entities that are responsible for managing the territory and cities.

From the discussion surrounding urban dynamics that lead to new approaches in urban regeneration processes, it is expected that innovative results will emerge that associate issues such as public health, post-pandemic responses, adaptation and mitigation to climate change, cultural behavioral changes, social integration, and digital transformation, all supported on a path towards a green and digital transition of cities.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Miguel Amado
Guest Editor

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• territorial management
• regenerative environment
• urban regeneration
• resilience
• sustainable cities
• rural development
• circular economy
• climate changes