Management in the Built Environment for Sustainable Urban Development: Driven by Future Technological Transformation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2027 | Viewed by 516
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Interests: healthy city; urban built environment; big data; urban planning
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Dear Colleagues,
As global urbanization strides toward high-quality development, the built environment—the core carrier of human production and life—faces pressing challenges: upgrading residents’ health demands, the unbalanced protection and activation of historical districts, conflicts between industrial growth and ecological capacity, the sluggish revitalization of inefficient idle land, and the inadequate integration of emerging formats with space. Against this backdrop, future technological transformation has emerged as a pivotal driver for breaking bottlenecks, making the synergy of technology-driven built environment management and sustainable urban development an urgent academic and industrial focus.
To address this, Sustainability has launched the Special Issue “Management in the Built Environment for Sustainable Urban Development: Driven by Future Technological Transformation”, inviting global scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share cutting-edge findings, innovative tech applications, and practical experiences. Centering on future technology empowerment, such as big data analytics, AI, digital twins, intelligent planning, and low-altitude economic technologies, this Special Issue covers core topics including health-oriented built environment optimization, the sustainable protection of historical districts via advanced digital tools, coordinated industrial development with green technology integration, the efficient revitalization of idle land through smart identification and management, and the spatial synergy of the low-altitude economy supported by technology infrastructure. It will build an interdisciplinary platform, promote theoretical innovation and tech-practice transformation, and provide scientific support and solutions for leveraging future technologies to realize harmonious coexistence of “people-space-industry-ecology” and propel global sustainable urban development.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Health-Oriented Optimization and Management of Built Environments: Explore the correlation mechanism between built environment elements (such as street space, public facilities, greening systems, etc.) and residents' physical and mental health; construct an evaluation system and management strategy for health-friendly built environments; practical aspects include community health space creation, precise layout of public health facilities, and integrated design of slow traffic systems.
- Sustainable Protection and Activation Management of Historical Districts: Study the balanced path of cultural context inheritance and functional renewal in historical districts; explore the application of digital technologies (BIM, GIS, etc.) in the protection of historical districts; analyze the community participation mechanism and interest coordination model in the activation of historical districts; discuss adaptive management strategies connecting historical style and modern living needs.
- Coordinated Development and Management of the Built Environment and the Economy and Industry: Focus on paths for the integration of green and low-carbon industries with the built environment; study the sustainable planning and operation management models of industrial parks; analyze the driving effect of improved built environment quality on industrial agglomeration and innovation and entrepreneurship; explore industrial space optimization management strategies against a background of urban–rural integration.
- Revitalization and Reuse Management of Inefficient and Idle Land: Construct an identification and evaluation system for inefficient and idle land; explore the reuse models and planning paths of different types of idle land (old factories, abandoned mining areas, idle rural homesteads, etc.); analyze policy guarantee mechanisms and market-oriented operation strategies in the revitalization of idle land; study the coordinated schemes of ecological restoration and sustainable utilization in the revitalization process.
- Integration Management of Low-Altitude Economy and Built Environment: Discuss the impacts of the development of a low-altitude economy (such as drone logistics, low-altitude tourism, urban air transportation, etc.) on the built environment; study the planning layout and management model of low-altitude economy infrastructure (take-off and landing points, air route networks); analyze the coordinated optimization path between the low-altitude economy and urban spatial functions; explore the safety management and policy regulation system in the development of low-altitude economy.
Dr. Man Yuan
Dr. Min Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- healthy cities
- historical districts
- economy and industry
- inefficient and idle land
- low-altitude economy
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