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Urban Regeneration, Development, and Sustainability

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 (19 November 2023) | Viewed by 6355

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Magnus Moglia

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Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: urban sustainability; climate adaptation; circular economy; urban regeneration; resilient cities
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Dr. Stephen Glackin

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Guest Editor
Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Victoria, Australia
Interests: urban regeneration; urban planning; governance models for cities; statutory regimes

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues:

Accommodating the majority of the global population, cities are important places where we can achieve sustainable development goals and enable the necessary global transformation that will allow humanity to live safely within planetary boundaries. This needs to be achieved whilst also addressing old and emerging agendas, including population increase, local ecology, disease and disaster response, ageing populations, resource depletion, economic disruption, and transformational technological opportunities and risks, among others.

However, unlike some other sustainability arenas, cities and land use are established and enduring, ownership and governance are fractured, outcomes are determined by systems of systems, and the practicalities of delivering change necessarily require engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, institutions, and disciplines, incorporating economics, health, planning, sectoral infrastructures, law, community studies, and governance. As such, cities, and their ability to regenerate into more sustainable forms, represent a highly complex sustainability challenge that needs input and collaboration from all sectors.

Urban regeneration is the process of positively transforming aspects of the city, either in response to negative externalities or leveraged opportunities, into places, buildings, policies, and services that speak to the need for urban wellbeing, productivity, resilience, and sustainability.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the theme of urban regeneration and how the individual aspects and functionalities of cities can transform these urban areas into more sustainable forms. The range is broad but applied and systemic, focusing on a range of scales (whole of city, neighborhood, precinct, individual unit), a range of phenomena (including natural and built form as human behaviour), a range of disciplines (including development, design, infrastructure, engineering, planning, governance, and economics), and how these varied scales and interventions can practically go about transforming one or more aspects of the urban environment by regenerating the existing form.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Urban and regional planning: how planning and governance regimes can be better adapted to enable urban regeneration that achieves sustainability outcomes.
  • Built form regeneration: how interventions in the built form (at lot, precinct, neighbourhood) can drive urban sustainability gains through urban regeneration projects.
  • Nature-based solutions in urban regeneration projects: how ecological systems can be restored and made healthy in ways that also support human wellbeing and health.
  • Infrastructure resilience: studies that explore how infrastructure investments, planning and/or management can drive sustainability outcomes.
  • Business models for sustainability-oriented urban regeneration: to understand where economic instruments and mechanisms can enable sustainability outcomes.
  • Digital innovation for urban regeneration: to understand how digital innovations can enable urban regeneration that supports sustainability outcomes.
  • Imaginaries/visions of urban regeneration that provide integrated and holistic direction in the efforts to transform cities towards a more sustainable future.
  • Conceptualisation and evaluation of urban regeneration as an approach to enhance sustainability: to enrich and clarify terminology, concepts, evaluation, and methods used in urban regeneration projects.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Magnus Moglia
Dr. Stephen Glackin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • greenfield
  • grey fields
  • brownfields
  • compact city
  • social-ecological systems
  • infill development
  • urban transition
  • urban transformation

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Suburban Futures, Density and Amenity: Soft Densification and Incremental Planning for Regeneration
by Stephen Glackin, Magnus Moglia and Marcus White
Sustainability 2024, 16(3), 1046; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031046 - 25 Jan 2024
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This article explores practical aspects of the compact city agenda as it applies to the ongoing densification of car-dependent suburbs, focusing on Melbourne, Australia. While the idea of compact cities has widespread policy support globally, debate continues regarding the negotiation of compact urban [...] Read more.
This article explores practical aspects of the compact city agenda as it applies to the ongoing densification of car-dependent suburbs, focusing on Melbourne, Australia. While the idea of compact cities has widespread policy support globally, debate continues regarding the negotiation of compact urban form and its implications for issues like overcrowding, tree canopy, waterways, urban heat, and so forth. Irrespective of the debate, Australian cities are experiencing rapid urban infill, with all areas becoming denser. Some areas of strategic attention afford master planning and planning forethought; however, most of the land in these cities, and at least half of the dwellings being redeveloped, has suburban form, with little or no strategic planning consideration, despite doubling and, in some cases, tripling population density into the future. Significantly, many areas are or will soon achieve population densities that can support vibrant commercial centers, but with little capacity or interest in top-down planning for adding necessary amenities and services. This article shows how, with minimal effort, planning authorities could subtly alter land use planning to allow incremental, but planned, growth of commercial areas, create the destinations the suburbs need to make them vibrant, and deliver less car-dependent local centers. Full article
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Assessing the Benefits of Climate-Sensitive Design with Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Regeneration: A Case Study in Cheltenham, UK
by Pourya Torkfar and Alessio Russo
Sustainability 2023, 15(22), 15855; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215855 - 11 Nov 2023
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Addressing the challenge of climate adaptation necessitates an evidence-based approach. The integration of nature into urban spaces is vital in mitigating the effects of climate change, which can be accomplished through the regeneration of grey areas. Consequently, the incorporation of nature-based solutions (NBS) [...] Read more.
Addressing the challenge of climate adaptation necessitates an evidence-based approach. The integration of nature into urban spaces is vital in mitigating the effects of climate change, which can be accomplished through the regeneration of grey areas. Consequently, the incorporation of nature-based solutions (NBS) becomes indispensable for the creation of climate-resilient public spaces. However, only a few studies have considered climate change simulated data to design climate-resilient spaces in the UK. Thus, in this study, we evaluated the benefits of two scenarios for regenerating an existing car park space in Cheltenham with 30% and 50% NBS. These design scenarios were the outcomes of a 3-day design workshop aiming to create a climate-resilient public space with NBS. Using ENVI-met software (version 5.0.3) and weather data for the second-highest heatwave in Cheltenham, UK, in 2017 and 2050 predictions, we analysed temperature impacts. Results show NBS could reduce the mean radiant temperature by 6 to 15 degrees. An average decrease of 1.2 in the predicted mean vote (PMV) value, indicating an improvement in thermal comfort within the 50% NBS scenario, highlights its climate adaptation benefits. Comparison between the 30% and 50% NBS scenarios reveals the importance of strategy implementation. This evidence will aid future urban projects in designing climate-resilient and healthy cities, benefiting planning authorities, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, and researchers. Full article
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Rethinking the External Space of Japanese Public Libraries from the Perspective of Urban Sustainability in a Post-Pandemic Era
by Tongguang Zang, Jun Jiang, Konomi Ikebe and Takeshi Kinoshita
Sustainability 2023, 15(10), 7796; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15107796 - 10 May 2023
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In the post-pandemic era, cities are facing new demands and challenges. Both telecommuting and dense development require communities to provide more public space to meet people’s psychological and physical needs. The insufficient space currently left in the city calls for stock development. The [...] Read more.
In the post-pandemic era, cities are facing new demands and challenges. Both telecommuting and dense development require communities to provide more public space to meet people’s psychological and physical needs. The insufficient space currently left in the city calls for stock development. The Japanese public libraries affected by COVID-19 are part of this stock. We aimed to determine and propose strategies for using the external space of libraries to enhance the sustainability of cities. Ultimately, we expect to achieve a synergy between public libraries and cities in terms of sustainability. We found that the most dominant element in the exterior space of Japanese public libraries is parking lots, which have the potential to be flexibly utilized in the post-pandemic era. We also summarized the current patterns of external space for public libraries in Japan. Finally, we proposed six strategies to enhance the sustainability of libraries and cities. These strategies can simultaneously enhance the sustainability of cities and public libraries from multiple perspectives, especially in the post-pandemic era. Our proposal will not only help to build or renew public libraries in the future, but also fills a gap in the urban perspective of Japanese public libraries and their external spaces. Full article
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