Sustainable Urban Development Prospective for Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The concept of a smart city includes many different components, starting with critical infrastructure and ending with the use of artificial intelligence in making important decisions for the city. It is no coincidence that researchers' attention to smart city issues is growing every year and will likely grow in the next decade, as smart city technologies are increasingly applied to city management. I believe that the future of cities will increasingly contribute to smart urban development, in which the smart community will receive personalized public services; innovative access to service provisions will allow for the modernization of education, health care, public administration, and local transport functionality and will encourage the participation of residents in digital transformation processes. Adopting such a broad smart city concept will ensure the implementation of all 17 sustainable development goals.

This Special Issue collects high-quality papers in the fields of smart city and sustainable development, including but not limited to sustainable urban development. Aiming to achieve sustainable development, we encourage potential authors to submit high-level scientific manuscripts analyzing smart city policies, smart city success stories, the impact of technology on smart urban development, the use of artificial intelligence in the context of a smart city, smart public service provision, citizen involvement, and others.

Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Dvorak
Dr. Katarína Vitálišová
Prof. Dr. Vitalii Kruhlov
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.