Journal Menu
► Journal MenuJournal Browser
► Journal BrowserSpecial Issue "Livable Public Spaces and Sustainable Urban Regeneration"
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 September 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urban regeneration; urban design and planning; livable public space; healthy city; placemaking; cultural heritage enhancement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, a big challenge is to meet the demands of the different stakeholders in order to put in practice theoretical principles concerning livability.
Public space requires different approach according with social, physical, political or financial questions, which can weight in the urban design project not always in the same way. The general objective is to create public spaces which work better for people and are livable for all.
Many approaches to a livable design can be included in what can be defined as slow regeneration. Slow regeneration is a kind of sustainable regeneration which take into account the need of people first and is aimed at changing the places slowly in order to co-create the both new identity of place and its healthy use with and for people according with the times of participation.
To create both attractive and sustainable new areas, the contemporary projects of urban regeneration take into account questions both related to sustainability and livable public spaces, such as: accessibility, walking and cycling paths, comfortable and safer streets, and so on. However, climate change is requiring more attention to the both environmental and health issues.
Many questions remain though: how create public spaces and urban regeneration project which consider contemporaneously resilience, beauty and quality? What kind of characteristics a place should have to reach these objectives? These characteristics could be considered the same for everywhere or geography, identity and culture are further factors to consider in resilience questions?
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers presenting both original and innovative, and both theoretical and empirical contributions to the advancement in these fields.
The expect topics include: the role of public space in sustainable urban regeneration; theoretical aspects related to sustainability, livability and socialization in urban regeneration; best practices of urban regeneration with livable public space as an element of quality; sports and healthy activities in public spaces and urban regeneration areas; public space, climate change and resilient regeneration.
Prof. Marichela Sepe
Guest Editor
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 papers will be 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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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 1900 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.
Keywords
- livable public space
- sustainable regeneration
- healthy city
- slow regeneration
- resilience
- adaptation
- place identity
- participation