Special Issue "Spatial Planning and Analysis in Urban 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: 31 May 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Robert Krzysztofik
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Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
Interests: urban geography; spatial management; economic geography; geography of settlement
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Dr. Dragan Weronika
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Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-200 Sonowiec, Poland
Interests: spataial management; urban geography; sustainabilty
Dr. Solarski Maksymilian
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Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-200 Sonowiec, Poland
Interests: spatial management; sustainabilty; land use planning
Dr. Spórna Tomasz
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Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-200 Sonowiec, Poland
Interests: urban geography; suburbanization; spatial management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to publish an article in this Special Issue. The thematic scope of this series is based on important issues of socio-economic and spatial development, and how it relates to urban sustainability. The development of cities and the urbanization of peri-urban areas is never harmonious and sustainable. On the one hand, plans, strategies, and development policies are prepared for the analyzed areas, and on the other hand, we observe often irrational or chaotic changes in geographical space. This causes many conflicts and disproportions in the urbanized space and its surroundings. This is where spatial planning plays a role, geared towards urban sustainability. The purpose of this Special Issue is to try to bridge the gap between planning theory and space management practice. This can be achieved by continuing to search for good practices and theoretical solutions, but also by creating analyses that improve on the existing methods of spatial management. To meet the problem of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we would also like to publish articles showing the relationship between sustainable urban development, the consequences of the pandemic, and spatial planning.

We invite articles whose analyses are based on both quantitative and qualitative methods.

In this Special Issue, we are interested in the following:

  • spatial planning in problem and conflict areas
  • spatial analyzes in terms of determining typical, but also characteristic directions of spatial development
  • indicating good practices in urban spatial planning
  • analyses of urban space presenting the dynamics of change
  • analyses of spatial structures of sustainable cities
  • spatial planning on derelict lands.

Prof. Dr. Robert Krzysztofik
Dr. Dragan Weronika
Dr. Solarski Maksymilian
Dr. Spórna Tomasz
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • urban planning
  • spatial development
  • spatial analysis
  • urban sustainability
  • urbanisation

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Should There Be Industrial Agglomeration in Sustainable Cities?: A Perspective Based on Haze Pollution
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6609; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126609 - 10 Jun 2021
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Haze pollution is a problem that cannot be ignored in the process of building sustainable cities, and while shifting industrial enterprises can solve the problem at the root, it is not conducive to the sustainable development of urban economies. This paper discusses the [...] Read more.
Haze pollution is a problem that cannot be ignored in the process of building sustainable cities, and while shifting industrial enterprises can solve the problem at the root, it is not conducive to the sustainable development of urban economies. This paper discusses the role of industrial agglomeration on urban pollution amelioration (haze pollution) using a sample of 253 prefecture-level cities in China. The highlight of this paper is the study of economic and environmental factors in the development of sustainable cities in the same framework and a series of econometric treatments that greatly increase the accuracy of the empirical evidence. Research intuitively shows that China’s haze pollution is clustered in spatial distribution and is spatially heterogeneous in concentration. With the passage of time, haze pollution has a tendency to move from an H–H concentration area to an L–L concentration area. The regression results show that an increase in the scale of local industrial agglomeration will lead to a decrease in local haze pollution; but an increase in the scale of local industrial agglomeration will lead to an increase in haze pollution in adjacent areas. Industrial agglomeration has significant spatial spillover effects, which are spatially heterogeneous. In addition, spillover effects between regions are greater than those within regions. After replacing the spatial weight matrix and controlling the endogenous problem using the instrumental variable method, the conclusion is still robust. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Planning and Analysis in Urban Sustainability)
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