Cities: Sustainable Development, Tourist Practices and Governance Issues

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, interdisciplinary research, global policies and local agendas have been regarding cities as the most appropriate spaces for testing tools and strategies to improve sustainability, promote new tourist practices, and enhance innovative governance tools.

First of all, cities are the best contexts where researchers and policy-makers can critically scrutinize the social, cultural, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development, at the point to make it possible to explore new theoretical and methodological approaches to be replicated at the different scales.

At the same time, a variegated repertoire of technology-mediated tools and innovative strategies in urban governance have completely transformed theoretical and methodological perspectives in urban planning and territorial management.

Finally, the growing pervasiveness of tourist practices in urban contexts makes it necessary to critically evaluate their impacts in terms of economic effects, social implications, and cultural transformation.

As a result, this Special Issue aims at critically evaluating sustainability in different urban contexts, by taking into account both potentialities and critical elements of sustainability-oriented policies and practices, tools and strategies of innovative urban governance as well as tourism-led development programs, in order to provide both new theoretical insights and practical implications for policy makers and researchers about sustainability in contemporary cities.

The Special Issue will welcome both theoretical and empirical papers dealing with:

• Sustainability-driven policies and practices;
• Urban green and ecological infrastructures: limits and potentialities;
• Smart city, big data, and wired urbanism;
• Sustainable planning and territorial management;
• New technologies for local territorial governance;
• Overtourism vs. undertourism: (un)sustainability in urban contexts;
• New tourist practices for urban sustainable development;
• Smart tourist destination.

Dr. Enrico Domenico Giovanni Nicosia
Dr. Teresa Graziano
Guest Editors

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