Special Issue "Sustainable Urban Design: Urban Externalities and Land Use Planning"

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 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Tatsuhito Kono
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Guest Editor
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba 6-3-6, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Interests: urban planning; project evaluation; urban economics; public economics
Dr. Nao Sugiki
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Guest Editor
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, 1-1 Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
Interests: integrated land use and transportation modeling; urban microsimulation; public service demand; mobility as a service; evacuation simulation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Urban externalities, such as agglomeration economies, traffic congestion, pollution, and a natural ecosystem, strongly affect the quality of urban life as well as the sustainability of cities. These externalities are related to each other. For example, exhaust gas due to road traffic causes air pollution, while agglomeration economies attract people at business areas, which increases population density at every location and brings about urban sprawl. Urban sprawl, furthermore, damages the natural ecosystem and increases traffic. In this manner, the interaction among urban externalities is very complex and spatially heterogeneous. Thus, it is necessary to elucidate the complex and spatial mechanisms when designing policies for urban externalities. This Special Issue focuses on designing land use and transportation policies with urban modeling. Land use and transportation policies can increase welfare and contribute to the sustainability of a city, changing the relative accessibility of various locations and agents and urban externalities.

This Special Issue aims to provide the opportunity to discuss research topics on land use and transportation policies, and their evaluation methods for sustainable urban design, and on modeling the interaction and equilibrium of land use and urban externalities. Original papers are welcome for submission. Research topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Integrated modeling of urban externalities and land use;
  • Advanced simulation models and methods for land use;
  • Land use and accessibility;
  • Future smart cities;
  • Interaction between transport and spatial development;
  • Interrelations between urban activities and a natural ecosystem;
  • Transit-oriented development strategies.

Prof. Dr. Tatsuhito Kono
Dr. Nao Sugiki
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • land use
  • transportation
  • externalities
  • environment
  • urban structure
  • accessibility
  • location choice
  • integrated model
  • urban microsimulation model
  • computable urban economic model
  • urban planning
  • smart city

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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