Sustainable Community Development in the 2020s
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 8720
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable community development; community and regional planning; planning theory and planning practice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable Community Development (SCD) is among a one of a suite of terms (e.g., urban sustainability, resilient cities, equitable urban development, smart cities, ecodistricts, ecocities) that have matured over the last three decades, not only in planning and its related fields, but also in wider professional and popular discourse. However, the socio-political context for SCD has changed dramatically recently. SCD in 2020 is taking place in a vastly different global context than when the COP21 Paris Climate Accord and the UN Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015. SCD is also now taking place in a world forever altered by the COVID-19 pandemic and by physical/social distancing. It is therefore timely to focus this Special Issue focus on the role of SCD in this changing world. What does “glocal” now mean for SCD? What do COVID-19 and social distancing mean for SCD? Do we need to reevaluate our thinking about density and sprawl in light of this “new normal”? What are the obstacles impeding SCD? Are locally-focused efforts having an impact beyond particular geographic communities? How do we need to re-think our approach to SCD? What new strategies, methods, and tools do we need for SCD? Papers selected for this special issue will be subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination.
Prof. Dr. Mark Roseland
Ms. Maria Spiliotopoulou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable community development
- urban sustainability
- healthy communities/healthy cities
- resilient cities
- smart cities
- ecodistricts
- ecocities/low-carbon cities/green cities
- regenerative cities
- community/city/urban/town/neighborhood/regional planning
- obstacles impeding SCD
- strategies, methods, and tools for SCD
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