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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 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart home and building automation; smart city; energy; sustainable and intelligent transport; sustainable efficiency for the EU
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Interests: data-driven smart sustainable cities; sustainable cities (e.g., compact city, eco-city, green city, zero-carbon city, symbiotic city); smart cities (e.g., real-time city, data-driven city, ambient city, ubiquitous city, sentient city); ICT of ubiquitous computing (e.g., ambient intelligence, the IoT, sentient computing); urban green computing; urban artificial intelligence; big data science and analytics; sustainability transitions and socio-technical shifts; science and technology studies (STS); circular economy; technology and environmental policies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urbanization is one of the greatest challenges facing cities of the future. The increased pressure on cities leads to a stronger need to build sustainable cities that last. Designing sustainable cities of the future, educated by the lessons of the past and anticipating the challenges of the future, entails articulating a multi-scalar vision and following key principles—energy, ecology, livability, infrastructure, waste, water, mobility, economy, and culture—while responding to macro-shifts along the way.
Transformative processes within sustainable cities have been in focus for quite some time now. However, the motivation for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) 11 has increased the need to understand and manage sustainable cities in new and innovative ways based on advanced ICT, especially the IoT and big data analytics. Indeed, advanced ICT is regarded as a means to restore and protect the environment, support socio-economic development, optimize resource efficiency, advance knowledge, improve infrastructure, and retrofit buildings based on sustainable design principles. This relates to the multifaceted potential of smart cities with respect to the role of big data technologies and their novel applications in strategic sustainable development. The real challenge for the future lies in genuinely moving past the assumption that there are only two contrasting, mutually exclusive realities—either sustainable cities or smart cities.
With the recent technological and practical advances in the field of sustainable urbanism, it has become necessary to evaluate how and to what extent these advances could be leveraged to develop new strategies and enhancing existing strategies for the design of sustainable cities. Promoting new planning practices for sustainable development supported by applied data-driven solutions will allow for greater development and implementation of more effective approaches to reach the status of sustainable cities. Sustainable urbanism is now seen as one of the keys to the quest for a sustainable world. The IoT and big data technologies are increasingly seen as the driving factors for achieving urban sustainability from a smart perspective, offering a range of new approaches based on innovative research. In fact, the new approaches to urban development planning are linked to a form of data-based urbanism that provides solutions for advancing urban sustainability.
This multidisciplinary Special Issue is intended for a wide audience of readers, including researchers, academics, practitioners, and policymakers, and all the inhabitants of sustainable cities of the future—smart sustainable cities. It serves as a platform for addressing, discussing, and advancing the theoretical and practical foundations of sustainable urbanism in light of the recent advances brought on by the paradigm of big data computing and its technological applications. The intent of this Special Issue is to demonstrate how sustainable cities as an approach to sustainable development combines various scientific and technological trends and academic disciplines for the primary purpose to advance the goals of sustainability. In the long run, this form of knowledge can facilitate the adaptation of the applied data-driven technology solutions to the different areas of sustainability, as well as maximize the outcome of transformative changes towards sustainability.
Dr. Mariacristina Roscia
Dr. Simon Elias Bibri
Guest Editors
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
- sustainable urbanism
- smart urbanism
- sustainable cities
- smart cities
- urban sustainability
- urban development planning
- urban technology
- data-driven solutions
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Developing a data driven strategy and guideline to increase per capita open space and relative accessibility in Chittagong City
Authors: Beau Beza 1; Maharina Jafrin 2
Affiliation: 1 Associate Head of School, Curriculum, School of Archit. & Built Env, Deakin University, Australia
2 PhD candidate, School of Archit. & Built Env, Deakin University, Australia
Abstract: The population density in the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) area was 242.28 per square meter in 2019 (Bajracharya 2020, p 20), and Bulmer (1993) suggests that, due to the high birth rate in Asia, cities such as the CCC can be considered high in density. Contextually this ‘high-density’ element is a determining factor that potentially allows one to address the city’s open space standard as open space “should compensate and complement the physical and social context of the [urban] surrounding environment” (Council, M. C. 2017, p 27). The research area of this paper is focused on the urban setting, defined as the CCC area of 168 square kilometres. The literature review and case study analysis found that per capita open space in Chittagong is far lower than the WHO recommendation. Additionally, the UN stated that “47% of [the city] population live within 400 meters walking distance to open public spaces”. Whereas, according to this study, in the Chittagong City only 19% of residents live within this distance. Observing these issues, the aim of the paper is to develop a theoretical framework to achieve per capita open space in Chittagong. In order to achieve the aim, the researcher conducted surveys and interviews in Chittagong City to understand the demand and thoughts on open space possessed by the residents and professionals of the city. The analysis of this data was driven by SPSS and NVivo; which produced data used to develop themes of open space in Chittagong. This investigation and analysis of material allowed for the generation of strategies and planning recommendations to improve the open space situation in Chittagong City. Beyond these strategies the research produced new insights to promote sustainability in Chittagong City.