Spatial Planning and Sustainability in the Global South
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world has transformed and urban areas are now home to 55% of the world’s population. Urban areas in the Global South are projected to grow and make up 90% of the world’s population growth by 2050. Rapid population growth along with the development of large infrastructure projects will impact the sustainability of cities and regions in the Global South. Many cities in the Global South have adopted spatial planning or master plans as guides towards more vibrant, sustainable, and healthy places to live. The challenges of implementation of spatial planning have evolved in those cities due to planning paradigm shift, democratization, and decentralization, the rise of information and communication technology, and global environmental crisis. In response to those challenges, some cities have implemented some modifications and innovations in the plan-making, plan implementation and development strategies.
We invite abstracts that address a broad range of issues pertaining to spatial planning in the Global South—including, but not limited to:
- processes and roles of spatial planning and master plans in shaping the future of cities
- evolution and challenges of spatial planning and master plans
- spatial development frameworks in response to global environmental crisis
- review of plan-making, plan implementation and development strategies
- power dynamics between local government and local community
- key innovations and development strategies in response to global pandemic
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- spatial planning and master plan
- plan making and plan implementation
- development strategy
- spatial development framework
- sustainable development
- democratization and decentralization
- the Global South
