Urban Planning and Built Environment

Dear Colleague,

The high density of building development in big cities is increasing population density, leading to the change of urban typology, traffic demand, land surface coverage, and the urban microclimate. Meanwhile, climate change is affecting building energy consumption, and heat emission from buildings is accelerating urban climate change. Currently, the mechanisms of interactions among urban planning, urban climate change, and building energy consumption are attracting more and more attention from academics. Studies to mitigate the urban heat island phenomenon usually rely on the introduction of cool material, heat emission reduction, vegetation from a building-scale viewpoint, or strategies as an instruction of urban park systems, shifting to public transportation systems from a district-scale viewpoint. The current urban planning and building planning methods are mostly based on functional demand and the lack of a quantitative environmental method for evaluating the planning plans. Environmentally-friendly planning methods are yet to be discussed, such as making an effective network of cool spots and the wind path at community scale and district scale. This is an optimal approach, with synergies among various elements and solutions interactively considering existing community structures, energy systems for different building types, traffic strategies, greenery renovation possibility, and city typologies. Studies on environmental urban planning and building design facing the problems occurring in high developed cities are expected for this Special Issue. Papers can be reviews, meta-analyses, case studies, and original research relevant to environmental, ecological, biological, policy, human behaviors, development, and economic or technological aspects of urban sustainability

Dr. Yupeng Wang
Dr. Liyang Fan
Dr. Shijie Cao
Dr. Xilian Luo
Guest Editors

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