Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Urban Science 2020 Best Paper Award. All of the papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Urban Science were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the one winning paper, which was nominated by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Michael Peter Smith, has been selected.

How Might the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect 21st Century Urban Design, Planning, and Development?

By Bradley Bereitschaft and Daniel Scheller
Urban Sci. 2020, 4(4), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4040056

The winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 300 and a certificate. In addition, the winner will be given the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Urban Science in 2022 after the normal peer review procedure.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winner on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their
contributions to Urban Science as well as thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Michael Peter Smith, Urban Science

 
Urban Science 2020 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Urban Science will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

35 pages, 3815 KiB  
Article
What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science
by Aenne A. Brielmann, Nir H. Buras, Nikos A. Salingaros and Richard P. Taylor
Urban Sci. 2022, 6(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010003 - 7 Jan 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Luis Hernández-Callejo Chairman
Universidad de Valladolid
Dr. Aya Hagishima
Kyushu University
Dr. Yu-Sheng Shen
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Mst Santamouris
UNSW

Winner

32 pages, 24723 KiB  
Article
Evaluating the Accuracy of Gridded Population Estimates in Slums: A Case Study in Nigeria and Kenya
by Dana R. Thomson, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Gregory Yetman, Peter Elias and Robert Chen
Urban Sci. 2021, 5(2), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5020048 - 20 Jun 2021

Winner

Bradley Bereitschaft
Department of Geography/Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA
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