Community-Based and Urban-Scale Facility Management

Dear Colleagues,

Facility Management (FM) has traditionally focused on managing buildings, services, people, and processes to support organisations. However, today’s urban challenges require FM to move beyond individual buildings and organisational boundaries. Issues such as climate change, social inequality, ageing infrastructure, urban regeneration, heritage preservation, digitalisation, and the need for liveable communities show the importance of managing facilities and services at wider urban scales.

This Special Issue focuses on community-based facility management (CbFM) and urban-scale facility management as emerging approaches to managing the built environment at community, neighbourhood, district, and city levels. CbFM highlights the role of communities, participation, empowerment, local development, and social value. Urban FM expands this perspective by connecting citizens, public authorities, private actors, facility managers, and urban systems.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to advance theoretical, methodological, and empirical research on FM beyond the building scale. It welcomes studies on community facilities, urban services, public–private–people partnerships, smart and sustainable cities, urban heritage, regeneration, participatory governance, digital tools, and service-oriented approaches to sustainability. By doing so, this Special Issue will supplement existing urban studies literature by presenting FM as a service-based, process-oriented, and community-centred discipline for supporting sustainable and liveable urban environments.

Dr. Bintang Noor Prabowo
Prof. Dr. Alenka Temeljotov-Salaj
Prof. Dr. Carmel Margaret Lindkvist
Dr. Savis Gohari
Guest Editors

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• community-based facility management
• CbFM
• urban facility management
• urban FM, UFM, urban-scale support services
• sustainable cities
• community facilities
• public–private–people partnership
• urban governance
• social value
• urban heritage facility management
• UHFM
• smart cities