Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning

Dear Colleagues,

Due to urbanization and population growth, the problem of human–land conflict has become increasingly serious, and it seriously restricts the healthy and sustainable development of urban areas. Since the urban land use planning process is complex, involving social, economic, environmental, and political systems, the knowledge of how these systems interact is the domain of professional planners. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology present planners with a ripe opportunity to critically assess their approaches and explore how new data collection, analysis, and methods can augment the understanding of places as they seek to anticipate a future with an improved quality of life. Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology can offer access to more and better information about travel patterns, energy consumption, land utilization, and environmental impacts, while also helping to better integrate the various involved systems.

For this Special Issue, we invite you to submit original research articles and reviews to provide insights on big data and urban land use planning. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Application of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology in urban land management;
• Urban land use and transportation;
• Multi-source heterogeneous spatiotemporal data fusion of urban land;
• Geographic big data mining;
• Urban land use change detection;
• Modeling and simulation of urban land use changes;
• Big data and multi-dimensional (above- and under-ground) urban land analysis.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez
Dr. Soheil Sabri
Guest Editors

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