Urban Planning and Sustainable Regional Development in Suburban Zones of Large Cities in Central and Eastern Europe
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2024) | Viewed by 4210
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geography; urban geography; urban morphology; demography and population studies; rural areas
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urbanization and urban expansion are the only ways of rapidly developing cities. Sustainable urban development is an important research area of all urban governance in the world. Urban and rural development, land planning, and urban expansion are all interesting and important research topics.
The central planning system in the socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was a catalyst for both industrialization and urbanization. Therefore, the settlement processes were concentrated in the city, at the same time reducing the development of suburbanization. The transition in the 1990s and the associated socio-economic changes affected the opportunities for residential development and meeting the individual needs, suppressed in the previous period. The dynamic process of urban sprawl began almost half a century later relative to Western European countries. Moreover, suburbanization in the CEE region is vigorous and spontaneously strives to compensate for the earlier stages of development.
For this Special Issue, we are interested in both empirical and conceptual studies that link suburbanization with urban planning and regional development in CEE countries. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Morphological changes in suburban zones;
- Spatial effects of urban sprawl;
- Uncontrolled residential suburbanization and urban sprawl;
- Planning and legal conditions of suburbanization processes;
- Management of suburban development;
- Sustainable urban development;
- Smart city.
Dr. Robert Szmytkie
Dr. Kocsis János Balázs
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- suburbanization and urban sprawl
- urban planning and design
- management of suburban development sustainable urban development
- smart city
- residential suburbanization
- (sub)urban sprawl
- post-socialist cities
- CEE