Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Sun Yat-Sen University in Urban Planning and Land

Dear Colleagues,

Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) was founded in 1924, so the year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of its founding. Under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and strongly supported by both the Ministry and Guangdong Province, Sun Yat-sen University has developed into a modern comprehensive university that enjoys a reputation as a top-tier university nationally and a renowned university internationally. Built on a solid multidisciplinary foundation of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, and engineering, Sun Yat-sen University is propelled forward by the continuous pursuit of academic innovation. The University is equipped with a globally aware outlook, and has dedicated itself to being an institution that is comprehensive, research-oriented, and open. With five campuses in the three cities of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Shenzhen, and ten affiliated hospitals, the University is striving to become a world-class university and global center of learning.

Sun Yat-sen University was one of the first universities to establish a geography department in the Science discipline in China. Since its establishment, the research and teaching in the School of Geography and Urban Planning comprises field trips, laboratory analysis, computing modeling and international collaboration. Currently, the School of Geography and Planning offers four majors at the undergraduate level: urban planning (engineering); human geography and urban planning; geographical information science; and physical geography and resource environment. In addition, it offers two first-level academic master’s programs in geography and in regional planning (engineering), one engineering master’s program in the engineering of surveying and mapping, as well as one first-level PhD program in geography. In 2019, human geography and urban planning obtained its first batch of National First-Class Undergraduate Major Construction Points.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of SYSU, Land is publishing this Special Issue, entitled “Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Sun Yat-sen University in Urban Planning and Land” . We welcome all scholars within the broad scope of land science to join us in contributing to this Special Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Urban planning;
Urban development/urban history;
Land/land use/land cover change;
Landscapes, landscape design and landscape planning;
Territorial planning, conservation and management;
Urban–rural interactions/urban–rural coordinated development;
Geospatial information analysis and modeling in land science;
Land–climate interactions including energy fluxes, carbon neutrality, and health;
Land—observation and monitoring;
Remote sensing/hyperspectral remote sensing;
Landscape ecology and biodiversity.

Dr. Tingting Chen
Dr. Weilin Liao
Dr. Xinhui Wu
Prof. Dr. Zhi He
Guest Editors

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• urban planning
• land
• urban–rural interactions
• landscapes
• climate change
• GIS application