Advancing Sustainable Cities and Urban Regions Development: New Challenges and Prospects
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 528
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban and regional economics; industrial economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, the proportion of human beings that live in cities has exceeded 56 percent, and this number is increasing every year. By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. While cities provide many opportunities for the development of human beings, they also pose development bottlenecks and crises. Hence, we are organizing this Special Issue, titled “Advancing Sustainable Cities and Urban Regions Development: New Challenges and Prospects”, in the peer reviewed journal Sustainability.
We are pleased to announce that this Special Issue is open to submissions, and the deadline for submissions is the end of April 2025. This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality, rigorously peer reviewed, cutting-edge original research applying a multi-disciplinary academic approach to study how to improve the advancement of sustainable cities and urban regions. We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics, as follows: scientific and technical information on urban development; knowledge around sustainable development of cities and regions; empirical works on the sociocultural, political, economic, and health impacts of policies; assessments on distributional characteristics, equality, and justice in cities and regions; and theoretic or evidence-based explorations on the effectiveness, people’s inclusion, and improvement directions of the governance of sustainable cities and regions. This multidisciplinary open access Special Issue will help to disseminate and communicate scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries of how to advance sustainable cities and regions to researchers, academics, and the general public globally.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. All papers will be subject to the standard peer review process. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advances in and reviews on the relationship between health and the urban environment;
- Analysis on planning actions that focus on promoting sustainable cities and regions;
- Impact assessments on issues such as green areas, mobility, sports, and social cohesion, arguably associated with sustainable development;
- Cases on how scientific findings can be translated into prevention strategies and sustainable policies;
- Theoretic explorations or case studies on the governance of urban sustainable facilities and services;
- Theoretic or empirical analysis of people’s inclusion, equality, and justice in the governance of urban issues.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Qian Zhou
Dr. Shihu Zhong
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- regional economics
- sustainable development
- resilient city
- technological innovation
- spatiotemporal evolutionary
