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Urban and Regional Development Issues and Strategies: The Application of New Generation Information Technology

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 July 2025 | Viewed by 2562

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Weiwu Wang

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School of Architecture and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Interests: regional and urban planning; urban GIS; remote sensing; urban ecology and landscape; urban environment; urban heat island; urban wind corridor
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Dr. Wanfu Jin

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Department of Human Geography and Urban and Rural Planning, School of Culture, Tourism and Geography, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou, China
Interests: land use and economic development
Dr. Changdong Ye

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Guest Editor
College of Forestry and Landscape architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Interests: urban renewal; urban and rural planning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Cities are complex systems with the most concentrated population, economy, and culture, and the most fragile ecological environment, and urgently need to improve their resilience. Therefore, under the background of global urbanization, scholars and experts in different fields such as urban planning, management, geography, economics, sociology, ecology, environment, and new generation information technology are always concerned about the development of cities or regions. With the development of the social economy or the occurrence of global unstable events such as the epidemic, all sectors of the society must work hard to study and discuss and propose practical and universal or unique solutions. This special issue aims to use data analysis or modelling techniques to discover and deeply explore sustainable issues in urban or regional development, and to provide sustainable partial contributions to progress in urban development strategies and urban planning and design applications.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Urban or regional development dilemmas and strategies based on big data analysis, including urban economy, society, environment, etc.;
  • New phenomena and sustainable development in the process of urban development, such as urban co-working, urban night economy, urban art landscape, etc.;
  • Drivers, changes and sustainability policies for urban or regional development;
  • The origin, development dilemma and sustainable path of historical ancient cities, ancient towns, ancient villages, historical and cultural reserves, and scenic spots based on semantic or data analysis;
  • Urban traffic optimization or governance based on traffic big data or scientific models;
  • Humanized, intelligent and ecological evaluation of urban blue-green-gray infrastructure based on quantitative analysis;
  • Urban-rural integrated development and sustainable urban-rural development;
  • Urban carbon peak carbon neutral development goals and sustainability.

Dr. Weiwu Wang
Dr. Wanfu Jin
Dr. Changdong Ye
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban or regional development
  • urban resilience
  • urban blue-green-gray infrastructure
  • humanized, intelligent and ecological developmet
  • urban traffic optimization or governance
  • urban and region complex systems
  • urban suspopulation, economy, and culture

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Evaluation of Urban Quality Improvement Based on the MABAC Method and VIKOR Method: A Case Study of Shandong Province, China
by Doudou Liu, Liang Qiao, Chunlu Liu, Bin Liu and Shijing Liu
Sustainability 2024, 16(8), 3308; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083308 - 15 Apr 2024
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In the current stage of urbanization in China, urban construction has gradually shifted from incremental construction dominated by real estate to stock transformation based on improving urban quality. The evaluation of urban renewal projects is crucial for decision-making and resource allocation. However, there [...] Read more.
In the current stage of urbanization in China, urban construction has gradually shifted from incremental construction dominated by real estate to stock transformation based on improving urban quality. The evaluation of urban renewal projects is crucial for decision-making and resource allocation. However, there is no consensus on the evaluation indicators and methods. This study evaluates the current status of urban quality using the MABAC method based on numerical indicators. It evaluates the improvement of urban quality using the VIKOR method based on public satisfaction indicators. It is found that the comprehensive weights and subjective weights of the five first-level indicators in the evaluation index system of urban quality improvement in Shandong Province, namely blue–green space improvement, air cleanliness improvement, road traffic improvement, life service improvement, and governance capacity improvement, are quite different. The weight distribution of these indicators needs to be adjusted and optimized, especially for improving living services, as well as secondary indicators such as black and odorous water treatment, urban clean heating, the number of public vehicles per 10,000 people in the city, the 15 min living circle, the renovation of old residential areas, and the construction of urban intelligent management platforms. Based on the comprehensive evaluation results, an attempt is made to propose a more scientific evaluation index system, providing valuable references for urban renewal management. Full article
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Impacts of the Belt and Roads Initiative on Sustainability: Local Approaches to Spatial Restructuring in the Aras Special Economic Zones
by Hamid Jafarzadeh and Dongfeng Yang
Sustainability 2023, 15(16), 12347; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151612347 - 14 Aug 2023
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Spatial restructuring and regional economic development are closely associated with sustainability. Despite the considerable literature on urbanization’s impact on sustainable economic development and urban expansion, few studies have explored how FDI-led spatial restructuring affects the sustainability from a local people perspective. To fill [...] Read more.
Spatial restructuring and regional economic development are closely associated with sustainability. Despite the considerable literature on urbanization’s impact on sustainable economic development and urban expansion, few studies have explored how FDI-led spatial restructuring affects the sustainability from a local people perspective. To fill this gap, in-depth interviews were conducted with 516 residents of Aras special economic zones in Iran to assess the impacts and responses to economic shifts and spatial restructuring resulting from the Belt and Road Initiative since 2013. Using the DPSIR framework and sustainability index as an evaluation tool, we assessed the degree of sustainability and viable uplift at the regional level. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) was also utilized to determine optimal values based on local approaches. Results indicate that regional heterogeneity, excessive state pressure, and development imbalances impact the study area. The findings enrich the theory of sustainability and can guide the formulation of spatial restructuring, decision-making, and policies at different stages of regional development. In addition to financial progress, people-centered development planning using local approaches should be a component of the development of special economic zones. Full article
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