Smart Cities and Urban Design
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 (31 May 2018) | Viewed by 10624
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable cities; water-sensitive urban design; urban design; climate change; sustainable urban development; urban landscape
Interests: urban systems; creative systems; creative sustainability; sustainable cities
Interests: urban art and design; urban landscape architecture; sustainable urban research; environmental culture innovation; urban renewal
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue includes selected studies that contribute to our understanding on how sustainability of urban development through the combination of theoretical and practical areas in smart cities and urban design. This Special Issue attempts to fulfill the needs for recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as practical challenges encountered, and solutions to support smart cities and urban informatics, adopted in the aspects of system, networking and communication, which are themes of the SCUD (Smart Cities and Urban Design) 2018 conference. This Special Issue seeks to collect theoretical and empirical studies on smart cities; urban science and urban design; sustainable urban development; urban systems; and relevant combinations of these topics, along with the critical sustainability issue. In addition, all papers submitted to SCUD 2018 will be subjected to the peer-review process; up to 40 papers will be selected and considered for publication in this Special Issue.
Dr. Jing Wu
Prof. Dr. Susu H. Nousala
Prof. Xingkuan Wu
Dr. Gang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart cities
- urban design
- sustainable urban
- sustainability
- urban informatics
- urban studies
- urban system
- urban science
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