Air Quality in the Urban Space Planning and Management
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 824
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air quality; noise analysis; urban planning; real estate management; environmental engineering; spatial information systems
Interests: spatial planning; spatial policy; real estate management; property valuation; urban renewal; cadaster; land use policy; land use planning
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Dear Colleagues,
The quality of the space in which we live is undoubtedly an important factor in assessing the attractiveness of an area. Air pollution negatively influences the locational assessment of a space and the health of its inhabitants, especially in large urban agglomerations. Protective measures in this regard are often severely limited by existing spatial structures. This implies the need to take environmental studies into account in the planning stage of urban areas, to ensure that the right living conditions are achieved and that the space is efficiently managed according to the principles of sustainable development. This requires integrated, specialised, and preventive spatial planning that takes into account air quality research.
The Special Issue aims to provide a forum to discuss the current integration of environmental research on air quality in the planning and design of urban spatial structures. Articles reflecting innovative conceptual and empirical approaches are welcome. The scope of this Special Issue includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Evolution of air quality research in urban space;
- Shaping urban space using environmental research on air quality;
- Air quality and sustainable urban transport;
- Air quality and the location of residential areas;
- Procedures for integrated and specialized urban planning, taking into account research on air quality for the current legal situation in different countries and in the Smart City.
Dr. Kinga Szopińska
Dr. Agnieszka Bieda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air quality
- air pollution
- spatial planning
- land management
- development conditions
- sustainable city transport
- sustainable construction
- smart cities
- health effects
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