Human in a Safe and Healthy Urban Environment
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 22819
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land information systems; cadastre; land administration; land management; geodesy; cartography; spatial data infrastructures
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Interests: land management; spatial analysis; tessellation; voronoi diagram; real estate market; property appraisal; socio-economic geography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Everyone, regardless of age and gender, should feel physically and psychologically safe in the space in which they live and work. The urban environment is particularly demanding; rapid urbanisation observed worldwide is resulting in high density cities and stretching of the urban fabric, producing a detrimental impact on comfortable living. Urban centres are becoming complex jungles comprising independent centres, extensive transport networks, and increasingly cramped living spaces. Numerous scientific studies and reports from global organisations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the European Commission (EC), and others signal the need for sustainable development of urban spaces, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These efforts call for urban planning that would allow us to realise goals such as age- and child-friendly cities alongside the development of green and blue infrastructure. Although many urban planning solutions that improve the quality of life in cities have been developed, they still do not entirely align with the new need for a sense of security. This need has emerged in response to biological threats, such as the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and those arising from extreme weather events, natural disasters, or military and economic conflicts. These new conditions pose challenges for planners and city managers in adapting urban spaces to be safe and healthy. Therefore, it is important to monitor the needs of residents in an organised urban space and to develop novel methodological approaches using smart tools to improve city layouts that would help us reach friendliness benchmarks in light of current needs. This Special Issue will present the latest achievements in the development of new methods or adaptations of existing ones for a broad analysis of socio-spatial phenomena in the urban environment, providing a useful guide for making fit-for-purpose and sustainable administrative and urban planning decisions aimed at improving the quality of life in cities.
Dr. Agnieszka Dawidowicz
Dr. Marta Figurska
Dr. Anna Klimach
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban environment
- safe city
- healthy city
- friendly city
- green infrastructure
- social needs
- GIS
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