Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environment: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Land entitled “Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environment: 2nd Edition”.

Landscape architecture and design research is becoming increasingly popular due to rapid urbanization and its impacts on the urban and peri-urban environment. Constant mitigation and sprawl of urban areas is an imperative and key point to know which natural and man-made landscape innovations or patterns are most suitable and sustainable for urban architecture and design. Such knowledge is crucial to achieving sustainable urbanization while maintaining and improving urban and peri-urban areas as well as providing a healthy environment for urban residents.

Thus, innovative research that is supported by computational approaches, field studies and spatial analysis to expand the knowledge on sustainable urbanization is in high demand. In this Special issue, we invite researchers to share their state-of-the-art work on landscape architecture and design combined with sustainable solutions, and other research fields such as urban blocks, urban green-blue infrastructure, public places, and architectural and design amenities related to urban and peri-urban environmental engineering to better cope with the urbanization phenomenon.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environments.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Peri-urban landscape restoration;
• Sustainable architecture, design and, management of open and public spaces;
• Design and management of green spaces;
• Sustainable urban design;
• Planning and maintenance of peri-urban areas;
• Expansion of urban areas and their impact in an urban–rural context;
• Enhancement of environment and human health benefits.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Prof. Dr. Richard Smardon
Prof. Dr. Maria Ignatieva
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. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2600 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.

• landscape architecture
• urban design
• urban expansion
• land use
• land use change
• urban context
• built-up area
• adaptive governance
• urban regeneration
• ecosystem services: environmental health benefits

• Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environment in Land (12 articles)