Urban Social Space and Sustainable Development—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Urban social space is a hot field in urban research. Urban social space refers to the projection of urban residents' economic and social activities in space, or their relationship with urban space. Urban social space involves many aspects of urban development, such as the distribution of populations and economic activities within the city, living spaces, housing spaces, employment spaces, commuting spaces, leisure and entertainment spaces, activity spaces, medical spaces, shopping spaces, and even the social space of various special groups. Of course, there are some more comprehensive concepts, such as urban social spatial structure, urban social area, urban image space, and so on, which also belong to the category of urban social space research. In addition, there are the various spatial problems of urban society, such as crime space, poverty space, social spatial polarization, and isolation, which also concern urban social space researchers.

The development state and trend in social space is an important aspect in measuring the state of urban sustainable development. Especially with the development of globalization, the social space of big cities across the world is becoming more and more fragmented, divided, and polarized, which has seriously affected the state of urban sustainable development. Therefore, the academic community needs to strengthen the research on the developmental trend in urban social space and its relationship with the evolution of urban spatial structure in various countries against the background of globalization, evaluate the state of urban social space sustainability, and suggest reasonable development strategies for realizing the orderly spatial flow of urban populations and the harmonious coexistence of all kinds of populations, as well as the organic planning of urban residents' living space and various behavior activities. This obviously has important theoretical value and practical significance.

This Special Issue focuses on urban social space and sustainable development. On the one hand, it plans to introduce social space, a hot topic in urbanology and geography, to the field of sustainable development and sustainability research by grafting urban social space and sustainable development, so as to expand the depth and breadth of urban sustainable development research; On the other hand, the perspective of sustainable development can also be introduced into the field of urban social space, so that scholars in this field may pay attention to examining their urban social space research from the aspects of sustainable development status, trends, and problems, which will undoubtedly promote the emergence of new research results in this field.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Transformation and restructuring of urban social space;
• Spatial distribution of urban population and sustainable development;
• Migration and the evolution of urban internal space;
• Study on the evolution of urban spatial structure and sustainability;
• The characteristics and mechanism of the development of urban residents' behavior activity space;
• Living spatial structure of urban residents;
• Research on the social composition of urban community residents and urban integration;
• The relationship between urban social space and urban planning.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Jian Feng
Prof. Dr. Ming Tian
Guest Editors

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• urban social space
• urban sustainable development
• urban spatial structure
• urban social geography
• urban growth

• Urban Social Space and Sustainable Development in Sustainability (17 articles)