GIS Implementation in Sustainable Urban Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 922
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geospatial big data exploration; hydraulic fracturing; landscape epidemiology; remote sensing; ecological systems; geospatial modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are experiencing a geospatial technology revolution era. Geospatial technologies, especially the integration of GI science, GI system, and GI data science technologies, play critical roles in strategy development, decision making, and society planning. As urban areas are complex systems that include the physical environment, population environment, and human and cultural environment, their development and sustainability require diverse spatial information from multiple dimensions.
Besides the populations, resources, and environments related to urban poverty and urban segmentation, urban development faces additional serious challenges caused by climate change. Recent tremendous floods, drought, and heat have resulted in severe damage in different cities across the world. Social and environmental (in)justice and equity issues have become emerging complicated crises in cities in both developing and developed regions. GIS provides and explores vector data, raster data and their integration, as well as enabling geospatial intelligent data mining and deep learning for smart decision making and policy development to cope with the challenges from both inside and outside of cities. This makes cities more resistant to abnormal natural and human impacts.
The aim of this Special Issue is to publish novel and innovative GIS applications related to urban studies and urban planning to address one or multiple challenges currently facing cities, as discussed above.
This Special Issue will include any submissions focusing on the topics listed, but topics are not limited to only the following:
- Urban and regional planning;
- Land use and planning;
- Functional city zoning and planning;
- Urban infrastructure and analysis;
- Urban transportation and management;
- Urban forest and management;
- Urban hazards and analysis;
- Crime mapping and analysis;
- Solid waste mapping and management;
- Urban resilience and sustainability.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Sincerely,
Dr. Qingmin Meng
Dr. Yongchun Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resilience and sustainability
- urban development and planning
- land use and planning
- zoning and mapping
- infrastructure analysis
- urban forest
- urban hazards
- crime analysis and mapping
