Social Evolution and Sustainability in the Urban Context

Dear Colleagues,

In today's societies, sustainability and social evolution, understood as mechanisms for the improvement of urban contexts, are of increasing importance. Our analytical capacity has allowed us to better understand these processes, and to propose or design intervention strategies. This includes the use of simulations, research on the future, inference strategies, qualitative studies, the design of urban environments and the promotion of sustainability. This Special Issue therefore focuses on a multidisciplinary perspective of great relevance and topicality.

This Special Issue aims to present existing multidisciplinary knowledge and perspectives. We therefore welcome the submission of theoretical and empirical studies that investigate urban sustainability and social evolution within the urban context.

This Special Issue will provide an overview of urban studies on social patterns and mechanisms. We are interested in prospective work, case studies of planning in which the social is highly relevant, socio-critical analyses of urban interventions and significant future challenges, as well as scientific and strategic responses. In short, we are interested in the rational analysis of social decision-making in its urban context. The scope of this Special Issue therefore includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Analysis of social sustainability in the urban context.
• Impact of urban interventions on social groups.
• Analysis of the relationships/conditions between socio-types and the urban.
• Study of disability in the urban environment.
• Strategies for promoting social sustainability in cities.
• Mechanisms of social participation in decision-making when intervening in cities.
• Improvement of social relations through urban intervention.
• Study of urban social reality through simulation tools.
• Analysis of the disruptions and imbalances that new global economic and development models introduce at the local/urban scale, and the social imbalances generated.

Prof. Dr. Juan R. Coca
Dr. Julio Fernandez Portela
Dr. Victor Jimenez
Guest Editors

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• social sustainability in the urban context
• social evolution
• disability in the urban environment
• social participation
• urban intervention
• urban social reality