Description:
The International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities (IJUPSC) is a peer-reviewed journal for researchers, academics, practitioners, and emerging scholars to publish their established results and new insights within the field of urban planning and digital transformation of cities. Triple... Show More
The International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities (IJUPSC) is a peer-reviewed journal for researchers, academics, practitioners, and emerging scholars to publish their established results and new insights within the field of urban planning and digital transformation of cities. Triple sustainability of urban innovations (i.e. social, economic, and environmental sustainability) is the core of this editorial initiative.
Urban Planning addresses the design of cities and urban spaces in a multiple scale vision, and other important challenges of our time such as housing and shrinking cities to create high quality of life and social and economic opportunities for people.
Smart City addresses the key technological enablers of the new innovations that meet the needs and preferences of people. Linking and addressing these two topics together provides us the unprecedented opportunity to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to dissemination of novel practices for the sustainable development of our cities. The journal adopts the innovative lens of the complex, digital, and systemic cities, linking theory to practice.
Mission & Scope:
The issues related to the growth of the urban population or, on the contrary, to shrinking cities are among the most important challenges of our time. The bulk of non-renewable resource consumption occurs in cities; this implies that cities are the first place where the innovations which must guide us towards a new model of sustainability must be experimented. To pursue the final aim of... Show More
The issues related to the growth of the urban population or, on the contrary, to shrinking cities are among the most important challenges of our time. The bulk of non-renewable resource consumption occurs in cities; this implies that cities are the first place where the innovations which must guide us towards a new model of sustainability must be experimented.
To pursue the final aim of identifying, and to put these innovations at work, due to rapid growth and continuous changes of cities, the policy and planning instruments as well as the use of new technologies and their application need to constantly adapt.
The International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities provides researchers and practitioners the perfect arena to analyze these changes, and to propose cutting-edge innovations through the urban planning and digital transformation disciplines. In particular, the journal aims at investigating the possibilities enabled by the connection between the two disciplines, the benefits, the difficulties/criticalities or the lesson learnt from past experiences and the possible future strategies.
Coverage:
- Changes in Urban Planning Due to New Technologies and Data Availability
- City and Complexity
- Cybersecurity and Safety in Digital Cities
- Data as Enabler of Urban Smartness
- Digital Transformation of Cities
- Distributed Ledger Technologies and IoT for Smart Cities
- Electronic Identity for All (People and Things) in Digital Cities
- Game and Gamification of urban experiences
- Geographic Information Systems
- Impact Evaluation of Smart City Innovations
- Innovative Applications in Smart City (Mobility, Energy, Water, Waste, Air Quality)
- Limitations and Possibilities of Urban Planning: Policies, Processes, Actions and Plans
- Management of Urban Environment
- New Business and Funding Models for Smart Cities
- Participatory Approaches to Urban Planning and Policy Making
- Smart City Evaluations
- Social Housing, Co-Housing, Co-Living, and Impact on Cities
- Urban Planning, Resilience and Sustainability
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All inquiries regarding IJUPSC should be directed to the attention of:
Submission-Related InquiriesProf. Nicola Martinelli
Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
nicola.martinelli@poliba.it
Francesco Rotondo
Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
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