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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View Full Editorial PolicyAs this journal is under the Hybrid Open Access model, authors can choose between Standard (Non-OA) publishing or Open Access publishing. Find the policies for the publishing models below:
- Standard (Non-OA) Publishing: If the author chooses to publish under the Standard (Non-OA) model, the article will be published under a Green OA model and the copyright of
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This journal operates under the Hybrid Open Access model,
allowing the author to choose between traditional, subscription-based publishing, or Open Access publishing.
Subscription-Based Publishing/Green Open Access:
Article manuscripts require no Article Processing Charge (APC) and require authors to transfer the copyright of the
manuscript to IGI Global. Manuscripts are published behind a paywall and must be purchased for use. See the
Fair Use Policy
for sharing allowances conducive to Green Open Access.
Open Access Publishing:
Article manuscripts receive the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of
the article. Others may distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, without asking
prior permission from the publisher or author and so long as they credit the author for the original creation.
A one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) of US $2,300 must be paid AFTER the manuscript has gone
through the full double-blind peer review process and the Editor(s)-in-Chief at his/her/their full discretion
has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. Learn
more about APCs
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Open Access Funding:
IGI Global recognizes that many researchers may not know where to begin when searching for OA funding opportunities. IGI Global recently
launched an
Open Access Funding Resources
page for researchers to browse. This page provides a comprehensive list of OA funding sources available for researchers to secure funds
for their various OA publications.
Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography
Nicola Martinelli received with honours the M.Sc. degree in Architecture from the Architecture Faculty of Naples in 1983 with a thesis in Landscape Architecture named “An Archaeological Park for Egnazia”, published in “Formative Research”. From 2004 until 2017 he was Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Bari. From 2009 until 2013, he was Vice-Rector of the Polytechnic University of Bari with responsibility for the Study Fees. In 2017 he became a Full Professor of Urban Planning at the Department ICAR of the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. In 2018 was appointed Vice-President of the Urban Policies Center Urban@it and since 2014 he has been a member of the Council of Società Italiana Urbanisti. His research interests are the new generation of urban planning and GIS, the housing topic, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, the relationship between Cities and Universities, Smart City and the Sustainability of. He has several publications on these fields.