Building the city of the future: Here are some article collections on sustainable cities
Cities are where many of us spend our time: to work, play, and live. To explore how this might be done sustainably in the future, we are highlighting the top Research Topics on sustainable cities. Join us by reading up on the incredible findings and solutions made by researchers from across the globe. With more than 720,000 collective views, scientists explored topics and advanced fields, including work on trends in urban agriculture, sustainable urban development, urban play, and well-being in urban environments.
Research Topics:
Legacies of land use in cities
10 articles | 132,000 views
Understanding the cultural, political and ethical dimensions of urban nature
10 articles | 131,000 views
Using innovative systems to discover which urban agricultural practices are productive, ecologically sustainable, and economically profitable
9 articles | 45,000 views
Aiming to take stock of and advance the current state-of-the-art in green space governance in a global perspective
Uncovering the hidden footprint of cities
13 articles | 95,000 views
Providing an overview of current research on urban microbiomes of city green spaces and other elements of the built and natural environments
Implications for the planning and management of healthy cities
68 articles | 77,000 views
Sharing the latest insights and findings of the physical environment and health, and practical implications to provide research support for policy development and evaluation
Towards sustainable urban development
25 articles | 32,000 views
Focusing on multi-source geo-big data for sustainable development and smart spatial planning decision-making
Urban play and the playable city
10 articles | 46,000 views
Comparing the various forms of play that occur in urban environments, from simple hide and seek games to augmented reality games, with the notion of the playable city
Urban metabolism options and trends
11 articles | 65,000 views
Understanding the costs and benefits of applicable solutions (or acceptable compromises) for future innovative policy-making and sustainable urban management
Greenness, health, and well-Being in urban environments
14 articles | 77,000 views
Addressing ‘urban greenism,’ green space and green built environments to enhance urban livability and sustainability
Urban (in)security and social justice
9 articles | 24,000 views
Collecting understandings of urban (in)security experiences, practices, and the implications for the incorporation of social justice in urban planning in post-colonial settings in the Global South
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