Multi-Dimensional Organic Conservation of Historical Neighborhood Buildings in the Context of Sustainable Urban Renewal

Dear Colleagues,

Although historic neighborhood building’s conservation can be practiced on a small scale, it is equally important for urban planning and sustainable urban renewal. From the Siheyuan in Beijing, the buildings in Roji of Tokyo, and the Avenue in Switzerland, historic neighborhood buildings are widely regarded as the carriers of urban development, life traces, and cultural spirit for individual cities. The focus of conserving urban historical neighborhood buildings is placed on the tangible parts of buildings, such as conservation technologies and material studies. In spite of this, it can also be carried out at an invisible level. In this case, the focus is placed on the culture, identity, memory, and daily life behind urban renewal, which functions as the historical carrier of urban life. Its conservation also involves the planning policies and management models of urban renewal and building conservation. With the support of digital technology, the conservation of historical neighborhood buildings will be conducted through data collection, fine scanning, and digital management of urban historical neighborhoods. This practice relies on UAV remote sensing, big data, artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, and other advanced methodologies. Globalization has promoted the knowledge exchange of various relevant information and case comparisons, improving the understanding of conservation in terms of urban planning, architecture, building technology, heritage, geography, psychology, and others.

This Special Issue of Buildings hopes to receive and inspire cross-technological and multi-dimensional communications on the organic conservation of urban historical neighborhood buildings, for the promotion of sustainable urban renewal, under the theme of Multi-Dimensional Organic Conservation of Historical Neighborhood Buildings in the Context of Sustainable Urban Renewal.

We especially encourage papers that present research on the following topics:

• Sustainable renewal of urban historical neighborhood buildings;
• Conservation technology of urban historical neighborhood buildings;
• Digital conservation of urban historical neighborhood buildings.
• Urban conservation and renewal management of historical neighborhood buildings.

Dr. Fei Chen
Prof. Dr. Gang Feng
Guest Editors

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