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Sustainable Evaluation Methodology of Urban and Regional Planning

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 22 April 2025 | Viewed by 11607

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Dr. Yilun Liu

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School of Public Administration, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: land resources management; urban renewal; land use change; urban and rural sustainability
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Dr. Xiaocong Xu

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School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, 135 West Xingang RD, Guangzhou 510275, China
Interests: urban dynamics; land use change simulation; geographic big data; natural disaster assessment; remote sensing image processing
Dr. Guohua Hu

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School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Interests: geographic information science; urban sustainability; land use change modeling
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Urbanization is a global trend that has led to the rapid growth of cities and regions, bringing about significant social, economic, and environmental challenges. To address these challenges, urban and regional planning has become increasingly important for promoting sustainable development. Sustainable urban and regional planning aims to design and implement interventions that balance economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection while ensuring that the needs of current and future generations are met.

In recent years, geo-big data and GeoAI have emerged as important approaches to evaluate the sustainability of land use or urban planning. These new developments provide opportunities to gain new insights into sustainable urban and regional planning and can help policymakers address the potential challenges raised by global climate change.

Therefore, we are organizing a Special Issue that is open to researchers interested in the field of sustainable urban and regional planning using geo-big data and GeoAI. In this Special Issue, we invite original research articles and review papers that provide valuable insights into the new developments of sustainable evaluation methodologies for urban and regional planning.

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that include the following themes:

  • Sustainable regional/urban land use evaluation with geo-big data;
  • Sustainable regional natural resources evaluation with geo-big data;
  • Regional/urban environmental change and evaluation;
  • Urban and regional planning models based on GeoAI or machine learning;
  • Land use optimization models based on GeoAI or machine learning.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Yilun Liu
Dr. Xiaocong Xu
Dr. Guohua Hu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable evaluation
  • urban and regional planning
  • geospatial big data
  • GeoAI
  • land use optimization
  • land use evaluation

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Assessment of Ventilation Potential and Construction of Wind Corridors in Chengdu City Based on Multi-Source Data and Multi-Model Analysis
by Xiaojiang Xia, Ling Jian, Kaiji Ouyang, Xiuying Liu, Xuewen Liang, Yang Zhang and Bojia Li
Land 2024, 13(10), 1671; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13101671 - 14 Oct 2024
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The establishment of urban ventilation corridors (UVCs) aims to mitigate the urban heat island effect. While most studies focus on the construction and assessment of the environmental benefit of UVCs, they often overlook the analysis of UVCs’ topological features. This research integrates multi-source [...] Read more.
The establishment of urban ventilation corridors (UVCs) aims to mitigate the urban heat island effect. While most studies focus on the construction and assessment of the environmental benefit of UVCs, they often overlook the analysis of UVCs’ topological features. This research integrates multi-source data including 3D urban buildings, historical meteorological observations, high-resolution remote sensing, and land use planning, combined with multiple models, including geographic information system spatial analysis, circuit theory, and complex networks. Based on an assessment of urban ventilation potential, the circuit model was applied to extract UVCs aligned with the prevailing wind direction for both summer and winter seasons. Complex network modeling was employed to analyze the topological features of the ventilation network. From the analytical results, a multi-level wind corridor system for Chengdu was quantitatively developed. The results indicate that the city’s overall ventilation resistance is high, with notable spatial clustering, and the southeastern region faces substantial ventilation obstructions. A total of 143 critical ventilation nodes were identified, with the number of air inlets and outlets in summer being significantly fewer than in winter. However, the cooling effect of ventilation corridors in the prevailing summer wind direction is superior to that in winter. The ventilation network comprises 16 communities with distinct ventilation characteristics, exhibiting moderate connectivity, lacking small-world properties, and showing congestion and instability. Full article
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The Relationship between Farmland Abandonment and Urbanization Processes: A Case Study in Four Chinese Urban Agglomerations
by Nan Zheng, Le Li, Lijian Han, Xiufang Zhu, Kefei Zhao, Ziyang Zhu and Xiaolan Ye
Land 2024, 13(5), 664; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13050664 - 11 May 2024
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Clarifying the relationship between urbanization and farmland abandonment in urban agglomerations (UAs) is crucial to guide the formulation of arable land management policies and strategies for sustainable urban development. Despite numerous studies confirming the correlation between farmland abandonment and certain urbanization factors, the [...] Read more.
Clarifying the relationship between urbanization and farmland abandonment in urban agglomerations (UAs) is crucial to guide the formulation of arable land management policies and strategies for sustainable urban development. Despite numerous studies confirming the correlation between farmland abandonment and certain urbanization factors, the exploration of the patterns and underlying mechanisms of farmland abandonment in China’s UAs remains worthy of systematic investigation. In this study, we conducted an analysis of the spatiotemporal trends in farmland abandonment and examined the key drivers of farmland abandonment in four representative Chinese UAs—Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH), Chengdu–Chongqing (CC), Pearl River Delta (PRD), and Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Our findings reveal that farmland abandonment has been intensified with increasing fragmentation and aggregation patches across these UAs. Abandonment experience was the main driver of continuous abandonment. Moreover, natural conditions persistently influenced farmland abandonment in the BTH, while land urbanization and economic urbanization were predominant drivers in the CC. The abandonment in the PRD was mainly driven by population urbanization, while the abandonment in the YRD was primarily driven by economic urbanization and land urbanization. The research findings provide data support and scientific explanation for land policy-making in these typical UAs under different development strategies. Full article
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The Value Expression and Driving Factors of Rural Spatial Ecological Products: A Case Study of B&Bs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, China
by Jie Yin and Lili Zhao
Land 2024, 13(3), 270; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030270 - 21 Feb 2024
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In the context of rural revitalization strategies and humans’ increasing leisure pursuits, rural tourism has begun to act as a new development path of rural economic growth and industrial transformation. This phenomenon generally occurs in rural areas around metropolitan areas, manifesting as the [...] Read more.
In the context of rural revitalization strategies and humans’ increasing leisure pursuits, rural tourism has begun to act as a new development path of rural economic growth and industrial transformation. This phenomenon generally occurs in rural areas around metropolitan areas, manifesting as the transformation or reconstruction of rural spaces. As a result, many new types of tertiary industry spaces utilizing rural land for leisure activities have emerged. We analyze the connotations of rural spatial and industrial transformation from the perspective of spatial production and innovatively propose that the transformed space is an ecological product, which includes three types in practice: industrial space, consumption space, and residential space. This study facilitates urban–rural integration and common prosperity. Given the lack of analysis of rural ecological products, especially rural spatial ecological products (e.g., rural B&Bs and other tertiary industry spaces), this study aims to explore the value expression and driving factors of rural spatial ecological products based on geo-visual (spatially visualizing) analytical tools looking at 10361 B&Bs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces of China as typical examples. Our results show that (1) the value of rural spatial ecological products is reflected in the price that urban consumers are willing to pay for rural natural landscapes, which constitutes an ecological premium; and (2) the prices of rural spatial ecological products are strikingly different at multiple spatial scales, and this difference is related to the local ecological resources. This study provides insights into the rational allocation of the limited resources required for rural construction, which helps optimize the spatial planning of rural ecotourism and enhance the gametogenous development momentum of rural areas. At the same time, this study theoretically expands the research results of cultural ecosystem services. Full article
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Ecosystem Service Value Changes in Response to Land Use Dynamics in Lithuania
by Gintarė Sujetovienė and Giedrius Dabašinskas
Land 2023, 12(12), 2151; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122151 - 11 Dec 2023
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Changes in land cover affect ecosystems and the services they provide. The aim of this study was to assess the spatial changes in land use from 1990 to 2018 and analyze the changes in ecosystem service value (ESV) in response to the changes [...] Read more.
Changes in land cover affect ecosystems and the services they provide. The aim of this study was to assess the spatial changes in land use from 1990 to 2018 and analyze the changes in ecosystem service value (ESV) in response to the changes in landscape structure in Lithuania. Croplands provided the majority of the ESV, followed by forests, grasslands, and wetlands. The total ESV in Lithuania was USD 29 billion year−1 in 2018, and land use had a significant impact on ESV, with a total decrease of USD 438 million year−1 between 1990 and 2018. The total ESV change was mainly influenced by the decrease in provisioning (USD 426 million year−1) and regulating (USD 208 million year−1) services. The reduction in cropland area was a major factor in the loss of ESV. The increase in the value of habitat and cultural services was not large enough to offset the reduction of the ESV. The highest elasticities were in the urban municipalities, indicating a significant change in ESV due to land use change. The results of this study provide valuable insight into the potential of the sustainable management and regeneration of ecosystems. Full article
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Incorporating High-Speed Rail Development Scenario for Tourism Land Use Simulation: A Case Study of Xinxing County, China
by Zhenzhi Jiao, Shaoying Li, Zhangping Lin, Zhipeng Lai, Zhuo Wu and Lin Liu
Land 2023, 12(6), 1170; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061170 - 1 Jun 2023
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High-speed rail (HSR) has been proven to drive the development of regional tourism. However, few studies paid attention to the impact of HSR on future tourism land use. In this study, points of interest (POI) were used to obtain the locations and types [...] Read more.
High-speed rail (HSR) has been proven to drive the development of regional tourism. However, few studies paid attention to the impact of HSR on future tourism land use. In this study, points of interest (POI) were used to obtain the locations and types of tourism facilities, and high-resolution remote sensing images helped us determine the spatial extents of the tourism facilities, so that tourism land could be identified. A system dynamics (SD) model was coupled with the patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) model to simulate future tourism land by considering two scenarios, including HSR-led development (HRD) and the historical development pattern (HD) scenario. The SD model was employed to project the amount of tourism land and determine the HSR effects via empirical analysis. The PLUS model was applied to simulate the spatial distribution of tourism land and model the HSR effect by adopting a planned tourism area as the development area. The study area is Xinxing County in Guangdong Province, China, a county dominated by rural tourism, with the HSR expected to open in 2025. The results revealed that the SD-PLUS model has great advantages in simulating tourism land use change, and the HRD scenario leads to major changes in the sources of tourism land growth. This research provides new insights for policymakers on making countermeasures for the sustainability of tourism and rural revitalization at the county level. Full article
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Enthralling Prefigurative Urban and Regional Planning Forward
by Carlos José Lopes Balsas
Land 2023, 12(11), 1973; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12111973 - 26 Oct 2023
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Improving, strengthening, and fine tuning, as well as developing, revitalizing, conserving, and preserving, are all words commonly used in an urban and regional planner’s vocabulary. More nebulous are the concepts of it, thyself, which are the other in planning thinking and professional interventions. [...] Read more.
Improving, strengthening, and fine tuning, as well as developing, revitalizing, conserving, and preserving, are all words commonly used in an urban and regional planner’s vocabulary. More nebulous are the concepts of it, thyself, which are the other in planning thinking and professional interventions. Who, what, how, when, and where will it be carried out? If conscious and aware of one’s actions, oneself ought to be able to answer these questions without deference to its outcomes. However, it is commonly recognized that we are unable, and at times unwilling, to understand others’ reaction to a proposal, even when put forward according to established common norms and traditions and socio-economic, environmental, cultural, and legal orders. The purpose of this paper is to review various planning challenges derived from earlier lived and or researched experiences that have already occurred, others taking place here and now, as well as others in need of further conceptualization and study. The review methods build not only upon the now classical sustainability framework, but also upon the more recent and alternative Soft City approach centered on place, movement, and sociability. It is believed that the planning topics and methods analyzed in this review can help reach carbon neutrality goals, promote climate urbanism, accomplish higher utilization of renewable energy, and reduce automobility levels, all goals conducive to graceful bliss and authentic happiness. Full article
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