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New Technologies and Methods in Spatial Planning, 2nd Edition
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New Technologies and Methods in Spatial Planning, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land – Observation and Monitoring".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 863

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Li

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School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: neighborhoods; sociospatial transformation; spatial planning; urban China
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Prof. Dr. Feng Zhen

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School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Interests: big data and urban space; smart cities; urban and regional planning
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Prof. Dr. Yang Xiao

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College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Interests: built environment; spatial assessment; social health;community governance
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to bring together new technologies, approaches, and even paradigms of spatial planning in the context of the early 21st century. We invite studies using new data resources, computational tools such as AI, and various social/spatial sensors to serve the needs of new and rising spatial plans. We also invite studies on more inclusive, participatory, and bottom–up spatial planning paradigms across the different contexts of the Global North and the Global South. Through the efforts of this Special Issue, we hope to highlight the ongoing upgrades and changes in methods and technologies in spatial planning, towards different directions and with different effects or outcomes, with the aim of helping our readers obtain a deeper understand of the changing trends of contemporary spatial planning.

For this Special Issue, we invite papers related to, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • New data, technologies, and methods (ICTs, AI, IoT, UAV) for spatial planning;
  • New trends of spatial planning across various contexts;
  • Case studies of new spatial planning for various scales;
  • Governance of spatial planning;
  • Comparative studies of spatial planning across different countries;
  • The effects of various types of urban spatial planning.

Prof. Dr. Zhigang Li
Prof. Dr. Feng Zhen
Prof. Dr. Yang Xiao
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Keywords

  • spatial planning
  • urban
  • governance
  • data

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Characteristics of Urban–Rural Integration at the County-Scale Interface: The Case of Linqu County, China
by Guiqing Yang, Liyao Wang and Huang Huang
Land 2024, 13(12), 1999; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13121999 - 23 Nov 2024
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Urban–rural integration (URI) has emerged as a crucial strategy to bridge urban and rural disparities and promote more sustained urbanisation paradigms in China and abroad. The urban–rural interface, where urban and rural spaces and daily activities are closely intertwined, reflects the complex and [...] Read more.
Urban–rural integration (URI) has emerged as a crucial strategy to bridge urban and rural disparities and promote more sustained urbanisation paradigms in China and abroad. The urban–rural interface, where urban and rural spaces and daily activities are closely intertwined, reflects the complex and evolving dynamics of this integration, serves as a focal point for studying URI, and requires unique considerations in spatial planning. This study focuses on the scale of the county level and the basic spatial units for spatial planning practice in China to examine different types of urban–rural interfaces and their URI dynamics at a county level. By taking Linqu County as a case study region, land use data from Landsat remote sensing datasets were collected every 5 years from 2000 to 2020 to support the analysis of changes in the urban–rural interface. Three dimensions of land mixed-use features were employed, including the area and density, edge and shape, and aggregation and dispersion of the construction land in the region. When combined with the proportion of rural land use, the urban–rural interfaces were identified using the entropy method. This study then employed spatial analysis, the standard deviation ellipse method, and spatial autocorrelation to recognise URI dynamics, and three driving forces were identified and further analysed to support suggestions for county-level spatial planning. This research empirically enriches the understanding of the urban–rural interfaces and URI dynamics of Linqu, China. The methods and suggestions derived from the empirical study can offer potential solutions to promote URI in China and enhance urban–rural linkage in the global context to reach more sustained development. Full article
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