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Right to the City as a Response to Pandemics and Climate Challenges

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 7338

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Maciej J. Nowak

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Real Estate Department, West Pomeranian University of Technology, ul. Żołnierska 47, 71-210 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: law; spatial policy; spatial policy tools; spatial planning; environmental protection
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Dr. Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir

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Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geographical Sciences and Planning, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran
Interests: smart cities; climate change; shrinking cities; spatial inequality; strategic planning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit articles to our Special Issue. The pandemic and the increasingly in-depth discussion on climate change are strongly influencing urban policy directions worldwide. In this context, the concept of right to the city is worthy of wider use. It can be a common basis for diverse urban actions. The protection of public spaces, the protection of the environment and nature in cities, and the broader inclusion of healthcare in urban policies can (and should) be combined with the concept of everyone’s right to the city.

The aim of our Special Issue will be to align the current urban challenges of pandemics and climate protection with the aims and demands of the right to the city concept. On the one hand, this will involve providing evidence and materials from different parts of the world, and on the other hand, on the basis of these (as well as an in-depth analysis of the literature on the subject), redefining the concept of right to the city.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Residents’ right to urban health and urban policy;

- Environmental and nature protection in cities as an element of right to the city;

- Climate protection in urban policy as an element of right to the city;

- Developing public participation in post-pandemic urban policy—new methods and measures;

- New directions in urban planning and zoning (changes due to pandemic and climate protection);

- Legal changes to protect urban health and climate more broadly.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Maciej J. Nowak
Dr. Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • right to the city
  • climate changes
  • spatial planning
  • healthcare
  • urban planning
  • environmental protection
  • public participation

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Evaluation of Medical Carrying Capacity for Megacities from a Traffic Analysis Zone View: A Case Study in Shenzhen, China
by Jiansheng Wu, Tengyun Yi, Han Wang, Hongliang Wang, Jiayi Fu and Yuhao Zhao
Land 2022, 11(6), 888; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060888 - 11 Jun 2022
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Sustainable Development Goals propose to build inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and human settlements, which requires us to scientifically evaluate the carrying capacity of current urban public service facilities, but there is still a lack of in-depth exploration of urban public medical [...] Read more.
Sustainable Development Goals propose to build inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and human settlements, which requires us to scientifically evaluate the carrying capacity of current urban public service facilities, but there is still a lack of in-depth exploration of urban public medical service facilities. Therefore, this paper, within the mobile phone signaling data, improved the potential model and carrying capacity evaluation model of public medical facilities, explored the spatial pattern distribution of public medical resources in Shenzhen, and analyzed the current situation of carrying capacity of public medical resources. The study showed that: (1) the overall spatial distribution of public medical resources in Shenzhen is uneven, showing a pattern of multicenter aggregation and multilevel development; (2) the service potential of public medical facilities has obvious spatial variations, with Futian District, Dapeng New District, and Nanshan District showing more obvious high-gravitational-value aggregation centers; (3) medical facilities in Shenzhen are never empty, but the problems of medical underloading and overloading are severe, and spatial allocation and utilization efficiency need to be further optimized. The research results can provide a scientific basis for the research on the allocation and sustainable construction of medical resources in megacities. Full article
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The Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy and Urban Land Use Efficiency: A Policy Assessment from China
by Jingbo Liu, Haoyuan Feng and Kun Wang
Land 2022, 11(5), 604; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050604 - 20 Apr 2022
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Against the backdrop of severe global warming, the low-carbon city pilot policy, with carbon emission reduction as its main objective, is an important initiative for China to fulfil its international commitment to carbon emission reduction and promote a green and low-carbon development strategy. [...] Read more.
Against the backdrop of severe global warming, the low-carbon city pilot policy, with carbon emission reduction as its main objective, is an important initiative for China to fulfil its international commitment to carbon emission reduction and promote a green and low-carbon development strategy. However, none of the literature has yet evaluated whether the pilot low-carbon city policy promotes urban land use efficiency as a policy effect. In view of this, this paper measures urban land use efficiency from a low-carbon perspective using a global reference super-efficiency SBM model based on data from 186 prefecture-level cities in China from 2005–2017, and subsequently constructs a difference-in-differences method to test the true impact of low-carbon city pilot policies on urban land use efficiency and carbon emissions, and uses a propensity score matching method to test its robustness. It is found that: (1) the average level of urban land use efficiency in China is low and on a downward trend; (2) overall, cities are predominantly low-efficiency cities, with only the high-efficiency cities in Guangdong Province showing spatial agglomeration; and (3) the low-carbon city pilot policy reduces carbon emissions while also negatively affecting urban land use efficiency. Accordingly, this paper puts forward corresponding policy recommendations. Full article
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