Spatial Governance and Planning for Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 740
Special Issue Editors
Interests: planning theory, spatial planning systems, EU territorial governance
Interests: EU territorial governance; spatial planning systems; European territorial cooperation; planning law and property rights; sustainable land use; new institutionalism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable” is one of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) established in 2015 by the United Nations (UN) organization to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. More directly than others, this goal calls into question the institutional functions of spatial governance and planning addressed to the urban environment. Every state in the world exerts these functions through respective “systems” of spatial governance and planning that—with the concurrent activity of legal devices, administrative provisions, planning tools, and professional cultures—allow and rule urban development in each institutional context. Whereas national systems of spatial governance and planning have been the subject of various studies and analyses in the last 30 years, very little is known about how they are effectively promoting inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable urban development.
Against this backdrop, this Special Issue welcomes two kinds of contributions: (a) evidence-based papers illustrating and discussing how one or more spatial governance and planning system is positioned with respect to the UN SDG to making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable; and (b) theoretical papers that propose appropriate methodologies and indicators to assess and compare the performance of spatial governance and planning systems with respect to the same UN SDG.
Prof. Dr. Umberto Janin Rivolin
Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Cotella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Spatial governance
- Spatial planning
- National systems
- Urban development
- Sustainability
- Inclusiveness
- Safety
- Resilience
- Evidence-based reporting
- Assessment methodologies and indicators
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