Sustainable Urban Environments

Brand new OPEN ACCESS journal, 2022. Global Environmental Psychology (GEP) is a peer-reviewed, fully open journal that is published online under the PsychOpen GOLD programme of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). GEP is endorsed by the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) and by the environmental psychology section of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPS). It publishes theoretical and applied work on the relationship between people and their environment with a psychological emphasis.

Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities.

Cities publishes articles on many aspects of urban planning and policy. It distinguishes itself by providing an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information among urban planners, policy makers and analysts, and urbanists from all disciplines.

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening is a refereed, international journal aimed at presenting high-quality research with urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management as its main topics.

Urban Planning (ISSN: 2183-7635) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies aimed at advancing understandings and ideas of humankind’s habitats.

The Journal of Urban Planning and Development covers the application of civil engineering to such aspects of urban planning as area-wide transportation, the coordination of planning and programming of public works and utilities, and the development and redevelopment of urban areas. Subjects include environmental assessment, esthetic considerations, land use planning, underground utilities, infrastructure management, renewal legislation, transportation planning, and evaluation of the economic value of state parks.

Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions for landscape change.

The Journal of Environmental Psychology is the premier journal in the field, serving individuals in a wide range of disciplines who have an interest in the scientific study of the transactions and interrelationships between people and their surroundings (including built, social, natural and virtual environments, the use and abuse of nature and natural resources, and sustainability-related behavior). The journal publishes internationally contributed empirical studies and systematic reviews and meta-analyses of research on these topics that advance new insights.

The Annual IEEE GreenTech Conference was conceived to address the challenges of securing green and clean energy sources
for the 21st century and building a more resilient and secure power grid to protect the environment.

The Journal of Living Architecture (JLIV) is the peer-reviewed journal of the Green Infrastructure Foundation (GIF), a charitable 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) founded to respond to the need for greater awareness and resources to promote the design, installation, and maintenance of green infrastructure in local communities.

Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension.

Focusing on the pluralism of positions and project perspectives, City, Territory and Architecture (CTA) opens an interdisciplinary debate on the relational nature of projects for spaces where people settle and interrelate. This is a SpringerOpen journal; all articles are open access.

Open Access regular scientific publication devoted to to contribute to the knowledge exchange of researchers and professionals interested in developing the particular relations that User Experience (UX) have with the built environment, urban planning, public space, urban design, and other environmental applications.

Urban Impact is a quarterly newsletter published by UN-Habitat highlighting the impact of initiatives being implemented by the Agency in partnership with governments, cities and communities around the world towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, with focus on GOAL 11 - the Urban Goal and the New Urban Agenda.

summaries and assessments of 26 such strategies from different cities in all regions of the world. It also proposes a new set of typologies of strategies and a framework with which strategies can be evaluated. This compendium is complemented by City-Wide Public Space Strategies: a Guidebook for City Leaders and together they provide city leaders, including mayors, local authorities, urban planners and designers, with the knowledge and tools necessary to support them in developing and implementing city-wide public space strategies.

This publication delivers an interdisciplinary approach from professionals and scholars working in government, the United Nations, academia, scientific research, and private sector. The purpose of this publication is (1) to raise awareness on new technological innovations and how these changes affect urban infrastructure and the quality of living of urban dwellers; (2) to enhance collective knowledge on different user cases of new technologies in cities and the potential benefits and risks; and (3) to call for collaboration and collective actions from all cities to smartly use and govern new tech solutions for a safer, more inclusive, and more prosperous urban environment.

The Initiative on Financing for Resilient, Green and Smart Urban Global Solutions (FRUGS) develops innovative solutions for financing resilient, green and smart cities Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Cities FRUGS promotes the sustainable, resilient and smart development solutions for housing, infrastructure, water and sanitation, waste management, energy, urban services, productive capacities, cities, the financial systems and instruments at the city, regional and/or country levels. FRUGS Initiative is a global partnership among UN-HABITAT, KfW Development Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and Shelter Afrique, and a technical services facility to develop knowledge, standards, tools and financial solutions for integrated, resilient, green and smart urban development.

A tool for coastal and small island state water utilities to assess and manage climate change risk