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New Trends in the Built Environment and Urban Development

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 10772

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Hao Wang

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School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 102206, China
Interests: urban regeneration; sustainable built environment; urban construction and management; land use planning; policy effect analysis
Dr. Ran Gao

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School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
Interests: international engineering management; engineering management; construction management; construction safety; construction engineering
Dr. Rebecca Yang

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Solar Energy Application Lab, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: solar building and urban environment; energy simulation and modelling; construction innovation; stakeholder management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Buildings invites research papers related to the above theme for inclusion in a Special Issue arranged to be published in 2022. The aim of this Special Issue is to present the new trends emerging in built environments and urban development to readers globally.

In recent years, there has been a growing consensus to create built environments with matching resources, ecological balance, effective production, and environmental friendliness. The pursuit of sustainable urban development is a long-term mission, with new challenges constanstly emerging. Therefore, new methods for planning and design, new technology, new governance, and new business models are in high demand. This Special Issue encourages all researchers and professionals working on the built environment and urban development to share their insights with the journal's large readership.

This Special Issue will be edited by Hao Wang, Rebecca Yang, and Ran Gao. The submission deadline for this Special Issue is 31st October 2022. This Special Issue belongs to the Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate sub-section of Buildings.

Prof. Dr. Hao Wang
Dr. Ran Gao
Dr. Rebecca Yang
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • built environment
  • urban development
  • spatial restructuring
  • sustainability
  • resilience
  • productivity
  • technology
  • multi-disciplinary
  • innovation

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Evaluation of Urban Resilience Based on Trio Spaces: An Empirical Study in Northeast China
by Jiayu Zhang, Xiaodong Yang and Dagang Lu
Buildings 2023, 13(7), 1695; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13071695 - 02 Jul 2023
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Realizing the building of urban resilience and improving urban resilience has become important contents of urban development. In view of this phenomenon, relying on the framework of trio spaces, which includes physical space, societal space, and cyberspace, the evaluation index system of urban [...] Read more.
Realizing the building of urban resilience and improving urban resilience has become important contents of urban development. In view of this phenomenon, relying on the framework of trio spaces, which includes physical space, societal space, and cyberspace, the evaluation index system of urban resilience is established. The evaluation model of urban resilience is constructed by using CRITIC-entropy weight and the cloud evaluation method. Four sub-provincial cities in Northeast China, Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, and Dalian, are selected as the analysis objects, and the resilience of each city is comprehensively evaluated and spatially evaluated. From the urban resilience comprehensive evaluation, this paper found the cities with the highest resilience levels in 2014, from 2015 to 2018, and from 2019 to 2020 are Dalian, Changchun, and Shenyang, respectively. The city with the lowest resilience level is Harbin. Although there are differences in resilience evaluation values of four cities, the resilience levels of these cities are all “qualified”. From the urban resilience sub-space evaluation, this paper explored the shortcomings of the resilience of physical space, societal space, and cyberspace of each city through the comparison. Then, some suggestions about highlighting the enhancement of cyberspace resilience, emphasizing resilience-building balance, conducting resilience evaluation, and monitoring regularly, and local government policy support are proposed to help to promote urban resilience from the concept of trio spaces. Full article
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Governing for Spatial Reconfiguration in Tourism-Oriented Peri-Urban Villages: New Developments from Three Cases in China
by Yiwen Shao and Yao Sun
Buildings 2023, 13(2), 519; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020519 - 14 Feb 2023
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Peri-urban villages have become the new hotspot of rural tourism development in China as different actors strive to reconfigure the rural environment in order to meet growing tourist demands, provide distinctive tourism experience, and improve villagers’ quality of life. The presence of diverse [...] Read more.
Peri-urban villages have become the new hotspot of rural tourism development in China as different actors strive to reconfigure the rural environment in order to meet growing tourist demands, provide distinctive tourism experience, and improve villagers’ quality of life. The presence of diverse stakeholders requires new governance wisdom. This situation also underscores the importance of examining emerging trends to enrich existing literature and guide future practices. Based on first-hand information from interviews, field investigation, and questionnaire surveys, this study illustrates the evolving structure and dynamics of governance approaches and the roles of stakeholders in creating characteristic peri-urban tourism destinations. Three exemplary cases, headed respectively by the local government, a state-owned enterprise, and artists, are investigated and evaluated. We find that collaborative approaches that foster value co-creation and benefit-sharing are gradually replacing earlier governance models that are dominated by a single party, and that proper leadership and institutional design are key to achieving collaborative governance. The findings support recommendations on openness to participation, negotiation and coordination, division of rights and responsibilities, and a combination of incentive and regulatory policies in rural tourism development. Full article
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Technology Innovation for Sustainability in the Building Construction Industry: An Analysis of Patents from the Yangtze River Delta, China
by Lingyue Li, Lie Wang and Xiaohu Zhang
Buildings 2022, 12(12), 2205; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122205 - 13 Dec 2022
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Advances in technology provides the potential to innovate sustainability in the building construction industry. Drawing on the literature and expert reviews, this research discloses the potential of 14 specific technologies in waste minimisation, energy saving, and efficiency improvement for sustainable building construction and [...] Read more.
Advances in technology provides the potential to innovate sustainability in the building construction industry. Drawing on the literature and expert reviews, this research discloses the potential of 14 specific technologies in waste minimisation, energy saving, and efficiency improvement for sustainable building construction and develops a conceptual framework engaging the building life cycle (the planning, construction, use and operation, and demolition phases) and the actors for assessing technological innovation at a local level. This framework is used to identify how technologies were innovated for sustainable building construction through the selected 3017 patent invention applications from the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), one of the fastest urbanising areas and the largest market for the building industry in China. Findings unveiled that innovation is uneven amongst the 14 technologies and the degree of mixing was relatively low in the YRD. The contribution of the technological innovation to sustainability is mainly actualised through efficiency improvements in building construction (2265) and through directly reducing waste (1094) and energy consumption (642). Some general-purpose technologies (e.g., blockchain, cloud computing), which assume to fundamentally innovate the industry, are mostly absent with less than 10 records each, leaving the potential for future adaptive technological innovation. Furthermore, state-owned enterprises as the main sources of patent inventions amongst applicants in the YRD may suggest the dissimilar path of China towards technology innovation compared to its Anglo-American counterparts. Full article
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Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Characteristics and Trend Forecast of Building Industry VOCs Emissions in China
by Hongbin Dai, Guangqiu Huang, Jingjing Wang and Huibin Zeng
Buildings 2022, 12(10), 1661; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101661 - 11 Oct 2022
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Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the building industry in China are increasing. Predicting future trends in China’s building industry VOCs will help the implementation of China’s construction VOCs emission reduction policy. The aim of this study is to combine Granger causality [...] Read more.
Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the building industry in China are increasing. Predicting future trends in China’s building industry VOCs will help the implementation of China’s construction VOCs emission reduction policy. The aim of this study is to combine Granger causality analysis, Ridge regression, GM(1,N), and categorical boosting (CatBoost) methods for the analysis of factors influencing and trend prediction of VOCs emissions from building industry in China. Firstly, the spatial and temporal characteristics of building industry VOCs emissions in China were calculated, based on building industry VOCs emissions data from 2006 to 2020 for each province and city in China. Secondly, Granger causality tests and STIRPAT models were used to examine the influencing factors of construction VOCs, combined with ridge regression to estimate the elasticity coefficients of the influencing factors and feature screening, which were used as input features for prediction. Finally, a combination of the improved GM(1,N) model and the CatBoost model was used to predict and compare the results with those of the GM(1,N) model, the support vector regression model (SVR), the random forest (RF), and the CatBoost model. The results show that the combined model with improved GM(1,N) and CatBoost has better prediction accuracy than the other models. China’s building industry VOCs emissions are increasing year on year and are not expected to reach their peak by 2030. The size of the population, the number of people employed in the building industry, and the area of housing floor space under construction are important influencing factors that affect VOCs emissions from building industry in China. Based on the predicted results for the different scenario settings, building industry VOCs emissions are lower in the short term for the baseline scenario and in the long term for the high-speed scenario. Full article
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Hotspots and Trends in Coastal Building from 1988 to 2023: Based on the Web of Science and CiteSpace
by Huimin Yang and Chulsoo Kim
Buildings 2023, 13(8), 1893; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081893 - 25 Jul 2023
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This paper uses CiteSpace R6.1 bibliometric software to construct a knowledge map of coastal building research, analyses research authors, institutions, countries, keyword co-occurrence and keyword clustering, visualises and analyses the relevant literature collected in WOS, summarises the current state of research, research hotspots [...] Read more.
This paper uses CiteSpace R6.1 bibliometric software to construct a knowledge map of coastal building research, analyses research authors, institutions, countries, keyword co-occurrence and keyword clustering, visualises and analyses the relevant literature collected in WOS, summarises the current state of research, research hotspots and research frontiers in the field, and provides a theoretical basis and decision support for relevant research. Specifically, this paper analyses 2067 records from 1988 to 2023. The results show that the impacts of climate change on coastal buildings are a major focus of research, but there are methodological and data limitations that encourage cross-national and interdisciplinary collaboration to address complex issues. Research trends include adaptive strategies, shoreline response and machine learning, and the need to integrate technical, engineering, social, economic, environmental and ethical dimensions to achieve sustainable and inclusive development. Full article
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