The Second Edition: Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Land titled “The Second Edition: Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality”.

Carbon emissions have been recognized as the greatest known contributor to global climate change, and the goal of carbon neutrality has been proposed in an effort to slow global warming. Approximately 75% of global carbon emissions are generated in urban areas, which encompass only 2% of the world’s land territory. However, studying urban carbon emissions can provide important ideas for low-carbon urban development and carbon neutrality. Urban spatial planning is an important tool for the construction of national spatial governance systems and ecological civilizations. Its comprehensive planning and control can help to enhance ecological carbon sink and peak carbon emissions in many areas, such as industry, transportation, energy, and architecture, and to build carbon-neutral cities on the basis of both carbon emission reduction and carbon sink increase. Therefore, carbon-neutral city construction can make use of urban spatial planning, integrate low-carbon planning concepts and carbon emission control measures into the planning, accurately identify and manage energy carbon emission projects, promote urban production and life carbon peak, and increase the “green carbon sink” and “blue carbon sink”.

In this Special Issue, we are interested in contributions that link urban planning pathways to carbon neutrality, through either empirical research or conceptual/theoretical works, examining key processes including (but not limited to) the following:

• Urban land use change and carbon emissions;
• Urban spatial layout optimization and carbon neutrality;
• Green transportation systems and carbon neutrality;
• Urban carbon metabolism;
• Urban ecosystems and carbon sequestration;
• Low-carbon energy infrastructure construction;
• Industrial transformation and low-carbon technology.

Prof. Dr. Yan Li
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Land 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.

• urban spatial planning
• carbon emission
• carbon neutrality
• spatial layout optimization
• green transportation systems
• green infrastructure

• Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality in Land (11 articles)