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Land Management at Urban-Rural Interface

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 October 2023) | Viewed by 4757

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Fabrizio Battisti

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Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Via della Mattonaia 8, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: urban planning; decision-making in real estate initiatives; public–private partnership; sustainability in land management processes and urban planning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the discipline relating to land governance, consisting of all the urban, landscape, environmental, and building regulations that affect settlement transformations, has become progressively substantial, complex, and wide-ranging.

Increasingly, a country’s land transformation activity depends on a complex system of national and local regulations; this is based on the discipline derived from the operating constraint system decided in various sector plans that have joint effectiveness and impose different levels of administrative verification. This complexity is mainly affected by those areas in between the urbanized and the natural—urban-rural interface and sprawl. However, these areas express the greatest potential for transformation to adapt cities to the change that the contemporary era imposes.

Such areas must be able to express functions capable of satisfying the increasing needs of residents, city users and tourists, ensuring proper reconnection between natural and urbanized systems; at the same time, land management processes of redevelopment/transformation of such areas must be characterized by administrative and temporal certainty, guaranteeing investors.

Public administrators, politicians, investors, operators, and professionals working within land management at the urban–rural interface are called upon to manage the complexity that characterizes land settlement transformations. This demonstrates the ability to choose the most appropriate initiatives to activate, from safeguarding to transformation, and initiates strategies of sustainable use and safeguarding at the same time as resources are required.

Researchers and scholars are invited to propose scientific works for publication dealing with issues related to land management at the urban-rural interface. In particular, studies and research including but not limited to the following topics will be considered:

  • Assessment methods and techniques to support choices in urban planning and programming of interventions affecting the urban-rural interface;
  • Territorial marketing;
  • Strategies for enhancing the relationship between urban areas and agricultural and/or wildland areas;
  • Innovative models for the environmental recovery of compromised areas;
  • Innovative urban and regional planning tools;
  • Administrative procedures for land transformation and/or preservation;
  • Strategies for the transformation of degraded urban areas;
  • Urban agriculture.

Dr. Fabrizio Battisti
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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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. 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.

Keywords

  • assessment methods and techniques to support choices in urban planning and programming of interventions affecting the urban-rural interface
  • territorial marketing
  • strategies for enhancing the relationship between urban areas and agricultural and/or wildland areas
  • innovative models for the environmental recovery of compromised areas
  • innovative urban and regional planning tools
  • administrative procedures for land transformation and/or preservation
  • strategies for the transformation of degraded urban areas
  • urban agriculture

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Form and Structure of the Knowledge Framework for Urban Planning: Methodological Approach and Assessment Issues: The Case Study of the Municipality of Fondi Urban Plan
by Saverio Torzoni, Carlo Pisano and Fabrizio Battisti
Land 2023, 12(6), 1201; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061201 - 09 Jun 2023
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Analysing the formation of the Knowledge Framework (KF) for the Municipality of Fondi, a medium size municipality in central Italy, this research explains the methodology used to describe and interpret its specific territorial condition, aiming to delineate a series of operative guidelines for [...] Read more.
Analysing the formation of the Knowledge Framework (KF) for the Municipality of Fondi, a medium size municipality in central Italy, this research explains the methodology used to describe and interpret its specific territorial condition, aiming to delineate a series of operative guidelines for further implementations in other contexts. The article deals with comparisons with several urban planning approaches, transposing them to the study area, through the filter provided by the approach of Regional Design. The objective of the research is to produce a comprehensive KF for urban planning containing all the necessary information to unravel the assessment issue to put in place planning actions oriented toward sustainable spatial development. The research reorganizes the information legally required to define a Knowledge Framework into five Systems, articulated in analytical and synthetic products that as a whole aim to innovate the Knowledge Framework by recognizing it not only as an analytical process but also as a fundamental urban planning tool. Full article
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Towards Rural Regeneration in a Post-Agricultural and Post-Ideological Era
by Dalit Shach-Pinsly and Hadas Shadar
Land 2023, 12(4), 896; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040896 - 17 Apr 2023
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We have identified a change in rural towns these days. They are transforming from agricultural towns to settlements of a rural quality of life and scenic resources, threatened by densification and development processes. This article aims to outline tools for future rural renewal, [...] Read more.
We have identified a change in rural towns these days. They are transforming from agricultural towns to settlements of a rural quality of life and scenic resources, threatened by densification and development processes. This article aims to outline tools for future rural renewal, focusing on rural areas and emphasizing the village center. We use existing physical analysis tools for urban renewal and apply them on rural regeneration, using an ideological type of rural development area, the moshav, and adapting the tools to two typical physical/geometrical models for moshavs : concentric and linear. Our effort will focus on qualitative and quantitative values for renewal, with a special emphasis on examining ideological rural settlements, which were motivated by agriculture and cultivating the family lot, and resulted in the establishment of rural settlements organized and governed by state institutions, while the original visions have changed, as have the original ideas. In this article, we will review the cooperative and agricultural ideology that founded and nourished the establishment of the rural settlements, as well as how the towns are currently developing, where smaller and smaller percentages of the residents work in agriculture. Lots meant for agriculture are sold to the highest bidder, and people who are not part of the community build houses there, changing the settlement’s character and visibility. Considering these threats, the tools outlined in this article for rural renewal will meet the need for maintaining the agricultural-rural character and its humble nature, as well as for densification and attracting additional employment. Full article
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Exploring Accessibility and Its Impact in the Mountain City: A Typical Case Study of Nyingchi City, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
by Qianqian Gong, Jiaming Li, Lingzhi Wu, Miner Zhu, Maoyu Luo, Jingyi Sun, Wenqing Fu, Renfeng Ma and Xianjun Liang
Land 2023, 12(2), 361; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020361 - 28 Jan 2023
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The accessibility of mountain tourist attractions is a prerequisite to enhancing the attractiveness of tourist attractions and driving the well-being of local residential areas, which increases people’s prosperity and the sustainable development of tourist attractions, and achieves the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [...] Read more.
The accessibility of mountain tourist attractions is a prerequisite to enhancing the attractiveness of tourist attractions and driving the well-being of local residential areas, which increases people’s prosperity and the sustainable development of tourist attractions, and achieves the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper focuses on the accessibility of typical mountainous areas in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, and uses the cost distance and OD distance methods under the guidance of core-edge theory to explore the changes of accessibility of traffic nodes, tourist attractions, and residents with the future enrichment of the traffic road network. The results show that: (1) The change in accessibility will highlight the location advantages of some tourist attractions, which can be prioritized in the context of similar tourist attractions; (2) Regional accessibility improvements require a combination of traffic modes to maximize impact; (3) Residents of different multi-core circles could choose various industrial development patterns based on the accessibility of tourist attractions and residential areas; (4) Group development according to the spatial location and accessibility of tourist attractions can facilitate the virtuous drive among tourist attractions, which achieves the goal of integrated tourism. Full article
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