A Year in Review: Key Milestones & Achievements of the European Journal of Geography in 2024 by Alexandros Bartzokas-Tsiompras, Kostis C. Koutsopoulos

“…The report highlights how geography continues to offer valuable insights and practical solutions for issues such as sustainable urban development, geography education, and societal transformation. …”
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How It’s Made: Behind the scenes of Public Art production at Public Art Agency Sweden by Irene Ruzzier

“…Production processes of art in public space may often seem unclear and contorted, thus discouraging its inclusion in urban development and design projects. This problem is also stoked by a relative scarcity of scholarship regarding procedures and methods to develop public art projects: the present contribution constitutes a first attempt to start filling this gap, outlining both the bright and dark sides of Public Art Agency Sweden’s model. …”
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Wilderness beyond the natural: Mapping urban novel wilderness to support ecological conservation and recreational provision in rapidly urbanizing areas by Lei Shen, Duanqiang Zhai, Chang Li

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Research on Urban Historical Block Planning Method Based on Big Data Multimedia Technology by Mulan Yang, Mohamad Reza Bin Mohamed Afla

“…The protection and renewal of historical and cultural blocks have become the core elements to improve the quality of urban development and promote the development of “people-oriented” new urbanization. …”
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Quel avenir pour le logement social en Tunisie ? by Sami Ben Fguira, Mongi Belarem

“…This has imposed new challenges for urban planning in Tunisia. Today, urban development implies in the first place the recognition of the rights of the working classes in the city. …”
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Revisiting the Landscape Mosaic model. by Peter Vogt, James Wickham, José Ignacio Barredo, Kurt Riitters

“…It provides a landscape perspective of anthropic threats posed by agriculture and urban development, and the spatial-temporal shifting of the landscape mosaic indicates landscapes where anthropic intensity has changed. …”
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Innovative Integration and Optimization of RE and Smart Energy Management Systems in Skyscrapers: Enhancing Sustainability and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Vertical Cities by Yan Bingzhuo

“…Skyscrapers have become a vital part of modern urban development, offering efficient space utilization in increasingly dense cities. …”
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Analysis on the Impact of Large-Scale Sports Events on Regional Economy Based on SWOT-PEST Model by Lina Wang, Fanfei Zhao, Guanqun Zhang

“…Against the background of surging globalization and accelerating urbanization, more and more cities are choosing to reposition their urban landscape by hosting sports events at different levels to achieve a great leap forward in urban development. Major sporting events can quickly gather various resources from all over the country and even the world for a city, promoting it to become a world-famous city with international influence. …”
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La dimension sociale de la mobilité quotidienne, oubliée du développement urbain durable ? by Cécile Féré

“…Social dimension of mobility seems left out the sustainable urban development facing economical and environmental issues.…”
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Optimized Distribution of Beijing Population Based on CA-MAS by Haoguang Liang, Zhong Wang

“…The results showed that (1) the unplanned layout of Beijing’s population is inefficient and will result in the slow agglomeration of populations into surrounding small towns, (2) the suburbanization of the population (while employment opportunities remain centralized) increases the stress of the city commuters, (3) the current policy guiding the distribution of residential and commercial areas is effective, accelerating the formation of small town clusters, which play a role in the city’s radiation and diffusion, contributing to reducing urban commuter stress, and (4) promoting the homogenization of public resources, planning the development of a multicenter urban area, and promoting mixed use (commercial and residential) zoning are the main measures recommended to strengthen the sustainability of Beijing’s urban development and to optimize spatial layout.…”
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Optimization and Matching Scheme of Public Management Resources for Industry 4.0 and Smart City by Jinglin Fan, Lei Shi

“…With the development of Big Data, Industry 4.0, and other technologies, the concept of smart city has become a new goal, new concept, and new practice of many urban developments. It provides a method to solve the problem that public management cannot optimize resources in China’s urban development and puts forward a supporting scheme more in line with the optimization of public management resources. …”
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L’innovation de méthodes en urbanisme : freins et leviers d’une entreprise incertaine by Nadia Arab, Elsa Vivant

“…In these case studies, the artists are not necessarily called upon to create a specific work, rather to help reflect upon urban space alongside urban development professionals. The artist finds themselves in a frame where concrete choices and decisions must be made about the ways in which a space is designed, where operational actions must be played out and where perceptions must be reshaped. …”
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Transferts, hybridations et renouvellements des savoirs. Parcours urbanistique et architectural de Michel Écochard de 1932 à 1974 by Marlène Ghorayeb

“…After 1955, he pursued his international career in Africa and in the Near East, where he conducted urban development plans and large-scale projects, most notably in schools, universities and hospital facilities. …”
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An Assessment of Land Use Land Cover Using Machine Learning Technique by V. Pushpalatha, H. N. Mahendra, A. M. Prasad, N. Sharmila, D. Mahesh Kumar, N. M. Basavaraju, G. S. Pavithra and S. Mallikarjunaswamy

“…The outcomes of this research contribute valuable insights into urbanization dynamics and land-use planning strategies, facilitating informed decision-making for sustainable urban development.…”
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Development of Urban Waste Recycling Industry from the Perspective of Ecology by Qian Luo

“…Urban garbage has become an important field affecting the healthy development of urban ecology, and urban ecological environment protection has naturally become a crucial part in the process of modern urban development. Deepening the relevant concepts of ecological and environmental protection also makes modern cities pay attention to the recycling and utilization of waste resources. …”
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Evolution of Urban Resilience from a Multiscale Perspective: Evidence from Five Provinces in Northwest China by Hainan Yang, Huizhen Su, Liangjie Yang

“…As a new idea of urban risk management, building resilient cities with the ability to resist, eliminate, and adapt to uncertain risks is of great importance to mitigate risk impacts and promote sustainable urban development. Based on the adaptive cycle model and the characteristics of an urban system, this study analyzes the resilience levels of cities, urban agglomerations, and provinces and their adaptive stages. …”
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From megaprojects to tourism gentrification? The case of Santa Cruz Verde 2030 (Canary Islands, Spain) by Marcus Hübscher

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Le rôle fondateur du paysage dans la création des villes coloniales marocaines by Mounia Bennani

“…Nearly a century later, Rabat’s landscape heritage is at the heart of the matter : the public gardens created in the 1920s, and which are the lungs of today’s city, have been classified and put on the list of the cultural heritage list ; the story of the “park system” known such as in Rabat is taught in the architecture schools, and the urban development project of Rabat is planning to raise the current ratio from 20 m² of green space per inhabitant to 30 m².…”
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Measuring spatial - temporal of Yazd urban form using spatial metrics by saeed zanganeh

“…So, one of the most important challenges of urban planners is measuring and identifying urban development pattern in order to direct and strengthen it to sustainable pattern and right direction. …”
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Projetos Cidades Saudáveis na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa – Exemplo da "Mobilidade urbana" como área de intervenção by Ana Louro, Nuno Marques da Costa, Eduarda Marques da Costa

“…Sustainable Urban Development is a world-class policy goal, increasingly assuming multisectoral and multilevel principles. …”
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