Call for Papers: Journal of Urbanism, Special Issue on GeoDesign
Papers are invited for a special issue focusing on GeoDesign as a pragmatic platform for the design and planning of viable and livable communities. The rapidly expanding human footprint has resulted in many complex urban and environmental problems, such as social and environmental conflicts, resource limitation, air pollution, climate change, and increasing desertification, to name a few. These problems have created numerous obstacles to achieving and maintaining a sustainable future and a more effective form of growth management. The challenges are indicative of the need to rely on new approaches that help practitioners understand the relationship between people and their environment.
GeoDesign represents one new approach and provides a planning support system (PSS) platform for addressing current urban and environmental problems. GeoDesign is an emerging concept that seeks to address key issues that impact the planning and operation of human settlement. To that end, the notion of GeoDesign provides a pragmatic platform for monitoring economic, environmental, and social impacts on spatial dimensions.
This special issue of the Journal of Urbanism seeks to explore this new approach and expand upon its application, with a particular focus on its role in shaping economically viable, environmentally sound and socially equitable communities. We seek papers from multiple perspectives and scales, with various methodological approaches, and a diverse array of topics. We are interested in papers that cover GeoDesign from different angles representing its four key pillars, including technology application, practice, research and education.
Papers should be 6,000 to 8,000 words in length, and must be submitted no later than August 1, 2011 using the Journal’s manuscript submission site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/rjou. When submitting your paper using the online portal, please indicate that your submission is intended for the special issue on GeoDesign. For further information, please contact Emily Talen (etalen@asu.edu), co-editor of the Journal of Urbanism, or Ahmed Abukhater (aabukhater@esri.com), guest editor for the special issue on GeoDesign.
Guest Editor: Ahmed Abukhater
Submission Deadline: 01 August 2011
Online Submission Portal: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/rjou
