Towards Equitable and Sustainable Urban Space: Introduction to Special Issue on “Urban Land and Sustainable Development”

Yehua Dennis Wei
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Yehua Dennis Wei: Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 8, 1-9

Abstract: The unprecedented wave of global urbanization has exerted increased pressure on urban land and made land-use sustainability an urgent concern. This Special Issue examines patterns, structures, and dynamics of urban land use from the economic, social, and, to a lesser extent, environmental standpoints, in light of the goal of equitable and sustainable development. This introduction discusses the background and design of the Special Issue and highlights the contribution of the selected papers.

Keywords: urbanization; urban expansion; urban sprawl; spatial inequality; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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