Special issue on smart city and resilience

"Resilience" is a concept widely used by the international community in the field of disaster prevention and reduction. Urban resilience can take many forms; for example, infrastructure, institutional, economic and social. With the rise in extreme events, there is an increased focus on resilient cities; cities that can be rebuilt or bounce back in the face of an emergency, while enabling the daily lives of citizens to continue. Urban resilience has also become a core element of sustainable urban development and an important consideration when building a smart city. A smart and connected city leverages electronic methods, sensors and data science approaches to collect data and manage assets and services efficiently, providing an improved quality of life for its citizens. While resilient city discussions still revolve around using socio-cultural and political factors and values, smart city discussions focus on where and when to use sensor technologies and how to automate decision-making.

This special issue will explore the latest technologies, methods, limitations and challenges of building a new generation of resilient and smart cities.

Topics covered:

Potential possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• New intelligent infrastructure frameworks for space governance
• Data fusion techniques and analytics for prediction and forecasting across space and time
• Theoretical and practical applications of sustainable and intelligent disaster prevention to extreme weather disasters
• Strategy around the reconstruction of urban medical, health and epidemic prevention facility systems
• Review of standards on smart city, security and resilience
• Review of resilience to urban disasters
• Augmented reality, simulations and 3D-geovisualisation for intelligence
• Optimising sensor locations for resilience informatics
• Spatial social network analytics in the built environment
• Artificial Intelligence- and deep learning-driven solutions to assess and model urban resilience
• Organisational, regulative and policy-making processes of smart cities and resilience
• Human dynamics in the age of smart/intelligent systems

Important deadlines:

Submission deadline: 31 March 2022

Submission instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online; Please select ‘SI: Smart city and resilience’ on submission. Authors should specify that they are submitting to the special issue in their cover letter. If the manuscript is accepted, the article will be published open access with no fee payable by the author.

Guest editors:

• Chao Zhang, China National Institute of Standardization, China. Email: zhangchao0526@163.com
• Danhuai Guo, College of Information Science and Technology，Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. Email: gdh@buct.edu.cn
• Xinyue Ye, Texas A&M University, USA. Email: xinyue.ye@tamu.edu