Overview

This Special Issue, "Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability," fills a gap in the field regarding how land and the transformation of the built environment have been impacted by strategic planning aimed at enhancing urban sustainability. Included are an editorial, ten research articles, and one review article on the following seven themes: (i) transportation planning and policy; (ii) climate change adaptation and nature-based solutions; (iii) urban amenities, business vitality, and cooperative innovation networks; (iv) neighborhood gentrification; (v) sustainable urban planning; (vi) low-impact development; (vii) stormwater- and water-sensitive urban design. This Special Issue provides avenues to help revive strategic planning in the Global North and to test it within distinct geographic realities and processes. Furthermore, it ought to be conducive to a greater understanding of urban sustainability, climate change, urban expansion and shrinkage, community resilience, social cohesion, and territorial innovation, as well as post-conflict, post-truth, and (de)growth scenarios.