<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CALL FOR PAPERS:
Special Issue on Big Data and Urban Planning</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest Editors:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Anthony G.O. Yeh,
Qingquan Li, Michael Batty, Xinyue Ye, Sarah Williams,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To be published in the <b>Cities</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
city grows as a system with different sub-systems and sectors which co-exist
and interact with each other. Cities should be treated as systems of networks
and flows instead of being simply viewed as places in space. Urban planning
approaches and methods have been engaged in coping with this type of complexity
in the city since the 1980s. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
past decades have witnessed a rapid change in economy, technologies,
environment and society in many countries. In today’s increasingly connected
world of virtual, perceived, and real spaces, big data-driven urban computing
and analytics have become essential to tackle these fundamental issues. New
information technologies and changing lifestyles create new opportunities for urban
planning in terms of its theory, approaches and evaluation. Computers have been
embedded into almost every conceivable type of object as the Internet of Things
(IoT), generating unprecedented quantities of data. The growth of big data is
shifting the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short-term
thinking about how cities function and can be managed, although with the
possibility that over much longer periods of time, this kind of big data will
become a source for information about every time horizon. However, in the
history of urban studies and planning, most theory and applications have
focused on the long term (<a name="m_4043697141890895379__Hlk528845951">i.e., </a>months and years)
instead of short term (i.e., minutes and hours). Hence, big urban data calls
for big and new theory, because data and associated applications without theory
will not take us very far.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big
data has enriched our experiences of how cities function, and is offering many
new opportunities for social interaction and more informed decision-making with
respect to our knowledge of how best to interact in cities. At the same time,
spurious correlations will emerge from the growing size of data. Hence, the
complexities of urban systems and their connectivity at various spatial,
temporal, and semantic scales are posing daunting challenges to researchers and
decision-makers in urban planning and studies. Due to the rapid progress of
information and communications technology, the emergence of open and new data
available from various sources have also presented significant opportunities
for urban research and policy-making. Rigorous analysis of such data depicting
complex socioeconomic dynamics is likely to open up a rich context for
advancing urban science and policy interventions. Interdisciplinary approaches
combining with complex spatial data, analysis, and models are urgently needed
to ignite transformative innovation and discovery for enabling effective and
timely solutions to challenging urban problems. This special issue aims to
highlight the challenges, opportunities, and solutions of a synthesized urban
planning framework based on </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ever-increasing
amounts of large-scale diverse data</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and computing power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Smart
city practice leads to bigger data and urban planning challenges/opportunities in
the automated city future. Batty (2018) argues, “the notion of the smart city
of course conjures up these images of such an <a name="m_4043697141890895379__Hlk528829545">automated
</a>future. Much of our thinking about this future, certainly in the more
popular press, is about everything ranging from the latest App on our smart
phones to driverless cars while somewhat deeper concerns are about efficiency
gains due to the automation of services ranging from transit to the delivery of
energy”. The urban sciences are undergoing a dramatic shift towards analyzing
ever-increasing amounts of large-scale diverse data near real time. This new perspective
might change what we plan and the way we might plan the city. Methods developed
in the mainstream urban disciplines have gradually recognized the challenges
posed by big data and computing constraints. Therefore, much effort should be
devoted to identifying urban planning applications of massive impact, of
fundamental importance, and requiring the latest computing paradigm, and
interdisciplinary approaches. Hence more studies will eventually pave the way
for the systematic implementation of new technologies in the computational
urban sciences. Papers in this special issue are expected to advance theories,
methods, or applications that improve the integration of big data and urban
planning. We welcome submissions from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
research teams.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An
international symposium of <b>Big Data and
Urban Planning </b>will also be organized in July 2019 in Beijing China by the editorial
office of Cities. The location and date will be announced later.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Appropriate topics in this special issue
include (but are not limited to):</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This special issue invites the latest research in the opportunities,
challenges and solutions of using big data for urban planning. Possible topics
may include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and new urban theories </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and planning evaluation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and urban policy-making support</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and urban analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and urban computing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and city modelling </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and city system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and urban society analysis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and transport</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and healthy city</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big data and green city </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission procedure:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interested authors should notify the
guest editors of their intention to submit a paper contribution by <b>sending the title and a 250 word abstract</b>
to editor (<a href="mailto:pengjun.zhao@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank">pengjun.zhao@pku.edu.cn</a>) by <b>February
28, 201</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun">9</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The deadline for <b>submission
of full paper </b>is <b>September 30, 2019</b>.
All manuscripts are subject to the normal Cities review process. For author
instructions, please refer to the Cities journal homepage. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All manuscripts,
including support materials, must be submitted using the journal's online
Manuscript Central site. Please indicate this special issue as the target issue
in the submission process.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">First-time users
of the Manuscript Central site must register themselves as an Author. For questions, please contact the guest
editors.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Important target dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submit abstracts to the Editor (<a href="mailto:pengjun.zhao@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank">pengjun.zhao@pku.edu.cn</a>): <b>February 28, 201</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun">9</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The online submission system will be open: <b>March 10, 2019. </b></span></p>
<p class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The deadline for submission: <b>September 30, 2019</b></span></p>
<p class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Expected online publication:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b>December 30</b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, 2019 </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest
Editors:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anthony G.O. Yeh,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University
of Hong Kong</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Qingquan Li</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Shenzhen
University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael Batty, University College London</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xinyue Ye, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Managing Guest
Editor)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sarah Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><div>Xinyue Ye, Ph.D.</div><div><div>Director, Urban Informatics & Spatial Computing Lab,</div><div><span class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-m_-8861342893648262205gmail-m_-8797639892584863233gmail-m_8065291195219142996gmail-m_5496246181479481205gmail-m_8163280067491045474gmail-m_-3651103695173412529il">Core</span> <span class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-m_-8861342893648262205gmail-m_-8797639892584863233gmail-m_8065291195219142996gmail-m_5496246181479481205gmail-m_8163280067491045474gmail-m_-3651103695173412529il">Faculty</span>, Center for Big Data,</div><div>Associate Professor of Spatial Data Science, College of Computing,</div><div>New Jersey Institute of Technology</div><div><a href="https://informatics.njit.edu/faculty/xye" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://informatics.njit.edu/<span class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-m_-8861342893648262205gmail-m_-8797639892584863233gmail-m_8065291195219142996gmail-m_5496246181479481205gmail-il">faculty</span>/<span class="m_4043697141890895379gmail-m_-8861342893648262205gmail-m_-8797639892584863233gmail-m_8065291195219142996gmail-m_5496246181479481205gmail-il">xye</span></a></div><div>Google Scholar: <a href="https://goo.gl/iCdYB4" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/iCdYB4</a></div><div>ResearchGate: <a href="https://goo.gl/udvnKo" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/udvnKo</a></div></div></div>
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