Guest Editors: Simon Foxell and Ian Cooper Deadline for abstracts: 09 June 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How should built environment actors (individually and collectively) respond to the increasing risks resulting from the changes to the global and local climates? How can the sector improve its understanding of risk factors and potential responses? What obligations do decision-makers have to act and explain their actions relating to avoidance and mitigation of risk? What processes ...| Calls for Papers
Guest Editor: Paolo Tombesi (EPFL) Deadline for abstracts: 24 MARCH 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How can the complexity and challenges of physical territorial reconstruction (after disasters) across diverse disciplines, stakeholders and governance be organised and synthesised? Do current debates and practices on physical territorial reconstruction (i.e. urban and rural built environments after destruction by "natural" disasters, warfare, conflict or industrial accidents) reflect the...| Calls for Papers
Guest editors: Nicola Antaki, Doina Petrescu & Vera Marin Abstract submission closed on: 10 February 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION What are the roles and impacts that living labs play in increasing civic resilience and supporting ecological transition in different contexts and at different scales? This special issue examines the roles that living labs have in creating or enhancing resilience in local communities. What mediation methods are used in the different stages of collaboratio...| Calls for Papers
Guest editor: Michael Donn (Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington) 28 October 2024 (noon GMT) Abstract submission closed on: 11 November 2024 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design? Can building simulation address the competing demands and tensions that regulators, clients and designers place on it? If not, what alternatives could be appropriate? This ...| Calls for Papers
Guest Editors: Tina Fawcett (U of Oxford), Sarah Darby (U of Oxford), Marlyne Sahakian (U of Geneva) Abstract submission closed on 15 JANUARY 2024 DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION How can conditions be created for decent living standards for all without exceeding planetary limits, during an energy transition and beyond? This special issue will examine fundamental questions about what is necessary to live a good life: to have the capabilities to satisfy human development, to live enjoyably and to partic...| Calls for Papers
Guest Editors: Anna Mavrogianni and Marcella Ucci (University College London) Abstract submission closed on 12 JULY 2023 DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION The aim of this special issue is enhance our understanding of the roles that indoor environments play in creating, exacerbating or ameliorating the underlying socioeconomic and health inequalities in the context of climate change. What are the optimum pathways to fulfil the societal need of access to healthy indoor environments for all (e.g. homes, wo...| Calls for Papers
Guest Editors: Vanesa Castán Broto (U of Sheffield), Marta Olazabal (Basque Centre for Climate Change), Gina Ziervogel (U of Cape Town) Abstract submission closed on 3 MAY 2023 DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION Now more than ever, cities and urban areas are confronted with the urgency of climate change adaptation: increases in temperatures and heatwaves, water and food scarcity, flash floods and sea-level rise, among other impacts. This special issue aims to enlarge the range of adaptation narratives...| Calls for Papers
Guest Editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen Deadline for abstracts: 14 November 2025 (noon GMT) DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION The provision of housing is often narrowly framed as a set of technological, skills and economic issues. This special issue aims to broaden the discussion by developing a critical social science perspective that investigates the validity of many claims made about modern methods of construction (MMC), and how, and the degree to which, MMC are (re)configuring contemporary...| Buildings and Cities
