Urban Resilience and Sustainability publishes high-quality and peer-reviewed scientific research and analyses, including review, methodological, opinion, and case-studies papers that focus on the intersection of social science, engineering, computational science, environmental studies and humanities to build resilient and sustainable cities. As smart-cities technologies are building blocks for modernizing urban resilience and sustainability, the journal welcomes multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research that enhance our understanding in leveraging big data, real-time sensing, artificial intelligence and mixed-method analytics to promote the design, planning and management of next-generation cities that are resilient, sustainable, and smart, and account for the mitigation and adaptation to the impacts from global climate change, environmental justice and net zero.    
   This multidisciplinary journal focuses on the development of theories, frameworks and methods, best practices pertaining to datasets and techniques to tackle the key challenges facing urban areas in the context of climate change, population expansion and resilience. Sample topics include but not limited to:

1. Resilience and Sustainability Theories
o Concepts of resilience as a result of anticipated links to the global environmental change
o Theoretical framework of sustainable development in urban areas
o Qualitative and quantitative studies about urban resilience and sustainability
o Science-based methods, review, and case studies that concern urban sustainability, including but not limited to novel design, planning, materials, systems, and green construction
o Comparative studies of resilience/sustainability in urban and rural areas, and urban sustainability and resilience in developing nations

2. Social Science, Cultural and Human Geography, Emergency Management
o Multi-scale multi-sector studies of urban resilience/sustainability in response to environment, economic and social crises
o The role of vulnerability, capacity, adaptability, recovery in resilience and sustainability
o Heritages and cultural preservation amid urban modernization
o Human and policy dimensions of disaster preparation, response, mitigation and recovery towards climate changes and hydrological hazards
o Integrative assessment that can broaden and deepen the multifaceted nature of urban resilience and sustainability

3. Geospatial Modeling, Simulation and Operation Research, Informatics and Analytics
o Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine-Learning (ML)-driven solutions to assess and model resilience
o Network modeling, logistics and mobility analysis to quantify resilience
o Data fusion techniques and analytics to forecast and assess resilience across space and time
o Novel digital information and communication infrastructure to address urban resilience
o Edge and distributed computing for data mining about cyber-physical systems
o Theoretical and practical applications of Internet of Things in urban settings
o Augmented reality, simulations, digital twins and 3D-geovisualization for intelligence and decision making

4. Geodesign and Urban Planning
o Modern urban design, planning, and construction that meet sustainability and resilience
o Geodesign of urban areas, related environmental laws, policies and management practices that can enhance urban resilience
o Sustainable materials, green infrastructure and smart construction technologies
o Optimizing sensor locations for resilience informatics

5. Built Environment and Critical Infrastructure
o Sustainability and resilience of critical infrastructure in the context of urban areas and human dynamics
o Socio-spatial analysis and simulations of the built environment
o Human dynamics in the age of Smart/Intelligent Systems
o Role of systems modeling to assess resilience of built environment and critical infrastructures under singular, sequential and compounding events