CfP: Community Engagement for Sustainable Urban Futures - special issue of Futures

Call for Papers

Community Engagement for Sustainable Urban Futures
Special issue of Futures
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/futures

Submissions close 31 July 2009


Theme

This special issue of the multidisciplinary journal Futures is concerned with community engagement strategies that help to inform medium and long-term futures studies to foster sustainable cities and related urban, suburban and periurban environments. Within the nexus of people, place and technology, the issue invites research papers that report on methods and practices of futures studies investigating possible and alternative futures of urban communities, cultures and societies; urban informatics, infrastructure and computing technology; and the implications on a scale between local and global contexts.


Topics

Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:

Community engagement strategies, methods and approaches to create future scenarios
Tools and methods to support and inform urban planning
Public sphere, participation, online deliberation systems: polity of urban futures
Future implications of urban informatics, ubiquitous computing and pervasive technology such as wireless internet and mobile applications
The use of multi-format user-generated content (narratives, photos, videos, multimedia) in urban futures studies
The impact of neogeography, simulations and 3D virtual environments to reproduce and analyse complex social phenomena and city systems in urban futures, design and planning
The role of social networking, collective and civic intelligence and crowd sourcing in urban futures
Urban futures and environmental, economic and social sustainability


Organisation and Submission Details

Authors are requested to follow the instructions at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/futures. We invite the submission of conceptual or empirical (quantitative and/or qualitative) work on the theme of urban futures. Deadline for completed manuscripts: 31 July 2009. Submissions should be electronic (.doc or .rtf format only, please avoid .docx, .pdf and .html). Acceptance notifications are sent to authors by 30 Sep 2009. Final revised papers are due by 31 Oct 2009. The special issue is scheduled for publication mid 2010. Inquiries about possible topics are welcome. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to the guest editors.


Guest Editors

Greg Hearn

Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

g.hearn@qut.edu.au

Marcus Foth

Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

m.foth@qut.edu.au

Tony Stevenson

Futurist, writer, community volunteer
tony-stevenson@bigpond.com