Advanced City is a gold open access journal for high-quality research on cities as integrated, engineered, and data-enabled systems.
The journal covers city-scale infrastructure and built environment, mobility and logistics, energy and resource systems, urban climate and environment, digital and data-enabled technologies, and the governance and resilience of urban systems. It welcomes research on how these systems interact and how cities are planned, built, operated, adapted, and transformed.
Advanced City covers topics that include, but are not limited to:
Urban Systems, Planning & Transformation
City-scale integration of infrastructure, mobility, energy and land use, infrastructure-led urban renewal, transit-oriented development, climate-sensitive urban form, and urban transition pathways.
Smart Infrastructure & Built Environment
Infrastructure, buildings and public facilities, water supply and drainage infrastructure, blue-green infrastructure, underground space, smart infrastructure, monitoring, inspection and maintenance, lifecycle management, low-carbon construction, retrofitting and urban renewal.
Mobility, Transportation & Logistics
Public and multimodal transport, intelligent transportation systems, connected, automated and electric mobility, EV charging and vehicle-to-grid integration, logistics and freight, traffic and network operations, transport accessibility and safety, and network reliability and service resilience.
Energy, Environment & Resource Systems
Urban energy systems, district energy and city-scale smart grids, electrification of heating and buildings, urban climate and heat, air quality and environmental exposure, urban water resources, circular resource systems, water-energy-waste interactions, and city-scale carbon accounting.
Digital and Data-Enabled Systems
Digital twins of cities and infrastructure, BIM-GIS integration, urban sensing and remote sensing, computer vision, machine learning for urban systems operations, robotics and drones for inspection and logistics, urban data platforms, city-scale simulation, and decision-support tools for planning and operations.
Governance, Resilience & Societal Impact
Governance and implementation of urban infrastructure and services, data governance and responsible AI in cities, infrastructure interdependency and cascading failures, climate and multi-hazard risk, resilience and recovery, cyber-physical security, and the equity, affordability, and accessibility of public services.
Advanced City welcomes studies at the scale of cities, districts, infrastructure corridors, or connected urban service systems. Studies should provide empirical evidence, validated methods, system-level assessment, deployment experience, or transferable insights.