[Special Issue] AI for Climate-Resilient Buildings and Cities

Can AI help us design cooler neighborhoods, reduce building emissions, and make cities more resilient to climate change?

These are the questions behind our Special Issue, “Urban Climate Futures: AI and Smart City Solutions,” in Sustainability in Smart Cities. I am pleased to serve as Guest Editor alongside Sheng Liu, with Pengyuan Shen as Lead Guest Editor. We invite research that connects advances in AI and smart city technologies with measurable environmental performance and practical climate action, from individual buildings to neighborhoods and entire cities.

Topics include:

🌡️ Urban overheating, heat-risk prediction, and thermal comfort

🏙️ Digital twins and climate-responsive urban design

⚡ Building energy performance and urban decarbonization

💧 Flood prediction, water management, and climate resilience

🌱 Nature-based solutions and urban greening

📊 Explainable AI, data governance, and equitable decision-making

For me, the key question is: how does the research help designers, planners, and policymakers make better decisions?

I particularly welcome contributions that demonstrate validated methods, transparent assumptions, and clear evidence of benefits, while acknowledging uncertainty and limitations. Real-world applications, living labs, and well-documented case studies are especially relevant.

We welcome original research, systematic reviews, perspectives, and case studies.

📅 Submission deadline: June 1, 2027

🔗 Full scope and submission information: https://ojs.bonviewpress.com/index.php/SSC/UCF-AI

Sustainability in Smart Cities (SSC) is an emerging, interdisciplinary, open-access journal published by Bon View Publishing, focusing on urban sustainability, digital technologies, and climate resilience. It is not currently listed in Scopus or Web of Science.

📚 Please share this call with colleagues working at the intersection of AI, building performance, and urban climate resilience.

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