---
id: events/urban-climate-futures-special-issue
about:
  label: 'Urban Climate Futures: AI and Smart City Solutions'
  description: >-
    Special issue call from the journal Sustainability in Smart Cities (Bon View
    Publishing) on AI and smart-city methods for climate mitigation, adaptation
    and resilience at building, neighbourhood and city scale, digital twins
    among the listed topics; submissions due 1 June 2027.
  tags:
    - call for papers
    - smart cities
    - urban heat
    - climate resilience
    - special issue
event:
  url: 'https://ojs.bonviewpress.com/index.php/SSC/UCF-AI'
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Call for Papers-SI on UCF-AI | Sustainability in Smart Cities
      url: 'https://ojs.bonviewpress.com/index.php/SSC/UCF-AI'
    - title: '[Special Issue] AI for Climate-Resilient Buildings and Cities'
      url: 'https://www.shadyattia.org'
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT002
  kind: research_call
  family: research_and_evaluation
  priority: supporting
  verified: false
  posts:
    - P001
  posters:
    - Shady Attia
domains:
  - places
  - climate
---
A call for papers for a special issue of Sustainability in Smart Cities, an open-access journal from Bon View Publishing. The guest editors are Pengyuan Shen of Tsinghua University (lead), Shady Attia of the University of Liège and Sheng Liu of Southwest Jiaotong University.

The issue asks for work on how AI and smart-city technology can support climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience at building, neighbourhood and urban scale. Listed topics include digital twins for climate-responsive planning and resilience, urban heat island assessment, smart water and flood resilience, and data governance and explainable AI.

The submission deadline is 1 June 2027. Shady Attia's own page notes that the journal is not yet listed in Scopus or Web of Science.