About the Journal

Urban Futures & Social Innovation (UFSI) is dedicated to advancing cutting-edge research on global urban sustainability and social innovation, focusing on interdisciplinary solutions to complex challenges in urbanization. Guided by the core values of inclusivity, sustainability, and technology-enabled empowerment, the journal serves as a collaborative platform for academia, policymakers, and practitioners to bridge theory and practice. It aims to provide scientific foundations and innovative pathways for building equitable, resilient, and intelligent cities of the future.

Aims

Urban Futures & Social Innovation (UFSI) is committed to promoting cutting-edge research on global urban sustainability and social innovation. The journal focuses on interdisciplinary solutions to address the complex challenges arising from urbanization. Guided by the core values of inclusivity, sustainability, and technology-enabled empowerment, UFSI creates a collaborative platform for academics, policymakers, and practitioners. It fosters the deep integration of theory and practice, aiming to provide scientific evidence and innovative pathways for building future cities that are equitable, resilient, and intelligent.

Scopes

The journal welcomes original research articles, review papers, case studies, and policy analyses covering the following topics and related areas:

1. Urban Sustainability

  • Urban environmental management and ecological conservation
  • Resource efficiency and the circular economy
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
  • Sustainable urban planning and design

2. Social Innovation

  • Social entrepreneurship and community engagement
  • Public service innovation and social governance
  • Inclusive development and urban equity
  • Empowerment of vulnerable groups and social policy

3. Technology-Enabled Empowerment & Smart Cities

  • Digital technology and urban governance
  • Smart city infrastructure and systems
  • Data-driven urban decision-making
  • Applications of artificial intelligence in urban management

4. Interdisciplinary Approaches

  • Integration of urban studies, sociology, and environmental science
  • Urban economics and public policy analysis
  • Interaction between technological innovation and social change
  • Research on urban health and well-being

5. Policy and Practice

  • Evaluation and optimization of urban policies
  • Comparative case studies of international urban sustainable development
  • Innovative models of urban governance
  • Pathways from theory to practice

Article Processing Charges

As an open-access journal, all articles published in Journal of Stem Cell Bioengineering are accessible electronically from the journal website without the need for subscription fees or other forms of payment from the readers. An Article Processing Charge (APC) is applicable to papers accepted after peer review. The APC is intended to cover the underlying costs of article processing, such as peer-review, copy-editing, typesetting, publishing, content depositing and archiving processes.
There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data. Some items (Editorials, Corrections, Addendums, Retractions, Comments, etc.) are published free of charge.

 

Journal Title

APC(USD)

Urban Futures & Social Innovation

$400