Aims & Scope

A journal devoted to investigations of fundamental and applied sciences for creating inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable built environments.

Urban and Building Science (UBS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal to advance the knowledge of urban and building physics, as well as the complex outdoor/indoor environment interactions by publishing original research papers, review articles, and viewpoints. UBS aims to publish innovative analyses on a wide range of environmental performance related to heat, sound, light, wind, air, water, energy/carbon, and waste across soild, liquid, and airborne media. UBS welcomes subissions in multiple disciplines of architecture, atmosphere, building sciences, ecology, climate, energy, environment, geography, transportation, urban planning and design, etc. UBS gives priorities to reproducible and solid results. Preferences is given to theoretical, experimental, and practical research results related to the development and adoption of emerging technologies, methods, and materials, while robustly-validated numerical results and modeling tools are also appreciated.

It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Topics covered in the UBS include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  1. Climate change impact assessment
  2. Environmental performance monitoring and assessment
  3. Smart and resilient cities and communities
  4. Low-carbon communities and buildings
  5. Sustainable land use and planning
  6. Ecological restoration and ecological security
  7. Emergency preparedness and disaster management (storm, flood, drought, fire, earthquake, pandemic, etc.)
  8. Sustainable environmental operation and regulation
  9. Smart technologies and data-driven solutions
  10. Renewable and clean energy
  11. Nature-based solutions
  12. Wind-sensitive urban planning and design
  13. Water-sensitive urban planning and design
  14. Sustainable transportation planning
  15. Urban morphology and building typology
  16. Sustainable energy, materials, and water systems
  17. Positive climate mitigation and adaptation
  18. Comfort, health, well-being, and work productivity
  19. Carbon emission mapping and trading
  20. Circular economy and innovation management
  21. Material recycling and reuse
  22. Environmental governance, schemes, and challenges
  23. Co-benefits, synergies, conflicts, and trade-offs
  24. Decision support systems and methods
  25. Behavioral change and education