When human beings create cities, the social problems that have arisen in the process of urbanization have certain psychological attributes, which need to be positively responded to via the disciplinary contribution of psychology. Therefore, addressing how to boost urban and regional development and enhance urban well-being has become a significant mission of social psychology research. Meanwhile, the recent Covid-19 health crisis, technological progress, climate change, economic transition, and educational change have led to different kinds of psychological panic in modern cities. The various activities of residents contribute to establishing a dynamic and interactive relationship between the urban environment, organizational choice, and human behavior. The process defines the quality of urban residents’ social life. Policymakers, sociologists, psychologists, economists, educationists, architects, and urban and transport planners need to take these and other potential issues into consideration.
In the process of urbanization, many cities have encountered a series of problems, such as population expansion, traffic congestion, environmental pollution, housing shortages, organizational bankruptcy, educational inequalities, unemployment, resource shortages, the need to help vulnerable groups, etc. The ultimate outcome is that residents' happiness has decreased, as evidenced by the increase in the number of people suffering from depression and even the potential rise in the suicide rate in cities. Thus, social and organizational psychological factors should be taken into account in large-scale urban and regional regeneration and development. Meanwhile, social and organizational psychology should also be used as a powerful planning tool to guide the sustainable construction of cities and regional development. Overall, this will lead to a more positive, interactive relationship between residents' psychological perceptions and urban development.
The special issue will discuss new theories and methods of social and organizational psychology from an interdisciplinary perspective, and how to govern and redesign more sustainable approaches to regional development and urban governance in order to improve people’s quality of life, including:
• The role of social psychology in supporting regional development and urban governance with regard to planning issues (infrastructure, transport, urban regeneration, housing and land use, etc.) in different sectoral, geographical, organizational, and eco-systems;
• The interactions between educational psychology and regional development and urban governance;
• The interactions between consumer psychology and green technology innovation and its effects on regional and urban green development and governance;
• The reconstruction of economic space through technological innovation and how this affects residents' subjective and/or eudaimonic well-being;
• The effect of urban space design and governance on residents' sense of identity;
• Behavioral and psychological aspects of urban mobility, transport planning, infrastructure, and city development.
When human beings create cities, the social problems that have arisen in the process of urbanization have certain psychological attributes, which need to be positively responded to via the disciplinary contribution of psychology. Therefore, addressing how to boost urban and regional development and enhance urban well-being has become a significant mission of social psychology research. Meanwhile, the recent Covid-19 health crisis, technological progress, climate change, economic transition, and educational change have led to different kinds of psychological panic in modern cities. The various activities of residents contribute to establishing a dynamic and interactive relationship between the urban environment, organizational choice, and human behavior. The process defines the quality of urban residents’ social life. Policymakers, sociologists, psychologists, economists, educationists, architects, and urban and transport planners need to take these and other potential issues into consideration.
In the process of urbanization, many cities have encountered a series of problems, such as population expansion, traffic congestion, environmental pollution, housing shortages, organizational bankruptcy, educational inequalities, unemployment, resource shortages, the need to help vulnerable groups, etc. The ultimate outcome is that residents' happiness has decreased, as evidenced by the increase in the number of people suffering from depression and even the potential rise in the suicide rate in cities. Thus, social and organizational psychological factors should be taken into account in large-scale urban and regional regeneration and development. Meanwhile, social and organizational psychology should also be used as a powerful planning tool to guide the sustainable construction of cities and regional development. Overall, this will lead to a more positive, interactive relationship between residents' psychological perceptions and urban development.
The special issue will discuss new theories and methods of social and organizational psychology from an interdisciplinary perspective, and how to govern and redesign more sustainable approaches to regional development and urban governance in order to improve people’s quality of life, including:
• The role of social psychology in supporting regional development and urban governance with regard to planning issues (infrastructure, transport, urban regeneration, housing and land use, etc.) in different sectoral, geographical, organizational, and eco-systems;
• The interactions between educational psychology and regional development and urban governance;
• The interactions between consumer psychology and green technology innovation and its effects on regional and urban green development and governance;
• The reconstruction of economic space through technological innovation and how this affects residents' subjective and/or eudaimonic well-being;
• The effect of urban space design and governance on residents' sense of identity;
• Behavioral and psychological aspects of urban mobility, transport planning, infrastructure, and city development.