The Sustainable Urban Planning Challenge

Urban planning has always been an interdisciplinary process requiring the combination and synergy of various scientific disciplines and technical methods.In recent years, there has been an increasingly strong demand for respecting environmental standards on one hand and a trend towards creating cities that are more pedestrian-friendly and suitable for micromobility on the other.Internationally [6], urban and spatial planning is now moving in this direction, influencing local designs accordingly.In the case of the European Union, there has been a massive effort to shape and promote what we call sustainable design, and now in 2025, a significant database and repository of knowledge related to this field has been created [1].In fact, the European Union considers the adoption of sustain-