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World Heritage Cities (WHCs) are the cities that are (in part) inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. WHCs witnessed critical historic moments and passed on cultural traditions of communities in urban contexts, with rich evidence of artefacts, monuments, groups of buildings and sites. As agreed by all 196 world nations that ratified the 1972 World Heritage Convention, the cultural and natural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value is crucial to be conserved for mankind as a whole. The 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape recognizes urban heritage as a social, cultural and economic asset for the development of cities. Treating cities as dynamic organisms and urban heritage management as a holistic approach, it is important to document and map the knowledge from a broader public to facilitate more inclusive heritage decision-making processes. However, effectively sensing, documenting, and managing urban heritage in the 21st century presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges with the ever-growing volumes of data in all sources and the advancing digital technologies to analyze them. The integration of multi-source data, including but not limited to remote sensing, geographic information systems, street view imagery, crowdsourced information, historical archives, photogrammetry, and user-generated content from social media, offers transformative potential for heritage studies and urban science. This integration allows for more comprehensive and scalable assessment of cultural significance, supporting evidence-based heritage management practices. 

This special issue seeks to present scholarly advances and initiate dialogues in research and practice, showcasing how multi-source data can be used to better understand WHCs from broad perspectives, safeguarding their heritage values and attributes in balance with sustainable urban developments.

We invite submissions of manuscripts that cover a wide range of topics related to multi-source data being integrated for sensing World Heritage Cities. We welcome diverse manuscript types, including literature review, theoretical, methodological, and empirical work. Topics may include, but are not limited, to:

• Novel frameworks for integrating multiple and new sources of data for sensing heritage;

• Machine learning, deep learning and AI applications for heritage data analysis;

• Transfer learning, active learning, multi-modal machine learning, and prompt engineering in urban heritage context;

• Remote sensing and social sensing for historic urban landscapes;

• Social media and user-generated content analytics for heritage values and attributes;

• Management, conservation, monitoring, documentation, and/or adaptive reuse practices in World Heritage Cities with multi-source data;

• Implementation and best practices of Historic Urban Landscape with multi-source data;

• Using multi-source data to inform heritage policymaking and agenda-setting;

• Data analysis for reducing disaster risks and adapting to climate change challenges in World Heritage Cities;

• Perceptions, cognitions, emotions, and/or behaviors in historic urban landscapes;

• Global comparisons of World Heritage Cities across different regions and contexts;

• Integrating tangible and intangible attributes of urban heritage with data;

• Literature review and perspectives

• Strengths, Opportunities, Weaknesses, and Threats of multi-source data integration in heritage studies, etc.

Submissions should be prepared according to the “Submission Guidelines” available on the journal homepage https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/transactions-in-urban-data-science-and-technology/journal203731#submission-guidelines. Please visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tus to upload your manuscript. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor been currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important to select “Integrating Multi-Source Data for Sensing World Heritage Cities” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process and indicate the special issue in your cover letter.

Please note that papers can be submitted any time before the deadline. 

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