A collaborative approach for urban underground space development toward sustainable development goals: Critical dimensions and future directions

Abstract

The utilization of urban underground space (UUS) offers an effective solution to urban problems but may also negatively affect urban development. Therefore, UUS development needs better concerted guidelines to coordinate various urban systems and the multiple components of the underground world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which should be viewed as important yardsticks for UUS development, do not explicitly mention urban underground space, although many of them are affected by both the positive and negative consequences of its development. To fill this gap, this review lays the foundations of relevant UUS concepts and uses exemplary cases to reveal that 11 out of 17 SDGs can be linked with UUS uses. These linkages also manifest that land administration, integrated planning, architectural design, and construction technology are critical dimensions for increasing the contributions of UUS to the realization of SDGs. To achieve multi-disciplinary synergies among these four critical dimensions, a collaborative approach framework based on spatial data infrastructure is required. Thus, this work provides academics and practitioners with a holistic view of sustainable UUS development.

Underground Land Administration from 2D to 3D: Critical Challenges and Future Research Directions

“…It is also known as subsurface space and subterranean space. Underground space contains everything between the ground surface and the core of the earth [4]. To move towards 3D ULA, different legal, institutional, and technical aspects need to be considered.…”

“…It is also known as subsurface space and subterranean space. Underground space contains everything between the ground surface and the core of the earth [4].…”

“…For example, in Australia, it is estimated that there is 740,000 km of underground infrastructure, which is valued at more than $340 billion [3]. In Tokyo, Japan, it is estimated that nearly 99.9% of the existing buildings have underground basements [4].…”

The Integrated Development Strategy of Coastal Industrial Areas and City Based on Underground Space Development

“…Sustainable development should be considered a crucial criterion for the development of underground space [27]. Urban historical and cultural heritage is the foundation of sustainable urban development, a valuable resource for urban development and a key component of the development of the knowledge economy [28].…”

Risk assessment of geohazards along Cheng-Kun railway using fuzzy AHP incorporated into GIS

“…The relevant evaluation factors of geohazards could be determined according to various disaster evaluation models, e.g., deterministic models, pattern recognition models, statistical analysis models, and subjective inference analysis models (Piacentini et al 2012;Mackillop et al 2018). The identified factors then can be quantitatively presented in GIS, e.g., the related factors of landslide occurrence and urban flood disaster risk Peng 2018a, 2018b;Qiao et al 2019aQiao et al , 2019bAli et al 2019;Wu et al 2019;Peng et al 2021). At present, there are a variety of theories to analyse the relationship between the geohazards and their influencing factors, such as the artificial neural network (ANN), the probability model with logistic analysis, and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (Dou et al 2015;Wang et al 2017;Lyu et al 2018a).…”