Presentation

AIM

Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno es el nombre elegido para nombrar a esta publicación. Con esas tres palabras quisimos reflejar el espíritu abierto de la Revista dedicada al estudio, desde la más amplia de las perspectivas, del hábitat humano, tanto en su vertiente macro como micro, tanto en su acepción más tecnológica como social. Palabras que además tienen la bondad de resumirse en el mismo acrónimo con independencia de que estén en lengua castellana, catalana o inglesa. De esta forma pusimos a disposición de las ricas investigaciones arquitectónicas, urbanísticas y territoriales, una ventana para abordar la difusión de las diferentes disciplinas que se encargan de su desarrollo. ACE es, por tanto, una revista propia para la discusión en la frontera de las disciplinas del conocimiento, abierta a nuevos enfoques de estudio, y sobre todo, una alternativa especialmente diseñada a difundir los resultados en las lenguas que nos resultan familiares y que, sin olvidar la capacidad universal de difusión del inglés, debemos potenciar.

La Revista es un Open Access Journal, y por tanto, su acceso y consulta es gratuito, de manera que su existencia y continuidad sólo puede explicarse gracias al esfuerzo del Centro de Política de Suelo y Valoraciones (CPSV) de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), así como de todas las personas colaboradoras externas que se encargan de la difusión de la revista, fungen como evaluadoras externas de los artículos o son corresponsales en los diferentes países en los que nos encontramos presentes. La Revista es impulsada por la Red homónima formada, además de la UPC, por la Universidad de Guadalajara (México) y la del Bio Bio (Chile).

La sección principal de la Revista está dedicada a dar difusión a trabajos científicos, si bien está acompañada por una sección destinada a contener los resúmenes de tesis de máster y tesinas, y otra más sobre notas técnicas. Regularmente la Revista publica números monográficos cuyos contenidos y diseño es encomendado a editores invitados especialistas de reconocido prestigio en las materias abordadas.

TOPICS

ACE will be spreaded by especialized media diffusion (Universities, Investigation centers, I+D enterprise departments, etc.) of advanced investigations in the following fields:

• Architectonic and urban heritage: Restoration, rehabilitation and intervention of architectonic and urban heritage.
• Urban History: Historical evolution analysis of cities, of its physical, economic, social, cultural transformations. Principles and methods evolution for urban planning and land and urban management.
• Urban and land studies: Urban and land structure analysis. Cities system and metropolitan areas. Urbanization and building models and morphologies.
• Planning and land and city management: Land and urban planning, urban management and planning execution.
• Land politics and housing: Landuse, generation and recovering of plusvalues, housing planning and social integral housing, etc.
• Planning, transport management and urban mobility analysis and mobility management.
• Land and city administration: Land organization, smart administration techniques for urban and land administration reality, social cohesion and participation "Governance".
• Urban ecology: urban and land ecosystem, materia, energy and information flows analysis and diagnosis.
• Urban environment and sustainability: urban life quality and sustainability, environmental diagnosis of urban and land planning, sustainable planning and management of cities, sustainable mobility.
• Energy, architecture and city: quality and confort analysis and control of the urban and architectonic environments.
• Environmental behaviour of buildings and urban systems: thermic, light and acoustic valuation of architectonic and urbanistic spaces: techniques of energy enhancement of the architecture and its environs; integration of energy renewal systems.
• Urban and environmental valuation: Land and real estate valuation, feasibility study of economic and social projects integrated to land and urban interventions.
• Information city and society: land and urban transformation analysis of the society information era, "knowledge city".
• Geographic and land information systems: Urban and land management and analysis, via new technologies. GIS and Remote Sensing.
• Urban representation: Graphic expresion of city and land, geometry and 3D model, color and shape of city architecture.
• Virtual city and heritage: Aplication of virtual reality (VR), Increased reality in the analysis and architectonic heritage representation, and city and land new technologies.

The former topics will be structured in five basic sections:

• Article's Section. This section is destinated to large contributions that as objective the discussion of great relevance theoretical or empirical topics framed in the last description.
• Special Section. This section is intended to fall within one specific contributions of the research areas proposed above. The appearance of this section is possible.
• Doctoral and Msc. Thesis Section. This section is destinated to give publicity to PhD works that have been defended in public.
• Section Notes. In this section will be published articles or short notes have as objective the reflexion around the policies that affect directly to the territori, to land policy, housing and environment in general. Just as general reflections on these themes or critical reviews that summarize other papers.
• Legislation section. In this section it will give publicity, and in the case will be published, the most relevant laws in the topics related by the journal. The appearance of this section is possible.

LANGUAGE

The authors should send their accepted and definitive manuscripts in original language (if Latin), and the title, abstract and keywords in English, Spanish and Catalan. The articles written in non-Latin languages should be submitted in English.

Editorial Board

QUALITY CRITERIA

The magazine will have available, a part of the Editorial Committee, a Scientific Council composed by international experts. The editorial board is composed by both an Editorial Committee and an International Scientific Council.

STRUCTURE

Director: Josep Roca Cladera (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
Editorial Manager: Carlos Marmolejo Duarte (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
Editorial Coordinator: Magda Ulied Seguí (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
Editorial Support and Web manager: Pau Queraltó Ros (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)

Scientific committee:

• Pedro Abramo (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Horacio Capel Sáez (University of Barcelona, Spain)
• Mike Coombes (University of Newcastle, UK)
• Luigi Fusco Girard (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy)
• Héctor Gaete Feres (Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile)
• Daniel González Romero (Universidad de Guadalajara, México)
• Manuel Guardia Bassols (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Sako Musterd (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Riccardo Roscelli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
• José Antonio Tenedorio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Editorial Committee :

• Blanca Esmaragda Arellano Ramos (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Rolando Biere Arenas (GIS) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Malcolm C. Burns (Urban Planner) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Helena Coch Roura (Architecture, Energy and Environment) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Pilar García Almirall (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Montserrat Moix Bergadà (web master) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)

Correspondent

• Carlos Aguirre Núñez (Chile)
• Blanca Arellano Ramos (Mexico)
• Esperanza Durán de Gámez (Colombia)
• Jesús Fitch Osuna (Mexico)
• Demetrio Muñoz Gielen (Netherlands)
• Michael Oxley (United Kingdom)
• Susana Ruiz Fernández (Basc Country and Navarra)

Support publishers:

• Carlos Aguirre Núñez (Chile)
• Esperanza Durán de Gámez (Colombia)
• Jesús Fitch Osuna (Mexico)
• Demetrio Muñoz Gielen (Netherlands)
• Michael Oxley (United Kingdom)
• Susana Ruiz Fernández (Basc Country and Navarra)

Support publishers:

Librarian Support:

• Neus Vilaplana Moreno (ETSAB Library) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Marta Serrat Brustenga (ETSAB Library) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Mònica Bonich Puch (ETSAB Library) (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)

Politechnical Digital Initiative:

• Jordi Prats Prat (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)
• Fran Máñez Sánchez (UPC - BarcelonaTech, Spain)

Journal's edition address:
Avinguda Diagonal, 649, 4ª Planta
08028 Barcelona, España

Copyright

INTELECTUAL PROTECTION CRITERIA

At this moment, it is count with the "Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas", while global protection it is being processed by the World Intelectual Property Organization (OMPI/WIPO). Nevertheless the International Standard Serial Number Office (ISSN) has given the following numbers ISSN: 1886-4805 (electronic version) and 1887-7052 (paper version).

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

This Journal is Open Access, which implies that the access to the published papers is inmediate and free of charge under the license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0ES more information http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/

INCLUSION IN SPECIALIZED INDEX

Databases

Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science)
SCOPUS
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Índices CSIC: ISOC
Urbadoc

Directories of Open Access Journals

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RACO

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IN-RECS
MIAR
Latindex
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DICE
RESH
IBRA

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