2026 January - 65 articles
In the context of high-quality urbanization, a key challenge for urban agglomerations is the structural mismatch between economic linkages and rapidly expanding information interactions, which may constrain the performance of coupled systems under sh...
The integration of electric vehicles into urban life is currently being implemented rapidly. However, the excessive integration of electric cars into urban environments creates several risks that impede their sustainable development. In this regard,...
Radiative cooling (RC) offers a passive pathway to reduce surface and system temperatures by emitting thermal radiation through the atmospheric window, yet its daytime effectiveness is often constrained by geometry, angular solar exposure, and practi...
The transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in urban management is severely constrained by pervasive systemic fragmentation. While AI applications demonstrate high efficacy within isolated domains, they rarely achieve the cross-domai...
Rapid urbanization and climate change have intensified flood risk and ecological degradation along urban riverfronts. Recent literature suggests that combining green and grey infrastructure can enhance resilience while delivering ecological and socia...
Urban heat and hardscapes increase cooling electricity demand, stressing power grids and disproportionately burdening deprived neighborhoods. While previous studies have documented the cooling benefits of urban tree canopy, most analyses remain at co...
Spatial openness affects the subjective evaluation of soundscape, landscape, and thermal perceptions, leading to various restoration effects and recreational behaviors. However, the literature lacks studies investigating the effects of multisensory i...
Walkability for non-motorized users is crucial for fostering inclusive, healthy, and sustainable communities. By prioritizing modern human-centered design principles, social equality is promoted for all categories of users, regardless of physical abi...
AI technologies are increasingly applied to optimize operations in both port and urban logistics systems, yet integration across the full maritime city chain remains limited. The objective of this study is to assess, using a simulation-based experime...
The continuous degradation of mangrove ecosystems, considered among the most vulnerable worldwide, reveals multiple threats driven by human activities and climate change. In the Peruvian context, particularly in the Tumbes Mangrove ecosystem, these p...
Under the dual pressures of global climate change and accelerating urbanization, landscape design has been tasked with the critical mission of enhancing urban environmental resilience and ecological livability. However, conventional design practices...
This study aimed to explore the factors influencing right-turning vehicles’ yielding behavior for crossing e-bikes at signalized intersections to improve safety for crossing e-bikes. Videos of different intersections were obtained through manua...
With China’s rapidly aging population, enhancing the safety and age-friendliness of existing residential communities has become a pressing need in the context of urban renewal. Based on empirical analysis of 146 questionnaires collected from ag...
Universal accessibility remains a critical challenge for effective public transport and urban equity. This study addresses the need for operational prioritisation tools by proposing a robust hybrid methodology to rank interventions at urban mobility...
Quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional concept involving physical, psychological, social, and environmental dimensions. Therefore, it reflects not only individual well-being but also the overall well-being and sustainability of societies. Curren...
Urban resilience has emerged as a critical paradigm for addressing the intertwined challenges of climate change, rapid urbanization, and social inequality, positioning green public spaces as catalysts for social, ecological, and institutional transfo...
Europe is warming faster than the global average, making climate change adaptation a central concern for urban policy and planning. This article develops and applies an analytical framework to assess the maturity of multilevel adaptation governance a...
Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization, megacities have become crucial drivers of development. As the country with the largest number of megacities (seven in total), China is confronted with significant challenges such as population–resourc...
Liquefaction in urban areas has repeatedly caused severe damage to infrastructure, including manhole uplift, road subsidence, and failure of buried utility lines, as evidenced by reports during major earthquakes such as the 1964 Niigata earthquake an...
Around eight million people—mainly in cities—die prematurely from pollution-related diseases; thus, studies of urban dust have become increasingly relevant over the last two decades. In this study, an assessment of heavy metal and metallo...
Mozambique’s rapidly urbanizing landscape presents both opportunities and challenges for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7 and 11, which aim to ensure access to clean energy and sustainable cities. This study employs the HESPECT...
Miniature commercial trucks constitute a critical component of urban freight systems but face elevated crash risk due to distinctive driving patterns, frequent operation, and variable loads. This study quantifies how long-term and short-term driving...
Perceived safety strongly shapes how residents use and experience their neighborhoods, yet evidence on how spatial and social factors interact in rapidly urbanizing Asian cities remains limited. This study investigates the role of natural surveillanc...
The thermal influence of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) is not limited to periods of high temperature but persists throughout the year. The present study utilizes hourly data collected over a period of one year from a network of hygrothermal monitoring st...
About 16% of typhoons making landfall in China strike Hainan Island, where near-surface extreme winds in dense urban areas exhibit a strong spatiotemporal heterogeneity that is difficult to capture with current observations and mesoscale models. Focu...
This article examines how the same heritage or revival site can produce both welcoming and hostile atmospheres depending on the cohort, yielding selectively permeable environments that enable some groups while constraining others. Climatic volatility...
The “Anthropocene” has witnessed unprecedented challenges to the sustainability of human development. Resolving the contradiction between humans and land and achieving coordinated development has become a pressing issue across many discip...
This study examines the relationship between lung and bronchus cancer mortality, vertical urban density, and smoking prevalence across 48 U.S. states from 1999 to 2022. Using 2034 state-year observations, skyscraper counts are employed as a proxy for...
The rapid growth of online food delivery in urban areas reflects changing consumer lifestyles, but it has also contributed to increasing plastic waste and challenges in waste management. This study investigated the composition of municipal solid wast...
The European Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) promotes an integrated approach to water management, recognizing water as a shared resource and defining quality objectives. Within this framework, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) provide effect...
Developing effective evaluation frameworks for urban regeneration in non-metropolitan areas is increasingly challenging, particularly for small-scale projects where conventional administrative indicators are often insufficient on their own. This stud...
Amid increasing urbanization and escalating global mental health concerns, understanding the environmental determinants of mental illness has become a research priority. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of global research exploring the int...
This exploratory study addresses the problem of limited research on quality assessments of newly emerging multi-use market formats that function as social hubs and their management as privately managed public spaces. Using Āgenskalns Market, a r...
Studies on colonial grid urban planning often use the later examples of cities founded in peninsular Spain towards the end of the 15th century as a basis for understanding the principles applied in new foundations in the Americas. This study proposes...
The degradation of vegetation cover and the vulnerability of urban market gardening systems to climate risks are a major challenge for food security in peri-urban areas. This study analyzes the spatio-temporal dynamics of vegetation using the NDVI an...
Amidst Portugal’s ongoing housing crisis, particularly pronounced in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, thousands of residential units remain vacant. This article investigates why property owners often refrain from placing these homes on the rental...
Smart cities increasingly reuse existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to sense crowding, but many smart-campus tools still fail to support routine, day-to-day decisions. A short-horizon field feasibility study was conducted to prototype a low-maintenance, pr...
The built environment (BE) plays a central role in shaping everyday mobility patterns and determining how physical activity (PA) is integrated into daily life. Foundational BE frameworks such as the 5Ds (density, diversity, design, distance to transi...
This study investigates why Generation Z in Surabaya remains reluctant to live in vertical housing despite strong urbanization pressures and policy promotion. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach with 340 respondents aged 18–2...
Urban stormwater management presents significant challenges for municipalities seeking to balance environmental resilience with financial considerations and social equity. This study investigates the factors shaping residents’ willingness to pa...
Wastewater treatment is fundamental to sustainable urban development, and recent European legislation now requires quaternary treatment of final effluent at wastewater treatment plants. Among the technologies evaluated for this purpose, adsorption an...
The current refugee crisis has revealed flaws in existing systems. Factors such as socioeconomic background, access to housing, and urban policies influence refugees’ abilities to fully participate in city life. The research objective is to ana...
This study investigates the impact of a self-built architectural intervention implemented in three areas, two intervention sites and one control site of a university campus, focusing on how such interventions can influence the use and care of open sp...
(1) Background: As social infrastructures, cemeteries have always played a central role in various human cultures. The changing function of cemeteries and the recognition of their potential as green spaces have resulted in the fact that cemeteries ar...
Business diversity in proximity-based environments is emerging as an important requirement in urban planning, especially with the rise of concepts such as the 15-min city, which aim to enhance urban vitality. While many studies have focused on assess...
The growing demand for parcel delivery plays an important role in the integration of electromobility and urban logistics into urban delivery systems, especially in a mid-sized Central European city. This study investigates the challenges and opportun...
Urban railway systems are critical for the daily lives of citizens in cities. Considering that urban railways are a core infrastructure, it is important for urban and railway practitioners to operate and maintain urban railway systems effectively and...
Despite the critical role of parking supply in urban transportation, the nonlinear relationship between parking facilities and commute mode choice remains poorly understood. This study systematically examines the nonlinear influences of the built env...
From an ecological perspective, sustainable lighting in urban marine areas requires striking a balance between meeting human needs and protecting marine ecosystems from the harmful effects of disrupting natural light regimes. While managing artificia...
The scientific literature has explored the relationship between environmental justice and inequalities in the distribution and access to green spaces. This article analyses the neighbourhood of La Verneda (Barcelona) as one of the most successful cas...
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