2026 March - 53 articles
Urbanization fundamentally fractures the natural water cycle, leading to a cascade of interconnected problems including increased flood risk, degraded water quality, stressed groundwater resources, and inefficient distribution networks. Traditional,...
Demand-responsive transport (DRT) services are increasingly recognised as an effective solution for enhancing accessibility, particularly in low-demand and peripheral areas. Existing scientific research has investigated DRT as a feeder service to mod...
Autonomous vehicle technology has rapidly advanced in recent years. Such technology is increasingly viewed not merely as a technical innovation but also as a social and behavioural transformation shaped by how these systems are interpreted, trusted,...
Smart mobility is a vital part of a smart city. Autonomous public transport buses are becoming an increasingly noticeable and significant component of smart mobility. This study examines and compares trials of autonomous public transport buses in Bal...
The urban heat island effect is well recognized and has been quantified using ground observations within and outside urban areas. Earth Observation has further revealed small-scale local spatial differences, especially in urban surface temperatures,...
Urban parks are key components of metropolitan green infrastructure, contributing to residents’ well-being. However, perceptions of disorder and safety may substantially shape how these spaces are experienced, particularly during evening hours....
Transportation-disadvantaged (TD) populations, including many older adults and people with disabilities, often face mobility barriers linked to fragmented transportation services, limited information about available ride options, and weak coordinatio...
Learning transferable region embeddings is a fundamental problem in urban computing, as such representations support a wide range of downstream prediction tasks. Existing methods leverage multi-view and multimodal urban data but often fail to explici...
Digital transformation of municipal public services remains uneven in transition economies, while national e-government indices often obscure substantial disparities across cities. This study develops a composite E-Government Maturity and Performance...
Intra-urban commuting plays a fundamental role in shaping urban spatial structure and daily mobility patterns. Existing studies have largely explained commuting flows using attribute-based or distance-centred approaches. Such approaches overlook the...
Although smart-city benchmarking has produced many indices and rankings, cities still lack a practical way to assess whether successful initiatives can be transferred across institutional contexts and converted into implementable urban roadmaps. In t...
This research is an analysis of the relationship between sustainable urbanization and economic inequality through smart city initiatives in developing countries such as India. Rapid urbanization in developing countries tends to have a detrimental imp...
Urban network externalities have emerged as a novel impetus for regional economic growth. However, the extent to which inter-urban network connections promote regional economic growth and the associated spatiotemporal heterogeneity remain underexplor...
The circular economy (CE) has emerged as a central policy framework for advancing sustainable urban development; however, empirical evidence regarding the role of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in metropolitan CE transitions remai...
Forest waste is globally abundant and holds significant potential for valorisation in various sectors. This paper investigates its use in urban road infrastructures, utilising enzymatic lignin, a by-product from forest waste bioethanol production, as...
Urban and peri-urban river systems subjected to intensive agriculture are vulnerable to diffuse metal(loid) inputs, yet the integration of hydrological compartments, bioindicators, and human health risk remains poorly explored. This study investigate...
Global environmental issues are becoming increasingly severe, with climate change imposing varying degrees of economic impact on different cities. It is crucial for cities to pursue efficient, low-carbon, and sustainable development pathways to cope...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in smart city strategies, yet its role in advancing participatory urban planning remains underexamined, particularly in rapidly urbanizing metropolitan contexts of the Global South. This explorato...
Urban waterlogging has become a critical challenge to urban sustainability under the combined pressures of rapid urbanization and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. However, traditional predictive models struggle to achieve real-time, poin...
Since 2025, 45% of the world’s population of 8.2 billion people has lived in cities, and by 2050, that number is expected to increase to 66%. As the number of people living in cities increases, natural landscapes will be transformed into imperv...
Urban Food Forests (UFFs) are perennial, polyculture systems that integrate urban agriculture, forestry, and agroforestry. Like other urban green spaces, UFFs contribute to ecosystem services (i.e., enhancement of the urban resilience, biodiversity,...
Regional energy self-sufficiency based on microgeneration from clean, local energy sources is essential and strategic for meeting growing electricity demand. In this context, initiatives driven by local governments are decisive in achieving such prog...
The COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during its declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) period, has flattened the bid-rent curve and increased the rate of functional obsolescence of older office buildings. A critical question...
Urban competitiveness and vulnerability have traditionally been studied as analytically distinct dimensions, grounded in the assumption that competitive performance necessarily strengthens urban structures. However, empirical evidence from tourist ci...
Rapid and large-scale urban transformations destabilize historical continuity in both the material fabric of cities and the theoretical assumptions guiding urban design. This review reconceptualizes tabula rasa and palimpsest as a negative dialectic...
Accurate occupancy information is critical for optimizing energy efficiency in buildings. Hybrid machine learning models have demonstrated great potential in previous studies; however, their application in passive ultra-low-energy buildings remains u...
Urban expansion presents significant challenges and opportunities for ecological conservation in developing countries, particularly in regions such as the Table Bay Nature Reserve in Cape Town, South Africa, where urban development interfaces with se...
The rapid growth of geospatial data and advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have driven GeoAI’s rise as a key paradigm in urban analytics. GeoAI methods support spatial planning, risk assessment, and policymaking in cities facing climate c...
This article explores the extent of ECoCs (European Capitals of Culture) as placemaking laboratories. Methodologically, this study employed a mixed-methods approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with public and private stakeholders invol...
Urban depopulation has become an increasingly visible phenomenon worldwide, affecting cities of different sizes and economic structures. This article develops a typology of U.S. depopulating cities beyond the Rust Belt’s iconic industrial citie...
Urban green spaces (UGSs) are considered a key component of the urban ecosystem because they promote sustainable development and can improve people’s quality of life. The present study aimed to analyze human perceptions of services and disservi...
Urban freight transport systems are increasingly recognised as a critical factor in metropolitan sustainability. In the case of Sfax, Tunisia’s second-largest city, persistent congestion, logistical inefficiencies and environmental pressures ha...
Against the backdrop of self-financing difficulties, an effect of the transition from a centralized to a market economy, Romanian cities are marked by significant differences in the way local public finances are used. The difficulties generated by in...
This study investigates shopping malls as multifunctional urban actors shaping economic, social, and spatial dynamics in rapidly developing urban contexts, moving beyond approaches that conceptualize them primarily as isolated economic entities. Usin...
Gender equity is a research topic in the field of urban mobility, but it varies across countries, according to their social and cultural features, including levels of development. There is far less understanding of how gender influences access and mo...
With global urbanisation anticipated to reach 68% by 2050, there is a significant risk of exacerbating urban transport emissions. Urban transport decarbonisation is a complex adaptive system challenge, the understanding and optimisation of which coul...
This research assessed management strategies for overtourism in Zadar County. Overtourism has become apparent in both city and seaside destinations, affecting residents’ quality of life. This study defines overtourism as a challenge for urban m...
Cultural heritage can strengthen urban resilience when mobilized as educational infrastructure that builds stewardship, place attachment, and civic agency. This study examines whether the Art Nouveau Path, an outdoor mobile augmented reality heritage...
Open-air food markets have long functioned as key sites of food provision, social interaction, and local economic exchange in European cities. In recent decades, many of these markets have undergone significant transformation as part of modernization...
Climate change is driven by global-scale warming, while cities additionally experience local amplification due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect (urban–rural temperature differences caused by urban form, materials, and reduced evapotranspir...
Urban flooding represents an increasingly critical challenge in rapidly urbanizing cities, where high-density development and climate variability intensify hydrological vulnerability. This article presents an analytically focused case study of Shenzh...
Nowadays, the urban population is steadily increasing worldwide and, as a result, global construction output is expected to grow to more than 16 trillion EUR by 2030. This rapid urbanization has created a strong need for the successful selection and...
The recovery of water and other resources from urban water systems (UWSs) has long been practiced in many Mediterranean countries, but remains relatively unexplored in Croatia. In this study, the sustainable circulation processes of water, nutrients,...
Transit Signal Priority (TSP) enhances transit reliability by minimizing delays at signalized intersections, but its broader implementation is often hindered by organizational and procedural challenges. Although many studies have examined the technic...
Transportation remains one of the sectors with the highest GHG emissions in urban areas, forming around a third of household footprints in affluent countries like the Nordics and being the main source of particulate matter emissions in urban areas ar...
Urban regeneration is increasingly expected to integrate environmental resilience, social equity, and cultural heritage alongside economic objectives. This narrative review examines how nature-based solutions (NbS) can be embedded within regeneration...
Urban sprawl is reshaping metropolitan landscapes and placing increasing pressure on wetland ecosystems. Using Colombo, Sri Lanka as a case study, multi-temporal Landsat-based land use/land cover classifications for 1997, 2007, and 2017 were integrat...
Archaeology and evolutionary anthropology are disciplines that have made important contributions to our understanding of the evolution of cities across time and space. In this paper we apply recent research in construction methods to explore a key as...
In Amazonian cities, river landscapes may function as key spaces of environmental, social, and cultural convergence, particularly in areas with significant human activity. This research proposes the design of an ecological corridor as a multifunction...
Urban mobility plays a key role in territorial equity, access to services, and population well-being, as unfavorable mobility experiences are associated with stress and physical and mental deterioration. However, in Latin American and border cities,...
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