2026 May - 74 articles
Does public transportation infrastructure expansion necessarily improve urban air quality? Using panel data from 168 Chinese cities, this study examines the impact of public transportation infrastructure development on air quality by applying GTWR (G...
This study examines how tech-enabled municipal service delivery can generate a digital city dividend, measured as residents’ expected financial gains in urban context. The purpose is to identify the beliefs and enabling conditions that most str...
Ports are drivers of economic development, but at the same time, they create significant environmental pressures for port cities. Sustainable port development is an important aspect of urban and logistical planning in European coastal cities, helping...
Rail transport is the basis for the proper functioning of a transport system that is sustainable for future generations. It is safe and environmentally friendly; moreover, it is suitable for carrying a large number of passengers. Train connections sh...
The aim of this research was to quantify the capacity of different shrub species to remove atmospheric CO2, to adsorb particulate matter and to dissipate latent heat through transpiration. A total of 308 established plants comprising Deutzia scabra,...
Environmental health services play a critical role in communicable disease outbreaks by addressing environmental determinants of disease transmission. However, the scope, impact, and challenges of Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP)-led intervent...
Extensive research has been conducted to develop technologies that enable paratransit systems to operate autonomously, including advanced sensing technologies and associated software. However, there remains a gap in research addressing adaptive opera...
The perception of livability varies by individual, sociocultural, and environmental factors. Little is known about environment-livability relationships in unique sociocultural contexts with predominantly Mexican-origin Hispanic populations. This stud...
This manuscript creates a framework for decision support based on green urbanism to direct the sustainable development of Gamasa, an Egyptian seaside city. The paper aims to convert the concepts of green urbanism into a multi-criteria evaluation that...
This paper examines how the growth and decline of agglomerations and peripheries in metropolitan regions can be understood in the context of Advanced Producer Service (APS) firm decisions, regional conditions and institutional policies. Focusing on G...
Although Smart City transitions are typically assessed using technological and financial indicators, the underlying structural correlates remain insufficiently explored. This study examines how different forms of capital within the Quintuple Helix mo...
This study investigates the transition toward green transportation in Hanoi through a culture-centered perspective by integrating the Culture Tower (KAUC) framework with PLS-SEM analysis. Using survey data from 172 urban residents, the research exami...
This review paper examines innovative urban design strategies for sustainable noise management through a structured analysis framed by ten guiding questions. It begins with an overview of conventional noise assessment technologies and progresses to a...
Traffic accidents pose a persistent challenge for urban mobility, public safety, and sustainable development in smart cities, particularly in rapidly growing urban environments. This study presents a data-driven spatiotemporal analysis of traffic acc...
The National Register of Historic Places (NR) is a structured artifact of meaning-making that encodes disciplinary values linking architectural and cultural significance to wealth and stylistic distinction. In doing so, it systematically underreprese...
This study proposes and tests an analytical framework for interpreting digitally monitored municipal biowaste collection services through comparable diagnostics of operational performance, additional effort, and emissions intensity. The framework was...
Implementation remains a central challenge in urban policy, yet the knowledge formats designed to bridge the gap between policy goals and on-the-ground delivery remain under-examined. This study treats 250 UN-Habitat Best Practice reports not as proo...
Urban community parks are important public open spaces (POSs) that support residents’ quality of life (QoL) by aiding recreation, social interaction, and physical activity. However, evidence on how to design and assess sustainable POS in Saudi...
Smart city governance increasingly relies on AI-enabled planning systems, digital twins, vulnerability scoring tools, and capital investment platforms to allocate climate-resilient housing and infrastructure investments. Yet existing smart-urbanism a...
Urban green spaces play a key role in supporting biodiversity, climate regulation, and carbon storage in rapidly expanding cities. Urban and peri-urban parks can differ markedly in tree-community structure, floristic diversity, and carbon-storage cap...
As global urban centers transition into “Super-Aged Societies,” the paradigm of urban sustainability has shifted from mere housing provision to the development of Sustainable Care Retirement Communities (SCRCs). This study addresses a cri...
StoryMapping has emerged as an accessible geotechnological approach that combines spatial analysis, interactive cartography and digital storytelling to communicate urban landscape transformations. This study aims to demonstrate the methodological pot...
Due to climate change and its increased variability, as well as the extreme weather events, flooding is becoming a major natural threat causing profound economic, social, and ecological impact. This paper systematically reviews 89 peer-reviewed artic...
Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras and gunshot detection system (GDS) technology represent rapidly expanding forms of surveillance. Despite their prevalence, empirical literature regarding these tools remains limited, particularly concerni...
This study applies the Actor-Centered Power (ACP) framework to analyze urban green-space governance in three Asian cities, focusing on how power is distributed and exercised among actors in the management of their representative multipurpose parks: S...
Urban destinations increasingly incorporate green–blue infrastructure, sensory-balanced public spaces, and microclimate-responsive design to mitigate visitor fatigue and support sustainable tourism experiences. To understand how insights from b...
The development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Generative Design (GD) methods supported by artificial intelligence opens up new possibilities in the field of urban planning analyses and the verification of land-use compliance with local r...
Rapid urbanisation in contemporary China has intensified pressures on private living environments, prompting domestic practices to increasingly unfold within third places, specifically privately owned commercial interiors. A representative example is...
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of academic research on sentiment analysis in urban built environments from 2000 to 2025. Based on data from the scientific database Scopus and drawing on bibliometric tools like Bibliometrix (R) and VOSview...
Urban tourism destinations increasingly rely on specialized segments such as wine tourism. However, limited research examines how electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) and personal recommendations jointly influence destination loyalty through experiential...
Yacuri National Park (YNP) is a Ramsar site located within Ecuador’s Podocarpus-El Cóndor Biosphere Reserve. The Park faces critical threats from illegal mining, livestock grazing, wildfires and the harvesting of wax palms. This study em...
Coagulation-based technologies are increasingly recognized as key for controlling fluoride and hexavalent chromium in urban water and wastewater. Combined geogenic and industrial sources often drive chronic exposure and create an underrecognized publ...
The transition to a circular economy (CE) is a critical challenge for the urban built environment, particularly within the Building and Construction sector. This study explores the application of circularity micro-indicators to assess the use of plas...
Urban underground space resource (UUSR) constitutes a critical natural resource and a vital component of the natural environment, whose rational utilization is essential for the sustainable development of cities. Mathematical models are indispensable...
In response to environmental degradation and social inequities exacerbated by automobile-dependent urban sprawl, this study proposes a framework for dynamic delineation and vitality assessment of 15-min walkable neighborhoods, using Baohe District, H...
With the need for increasing energy demand due to population growth in cities, and advancements in the efficiency of semi-transparent photovoltaic (ST-PV) technology, the integration of ST-PV modules into building windows has become feasible. This ma...
This paper investigates the prediction of urban air temperature (Tair) from satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) in the complex urban and topographic environment of Yerevan, Armenia. Building on previous work that demonstrated the effecti...
Although the literature has extensively analyzed the determinants of tourist expenditure, studies focusing on second home tourism are scarce. Moreover, they tend to treat this segment as a homogeneous group, without delving into the existence of diff...
Urban greening has transitioned from a supplementary component of urban development to a central element in contemporary planning policies, driven by its recognized environmental, social, and health benefits. This paper explores urban greening proces...
For the environment and the daily life of urban settlements, in the context of contemporary challenges, severe meteorological events rank second worldwide. Therefore, these events tend to become a real threat to human society and to specific economic...
Urban growth and climate change intensify urban heat islands (UHIs), altering atmospheric stability and promoting the accumulation of particulate matter ≤ 10 µm (PM10) and particulate matter ≤ 2.5 µm (PM2.5), particularly in high-al...
Assessing carbon footprints has become increasingly important globally as a key tool for quantifying environmental impacts and supporting sustainable decision-making. However, although allegorical floats—central elements of large-scale parades...
Rapid urbanization in Saudi Arabia puts increasing pressure on energy, water, mobility, and waste-management systems, strengthening the need for evidence-based smart-city policy under Vision 2030. Rather than offering a descriptive inventory of proje...
Urban air pollution in Skopje, a city with complex topography, is strongly influenced by traffic emissions, household heating, industrial activities, and meteorological conditions, leading to pronounced spatial and seasonal variability. The objective...
Amid growing concerns over global warming, ensuring the outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) of public urban spaces is crucial for creating liveable and resilient cities. This study focused on the intensification of the urban heat island (UHI) effect and th...
At the global level, as well as in Lithuania, the risks associated with climate change and other emerging threats—such as war, radiation, and pandemics—are increasing, and adequate preparedness is necessary to avoid their negative consequ...
The rapid growth of e-commerce has significantly increased direct-to-consumer deliveries, putting competitive and environmental pressure on urban last-mile logistics. Out-of-home (OOH) delivery options, particularly parcel lockers, are increasingly i...
Sustainable urban development depends not only on efficient design and construction but also on the long-term governance of built assets during their operational phase. However, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is still predominantly applied to de...
The presence of wild species in urban areas is becoming increasingly common. In southern Spain, species such as wild boar cause significant damage and problems in human-dominated environments, such as peri-urban areas, sports facilities, and urban pa...
Urban forestry research increasingly promotes proximity-based benchmarks, such as the 3–30–300 rule, to expand tree canopy, enhance access to nature, and support healthier and more climate-resilient cities. However, a growing body of evid...
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