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Urban Science, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2025 - 57 articles

Cover Story: Tourism today represents a strategic engine of economic growth. It has shown remarkable resilience and recovery capacity, generating employment and supporting local development, yet it is increasingly associated with pronounced spatial imbalances. In many destinations, tourism concentrates in hotspot areas, producing a “gravitational” effect that intensifies congestion, overtourism, seasonality, and pressure on local resources. Drawing on the concept of anti-gravity, tourism is reinterpreted as a spatial system articulated through specialized tourism ecosystems that can be actively rebalanced. Anti-gravity tourism frames strategies aimed at redistributing flows, mitigating excessive concentration, and promoting more balanced and sustainable territorial configurations across different spatial scales. View this paper
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Articles (57)

  • Article
  • Open Access
273 Views
29 Pages

18 December 2025

Increasing the level of livability in cities is a topical area both in EU policies and in local urban development, as well as in scientific studies. The aim of this article is to assess the degree if livability of the large housing estates (LHEs) bui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
522 Views
35 Pages

18 December 2025

An effective housing policy must ensure affordability for individuals across all income levels by integrating advanced technological innovations with comprehensive socioeconomic strategies. Affordable housing fosters social inclusion, whereas sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2025

Guidance information plays an important role in influencing metro passengers’ travel choices and enhancing their travel experience during unplanned service disruptions. However, limited research has examined passengers’ behavioral respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Views
26 Pages

18 December 2025

Urban parks are essential components of sustainable cities, providing vital health, social, and environmental benefits. Using weekly smartphone-based visitation data for 182 parks in Las Vegas from 2019 to 2022, this study quantifies how the COVID-19...

  • Review
  • Open Access
443 Views
15 Pages

17 December 2025

Urban Green Spaces (UGSs) are essential for ecological sustainability and public health, offering benefits such as air pollution reduction, urban cooling, and recreational opportunities. However, existing evaluation tools remain inconsistent, often a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
339 Views
26 Pages

17 December 2025

City walk is an emerging form of short-term urban activity in which participants explore city streets and alleys to perceive distinctive cultural symbols, social connections, and spatial organizations of a place. This practice provides a new pathway...

  • Review
  • Open Access
529 Views
29 Pages

17 December 2025

Climate change poses increasing risks to the ecological and social foundations of Nature-Based Tourism (NBT), particularly within urbanized and protected landscapes. This study examines how the existing literature conceptualizes climate vulnerability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
17 Pages

Spatiotemporal Assessment of Urban Heat Vulnerability and Linkage Between Pollution and Heat Islands: A Case Study of Toulouse, France

  • Aiman Mazhar Qureshi,
  • Khairi Sioud,
  • Anass Zaaoumi,
  • Olivier Debono,
  • Harshit Bhatia and
  • Mohamed Amine Ben Taher

16 December 2025

Urban heat vulnerability is an increasing public health concern, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions of southern France. This study aims to quantify and map the Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) for Toulouse and to analyze its temporal trends to...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
457 Views
29 Pages

16 December 2025

While urban green spaces (UGS) are essential sources of environmental, social, and health benefits, their inequitable distribution is representative of deeply entrenched socio-economic and racial inequalities that exacerbate environmental justice (EJ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
415 Views
17 Pages

Modeling the Spatial Impact of Short-Term Rentals on House Prices: The Case of Athens, Greece

  • Polixeni Iliopoulou,
  • Vassilios Krassanakis and
  • Kallis Kappelos

13 December 2025

The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial impact of short-term rental activity on house prices in the city of Athens, Greece. It is well established that the increasing number of short-term rentals has a number of consequences on the functi...

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