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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
283 Views
14 Pages

Groundwater Nitrate Contamination and Age-Specific Health Risks in Semi-Urban Northeastern Areas of Saudi Arabia

  • Al Mamun,
  • Amira Salman Alazmi,
  • Maha Alruwaili,
  • Sagar Bhandari and
  • Hatim O. Sharif

13 December 2025

Nitrate in groundwater (GW) poses a public-health concern in semi-urban northeastern Saudi Arabia, where households rely on untreated wells. We measured nitrate in 45 wells spanning treated/untreated commercial stations, private domestic wells, and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
24 Pages

12 December 2025

Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is a critical component for social inclusion and population development. This study aimed to analyze ICT access in Argentine households, considering its distribution according to deprivation...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
261 Views
19 Pages

12 December 2025

As landscape architecture shifts toward evidence-based practices, the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)’s Case Study Investigation (CSI) initiative has been instrumental in driving the growth of Landscape Performance Evaluation (LPE) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
342 Views
27 Pages

12 December 2025

Folk festivals and other intangible cultural heritage have received widespread attention, and their socio-cultural value can be used to promote tourism, strengthen local identity, and build city brands. However, it remains unclear how these intangibl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
682 Views
32 Pages

Reconversion of Universal Expos’ Ex-Sites, an Urban Project for Seville

  • Attila Simo,
  • Anamaria Andreea Anghel,
  • Flaviu Mihai Frigura-Iliasa and
  • Elvis Alexandru Dogaru

12 December 2025

The capacity of exhibitions to transform a city extends over a long period. The expo area is converted into a unique scenario for architecture, diversity, technology, mobility, and culture during the event itself. After the exhibition is over, work c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
29 Pages

Visibility and Reachability of Interwar Modernism (Kaunas Case)

  • Kestutis Zaleckis,
  • Ausra Mlinkauskiene,
  • Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske and
  • Marius Ivaskevicius

11 December 2025

This article presents a novel methodology for assessing the visibility and reachability of cultural heritage objects within urban structures, tested through a pilot study in Kaunas New Town (Naujamiestis), Lithuania. While heritage protection policie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
318 Views
22 Pages

11 December 2025

The mitigation of natural hazards is a persistent challenge in Chile, where recurrent events such as summer forest fires and winter floods cause severe material and human losses. Municipalities, as key actors in disaster management, often face diffic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
25 Pages

An Integrative Decision-Making Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Governance: The Case of Yerevan City

  • Khoren Mkhitaryan,
  • Armen Karakhanyan,
  • Anna Sanamyan,
  • Erika Kirakosyan and
  • Gohar Manukyan

11 December 2025

Sustainable urban water governance in rapidly transforming cities requires integrative decision-making frameworks capable of balancing social equity, economic efficiency, and environmental resilience. This study develops an Integrative Decision-Makin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
295 Views
22 Pages

Assessing Logistic and Railway Readiness in the NELBEC: A Composite Index for Belt and Road Integration

  • Mariana Sepulveda,
  • Ruben Dario Posada,
  • Abraham Londoño-Pineda,
  • Jose Alejandro Cano and
  • Stephan Weyers

10 December 2025

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, is one of the most ambitious global projects of the 21st century, aiming to enhance connectivity and trade between Asia and Europe. Within this framework, the New Eurasia Land Bridge Economic Corr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
674 Views
27 Pages

Urban Sprawl and Drinking Water Services in an African City: The Case of Bukavu in DR Congo

  • Didier Mugisho Nyambwe,
  • Sylvain Kulimushi Matabaro,
  • John Baptist Mulengezi Mushegerha,
  • John Kashinzwe Kibekenge,
  • Patrick Bukenya and
  • John Baptist Nzukizi Mudumbi

10 December 2025

This study evaluates urban growth and access to drinking water in Bukavu from 1980 to 2024, combining diachronic Landsat image analysis, demographic and geospatial data, and household surveys. Bukavu’s population rose from 280,000 to over 2 mil...

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