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Urban parks function as key components of pedestrian infrastructure and everyday mobility systems. This study presents a planning-oriented analytical framework designed to integrate spatial and temporal behavioral data derived from computer vision an...

Intra-urban air temperature is highly heterogeneous, and coarse-resolution products cannot resolve the neighbourhood-scale variability that urban heat management requires. The objective of this study is to assess whether the Urban Thermal Signal Down...

Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) have over the last decade emerged as a strategy to contribute to a more inclusive and just urban energy transition. While previous research on PEDs have mainly focused on technical feasibility, this article analyzes t...

Although vital to urban operations, urban freight transport (UFT) generates substantial negative externalities. Despite the rising interest in urban transport sustainability, methodological frameworks targeting UFT remain scarce, particularly those t...

Historic metropolises face the dual challenge of accommodating contemporary urban development while conserving cultural heritage and managing land consumption. This study compares land use transitions in Xi’an, China, and Rome, Italy, from 2000...

Gender-based restrictions in sacred heritage spaces challenge inclusive urban tourism planning. This study examines digital access at the Silver Ubosot in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where women cannot enter the sacred interior. An on-site quasi-experiment...

Logistics infrastructure plays a strategic role in urban-regional connectivity, territorial development, supply chain integration, and the spatial organization of freight flows in emerging economies. However, the socioeconomic and territorial perform...

Urban vehicle emissions are strongly influenced by transient driving conditions, while route-level emission factors may conceal locations where high-emission events repeatedly occur. This study proposes a spatial recurrence framework integrating repe...

Urban household biowaste is shaped by recurring food categories, among which citrus peels represent a structured and seasonally patterned input. As these peels may carry postharvest fungicide residues, their movement through decentralized waste-treat...

Air pollution imposes measurable economic costs on housing markets, typically reflected in lower property values. While this negative capitalization is well documented, the interaction between environmental externalities and active municipal fiscal p...

This research aims to analyze the physical, morphological, and climatological factors that determine the thermal environment along “Ben Bou Laïd” Avenue in the city of Sétif, Algeria, and within its urban canyons, as well as t...

As the backbone of urban transportation, metro systems constitute critical lifeline infrastructure characterized by substantial investment, long operational lifespans, and high passenger flow density. Interchange stations, where crowds are most conce...

Research on urban packaging waste examines recyclability, household behavior, collection, and reverse logistics, but rarely integrates these mechanisms in a packaging-specific urban feedback framework. This study develops a qualitative system dynamic...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in design disciplines marks a shift in design agency, from predominantly human-centered processes toward distributed forms of Human–AI co-production. This study conceptualizes Human–AI co-pr...

Cultural facility distribution provides a spatial basis for examining inclusive urban service provision. Using point-of-interest (POI) data for 2005, 2015, and 2025, this study examines the spatiotemporal evolution of cultural facilities across Nanji...

Planning agencies need to identify where detailed pedestrian assessment is most useful before commissioning field surveys. Public spatial data can support this task, but the locations selected by a composite screening score may depend on expert judgm...

As economic globalization and industrial restructuring advance, inter-firm interactions have become increasingly close, and the structural characteristics of urban investment networks have undergone significant changes. From an enterprise investment...

Urban environments play a fundamental role in shaping people’s everyday experiences and life satisfaction. However, understanding the relationship between urban and peri-urban environments and subjective wellbeing requires considering how resid...

Disaster preparedness depends not only on hazard awareness but also on how individuals relate to institutions, evaluate risk information, interpret threats, and translate those interpretations into protective action. This study develops an integrativ...

Urban overheating is an increasingly prevalent threat to the liveability and thermal comfort of outdoor spaces in residential apartment areas. While urban green spaces can regulate microclimates and mitigate heat, there remains a lack of evidence on...

The transition from prevailing car-dependent urban mobility patterns to multimodal systems prioritising active travel and public transport is widely recognised as a key lever for achieving more sustainable cities and as essential for meeting EU mid-c...

This study conducts a scenario-based analysis of the potential economic impacts of an eruption of Mount Fuji across Japan’s urban systems, with a particular focus on the infrastructure services that support urban functions. Using a dynamic inte...

Since 1991, over 1200 deaths have occurred due to crowd incidents and stampedes across Africa. Children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and women face higher risks due to limited access to resources and support, while young men are more expos...

This article develops RIVAM (Retorno Integral de la Vivienda Asequible Municipal; Integrated Return of Municipal Affordable Housing), an ex-ante appraisal framework. Stage 0 screens municipal housing stress, labour demand, demographic pressure, suppl...

A balanced panel of 284 Chinese prefecture-level cities covering 2010–2021 is used to examine the relationship between digital infrastructure and urban green innovation efficiency (EUGI). We construct an entropy-weighted index to measure digita...

The growing pursuit of urban sustainability, liveability, and competitiveness has increased the need for comprehensive tools capable of assessing urban performance. However, existing city indices employ diverse conceptual frameworks, indicator sets,...

The protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has now evolved from a conventional mode based on project application and inventory management to a new stage of spatial, networked, and regionally integrated governance. China is moving from list-...

This study quantifies long-term surface urban heat island (SUHI) dynamics (2001–2016) in three climatically diverse South American metropolises—Buenos Aires (temperate), Bogotá (tropical highland), and Lima (arid coastal)—usi...

Urban morphology strongly affects spatial quality and residents’ quality of life, yet many assessments rely on aggregated indicators and overlook causal links between street-scale attributes. This study proposes a multicriteria framework that c...

Urban Heat Islands (UHIs), urban areas which experience significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas, are a growing concern for cities worldwide due to rapid global urbanization and simultaneously rising global temperatures. Tree ca...

This paper explores the heterogeneity of informal settlements in Jaipur, India, by comparing water insecurity across two sites with contrasting infrastructure, one relying on a community standpost and the other on household-level piped water access....

Population aging is a defining demographic transformation in Latin America, yet its subnational spatial dynamics remain insufficiently understood. We examined population aging in the Maule Region of Chile from 1992 to 2024 using official census data...

Urban folk cultural spaces are increasingly shaped by everyday practices, periodic events, tourism activities, and digital media. This study examines how urban folk culture in Tianjin can be understood as dynamic scenes of spatiotemporal activation a...

How are innovation inputs and measured outputs distributed across the regions of a resource-dependent post-Soviet economy, and how closely do they correspond? We use a balanced official panel of Kazakhstan’s 17 regions for 2014–2025 (204...

The proliferation of environmental-community labels has expanded the vocabulary of urban environmental discourse while obscuring a more consequential question: do these labels represent distinct environmental models, or differentiated configurations...

Urban tourism observatories are increasingly being promoted as tourism intelligence infrastructures capable of supporting evidence-based governance; however, their ability to transform data into actionable knowledge remains insufficiently studied. Th...

Public transport is central to urban decarbonization, yet its greenhouse-gas (GHG) performance varies with transport mode, propulsion technology, energy source, passenger utilization, route and terrain conditions, operating context, and accounting bo...

Residential window views provide a perspective on urban landscapes that is difficult to observe at large scale. This study uses real-estate panoramas to quantify residential window-view composition, describe its spatial distribution in Wuhan, and exa...

Administrative road crash records in intermediate cities may support safety planning but often contain incomplete outcomes and inconsistent coordinates. We analyzed 3349 events recorded in Loja, Ecuador, during 2020–2026 (2026 partial). Severit...

Industrial symbiosis (IS) is increasingly considered a practical pathway for advancing the circular economy, improving resource efficiency, and supporting sustainable industrial development. While IS has been widely discussed and applied in several E...

Planning rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems for social housing requires decisions that extend beyond technical design, particularly regarding implementation scale. Although previous studies have extensively addressed storage sizing, water savings, an...

An extensive body of literature has examined the impact of accessibility on public transport use. However, travel decisions are influenced not only by the spatial characteristics of the transportation system, but also by how users perceive those char...

This study develops a multi-source site–time audit linking planning commitments, on-site delivery, and visitor use. The primary application was in Xiamen, China; the protocol was also used at five preselected sites in Songdo, South Korea. Five...

Walkability measures often combine destination access and street conditions, although the components may not relate to walking in the same way. We examined item-level, group-level, and composite associations with transport walking in four highly moto...

Digital industrial policies are increasingly used to promote economic restructuring and spatial reorganization, yet their effects on urban spatial structure remain poorly understood. This study examines whether China’s National E-commerce Demon...

The connection of people’s wellbeing and quality of life with the urban environments is gaining growing relevance as a research theme worldwide. This paper presents the results of a literature review on urban wellbeing (UWB) and urban quality o...

Countdown timers at signalized intersections provide drivers with advance information about phase changes and may improve queue discharge, but previous studies have reported heterogeneous operational and behavioral effects. This systematic review syn...

Urban ecosystems increasingly support diverse bird communities, yet comprehensive assessments integrating biodiversity, breeding ecology, spatial distribution, behavior, and infrastructure interactions remain scarce in North African oasis cities. Thi...

This study presents a life cycle assessment (LCA) of an ephemeral architectural installation developed for the Festival of Fruits and Flowers (FFF), a major cultural tourism event held in Ambato, Ecuador. Unlike previous LCA studies of temporary stru...

Enhancing urban ecological resilience (UER) is essential for achieving sustainable development in the context of global climate change. Using urban panel data and a difference-in-differences (DID) framework, this study empirically examines the effect...