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24 Citations
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A Systemic Approach to City Image Building. The Case of Katowice City

  • Anna Adamus-Matuszyńska,
  • Jerzy Michnik and
  • Grzegorz Polok

18 August 2019

Making long-term decisions and developing successful policy is always a challenge for a governing body. Within the framework of causal mapping, we evolved a model for the problem of creating and reinforcing a city’s image. Then, the model was e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,783 Views
22 Pages

10 February 2023

Based on Kevin Lynch’s cognitive method of urban image and Weibo’s review data, this study constructs a research framework with three modules as the core: city image structure, city image types, and cultural service evaluation. First, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,292 Views
21 Pages

This research aims to explore the role of architecture in creating an identifiable brand for Amman. It seeks to put forward a vision through which Amman’s city can formulate a clear model for implementing a successful branding strategy. In doin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
962 Views
35 Pages

30 October 2025

The study presented in this article explores the changing significance of the river and its impact on shaping the city’s image, using the example of the relationship between the Oder River and the city of Szczecin. The main objective was to exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,689 Views
37 Pages

26 May 2023

The practice of promoting an image of the city using architectural objects, and the need to identify or create architectural icons in urban spaces, outlined in this article, occurs in many cities worldwide. The city of Szczecin in Poland, the subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,059 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2024

Despite emerging empirical findings and computational tools that extend city image research to include social dimensions beyond visual perception, methodologies for effectively identifying and analyzing the relationships between the five city image e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,633 Views
25 Pages

21 October 2019

The idea of sustainable smart city has extensive scientific literature where the architects’ role in designing built environments, being a physical platform for implementing “elderly-friendly” solutions, is poorly referenced. The ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,462 Views
21 Pages

27 August 2022

With the advent of the Internet era, users from numerous countries can express their opinions on social media platforms represented by Twitter. Unearthing people’s image perceptions of cities from tweets helps relevant organizations understand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,514 Views
21 Pages

Image of a City through Big Data Analytics: Colombo from the Lens of Geo-Coded Social Media Data

  • Sandulika Abesinghe,
  • Nayomi Kankanamge,
  • Tan Yigitcanlar and
  • Surabhi Pancholi

9 January 2023

The image of a city represents the sum of beliefs, ideas, and impressions that people have of that city. Mostly, city images are assessed through direct or indirect interviews and cognitive mapping exercises. Such methods consume more time and effort...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,795 Views
18 Pages

1 December 2019

This study highlights transportation service quality (including that of the core transportation service and the physical environment of transportation) and investigates its impact on satisfaction as well as attitude toward and image of a sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,132 Views
14 Pages

City image reflects urban culture and communication and influences tourists’ travel behavior. However, based on field investigations, it was found that Macau’s city space currently faces issues such as an imbalance in practical use effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,204 Views
25 Pages

26 October 2015

In this paper, we introduce the concept and an implementation of geospatial 3D image spaces as new type of native urban models. 3D image spaces are based on collections of georeferenced RGB-D imagery. This imagery is typically acquired using multi-vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,134 Views
25 Pages

29 January 2024

With the continuous development of digital technology, the widespread use of virtual spokespersons to promote city images is becoming increasingly prevalent. This study responds to this trend by employing a factor analysis and entropy weight methodol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,866 Views
23 Pages

25 September 2022

The community is the basic spatial unit for urban residents to live and rest. It is a crucial direction of city image research to explore people’s cognitive characteristics of community space image. Aiming at the lack of cognitive quantificatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,105 Views
26 Pages

Ontology-Based Deep Learning Model for Object Detection and Image Classification in Smart City Concepts

  • Adekanmi Adeyinka Adegun,
  • Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu,
  • Serestina Viriri and
  • John Odindi

2 August 2024

Object detection in remotely sensed (RS) satellite imagery has gained significance in smart city concepts, which include urban planning, disaster management, and environmental monitoring. Deep learning techniques have shown promising outcomes in obje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,855 Views
27 Pages

Urban documents like city planning reports and environmental data often feature complex charts and texts that require effective summarization tools, particularly in smart city management systems. These documents increasingly use graphical abstracts a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,330 Views
18 Pages

26 November 2024

City image is essential for city marketing, yet the impact of “outside–in” shaping by social media in the Web 2.0 era has been largely overlooked. The decentralized and diverse Web 2.0 environment now dominates online information di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,346 Views
12 Pages

The Image of the Smart City: New Challenges

  • Giuseppe Borruso and
  • Ginevra Balletto

The image of the Smart City recalls Lynch’s “Image of the City” (1960) and the ways in which urban spaces are perceived by the community and users. The categories presented there hold a physical, tangible component, related to the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,991 Views
22 Pages

The built environment reshapes various scenes that can be perceived, experienced, and interpreted, which are known as city images. City images emerge as the complex composite of various imagery elements. Previous studies demonstrated the coincide bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,147 Views
21 Pages

25 June 2021

Cultural heritage and its various elements are an important factor that supports the development of tourism in destinations. One of the key factors of a successful destination is its positive image that allows it to effectively attract visitors. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,935 Views
20 Pages

The Smart in Smart Cities: A Framework for Image Classification Using Deep Learning

  • Rabiah Al-qudah,
  • Yaser Khamayseh,
  • Monther Aldwairi and
  • Sarfraz Khan

10 June 2022

The need for a smart city is more pressing today due to the recent pandemic, lockouts, climate changes, population growth, and limitations on availability/access to natural resources. However, these challenges can be better faced with the utilization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,984 Views
14 Pages

7 October 2021

In response to the Saudi Vision 2030, the Kingdom has developed mega entertainment events in different cities, referred to as cities-based entertainment, to diversify the long prevalent oil-dependent economy and change the traditional image of the Ki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,612 Views
18 Pages

With the growth of urban population, a series of urban problems have emerged, and how to speed up smart city construction has received extensive attention. Remote sensing images have the advantages of wide spatial coverage and rich information, and i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,095 Views
29 Pages

Advancing Urban Development: Applications of Hyperspectral Imaging in Smart City Innovations and Sustainable Solutions

  • Arvind Mukundan,
  • Riya Karmakar,
  • Jumana Jouhar,
  • Muhamed Adil Edavana Valappil and
  • Hsiang-Chen Wang

Smart cities are urban areas that use advanced technologies to make urban living better through efficient resource management, sustainable development, and improved quality of life. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a noninvasive and nondestructive imag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,257 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable Tourism Marketing Through Destination Image: An AHP Approach for UNESCO Creative Cities in Gastronomy—The Case of Popayán, Colombia

  • Pablo Henrique de Oliveira Moreira,
  • Carla Fraga,
  • Joice Lavandoski,
  • Paulo Almeida and
  • Lucília Cardoso

Popayán (Colombia) was the first city to be designated a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in 2005, positioning itself as a symbolic ‘myth of origin’ within the network. In the context of growing demands for local strategies align...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,384 Views
29 Pages

23 August 2024

The deterioration of physical spaces and changes in the social environment have led to significant challenges and low life satisfaction among residents in post-industrial neighborhoods. While resident satisfaction is closely linked to the built envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,427 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2020

Due to the severe climate, residents of winter cities tend not to utilize public open spaces in winter. Temporary design interventions such as emblematic events are always proposed in winter cities to enhance pedestrian activity by celebrating the se...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,785 Views
12 Pages

In its archives, “Pietro Vannucci” Academy of Fine Arts has an imaginary Perugia consisting of drawings. The educational material, mostly unpublished, drawn up in the centuries by the students of the Schools of Architecture and Perspective regarding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,797 Views
17 Pages

26 January 2025

The globalization of tourism poses complex challenges for destination planning and management, requiring the involvement of various stakeholders and strategic decision-making at various scales. Gastronomic tourism, a key factor in tourist satisfactio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,148 Views
18 Pages

28 April 2025

Wuhan is dotted with lakes, is known as the “City with Hundreds of Lakes”, and the development of the city is inseparable from the river and lake waters, with the evolution of the lakes affecting the construction and layout of the city. S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
15,302 Views
10 Pages

11 April 2008

Building density is an important issue in urban planning and land management. In the article, building coverage ratio (BCR) and floor area ratio (FAR) values extracted from high resolution satellite images were used to indicate buildings’ stretching...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,643 Views
18 Pages

Establishing a Landslide Traces Inventory for the Baota District, Yan’an City, China, Using High-Resolution Satellite Images

  • Sen Zhang,
  • Chong Xu,
  • Zhenjiang Meng,
  • Tao Li,
  • Chao Li,
  • Yuandong Huang,
  • Xiaoyi Shao,
  • Liye Feng,
  • Penghan Luo and
  • Changyou Luo

28 September 2024

The Baota District of Yan’an City, located in the Loess Plateau, is an important patriotic education base in China. The region’s fragile geological environment and frequent geological disasters pose significant threats to the production a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,903 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2021

In this work, we present an eye-image acquisition device that can be used as an image acquisition front-end application in compact, low-cost, and easy-to-integrate products for smart-city access control applications, based on iris recognition. We pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,047 Views
14 Pages

Joining Historic Cities to the Global World: Feasibility or Fantasy?

  • Ahmadreza Shirvani Dastgerdi and
  • Giuseppe De Luca

Given the globalisation and free movement of capital and people, global cities compete with others not only as tourist destinations but also for the attraction of investors, skilled labour and well-educated citizens. In this research, the image of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,674 Views
20 Pages

1 January 2023

Following the success of the first hyperspectral sensor, the evaluation of hyperspectral image capability became a challenge in research, which mainly focused on improving image pre-processing and processing steps to minimize their errors, whereas in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,634 Views
27 Pages

With the advent of the Internet era, Chinese users tend to choose to express their opinions on social media platforms represented by Sina Weibo. The changes in people’s emotions toward cities from the microblogging texts can reflect the image o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,714 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of the Uniqueness and Similarity of City Landscapes Based on Deep Style Learning

  • Ling Zhao,
  • Li Luo,
  • Bo Li,
  • Liyan Xu,
  • Jiawei Zhu,
  • Silu He and
  • Haifeng Li

The city landscape is largely related to the design concept and aesthetics of planners. Influenced by globalization, planners and architects have borrowed from available designs, resulting in the “one city with a thousand faces” phenomenon. In order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,271 Views
20 Pages

From Landscape to Mindscape: Spatial Narration of Touristic Amsterdam

  • Tianchen Dai,
  • Taozhi Zhuang,
  • Juan Yan and
  • Tong Zhang

26 July 2018

The cultural attributes of architecture in touristic cities are vital to city image building, city branding, and rebranding, as well as generating more economic profits for sustainable urban development, and protecting cultural sustainability. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,963 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2021

Applications related to smart cities require virtual cities in the experimental development stage. To build a virtual city that are close to a real city, a large number of various types of human models need to be created. To reduce the cost of acquir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,938 Views
11 Pages

2 December 2022

Mega sports events play an important role in the development of the host city. This study examined the relationship between event prestige, city image, place attachment, and event involvement intention of the host community. Data were obtained using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,573 Views
17 Pages

7 July 2022

The designation of cultural heritage, especially the World Cultural Heritage Site, is extensively discussed regarding its impacts on tourism destination branding. However, the impact of the designation(s) of World and/or National Cultural Heritage Si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,704 Views
16 Pages

The Dissemination Strategy of an Urban Smart Medical Tourism Image by Big Data Analysis Technology

  • Zijian Zhao,
  • Zhongwei Wang,
  • Javier Garcia-Campayo and
  • Hector Monzales Perez

The advanced level of medical care is closely related to the development and popularity of a city, and it will also drive the development of tourism. The smart urban medical system based on big data analysis technology can greatly facilitate people&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,649 Views
24 Pages

Building a University City Brand: Colombian University Students’ Perceptions

  • Edison Jair Duque Oliva and
  • Javier A. Sánchez-Torres

11 April 2023

Modern city brand trends aim to position cities according to the interests of their stakeholders; in the case of university students, it is necessary to identify the factors that determine their choice of a university city. Consequently, this study a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
15,354 Views
13 Pages

20 August 2020

Taking Chengdu as an example, based on the destination image theory and employing the content analysis methodology, this paper conducts data mining on the online comment texts of TikTok short food videos, and analyzes the impact of short food videos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,480 Views
15 Pages

Joint Deep Learning and Information Propagation for Fast 3D City Modeling

  • Yang Dong,
  • Jiaxuan Song,
  • Dazhao Fan,
  • Song Ji and
  • Rong Lei

In the field of geoinformation science, multiview, image-based 3D city modeling has developed rapidly, and image depth estimation is an important step in it. To address the problems of the poor adaptability of training models of existing neural netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,291 Views
25 Pages

28 September 2022

Rapid population expansion and poorly managed economic growth, unprecedented anthropogenic climate changes, non-renewable natural resources depletion, environmental pollution, social inequity, and loss of cultural integrity generate a global context...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,919 Views
13 Pages

“One Event, One City”: Promoting the Loyalty of Marathon Runners to a Host City by Improving Event Service Quality

  • Xiaoying Chen,
  • Brian H. Yim,
  • Ziqing Tuo,
  • Liangjun Zhou,
  • Ting Liu and
  • James J. Zhang

30 March 2021

China has entered into a new developmental phase where the government can promote national fitness, the sports industry, and city tourism, simultaneously. Rapidly becoming the largest single sporting events in China, marathon events help facilitate t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,930 Views
29 Pages

Automatic Detection and Assessment of Pavement Marking Defects with Street View Imagery at the City Scale

  • Wanyue Kong,
  • Teng Zhong,
  • Xin Mai,
  • Shuliang Zhang,
  • Min Chen and
  • Guonian Lv

18 August 2022

Pavement markings could wear out before their expected service life expires, causing traffic safety hazards. However, assessing pavement-marking conditions at the city scale was a great challenge in previous studies. In this article, we advance the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,022 Views
22 Pages

Mapping of Coastal Cities Using Optimized Spectral–Spatial Features Based Multi-Scale Superpixel Classification

  • Aizhu Zhang,
  • Shuang Zhang,
  • Genyun Sun,
  • Feng Li,
  • Hang Fu,
  • Yunhua Zhao,
  • Hui Huang,
  • Ji Cheng and
  • Zhenjie Wang

26 April 2019

The high interior heterogeneity of land surface covers in high-resolution image of coastal cities makes classification challenging. To meet this challenge, a Multi-Scale Superpixels-based Classification method using Optimized Spectral–Spatial f...

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