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5 Citations
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17 November 2022

Within the smart city debate, this paper aims to reflect on whether and how medium-sized Italian cities are organizing their smart transition technically as well as administratively. The smart city concept was developed in the 1990s when major Europe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,850 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2021

Sharing the economic agglomeration effects of large cities is considered an effective way to enhance economic growth in small and medium-sized cities, yet there remains a lack of relevant quantitative empirical research. In this study, the three dime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,533 Views
17 Pages

Land Squandering in the Spanish Medium Sized Cities: The Case of Toledo

  • Irene Sánchez Ondoño and
  • Luis Alfonso Escudero Gómez

27 January 2019

A process of land squandering began in Spain in the mid 1990s until the great crisis of 2008. The intensive production of urban land affected the Spanish medium-sized towns. They were characterized by their compact nature and then they underwent an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,782 Views
29 Pages

Cultural Dynamism and Business Vitality in Medium-Sized Cities—Evidence and Proposals for Sustainable Development

  • Ana Isabel Escalona-Orcao,
  • Belén Sánchez-Valverde García,
  • Mª Cruz Navarro-Pérez,
  • Mariola Pinillos-García and
  • Alberto Conejos-Sevillano

30 June 2021

This work uses tools recently designed to conduct analyses and proposals around the cultural development of medium-sized cities. The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor model, or CCCM, is first applied to the 81 cities in Spain with between 50,000 a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,217 Views
16 Pages

Urban planning, as well as the type of city in which it takes place and is promoted, has changed a lot in Spanish cities since the return to democratically elected municipal governments in 1979. This work seeks to characterise the transformation that...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,282 Views
21 Pages

Typology of Medium-Sized Cities in Spain Using PCA (Principal Component Analysis)

  • Francisco Cebrián-Abellán,
  • María-Jesús González-González and
  • María-Eva Vallejo-Pascual

25 February 2021

This article analyses processes of change undergone by Spanish medium-sized cities during 1981–2011 on the one hand, and 2000–2018 on the other, as they are different sources. We established a classification to show the importance of this type of cit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,803 Views
26 Pages

Culture and Sustainable Tourism: Does the Pair Pay in Medium-Sized Cities?

  • Stefania Środa-Murawska,
  • Elżbieta Grzelak-Kostulska,
  • Jadwiga Biegańska and
  • Leszek S. Dąbrowski

13 August 2021

Undoubtedly, one of the greatest challenges to civilisation today is the need to fulfil commitments to build a just and caring global society. These commitments also apply to the tourism sector. The aim of the article was to determine how to identify...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,866 Views
24 Pages

23 June 2023

Over the last few decades, within the framework of remarkable urban expansion accompanying a real-estate boom in Spain, it has been medium-sized cities that have registered the most drastic changes in morphology. Currently, about 50% of urbanised lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,285 Views
17 Pages

21 January 2019

The processes of urban sprawl that have been present over the past two decades in the different strata of the urban hierarchy have also affected, as a whole, medium-sized cities. The urban sprawl has been particularly pronounced during the period of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,468 Views
22 Pages

22 November 2023

In a globalised economy, metropolises seem to have an ‘extra gear’ compared to smaller urban centres: they attract the most skilled businesses, drive innovation in many fields and can count on material and immaterial assets that foster gr...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,767 Views
27 Pages

11 March 2025

This study examines urban structure typologies for small- to medium-sized cities in South Korea facing population decline, with a focus on urban compactness as a sustainable strategy. Population reduction and aging trends have become prominent issues...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,652 Views
23 Pages

Medium-sized cities are increasingly committed to the planning and construction of urban public spaces to meet people’s demand for high-quality urban life. Parks and squares are important parts of urban public spaces, and their vitality represe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,916 Views
22 Pages

The roles of medium-sized cities in processes of demographic challenge have taken many different paths. New forms of urban sprawl, deconcentrating processes, and the emergence of the diffuse city have marked a change in the relations that Spanish med...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,484 Views
28 Pages

7 September 2020

While most published studies on the economy of culture present a clear bias in favor of large cities, a significant international bibliography has emerged in recent years that privileges the perspective of medium and small cities. Unfortunately, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,801 Views
25 Pages

Financial-Economic Analysis of Cultural Companies in Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Spain

  • Francisca Cea-D’Ancona,
  • Antonia Sáez-Cala and
  • Antonio Palacios

26 May 2022

Cultural enterprises are today an important component in the development processes of many territories. In urban centers—particularly those located within metropolitan areas—cultural companies constitute a main element of the economy, due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,979 Views
24 Pages

Cultural and Creative Ecosystems in Medium-Sized Cities: Evolution in Times of Economic Crisis and Pandemic

  • Ana Escalona-Orcao,
  • Diego A. Barrado-Timón,
  • Severino Escolano-Utrilla,
  • Belén Sánchez-Valverde,
  • Maricruz Navarro-Pérez,
  • Mariola Pinillos-García and
  • Luis Antonio Sáez-Pérez

23 December 2020

This article seeks to forecast the short- and medium-term impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the cultural and creative ecosystems of the 81 cities in Spain with between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. Data on employment in nine sectors (per NACE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,122 Views
20 Pages

10 May 2022

The accurate estimation of the impact of urban form on CO2 emissions is essential for the proposal of effective low-carbon spatial planning strategies. However, few studies have focused on the relationship between urban form and CO2 emissions in smal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,111 Views
34 Pages

16 August 2024

Understanding the relationship between urban form and urban shrinkage is crucial for developing sustainable urban policies, particularly in medium-sized cities facing demographic and economic challenges. This study investigates the complex relationsh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,386 Views
14 Pages

Integrated land use and transportation models are helpful when policy, planning, or environment impacts are being evaluated, but the strengths and limitations in these models must be optimized. To optimize the ITLUP (Integrated Transportation and Lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,558 Views
15 Pages

Walk Score from 2D to 3D—Walkability for the Elderly in Two Medium-Sized Cities in Germany

  • Markus Schaffert,
  • Konstantin Geist,
  • Jonathan Albrecht,
  • Dorothea Enners and
  • Hartmut Müller

In this article, we describe the design of a method for measuring walkability and its application in two medium-sized cities in Germany. The method modifies the established Walk Score with regard to the needs of older people. While the original Walk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,852 Views
21 Pages

19 January 2025

Enabled by recent technological advances and the substantial growth of the sharing economy, electric bike-sharing (EBS) has experienced rapid growth in medium-sized Chinese cities, yet its impact on for-hire vehicle (FHV) services remains insufficien...

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  • Open Access
1,407 Views
37 Pages

With industrial upgrading and increasingly diversified urban functions in small and medium-sized cities in China, the demand for convention and exhibition buildings has been steadily rising. However, current research mainly focuses on the planning an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,337 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2021

Medium-sized European cities have been playing an increasingly significant role in the economic development of countries in recent decades, establishing themselves as genuinely specialized local production systems with great potential for stimulating...

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  • Open Access
86 Citations
25,939 Views
41 Pages

26 August 2016

Academic attention to local climate policy usually focuses on large-sized cities. Given the climate challenges ahead this seems unjustified. Small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) deserve scholarly attention as well. The main question is: What factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,983 Views
17 Pages

23 May 2023

In recent decades, particularly intense changes have occurred in Spanish urban areas. This is the result of demographic and urbanizing transformations that have led to a change in the city model. The predominance of compact forms has been replaced by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,615 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2023

Within the scientific debate on urban regeneration, this paper intends to question possible planning techniques to address the implementation of widespread regeneration interventions in obsolete residential areas within medium-sized European cities,...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,249 Views
26 Pages

25 December 2022

In the southeastern US, Atlanta is always the focus of attention, despite the rapid expansion of small and medium-sized cities (SMSCs) in the region. Clearly, larger cities have more people, resulting in more loss during disasters. However, SMSCs als...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,349 Views
21 Pages

The economic crisis and post-crisis austerity policies have had harmful effects on urban spaces, mainly in those neighborhoods that have historically been characterized by their vulnerability (social problems, long-term unemployment, low incomes, imm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,769 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2022

In small and medium-sized cities of China, walking plays an important role as a green and healthy way to travel. However, the intensification of motorized travel and poor planning of pedestrian transportation systems have resulted in poor travel expe...

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  • Open Access
456 Views
24 Pages

Analysis of the Multi-Scale Spatial Heterogeneity of Factors Influencing the Electric Bike-Sharing Travel Demand in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

  • Xin Wang,
  • Zhiyuan Peng,
  • Xuefeng Li,
  • Mingyang Du,
  • Fangzheng Lyu,
  • Jeon-Young Kang,
  • Kangjae Lee and
  • Dong Liu

21 November 2025

The spatial heterogeneity of the electric bike-sharing (EBS) travel demand in small and medium-sized cities is influenced by a combination of the built environment, socio-economic gradients, transportation accessibility, and residents’ travel b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,914 Views
18 Pages

The policies regarding the elderly in advanced countries are based on the notion of ‘ageing in place’. The question arises, where and how extensive can the ‘place’ be? Is there a method of estimating a senior’s living area? The purpose of this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,202 Views
37 Pages

The environmental quality of conference and exhibition places in small- and medium-sized cities plays a crucial role in attracting exhibitors, fostering the growth of the conference and exhibition industry and enhancing the market competitiveness of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,826 Views
32 Pages

4 April 2023

In Sub-Saharan Africa, unprecedented population growth, concomitant with limited industrialisation and job creation, have changed the configurations of rural-urban linkages in recent decades. Indeed, as primate cities do not act as strong engines of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,401 Views
21 Pages

27 April 2025

Medium-sized cities face unique challenges in fostering sustainable mobility due to their socio-spatial characteristics, including recent decentralized services and urban sprawl. This study examines user-centric factors influencing mobility behaviors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,300 Views
21 Pages

16 April 2018

The study intended to explore planning strategies gaps in ten-year perspective and medium-term development framework plans for agro-based industrial development in secondary cities of Sindh Province, Pakistan. Document review and key informant interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,816 Views
29 Pages

25 August 2015

Medium/small sized cities create a polycentric urban system representing the backbone of their territory, characterized by profound changes on land use. The objective of this study is to evaluate the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use in a med...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,906 Views
23 Pages

4 April 2021

This article presents a methodological proposal using the cadastre as a tool to analyze urbanization dynamics. It is backed by an in-depth review of the related literature concerning Spain and Mediterranean Europe. The work uses the cadastre as a sou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,739 Views
26 Pages

1 August 2023

The article presents the spatial-functional transformations of a medium-sized post-industrial city in the context of the decline in the industrial function which used to occupy a prominent position in the city. The research attempts to answer the fol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,461 Views
15 Pages

Medium-sized Cities in Spain and Their Urban Areas within National Network

  • Luis Alfonso Escudero Gómez,
  • Juan Antonio García González and
  • José María Martínez Navarro

Traditionally, medium-sized cities have been compact urban centres, which have also emerged as satellite nuclei within metropolitan areas of larger cities. However, urban dispersion models have led to growth in population and the increasing urbanisat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,786 Views
16 Pages

2 January 2020

This study took Chiayi City—a tropical, medium-sized city—as an example to investigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect using mobile transects and built environment characteristics in 2018. The findings were compared to those from a stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,323 Views
35 Pages

29 April 2023

This article analyses the production of audiovisual fiction as an instrument for disseminating the image of the Alhambra (Granada) and the Royal Alcazar (Seville) for tourism purposes. The methodology used was twofold: qualitative, carrying out an ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,495 Views
20 Pages

26 October 2022

Gardens provide spaces for connectedness to nature, which contributes to human well-being and promotes pro-environmental behavior. However, the provision of ecosystem services (ES) in gardens of sub-Saharan Africa is challenged by a lack of knowledge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,509 Views
18 Pages

Empirical Model of Thermal Comfort for Medium-Sized Cities in Subtropical Climate

  • João Paulo Assis Gobo,
  • Marlon Resende Faria,
  • Emerson Galvani,
  • Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade Amorim,
  • Maria Cristina Celuppi and
  • Cássio Arthur Wollmann

24 September 2019

The present study sought to elaborate an empirical model of thermal comfort for medium-sized cities in subtropical climate, based on a cross-sectional survey in the city of Santa Maria, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The research was based on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
13,280 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2020

This paper examines the design and implementation process of Integrated Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development (ISUD), as well as their main effects and lessons learned in two European cities: Barcelona in Spain, a vibrant European metropolis,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,574 Views
21 Pages

1 October 2019

This paper discusses and explores the different effects of contractual forms on the satisfaction with public transport (PT) at different urban scales. Using public transport systems in 12cities in China as the focus (four large-I-sized cities, four l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,579 Views
14 Pages

25 January 2019

Many metropolitan areas around the world aim to control urban growth with a view to achieving efficiency and containing urban problems. Among many urban growth policy tools, the green belt (GB) policy is known as the most rigid and strongest. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,489 Views
20 Pages

Key Aspects for IT-Services Integration in Urban Transit Service of Medium-Sized Cities: A Qualitative Exploratory Study in Colombia

  • Tomas Ramirez-Guerrero,
  • Mauricio Toro,
  • Marta S. Tabares,
  • Ricardo Salazar-Cabrera and
  • Álvaro Pachón de la Cruz

22 February 2022

In the last ten years, approximately, urban transit systems of Latin American capital cities have evolved significantly. Colombia, specifically, has concentrated this development in its capital cities, consolidated through digital transformation prog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,597 Views
18 Pages

Coverage and Characterization of Food Delivery Services Through a Mobile Application in Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Brazil

  • Renata Júlia da Costa,
  • Paloma Aparecida Anastacio Barros,
  • Juliana de Paula Matos and
  • Paula Martins Horta

This is the first study to analyze the coverage and profile of establishments registered on a meal delivery application (MDA) in small and medium-sized cities in Brazil. The app serves 497 municipalities across 22 states, offering 28,325 establishmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,234 Views
25 Pages

Demographic Change and the Housing Stock of Large and Medium-Sized Cities in the Context of Sustainable Development

  • Małgorzata Blaszke,
  • Anna Oleńczuk-Paszel,
  • Agnieszka Sompolska-Rzechuła and
  • Monika Śpiewak-Szyjka
Sustainability2024, 16(24), 10907;https://doi.org/10.3390/su162410907 
(registering DOI)

12 December 2024

The changing demographics of the global population represent a significant challenge for humanity. Such changes have an impact on the functioning of the economy, including the housing market, and necessitate constant monitoring. This study evaluated...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,075 Views
23 Pages

23 February 2024

Planning a well-structured urban green infrastructure (UGI) is essential for cities to counteract the impacts of climate change. Soil carbon and air temperature differences between open and plant-covered sites were used as proxies of carbon sequestra...

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