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Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Faith Jasso, Lucas D. Elliott, Melissa Bopp
State bicycle plans are governmental policy tools developed by state departments of transportation that guide future state legislation regarding bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, allocation of resources or funding, address safety education efforts, outline priorities and policy recommendations to improve bicycling for all populations within the state. This study assessed the mention of equity
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Measuring community resilience inequality to inland flooding using location aware big data Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jiale Qian, Yunyan Du, Fuyuan Liang, Jiawei Yi, Xueqin Zhang, Jianxiang Jiang, Nan Wang, Wenna Tu, Sheng Huang, Tao Pei, Ting Ma
Understanding community resilience is critical for effective resource allocation and planning. However, classical resilience measures often fall short in capturing the diverse characteristics of each stage: preparation, resistance, recovery, and adaptability. We propose a multi-stage resilience assessment framework integrating morphological indicators to measure community resilience. Applying this
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Social inequality and residential segregation trends in Spanish global cities. A comparative analysis of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia (2001-2021) Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Álvaro Mazorra Rodríguez
Over the last three decades, the most populated Spanish cities have experienced significant spatial, social, and economic changes. The new urban economies have played an essential role in the acceleration of such transformations, entailing a range of both positive and negative impacts at the spatial, social, economic, and environmental levels. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of how the
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Big spenders: Large-N measures of urban regimes in Japanese municipalities Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Timothy Fraser
Facing hazards and migration from disasters, many cities might benefit from redistributive policies to aid vulnerable residents, requiring changes to ‘urban regimes’ - the powerbrokers and networks governing local politics. However, to date, changes in urban regimes have been difficult to detect systematically. I introduce a method for Large-N municipality samples, using relative spending over time
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Housing-related differences in sense of community in mixed housing neighborhood: Impacts of residents' daily activities and facility utilization Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Xue Zhang, Hanbei Cheng, Yinhua Tao, Yanwei Chai
Recent decades have witnessed continued research interest in the residents' sense of community (SOC) towards their neighborhoods, attributed to the rapid global expansion of urban spaces and increased human mobility. Early studies predominantly focused on the influence of SOC from a place-centric perspective, emphasizing the physical attributes of neighborhoods. However, recent scholars have called
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Tempo-spatial analysis of pedestrian movement in the built environment based on crowdsourced big data Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Avital Angel, Pnina Plaut
Over the years, the urban planning literature has focused substantial attention on walkability research, aiming to enhance physical activity and sustainable communities through urban planning and design. While motorized traffic research has gained momentum in combining innovative technologies for traffic monitoring, the common tools used to monitor pedestrian movement (PM) to this date are limited
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Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Handuo Deng, Qi Hu, ChengHe Guan, Yi Samuel Chen, Monica Menendez
The growing recognition of the societal implications stemming from technological advancements highlights the need for innovative governance approaches, particularly in urban environments. Focused on connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), this study proposes an integrated analytical framework for a dedicated open data platform (ODP). By integrating thematic analysis with process landscape and stakeholder
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The role of coworking spaces in small and medium sized shrinking cities: The case of South Korea Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 S, h, i, n, w, o, n, , K, y, u, n, g
Due to structural demographic shifts, declining population, economic restructuring and deindustrialization, the number of shrinking cities has been increasing in South Korea. To tackle these challenges, policy makers have promoted entrepreneurial environments, largely absent in such cities, to accelerate rates of revitalization by attracting talented young knowledge workers. The creation of collaborative
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The impact of landscape spatial morphology on green carbon sink in the urban riverfront area Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Xianghua Li, Yunfang Jiang, Yangqi Liu, Yingchao Sun, Chunjing Li
The interaction between water and green spaces holds significant importance as an urban carbon sink, but there has been insufficient attention to how the specific morphology of waterfront landscapes affects their capacity for carbon sink. This study focuses on typical riverfront spaces in Shanghai, employing an improved Carnegie-Ames-Stanford-Approach (CASA) model fused with remote sensing spatiotemporal
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Editorial to the special issue on urban vitalism Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 José Nederhand, Flor Avelino, Jurian Edelenbos, Jan Fransen
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Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 F, e, d, e, r, i, c, a, , S, c, a, f, f, i, d, i
Cities and fringes are often characterised by neglected heritages that affect the perceived quality of life in the territories, especially when it comes to industrial sites. Some studies suggest that their regeneration with social innovation fosters a greater feeling of belonging to the place, creates new socio-cultural activities and new jobs, and increases ground rent. Does this create territorial
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Predicting the longitudinal patterns of housing affordability stress: Evidence from the Korea Welfare Panel Study Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jooyoung Kim, Seungbeom Kang
As housing costs increase faster than salary and wage growth worldwide, housing affordability stress (HAS) becomes an increasingly crucial urban problem. However, little evidence exists on under what preconditions HAS experiences are likely to be persistent. This study examines the predictors of chronic forms of HAS experiences in the Korean housing market, characterized by a unique tenure system represented
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Democratic participation and smart city citizenship in emerging economies – Case of smart cities in India Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Madhurima Waghmare
The paper argues that sustainable Smart Cities cannot be delivered by profit-driven visions, but through a process that integrates the diverse aptitudes and needs of the city stakeholders. The study uses mixed methods to examine democratic participation in governance and the emerging notion of Smart City Citizenship in the context of India. Benchmarking and assessment of 21 smart cities reveals the
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Dynamic place attachment in the context of displacement processes: The socio-ecological model Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Nirit Rivka Ellenbogen, Zdravko Trivic
We sought to create a comprehensive model to address the lack of a conceptual framework that captures the dynamic (re)production of place attachment in the context of change and time, and the partial neglect of the role of physical and social places. Our proposed model informed by critical literature review describes how residents, affected by urban displacement (change), the neighborhood's affordances
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Exploring the role of public participation in delivering inclusive, quality, and resilient green infrastructure for climate adaptation in the UK Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jessica Jones, Alessio Russo
Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) is crucial for socio-ecological systems that tackle urbanisation challenges. Participatory approaches involve the public in local environmental decision-making, and they are receiving renewed attention from academics, policymakers, and design professionals to achieve more inclusive urban development practices. This paper examines public participation in UGI delivery
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How a mandate of minimum green building standards influences green building adoption in the private housing sector: Evidence from Singapore during 2005–2019 Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Danlei Zhang, Yong Tu, Yong He
Imposing minimum green building (GB) standards is a regulatory tool for governments to engage the private sector in building green, but there is little evidence on policy outcomes. This paper looks at the details of minimum GB standards mandated in Singapore in 2008 and critically investigates whether, and to what extent, they affect GB adoption in the private housing market during 2005–2019 using
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Investigating the knowledge commons practice in high-density low-income residential urban Kampung during COVID-19 pandemic Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Nurrul Helen, Evawani Ellisa
This research explores community-based methods deployed to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in densely populated urban settlements, offering an in-depth analysis of the complexities and dynamics influencing the acceptance or rejection of COVID-19 protocols. Through Focus Group Discussions (FGD), comprehensive interviews, and questionnaires tailored to pandemic restrictions, the study explores
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A project-based view of urban dynamics: Analyzing ‘leapfrogging’ and fringe development in Israel Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Nir Fulman, Yulia Grinblat, Itzhak Benenson
Analyzing urban pattern dynamics based on construction projects, we classify them into three types - infilling, fringe, and leapfrogging, and focus on the role of leapfrogging projects as seeds for new developments, leading to uncontrolled urban sprawl. To study the leapfrogging phenomenon, we investigate the sprawl of three Israeli cities - Netanya, Haifa, and Safed over 54 years from 1964 to 2018
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Housing affordability indicators and the sustainability paradigm in OECD countries Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Faris Alshubiri, Mawih Kareem Al Ani
The present study aimed to analyse the housing affordability indicators (HAI) and sustainability paradigm (SP) of 23 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for the period of 2010–2019. The study used different estimators to overcome the heterogeneity and endogeneity problems of panel data and adopted many diagnostic tests to increase robustness. The findings of panel
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From neighborhood contexts to human behaviors: Cellphone-based place visitation data contribute to estimating neighborhood-level depression prevalence in the United States Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Fengrui Jing, Zhenlong Li, Shan Qiao, Huan Ning, M. Naser Lessani, Xiaoming Li
The elucidation of neighborhood-level mental illness is pivotal to effective community need assessment and public health interventions. However, aggregating individual behaviors linked to mental health at the neighborhood level has proven to be a challenge. In this study, we collected place visitation data from extensive mobile phone records as a proxy measure of health behaviors to investigate whether
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Is proximity enough? A critical analysis of a 15-minute city considering individual perceptions Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Luis A. Guzman, Daniel Oviedo, Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia
Urban areas encompass essential social functions that are fundamental for the development and quality of life. This research explores why the concept of the 15-minute city, while commendable in its aspirations, might fall short in effectively mitigating urban inequalities, especially within densely populated and segregated developing cities. Using Bogotá (Colombia) as a case study, this paper advocates
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Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, Michael Osei Asibey, Prosper Tornyeviadzi
Residential developments in African cities such as Kumasi, should proceed based on approved subdivisions. However, it is now common for land owners and residents to tweak approved layouts by creating additional unapproved plots to sell to the urban poor without the knowledge of planning authorities. There is dearth of research about the experiences, attitudes and perceptions of half plot developers
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Smart city development: Data sharing vs. data protection legislations Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Aaron Joyce, Vahid Javidroozi
Fuelled by cutting-edge technology, smart cities offer vast potential to enhance urban living, elevate service delivery, and foster sustainability. Central to this digital transformation is seamless data exchange across city sectors like transportation, healthcare, energy, education, and so on. However, stringent data protection laws pose a significant hurdle to cross-sectoral data sharing in smart
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Assessing urban social sustainability with the Place Standard Tool: Measurement, findings, and guidance Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kostas Mouratidis, Hege Hofstad, Hilde Hatleskog Zeiner, Stine Busborg Sagen, Christel Dahl, Kjersti Eline Følling, Bent Olav Olsen
This study introduces the Place Standard Tool as an instrument for assessing urban social sustainability. The Place Standard Tool was developed in Scotland as a simple framework to evaluate physical (e.g., buildings, public spaces, transport system), social (e.g., social interaction, identity and belonging, safety), and procedural (e.g., public participation, sense of control) aspects concerning places
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The influence of the urban model on civic involvement and public time. A study applied to the commuting population of the Greater Metropolitan Area of San José, Costa Rica Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Margherita Valle Pilia, Franklin Ramírez Fonseca
A major problem for policymakers is to ensure that levels of citizen participation reflect the society in its diversity, but they must also ensure that those citizens who want to get involved have the means to do so. Despite empirical evidence of the role of urban planning in health, well-being, and livability, studies have not delved into the implications of how low-density sprawled urban forms influence
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Do Jane Jacobs's conditions fostering the presence of people influence crimes in public space? An econometric analysis in la Mariscal neighborhood in Quito Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Nuria Vidal-Domper, Susana Herrero-Olarte, Gonzalo Hoyos-Bucheli, Marta Benages-Albert
The urban theorist Jane Jacobs related the presence of people with street safety, coining the expression “eyes on the street” and connecting it with morphological characteristics of architecture and urban space. However, urban studies have usually focused on people's perceptions of fear and social features rather than establishing a connection between where violence takes place and how the built environment
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The positive impact of transit-oriented-development characteristics on Metro Station usage: A case study of Tehran's metro stations and TOD index calculation Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Hossein Khosravi, Motahareh Abrishami, Majid Ramezani Mehrian, Brent Chamberlain
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) facilitates the creation of more walkable cities. To implement TODs, urban planners need a mechanism to delineate TOD levels so they can envision future planning trajectories. This study offers an approach to developing scores for TODs within Tehran, a metropolitan area with metro stations and Bus Rapid Transit that facilitate public transportation usage. TODs exhibit
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Just food transition: for a gender mainstreaming approach in urban food policies. A review of 20 cities Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Chiara Bergonzini
Urban areas are increasingly adopting the tool of urban food policies (UFPs) to address food-related challenges, especially for a sustainable transition of their food systems (FS). Indeed, FS were assessed to have a great environmental impact, and cities are recognized as privileged actors to address this challenge. More recently, the problem of justice in such transition was raised. One dimension
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Gender, class and race uneven access to bike systems across five Brazilian cities Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Laura M. Fortes, Mariana Giannotti, Flavio Soares de Freitas
Multidimensional inequalities have been increasingly discussed in the transportation field, particularly in the case of bike riding. Although several studies focused on the gender differences in bike-share systems, only a few include socioeconomic inequalities and the dimension of race. This study considers a multidimensional perspective, relating the urban space characteristics, cycling infrastructure
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A missed opportunity: Local welfare systems' responses to marginalized migration in the COVID-19 context Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Karolina Łukasiewicz, Ewa Cichocka, Kamil Matuszczyk
The article assesses local welfare systems' (LWS) responses to the needs of marginalized migrants in four Global North cities (Stockholm, Berlin, London and New York) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on 95 interviews with low-income migrants and other stakeholders, we analyze the structure of local service demand and supply; and the opportunities and risks involved in governing migrant
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Pathways to 15-Minute City adoption: Can our understanding of climate policies' acceptability explain the backlash towards x-minute city programs? Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Oriol Marquet, Laia Mojica, Marta-Beatriz Fernández-Núñez, Monika Maciejewska
In recent months, 15-min city policies have faced significant backlash across social media, in opinion pieces, and even through street demonstrations, casting doubt on the future of x-minute city policies as effective tools in the fight against climate change. The protests and backlash not only challenge the effective implementation of x-minute city policies, but also highlight our lack of understanding
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Re-thinking ‘bounce back better’ in post-pandemic era: Building urban resilience into the new normal Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Junqing Tang, Qiuchen Lu, Michael Batty, Chenyu Yang
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Public land leases, reforms and (in)stability of municipal revenues in Poland – The case of Poznan city Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Radoslaw Trojanek, Michal Gluszak, Maria Trojanek
The stability of municipal revenues is crucial for long-term socio-economic planning at the city level. This paper presents the impact of changes in legal regulations mandating the transformation of perpetual usufruct into ownership on preferential terms. Using micro-level information on transactions and plots handed over in perpetual usufruct for single-family housing, we determined potential losses
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Carbon emission causal discovery and multi-step forecasting for global cities Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Xuedong Liang, Xiaoyan Li
The increasing threat of global climate change is primarily caused by rising carbon emissions, with cities acting as significant contributors. This study bridges two vital gaps in urban carbon neutrality research: unraveling the causal dynamics of carbon emissions within urban networks and forecasting emission trends. This study proposes a reinforcement learning-based causal discovery algorithm, progressively
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Proximity dimensions in making fashion circular: A systematic literature review and implications for cities and regions Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Younghyun Kim
While economic geographers have studied cities and regions as the locus of innovation and entrepreneurship in the fashion industry, the role of the local context in coordinating knowledge development and collaborative relations towards sustainable and circular fashion has yet to be examined in depth. Simultaneously, while circular economy literature has emphasized the importance of inter-organizational
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Governing climate neutrality transitions at the urban level: A European perspective Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 D. Shtjefni, G. Ulpiani, N. Vetters, G. Koukoufikis, P. Bertoldi
Effectively addressing climate change in line with the Paris Agreement and the EU Climate Law requires the establishment of governance structures with the participation and coordination of all levels of government and where the local level plays a key role. This is evident with the emergence of city-to-city networks of urban policymakers and supporting initiatives such as the EU 100 Climate-Neutral
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Green gentrification vulnerability index (GGVI): A novel approach for identifying at-risk communities and promoting environmental justice at the census-tract level Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rayan H. Assaad, Yasser Jezzini
As resilience planning gains prominence in urban sustainable development, green infrastructures (GIs) are widely recognized as effective solutions to address climate risks and environmental challenges. While urban greening initiatives have multiple benefits, they can also lead to unintended consequences such as environmental injustice, increasing property values, and the displacement and gentrification
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Municipal institutional capacity for the implementation of housing public policies, in the context of Metropolitan Regions in Brazil Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Lisandro Iusry Abulatif, Celmar Correa Oliveira
This study analyzes the administrative and organizational conditions of municipal public administrations related to housing policies in metropolitan regions in Brazil and how they relate to the provision of services and actions in the housing sector for the population. The data is compared with housing deficit data per Metropolitan Region to identify possible relationships between administrative and
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Self-consciousness inequality under spatial polarization: Evidence from growing and declining neighborhoods of Osaka City, Japan Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Kojiro Sho, Ryo Fukuda, Hwajin Lim, Sohee Minsun Kim, Tetsuo Kidokoro
Spatial polarization is increasing in urban neighborhoods worldwide, prompting substantial attention to its measurement. However, self-evaluations of spatial polarization by individual neighborhood residents have not been fully explored. To fill this gap, we proposed various socioeconomic indicators and incorporated them into a binomial logit model. We aimed to determine how individuals' perceptions
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Understanding the levels of digital inequality within the city: An analysis of a survey Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Christopher Reddick, Roger Enriquez, Richard Harris, Judith Flores
This paper examines three levels of digital inequality, access, use, and outcomes, within a major U.S. city. The Resources and Appropriation (RA) Theory is used to explain the digital divide within a city. Using paper and electronic surveys in English and Spanish, the researchers conducted a city-wide survey to examine all three levels of digital inequality. The research methods were descriptive statistics
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Consumer acceptance of urban drone delivery: The role of perceived anthropomorphic characteristics Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Xue Li, Glenys Jia Xuan Lee, Kum Fai Yuen
With the growth of online retailing, drone delivery has emerged as a potential solution for efficient last-mile delivery. As consumer acceptance is a key prerequisite for the wide application of drones, this research aims to understand the role of anthropomorphic characteristics in consumer acceptance of drone delivery services. The theoretical explanatory model is anchored on the theory of planned
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Mapping the (un)healthy city: Proximity to urban facilities and chance of premature mortality from myocardial infarction in São Paulo city Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Carlos Leite, Paulo Saldiva, Carmen Diva Saldiva de Andre, Ligia Vizeu Barrozo, Angelica Benatti Alvim, Tereza Herling, Eliene Corrêa, Claudia Acosta, Paulo Afonso de Andre, Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva, Ivan Pereira, Andresa Ledo Marques
Applied research in healthy cities is often based on empirical investigations of the association between the built environment and health outcomes using spatial analysis. We investigated the influence of proximity to urban facilities on the occurrence of early deaths from myocardial infarction (age <60 years) in the city of São Paulo, with cause of death determined by autopsy. The study data were extracted
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Understanding urban densification in Latin American cities: determinants of the production of built space in informal areas in Bogota (2007-2018) Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Angélica Patricia Camargo Sierra, Alex Smith Araque Solano, David Holguín Lozano
In Bogotá, as in most large Latin American cities, urban informality is a persistent phenomenon. Although the expansion of new informal land has decreased, the densification of existing informal settlements is one of the mechanisms driving the persistence of informality. While a lot is known about the factors that triggered informal expansion in Latin American, less is known about the recent processes
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From maximum urban porosity to city's disaggregation: Evidence from the Portuguese case Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rita Castel'Branco, António Ricardo da Costa
When relating to build environments, porosity refers to soft transitions across geographies and to the interpenetration between spaces of a different character. While its importance is recognised, its absence in post-modern urban fabrics has become evident.
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Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Godwin Kavaarpuo, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Kingsley Tetteh Baako, Kwabena Mintah
We examine the relationship between crime at the postcode level and housing tenure in Australia. We merge data on local crime rates from official police statistics with 19 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) survey covering the period from 2001 to 2019. Our results suggest that local crime reduces the probability of homeownership. We examine house prices, neighbourhood
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Planning accessible cities: Lessons from high quality barrier removal plans Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Yochai Eisenberg, Amy Heider, Delphine Labbe, Robert Gould, Robin Jones
Progress towards development of accessible pedestrian networks for people with disabilities has been slow, perpetuating social exclusion in many cities world-wide. There is increased pressure to develop and implement plans for barrier-removal, such as Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) transition plans. Limited research has examined the elements for effectively developing and implementing plans
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Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Evelyn Blumenberg, Hannah King
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the affordable housing crisis is forcing households in large, primarily coastal U.S. metropolitan areas to seek lower cost housing in peripheral neighborhoods distant from downtown, helping to explain recent increases in commute distance. In this study we examine whether the relative availability of housing in close proximity to jobs (jobs-housing balance) is associated
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Examining the socio-spatial patterns of bus shelters with deep learning analysis of street-view images: A case study of 20 cities in the U.S. Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Junghwan Kim, Jinhyung Park, Jinhyung Lee, Kee Moon Jang
Previous studies on public transit in cities found the positive role of bus shelters in promoting bus ridership. However, a large-scale and comparative investigation of bus shelter status has yet to be conducted, leaving a significant knowledge gap. To fill this gap, this research examined the socio-spatial patterns of bus shelters in 20 small- and medium-sized cities in the United States by employing
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Is it the behavior and actions of people that determine sustainable urban communities? Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Abid Rehman, Shahzada M. Naeem Nawaz, Shahzad Alvi
This study aims to provide an analytical understanding of the primary evidence for making urban centers sustainable through channelizing people's preferences, behaviors, and actions toward sustainable urban communities. The structured questionnaire is used, which includes all possible dimensions to get the response from 361 households from Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. The Ordered Logistic
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Sustainable open data ecosystems in smart cities: A platform theory-based analysis of 19 European cities Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Martin Lnenicka, Anastasija Nikiforova, Antoine Clarinval, Mariusz Luterek, Daniel Rudmark, Sebastian Neumaier, Karlo Kević, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
An understanding of how modern Open Data Ecosystems (ODEs) work is critical in the context of current trends towards sustainability and smartness, while is seen to be an asset to support urban governance and development, in coordinating actions, and fostering civic engagement. This paper aims to establish such understanding by analyzing the contextual patterns, platforms, and components shaping sustainable
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Structural equation model in exploring urban sprawl and its impact on commuting time in 162 US urbanized areas Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Md Hamidur Rahman, Angela Antipova
There is a lack of extensive empirical research on the influence of sprawl on commuting accounting for indirect effect of mediating factors. The study aims to fill this gap by exploring the relationship between urban sprawl and commute time in 162 urbanized areas in the United States, with a comprehensive analytical framework using a structural equation model (SEM). Specifically, we evaluate the direct
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Neighborhood crime reduction interventions and perceived livability: A virtual reality study on fear of crime Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 William P. McClanahan, Carmen S. Sergiou, Aniek M. Siezenga, Dominik Gerstner, Henk Elffers, Job van der Schalk, Jean-Louis van Gelder
High levels of Fear of Crime (FOC) are associated with people engaging with their community less, lower use of public spaces, and a general sense of overall anxiety. In short, such fear may reduce the livability of an area. The primary goal of this research was to examine the potential consequences of environmental interventions intended to reduce crime on FOC and perceived livability of the area.
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Influence of selected spatial features on crime rates in a large city based on the example of Wrocław (Poland) Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Dominik Sikorski, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dariusz Ilnicki
The purpose of the study was to examine whether selected socioeconomic, demographic and spatial characteristics of residential neighborhoods and crime rates in these areas are in any way related to each other and the nature of their relationship. In addition, the study attempts to explain what influences the results of the aforementioned analyses. The study was performed for the city of Wrocław (Poland)
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Housing and home-based work: Considerations for development and humanitarian contexts Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Elizabeth Wagemann, Victoria Maynard, Beth Simons
For many low-income households in the Global South a house is both a place to live and to generate income in the formal or informal economy. This can include activities in and around the home such as: running small shops selling daily necessities; producing food or crafts; repairing household items; providing services; or growing crops and raising animals. For many households home-based work (HBW)
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Fifty years after the Schelling's Models of Segregation: Bibliometric analysis of the legacy of Schelling and the future directions of segregation research Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru
In 1969 Thomas C. Schelling published his paper “Models of Segregation” and in 1971 he published a follow-up paper introducing “Dynamic Models of Segregation”. Schelling's papers developed the theoretical models of interactive dynamics of individual residential choices, resulting in pronounced patterns of residential segregation at the city level. Even after 50+ years, the topic of residential segregation
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Gender safety perspective in urban planning: The case of pedestrian mobility in Kanpur city Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Asmita Yadav, Rashmi Kumari
Ease of mobility within a city is one of the essential aspects of urban planning. Quality of pedestrian mobility is the key to attain liveability and inclusivity in a city. However, the gender lens towards understanding the mobility patterns of women and young girls is largely missing from the urban planning process. Due to this exclusion, the majority of Indian cities are not gender friendly. To address
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Artistic interventions for urban innovation: Comparing new forms of engagement in public space by two local initiatives Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 R, i, c, c, a, r, d, a, , C, a, p, p, e, l, l, e, r
This article looks at artistic interventions as impulses for urban innovation. It investigates their ability to create the conditions for new forms of engagement, influence, rethink or enable new kinds of cooperation or experimental ideas to approach the urban context. Two examples are examined, focusing on their production and the emergence of new roles at the intersections of disciplines or in processes
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Guiding public policy in gray spaces: A meta-study on land ownership conflicts (1987–2022) Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Mojtaba Rafieian, Ayda Kianfar
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Examining the effectiveness of urban planning exhibitions in planning communication: A contextual model of learning Cities (IF 6.077) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xi Lu, Eckart Lange
Urban planning exhibitions have been a long-standing element in planning culture, on a worldwide level. Until now, there has been a considerable gap in researching the efficiency of urban planning exhibitions in communication, especially from a quantitative perspective. Rooted in communicative planning and built on Generic Learning Outcomes and Contextual Model of Learning theory, this paper aims to