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Evolving urban allometric scaling law of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United Kingdom Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Gang Xu, Siyuan Zhang, Edwin McCulley, Ran Wu, Xinhu Li, Limin Jiao
Infectious diseases depend on intensified social intercourse within large cities, resulting in a super-linear allometric scaling law with city size. But how this scaling relationship changes throughout an evolving pandemic is seldom studied and remains unclear. Here, we investigate allometric scaling laws between cases/deaths and city size and their temporal evolution using daily COVID-19 cases/deaths
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Development trend of green residential buildings in China under the guidance of the low-carbon concept: A policy review and analysis Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jiajing Wu, Xiaoyu Ying
To achieve China's “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" goals, the benign development of green residential buildings plays an indispensable role. The result of green residential buildings in China has accumulated a wealth of experience. However, the lack of comprehensive government policies leads to limited practical applications of green and low-carbon technologies, insufficient developing motivation
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Why daylight should be a priority for urban planning Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Carlo Volf, Bruno Bueno, Peter Edwards, Richard Hobday, Stephan Mäder, Barbara S. Matusiak, Katharina Wulff, Werner Osterhaus, Gabriele Manoli, Christina Della Giustina, Jasmin Joshi, Jerome H. Kämpf, Kevin Vega, Christoph Kueffer
Daylight is essential for ecosystems and for the physical and mental well-being of people. In densely populated cities, only a small proportion of total daylight is available to support urban greenery and most people have little daily exposure to natural daylight. Despite this, many cities have followed a strategy of densification as a way of preventing urban sprawl and reducing energy consumption
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Cities: Innovation, finance and employment Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yuzhe Wu
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Forgetting intangible values and community: The case of heritage conservation policies in Cuenca, Ecuador Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Natasha Cabrera-Jara, Margarita Greene-Zuñiga
The relationship between heritage, conservation and tourism has determined countless actions on the historic centers of several cities in the world. In Latin America, governmental entities have set guidelines for urban heritage interventions through plans, programs and a variety of projects implemented in recent decades. The predominant emphasis of these actions has been on safeguarding tangible aspects
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Participatory evaluation of cultural heritage adaptive reuse interventions in the circular economy perspective: A case study of historic buildings in Salerno (Italy) Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-01-06 A. Gravagnuolo, M. Angrisano, M. Bosone, F. Buglione, P. De Toro, L. Fusco Girard
Adaptive reuse of cultural heritage can be a valid strategy to recover heritage buildings in a state of abandonment or underuse, as well as to implement the circular economy model in cities and regions, contributing to the achievement of climate objectives, to social cohesion, wellbeing and quality of life, making cities more attractive, safe, sustainable and resilient. The aim of this paper is to
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Beyond residential segregation: Mapping Chilean social housing project residents’ vulnerability Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Maria I. Matas
Residential segregation is an important challenge in Latin America, particularly since its effects on quality of life and access to urban opportunities are increasingly urgent on the public agenda. Segregation has not only arisen in the region due to the market, but also directly due to the State, which has promoted it through creating social housing along urban peripheries, far from job opportunities
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Commercial land use change and growth processes – An assessment of retail location in Lisbon, Portugal, 1995–2020 Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Rui Colaço, João de Abreu e Silva
Land use modelling is essential to understanding future land use and change dynamics. Analyses of land use and change using Cellular Automata (CA) have been frequent in the literature since the latter were introduced to geography in the 1970s. In this paper, the statistical subsections – city blocks – of a previous analysis of Lisbon's commercial structure are used as the cells of a CA. A multi-layer
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A feasibility analysis of reverse mortgages in Brazil Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 João Vinícius de França Carvalho, Gabriel Giuliano Araújo
In this study, we examine the feasibility of reverse mortgages in Brazil from the perspectives of both policyholders and insurers. Reverse mortgage is a financial product where the property's ownership is transferred to an insurance company in exchange for a guaranteed annuity, while the insured retains the right to use such property until their death. Using monthly real state pricing data (2008–2019)
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Equality in education, synchronous enrolment policy and housing prices of school districts: Based on the experience of Hangzhou Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Chuanhao Tian, Yu Teng, Wenjun Ji
Housing is the major way for Hangzhou residents to access public primary and secondary education resources. The implementation of educational equalization policies will impact housing prices, especially school district housing prices. This paper focuses on the synchronous enrollment policy, which requires both public and private schools to enroll students simultaneously, thus changing the enrollment
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Canada's leadership and housing affordability: Evidence from the Canadian real estate market Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Bayan Yousef Farhan
This study aims to investigate the housing affordability crisis and if Canada's political leadership is part of the problem or part of the solution. Convergent parallel design was conducted to understand a research problem. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected to examine the research argument and to answer the research questions of who benefits from the existing housing situation and how
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Spatial preferences of small and medium knowledge based enterprises in Tehran new business area Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Seyed Saman Habibi, Sahar Nedae Tousi, Farshid Aram, Amirhosein Mosavi
In recent decades, there has been a growing emphasis on the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as a significant driver of economic growth and enhancer of competitiveness. They constitute an estimated 90% of the total population of businesses, and contribute significantly, up to 40% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in emerging markets. Furthermore, these enterprises yield a fundamental
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A theory of urbanization Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Shih-Kung Lai
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Beyond streets: The role of alleys in Abu Dhabi's and Dubai's network systems Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Asim Khanal, Rawan Sohdy Abdelfattah, Khaled Alawadi, Ngoc Hong Nguyen
The network system is defined as the combination of streets and alleys. Although the potential of alleys in complementing street networks is acknowledged, the topic has not received a considerable attention in urban planning practice and scholarship. This paper evaluates alleys’ role in the combined street-alley networks by calculating Information Centrality, a metric in Multiple Centrality Assessment
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Topic evolution in urban studies: Tracking back and moving forward Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Hao Han, Chen Shen, Kaiqin Li, Alfred Tat-Kei Ho
This study is a bibliometric analysis of urban studies publications from 2001 to 2021 that unravels the evolution and growing complexity of the field. Although developed regions still dominate and lead this area of inquiry, urban studies led by Asian scholars have increased dramatically over the last decade. There is also topic diffusion from developed regions to less-developed regions despite some
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Advances in urban construction and management engineering, Young-Jin Cha, CRC Press/Balkema, Oxford, UK (2023), 622 pages, ISBN: 978-1-032-39018-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-003-34802-3 (ebk) Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Alrend Roy Peterson Kaputing, Dani Pasaribu, Fandi Rahanra
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Scenario analyses to reach smart sustainability in Tehran Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Afshar Hatami, Farzaneh Sasanpour, Haniyeh Asadzadeh, P.M. van Bodegom
The 21st century presents significant challenges to humanity, encompassing rapid urbanization, population expansion, as well as socio-economic, physical, and environmental stressors. In order to establish an ideal equilibrium between economic advancement and environmental preservation within contemporary and prospective urban areas, the Smart Sustainable City (SCC) approach becomes imperative. In this
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Human mobility and energy: How do human mobility and energy affect urban policy and planning? Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Ehsan Dorostkar, Mahsa Najarsadeghi, Mehrnaz Molavi, Nader Zali
Among the essential factors for improving the quality of life are many things, of which the category of energy and its distribution is one. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between human mobility and energy consumption at the Iranian provincial level. By determining this relationship, we can determine the importance of the energy distribution pattern and human mobility, and based
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Does low urban density increase municipal expenditure? Population density as a performance target for compact city planning in Japan Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Takashi Miyauchi, Tsuyoshi Setoguchi
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Mitigation of urban voids in traditional neighborhoods: The case of the Al-Najada zone in Doha, Qatar Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Asmaa Saleh AL-Mohannadi, Mooza Saqr AL-Mohannadi, Shaligram Pokharel, Mohamed Arselene Ayari, Raffaello Furlan
Urban voids and leftover spaces challenge the urban development of cities and result in land vacancy and other spatial planning issues. Such spaces have great potential for innovative intervention through piece-by-piece sustainable urban design and small-scale actions to foster livability and sustainability. This paper analyzes urban voids in the Al-Najada zone in Doha, Qatar. The zone has a valuable
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Opportunities and limitations of integrating computational and collaborative approaches to scenario planning Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Ripan Debnath, Christopher Pettit, Simone Zarpelon Leao
In the context of changing global trends and growing uncertainties, creating and evaluating alternative future scenarios is crucial for urban and regional planning. Computational and collaborative approaches are two contemporary options for scenario planning. They have distinct roles and are often applied independently. This study investigates the integration of these two approaches, addressing a knowledge
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Thinking about cities, plans, and management Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Shih-Kung Lai
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Housing preference shifting during COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Ahmad Gamal, Lailatul Rohmah, Mahdaniar Maulidini Muhyi
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various aspects of people's lives, including housing. Research has argued that the economic impact of the pandemic includes stagnancy in the real estate markets. Similarly, Indonesian real-estate market players have reported declining demand for high-rise and dense multi-unit residential buildings in favor of landed houses during the pandemic. However, it has not
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Importance of public space, neighbors’ support, and safety in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Pablo Cabrera-Barona, Gabriel Gaona, Andrea Carrión
The restrictions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during the first weeks of confinement in 2020, entailed marked changes concerning urban socio-spatial relations. This article analyzes perceptions of the importance of public space, neighbors' support, neighborhood safety, and home safety before and during the initial months of the COVID-19 lockdown. We conducted an online survey between
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Tenure security and housing investment: Owner-occupants and renters in Bangladesh's poor settlements Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-05-22 James Nguyen H. Spencer, Thu Nguyen, Saiful Momen
This paper explores the relationship between land tenure security and housing investment among households in Bangladeshi poor settlements. The level of housing investment is measured through the type of physical structure of the house, or more specifically, floor materials. Cluster-robust standard error logistic regression method is utilized to explore this relationship in order to fix the issue of
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A review on worldwide urban observatory systems' data analytics themes: Lessons learned for Malaysia Urban Observatory (MUO) Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Noradila Rusli, Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling, Muhammad Hakimi Mohd Hussain, Nur Safuraa Mohamed Salib, Siti Zalina Abu Bakar, Muhammad Harith Othman
The application of data analytics in urban governance is crucial in addressing municipal issues. However, there are limited sources to review and discuss research related to urban observatories, which is one of the monitoring systems implemented in an urban area. This study aims to review existing urban observatory systems around the world to understand the pattern of data analytic themes, the analysis
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Community participation in urban planning process in Saudi Arabia: An empirical assessment Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Abdulaziz Aldegheishem
This paper examines factors affecting community participation in the urban planning process in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A quantitative method employing a questionnaire style survey was used to test the research hypotheses, with a qualitative method used to obtain a better understanding of the quantitative findings. Findings reveal that the level of community participation in the urban planning process
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Factors affecting the development of a healthy city in Suburban areas, Thailand Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Pawinee Iamtrakul, Sararad Chayphong
Pathum Thani Province is one of the provinces surrounding the Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA) that has received the spillover growth and expansion of the city of Bangkok. However, this has resulted in urban changes into sprawling characterized by clusters of peri-urbanization interspersed along major transportation corridors that has absorbed provincial municipal centers within almost a hundred-kilometer
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A new urban diagnostics approach for measuring touristification: The case of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Enrico Porfido, Mariona Tomàs, Joan Marull
In the last decades the global tourist industry has been transformed by rapid growth, resulting in many destinations reaching a state of touristification. This phenomenon is a socioeconomic and spatial transformation process that can contribute to the creation of a tourism monoculture. This study aims to measure the level of touristification found in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB), focussing
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Emergence: Developing a model of complex urban systems Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Shih-Kung Lai
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Digitalisation in everyday urban planning activities: Consequences for embodied practices, spatial knowledge, planning processes, and workplaces Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Gabriela Christmann, Martin Schinagl
The article deals with the digitalisation of planning from a sociological perspective. The authors summarise results of their international empirical research in an analysis in which they place everyday digital planning practices at the centre of their considerations, where profound and intricate affects in planning occur at the level of embodied practices, spatial knowledge, planning processes, and
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A semantic web approach to land use regulations in urban planning: The OntoZoning ontology of zones, land uses and programmes for Singapore Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Heidi Silvennoinen, Arkadiusz Chadzynski, Feroz Farazi, Ayda Grišiūtė, Zhongming Shi, Aurel von Richthofen, Stephen Cairns, Markus Kraft, Martin Raubal, Pieter Herthogs
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Digital technologies in urban planning and urban management Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Soheil Sabri, Patrick Witte
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Leadership for responsible digital innovation in the built environment: A socio-technical review for re-establishing competencies Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Viviana Bastidas, Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong, Timea Nochta, Li Wan, Junqing Tang, Jennifer Schooling
Digitalisation in cities offers new opportunities and challenges for city planners and managers to re-shape their roles and create public value through responsible innovation. However, there is a lack of understanding of the competency requirements to foster leadership capacity for digital innovation with social coherence and responsibility. Based on a socio-technical perspective, this paper presents
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The pluralism of digital twins for urban management: Bridging theory and practice Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ramy Al-Sehrawy, Bimal Kumar, Richard Watson
Digital twins have great potential for improving urban management. However, the way that they are formulated seems to vary according to the aims of the urban management taking place. For instance, digital twins are made sophisticated and innovative when the urban manager wants to demonstrate technological prowess; they contribute to generating useful interventionist strategies if social engineering
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Corrigendum to “A politics of place framework for unravelling peri-urban conflict: An example of peri-urban Sydney, Australia” [Journal of Urban Management 7 (2018) 57–69] Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Laure-Elise Ruoso, Roel Plant
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Urban sustainability assessment for vernacular and traditional built environments Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Fahad Matar, Falli Palaiologou, Simon Richards
Despite the growing literature on sustainability assessment in the urban context, the resulting approaches and methods utilise several differing theoretical frameworks and lack a unifying vision and modus operandi. Innumerable tools and instruments have been developed for particular purposes and rather narrow goals. Curiously, these tools and instruments remain unable to trace and assess sustainability
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Digitalizing planning culture: A change towards information model-based planning in Finland Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Pilvi Nummi, Aija Staffans, Otso Helenius
While digitalization is expected to bring benefits in the area of land use planning, it is also redefining planning practices and entire planning cultures. Limited research exists on this digital transformation, and this article aims to narrow this gap through an empirical case study. In Finland, there is an ongoing transition towards information model (IM)-based planning, driven by public government
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Construction of cultural heritage evaluation system and personalized cultural tourism path decision model: An international historical and cultural city Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Shuangyu Zhang, Jiayi Lin, Zhaoxin Feng, Yang Wu, Qianyi Zhao, Shen Liu, Yanshen Ren, Houhua Li
World cultural heritage (WHS) is of great significance to promoting the sustainable development of cities, and history culture is very important to achieve the goal of sustainable development. The purpose of this paper is to construct a cultural heritage evaluation system and to explore and optimize tourist routes. We take cultural heritage sites as the research object, and comprehensively use Analytic
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A rule-based interpretation of the I Ching Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Shih-Kung Lai
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Rental housing policies and associated legal covers: Case of middle income formal housing in Karachi Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Suneela Ahmed, Madiha Salam
In the global south, policies related to the housing sector have a general inclination towards property ownership. Little efforts are put in supporting, strengthening and promoting the rental housing market. Similar practice is witnesses in Pakistan for provision of housing for middle income groups. The fact that making housing available through the rental market is less time consuming, more efficient
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Spatial indices and SDG indicator-based urban environmental change detection of the major cities in Bangladesh Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Sumya Tasnim, Farzana Mahbub, Gopa Biswas, Dewan Mohammad Enamul Haque
Understanding a city's urban growth trend and associated environmental change scenarios is necessary to ensure the quality of life of urban people by sustaining ecosystem health. We have performed urban environmental change detection for the major cities in Bangladesh based on the analysis of urban indices using remote sensing techniques. We have further correlated these indices-derived outcomes with
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Smart communities in Japan: Requirements and simulation for determining index values Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Hiromi Okubo, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Yuki Kitagawa, Monica Irisa Clara Gondokusuma, Ayumu Sawamura, Katsuhisa Deto
Recently, smart communities are heeded to in Japan as a solution to community issues. To properly evaluate the underlying concept, it is necessary to analyze smart cities in terms of local energy and environmental aspects, as well as disaster resilience. This research aimed to summarize the requirements for Japanese smart communities, and provide this information to municipalities, city planners, and
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Defining the ideal public space: A perspective from the publicness Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Juan Li, Anrong Dang, Yan Song
The concept of public space can be variously defined and understood from diversified perspectives. However, no matter which definition may be used, the most fundamental character of the public space is its publicness. This paper reviews the definitions and dimensions of publicness from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, and concludes four synthesized dimensions of publicness: ownership, accessibility
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The Brazilian National System for Water and Sanitation Data (SNIS): Providing information on a municipal level on water and sanitation services Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Marilia C.P. Borges, Sérgio B. Abreu, Carlos H.R. Lima, Thaianna Cardoso, Silvia M. Yonamine, Wagner D.V. Araujo, Paulo R.S. Silva, Volnei B. Machado, Valmir Moraes, Tamara J.B. Silva, Vinícius A. Reis, João V.R. Santos, Maurício L. Reis, Érica A. Canamary, Gabriel C. Vieira, Sara Meireles
Basic sanitation services are essential for human development, promoting health and inhibiting the spread of waterborne diseases. The availability of information on water and sanitation services at the local level supports the formulation, implementation and improvement of public policies aimed at advancing the provision of basic sanitation services to the population. In Brazil, the National Water
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The influence of the ‘Fragmented City’ on wellbeing: Do mixed neighbourhoods affect young adults' life trajectories in Bogota? Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Juan Fernando Bucheli
This article investigates the effects that living in heterogeneous neighbourhoods may have on well-being, in order to shed light on the potential consequences of promoting residential mix policies. Using propensity score matching models, the study investigates whether 120 disadvantaged young adults located in a heterogeneous neighbourhood in Bogota scored differently on a battery of indicators of well-being
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Crowdsourcing framework applied to strategic digital city projects Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Carla Cavichiolo Flores, Denis Alcides Rezende
If strategically implemented, crowdsourcing helps capture the intelligence of a variety of e-participation actors, enabling them to share the leading role with the government in decision-making processes. The objective is to elaborate an original crowdsourcing framework applied to strategic digital city projects. The research methodology is exploratory and descriptive. On the one hand, the model supports
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Smart city re-imagined: City planning and GeoAI in the age of big data Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Reza Mortaheb, Piotr Jankowski
This paper aims to engage with the ongoing debates on the role of planning in future smart cities, to make a case for a reconceptualization of the technocentric notion of the smart city, and to elevate the position of city planning within the smart-city discourse. The central argument made is that the smart city could exploit the synergies between city planning and three techno-scientific domains including
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Multi-temporal urban growth analysis with expansion indicators in Lucknow constituency by open-source data, India Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Ravi Verma, Pradeep Kumar Garg
Urban sprawl in metropolitan cities of India is a distressing concern for planners. Not only, it is underachieved but it is neglected. This study attempts to help in understanding the gap by studying urban sprawl in 5 assembly constituencies (ACs) of Lucknow city of India, through urban growth indicators such as urban growth types (Infilling, Edge-expansion and outlying), Shannon’s Entropy value and
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Decisions, plans, and cities Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Shih-Kung Lai
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Artificial intelligence, institutions, and resilience: Prospects and provocations for cities Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Laurie A. Schintler, Connie L. McNeely
The notion of “smart city” incorporates promises of urban resilience, referring generally to capacities for cities to anticipate, absorb, react, respond, and reorganize in the face of disruptive changes and disturbances. As such, artificial intelligence (AI), coupled with big data, is being heralded as a means for enhancing and accessing key determinants of resilience. At the same time, while AI generally
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Urban cultural vanguards why culture matters for urban success Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp
This paper addresses the multifaceted relationships between culture and urban performance. It seeks to identify and examine evidence-based characteristics of urban success (or socio-economic performance) that are related to the cultural profile (‘urban cultural value’) of a city. Also, the broader socio-economic context and significance of ‘urban cultural magnets’ is examined. The empirical analysis
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Trade-offs between sustainable development goals in systems of cities Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Juste Raimbault, Denise Pumain
Sustainable Development Goals are intrinsically competing, and their embedding into urban systems furthermore emphasises such compromises. When observed at the scale of systems of cities, such concern is considered as a series of innovations that challenges the adaptive capacity of urban systems. The spatial complexity, the non-optimal nature of such systems, and the multi-objective aspects of their
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Sense and the city: An Emotion Data Framework for smart city governance Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Katharine S. Willis, Christian Nold
In the smart city agenda, data plays a key role in shaping governance and participation around urban planning, and this data is increasingly derived from sensors of all kinds. These sensors increasingly include physiological and sentiment analysis to gauge the emotional states of urban citizens. In urban planning, emotional data has so far been conceptualised as ‘people as sensors’ where data is used
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Studying light pollution as an emerging environmental concern in India Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Komal Kaushik, Soumya Nair, Arif Ahamad
The growing global population has increased the demands for urban housing development not only in the cities but in suburbs and rural areas as well. This gradual but speedy urbanization and globalization have introduced a new kind of “night lifestyle” among people, who engage in various entertainment activities late in the evening till early mornings. This influx of urban architecture and changes in
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Special issue on ‘The city 2.0 – Smart People, Places and Planning’ Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, Umut Türk
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The role of neighborhood characteristics for firm performance in the experience economy: A case study of production volumes in California’s Brewpub industry Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Rebekka E. Apardian, Isabelle Nilsson, Neil Reid, Julie Wartell
The number of craft breweries in the United States grew from 37 in 1985 to over 8,000 in 2019, establishing craft breweries as a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape. At a time when consumers are increasingly shifting their spending from material goods to experiences, the craft brewery industry is a quintessential example of this burgeoning experience economy. Local craft breweries sell a sensorial
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AI-based neural network models for bus passenger demand forecasting using smart card data Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Sohani Liyanage, Rusul Abduljabbar, Hussein Dia, Pei-Wei Tsai
Accurate short-term forecasting of public transport demand is essential for the operation of on-demand public transport. Knowing where and when future demands for travel are expected allows operators to adjust timetables quickly, which helps improve service quality and reliability and attract more passengers to public transport. This study addresses this need by developing AI-based deep learning models
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Uncovering the shape of neighborhoods: Harnessing data analytics for a smart governance of urban areas Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Alon Sagi, Avigdor Gal, Daniel Czamanski, Dani Broitman
Urban scholars have made great advances to understand the reciprocal relations between households and their immediate environments as a means for the creation of efficient urban administrative systems. However, from an urban management perspective, reliance on geographical areas fixed for long periods of time as basic data collection constitutes a problem. Modern urban areas are in a permanent state
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Determinant factors for the expansion of informal settlement in Gondar city, Northwest Ethiopia Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Endalew Terefe Alene
This study examines determinant factors for the expansion of informal settlements in Gondar, a historical city in Ethiopia. In order to address this study objective, quantitative data were employed from 196 randomly selected households in four sites. The study indicated that a single factor is not determinant for the expansion of informal settlements in the city. The results of the study revealed that