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Enabling infrastructure: seeing infrastructure as the urban common International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Bae-Gyoon Park, Ju Hyun Lee, Didi Kyoung-ae Han, Seoungwon Lee, Yilsoon Paek, Hanbyul Shim
In response to the unprecedented urban challenges, there is an urgent call for alternative system of communal support that enable humanity to respond collectively to the crises it faces. In particu...
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A machine learning application to Google Maps Reviews as a participatory planning tool International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Melike Akkaya, Özlem Özçevik, Emre Tepe
Public participation is vital to achieving successful plan outcomes, whereas meaningful participation requires at least informing and consulting the public. However, collecting frequent feedback fr...
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Impact of social trust on young adults’ childbearing intention: why does South Korea show ultra-low fertility? International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Heejong Kwag, Songhee Baek, Myounggu Kang
Existing literature pointed that the economic opportunity cost of having children and gender inequality are the key factors of low fertility. Given the findings, South Korea spent more than 200 bil...
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Urban vibrancy and air pollution: avoidance behaviour and the built environment International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Bo Wang, Becky P. Y. Loo, Jixiang Liu, Yaqin Lei, Liang Zhou
Urban vibrancy can be captured by people’s out-of-home mobility. It is an essential indicator of the ‘liveliness’ of cities. Nowadays, many cities, however, are suffering from air pollution, which ...
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The examination of the relationship between Internet use at home, on the move and trip frequencies of public transport and private vehicle before and during the COVID-19 pandemic International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jinhyun Hong, David Philip McArthur
The Internet has significantly changed the way people travel. It allows people to reorganize activities in time and space. Due to its important policy implications, a body of empirical research has...
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The construction of smart city community environment under the application of animation immersion technology integrated into southern Fujian Folk Culture International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sichao Wu, Xiaoyu Huang, Wee Hoe Tan
With the rapid development of global information technology, data resources play an increasingly prominent role in society. Countries have issued ‘smart city’ strategic plans one after another, tak...
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Sociodemographic characteristics influencing the participation of residents in geotourism International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yeeun Kim, Hyun Kim
As sustainable geotourism can revitalize local economies and conserve resources, it is increasingly becoming a research focus. One of the most important elements of sustainable geotourism is the pa...
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Sustainability and smartness interplay within city–renewables nexus: a bibliometric analysis from 1992 to 2022 International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Alexandru Gavriș
Sustainability, smartness and renewable energy represent areas of utmost importance able to contribute to the progress of urban environments. The paper investigates the interplay of these concepts,...
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Framework for hourly demand forecasting of bike-sharing stations: case study of the four main gate areas in Seoul International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Jungyeol Hong, Eunryong Han, Dongjoo Park
Shared bicycles represent a sharing economy for solving complex urban traffic problems. Therefore, their demand has been steadily increasing since the introduction of shared bicycles in Seoul. The ...
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Examining the impact of bicycle-oriented multimodality on accessibility and transport equity in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Stefanos Tsigdinos, Panagiotis G. Tzouras, Ioannis Kosmidis, Efthimios Bakogiannis, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou
Bicycle-oriented multimodality (cycling and fixed-route public transport) could be considered as an efficient tool in developing a sustainable transport system offering adequate transport services ...
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Modeling the intermodality between public transport and bike-sharing using smartcard trip Chain data International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Christian Kapuku, Shin Hyoung Park, Shin-Hyung Cho
Intermodality of public transit mitigates the negative impacts in an urban area, and many cities are opting for developing a more sustainable and integrated public transport system. This study deve...
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The interaction between smartness and the urban economy International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Seungil Yum
While many studies have tried to measure the magnitude of smart cities, they have not highlighted the degree of smartness and the interaction between smartness and the urban economy across all regi...
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Factors associated with pedestrian-vehicle collision hotspots involving seniors and children: a deep learning analysis of street-level images International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hee-Jung Jun, Suyoung Jung, Seungyeoup Kang, Taewan Kim, Cheol-Ho Cho, Won Young Jhoo, Jae-Pil Heo
This study aimed to examine the factors associated with pedestrian–vehicle collision hotspots involving seniors and children. For the empirical analysis, we first quantified street-level images of ...
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Artificial intelligence enabled participatory planning: a review International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Jiaxin Du, Xinyue Ye, Piotr Jankowski, Tom Sanchez, Gengchen Mai
Participatory planning is a democratic spatial decision-making process involving multiple stakeholders. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in participatory planning has the pot...
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An integrated framework for addressing urban challenges in smart cities: transitioning from the V-model to a knowledge-action approach International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Junqing Tang, Jennifer Schooling, Chenyu Yang, Fengjue Huang, Wei Lyu, Timea Nochta, Juan Sebastián Cañavera-Herrera, Viviana Bastidas, Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong
Digital technologies and tools have been widely deployed in smart city initiatives to improve operations, resource allocation, and infrastructure management. Due to high complexity and diversity, h...
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Intercity networks and urban performance: a geographical text mining approach International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Wang Tongjing, Evert Meijers, Ziyu Bao, Huijuan Wang
ABSTRACT Compared to the burgeoning literature discussing the importance of agglomeration externalities for development, limited attention has been given to network externalities. This is largely due to limited data availability. We propose a general measure to proxy city network externalities based on toponym co-occurrences that indicate the relatedness between cities. This paper extracts intercity
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Green infrastructure modelling for UHI control to urban thermal comfort: a case study of Temanggung urban area International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Hendra Sumaryana, Imam Buchori, Anang Wahyu Sejati
ABSTRACT The Temanggung urban area in Central Java (Indonesia) already has considerable urban Green Infrastructure (GI), but the phenomenon of Urban Heat Island (UHI) has expanded to 268% in the last seven years. This study explores the theoretical gaps related to urban thermal comfort by combining tree management modelling as the independent variable and existing urban morphology as the dependent
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The cost of working: measuring physical and virtual access to jobs International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Jing Chen, Mengying Cui, David Levinson
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the incentive to work-from-home (WFH) in many countries and well-developed information and communication technology (ICT) provides strong support to do so with no need to physically travel to workplaces. This paper defines the concept of physical (traditional) and virtual (online) access to jobs based on dual access theory, by analysing different job profiles
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Relationship between the degree and spatial pattern of urban shrinkage based on nighttime light data: a case study of the old industrial area in Northeast China International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Hongri Sun, Guolei Zhou, Yanjun Liu, Hui Fu
Urban shrinkage is a common phenomenon worldwide, but the relationship between the degree and spatial pattern of urban shrinkage is unclear. This paper takes the old northeastern industrial base, a...
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Revealing the mechanism of urban form affecting energy footprint and carrying capacity: an empirical analysis of Nanjing, China International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Ping Yu, Shuainan Zhang, Peng Wang
Exploring the factors that affect energy supply and demand is the basis of solving energy problems. And the influence of urban form has brought widespread concern. However, the complex role of urba...
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Spatial othering in fragmented societies: different others or different housings? International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 S. Labbaf, M. Norouzi
ABSTRACT The sudden emergence of different housing types in a homogenous neighbourhood can cause social distance, negative perceptions, and housing stigmatization. In the Navvab area in Tehran, the social rift and refusal to accept different ones have been represented in the duality of the complex/neighbourhood. Such spatial othering can, in turn, manifest in obvious physical distance, which acts as
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No retreat from the heat: temperature-related risk of violent assault is increased by being inside International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Heather R. Stevens, Petra L. Graham, Paul J. Beggs, Ivan C. Hanigan
Studies finding an association between increasing temperature and violent crime have largely overlooked the potential effect modification of crime location. This study analysed 13 years of reported...
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Do subjective measures of transit mode attributes better explain commute satisfaction than objective ones? Empirical evidence from commuters in the Seoul Metropolitan Area International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Sungtaek Choi, Joonho Ko, Randall Guensler
The present study investigates determinants affecting commute satisfaction in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, South Korea. In particular, two types of mode attributes including objective (actual commu...
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The megaregion – forms, functions, and potential? A literature review and proposal for advancing research International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Brian Woodall, Mariel Borowitz, Kari Watkins, Maria Costa, Angela Howard, Perrine Kemerait, Michelle Lee, Gavin Rolls, Yuji Takubo, Rachel Titshaw, Maria Winstead, Jessica Zhang, Daisy Zhou
The megaregion is viewed as a platform from which to address a variety of issues. Despite agreement that a megaregion is a large, globally connected urban agglomeration, there is no consensus as to...
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Reshuffling city life: spatial and functional dynamics of urban activity in Tokyo during COVID-19 International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Vadim Boratinskii, Maarten Loopmans, Toshihiro Osaragi
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the measures to curb it have profoundly affected the geography of urban activities in the past years. In this paper, we discuss its effects on urban activity in Tokyo dur...
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Value of travel time savings of autonomous vehicle commuters: a segmented valuation for local and inter-city travel International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Sungtaek Choi, Daejin Kim, Joonho Ko, Jonghan Park, Yongseok Ko
In this study we aim to identify how the adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs) affects the value of travel time savings (VOTTS) for commuting trips under different trip distance scenarios (local an...
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Finding the old in the new: Smart cities in the national and local trajectories of urban development International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Anders Riel Müller, Joon Park, Jung Won Sonn
Published in International Journal of Urban Sciences (Vol. 27, No. sup1, 2023)
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A critical review of activity participation decision: a key component of activity-based travel demand models International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Suchismita Nayak, Debapratim Pandit
Activity-based travel demand models (ABM) have gained popularity during the last three decades and are currently in use in several urban areas. In ABM, special emphasis is given to modelling indivi...
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The nature of urban sprawl in Western Balkan cities International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Zora Živanović, Branka Tošić, Natalija Mirić, Nikola Vračević
The paper draws attention to the process of urban growth in the Western Balkans, which is principally reflected in the physical expansion into the surrounding area, leading to the conversion of lan...
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The spatial spillover effect of technological innovation network in cities: a case of the high-tech industry of Yangtze River Delta International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Young-Hyun Song, Jung Wook Kim
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the formation of the inter-city technology innovation network and its economic effects on the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). To examine the innovation network, this study utilizes high-tech industry registered patent data that provide for a more substantial formation of the inter-city technology network. First, this study finds that a solid technology innovation
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Exploration on prior driving modes for automated vehicle collisions International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Subasish Das, Xiaoqiang “Jack” Kong, Md Mahmud Hossain
The emergence of automated vehicles (AV) has been occurring rapidly as these vehicles have the potential to reduce/eradicate human driving faults and related collisions. To enhance AV safety, the N...
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Urban life cycle and long-run violence: Colombia 1938–2018 International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Nestor Garza, Ivan Verbel-Montes, José Ramos-Ruiz
This paper revisits and improves upon the traditional urban life cycle theory, using it as a long-term conceptual baseline model to assess the effect of the Colombian internal armed conflict on urb...
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The reciprocal relationship between social capital and community development in a Korean Chinese enclave: the case of Daerim 2-dong in Seoul International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Hee-Jung Jun
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between social capital and community development as well as the interaction mechanism between different types of social capital in community development in a Korean-Chinese enclave in Seoul, Korea. For empirical analysis, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 community members in Daerim 2-dong, the largest Korean-Chinese enclave in Korea. The
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Emergy analysis-based study of the sustainable development of Kunming’s urban eco-economic system International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Hui Li, Lei Cao, Youbin Chen, Huiyi Qiu, Xue Huang, Wanqi Guo, Shuntao Wang, Weiguo Sheng, Yilu Zhou, Qing Xu
ABSTRACT We studied Kunming’s urban eco-economic system’s evolution from 2009 to 2018, using the emergy theory and method; with the entropy evaluation method, we analyzed the system’s natural, social and economic subsystems to know its sustainable development capacity. The results show that the system’s emergy structure has clearly improved, and its renewable resources’ emergy has been rationally employed
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Factors influencing fatal vehicle-involved crash consequence metrics at spatio-temporal hotspots in South Korea: application of GIS and machine learning techniques International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Reuben Tamakloe, D. Park
ABSTRACT Studies have employed several techniques to identify the effect of individual risk factors influencing crashes at hotspot locations. Nevertheless, as crashes are sometimes influenced by a combination of risk factors, identifying the chains of factors collectively contributing to fatal crashes at hotspot locations could provide added insights for improving traffic safety. By employing fatal
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Creating a state strategic innovation space: the development of the Zhangjiang Science City in Shanghai International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Kan Zhu, Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu
The development of science parks has been studied extensively. Understanding these innovation spaces requires us to investigate the development context beyond local knowledge dynamics. This paper e...
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Spatiotemporal change in duration of households with every member out-of-home: a case in Kumamoto, Japan International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Kenta Kikuchi, Takuya Maruyama
ABSTRACT Nobody-at-home situations can cause several problems, such as home-delivery failures and burglaries. A recent study demonstrated temporal profiles of households with every member out-of-home (HEMO) situation by using household travel surveys. However, the spatial distribution of HEMO and its transition were not examined, and the effect of household attributes on HEMO was not analyzed statistically
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Visualization of urban heat and light at the pedestrian level International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Kévin Boiné, Claude M. H. Demers, Mojtaba Parsaee, André Potvin
ABSTRACT This research aims at developing a methodology for integrated visualization of diurnal/nocturnal urban heat and light exposed to pedestrians. Heat and light are major environmental qualities affecting the visual and non-visual experiences of pedestrians in urban spaces. The configuration of urban layouts, including built-up area, density, and surface features, could modify the quality of heat
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Socio-spatial differentiation in a Latin American metropolis: urban structure, residential mobility, and real estate in the high-income cone of Santiago de Chile International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Luis Fuentes Arce, María Inés Ramírez, Sebastián Rodríguez, Andrés Señoret
ABSTRACT The High-Income Cone (HIC) is characteristic of the urban structure of Latin-American metropolises, consisting of a delimited area of the city where inhabitants of high socioeconomic status are located, consolidating the patterns of social segregation and inequality that are typical of those societies. Despite the urban transformations experienced by the metropolises of the continent in the
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The effects of antecedent dry days and land use types on urban runoff quality in a semi-Arid region International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Shahokh Soltaninia, Lobat Taghavi, Seyed Abbas Hosseini, Baharak Motamedvaziri, Saeid Eslamian
ABSTRACT This study simulated the effects of land-use changes on runoff pollution in a catchment of Tehran, Iran. The catchment has a semi-arid climate, a relatively long period from dry summer to rainy autumn and highly varying precipitation levels. Urban runoff samples were collected from six stations including five different land-based activities and a mixed land-use, which supported all land-use
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Neighbourhood rental market integration and private rent trajectories – evidence from the city of Vienna International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Selim Banabak
ABSTRACT The urban housing regime in Vienna is often regarded as one of the last integrated rental markets once described by Kemeny. Thus, according to the theory, private landlords should be forced to charge lower rents due to direct competition from the social sector. This paper formally tests this hypothesis on a very local level by linking private rent trajectories across Viennese subdistricts
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Evolution of the smart city: three extensions to governance, sustainability, and decent urbanisation from an ICT-based urban solution International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Joon Park, Seungho Yoo
ABSTRACT The smart city, which emphasizes more effective urban management using information and communication technologies (ICT), now has greater implications. This paper first reviews the evolving features of the smart city focusing on its extension from an ICT-based urban solution to the domains of governance, sustainability, and decent urbanisation. Expectations and concerns about advanced ICT as
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The prospects of artificial intelligence in urban planning International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Thomas W. Sanchez, Hannah Shumway, Trey Gordner, Theo Lim
ABSTRACT Over the past several decades, urban planning has considered a variety of advanced analysis methods with greater and lesser degrees of adoption. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is probably the most notable, with others such as database management systems (DBMS), decision support systems (DSS), planning support systems (PSS), and expert systems (ES), having mixed levels of recognition
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The origin of industrial workers and rural in situ urbanization in Temanggung Regency, Indonesia International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Holi Bina Wijaya, Imam Buchori
ABSTRACT As part of the urbanization process, the origin of industrial workers can characterize the type and distribution of rural in situ urbanization. The case of Temanggung Regency, Indonesia, demonstrates the industrial growth of the rural population initially from that agricultural to industrial and urban activities. This study contributes to a contextual explanation of the roles of local workers
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The effects of ‘sanctuary city’ policies on the local economy: empirical evidence from US counties International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 In Kwon Park, Burkhard von Rabenau, Zhe Hong
ABSTRACT This study derives the economic development effects of sanctuary city (SC) policies at the US county level using data from close to 3,000 counties between 2013 and 2017. A county is taken to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants if county jails do not accept ICE detainer requests, i.e. do not hold detainees beyond their original release dates. Endogeneity problems and fixed effects
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The effects of proximities on the evolving structure of intercity innovation networks in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area: comparison between scientific and technology knowledge International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Haitao Ma, Xuanfang Xu
ABSTRACT The various knowledge flows shape and change the regional innovation patterns, which are also influenced by regional conditions. What are the similarities, differences and connections between science and technology linkage, as two different types of knowledge network, deserve to be explored in depth. Drawing on scientific paper co-publications and patent transfer data, we constructed two different
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Overheated behaviours and spread effects: an analysis of London’s housing market International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 I-Chun Tsai
ABSTRACT This paper takes the London housing market as an example to discuss whether housing markets with more significant overheating effects have a greater influence on other housing markets. The spillover effect of London’s housing market has been the subject of much literature, but the empirical results of the relevant literature are inconsistent. This paper proposed a new perspective to explain
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Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Juhyun Lee, Julia Babcock, Thai Son Pham, Thu Hien Bui, Myounggu Kang
ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives have the potential to address many contemporary urban challenges, utilizing information and technology. Increasingly, smart cities are considered as social innovation processes to achieve sustainable and inclusive urban development, being influenced by broader socio-economic and institutional contexts of cities. This paper explores ‘smart city transitions’ across varied
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Alternative housing priorities for low-income migrants in Jakarta, Indonesia International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Joko Adianto, Rossa Turpuk Gabe
ABSTRACT This empirical study suggests an alternative housing priority for the housing pathways of low-income migrants. An economic perspective has been the dominant paradigm in determining urban housing trajectories and has been cemented as the pedestal of the housing provision programme. However, this study is conducted in the highest density sub-districts of each of Jakarta’s five municipalities
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Evaluating the walking accessibility of Cook County’s public schools to use as open space International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Aynaz Lotfata, Ran Tao, Yanfang Su
ABSTRACT This paper evaluates hypothesized dual uses of the public schools to increase walking accessibility to open spaces as a part of the permanent urban interventions. The Two-step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) method was adopted to measure the 20 min walking accessibility of the public schools in Cook County, the home of the Chicago Metropolitan. We further used the bivariate local Moran I to
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Relationships between socio-demographic structure and spatio-temporal distribution patterns of COVID-19 cases in Istanbul, Turkey International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Merve Yilmaz, Aslı Ulubaş Hamurcu
ABSTRACT This study aims to find out specific relationships between socio-demographic and spatio-temporal distribution patterns of COVID-19 cases. Istanbul being one of the most dynamic and overpopulated cities in Turkey is chosen as the case area. The study explores the spatio-temporal spread pattern of COVID-19 between 24 September and 12 December 2020 in 960 neighbourhoods of Istanbul using spatial
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Dynamics in the governance of smart cities: insights from South Korean smart cities International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Yirang Lim, Jurian Edelenbos, Alberto Gianoli
ABSTRACT This paper aims to explain how the governance model changes in smart cities by using South Korea's experience as a case study. South Korean smart city development is divided into three phases according to the national master plan and maturity of smart cities. Phase 1 took place from 2008 to 2013, phase 2 extended from 2014 to 2018, and phase 3 began in 2019 and will last into 2023. The cases
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Impact of urban pattern on operating costs of public services: quantification through the economic weight of services ‘to property’ International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Francisco Javier Garrido-Jiménez, Francesc Magrinyà, María Consuelo del Moral-Ávila
ABSTRACT Research has shown the existence of strong links between physical configuration of the urban settlements and the economic metabolism of public services. However, this relationship has a different intensity depending on the nature of each service, resting exclusively on the services ‘to property’, that is, those ensuring smooth functionality of the buildings and public spaces. In such services
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Discovering research topics, trends, and perspectives in COVID-19-related transportation journal articles International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Reuben Tamakloe, Dongjoo Park, Hyunho Chang
Abstract Research interest in COVID-19 in the transportation field has increased sporadically since its outbreak in 2019. This has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of publications in academic journals, rendering it difficult to clearly capture and understand the themes being discussed in the entire literature. This study employs a Structural Topic Model, a robust probabilistic topic model
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Designing an intelligent emergency response system to minimize the impacts of traffic incidents: a new approximation queuing model International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Hamid R. Sayarshad
ABSTRACT A road traffic accident is an unexpected, irregular activity on the road network that sources a high excess demand relative to the reduced road capacity, resulting in traffic congestion and delays for travellers. The emergency response agencies need to shortly discover, respond to, and clear road traffic accidents in order to decrease the impacts of incidents on traffic congestion. To create
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Generalized ordered logit analysis on the injury severity of traffic crashes by older drivers: the case of South Korea International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Tae-Hyoung Tommyo Gim
ABSTRACT With a case of South Korea, this study attempts to analyze how the severity of traffic crashes for which older drivers are at fault is associated with road/environmental/seasonal/weather conditions, driver’s attributes, and crash/violation types. It analyzes the ordinal variable of injury severity by specifying conventionally used ordered logit and its statistical alternatives, multinomial
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Estimation of land surface temperature in response to land use/land cover transformation in Kolkata city and its suburban area, India International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Souvik Biswas, Soumen Ghosh
ABSTRACT The land transformation in Kolkata city and its suburban area is mainly due to intensive population pressure and rapid urban sprawling. Consequently, the land surface temperature (LST) is continuously increasing and gradually intensifying the effects of the urban heat island. The aim of this study is to assess the spatiotemporal variation of LST in response to land use land cover change (LULC)
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Federalism and urban primacy: political dimensions that influence the city–country divide in Australia International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 George Wilkinson, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Julian Bolleter
ABSTRACT With Australia’s population set to triple in the twenty-first century, its federal government is investing in decentralization. This is because Australian states exhibit high urban primacy, where one city is dominantly large. Institutional perspectives of primacy suggest political factors are usually significant drivers. For example, strong localism and decentralized settlement patterns are
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Planning and technological innovation: the governance challenges faced by English local authorities in adopting planning technologies International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Ciaran Devlin, Jon Coaffee
ABSTRACT The term ‘smart city’ has become synonymous with a technologically cultivated utopia, where urban problems can be solved computationally. This approach to urban development has been promoted as a method of enabling city administrations to become more proactive when dealing with issues including pollution, traffic flow and congestion, public safety, energy use, and urban planning. This trend
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What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in the United States International Journal of Urban Sciences (IF 3.012) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Cristina Del-Real, Chandra Ward, Mina Sartipi
ABSTRACT Many cities in the United States are pursuing agendas to implement ICT-based solutions to tackle urban challenges, thus achieving the ‘smart city’ label. While the discussion on this urban development paradigm has revolved around the intensive use of technologies, the academic literature increasingly calls for shifting the focus to the people living in the cities. This paper argues that to