Cities

Papers
(The median citation count of Cities is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus414
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana203
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi202
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions189
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century182
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size162
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres159
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors158
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue151
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis146
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen139
Editorial Board131
Editorial Board130
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity128
How do urban function and development level effect construction level of green infrastructure? A case study of 110 built-up areas of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Zone125
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth115
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality110
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data102
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction96
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group93
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study93
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms92
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks91
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city91
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors89
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania88
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities85
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs77
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments77
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities75
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories73
Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario73
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning73
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective72
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities71
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets69
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore69
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity69
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review69
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations69
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence68
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China67
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction67
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach66
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions66
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia66
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach66
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory65
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data65
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure64
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development62
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China61
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district61
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis60
Examining the non-linear association between the built environment around residence and the risk of obesity among children and adolescents at different school stages in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China58
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city57
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201057
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation57
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change57
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses57
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing56
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?56
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective55
Household characteristics or neighborhood conditions? Exploring the determinants of housing spells among U.S. public housing residents55
Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being54
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities54
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City54
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China54
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data54
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data54
Deep learning meets urban design: Assessing streetscape aesthetic and design quality through AI and cluster analysis53
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case53
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul52
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy51
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China51
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan51
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective51
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities51
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks51
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?51
Unveiling citizen-government interactions in urban renewal in China: Spontaneous online opinions, reginal characteristics, and government responsiveness50
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China50
Circularity on what grounds? Advancing learning for circular area development at the interface of proximity and precarity49
Health workers' housing and moral geographies of citizenship in Papua New Guinea49
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends49
International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city48
Retreat from flood zones: Simulating land use changes in response to compound flood risk in coastal communities48
Hidden gems: The potential of places and social innovation for circular territories in Bogotá48
Spill-over effect of Wuhan travel ban on population flow in the outbreak stage of COVID-19 in China48
Urban poverty patterns in Pyongyang (North Korea): A deep-learning-based spatial analysis48
Factors contributing to urban isolation: A mixed-methods analysis of three new towns in Tehran47
Digital (un)sustainability at an urban university in Sydney, Australia47
Role of remote working center in a hybrid work culture47
Gendered space: Women's presence and use of space in Sabzeh-meydan of Tehran Bazaar47
Lifestyle centers, the next boom and bust after shopping malls? Governance, public-private partnerships, and Guy Debord's spectacle in Dallas-Fort Worth46
The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts46
Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality46
Structural preconditions for adaptive urban areas: Framework rules, several property and the range of possible actions46
Impact of comparative advantages in origin and destination cities on return migrant workers' entrepreneurship: An induced network analysis46
How to analyse spatial distribution of crime? Crime risk indicator in an attempt to design an original method of spatial crime analysis46
Planning data center locations in Swedish municipalities. A comparative case study of Luleå and Stockholm46
Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment46
Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia45
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms45
E-commerce empowers urban entrepreneurial activity—Empirical evidence from the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities45
How does geographical environment affect residents' perception of social justice: An empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing45
Barriers to employing e-participation in the Iranian planning system44
Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions44
Travel flow patterns of diverse population groups and influencing built environment factors: A case study of Beijing44
Characterizing the temporally stable structure of community evolution in intra-urban origin-destination networks44
Housing estates' trajectories in post-socialist countries: Similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities44
Marshall vs Jacobs agglomeration and the micro-location of foreign and domestic firms43
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media?43
(Un)making space for manufacturing in the city: The double edge of pro-makers urban policies in Brussels43
Editorial Board42
Mapping informal/formal morphologies over time: Exploring urban transformations in Vietnam42
Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content42
Walkability and colonialism: The divergent impact of colonial planning practices on spatial segregation in East Africa42
The impact of age on people's use and perception of urban green spaces and their effect on personal health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic—A case study of the metropolitan area of Vienna, A42
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco: Case studies of Fes and Oujda42
The promise and pitfalls of early project notification meetings; illuminating Santa Ana's sunshine ordinance42
Exploring the drivers of urban renewal through comparative modeling of multiple types in Shenzhen, China42
Disaster-induced disruption of policies for informal urban settlements41
Investigating the effect of industry-specific economic distance on the prediction of intercity population movement41
Darwin: Towards the sustainability of the Larrikin of Australian capital cities41
The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness41
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance: Unveiling innovative strategies of self-organization in Istanbul41
The role of spatial configuration in moderating the relationship between social sustainability and urban density41
Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city40
Untangling our checkered past: Investigating the link between local historic district designation and spatial segregation history40
Assessing the multidimensional structuring of quality of life. Evidence from a French city40
Governing the urban commons: Lessons from Ostrom's work and commoning practice in cities40
Segregation within segregation: Informal settlements beyond socially homogenous areas40
City profile: Kochi, city region - Planning measures to make Kochi smart and creative39
When do homeowners feel the same as renters? Housing price appreciation and subjective well-being in South Korea39
Urban expansion in South Tangerang: Analyzing Bintaro Jaya as a private city39
The changes in job-housing balance during the Covid-19 period in China39
Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology39
A novel methodological approach for analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of residential segregation: The case of Berlin39
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities: A baseline study in Melbourne, Australia39
Evaluating the public acceptance of sustainable mobility interventions responding to Covid-19: The case of the Great Walk of Athens and the importance of citizen engagement38
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques38
Tech firm births and agglomeration economies: (un)related variety, specialization, and spatial externalities38
A multidimensional investigation on spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China's urban-rural income gap (URIG) since the 21st century38
The impact of COVID-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain: Towards flexibilization?38
Creating livable cities for healthy ageing: Cognitive health in older adults and their 15-minute walkable neighbourhoods38
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam38
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles38
Book Review37
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand37
Unpacking World Heritage cultural clusters through the interplay of urban tourism and gentrification37
Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities: A case study of Amsterdam37
Heterogeneous residential location effects: Variations in how suburban communities shape older adults' active travel—A case study from Xiamen37
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China37
The alternate infrastructures that support digital counter publics: Digital inequality in an Australian public housing estate37
Participation development in responsive city with self-organizing approach (the case of Tehran city)37
Measuring the impact of slow zones on street life using social media37
The beginning and the end of urban population deconcentration in the United States: New insights from application of the Density Distribution Index36
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities36
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future36
Smartphone, startup, laboratory - What ambitions and visions do local government officials express by their smart city stories? Case study of Polish cities36
Word of mouth and behavioural intentions of the automated bus service36
Olympics-related urban interventions in Barcelona and in Rio de Janeiro: A look at territorial equality legacies36
Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility36
The new town square: Twitter discourses about balconies during the 2020 lockdown in Spain36
Exploring the many housing elasticities of supply: The case of Australia35
Energy citizens – Conveyors of changing democratic institutions?35
Getting smart or going green? Quantifying the Smart City Industry's economic impact and potential for sustainable growth35
From “access to housing” to “access to decent housing”: A systematic literature review of China’s housing security system35
Revisiting the neighborhood definition in view of the 15-minute neighborhood and sustainable neighborhood concepts35
Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration35
A multilevel, multidimensional scale for measuring housing insecurity in slums and informal settlements35
Improving the catchment area identification for suburban railway stations by incorporating whole-journey-based mode choices and unevenly distributed population35
Commercial urban agriculture for sustainable cities35
Material agencies of survival: Street vending on a Roman bridge35
Why don't children study outside? Limitation of Polish schools to use green spaces in the educational process before and during COVID-1935
Balancing growth and safety: Investigating urban sprawl's impacts on security resilience under new infrastructure development35
From neoliberal urban green space production and consumption to urban greening as part of a degrowth agenda35
Perceived built environment characteristics associated with walking and cycling across 355 communities in 21 countries35
Co-designing the urban energy transition: A resident-based approach35
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic loss and resource conservation of China's tourism industry from the supply chain perspective34
Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan34
Urban growth rates, trajectories, and multi-dimensional disparities in China34
Uneven development and tourism gentrification in the metropolitan fringe: A case study of Wuzhen Xizha in Zhejiang Province, China34
Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis34
Urban suburbia: Gentrification and spatial inequality in workers' communities in Tokyo34
China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders33
The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)33
Exploring the association of urbanisation and subjective well-being in India33
Quantifying the spatiotemporal mismatches between energy consumption and population: A comparative study in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China33
Exploring the potential impact of smart urban technologies on urban sustainability using structural topic modelling: Evidence from Belgium32
Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus32
Circle of paradigms? Or ‘15-minute’ neighbourhoods from the 1950s32
How do mini-parks serve in groups? A visit analysis of mini-park groups in the neighbourhoods of Nanjing32
Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China32
Disentangling metropolis-city relationships in the governance of sustainability transitions: An in-depth exploration of the case of Rouen, France32
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility32
Farmers to urban citizens? Understanding resettled households' adaptation to urban life in Shaanxi, China32
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute32
Disparities in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year analysis32
Gendered digital entrepreneurship in gendered coworking spaces: Evidence from Shenzhen, China31
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications31
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques31
Corrigendum to “Aligning nature-based solutions and housing policy: A study on stakeholders' perceptions of nature within informal settlement upgrading projects” [Cities 153 (2024) 105264]31
Time and distance matter: Study on the public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a mega-city31
Urbanization and vulnerable employment: Empirical evidence from 163 countries in 1991–201931
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies31
Exploring the impacts of topography on characteristics of urban road network: A global empirical analysis31
Evaluating the disparity between supply and demand of park green space using a multi-dimensional spatial equity evaluation framework31
Morphological dynamics of cost-efficient urban areas: Expansion and shrinkage in greater Tokyo from 2003 to 202031
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran30
Examining the relationship between contested edges and intergroup crime dynamics30
Peripheral best practices and the politics of visibility: Urban planning and social urbanism in Mexico City30
Invented traditions in Surakarta after decentralisation30
Gendered sustainability: Are public spaces designed for girls good for everyone?30
Prismatic immersion of urban ruins: A framework for the integration of ruins' multiple geographies in urban regeneration30
Creative re-uses: The promises and challenges of temporary land use in Calgary30
Juggling commutes and cribs: Insights into commuting efficiency in young dual-earner families30
Multiuse Cemetery Paradigm: Cemetery as a multifunctional place of social significance – Reshaping a cemetery in the urban space of Eastern Europe30
COVID-19 impacts on residential preferences for parks and green-blue spaces: A case study from Miami-Dade County, Florida30
From parochial to policy advocate: Examining policy advocacy among neighborhood councils in Los Angeles30
Planning for dispossession: the continuing legacy of settler-colonialism in contemporary urban planning practices30
Capturing what statistics miss: Mapping unsafe places and victimization experiences in the City of Granada, Spain30
Effective affordable housing provision in developing economies: A deductive analysis of informal housing strategies in Lagos, Nigeria30
Influence of citizen relationship management system on citizen participation in Taiwan: A participatory politics perspective30
COVID-19 influence on commuters' attitude towards riding public buses for essential trips29
Past, present and future of the Smart City in India: An institutional perspective29
Revealing transport inequality from an activity space perspective: A study based on human mobility data29
Editorial Board29
A data mining approach to explore the causal rules between environmental conditions of neighborhood parks and seniors' satisfaction29
Balancing the scales: How housing supply regulation shapes household wealth inequality in China29
Non-business services performance forecasting for small urban areas using a spatiotemporal deep learning model29
Innovations in urban integration policies: Immigrant councils as democratic institutions29
Evaluating occupational values in Japan's urban farming: A comparison between the Likert scale and Best-Worst Scaling methods29
Affect, avoidance and authority: Spaces of encounter in gated social housing estates in Nanjing, China29
The who, the what, and the how of social innovation in inner peripheries:A systematic literature review29
Towards a hybrid model for the management of smart city initiatives29
Does the eviction of street vendors affect food prices? Evidence from China's chengguan system29
Gender pay gap in Spanish local governments29
Changes in public attitudes toward CCTV installations in residential areas between 2008 and 201929
The methods used to identify urban, rural, and intermediate territories at European level: A comparison of the methods developed in the framework of TERCET and ESPON28
Does residential stability lead to civic participation?: The mediating role of place attachment28
Modeling self-organized urban growth by incorporating stakeholders' interactions into the neighborhood of cellular automata28
Neoliberalization of urban planning and spatial inequalities in Asian megacities: Focus on Tokyo, Bangkok, Jakarta, and Mumbai28
The quest for gender equality: Understanding and measuring gender responsiveness in Colombia's municipal planning28
The COVID-19 pandemic and the livelihood of a vulnerable population: Evidence from women street vendors in urban Vietnam28
Examining the relationship between urban density and sense of community in the Greater Vancouver Regional District28
The world's largest foreign TNCs in U.S. global cities: Observations in studying industrial composition28
Property rights in informal settlements28
Social capital and internal migrant entrepreneurship: Evidence from urban China28
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