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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review479
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction246
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis236
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms233
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity228
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group196
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data195
Editorial Board180
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana173
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth149
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories137
Urban food shopping trends: An analysis of Istanbul's grocery preferences via multi group structural equation model127
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case120
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities113
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size107
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data106
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure105
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks104
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions102
Editorial Board99
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development99
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective97
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 Zone95
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan93
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’92
The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach88
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China86
Distance decay as a measure of city attractiveness: Insights from migration flows in China85
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data83
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs81
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia80
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania80
Beyond urban parks: Integrating residential greenspaces to address greenspace inequality79
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory79
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective79
Are Barcelona's climate shelters accessible to vulnerable residents? A mobility justice analysis79
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities78
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy77
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change75
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201075
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities74
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing74
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres73
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?73
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus71
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore70
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi68
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district67
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue67
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets65
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city65
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach65
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors65
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends64
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks64
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?64
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities63
Green impact of climate resilient city development: New evidence from China62
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments62
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city62
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation61
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China61
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach60
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen60
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality60
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul60
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, China59
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century59
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction59
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence59
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective59
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review59
Revealing the impact patterns of urban morphology on land surface temperature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China58
Unveiling citizen-government interactions in urban renewal in China: Spontaneous online opinions, reginal characteristics, and government responsiveness58
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses56
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations55
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors55
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
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities53
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity53
Decoding the built environment-behavior nexus at residential boundaries: A multi-dimensional analysis of 85 street segments in Dalian53
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning53
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China53
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities53
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis52
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions52
Deep learning meets urban design: Assessing streetscape aesthetic and design quality through AI and cluster analysis52
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City52
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China51
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China51
The promise and pitfalls of early project notification meetings; illuminating Santa Ana's sunshine ordinance51
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data51
Health workers' housing and moral geographies of citizenship in Papua New Guinea51
Corrigendum to ‘urbanization under extreme climate events leads to synchronized decreases in flood protection and increases in vulnerability’ cities volume 160 (2025) 1–11/10582750
Beyond displacement: Gentrification, misrecognition and resistance in Rotterdam's Tweebosbuurt50
Women's walking behavior: Investigating contributing factors in urban contexts50
Urban poverty patterns in Pyongyang (North Korea): A deep-learning-based spatial analysis50
Darwin: Towards the sustainability of the Larrikin of Australian capital cities50
International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city50
Retreat from flood zones: Simulating land use changes in response to compound flood risk in coastal communities49
Editorial Board49
Digital (un)sustainability at an urban university in Sydney, Australia49
Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia49
Urban management professions through a gendered lens: Women’s participation in Saudi Arabia’s urban planning sector49
Lifestyle centers, the next boom and bust after shopping malls? Governance, public-private partnerships, and Guy Debord's spectacle in Dallas-Fort Worth49
Untangling our checkered past: Investigating the link between local historic district designation and spatial segregation history48
Spill-over effect of Wuhan travel ban on population flow in the outbreak stage of COVID-19 in China48
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles48
Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content48
Investigating the effect of industry-specific economic distance on the prediction of intercity population movement47
When do homeowners feel the same as renters? Housing price appreciation and subjective well-being in South Korea47
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance: Unveiling innovative strategies of self-organization in Istanbul47
Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city47
Does flood risk matter in shaping climate gentrification? Evidence from Brisbane (2006–2021)46
The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts46
How does geographical environment affect residents' perception of social justice: An empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing46
The impact of COVID-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain: Towards flexibilization?46
The impact of the global 100 resilient cities strategy on urban resilience under climate change46
Urban expansion in South Tangerang: Analyzing Bintaro Jaya as a private city46
Housing estates' trajectories in post-socialist countries: Similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities45
Assessing the multidimensional structuring of quality of life. Evidence from a French city45
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam45
Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions45
Do airports create jobs? Evidence from online job sites45
A novel methodological approach for analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of residential segregation: The case of Berlin45
Circularity on what grounds? Advancing learning for circular area development at the interface of proximity and precarity44
The influence mechanism of rural physical environment on the mental health of older adults in Sichuan, China: A multi-level and multi-dimensional comparative study44
Factors contributing to urban isolation: A mixed-methods analysis of three new towns in Tehran44
Planning data center locations in Swedish municipalities. A comparative case study of Luleå and Stockholm44
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco: Case studies of Fes and Oujda44
The role of spatial configuration in moderating the relationship between social sustainability and urban density43
Barriers to car-free streets: Identifying opponents of pedestrianization in Montreal43
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques43
Disaster-induced disruption of policies for informal urban settlements43
Travel flow patterns of diverse population groups and influencing built environment factors: A case study of Beijing43
Characterizing the temporally stable structure of community evolution in intra-urban origin-destination networks43
Revisiting urban environmental amenities: A review of housing price impacts and policy perspectives for equitable amenity provision43
Walkability and colonialism: The divergent impact of colonial planning practices on spatial segregation in East Africa43
Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment43
Structural preconditions for adaptive urban areas: Framework rules, several property and the range of possible actions42
Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology42
Hidden gems: The potential of places and social innovation for circular territories in Bogotá42
Proximity-centred accessibility – A conceptual debate involving planning practitioners worldwide42
Role of remote working center in a hybrid work culture42
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand42
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities: A baseline study in Melbourne, Australia41
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, A41
How to analyse spatial distribution of crime? Crime risk indicator in an attempt to design an original method of spatial crime analysis41
Segregation within segregation: Informal settlements beyond socially homogenous areas40
Exploring the drivers of urban renewal through comparative modeling of multiple types in Shenzhen, China40
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China40
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media?40
Gendered space: Women's presence and use of space in Sabzeh-meydan of Tehran Bazaar40
Impact of comparative advantages in origin and destination cities on return migrant workers' entrepreneurship: An induced network analysis40
Tech firm births and agglomeration economies: (un)related variety, specialization, and spatial externalities40
The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness40
Governing the urban commons: Lessons from Ostrom's work and commoning practice in cities40
A multidimensional investigation on spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China's urban-rural income gap (URIG) since the 21st century40
Creating livable cities for healthy ageing: Cognitive health in older adults and their 15-minute walkable neighbourhoods39
Mapping informal/formal morphologies over time: Exploring urban transformations in Vietnam39
The changes in job-housing balance during the Covid-19 period in China39
E-commerce empowers urban entrepreneurial activity—Empirical evidence from the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities39
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms39
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 engagement39
(Un)making space for manufacturing in the city: The double edge of pro-makers urban policies in Brussels39
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]38
Exploring the many housing elasticities of supply: The case of Australia38
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future38
Balancing growth and safety: Investigating urban sprawl's impacts on security resilience under new infrastructure development38
Disentangling metropolis-city relationships in the governance of sustainability transitions: An in-depth exploration of the case of Rouen, France38
The new town square: Twitter discourses about balconies during the 2020 lockdown in Spain38
Material agencies of survival: Street vending on a Roman bridge38
Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus38
Assessing drivers for managing knowledge in the context of smart cities37
Examining the roles of perceived neighbourhood environments in shaping social capital and the happiness of older adults in a super-aged Asian City37
Perceived built environment characteristics associated with walking and cycling across 355 communities in 21 countries37
Commercial urban agriculture for sustainable cities37
Men's fear in public places: A Stockholm case study37
Why don't children study outside? Limitation of Polish schools to use green spaces in the educational process before and during COVID-1937
Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis37
Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility37
Disparities in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year analysis37
How do mini-parks serve in groups? A visit analysis of mini-park groups in the neighbourhoods of Nanjing36
The alternate infrastructures that support digital counter publics: Digital inequality in an Australian public housing estate36
Urban growth rates, trajectories, and multi-dimensional disparities in China36
Unpacking World Heritage cultural clusters through the interplay of urban tourism and gentrification36
Co-designing the urban energy transition: A resident-based approach36
From neoliberal urban green space production and consumption to urban greening as part of a degrowth agenda36
Chrono-urbanism and liveable urban forms: A morphological analysis of alternative x-minute city models in Rosetta City36
Olympics-related urban interventions in Barcelona and in Rio de Janeiro: A look at territorial equality legacies36
Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities: A case study of Amsterdam35
Revisiting the neighborhood definition in view of the 15-minute neighborhood and sustainable neighborhood concepts35
A multilevel, multidimensional scale for measuring housing insecurity in slums and informal settlements35
Evaluating the disparity between supply and demand of park green space using a multi-dimensional spatial equity evaluation framework35
Circle of paradigms? Or ‘15-minute’ neighbourhoods from the 1950s35
Exploring the potential impact of smart urban technologies on urban sustainability using structural topic modelling: Evidence from Belgium34
Urbanization and vulnerable employment: Empirical evidence from 163 countries in 1991–201934
Integrating ecosystem service bundles and scenario predicting for win-win sustainable urban management: A case study of typical arid cities in China34
Farmers to urban citizens? Understanding resettled households' adaptation to urban life in Shaanxi, China34
Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan34
Morphological dynamics of cost-efficient urban areas: Expansion and shrinkage in greater Tokyo from 2003 to 202034
Teleworking, social capital, and subjective well-being: Evidence from US county-level data33
Smartphone, startup, laboratory - What ambitions and visions do local government officials express by their smart city stories? Case study of Polish cities33
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques33
From “access to housing” to “access to decent housing”: A systematic literature review of China’s housing security system33
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities33
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
Word of mouth and behavioural intentions of the automated bus service33
Lower suicidal ideation linked to easier access to urban green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide study in Japan33
How do remaining residents react to urban vacancy in shrinking city: A KAP model analysis of Yichun, China33
Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration33
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran33
Participation development in responsive city with self-organizing approach (the case of Tehran city)33
“We can all contribute in our own way”: Knowledge mobilization tools to promote best practices in universal accessibility33
The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)33
Heterogeneous residential location effects: Variations in how suburban communities shape older adults' active travel—A case study from Xiamen33
Time and distance matter: Study on the public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a mega-city33
China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders33
Urban living labs: Sustainability transitions toward circular cities32
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic loss and resource conservation of China's tourism industry from the supply chain perspective32
Urban suburbia: Gentrification and spatial inequality in workers' communities in Tokyo32
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies32
Measuring the impact of slow zones on street life using social media32
Improving the catchment area identification for suburban railway stations by incorporating whole-journey-based mode choices and unevenly distributed population32
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications32
Energy citizens – Conveyors of changing democratic institutions?32
Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China32
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute32
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility32
Uneven development and tourism gentrification in the metropolitan fringe: A case study of Wuzhen Xizha in Zhejiang Province, China31
COVID-19 impacts on residential preferences for parks and green-blue spaces: A case study from Miami-Dade County, Florida31
Nature where we live: Receptivity to context-sensitive nature-based solutions in African cities31
Invented traditions in Surakarta after decentralisation31
Getting smart or going green? Quantifying the Smart City Industry's economic impact and potential for sustainable growth31
Juggling commutes and cribs: Insights into commuting efficiency in young dual-earner families31
Multiuse Cemetery Paradigm: Cemetery as a multifunctional place of social significance – Reshaping a cemetery in the urban space of Eastern Europe31
Urban transformation and Indigenous-settler reconciliation: Discursive (dis)connections between municipal reconciliation strategies and area redevelopment plans in five Canadian cities31
Editorial Board31
Exploring the impacts of topography on characteristics of urban road network: A global empirical analysis31
Influence of citizen relationship management system on citizen participation in Taiwan: A participatory politics perspective31
Balancing the scales: How housing supply regulation shapes household wealth inequality in China31
Capturing what statistics miss: Mapping unsafe places and victimization experiences in the City of Granada, Spain31
Two relocation strategies: Preserving erstwhile neighbourhood relationships in Shenzhen30
From parochial to policy advocate: Examining policy advocacy among neighborhood councils in Los Angeles30
Coping strategies of rural migrant workers in China during and after the pandemic30
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 ESPON30
The Romanian-born population in medium-sized Spanish cities: demographic evolution and patterns of urban segregation30
Embracing throwntogetherness: Unravelling the relational dynamics of borderlands in divided cities30
A universal mobility-based indicator for regional health level30
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