Cities

Papers
(The TQCC of Cities is 13. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus485
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana398
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data197
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets195
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi180
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century166
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size152
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions152
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres151
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors143
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue138
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis135
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen133
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development129
Editorial Board127
Editorial Board123
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity118
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 Zone112
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth104
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China101
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review92
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district91
Unveiling citizen-government interactions in urban renewal in China: Spontaneous online opinions, reginal characteristics, and government responsiveness90
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change87
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure87
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan87
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks85
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities82
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city79
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China75
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, China74
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses71
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city70
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory69
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors68
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy68
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities68
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective68
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data67
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction66
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201066
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group65
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study65
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach65
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective64
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms64
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality64
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions63
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity62
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data61
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China61
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective60
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities59
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore59
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case59
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments57
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China56
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities56
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs56
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction56
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China56
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation56
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis55
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends55
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories55
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations54
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City54
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence54
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities53
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania52
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?51
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing51
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks51
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul51
Household characteristics or neighborhood conditions? Exploring the determinants of housing spells among U.S. public housing residents51
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-being51
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?50
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning50
Deep learning meets urban design: Assessing streetscape aesthetic and design quality through AI and cluster analysis50
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data50
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia49
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach49
Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario48
Circularity on what grounds? Advancing learning for circular area development at the interface of proximity and precarity48
Health workers' housing and moral geographies of citizenship in Papua New Guinea48
Urban poverty patterns in Pyongyang (North Korea): A deep-learning-based spatial analysis47
International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city47
Hidden gems: The potential of places and social innovation for circular territories in Bogotá47
Spill-over effect of Wuhan travel ban on population flow in the outbreak stage of COVID-19 in China46
Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology46
Gendered space: Women's presence and use of space in Sabzeh-meydan of Tehran Bazaar46
Factors contributing to urban isolation: A mixed-methods analysis of three new towns in Tehran46
Retreat from flood zones: Simulating land use changes in response to compound flood risk in coastal communities46
Digital (un)sustainability at an urban university in Sydney, Australia46
Lifestyle centers, the next boom and bust after shopping malls? Governance, public-private partnerships, and Guy Debord's spectacle in Dallas-Fort Worth45
Mapping informal/formal morphologies over time: Exploring urban transformations in Vietnam45
Role of remote working center in a hybrid work culture45
Barriers to employing e-participation in the Iranian planning system45
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles45
Structural preconditions for adaptive urban areas: Framework rules, several property and the range of possible actions45
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media?45
Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content44
The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts44
How does geographical environment affect residents' perception of social justice: An empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing44
Planning data center locations in Swedish municipalities. A comparative case study of Luleå and Stockholm44
How to analyse spatial distribution of crime? Crime risk indicator in an attempt to design an original method of spatial crime analysis44
Impact of comparative advantages in origin and destination cities on return migrant workers' entrepreneurship: An induced network analysis43
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco: Case studies of Fes and Oujda43
Disaster-induced disruption of policies for informal urban settlements43
The promise and pitfalls of early project notification meetings; illuminating Santa Ana's sunshine ordinance43
E-commerce empowers urban entrepreneurial activity—Empirical evidence from the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities43
Walkability and colonialism: The divergent impact of colonial planning practices on spatial segregation in East Africa43
Editorial Board43
Assessing the multidimensional structuring of quality of life. Evidence from a French city42
Untangling our checkered past: Investigating the link between local historic district designation and spatial segregation history42
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam42
Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia42
Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city42
(Un)making space for manufacturing in the city: The double edge of pro-makers urban policies in Brussels42
Governing the urban commons: Lessons from Ostrom's work and commoning practice in cities42
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
The changes in job-housing balance during the Covid-19 period in China41
Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions41
City profile: Kochi, city region - Planning measures to make Kochi smart and creative41
Housing estates' trajectories in post-socialist countries: Similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities41
Urban open space management in the Nordic countries. Identification of current challenges based on managers' perceptions41
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques41
Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality41
A novel methodological approach for analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of residential segregation: The case of Berlin41
Urban expansion in South Tangerang: Analyzing Bintaro Jaya as a private city40
When do homeowners feel the same as renters? Housing price appreciation and subjective well-being in South Korea40
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms40
The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness39
Creating livable cities for healthy ageing: Cognitive health in older adults and their 15-minute walkable neighbourhoods39
Tech firm births and agglomeration economies: (un)related variety, specialization, and spatial externalities39
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities: A baseline study in Melbourne, Australia39
The impact of COVID-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain: Towards flexibilization?39
Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment39
A multidimensional investigation on spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China's urban-rural income gap (URIG) since the 21st century38
Investigating the effect of industry-specific economic distance on the prediction of intercity population movement38
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand38
Darwin: Towards the sustainability of the Larrikin of Australian capital cities38
Segregation within segregation: Informal settlements beyond socially homogenous areas38
Exploring the drivers of urban renewal through comparative modeling of multiple types in Shenzhen, China38
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
Characterizing the temporally stable structure of community evolution in intra-urban origin-destination networks38
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China38
Travel flow patterns of diverse population groups and influencing built environment factors: A case study of Beijing38
The role of spatial configuration in moderating the relationship between social sustainability and urban density38
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance: Unveiling innovative strategies of self-organization in Istanbul38
Marshall vs Jacobs agglomeration and the micro-location of foreign and domestic firms38
Exploring the association of urbanisation and subjective well-being in India37
How do mini-parks serve in groups? A visit analysis of mini-park groups in the neighbourhoods of Nanjing37
Keeping a foot in both camps: Sustainability, city branding and boundary spanners37
Participation development in responsive city with self-organizing approach (the case of Tehran city)37
Heterogeneous residential location effects: Variations in how suburban communities shape older adults' active travel—A case study from Xiamen37
Circle of paradigms? Or ‘15-minute’ neighbourhoods from the 1950s37
Disparities in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year analysis37
Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan37
The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)36
Co-designing the urban energy transition: A resident-based approach36
Farmers to urban citizens? Understanding resettled households' adaptation to urban life in Shaanxi, China36
Urbanization and vulnerable employment: Empirical evidence from 163 countries in 1991–201936
Return migration and in situ urbanization of migrant sending areas: Insights from a survey of seven provinces in China36
From “access to housing” to “access to decent housing”: A systematic literature review of China’s housing security system36
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic loss and resource conservation of China's tourism industry from the supply chain perspective36
Revisiting the neighborhood definition in view of the 15-minute neighborhood and sustainable neighborhood concepts36
Improving the catchment area identification for suburban railway stations by incorporating whole-journey-based mode choices and unevenly distributed population35
Morphological dynamics of cost-efficient urban areas: Expansion and shrinkage in greater Tokyo from 2003 to 202035
Perceived built environment characteristics associated with walking and cycling across 355 communities in 21 countries35
Book Review35
Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities: A case study of Amsterdam35
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques35
The alternate infrastructures that support digital counter publics: Digital inequality in an Australian public housing estate35
Measuring the impact of slow zones on street life using social media35
Why don't children study outside? Limitation of Polish schools to use green spaces in the educational process before and during COVID-1934
From neoliberal urban green space production and consumption to urban greening as part of a degrowth agenda34
Olympics-related urban interventions in Barcelona and in Rio de Janeiro: A look at territorial equality legacies34
Exploring the many housing elasticities of supply: The case of Australia34
Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility34
Material agencies of survival: Street vending on a Roman bridge34
The beginning and the end of urban population deconcentration in the United States: New insights from application of the Density Distribution Index34
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future34
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies33
Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China33
Urban growth rates, trajectories, and multi-dimensional disparities in China33
Smartphone, startup, laboratory - What ambitions and visions do local government officials express by their smart city stories? Case study of Polish cities33
Disentangling metropolis-city relationships in the governance of sustainability transitions: An in-depth exploration of the case of Rouen, France33
Time and distance matter: Study on the public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a mega-city33
Energy citizens – Conveyors of changing democratic institutions?33
A multilevel, multidimensional scale for measuring housing insecurity in slums and informal settlements33
Unpacking World Heritage cultural clusters through the interplay of urban tourism and gentrification32
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities32
Gendered digital entrepreneurship in gendered coworking spaces: Evidence from Shenzhen, China32
Balancing growth and safety: Investigating urban sprawl's impacts on security resilience under new infrastructure development32
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute32
Commercial urban agriculture for sustainable cities32
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]32
Word of mouth and behavioural intentions of the automated bus service32
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran31
The new town square: Twitter discourses about balconies during the 2020 lockdown in Spain31
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility31
Exploring the potential impact of smart urban technologies on urban sustainability using structural topic modelling: Evidence from Belgium31
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
Getting smart or going green? Quantifying the Smart City Industry's economic impact and potential for sustainable growth30
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications30
Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus30
Urban suburbia: Gentrification and spatial inequality in workers' communities in Tokyo30
Prismatic immersion of urban ruins: A framework for the integration of ruins' multiple geographies in urban regeneration30
Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis30
Uneven development and tourism gentrification in the metropolitan fringe: A case study of Wuzhen Xizha in Zhejiang Province, China30
China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders30
From parochial to policy advocate: Examining policy advocacy among neighborhood councils in Los Angeles30
Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration30
Quantifying the spatiotemporal mismatches between energy consumption and population: A comparative study in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China30
Planning for dispossession: the continuing legacy of settler-colonialism in contemporary urban planning practices29
Juggling commutes and cribs: Insights into commuting efficiency in young dual-earner families29
Capturing what statistics miss: Mapping unsafe places and victimization experiences in the City of Granada, Spain29
Multiuse Cemetery Paradigm: Cemetery as a multifunctional place of social significance – Reshaping a cemetery in the urban space of Eastern Europe29
Innovations in urban integration policies: Immigrant councils as democratic institutions29
Influence of citizen relationship management system on citizen participation in Taiwan: A participatory politics perspective29
Examining the relationship between contested edges and intergroup crime dynamics29
Embracing throwntogetherness: Unravelling the relational dynamics of borderlands in divided cities29
Metropolitan governance as organised anarchy: The case of the Paris region29
Discrimination and mental health of highly educated immigrants in Hong Kong: The buffering role of group concentration29
The who, the what, and the how of social innovation in inner peripheries:A systematic literature review29
Does the eviction of street vendors affect food prices? Evidence from China's chengguan system29
Creative re-uses: The promises and challenges of temporary land use in Calgary29
Peripheral best practices and the politics of visibility: Urban planning and social urbanism in Mexico City29
Two relocation strategies: Preserving erstwhile neighbourhood relationships in Shenzhen29
Invented traditions in Surakarta after decentralisation29
Gendered sustainability: Are public spaces designed for girls good for everyone?29
Reorienting vitality for ageing cities29
Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of street vending from the social sensing perspective: A comparison between law-enforcement reported and residents complain events28
Unexpected urban comparisons: Airbnb-ization in Cape Town, South Africa, and Broward County's coastal cities, Florida, United States28
How neighborhood conditions and policy incentives affect relocation outcomes of households from low-income neighborhoods—Evidence from intra-city movement trajectories28
Evaluating occupational values in Japan's urban farming: A comparison between the Likert scale and Best-Worst Scaling methods28
Spatiotemporal dynamics and determining factors of intercity mobility: A comparison between holidays and non-holidays in China28
Is there a relationship between urbanization and vegetation cover conflict or coordination? A survey of 74 federal subjects in Russia28
Property rights in informal settlements28
The COVID-19 pandemic and the livelihood of a vulnerable population: Evidence from women street vendors in urban Vietnam28
Incorporating climate justice into adaptation planning: The case of San Francisco28
The formation and proximity mechanism of population flow networks under multiple traffic in China28
Effective affordable housing provision in developing economies: A deductive analysis of informal housing strategies in Lagos, Nigeria28
How care infrastructures support distance and connection in community welfare organisations: Learning from COVID-19 lockdowns28
Social capital and internal migrant entrepreneurship: Evidence from urban China28
Daily mobilities with smartphone apps and their failures: A study in urban Guangzhou27
Affect, avoidance and authority: Spaces of encounter in gated social housing estates in Nanjing, China27
Rotterdam in the 21st century: From ‘sick man’ to ‘capital of cool’27
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