Cities

Papers
(The TQCC of Cities is 12. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Delineating the substantive boundary of polycentric urban regions in multimodal transport networks: A conceptual development using the case of Yangtze River Delta390
Using GeoAI to examine infectious diseases spread in a hyperdense city: A case study of the 2022 Hong Kong COVID-19 Omicron wave342
Accounting, auditing and accountability for urban food policy governance: Insights from a structured literature review175
The impact of tenancy control on housing precarity in Hong Kong: A panel study of subdivided unit residents149
Moving metrics: Exploring local sustainability indicators as a mobile policy in Norway143
The rapid rise of social infrastructure: Mapping the concept through a systematic scoping review134
Urban Chatter: Exploring the potential of ChatGPT-like and generative AI in enhancing planning support133
(Re)evaluating sister-cities for economic development? Pracademic viewpoints129
Editorial Board126
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen125
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis125
The impact of the healthy cities pilot policy on mental health and its inequalities among urban middle-aged and older adults123
Territorialising globalisation in a post-socialist city: Differences in employment location patterns between foreign and domestic KIBS120
Exploring nonlinear and interaction effects of TOD on housing rents using XGBoost116
Who reaps the benefits of smart management of neighborhood complaints?: Impact of online participatory forums on neighborhood equity113
Decoding urban form through street networks: A nationwide analysis of Chinese cities110
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size110
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue110
Robots are coming to town: A visual experiment on urban belonging and anxiety109
Detecting the true urban polycentric pattern of Chinese cities in morphological dimensions: A multiscale analysis based on geospatial big data109
Quantifying the relationship between public sentiment and urban environment in Barcelona108
The impact of traffic control measures on the spread of COVID-19 within urban agglomerations based on a modified epidemic model103
Spatial social interaction: An explanatory framework of urban space vitality and its preliminary verification96
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201095
Housing cost burden, homeownership, and self-rated health among migrant workers in Chinese cities: The confounding effect of residence duration89
Urban informality and state intervention: The case of Lima88
Regional economic vulnerability based on investment and financing network attacks85
Land rights, bases of informal settlements and bogus contract documents as a means of urban fringe legal land transactions in Ethiopia84
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China82
“Co-production” as an alternative in post-political China? Conceptualizing the legitimate power over participation in neighborhood regeneration practices82
Advancing environmental justice in cities through the Mosaic Governance of nature-based solutions79
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy76
The role of socio-territorial conditions and distance to infrastructure for promoting recycling in Latin American cities: The case of Santiago de Chile72
City-level analysis of carbon reduction potential and decarbonization challenges in China71
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities70
Spatializing urban infrastructure investment in China: Cadre tenure, political competition, and uneven geography of government-pays public-private partnerships69
Hot and bothered: Exploring the effect of heat on pedestrian route choice behavior and accessibility67
Exploring a novel approach to enhancing urban food affordability: Assessing subsidy policies for food retailers in China66
How do complete streets policies and legislative ordinances implement explicit wording regarding low-income populations and communities of color? A qualitative analysis65
High-speed rail in shrinking cities: A weapon for downturn or a catalyst for change64
Experiences in promoting the development of suburban edible landscapes through place branding: A case study from Xiamen City, China64
Assessing and modeling the impact of urbanization on infrastructure development in Africa: A data-driven approach63
Editorial Board61
Book Review60
Co-production, co-creation or co-design of public space? A systematic review59
House relocation: A redevelopment tool for rapidly changing urban environments59
The potential of the research by design method in balancing water problems: An integrated water and space management program for a part of the Warsaw agglomeration57
Analyzing the impacts of cultural backgrounds on migrants' acculturation strategies in mobile phone social networks57
A project-based view of urban dynamics: Analyzing ‘leapfrogging’ and fringe development in Israel56
The power of parks: How interracial contact in urban parks can support prejudice reduction, interracial trust, and civic engagement for social justice56
Effects of extreme weather events and climate change on cities' livability55
Promoting livability through urban planning: A comprehensive framework based on the “theory of human needs”55
Effects of ambient population with different income levels on the spatio-temporal pattern of theft: A study based on mobile phone big data55
Mapping hybrid cities through location-based technologies: A systematic review of the literature55
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city55
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City54
Understanding the user perspective on urban public spaces: A systematic review and opportunities for machine learning53
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities53
Investigating the potential of crowdsourced street-level imagery in understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of cities: A case study of walkability in Inner London53
Causal identification of transit-induced property value uplift in Canada's Waterloo Region: A spatio-temporal difference-in-differences method application53
Blockchain for citizens' participation in urban planning: The case of the city of Berlin. A value sensitive design approach52
The relationship between green space accessibility by multiple travel modes and housing prices: A case study of Beijing52
Ride-hailing and transit accessibility considering the trade-off between time and money52
Introduction to mobility China52
Lockdown/locked out – Impact of the pandemic on the unequal geography in German cities51
Does income inequality restrain marriage? A longitudinal study from the 35 large and medium-sized cities of China51
Effect of local measures on the update of the circulating vehicle fleet and the reduction of associated emissions: 10 years of experience in the city of Madrid51
Where do temporary urban design interventions fall on the spectrum of public participation? An analysis of global trends51
From physical space to cyberspace: Recessive gender biases in social media mirror the real world50
Data-driven contact network models of COVID-19 reveal trade-offs between costs and infections for optimal local containment policies50
Short-term rentals and long-term residence in Amsterdam and Barcelona: A comparative outlook50
Three tensions in governing energy demand: A social practice perspective on Nordic urban interventions50
Decarbonizing megacities: A spatiotemporal analysis considering inter-city travel and the 15-minute city concept50
The role of integration for future urban water systems: Identifying Dutch urban water practitioners' perspectives using Q methodology49
Spatial segregation patterns and association with built environment features in Colombian cities49
An actionable maturity planning model for smart, circular cities48
A physiology-inspired framework for holistic city simulations48
Governing the resilient city: An empirical analysis of governing techniques47
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development47
Space poverty driving heat stress vulnerability and the adaptive strategy of visiting urban parks47
Haifa City profile: Emergent binationalism in a settler colonial city47
Reshaping the concept of transit-oriented development in response to public space overheating near the transit nodes of Tokyo46
Pandemic resilience planning: NPI measures and Covid-19 impacts in UK, Germany, and Italy46
Editorial Board46
Unpacking planners' views of the success and failure of planning in post-apartheid South Africa46
Why regional capital status only sometimes enhances the growth of cities: Comparison of 1975 and 1998 Polish reforms46
Lockdown, resilience and emergency statecraft in the Cape Town food system45
The access to broadband services as a strategy to retain population in the depopulated countryside in Spain45
The size-growth relationship: Exploring the rank order of city populations in mainland Britain45
Evolution of residential segregation patterns in the Netherlands between 2015 and 202045
City profile: Poznań – One of the “normals” in the centre of Europe45
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group45
Neighborhood abandonment and quality of life: A comparison of neighborhood satisfaction and housing value measures44
Metropolitan fringes as strategic areas for urban resilience and sustainable transitions: Insights from Barcelona Metropolitan Area44
Does urban housing demolition increase wealth inequality in China?43
Do languages matter? The impact of local dialect proficiency on multidimensional poverty alleviation among rural-to-urban migrants in China43
The dynamic interactive influence of community identity, being accepted by others, and life satisfaction among relocated residents for poverty alleviation in China42
The effect of pilot climate-resilient city policies on urban climate resilience: Evidence from quasi-natural experiments42
Climate policy integration on energy transition: An analysis on Chinese cases at the local scale41
What is happening in shrinking medium-sized cities? A correlational analysis and a multiple linear regression model on the case of Spain41
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia41
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality41
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China41
Functional types of suburban settlements around two differently sized Czech cities41
Assessing a greening tool through the lens of green gentrification: Socio-spatial change around the Nation's Gardens of Istanbul40
Discovering COVID-19 state sustainable policies for mitigating and ending the pandemic40
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change40
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks40
Last mile commute: An integral sustainability component for passengers accessibility within city's transport fabric40
Transforming slums in Ghana: The urban regeneration approach40
Does urbanization level and types of urban settlements matter for child stunting prevalence in India? Empirical evidence based on nighttime lights data39
The incongruence between objective and subjective rental affordability: Does residential satisfaction matter?39
Editorial Board39
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors39
Alternative Brisbane: Evolution of goth and punk subcultures as ‘counter-cities’39
Sustainable local development and agri-food system in the post Covid crisis: The case of Rome39
Compliance and the social space of cities: Variations in compliance with Covid-19 regulations and capital forms in urban communities39
Editorial Board39
Book review38
Income inequality and the imprint of globalization on U.S. metropolitan areas38
Revisiting modal split as an urban sustainability indicator using citizen science38
Editorial Board38
An ideological perspective on street names: Socialist political symbols in the post-socialist City of NIŠ38
Spatializing the emerging geography of urban system in China: Based on live streaming commerce38
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective38
Synchronisation among short-term rental markets, co-movements and cycles in 39 European cities38
Editorial Board38
Book review38
Editorial Board37
Editorial Board37
Resilient development impacts could be assessed: A case in Accra, Ghana37
Editorial Board37
Are Generation Z Less Car-Centric Than Millennials? A Nationwide Analysis Through the Lens of Youth Licensing37
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity37
Shenzhen — How to further implement the sustainability and resilience towards 2030?37
Enhancing city vitality by building platforms for interactive political leadership: Experiences and results from a longitudinal design experiment37
Influence of selected spatial features on crime rates in a large city based on the example of Wrocław (Poland)37
The transportation policy elite and their ladder of citizen participation: Problems and prospects around communication methods in New Jersey36
How does social change encourage or discourage the support for the development of Cittaslow?36
Quantitative estimation method for urban areas to develop compact cities in view of unprecedented population decline36
“Selling TIF: Positioning Hudson Yards as a project that pays for itself”36
Ethnic diversity and segregation in German cities36
Bringing nature into private urban housing: Environmental, social and food connections for urban resilience36
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana36
Digital footprints of play: Decoding child-friendliness of cities through PPGIS35
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments35
Unveiling urban vitality and its interactions in mountainous cities: A human behaviour perspective on community-level dynamics35
Bridging the gap between smart cities and sustainability: Current practices and future trends35
Unraveling the accessibility-usage mismatch: Identifying driving factors and weather-sensitive metro stations using GPS data for improved metro competitiveness34
Hauntological atmospheres of the UK high street: Consuming Manchester's Halloween in the City34
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, China34
Museums as public spaces in the City: Insights from Aarhus, Denmark34
Morphology changes and the expansion of major port cities in the Philippines from 1990 to 202034
An indicator for integrated regional planning: A case study of Portugal's west region34
Assembling velomobile commons for young people in a marginalised Amsterdam neighborhood34
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions34
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach34
Deprioritising cars beyond rerouting: Future research directions of the Barcelona Superblock33
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data33
Exploring adults' passive experience of playing children in cities: Case study of an urban public space with open and integrated settings in Copenhagen, Denmark33
Understanding European drinking water services remunicipalisation: A state of literature analysis33
Using Twitter to understand spatial-temporal changes in urban green space topics based on structural topic modelling33
Identification of urban shrinkage using NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data at the county level in China33
Supporting tenant relocation in social housing management: development of the dedicated geoinformation system in Poland33
Governing informality through representation: Examples from slum policies in Brazil and South Africa33
Identifying and quantizing the non-linear correlates of city shrinkage in Japan33
The disturbance of urban mobility in the context of COVID-19 pandemic33
Morphological evaluation and regeneration of informal settlements: An experience-based urban design approach32
Protection or provocation? The effect of tenant protection regulation32
Do cities have tools to meet their climate targets? The limits of soft governance in climate action plans32
Modeling gridded urban fractional change using the temporal context information in the urban cellular automata model32
Do cities favor female entrepreneurs? Evidence from India32
Citizen engagement on local government Facebook pages: Experience from Aotearoa New Zealand32
Editorial Board32
Social exclusion and the public bus system in Santiago, Chile32
Light in the darkness: Urban nightlife, analyzing the impact and recovery of COVID-19 using mobile phone data32
Mega-mall, global city and social issues of our times the case of Europacity in Paris32
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning32
A cellular automata-based approach for spatio-temporal modeling of the city center as a complex system: The case of Kastamonu, Türkiye32
Between pace-making and pace-taking: Urban cycle logistics in an accelerated polity31
Identity (re)construction, return destination selection and place attachment among Chinese academic returnees: A case study of Guangzhou, China31
Bringing Ecological Urbanism and Urban Political Ecology to transformative visions of water sensitivity in cities31
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?31
Solidarity mobilization and citizen participation effectiveness in urban area: The case of community recycling program31
A novel dynamic quantification model for diurnal urban land use intensity31
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach31
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 Zone31
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city31
Provisioning the Counter-City: Alternative imaginaries of urban futures from Harare, Zimbabwe30
Socially vulnerable people and stormwater infrastructure: A geospatial exploration of the equitable distribution of gray and green infrastructure in Washington D.C.30
Sharing public open spaces with local schools: A stakeholder-based analysis of governance issues30
A view of migrant women's “right to the city” through the lens of translocality30
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing30
Improving inclusion for children and young people with a disability in inner-city Melbourne, Australia30
Lighting the future of sustainable cities with energy communities: An economic analysis for incentive policy30
Tourism in net-zero cities30
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China29
Participation beyond a form of urban tactics - Examining contemporary urban spatial development strategies through Taipei PCC's street play activities29
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks29
Does the digital economy catalyze the emergence of urban shrinkage? — Empirical evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities29
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case29
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data29
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions29
Food democracy and the right to the city: Re-assembling urban food environments in East-Central London29
The intergenerational transfer of housing advantage: Examining tenure and residential location outcomes28
Urban sustainability in social housing environments: A spatial impact assessment in Bogotá, Colombia28
Cross examination of smart urbanism and Southern urbanism: A systematic literature review in search of ‘Southern smart urbanism’28
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses28
The politics of pro-migrant volunteering: Exploring the role of pro-migrant volunteering in the local migration governance28
A realistic framework for modelling residential relocation behaviour considering past, present, and future using DDCM: A Sydney case study28
An overview of policy instruments for sustainable peri-urban landscapes: Towards governance mixes28
Provincial gentrification in the Global North – A literature review28
Regional medical resource synergistic security resilience assessment based on city network: A case study of YRD, PRD, and BTH28
The public cost of extreme climate: Empirical evidence from China's Urban Investment bonds28
Urban resilience under local government competition: A new perspective on industrial resilience28
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan28
Using heat map data to measure population development trends and urban disparities of large-scale affordable communities in China27
Mapping urban villages based on point-of-interest data and a deep learning approach27
The many faces of the smart city: Differing value propositions in the activity portfolios of nine cities27
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation27
Assessing the social atmosphere: A multilevel analysis of social connection and participation27
Evolution of urban development and regeneration funding programs in German cities27
Navigating the network: Comparing modular and non-modular neighborhoods for better pedestrian flow27
Economic opportunities for creating smart cities in Poland. Does wealth matter?27
The 15-minute city as paranoid urbanism: Ten critical reflections27
How to build vibrant communities by utilizing functional zones? A community-detection-based approach for revealing the association between land use and community vibrancy27
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis27
Structural resilience disparities in regional city networks under the influence of Typhoon Fitow and COVID-1927
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories27
Collaborative neighborhood governance and its effectiveness in community mitigation to COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of community workers in six Chinese cities26
Rethinking the spatial transformation of postsocialist cities: Shrinking, sprawling or densifying26
Does have-want discrepancy or have-had discrepancy explain residential satisfaction? A study of migrant workers in Wuhan, China26
Detection of infill development and contributing factors using deep learning and multilevel modeling26
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure26
A pipeline for urban knowledge spillover: Based on the internal linkage of cross-regional multilocation enterprises26
Pathways to suburban poverty in nine Canadian metropolitan areas26
Citizen participation at the micro-community level: The case of the green alley projects in Quebec City26
The role of neighborhood quality in predicting place attachment: Results from ITA.LI, a newly established nationwide Italian panel survey26
Spatiotemporal flow force model of source/sink human mobilities within city26
Revitalizing historic districts: Identifying built environment predictors for street vibrancy based on urban sensor data25
ReligioCity in Acre: Religious Processions, Parades, and Festivities in a Multi-Religious City25
City profile: City profile: Wałbrzych - the postindustrial ‘citymorphosis’ of a former coal mine city in Poland25
Race/ethnicity, place, and art and culture entrepreneurship in underserved communities25
Understanding the politics of shelter in three African cities; the contribution of political settlements25
Travel patterns of free-floating e-bike-sharing users before and during COVID-19 pandemic25
Access, density and mix of informal settlement: Comparing urban villages in China and India25
Post-socialist discourse of urban megaproject development: From City on the Water to Belgrade Waterfront25
Impact of passengers' perceptions of social responsibility activities on the efficacy of PPP urban rail transit projects25
Cities as organisms: Urban metabolism of the four main Danish cities24
Who changed and who maintained their urban bike-sharing mobility after the COVID-19 outbreak? A within-subjects study24
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