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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus432
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana365
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data191
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets167
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality156
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi142
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres142
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors138
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue134
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis134
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen131
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development128
Editorial Board126
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity122
Editorial Board122
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 Zone120
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data116
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories112
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation105
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth98
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan95
Mega-mall, global city and social issues of our times the case of Europacity in Paris88
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective86
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data86
Household characteristics or neighborhood conditions? Exploring the determinants of housing spells among U.S. public housing residents82
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction80
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201078
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing76
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City75
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study75
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review73
Perceptions on barriers and opportunities for integrating urban agri-green roofs: A European Mediterranean compact city case71
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group70
Economic opportunities for creating smart cities in Poland. Does wealth matter?69
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia68
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change67
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence67
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms65
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach65
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs65
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective63
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities63
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities62
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy61
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective60
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?60
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions60
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors59
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century59
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania59
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis58
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
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city58
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city57
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks57
Unveiling citizen-government interactions in urban renewal in China: Spontaneous online opinions, reginal characteristics, and government responsiveness57
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses55
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China55
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China54
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
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions54
Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario53
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul53
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments53
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China53
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China53
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure53
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach52
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district52
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case52
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size51
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities51
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?51
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks50
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities50
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data50
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends49
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning49
Health workers' housing and moral geographies of citizenship in Papua New Guinea48
Hidden gems: The potential of places and social innovation for circular territories in Bogotá48
Circularity on what grounds? Advancing learning for circular area development at the interface of proximity and precarity48
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance: Unveiling innovative strategies of self-organization in Istanbul47
International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city47
Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality47
Urban poverty patterns in Pyongyang (North Korea): A deep-learning-based spatial analysis47
Retreat from flood zones: Simulating land use changes in response to compound flood risk in coastal communities46
Disaster-induced disruption of policies for informal urban settlements46
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles46
Spill-over effect of Wuhan travel ban on population flow in the outbreak stage of COVID-19 in China46
Gendered space: Women's presence and use of space in Sabzeh-meydan of Tehran Bazaar45
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand45
Digital (un)sustainability at an urban university in Sydney, Australia44
When do homeowners feel the same as renters? Housing price appreciation and subjective well-being in South Korea44
Factors contributing to urban isolation: A mixed-methods analysis of three new towns in Tehran44
Mapping informal/formal morphologies over time: Exploring urban transformations in Vietnam44
Investigating the effect of industry-specific economic distance on the prediction of intercity population movement44
Urban expansion in South Tangerang: Analyzing Bintaro Jaya as a private city43
Role of remote working center in a hybrid work culture43
Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology43
Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content42
The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts42
Editorial Board42
Assessing the multidimensional structuring of quality of life. Evidence from a French city42
How does geographical environment affect residents' perception of social justice: An empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing42
The promise and pitfalls of early project notification meetings; illuminating Santa Ana's sunshine ordinance42
Lifestyle centers, the next boom and bust after shopping malls? Governance, public-private partnerships, and Guy Debord's spectacle in Dallas-Fort Worth42
Darwin: Towards the sustainability of the Larrikin of Australian capital cities42
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco: Case studies of Fes and Oujda41
Walkability and colonialism: The divergent impact of colonial planning practices on spatial segregation in East Africa41
Structural preconditions for adaptive urban areas: Framework rules, several property and the range of possible actions41
(Un)making space for manufacturing in the city: The double edge of pro-makers urban policies in Brussels41
City profile: Kochi, city region - Planning measures to make Kochi smart and creative41
Characterizing the temporally stable structure of community evolution in intra-urban origin-destination networks41
Impact of comparative advantages in origin and destination cities on return migrant workers' entrepreneurship: An induced network analysis40
Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia40
Tech firm births and agglomeration economies: (un)related variety, specialization, and spatial externalities40
Barriers to employing e-participation in the Iranian planning system40
Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city40
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam40
Planning data center locations in Swedish municipalities. A comparative case study of Luleå and Stockholm39
Exploring the drivers of urban renewal through comparative modeling of multiple types in Shenzhen, China39
Governing the urban commons: Lessons from Ostrom's work and commoning practice in cities39
Untangling our checkered past: Investigating the link between local historic district designation and spatial segregation history39
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, A39
The advantages of and barriers to being smart in a smart city: The perceptions of project managers within a smart city cluster project in Greater Copenhagen39
Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions39
Marshall vs Jacobs agglomeration and the micro-location of foreign and domestic firms39
How to analyse spatial distribution of crime? Crime risk indicator in an attempt to design an original method of spatial crime analysis39
Urban open space management in the Nordic countries. Identification of current challenges based on managers' perceptions39
The changes in job-housing balance during the Covid-19 period in China38
A novel methodological approach for analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of residential segregation: The case of Berlin38
The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness38
Segregation within segregation: Informal settlements beyond socially homogenous areas38
Housing estates' trajectories in post-socialist countries: Similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities38
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques38
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
The role of spatial configuration in moderating the relationship between social sustainability and urban density38
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms38
Creating livable cities for healthy ageing: Cognitive health in older adults and their 15-minute walkable neighbourhoods38
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media?37
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities: A baseline study in Melbourne, Australia37
A multidimensional investigation on spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China's urban-rural income gap (URIG) since the 21st century37
E-commerce empowers urban entrepreneurial activity—Empirical evidence from the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities37
Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment37
Travel flow patterns of diverse population groups and influencing built environment factors: A case study of Beijing36
Keeping a foot in both camps: Sustainability, city branding and boundary spanners36
A multilevel, multidimensional scale for measuring housing insecurity in slums and informal settlements36
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China36
Participation development in responsive city with self-organizing approach (the case of Tehran city)36
Energy citizens – Conveyors of changing democratic institutions?36
The impact of COVID-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain: Towards flexibilization?36
Quantifying the spatiotemporal mismatches between energy consumption and population: A comparative study in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China36
Commercial urban agriculture for sustainable cities36
Heterogeneous residential location effects: Variations in how suburban communities shape older adults' active travel—A case study from Xiamen35
Smart governance in institutional context: An in-depth analysis of Glasgow, Utrecht, and Curitiba35
Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus35
The new town square: Twitter discourses about balconies during the 2020 lockdown in Spain35
Generational differences in automobility: Comparing America's Millennials and Gen Xers using gradient boosting decision trees35
Disparities in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year analysis35
Farmers to urban citizens? Understanding resettled households' adaptation to urban life in Shaanxi, China35
Measuring the impact of slow zones on street life using social media34
Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities: A case study of Amsterdam34
Book Review34
Morphological dynamics of cost-efficient urban areas: Expansion and shrinkage in greater Tokyo from 2003 to 202034
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute34
Co-designing the urban energy transition: A resident-based approach34
Improving the catchment area identification for suburban railway stations by incorporating whole-journey-based mode choices and unevenly distributed population34
Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan34
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques33
The alternate infrastructures that support digital counter publics: Digital inequality in an Australian public housing estate33
Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility33
The beginning and the end of urban population deconcentration in the United States: New insights from application of the Density Distribution Index33
Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration33
Olympics-related urban interventions in Barcelona and in Rio de Janeiro: A look at territorial equality legacies33
Unpacking World Heritage cultural clusters through the interplay of urban tourism and gentrification33
Exploring the association of urbanisation and subjective well-being in India33
The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)33
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future33
Exploring the impacts of topography on characteristics of urban road network: A global empirical analysis33
Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis33
Material agencies of survival: Street vending on a Roman bridge32
Uneven development and tourism gentrification in the metropolitan fringe: A case study of Wuzhen Xizha in Zhejiang Province, China32
From neoliberal urban green space production and consumption to urban greening as part of a degrowth agenda32
How do mini-parks serve in groups? A visit analysis of mini-park groups in the neighbourhoods of Nanjing32
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies32
Exploring the many housing elasticities of supply: The case of Australia32
Word of mouth and behavioural intentions of the automated bus service32
Balancing growth and safety: Investigating urban sprawl's impacts on security resilience under new infrastructure development31
Urban suburbia: Gentrification and spatial inequality in workers' communities in Tokyo31
Exploring the potential impact of smart urban technologies on urban sustainability using structural topic modelling: Evidence from Belgium31
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran31
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic loss and resource conservation of China's tourism industry from the supply chain perspective31
Gendered digital entrepreneurship in gendered coworking spaces: Evidence from Shenzhen, China31
Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China31
Perceived built environment characteristics associated with walking and cycling across 355 communities in 21 countries31
Time and distance matter: Study on the public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a mega-city31
Circle of paradigms? Or ‘15-minute’ neighbourhoods from the 1950s30
Smartphone, startup, laboratory - What ambitions and visions do local government officials express by their smart city stories? Case study of Polish cities30
Return migration and in situ urbanization of migrant sending areas: Insights from a survey of seven provinces in China30
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications30
Urban growth rates, trajectories, and multi-dimensional disparities in China30
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility30
China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders30
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities30
Urbanization and vulnerable employment: Empirical evidence from 163 countries in 1991–201930
Getting smart or going green? Quantifying the Smart City Industry's economic impact and potential for sustainable growth30
Evaluating the disparity between supply and demand of park green space using a multi-dimensional spatial equity evaluation framework30
Balancing the scales: How housing supply regulation shapes household wealth inequality in China29
Examining the relationship between contested edges and intergroup crime dynamics29
How care infrastructures support distance and connection in community welfare organisations: Learning from COVID-19 lockdowns29
Peripheral best practices and the politics of visibility: Urban planning and social urbanism in Mexico City29
From parochial to policy advocate: Examining policy advocacy among neighborhood councils in Los Angeles29
Creative re-uses: The promises and challenges of temporary land use in Calgary29
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
Prismatic immersion of urban ruins: A framework for the integration of ruins' multiple geographies in urban regeneration29
The quest for gender equality: Understanding and measuring gender responsiveness in Colombia's municipal planning29
Discrimination and mental health of highly educated immigrants in Hong Kong: The buffering role of group concentration29
Embracing throwntogetherness: Unravelling the relational dynamics of borderlands in divided cities29
Evaluating occupational values in Japan's urban farming: A comparison between the Likert scale and Best-Worst Scaling methods28
Metropolitan governance as organised anarchy: The case of the Paris region28
Daily mobilities with smartphone apps and their failures: A study in urban Guangzhou28
The role of the local government in China's urban sustainability transition: A case study of Wuxi's solar development28
Two relocation strategies: Preserving erstwhile neighbourhood relationships in Shenzhen28
Invented traditions in Surakarta after decentralisation28
Re-examining the informal housing problem in Delhi: A wicked problem perspective28
Multiuse Cemetery Paradigm: Cemetery as a multifunctional place of social significance – Reshaping a cemetery in the urban space of Eastern Europe28
Capturing what statistics miss: Mapping unsafe places and victimization experiences in the City of Granada, Spain28
Influence of citizen relationship management system on citizen participation in Taiwan: A participatory politics perspective28
Women in public spaces: Perceptions and initiatives to promote gender equality28
Modeling self-organized urban growth by incorporating stakeholders' interactions into the neighborhood of cellular automata27
COVID-19 impacts on residential preferences for parks and green-blue spaces: A case study from Miami-Dade County, Florida27
The world's largest foreign TNCs in U.S. global cities: Observations in studying industrial composition27
Innovations in urban integration policies: Immigrant councils as democratic institutions27
Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of street vending from the social sensing perspective: A comparison between law-enforcement reported and residents complain events27
Revealing transport inequality from an activity space perspective: A study based on human mobility data27
A universal mobility-based indicator for regional health level27
Non-business services performance forecasting for small urban areas using a spatiotemporal deep learning model27
Analyzing spatiotemporal accessibility patterns to tertiary healthcare services by integrating total travel cost into an improved E3SFCA method in Changsha, China27
Does the eviction of street vendors affect food prices? Evidence from China's chengguan system27
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 ESPON27
Past, present and future of the Smart City in India: An institutional perspective27
Unexpected urban comparisons: Airbnb-ization in Cape Town, South Africa, and Broward County's coastal cities, Florida, United States27
Property rights in informal settlements27
The who, the what, and the how of social innovation in inner peripheries:A systematic literature review27
Reorienting vitality for ageing cities27
Gendered sustainability: Are public spaces designed for girls good for everyone?27
Householding and split households: Examples and stories of Asian migrants to cities26
Towards cities' green growth: The combined influence of economic growth targets and environmental regulations26
Incorporating climate justice into adaptation planning: The case of San Francisco26
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