Cities

Papers
(The TQCC of Cities is 14. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus465
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review230
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction229
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis222
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi217
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data190
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data185
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development179
Editorial Board168
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions152
Editorial Board148
Do the developers need government assistance? The effect of TIF policy on affordable housing construction budgets146
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana133
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth124
Economic impacts of shopping malls: The Accra (Ghana) case study120
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity104
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories104
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania103
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia102
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size101
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?101
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory97
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective96
Urban food shopping trends: An analysis of Istanbul's grocery preferences via multi group structural equation model94
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective88
Exploring the impact of under-reported cases on the COVID-19 spatiotemporal distributions using healthcare workers infection data87
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities86
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case85
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors82
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks81
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective79
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore79
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation79
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul78
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 Zone78
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan78
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities77
Distance decay as a measure of city attractiveness: Insights from migration flows in China77
The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach76
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’75
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China74
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure73
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, China72
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs72
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms71
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations71
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group68
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity67
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China65
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions64
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities64
Revealing the impact patterns of urban morphology on land surface temperature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China64
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-being63
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data62
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China62
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence62
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach61
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201061
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction60
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities60
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments60
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities60
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city60
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change59
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy59
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres59
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis58
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
Deep learning meets urban design: Assessing streetscape aesthetic and design quality through AI and cluster analysis57
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality57
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district57
Decoding the built environment-behavior nexus at residential boundaries: A multi-dimensional analysis of 85 street segments in Dalian57
Unveiling citizen-government interactions in urban renewal in China: Spontaneous online opinions, reginal characteristics, and government responsiveness57
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen56
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities55
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue55
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning54
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors54
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century54
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review53
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing53
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City53
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China53
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach52
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks52
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China52
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?52
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends51
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses50
Urban poverty patterns in Pyongyang (North Korea): A deep-learning-based spatial analysis50
The promise and pitfalls of early project notification meetings; illuminating Santa Ana's sunshine ordinance50
Revisiting urban environmental amenities: A review of housing price impacts and policy perspectives for equitable amenity provision50
Health workers' housing and moral geographies of citizenship in Papua New Guinea50
Beyond displacement: Gentrification, misrecognition and resistance in Rotterdam's Tweebosbuurt50
When do homeowners feel the same as renters? Housing price appreciation and subjective well-being in South Korea49
Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology49
Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city49
Retreat from flood zones: Simulating land use changes in response to compound flood risk in coastal communities49
Barriers to car-free streets: Identifying opponents of pedestrianization in Montreal49
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities: A baseline study in Melbourne, Australia49
Untangling our checkered past: Investigating the link between local historic district designation and spatial segregation history48
Planning data center locations in Swedish municipalities. A comparative case study of Luleå and Stockholm48
Gendered space: Women's presence and use of space in Sabzeh-meydan of Tehran Bazaar48
Corrigendum to ‘urbanization under extreme climate events leads to synchronized decreases in flood protection and increases in vulnerability’ cities volume 160 (2025) 1–11/10582748
Editorial Board47
Lifestyle centers, the next boom and bust after shopping malls? Governance, public-private partnerships, and Guy Debord's spectacle in Dallas-Fort Worth47
Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content46
Spill-over effect of Wuhan travel ban on population flow in the outbreak stage of COVID-19 in China46
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles46
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance: Unveiling innovative strategies of self-organization in Istanbul46
Circularity on what grounds? Advancing learning for circular area development at the interface of proximity and precarity46
Investigating the effect of industry-specific economic distance on the prediction of intercity population movement46
The role of spatial configuration in moderating the relationship between social sustainability and urban density45
Walkability and colonialism: The divergent impact of colonial planning practices on spatial segregation in East Africa45
Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality45
International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city45
The changes in job-housing balance during the Covid-19 period in China45
How to analyse spatial distribution of crime? Crime risk indicator in an attempt to design an original method of spatial crime analysis45
Darwin: Towards the sustainability of the Larrikin of Australian capital cities45
Disaster-induced disruption of policies for informal urban settlements45
Digital (un)sustainability at an urban university in Sydney, Australia45
(Un)making space for manufacturing in the city: The double edge of pro-makers urban policies in Brussels45
How does geographical environment affect residents' perception of social justice: An empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing44
Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia44
The impact of the global 100 resilient cities strategy on urban resilience under climate change43
The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts43
Impact of comparative advantages in origin and destination cities on return migrant workers' entrepreneurship: An induced network analysis42
Travel flow patterns of diverse population groups and influencing built environment factors: A case study of Beijing42
Hidden gems: The potential of places and social innovation for circular territories in Bogotá42
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco: Case studies of Fes and Oujda42
The impact of COVID-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain: Towards flexibilization?42
Mapping informal/formal morphologies over time: Exploring urban transformations in Vietnam42
Urban expansion in South Tangerang: Analyzing Bintaro Jaya as a private city42
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam42
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms42
Role of remote working center in a hybrid work culture42
Governing the urban commons: Lessons from Ostrom's work and commoning practice in cities42
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media?42
Do airports create jobs? Evidence from online job sites41
Creating livable cities for healthy ageing: Cognitive health in older adults and their 15-minute walkable neighbourhoods41
Proximity-centred accessibility – A conceptual debate involving planning practitioners worldwide41
Characterizing the temporally stable structure of community evolution in intra-urban origin-destination networks41
The influence mechanism of rural physical environment on the mental health of older adults in Sichuan, China: A multi-level and multi-dimensional comparative study41
Housing estates' trajectories in post-socialist countries: Similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities41
Segregation within segregation: Informal settlements beyond socially homogenous areas41
Factors contributing to urban isolation: A mixed-methods analysis of three new towns in Tehran40
Assessing the multidimensional structuring of quality of life. Evidence from a French city40
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 engagement40
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China40
Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions40
Tech firm births and agglomeration economies: (un)related variety, specialization, and spatial externalities40
A novel methodological approach for analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of residential segregation: The case of Berlin39
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand39
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques39
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
Exploring the drivers of urban renewal through comparative modeling of multiple types in Shenzhen, China39
Structural preconditions for adaptive urban areas: Framework rules, several property and the range of possible actions39
E-commerce empowers urban entrepreneurial activity—Empirical evidence from the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities38
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
Disentangling metropolis-city relationships in the governance of sustainability transitions: An in-depth exploration of the case of Rouen, France38
Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment38
A multidimensional investigation on spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China's urban-rural income gap (URIG) since the 21st century38
Exploring the many housing elasticities of supply: The case of Australia38
The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness38
Morphological dynamics of cost-efficient urban areas: Expansion and shrinkage in greater Tokyo from 2003 to 202038
Balancing growth and safety: Investigating urban sprawl's impacts on security resilience under new infrastructure development38
The alternate infrastructures that support digital counter publics: Digital inequality in an Australian public housing estate37
Time and distance matter: Study on the public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a mega-city37
Exploring the impacts of topography on characteristics of urban road network: A global empirical analysis37
The new town square: Twitter discourses about balconies during the 2020 lockdown in Spain37
Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility37
Smartphone, startup, laboratory - What ambitions and visions do local government officials express by their smart city stories? Case study of Polish cities37
Olympics-related urban interventions in Barcelona and in Rio de Janeiro: A look at territorial equality legacies37
Material agencies of survival: Street vending on a Roman bridge37
Gendered digital entrepreneurship in gendered coworking spaces: Evidence from Shenzhen, China37
Disparities in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year analysis37
Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus36
Word of mouth and behavioural intentions of the automated bus service36
Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration36
Why don't children study outside? Limitation of Polish schools to use green spaces in the educational process before and during COVID-1936
How do mini-parks serve in groups? A visit analysis of mini-park groups in the neighbourhoods of Nanjing36
Co-designing the urban energy transition: A resident-based approach36
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future36
Heterogeneous residential location effects: Variations in how suburban communities shape older adults' active travel—A case study from Xiamen36
Measuring the impact of slow zones on street life using social media35
Quantifying the spatiotemporal mismatches between energy consumption and population: A comparative study in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China35
How do remaining residents react to urban vacancy in shrinking city: A KAP model analysis of Yichun, China35
From “access to housing” to “access to decent housing”: A systematic literature review of China’s housing security system35
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran35
Participation development in responsive city with self-organizing approach (the case of Tehran city)34
Urbanization and vulnerable employment: Empirical evidence from 163 countries in 1991–201934
Exploring the association of urbanisation and subjective well-being in India34
From neoliberal urban green space production and consumption to urban greening as part of a degrowth agenda34
“We can all contribute in our own way”: Knowledge mobilization tools to promote best practices in universal accessibility34
Teleworking, social capital, and subjective well-being: Evidence from US county-level data34
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic loss and resource conservation of China's tourism industry from the supply chain perspective33
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility33
The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)33
Farmers to urban citizens? Understanding resettled households' adaptation to urban life in Shaanxi, China33
Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China33
Exploring the potential impact of smart urban technologies on urban sustainability using structural topic modelling: Evidence from Belgium33
Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan33
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies33
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute33
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques33
Energy citizens – Conveyors of changing democratic institutions?33
Chrono-urbanism and liveable urban forms: A morphological analysis of alternative x-minute city models in Rosetta City33
Revisiting the neighborhood definition in view of the 15-minute neighborhood and sustainable neighborhood concepts33
Evaluating the disparity between supply and demand of park green space using a multi-dimensional spatial equity evaluation framework33
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities32
Urban living labs: Sustainability transitions toward circular cities32
Urban suburbia: Gentrification and spatial inequality in workers' communities in Tokyo32
Unpacking World Heritage cultural clusters through the interplay of urban tourism and gentrification32
Integrating ecosystem service bundles and scenario predicting for win-win sustainable urban management: A case study of typical arid cities in China32
Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis32
Uneven development and tourism gentrification in the metropolitan fringe: A case study of Wuzhen Xizha in Zhejiang Province, China32
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications32
A multilevel, multidimensional scale for measuring housing insecurity in slums and informal settlements32
Getting smart or going green? Quantifying the Smart City Industry's economic impact and potential for sustainable growth32
Circle of paradigms? Or ‘15-minute’ neighbourhoods from the 1950s32
China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders32
Improving the catchment area identification for suburban railway stations by incorporating whole-journey-based mode choices and unevenly distributed population32
Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities: A case study of Amsterdam32
Commercial urban agriculture for sustainable cities32
Perceived built environment characteristics associated with walking and cycling across 355 communities in 21 countries31
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
Affect, avoidance and authority: Spaces of encounter in gated social housing estates in Nanjing, China31
Juggling commutes and cribs: Insights into commuting efficiency in young dual-earner families31
Editorial Board31
Nature where we live: Receptivity to context-sensitive nature-based solutions in African cities31
Non-business services performance forecasting for small urban areas using a spatiotemporal deep learning model31
Urban growth rates, trajectories, and multi-dimensional disparities in China31
Multiuse Cemetery Paradigm: Cemetery as a multifunctional place of social significance – Reshaping a cemetery in the urban space of Eastern Europe31
COVID-19 impacts on residential preferences for parks and green-blue spaces: A case study from Miami-Dade County, Florida31
Urban transformation and Indigenous-settler reconciliation: Discursive (dis)connections between municipal reconciliation strategies and area redevelopment plans in five Canadian cities31
Capturing what statistics miss: Mapping unsafe places and victimization experiences in the City of Granada, Spain30
Innovations in urban integration policies: Immigrant councils as democratic institutions30
Prismatic immersion of urban ruins: A framework for the integration of ruins' multiple geographies in urban regeneration30
Effective affordable housing provision in developing economies: A deductive analysis of informal housing strategies in Lagos, Nigeria30
Embracing throwntogetherness: Unravelling the relational dynamics of borderlands in divided cities30
Invented traditions in Surakarta after decentralisation30
Examining the relationship between contested edges and intergroup crime dynamics30
The Romanian-born population in medium-sized Spanish cities: demographic evolution and patterns of urban segregation30
Two relocation strategies: Preserving erstwhile neighbourhood relationships in Shenzhen30
Examining the relationship between urban density and sense of community in the Greater Vancouver Regional District30
The world's largest foreign TNCs in U.S. global cities: Observations in studying industrial composition30
Past, present and future of the Smart City in India: An institutional perspective30
Is there a relationship between urbanization and vegetation cover conflict or coordination? A survey of 74 federal subjects in Russia30
Coping strategies of rural migrant workers in China during and after the pandemic30
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