Sustainable Cities and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sustainable Cities and Society 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?454
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion409
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems372
Application of structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) based approach toward a hybrid urban sustainability assessment system (USAS) of Jordan327
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time253
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China249
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models241
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities231
Spillover effects of built-environment vulnerability on resilience of businesses in urban crises224
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation221
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development218
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach218
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study212
A cascading failure-based approach for assessing the resilience of urban stormwater networks205
Accessibility assessment and optimization of public charging stations from a categorical perspective: A case study in Nanjing based on charging travel chains200
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning200
Deep learning and dynamic simulation based progressive decarbonization roadmap in the building sector in Jiangsu Province196
Corrigendum to “Research on the Traditional Courtyard Typology and Wind Environment Comfort - A case study of Qingshan Fishing Village in Qingdao, China” [Sustainable Cities and Society 130 (2025) 106191
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets187
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China185
Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China185
Spatially heterogeneous impacts of urban vitality on carbon emissions: A multi-source data-driven mechanistic analysis182
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces180
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage175
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust171
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions170
Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades170
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada170
Energy efficient behavior modeling for demand side recommender system in solar microgrid applications using multi-agent reinforcement learning model165
Enabling maximum decarbonization from districts in Kyoto through rooftop PVs by integrating with EVs as battery165
Fault detection and diagnosis for chiller based on feature-recognition model and Kernel Discriminant Analysis160
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city160
How to improve the environmental friendliness of the thermal power industry: A perspective on constructing cross-regional collaborative emission reduction mechanisms tailored to local conditions155
A new electro-biomembrane integrated renewable-based system to produce power, fresh water and hydrogen for sustainable communities153
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data153
Enhancing SWMM-UrbanEVA for continuous long-term water balance analysis of green infrastructure150
Urban form centrality and thermal environment: An empirical study of Chinese megacities148
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake144
Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework143
Impact of impervious surface spatial morphologies on urban waterlogging: Insights from a cascade modeling chain at catchment scale141
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage140
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment139
Systematic review on cooling benefits of landscape strategies for urban thermal environments in the United States139
Street vitality and built environment features: A data-informed approach from fourteen Chinese cities138
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda136
Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods135
Socially sustainable mobility: Strategic analysis to identify accessibility barriers134
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches130
How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data128
Impacts of digital economy agglomeration on carbon emission: A two-tier stochastic frontier and spatial decomposition analysis of China127
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics126
Cross-examination of country-specific archetypes generation for urban building energy modelling (UBEM)125
Assessing carbon emissions and decarbonization potential of urban cold chain transport sector: A case study in Hefei city124
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan123
Two birds with one stone: Can digital transformation of companies help address climate change while improving air quality?123
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China121
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system121
Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China121
Developing indicators for sustainable urban regeneration in historic urban areas: Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)121
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment120
Assessing annual carbon emissions and its peak year in the Yangtze river economic belt (2021-2035) through land use/land cover analysis120
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation119
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data118
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China117
Cooling effects of urban green spaces: A systematic review of methods applied in the past two decades116
Unveiling hidden allergenic hotspots: A fine-scale, parameter-optimized approach for spatiotemporal mapping of urban allergenicity assessments116
Reconstructing place attachment through social media: A systematic review for sustainable urban governance116
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method115
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity115
Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning114
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul114
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids114
Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network112
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation111
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory111
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations110
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service110
A multi-objective probabilistic approach for smart voltage control in wind-energy integrated networks considering correlated parameters110
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system109
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results108
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption108
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning107
Dynamic effects of frequent step changes in outdoor microclimate environments on thermal sensation and dissatisfaction of pedestrian during summer104
Toward a societal smart city: Clarifying the social justice dimension of smart cities102
A cost-effective and high-efficient EV shared fast charging scheme with hierarchical coordinated operation strategy for addressing difficult-to-charge issue in old residential communities101
Identifying up-to-date urban land-use patterns with visual and semantic features based on multisource geospatial data101
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach99
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China99
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)99
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters98
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis97
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China97
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability96
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information95
UBEM-SER: Role of sufficiency, efficiency and renewable in the decarbonization of commercial building stock at city scale95
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou95
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning94
FPGA control system technology for integrating the PV/wave/FC hybrid system using ANN optimized by MFO techniques94
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in urban road dust from Tianjin, China: pollution characteristics, sources and health risk assessment93
Synergies or trade-offs between surface urban heat island and hot extreme: Distinct responses in urban environments93
Modeling dynamic competition among urban taxis and the impact on carbon emissions93
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function92
Dynamics of cool surface performance on urban microclimate: A full-scale experimental study in Singapore92
Analyzing the cooling effect, thermal comfort, and energy consumption of integrated arrangement of high-rise buildings and green spaces on urban heat island91
Comprehensively assessing seasonal variations in the impact of urban greenspace morphology on urban heat island effects: A multidimensional analysis91
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction91
Decarbonization of urban heating systems: mining water and electricity saving and carbon reduction potentials in substations via multi-step clustering and cumulative frequency method90
Modeling the infection risk and emergency evacuation under the influence of multiple factors for large-scale urban bioaerosol leakage90
Generation of heat and electricity load profiles with high temporal resolution for Urban Energy Units using open geodata90
Combined compromise solution and blockchain-based structure for optimal scheduling of renewable-based microgrids: Stochastic information approach89
Assessing the sustainability related concepts of urban development plans in Eastern Europe: A case study of Romania88
Sustainable society via complexity analysis of the relationship between virtual game reward mechanism and addiction87
Retraction Notice to “Risk-based energy management of industrial buildings in smart cities and peer-to-peer electricity trading using second-order stochastic dominance procedure” [Sustainable Cities a87
Retraction Notice to “Pumped hydro energy storage arbitrage in the day-ahead market in smart grid using stochastic p-robust optimization method” [Sustainable Cities and Society 75 (2021) 103274]87
A cloud fog intelligent approach based on modified algorithm in application of reinforced Smart Microgrid management87
Rising temperatures, rising vulnerabilities: Individual and community adaptation to heat stress in urban slums of Bangladesh86
The effects of carbon emission trading scheme on urban comprehensive development: Economic, green, and inclusive perspectives86
Quantifying resilient urban energy systems: Statistical analysis of climate adaptation, renewable integration, and socioeconomic dynamics86
On the use of UAV-thermal imaging for CFD validation of urban thermal microclimate86
Thermal and humidification effects of a swimming pool in Hong Kong's humid-subtropical summer86
Evaluation of effectiveness and resources consumption of water mist spray systems in Mediterranean areas by predictions based on LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks86
Asymmetric Nash bargaining model for operation optimization of multi-integrated energy systems considering peer-to-peer energy trading86
Can turbo-roundabouts and restricted crossing U-Turn be effective solutions for urban three-leg intersections?86
Multi-parameter cooperative optimization and solution method for regional integrated energy system85
COVID-19 and campus users: A longitudinal and place-based study of university mobilities in Texas85
Corrigendum to “Exploring temporal and spatial patterns and nonlinear driving mechanism of park perceptions: A multi-source big data study” [Sustainable Cities and Society 119 (2025) 106083]85
Quantifying transportation energy vulnerability and its spatial patterns in the United States85
Critical evaluation of the spatiotemporal behavior of UHI, through correlation analyses based on multi-city heterogeneous dataset85
Modeling ride-hailing and carsharing adoption & use patterns: deciphering the substitutive and complementary impacts of built environment, transit accessibility, & active travel85
Occupant-centric dynamic heating and cooling loads simplified prediction model for urban community at energy planning stage85
An innovative sustainable multi-energy management framework for full renewable grid-tied microgrids under the transactive energy paradigm85
Carbon emission reduction model for sewage heat recovery and utilization in a northern Chinese city85
Density pattern of functional facilities and its responses to urban development, especially in polycentric cities84
Enhancing the unbalanced distribution network’s hosting capacity for DERs via optimal load re-phasing84
Exploring environmental, economic and social aspects of rainwater harvesting systems: A review84
Investigating the effect of lower body local radiant warming on occupant thermal comfort in battery electric vehicles during cold conditions84
Modeling of urban fire spread with integrated cellular automata (CA)-unity framework: Case study on 2025 wildfire in Altadena84
A machine learning method of modern urban building energy modeling: A case study of Chicago84
Pool trading model within a local energy community considering flexible loads, photovoltaic generation and energy storage systems84
Spatiotemporal assessment of carbon emission reduction by shared bikes in Shenzhen, China83
Quantitative attribution framework for urban air pollutant: Investigating policy impact on NO2 emissions of megacities in China and Japan83
Transactive data-driven and consumer-centric home energy management system for local energy communities in Portugal83
Historical changes and driving factors of food-water-energy footprint consumption: A Case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city agglomeration82
A bi-level reinforcement learning model for optimal scheduling and planning of battery energy storage considering uncertainty in the energy-sharing community82
Spatiotemporal characteristics and robustness analysis of the thermal network in Beijing, China82
Turbulent transport mechanism in the roughness sublayers over idealized urban areas and its implication to street-level ventilation82
Turning points of the relationship between human activity and environmental quality in China81
Multi-factor dynamic correlation prediction and analysis of carbon peaking for building sector: A case study of Shaanxi province81
Passenger spatiotemporal distribution prediction in airport terminals based on physics-guided spatio-temporal graph convolutional network and its effect on indoor environment prediction80
Revealing the injustice and factors that affect the resilience responses of residents in the full period of heat waves80
Crisis resolution pathways enhancement for building carbon emission based on dynamic QCA: Evidence from China80
Assessing the impact of smart city development on urban resilience: An empirical study based on China’s smart city pilot policy80
The Fundamental Issues and Development Trends of AI-Driven Transformations in Urban Transit and Urban Space80
Downwind Warming of Cities? Inequal Heat Distribution Attributed to Winds79
Modeling the low-carbon behaviors’ development paths of freight enterprises based on a survey in Zhejiang, China79
Can urban shrinkage contribute to mitigating surface air temperature warming?79
Quantifying contributions of geographical features to urban GDP outputs via interpretable machine learning79
Responses of greenhouse gas emissions to reclaimed water replenishment in urban rivers: Patterns, mechanisms, and synergistic management strategies79
How can cities achieve accelerated systemic decarbonization? Analysis of six frontrunner cities78
The Impact of Urbanization on the Delivery of Public Service–Related SDGs in China78
Tuning urban microclimate: A morpho-patch approach for multi-scale building group energy simulation77
Cybersecurity vulnerability and resilience of cooperative driving automation for energy efficiency and flow stability in smart cities77
Tracing spatial variations in ecological and economic benefits to support basic dimensions of wellbeing during urban expansion77
Carbon dioxide reduction from an intensive green roof through carbon flux observations and energy consumption simulations76
Decarbonization pathways and key emission drivers in ports: A scenario-based study of Shanghai Port76
Towards climate-adaptive equality in coastal megacities: Assessing urban flooding risk disparities and nonlinear effect of multidimensional indicators through an interpretable LightGBM-SHAP framework76
Evaluation of fast fluid dynamics with different turbulence models for predicting outdoor airflow and pollutant dispersion75
Investigating nonlinear and spatially heterogeneous impacts of the built environment on urban vitality75
People-centered low-carbon transition: Revealing the synergy between urban low-carbon development and resident’s welfare improvement in China75
Modeling climate change impacts on urban population exposure to heat stress dynamics in Vancouver and Victoria, Canada75
Influence of urbanization on heat exposure risk across Indian cities74
Morphological drivers of urban heat islands: A spatially explicit analysis of Tabriz, Iran74
Evaluating the accessibility and equity of urban health resources based on multi-source big data in high-density city73
The association of apparent temperature with fetal growth: A birth cohort study in Beijing, China73
Integrated modeling of urban water metabolism and ecosystem services: Indicators for the nexus of water, food, energy, and ecosystem services73
Thermal comfort characteristics of preschool children in kindergartens: A field study during summer in the hot summer and cold winter zone of China73
Individual-level activity-based modeling and indicators for assessing construction sites noise exposure in urban areas73
Multi-scale comparison of modeling chains for traffic-related air pollutant emission assessment73
A LoRaWAN-based environmental sensing network for urban green space monitoring with demonstrated application for stormwater management73
The double-edged effect of social media in the collaborative governance of PPP projects from a value perception perspective73
Exploring intra-urban thermal stress vulnerability within 15-minute city concept: Example of heat waves 2021 in Moscow72
Innovation-driven cities: Reconciling economic growth and ecological sustainability72
The effect of extremely low sky view factor on land surface temperatures in urban residential areas72
Identifying the integrated visual characteristics of greenway landscape: A focus on human perception72
Determining critical success factors for residential reconstruction in the urban city from the perspective of developers72
Turning peril into opportunity: Construction and validation of a resilience assessment system for China's coastal megacities71
How low-carbon transition enables corporate sustainability: A corporate risk-taking perspective71
Spatial heterogeneity in the joint effect of heat wave and ozone pollution on mortality at the township-level in China71
Thermal effects of cool roofs and urban vegetation during extreme heat events in three Canadian regions71
High-speed railway development and its impact on urban economy and population: A case study of nine provinces along the Yellow River, China70
InfraRisk: An open-source simulation platform for resilience analysis in interconnected power–water–transport networks70
Identifying building function using multisource data: A case study of China's three major urban agglomerations70
Impact of urban street geometry on outdoor pedestrian thermal comfort during heatwave in Nagpur city70
Quantifying energy flexibility potential of ground electric vehicles in an airport with real behavior data70
Household energy vulnerability evaluation in southern Spain through parametric energy simulation models and socio-economic data70
A taxonomy of green governance: A qualitative and quantitative analysis towards sustainable development70
Research on spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors of county-level urban shrinkage in urbanizing China70
Acceptance of IoT-based and sustainability-oriented smart city services: A mixed methods study70
Flexibility operation for integrated energy system considering hydrogen energy under inertia characteristics and stepped carbon trading mechanism70
The impact of energy efficiency on carbon emissions: Evidence from the transportation sector in Chinese 30 provinces69
Discovering spatial-temporal patterns via complex networks in investigating COVID-19 pandemic in the United States69
Natural or balanced? The physiological and psychological benefits of window views with different proportions of sky, green space, and buildings69
Unveiling the nonlinear relationships and co-mitigation effects of green and blue space landscapes on PM2.5 exposure through explainable machine learning69
Rapid prediction of urban flood based on disaster-breeding environment clustering and Bayesian optimized deep learning model in the coastal city69
Study on the impact of smart energy on carbon emissions in smart cities from single and holistic perspectives – Empirical evidence from China68
Spatial correlation network of pollution and carbon emission reductions coupled with high-quality economic development in three Chinese urban agglomerations68
Resilience of urban social-ecological-technological systems (SETS): A review68
Variations in outdoor thermal comfort in an urban park in the hot-summer and cold-winter region of China68
A novel parametric workflow for simulating urban heat island effects on residential building energy use: Coupling local climate zones with the urban weather generator a case study of seven U.S. cities68
Towards climate-responsive net zero energy rural schools: A multi-objective passive design optimization with bio-based insulations, shading, and roof vegetation68
Economic Transformations in Urban Industries during Energy Transition: Novel Tradeoff Technique for Balancing Energy Consumption67
Compensating eco-recreation opportunities based on the supply-demand relationship between large-scale urban eco-spaces and communities67
Optimising tree arrangement policy in Australian small-scale residential settings67
A novel digital twin framework for improving urban sustainability–feasibility assessment of supplementary water supply systems in buildings67
Optimal headway-based bus dispatching strategy under the influence of epidemic outbreaks67
The impact of internet celebrity economy on sustainable city design: From the perspectives of economics and carbon emissions67
A thorough examination of smart city applications: Exploring challenges and solutions throughout the life cycle with emphasis on safeguarding citizen privacy67
Are cities genuinely healthy? Diagnosis of urban development from the perspective of adaptive capacity66
Research on the coupling of ecological environment and socio-economic development in resource-based cities: Based on scenario simulation method66
Modeling urban systems: Comparing the efficacy of simulated interventions on the urban food environment66
Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on bike-sharing travel behaviors: Insights from the literature and a case study in New York City, USA66
Unraveling the association between the urban polycentric structure and urban surface thermal environment in urbanizing China66
Impact of Urban built-up volume on Urban environment: A Case of Jakarta65
How to recognize the threat of social energy exclusion? Demographic and settlement determinants of distributed energy development in Polish towns and cities65
Revealing urban greenspace accessibility inequity using the carrying capacity-based 3SFCA method and location big data65
Evaluating temporal variations in access to multi-tier hospitals using personal vehicles and public transit: Implications for healthcare equity65
What if transformers revolutionize geospatial forecasting? ConvLSTM-Transformer-ARIMA framework for LST forecasting65
Profit versus Sustainability in Bikeshare65
Thermal respite for pedestrians in overheated urban environments – Introduction of a dynamic analysis of outdoor thermal comfort65
A comprehensive study of a green hybrid multi-generation compressed air energy storage (CAES) system for sustainable cities: Energy, exergy, economic, exergoeconomic, and advanced exergy analysis65
Corrigendum to “Modeling and spatio-temporal analysis on CO2 emissions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area and surrounding cities based on neural network and autoencoder” [Sustainable Ci65
Subsidy allocation for residential building energy retrofit: A perspective of families' incomes65
Exploring the nonlinear interactions and threshold effects of urban building morphology and green space on land surface temperature in high-density areas: A cross-city comparative study64
From regulations to reality: Testing urban planning metrics against human thermal comfort in a modern residential district64
Disparities of compound exposure of particulate matter (PM2.5) and heat index using citywide monitoring networks64
Urban Sustainable Development Assessment and Early Warning Oriented to Support-Constraint Dynamic Evolution: An Empirical Analysis Based on SDG1164
Urban shrinkage in the regional multiscale context: Spatial divergence and interaction64
Design strategies for renovation of public space in Beijing's traditional communities based on measured microclimate and thermal comfort64
Harnessing green infrastructure for urban heat island mitigation: Evidence-based strategies for sustainable and climate-resilient cities64
Risk-based Peer-to-peer Energy Trading with Info-Gap Approach in the Presence of Electric Vehicles64
Does “low-carbon city” accelerate urban innovation? Evidence from China64
Between household structure, urban density, and ecological transition: Rethinking the approach of estimating housing needs in Switzerland64
Enhancing urban thermal comfort during heat waves: Exploring hierarchical optimization strategies through integration of network and patch morphology64
Synergy between green stormwater infrastructure and active mobility: A comprehensive literature review63
Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management63
A high-accuracy multi-temporal laser point cloud registration method for providing a detailed expression of the urban environment63
Do the supply of and demand for rural public service facilities match? Assessment based on the perspective of rural residents63
Energy communities approach applied to optimize polygeneration systems in residential buildings: Case study in Zaragoza, Spain63
Non-ecological factors affect human interaction with urban nature and perception of cultural ecosystem services63
Towards (net) zero emissions in the stationary energy sector: A city perspective63
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