Sustainable Cities and Society

Article	Citations
Revisiting the role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on Turkey’s ecological footprint: Evidence from Quantile ARDL approach	566
The efficacy of social distance and ventilation effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 transmission	438
Linking urbanization, human capital, and the ecological footprint in G7 countries: An empirical analysis	402
Antivirus-built environment: Lessons learned from Covid-19 pandemic	388
Does urbanization redefine the environmental Kuznets curve? An empirical analysis of 134 Countries	336
Does financial inclusion, renewable and non-renewable energy utilization accelerate ecological footprints and economic growth? Fresh evidence from 15 highest emitting countries	300
Deep learning and medical image processing for coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: A survey	288
Modelling the dynamic linkages between eco-innovation, urbanization, economic growth and ecological footprints for G7 countries: Does financial globalization matter?	288
Fighting against COVID-19: A novel deep learning model based on YOLO-v2 with ResNet-50 for medical face mask detection	288
Convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence in IoT network for the sustainable smart city	287
Enabling technologies and sustainable smart cities	275
SSDMNV2: A real time DNN-based face mask detection system using single shot multibox detector and MobileNetV2	263
A review on renewable energy and electricity requirement forecasting models for smart grid and buildings	247
COVID-19 cases prediction by using hybrid machine learning and beetle antennae search approach	230
The impact of energy efficiency on carbon emissions: Evidence from the transportation sector in Chinese 30 provinces	222
Examining the association between socio-demographic composition and COVID-19 fatalities in the European region using spatial regression approach	208
Blockchain for smart cities: A review of architectures, integration trends and future research directions	204
Multi-scenario simulation of urban land change in Shanghai by random forest and CA-Markov model	200
The impact of environmental regulations on urban Green innovation efficiency: The case of Xi'an	197
Urbanization, land use change, and carbon emissions: Quantitative assessments for city-level carbon emissions in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	194
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior in Istanbul: A panel data analysis	194
Inundation risk assessment of metro system using AHP and TFN-AHP in Shenzhen	192
Temporary reduction in fine particulate matter due to ‘anthropogenic emissions switch-off’ during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian cities	187
A new distributed architecture for evaluating AI-based security systems at the edge: Network TON_IoT datasets	185
Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges	182

A deep learning-based social distance monitoring framework for COVID-19	175
Exploring the impact of urbanization on urban building carbon emissions in China: Evidence from a provincial panel data model	175
The policy outcomes of low-carbon city construction on urban green development: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment conducted in China	173
Smart buildings features and key performance indicators: A review	172
COVID-19, internet, and mobility: The rise of telework, telehealth, e-learning, and e-shopping	159
Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review	158
Security and the smart city: A systematic review	155
Understanding land surface temperature impact factors based on local climate zones	155
Data mining and machine learning methods for sustainable smart cities traffic classification: A survey	150
Prediction of energy consumption in hotel buildings via support vector machines	149
Coupling coordination evaluation and sustainable development pattern of geo-ecological environment and urbanization in Chongqing municipality, China	143
Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches	141
A geographically weighted regression model augmented by Geodetector analysis and principal component analysis for the spatial distribution of PM2.5	140
Sociodemographic determinants of COVID-19 incidence rates in Oman: Geospatial modelling using multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR)	137
Influence of urban morphological characteristics on thermal environment	136
Relationships among local-scale urban morphology, urban ventilation, urban heat island and outdoor thermal comfort under sea breeze influence	135
A deep learning-based IoT-oriented infrastructure for secure smart City	134
Prediction and optimization of energy consumption in an office building using artificial neural network and a genetic algorithm	134
Cyber security in smart cities: A review of deep learning-based applications and case studies	130
Can smart city construction facilitate green total factor productivity? A quasi-natural experiment based on China’s pilot smart city	130
Energy management in microgrids including smart homes: A multi-objective approach	129
Low-carbon development quality of cities in China: Evaluation and obstacle analysis	127
Multi-scenario simulation and ecological risk analysis of land use based on the PLUS model: A case study of Nanjing	126
An integrated fire detection system using IoT and image processing technique for smart cities	126
Multi-objective optimization of grid-connected PV-wind hybrid system considering reliability, cost, and environmental aspects	125
Blockchain technology, improvement suggestions, security challenges on smart grid and its application in healthcare for sustainable development	124
Optimum unit sizing of hybrid renewable energy system utilizing harmony search, Jaya and particle swarm optimization algorithms	123
Monitoring the effect of urban development on urban heat island based on remote sensing and geo-spatial approach in Kolkata and adjacent areas, India	119
Fog computing for sustainable smart cities in the IoT era: Caching techniques and enabling technologies - an overview	119
Energy management using non-intrusive load monitoring techniques – State-of-the-art and future research directions	118
Optimisation of solar/wind/bio-generator/diesel/battery based microgrids for rural areas: A PSO-GWO approach	116
Human mobility behavior in COVID-19: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	115
Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends	113
Implementation of solar energy in smart cities using an integration of artificial neural network, photovoltaic system and classical Delphi methods	113
Automated cognitive health assessment in smart homes using machine learning	113
Urban ecological security assessment and forecasting using integrated DEMATEL-ANP and CA-Markov models: A case study on Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India	113
Scalable machine learning-based intrusion detection system for IoT-enabled smart cities	112
Impact of urban morphology and landscape characteristics on spatiotemporal heterogeneity of land surface temperature	111
Data-driven dynamic clustering framework for mitigating the adverse economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown practices	111
Adaptive-predictive control strategy for HVAC systems in smart buildings – A review	111
Understanding the impact of environmental regulations on green technology innovation efficiency in the construction industry	111
A framework for addressing urban heat challenges and associated adaptive behavior by the public and the issue of willingness to pay for heat resilient infrastructure in Chongqing, China	109
Urban heat island mitigation by green infrastructure in European Functional Urban Areas	108
Landfill location selection for healthcare waste of urban areas using hybrid BWM-grey MARCOS model based on GIS	108
An overview of machine learning applications for smart buildings	107
Investigating changes in noise pollution due to the COVID-19 lockdown: The case of Dublin, Ireland	106
Assessment of coordinated development between social economy and ecological environment: Case study of resource-based cities in Northeastern China	105
Secure and resilient demand side management engine using machine learning for IoT-enabled smart grid	105
Spatial spillover effect of green innovation on economic development quality in China: Evidence from a panel data of 270 prefecture-level and above cities	105
Towards the sustainable development of smart cities through mass video surveillance: A response to the COVID-19 pandemic	105

Spatial structure and carbon emission of urban agglomerations: Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving forces	104
Evaluating the performances of several artificial intelligence methods in forecasting daily streamflow time series for sustainable water resources management	104
The role of built and social environmental factors in Covid-19 transmission: A look at America’s capital city	101
Prediction of seasonal urban thermal field variance index using machine learning algorithms in Cumilla, Bangladesh	99
Are high-density districts more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic?	98
The influence of urban form on surface urban heat island and its planning implications: Evidence from 1288 urban clusters in China	98
Study on importance, procedure, and scope of outdoor thermal comfort –A review	98
Study on city digital twin technologies for sustainable smart city design: A review and bibliometric analysis of geographic information system and building information modeling integration	97
Self-scheduling model for home energy management systems considering the end-users discomfort index within price-based demand response programs	96
Exploring spatiotemporal effects of the driving factors on COVID-19 incidences in the contiguous United States	96
Presence and mobility of the population during the first wave of Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown in Italy	96
A home energy management system with an integrated smart thermostat for demand response in smart grids	95
Public participation and city sustainability: Evidence from Urban Garbage Classification in China	95
Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe	95
Impact of urban heat island mitigation measures on microclimate and pedestrian comfort in a dense urban district of Lebanon	95
Coupling coordination degree for urbanization city-industry integration level: Sichuan case	95
Federated learning enabled digital twins for smart cities: Concepts, recent advances, and future directions	94
Digitalization and carbon emissions: How does digital city construction affect china's carbon emission reduction?	94
A deep learning approach for prediction of air quality index in a metropolitan city	93
RETRACTED: Robust optimization of renewable-based multi-energy micro-grid integrated with flexible energy conversion and storage devices	93
Different charging infrastructures along with smart charging strategies for electric vehicles	92
COVID-19 recovery for the Nigerian construction sites: The role of the fourth industrial revolution technologies	92
Globalization, electricity consumption and ecological footprint: An autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) approach	91
Sizing renewable energy systems with energy storage systems in microgrids for maximum cost-efficient utilization of renewable energy resources	91
Providing secure and reliable communication for next generation networks in smart cities	91
Using the internet of things in smart energy systems and networks	90
Congestion prediction for smart sustainable cities using IoT and machine learning approaches	90
Towards circular cities—Conceptualizing core aspects	90
Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities	89
Built environment and early infection of COVID-19 in urban districts: A case study of Huangzhou	88
A survey on hyperparameters optimization algorithms of forecasting models in smart grid	87
Smart energy systems: A critical review on design and operation optimization	86
Smartening sustainable development in cities: Strengthening the theoretical linkage between smart cities and SDGs	86
Modeling air quality prediction using a deep learning approach: Method optimization and evaluation	86
Exploring the causal relationship between urbanization and air pollution: Evidence from China	86
Night-time light data based decoupling relationship analysis between economic growth and carbon emission in 289 Chinese cities	85
Mitigating COVID-19 infection disease transmission in indoor environment using physical barriers	85
Shared mobility in post-COVID era: New challenges and opportunities	85
Assessing the contribution of urban green spaces in green infrastructure strategy planning for urban ecosystem conditions and services	85
Smart campus—A sketch	84
Thermal performance of the building envelope integrated with phase change material for thermal energy storage: an updated review.	83
IoTBoT-IDS: A novel statistical learning-enabled botnet detection framework for protecting networks of smart cities	83
E-scooters and sustainability: Investigating the relationship between the density of E-scooter trips and characteristics of sustainable urban development	83
Socioeconomic drivers of urban heat island effect: Empirical evidence from major Chinese cities	83
Predictions of electricity consumption in a campus building using occupant rates and weather elements with sensitivity analysis: Artificial neural network vs. linear regression	82
Living environment matters: Unravelling the spatial clustering of COVID-19 hotspots in Kolkata megacity, India	81
Predicting future urban waterlogging-prone areas by coupling the maximum entropy and FLUS model	81
Applications of ML/DL in the management of smart cities and societies based on new trends in information technologies: A systematic literature review	80
Are BRICS countries pollution havens? Evidence from a bootstrap ARDL bounds testing approach with a Fourier function	80
Variations in outdoor thermal comfort in an urban park in the hot-summer and cold-winter region of China	79
Development of integrated sustainability performance indicators for better management of smart cities	79
Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings	79
Identifying urban vitality in metropolitan areas of developing countries from a comparative perspective: Ho Chi Minh City versus Shanghai	79
A Risk-Averse Hybrid Approach for Optimal Participation of Power-to-Hydrogen Technology-Based Multi-Energy Microgrid in Multi-Energy Markets	79
Comparison of environmental assessment methods when reusing building components: A case study	79
Planning utility infrastructure requirements for smart cities using the integration between BIM and GIS	78
Zero emission neighbourhoods and positive energy districts – A state-of-the-art review	78
Assessing and controlling infection risk with Wells-Riley model and spatial flow impact factor (SFIF)	78
Spatial structure of urban agglomeration under the impact of high-speed railway construction: Based on the social network analysis	78
A location model for electric vehicle (EV) public charging stations based on drivers’ existing activities	78
Synergistic cooling effects (SCEs) of urban green-blue spaces on local thermal environment: A case study in Chongqing, China	77
Nonlinear and synergistic effects of TOD on urban vibrancy: Applying local explanations for gradient boosting decision tree	77
Sustainability of compact cities: A review of Inter-Building Effect on building energy and solar energy use	77
An intelligent ABC-based terminal sliding mode controller for load-frequency control of islanded micro-grids	76
Urban Heat Island Studies with emphasis on urban pavements: A review	76
Energy poverty indicators: A systematic literature review and comprehensive analysis of integrity	76
Observing community resilience from space: Using nighttime lights to model economic disturbance and recovery pattern in natural disaster	76
Urban Transportation Networks Resilience: Indicators, Disturbances, and Assessment Methods	75
Are smart cities more ecologically efficient? Evidence from China	75
Urban resilience: A vague or an evolutionary concept?	75
Evaluating urban ecosystem resilience using the DPSIR framework and the ENA model: A case study of 35 cities in China	75
Waste collection route optimisation model for linking cost saving and emission reduction to achieve sustainable development goals	75
Hybrid-cloud-based data processing for power system monitoring in smart grids	74
Air quality during three covid-19 lockdown phases: AQI, PM2.5 and NO2 assessment in cities with more than 1 million inhabitants	74
The Impact of Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: A Spatial and Threshold Analysis of Panel Data on China's Prefecture-Level Cities	74
Economic-environmental analysis of combined heat and power-based reconfigurable microgrid integrated with multiple energy storage and demand response program	74
I-AREOR: An energy-balanced clustering protocol for implementing green IoT in smart cities	73
What determines urban resilience against COVID-19: City size or governance capacity?	73
A systematic methodology for mid-and-long term electric vehicle charging load forecasting: The case study of Shenzhen, China	73
The maintenance of prefabricated green roofs for preserving cooling performance: A field measurement in the subtropical city of Hangzhou, China	72

Integration of an energy management tool and digital twin for coordination and control of multi-vector smart energy systems	72
Dockless bike-sharing as a feeder mode of metro commute? The role of the feeder-related built environment: Analytical framework and empirical evidence	72
What determines city’s resilience against epidemic outbreak: evidence from China’s COVID-19 experience	72
Exploring the spatial heterogeneity of urban heat island effect and its relationship to block morphology with the geographically weighted regression model	72
Urban Heat Island intensity and buildings’ energy needs in Duran, Ecuador: Simulation studies and proposal of mitigation strategies	71
Inundation risk assessment based on G-DEMATEL-AHP and its application to Zhengzhou flooding disaster	71
Experimental study on the control effect of different ventilation systems on fine particles in a simulated hospital ward	71
Using long short-term memory networks to predict energy consumption of air-conditioning systems	71
Multi-objective optimization design of green building envelopes and air conditioning systems for energy conservation and CO2 emission reduction	71
Development of an IoT and BIM-based automated alert system for thermal comfort monitoring in buildings	70
Research on the spatiotemporal evolution of land use landscape pattern in a county area based on CA-Markov model	70
Flexibility management model of home appliances to support DSO requests in smart grids	70
A review of urban resilience literature	70
Comparison of cooling effect between green space and water body	69
How to optimize ecological compensation to alleviate environmental injustice in different cities in the Yellow River Basin? A case of integrating ecosystem service supply, demand and flow	69
Exploring the coupling relationship between urbanization and energy eco-efficiency: A case study of 281 prefecture-level cities in China	69
Multiscale analysis of the correlation patterns between the urban population and construction land in China	69
The effect of urban air pollutants in Germany: eco-efficiency analysis through fractional regression models applied after DEA and SFA efficiency predictions	68
Investigation of airborne particle exposure in an office with mixing and displacement ventilation	68
Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management	68
Effect of zoning plans on urban land-use change: A multi-scenario simulation for supporting sustainable urban growth	68
Trustworthy and sustainable smart city services at the edge	68
A sustainable IoHT based computationally intelligent healthcare monitoring system for lung cancer risk detection	68
Urban ventilation and its potential for local warming mitigation: A field experiment in an open low-rise gridiron precinct	68
A Lag-FLSTM deep learning network based on Bayesian Optimization for multi-sequential-variant PM2.5 prediction	68
Increasing green infrastructure-based ecological resilience in urban systems: A perspective from locating ecological and disturbance sources in a resource-based city	68
Surface and satellite observations of air pollution in India during COVID-19 lockdown: Implication to air quality	68
Smart healthcare and quality of service in IoT using grey filter convolutional based cyber physical system	68
Assessment of climate change mitigation policies in 315 cities in the Covenant of Mayors initiative	68
A hover view over effectual approaches on pandemic management for sustainable cities – The endowment of prospective technologies with revitalization strategies	67
Multi-objective IGDT-based scheduling of low-carbon multi-energy microgrids integrated with hydrogen refueling stations and electric vehicle parking lots	67
Multi-objective optimization and the effect of the economic factors on the design of the microgrid hybrid system	67
Sustainable cities and communities assessment using the DARIA-TOPSIS method	67
How do urban haze pollution and economic development affect each other? Empirical evidence from 287 Chinese cities during 2000–2016	67
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention and treatment methods and effective parameters: A systematic literature review	67
Building information modelling, lean and sustainability: An integration framework to promote performance improvements in the construction industry	67
Sustainable energy planning for cost minimization of autonomous hybrid microgrid using combined multi-objective optimization algorithm	66
Impact of small-scale tree planting patterns on outdoor cooling and thermal comfort	66
Stochastic scheduling of a renewable-based microgrid in the presence of electric vehicles using modified harmony search algorithm with control policies	66
A novel and secure attacks detection framework for smart cities industrial internet of things	66
The evaluation and obstacle analysis of urban resilience from the multidimensional perspective in Chinese cities	66
Smart City Dimensions and Associated Risks: Review of literature	66
An integrated approach towards spatial identification of restored and conserved priority areas of ecological network for implementation planning in metropolitan region	66
Techno-economic optimisation of stand-alone hybrid renewable energy systems for concurrently meeting electric and heating demand	66
Influencing factors and their influencing mechanisms on urban resilience in China	65
Machine learning for geographically differentiated climate change mitigation in urban areas	65
Assessment of sustainable urban development based on a hybrid decision-making approach: Group fuzzy BWM, AHP, and TOPSIS–GIS	65
Cyber-physical-social interdependencies and organizational resilience: A review of water, transportation, and cyber infrastructure systems and processes	65
Comparative study of machine learning-based multi-objective prediction framework for multiple building energy loads	65
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction	65
Assessing spatiotemporal characteristics of urban heat islands from the perspective of an urban expansion and green infrastructure	64
Relationship between eye-level greenness and cycling frequency around metro stations in Shenzhen, China: A big data approach	64
Sustainable last mile delivery on e-commerce market in cities from the perspective of various stakeholders. Literature review	64
Improvement of thermal inertia effect in buildings using shape stabilized PCM wallboard based on the enthalpy-temperature function	64
CFD modeling of airborne pathogen transmission of COVID-19 in confined spaces under different ventilation strategies	64
Demand side management through load shifting in IoT based HEMS: Overview, challenges and opportunities	64
Effective task scheduling algorithm with deep learning for Internet of Health Things (IoHT) in sustainable smart cities	64
Forecasting land-use changes in Mashhad Metropolitan area using Cellular Automata and Markov chain model for 2016-2030	64
Building back better: The COVID-19 pandemic and transport policy implications for a developing megacity	63
Evaluation of urban heat islands using local climate zones and the influence of sea-land breeze	63
Challenges and opportunities for integrating BIM and LCA: Methodological choices and framework development	63
Evaluation of coupling coordination degree and convergence behaviour of local development: A spatiotemporal analysis of all Polish municipalities over the period 2003–2019	62
Comparative assessment of social sustainability performance: Integrated data-driven weighting system and CoCoSo model	62
BioAider: An efficient tool for viral genome analysis and its application in tracing SARS-CoV-2 transmission	62
Towards people-centric smart city development: Investigating the citizens’ preferences and perceptions about smart-city services in Taiwan	61
Surveys on the reliability impacts of power system cyber–physical layers	61
Strategies and scenarios to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission in the urban, rural and sustainable neighbourhoods	61
Smart city projects against COVID-19: Quantitative evidence from China	61
Association of built environment attributes with the spread of COVID-19 at its initial stage in China	61
Driving force analysis of carbon emissions in China’s building industry: 2000–2015	60
Prediction and evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions for sustainable road transport within Europe	60
Global and local associations between urban greenery and travel propensity of older adults in Hong Kong	60
The effect of urban shading and canyon geometry on outdoor thermal comfort in hot climates: A case study of Ahvaz, Iran	60
High public appreciation for the cultural ecosystem services of urban and peri‑urban forests during the COVID-19 pandemic	60
Fuzzy Power Heronian function based CoCoSo method for the advantage prioritization of autonomous vehicles in real-time traffic management	60
Spatiotemporal assessment of extreme heat risk for high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2016	59
Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research	59
A systematic review of the health co-benefits of urban climate change adaptation	59
Social distance monitoring framework using deep learning architecture to control infection transmission of COVID-19 pandemic	59
Decentralized accessibility of e-commerce products through blockchain technology	59
Evaluation of city sustainability using multi-criteria decision-making considering interaction among criteria in Liaoning province China	59
An observation of the impact of CoViD-19 recommendation measures monitored through urban noise levels in central Stockholm, Sweden	58
Multidirectional Relationship between Energy Resources, Climate Changes and Sustainable Development: Technoeconomic Analysis	58
Energy management of community energy storage in grid-connected microgrid under uncertain real-time prices	58
Examining the spatial and temporal relationship between social vulnerability and stay-at-home behaviors in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic	58
Explainable heat-related mortality with random forest and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) models	58
Comparing the territorial performances of renewable energy sources' plants with an integrated ecosystem services loss assessment: A case study from the Basilicata region (Italy)	58
Understanding future urban growth, urban resilience and sustainable development of small cities using prediction-adaptation-resilience (PAR) approach	58
Paths and strategies for sustainable urban renewal at the neighbourhood level: A framework for decision-making	58
A bi-level market-clearing for coordinated regional-local multi-carrier systems in presence of energy storage technologies	58
Integration of IoT based routing process for food supply chain management in sustainable smart cities	57
Investigation of a green energy storage system based on liquid air energy storage (LAES) and high-temperature concentrated solar power (CSP): Energy, exergy, economic, and environmental (4E) assessmen	57
Beyond nearly zero energy urban design: A holistic microclimatic energy and environmental quality evaluation workflow	57
Analyses of land surface temperature (LST) variability among local climate zones (LCZs) comparing Landsat-8 and ENVI-met model data	57
Urban experiments with public transport for low carbon mobility transitions in cities: A systematic literature review (1990–2020)	56