Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Environment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fifty years of Environment and Planning B41
The conundrum of ‘form follows function’40
Advances in geospatial approaches to transport networks and sustainable mobility38
Determinants of Urban land development: A panel study for U.S. metropolitan areas36
Professor Stan Openshaw (1946–2022)35
Geo-visualisation of the community structure of intercity express delivery network in China based on waybill big data34
An Academy of Nations? The enduring Eurocentrism of the Best International Feature Film Award34
An interactive method for generating and evaluating urban design alternatives in early design stages33
OSM land use data quality and its association with city-level socioeconomic conditions in China29
Examining the impact of the urban transportation system on tangible and intangible vitality at the city-block scale in Nanjing, China25
Detecting shifts in metropolitan structure: A spatial network perspective24
Ownership diversity and fragmentation: A barrier to urban centre resilience23
Visualizing urban slum population across the globe22
Smart Data infrastructure for urban analytics, city science, planning and design20
Uneven regional distribution earthquake danger zones and of cell towers and cells in Türkiye19
Detecting cross-boundary regional collaboration in China by network community scanning with human mobility data19
The QGIS Polygon Divider: Polygon partition into an irregular equal area grid18
Resilience analysis of global agricultural trade17
Exploring the impact of urban morphology on heat stress: A high-resolution microclimate simulation study17
Hopes and dreams for (future) better things: Medium, data, and ideas17
Studying tech adoption with “text-as-data”: Opportunities, pitfalls, and complementarities in the case of transportation17
Corrigendum to Delineating Functional Regions from Road Networks: The Case of South Korea17
Developing a TOD assessment model based on node–place–ecology for suburban areas of metropolitan cities: A case in Odawara16
Urban shrinkage or urban growth in Europe?16
Identifying sinks and sources of human flows: A new approach to characterizing urban structures16
Developing a two-level machine-learning approach for classifying urban form for an East Asian mega-city15
Understanding street-level urban vibrancy via spatial-temporal Wi-Fi data analytics: Case LivingLine Shanghai15
The breaking points of human development-the separating role of national borders15
Long-term validation of inner-urban mobility metrics derived from Twitter/X15
Monitoring the well-being of vulnerable transit riders using machine learning based sentiment analysis and social media: Lessons from COVID-1914
Estimating the effects of urban green regions in terms of diffusion14
Spatial modelling of psychosocial benefits of favourite places in Denmark: A tale of two cities14
Applications of machine learning and deep learning methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation14
Developing urban biking typologies: Quantifying the complex interactions of bicycle ridership, bicycle network and built environment characteristics14
The science of a subtitle14
Exploring large-scale spatial distribution of fear of crime by integrating small sample surveys and massive street view images13
Gravity-based models for evaluating urban park accessibility: Why does localized selection of attractiveness factors and travel modes matter?13
Spatially-explicit prediction of low-density peri-urban development: comparison between urban and rural scenarios in the Moreton Bay Region in South East Queensland, Australia12
Walking alone or walking together: A spatial evaluation of children’s travel behavior to school12
Urban planning and IPCC-like city assessments integration for climate-resilient cities12
Evaluating relocation behavior of establishments: Evidence for the short-term effects of COVID-1912
Coupled use of isovists and wavelets for street intersection pattern determination11
tscluster : A python package for the optimal temporal clustering framework11
Facebook city: Place-named groups as urban communication infrastructure in Greater London11
Strategic archetypes of planning processes: Model and evidence11
The rhythm of risk: Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of urban vulnerability with ambulance calls data11
Physical distancing and its association with travel behavior in daily pre-pandemic urban life: An analysis utilizing lifelogging images and composite survey and mobility data11
ERRATUM to “NetAScore: An open and extendible software for segment-scale bikeability and walkability”11
Infrastructures connecting people: A mechanistic model for terrestrial transportation networks11
Participation matters: The social construction of digital twins for cities11
Analysis of spatial form and structure of commercial pedestrian blocks based on Isovist and big data11
GeoInfographic design of the multi-spatiality of borders: A case study of epidemic prevention and control in Ruili, China11
Where is it complex to reallocate road space?10
Modeling the relationship between urban tree canopy, landscape heterogeneity, and land surface temperature: A machine learning approach10
Measuring the local complementarity of population, amenities and digital activities to identify and understand urban areas of interest10
Unraveling the mystery of urban expansion in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Exploring the crucial role of regional cooperation10
How accessible are cities for visually impaired pedestrians? A case of Greater London10
Walking in the cities without ground, how 3d complex network volumetrics improve analysis10
Study on the hotspots of urban tourism spaces based on Instagram-Worthy locations data: Taking Beijing as an example10
Natural language processing for planning policy identification: A benchmarking study using 113 Chinese cities between 2011 and 201910
Assessing impacts of the built environment on mobility: A joint choice model of travel mode and duration10
Understanding the impact of building morphology on building energy consumption: A spatial econometric analysis9
The geographic visualization of financial inclusion and exclusion in Mexican municipalities9
Two faces of discontent in Italy: One looking to the North and one to the South9
Discontinuities in regional economic development due to administrative boundaries: Examining the mechanisms of the boundary effect9
Digital twins versus simulation models and planning concepts: Increasing the resemblance between a digital twin and the modeled territory to facilitate the construction and evaluation of urban scenari9
Exploring future landscape changes for polycentric urbanization using cellular automata calibrated with radiation model9
Assessing the impact of greenery on urban heat using opportunistic drive-by sensing9
The syntactic structure of the isovist: Thresholds, depth, and distributedness9
Low-cost sensor desert and equity across US cities9
The Link between Theory and Practice9
The boundary problem9
A multi-scale network-based topological analysis of urban road networks in highly populated cities9
The Relative Probability of Facebook Friendship in the United States9
Household choices of sanitation infrastructure and impact on disease in India8
Predicting housing deprivation from space in the slums of Dhaka8
Does a compact city really reduce consumption-based carbon emissions? The case of South Korea8
Planning decentralized urban renewable energy systems using algal cultivation for closed-loop and resilient communities8
Location optimization of emergency medical services: Considering joint service coverage of ambulances and emergency centers8
The New ‘New Towns’8
Winners of the Breheny Prize for Volume 48, 20218
Mumford’s recurring challenge: What is a city?8
Strategies and inequities in balancing recreation and COVID exposure when visiting green spaces8
Analysis of shape grammars: Continuity of rules8
Visibility and symbolism of corporate architecture: A multi-method approach for visual impact assessment8
The development differences of districts and the boundary effect of housing prices in Hangzhou, China8
A convergence of climate, social justice, and infrastructure policy enables forestry to cool cities8
New methods for old questions: Predicting historical urban renewal areas in the United States8
Making plans findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable with data infrastructure: A search engine for constructing, analyzing, and visualizing planning documents8
Relative spatial variability in building heights and its spatial association: Application for the spatial clustering of harmonious and inharmonious building heights in Tokyo8
Examining the impact of neighborhood environment factors on residents’ emotions during COVID-19 lockdown and reopening: A Wuhan study on mediation and moderation8
Street edge subdivision: Structuring ground floor interfaces to stimulate pedestrian visual engagement8
Changes in the spatial differences of immigrants by country of birth’s income between 2008 and 2021 in South Korea8
The scalar mismatch of regional governance: A comparative analysis of hierarchical structures8
Public perceptions and expectations of urban park environments on children’s play: A GIS and text mining analysis on children’s activity in Atlanta’s parks using social media data7
Analysing the consequences of progressive Urban Spatial cycles to evaluate urban land use policy7
Operationalizing the open city concept: A case study of Berlin7
Let’s discuss our city! Engaging youth in the co-creation of living environments with digital serious geogames and gamified storytelling7
New algorithms for generating isovist field and isovist measurements7
The geography of public transport competitiveness in thirteen medium sized cities7
Featured graphics: Migrating from EP-A to EP-B7
Always growing? Mapping population change in urban China for 2010-20207
Can regionalization enhance the performance of land-use change models in rapidly urbanizing areas?7
Dynamics of China’s natural cities and their living structures derived from nighttime lights and populated grids7
The landscape of big data7
Measuring and mapping neighborhood opportunity: A comparison of opportunity indices in California7
Gender differences in spatio-temporal dynamics: Visualizing bike-sharing mobility patterns in New York City7
Corrigendum to ‘Transportation and urban spatial structure: Evidence from Paris’7
Towards a more realistic estimation of urban land take by combining cadastral parcels and building footprints7
Visualizing city incompleteness: Incremental urban change in Central Sydney 1965–20207
Tracking plan implementation using elected officials’ social media communications and votes7
Valuing the ‘new normal’? Housing markets under COVID-19: Insights from a hybrid hedonic repeat sales model7
Deserving poor in public sanitation: Tracing the policymaking processes of who gets what, when, how, and why in Delhi7
Extracting real estate values of rental apartment floor plans using graph convolutional networks7
Examining heat inequity in a Brazilian metropolitan region6
Delineating school attendance boundaries to improve diversity and community integrity6
My ten years with Environment and Planning B6
Social life and interpersonal relationships in Environment and Planning B6
A visibility-based approach to manage the vertical urban development and maintain visual sustainability of urban mountain landscapes: A case of Mufu Mountain in Nanjing, China6
Rail journey cost calculator for Great Britain6
Unveiling the environmental accommodation with cultural identity in vernacular houses through knowledge-fused explainable AI6
Normative urban science6
The cityseer Python package for pedestrian-scale network-based urban analysis6
Unveiling spatial patterns of disaster impacts and recovery using credit card transaction fluctuations6
Mapping sense of place as a measurable urban identity: Using street view images and machine learning to identify building façade materials6
Quantifying the environmental characteristics influencing the attractiveness of commercial agglomerations with big geo-data6
The spontaneous rules of spontaneous development6
Metro cultural scene: A new community scale in urban scene research6
A multi-city study on structural characteristics of bicycle networks6
Road network distances and detours in Europe: Radial profiles and city size effects6
Transit communication via Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic6
How applicable are scaling laws in predicting slum populations in urban systems? Evidence from India6
MAP: Mapping accessibility for ethically informed urban planning6
Agglomeration vs amenities? Unraveling the latent engine of growth in metropolitan Greece6
Beyond the backyard: Unraveling the geographies of citizens’ engagement in digital participatory planning6
Spatially disaggregated simulation of interactions between home prices and land-use change6
Digital twins: The current “Krays” of urban analytics?6
Comparative analysis of urban structures in three American Rust Belt cities6
Overture Point of Interest data for the United Kingdom: A comprehensive, queryable open data product, validated against Geolytix supermarket data6
Methods for neighbourhood Mapping, boundary agreement6
Corrigendum to the Effects of Vacant Lot Greening and the Impact of Land Use and Business Presence on Crime6
Evaluating the effects of heat vulnerability on heat-related emergency medical service incidents: Lessons from Austin, Texas6
COVID-19 pandemic and minority health disparities in New York City: A spatial and temporal perspective5
New town development and housing affordability: A case study in Hong Kong5
The effects of vacant lot greening and the impact of land use and business presence on crime5
Data-driven micromobility network planning for demand and safety5
About positive and negative synergies of social projects: Treating correlation in participatory value evaluation5
The impact of urban form on physical change: A quantitative and diachronic analysis of urban form evolution in Midtown Manhattan5
Exploring the plot patterns of the retail landscape: The case of the Helsinki Metropolitan area5
Scaling of urban environmental performance in Chinese cities5
How to measure large-scale complex urban network structures using night-time light satellite databases. Application to European metropolitan regions5
Airbnb and the COVID-19 pandemic: A geospatial analysis of Greater London5
The flow of information5
Urban land use transitions: Examining change over 19 years using sequence analysis. The case of South-East Queensland, Australia5
Forecasting the urbanization dynamics in the Seoul metropolitan area using a long short-term memory–based model5
Decoding Namboothiri illams of Kerala: A shape grammar approach5
A navigability entropy model for street networks5
The Social Digital Twin:The Social Turn in the Field of Smart Cities 5
Contiguity of underutilized lands: Dynamic simulation taking their temporary uses into account5
Urban expansion and transportation interaction: Evidence from Akure, southwestern Nigeria5
Interplay between auditory and visual environments in historic districts: A big data approach based on social media5
Land-use efficiency and local government revenue: Evidence from 272 Chinese cities using a novel structural equation modelling approach5
Spatial inequalities and cities: A review5
AI in land use5
Spatial and temporal access to warm spaces during the winter of 2022/20235
Packaging code and data for reproducible research: A case study of journey time statistics5
Favelas 4D: Scalable methods for morphology analysis of informal settlements using terrestrial laser scanning data5
Is physical planning over? If so, what will replace it?5
An inductive method for classifying building form in a city with implications for orientation5
The Michael Breheny Prize 20244
Corrigendum to Central Eastern European cities within multi-level transnational company networks: Cores, peripheries and diffusion of innovation4
Charting the past and possible futures of planning support systems: Results of a citation network analysis4
Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints4
Revisiting Gehl’s urban design principles with computer vision and webcam data: Associations between public space and public life4
Household expenditure and accessibility of water in urban India4
Global Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators: Collaborative development of an open science toolkit for calculating and reporting on urban indicators internationally4
Generative AI4
Planning factors affecting carbon footprints of residents: Density, land use, and suburbanization4
One-dimensional urban scaling4
A method to derive small area estimates of linked commuting trips by mode from open source LODES and ACS data4
Redefining urban digital twins for the federated data spaces ecosystem: A perspective4
Characteristics and prediction of urban interaction networks from the perspective of traffic flow and text information flow4
Classifying and mapping residential structure through the London Output Area Classification4
Impacts of bus rapid transit (BRT) on income-segmented housing markets in El Paso, Texas: A spatial hedonic and difference-in-differences analysis4
Explainable spatially explicit geospatial artificial intelligence in urban analytics4
Who settles where? Simulating urban growth and socioeconomic level using cellular automata and random forest regression4
The effects of street environment features on road running: An analysis using crowdsourced fitness tracker data and machine learning4
Deep reinforcement learning for spatial resource allocation: A case study of school districting4
Prediction of residential and non-residential building usage in Germany based on a novel nationwide reference data set4
City laboratory: Embracing new data, new elements, and new pathways to invent new cities4
NetAScore: An open and extendible software for segment-scale bikeability and walkability4
Multidimensional factors correlated with population changes according to city size in Japan4
Mapping U.S.-China technological “decoupling”: Beyond U.S.-China relations4
Where to invest in cycle parking: A portfolio management approach to spatial transport planning4
Visualizing the North–South Divide of international visitors: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China4
Smart cities and climate-resilient urban planning4
An agent-based simulation model for the growth of the Sydney Trains network4
Unraveling transit service and land use components of the socio-spatial inequality of access4
Evaluation of urban planning methods toward bioclimatic and resilient urban spaces4
“MAPPING PUBLIC SPACE MICRO-OCCUPATIONS: Drone-Driven Predictions of Spatial Behaviors in Carapungo, Quito”4
Effect of greening vacant houses on improvement in thermal environment using ENVI-met simulation: A case study on Busan metropolitan city4
Geographies of grocery shopping in major Canadian cities: Evidence from large-scale mobile app data4
From urban modelling to city digital twins – Reflections from the applied urban modelling (AUM) symposia4
Digital twins on trial: Can they actually solve wicked societal problems and change the world for better?4
Quantifying the benefits of urban amenities in Singapore with consideration of the effects of spatial heterogeneity4
Assessment of the Bioclimatic Index for resilient urban spaces in Mediterranean cities3
How do urban services facilities affect social segregation among people of different economic levels? A case study of Shenzhen city3
Connected bikeability in London: Which localities are better connected by bike and does this matter?3
TTS2016R: A data set to study population and employment patterns from the 2016 Transportation Tomorrow Survey in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area, Ontario, Canada3
Using call detail records to determine mobility patterns of different socio-demographic groups in the western area of Sierra Leone during early COVID-19 crisis3
A 3D agent-based model for simulating urban densification in Toronto, Canada3
Spatiotemporal analysis for travel patterns of the personal mobility using an explainable machine learning approach: A case of Seoul, South Korea3
Can administrative division adjustment improve urban land use efficiency? Evidence from “Revoke County to Urban District” in China3
Network-entropy-based morphological polycentricity in 1851-1881 England and Wales3
How would AI define neighborhood boundaries? A comparison with human-crowdsourced data3
A consequential framework to quantify the climate impacts of passenger travel3
Geographical detector-based assessment of multi-level explanatory powers of determinants on China’s medical-service resumption during the COVID-19 epidemic3
Gendered cities: Studying urban gender bias through street names3
A data-driven investigation on park visitation and income mixing of visitors in New York City3
On the taxonomy of smart city indicators and their alignment with sustainability and resilience3
Exploring land use functional variance using mobile phone derived human activity data in Shanghai3
Agglomeration effects as spatially embedded social interactions: identifying urban scaling beyond metropolitan areas3
Understanding intracity housing market dynamics: A state-space model with Bayesian nonparametric clustering approach3
Profile and theoretical advances in urban big data studies: A systematic review of 57 representative journals (2013–2023)3
Towards a 15-minute city: A network-based evaluation framework3
Data analytics and sustainable urban development in global cities3
Diving or thriving? How COVID-19 reshaped Australian short-term rental submarkets3
Who can walk? An analysis of public amenity access in America’s ten largest cities3
Short video-driven deep perception for city imagery3
Comparing types and patterns: A context-oriented approach to densification in Switzerland and the Netherlands3
Identifying relevant volunteered geographic information about adverse weather events in Trondheim using the CitizenSensing participatory system3
A Python package for the local multiscale analysis of spatial point processes (LomPy)3
We are here, we are everywhere: Mapping global queer geographies of emotion3
Generative AI and urban modeling3
Exploring the role of accessibility in shaping retail location using space syntax measures: A panel-data analysis in Lisbon, 1995–20103
Water and sanitation for all: Citizen science, health equity, and urban climate justice3
AI and design3
Selecting building height control indicators of landmark skylines: A visual perception experiment3
A data-driven approach to analyse the co-evolution of urban systems through a resilience lens: A Helsinki case study3
Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities3
Explaining a century of Swiss regional development by deep learning and SHAP values3
Automating urban policy extraction: A large language model-based framework for extracting local heat policies from planning documents3
Leveraging newspapers to understand urban issues: A longitudinal analysis of urban shrinkage in Detroit3
The electrification of road transport and its urban effects3
Happiness and international migration – The spatial dimension of a relationship3
Evaluating the impact of water protection policy on urban growth: A case study of Jiaxing3
Integrating activity-based transport and building occupancy models for campus-scale energy management3
Spatial model for predictive recovery monitoring based on hazard, built environment, and population features and their spillover effects3
Proximity walks: Multimetric evaluation of the walkability network efficiency in Barcelona3
EPB turns 50 years old: An analytical tour of the last five decades3
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