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April 2026

394 items published.

Urban Society & Demography · 93Climate, Environment & Resilience · 74Transport & Mobility · 74Urban Ecology & Green Space · 71Land Use & Urban Form · 68Urban Data Science & Methods · 50Housing & Real Estate · 48Health & Wellbeing · 44Urbanisation & the Global South · 40Urban & Regional Economy · 25Infrastructure, Energy & Services · 22Smart Cities & Digital Urbanism · 14Governance, Policy & Finance · 12Culture, Heritage & Public Space · 9Urban Theory & History · 8
Journal article North America Open

Land Use Restrictiveness and Mortgage Access: How Regulatory Environments Condition Racial and Income Disparities in Loan Approvals and Pricing

Journal of the American Planning Association
Journal article North America Open

Home sharing as affordable housing for all? Revealing the exclusionary language of shared rental listings through AI

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Journal article

THE CLIMATE REFUGE CITY: A New Urban Imaginary in Formation

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal article East Asia

Exploring the impact of urban green spaces on household electricity consumption in summer through explainable machine learning

Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Journal article

From perception to payment: How cultural ecosystem services drive tourists' willingness to pay for ecological compensation in urban forest parks

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
Journal article Open

Interfaces of precarity and the networks of precarious lifeworlds: Experiences of housing, social supports, and work in youth homelessness

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Journal article Europe

When the “investor state” sees like an asset manager: The case of affordable housing in France

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Journal article Open

Precarity beyond the point of production: Platform labour, housing, and the crisis of social reproduction in Berlin and Barcelona

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Journal article East Asia

Dynamics of Net Ecosystem Productivity in Beijing, China over the past two decades based on time-series reconstructed Landsat data: Impact of climate, urbanization and afforestation

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
Journal article Open

Urban chronotypes as climate vulnerability indicators: Safety-modulated bioclimatic responses and adaptive behavior across diurnal urban contexts

Urban Climate
Journal article Europe Open

Fitness Consequences of Urban Green Space Management in Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) in Madrid, Spain

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Open

Urban Expansion vs. Environmental Resilience: Khenchela’s Semi-Arid Struggle and Pathways to Sustainable Revival

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Open

The General Urban Distortion Propagation Law

REGION (ERSA) · REGION
Journal article Europe Open

A framework for strategic planning of spatially cumulated green roofs to reduce urban heat - Case study of Wuppertal, Germany

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
Journal article Open

Integrating biodiversity into land-use regulations: Evidence from Swiss municipal plan revisions

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
Journal article North America Open

Native-plant landscaping enhances floral visitation by insects and birds in residential yards

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article Open

Assessing urban biodiversity patterns using citizen science data and a hierarchical urban habitat analysis

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article Open

Contextualized transport reallocation for crisis response in smart cities

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
Journal article Open

Land use change in rural Bhutan – Implications for forest carbon stocks and climate change mitigation

Land Use Policy
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean Open

Comparative spatio-temporal and morphological analysis of urban growth using local climate zones in southern Chile

Land Use Policy
Journal article

Where was emergency rental assistance spent? A description of the targeting of federal aid

Journal of Urban Affairs
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean Open

Anxious to pay: hidden costs of subsidized housing and the gendered burden of homeowner-citizenship in Brazil

Housing Studies
Journal article East Asia

Reshaping inequalities in subjective well-being across multiple urban contexts: Evidence from over 2,000 communities in Beijing

Applied Geography
Journal article Open

Understanding age-friendly communities: Five global typologies of older adults

Urban Studies (SAGE) · Urban Studies
Journal article East Asia Open

The Influence of Urban Digital Development Index on Water Resource Utilization Efficiency—Based on System GMM Model Test

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article East Asia Open

Declining Agglomeration Elasticities and the Geography of Urban Growth in China

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Europe Open

Greening Urban Planning: A Multi-Level Methodological Framework for Mapping the Educational Greenscape at the University of Belgrade

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Open

Rapid earnings growth in finance concentrates top earnings in a few large cities

Nature Cities
Journal article Open

Comparing connected vehicle and mobile phone data for urban mobility analysis: Examining mobility diversity and spatial interaction across income groups

Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Journal article Open

FutureScapes: A design thinking approach to blending computational models and scenario narratives for urban futures

Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Journal article Open

Evaluation of an urban nature-based solutions intervention on health-related indicators: A propensity score matching and difference-in-differences study in Nantes Nord

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
Journal article Open

Floral resources in four urban green spaces: an exploratory comparative case study of species composition, pollen, and nectar availability

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article Open

Nonlinear urbanization-climate responses amplified in medium-urbanization zones: by coupling the multi-scale urban canopy model in CAS-ESM2.0

Urban Climate
Journal article Europe Open

Opportunity costs of rewetting agriculturally used organic soils in Germany

Land Use Policy
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean Open

The Emergence of an Urban Mortality Advantage in Brazil: An Assessment of Age and Causes-of-Death Contributions to the Urban–Rural Mortality Gap

Journal of Urban Health
Journal article East Asia Open

Mapping local energy zones in China to support urban-scale energy-carbon research

Building and Environment
Journal article Open

Towards Child-Friendly Cities in Jordan: Identifying and Prioritizing Key Elements via Delphi Consensus

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Open

Investigating Food Hygiene and Safety Practices as Determinants of Business Sustainability in Informal Food Vending

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Open

The Moderate Effects of Access to Play Spaces on Adolescents’ Physical Activity

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article East Asia

RECONTEXTUALIZING TRANSIT ART : Cultural Narratives and Visual Governance across Beijing's Subway Network

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal article Open

Evaluating leaf water potential at turgor loss to assess drought tolerance in temperate and Mediterranean shrub species for dry urban environments

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
Journal article South Asia Open

Herpetofaunal diversity and habitat associations in an urban protected area: a case study from Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary, Delhi

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article East Asia Open

How to optimize local spatial attributes of heterogeneous core street spaces in built-up areas to enhance thermal comfort during heatwaves? A case study of Hiroshima City, Japan in the summer of 2023

Urban Climate
Journal article Open

Fostering data collaboration in digital transportation marketplaces: The role of privacy-preserving mechanisms

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
Journal article North America Open

Factors associated with future transit use intentions: Evidence from large, mid-sized, and small Canadian metropolitan areas

Transport Policy
Journal article Europe

Impossible desegregation? The thwarted implementation of the reform of social housing allocation in France

Housing Studies
Journal article East Asia

Assessing green total factor productivity considering spatial scale effects and technological gaps: A meta-frontier analysis of urban agglomerations in China

Applied Geography
Journal article Open

Operationalizing Social–Ecological Systems Dynamics Through Spatial Metrics for Urban Waste Space Transformation in İzmir, Türkiye

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Open

Digital twins for cities – The rise of the socio-technical system

Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Journal article

Neoliberalising urban growth: local governance and real estate in three Argentine cities

Urban Geography