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August 2026

437 items published.

Land Use & Urban Form · 93Climate, Environment & Resilience · 89Urban Society & Demography · 82Transport & Mobility · 78Urban Ecology & Green Space · 67Housing & Real Estate · 55Urban Data Science & Methods · 52Health & Wellbeing · 52Urbanisation & the Global South · 42Urban & Regional Economy · 25Governance, Policy & Finance · 21Infrastructure, Energy & Services · 21Urban Theory & History · 20Smart Cities & Digital Urbanism · 19Culture, Heritage & Public Space · 17
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Spatial Computing and the Phygital City: Towards Digital Habitation

Urban Planning (Cogitatio) · Urban Planning
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Conflict or Collaboration in the Management of Urban Green Areas: Activists vs. Decision‐Makers

Urban Planning (Cogitatio) · Urban Planning
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Identifying an urban ventilation corridor network from 3D urban morphology: a comparative analysis of vegetation's impact

Urban Climate
Journal article Sub-Saharan Africa Open

Learning from Africa's urban climate innovations: A new framework and comparative analysis to foster transformative climate action

Urban Climate
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A hybrid simulation framework for modelling and analysing urban traffic pollution under key influencing factors

Urban Climate
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A multi-criteria readiness assessment of cities for sustainable autonomous vehicle infrastructure

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

The rider as an agent of urban assemblage: The case of Seville (Spain)

Journal of Urban Affairs
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Neighborhood Change and Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: Evidence from HMDA Data

Journal of Planning Education and Research
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UBEM driven by localized weather data for addressing urban building energy risks under compound heatwaves and UHI: a campus-scale study

Building and Environment
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Urban deprivation map highlights a hidden burden beyond megacities

Nature Cities
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Optimizing urban morphology for enhancing outdoor thermal comfort and cooling energy use in desert climate using SPEA2 algorithm

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

Quality reveals what quantity conceals: Deceptive equity patterns in urban green space distribution

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

Urban metrics affect bee-plant network structure without shifting interaction dissimilarity

Urban Ecosystems
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Urban landscape composition drives species-specific responses of aerial insectivorous bats in an Amazonian megacity

Urban Ecosystems
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Four decades of inland invasion by the Formosan subterranean termite in Alabama: expansion associated with transportation infrastructure

Urban Ecosystems
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Bus fleet electrification: A comprehensive review of charging, operations, planning and sustainability

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
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The citizen and the vagabond: A politics of mobility , by Tim Cresswell

Journal of Urban Affairs
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Multidimensional accessibility analysis across transportation modes: a hybrid framework for constructing centered time cartograms

Journal of Transport Geography
Journal article Oceania Open

From place to prescription: salutogenic infrastructure and the environmental foundations of green prescribing

Cities & Health
Journal article East Asia

Localizing challenges: Perception and localization of societal threats in two bay areas

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

The real estate turn in the slum: India’s urban land monetization in comparative perspective

Urban Studies (SAGE) · Urban Studies
Journal article Middle East & North Africa Open

Refugee Camps as Co-Produced Urban Systems: Governance, Spatial Violence, and Grassroots Agency in Protracted Displacement

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

Impact of the New Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan on the Quality of Urban Dust: The Case of the City of Murcia (SE Spain)

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Community-Scale Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment: A PRISMA-ScR Review of Spatial, Social, and Governance Mechanisms in Urban Sustainability

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Building Back Better Under Siege: Housing Reconstruction and Built-Environment Improvement in Al-Qubba, Gaza City

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

Spatiotemporal Assessment of Expressway-Induced Land Cover and Landscape Transformation in Sri Lanka

REGION (ERSA) · REGION
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Background complexity affects landscape aesthetic quality: Evidence from subject evaluations and fractal dimension analysis

Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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A multi-dimensional framework for measuring urban inclusiveness and crime using mobility traces: A socio-spatial study of Lisbon

Environment and Planning B · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean

How urbanisation and host plants affect insect herbivore communities? a trait-based group analysis on a native tree of Central Argentina

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article East Asia

Multi-scaled mechanisms and planning solutions for urban park-based microclimate resilience – A case from Xi'an, China

Urban Climate
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Spatiotemporal variations and factors associated with surface urban heat islands in South Asia

Urban Climate
Journal article Southeast Asia Open

100 m resolution projection of future urban heat Island of a tropical Coastal City

Urban Climate
Journal article Oceania Open

Latent paths in mode choice models: incorporating street-level environment features for active travel policy

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
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Following the footprints of visitors: Spatiotemporal public transportation profiles using smart card data

Journal of Transport Geography
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Combined effects of cool material coatings and vertical greening on pedestrian thermal comfort in street canyons

Building and Environment
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean Open

Activity patterns of arboreal mammals that move using power lines in a Neotropical urban ecosystem

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article East Asia Open

The Failure of Land-Driven Development: Challenges to Local State Entrepreneurialism in China

Urban Affairs Review
Journal article Europe Open

Decarbonizing the maritime sector: cold ironing and e-fuels. Case study: Gran Canaria

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
Journal article East Asia

Accessibility and skill premiums: How urban high-speed rail networks reshape China's labor market wage structure

Transport Policy
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Improving the Denominator of Safety Rankings for Bicyclist and Pedestrian Safety

Journal of Urban Health
Journal article East Asia Open

Wanghong urbanism: Platform aesthetics and urban change in Kennedy Town, Hong Kong

Journal of Urban Affairs
Journal article North America

The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution

Journal of the American Planning Association
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Minimum Viable Data (MVD) for digital twinning: Underserved community energy representation in data scarcity scenarios

Building and Environment
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Urban Fragmentation and Spatial Inequalities in Public Transport Accessibility: Evidence from El Bayadh, an Intermediate Arid City in Algeria

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Urban Forestry for Greener and Healthier Cities

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Sub-Saharan Africa Open

Assessing Water Scarcity and Infrastructure Challenges in eThekwini Municipality

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

Managing Cultural Tourism and Heritage Sites in Urban Areas—Application of Q-Analysis to Europe

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Urban agriculture as a land-use policy instrument for protecting peri-urban agricultural land: A grid-based analysis from Erzurum, Türkiye

Land Use Policy
Journal article South Asia Open

Antecedents of Digital Twin Adoption for Precision Cancer Care in Urban India

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

The “Fine Art” of “Green” Land Sealing? Competing Discourses on Expansion‐Oriented Suburban Planning

Urban Planning (Cogitatio) · Urban Planning