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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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A politics of density: Material provisions, the crowd, and dense living in urban Asia

Urban Studies (SAGE) · Urban Studies
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean Open

Persistent Coupling and Institutionally Driven Recovery in Colombian Municipal Solid Waste Management

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

FROM PAVEMENT TO PIXELS : Street Artists’ and Urban Policy Responses to Generative AI in Bandung's Creative Economy

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
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Models based on urbanization and environmental heterogeneity jointly explain the distribution of plant species diversity and composition in urban green spaces

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

Urban greenspace for nature, society and as culture: Case studies across Eastern Europe

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
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Synergistic effects of wind direction, walkway position, and tree canopy characteristics on pedestrian thermal comfort in urban riverside greenways

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

Beyond BioBlitzes: expert-led and occasional citizen science both shape urban biodiversity data — a case study from Siena, Italy

Urban Ecosystems
Journal article Europe Open

Trophic downgrading in the city: urban structural simplification erodes the snake component of reptile assemblages

Urban Ecosystems
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Urban heat vulnerability in a warming climate in Denmark: Projected temperature-related mortality for Copenhagen and the remaining areas

Urban Climate
Journal article East Asia Open

Nonlinear Effects of Traffic Supply and Land Use on Employment–Residential Ratio in Transit-Oriented Station Areas: Evidence from the Highest-Density Built-Up Zone of Shenzhen

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
Journal article Latin America & Caribbean Open

Estimating carbon storage and sequestration in peri-urban forests under urban growth uncertainty: The Mexico City case

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

Data-driven rebalancing support for station-based bike sharing: A hybrid centralized-distributed deployment in Chiba city

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
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Revealing the built environment impacts of idling emissions from electric ride-hailing vehicles through explainable machine learning

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
Journal article Southeast Asia

Enclave encounters: Transient migrants as spatial mediators in Paya Lebar, Singapore

Journal of Urban Affairs
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Pushed to the edges? Electivity patterns of urban stream homeless encampments in environmentally burdened areas

Journal of Urban Affairs
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Closing the ‘outdoor living room’: Investigating the impact of COVID-19 public green space closures on the housing experiences of low-income renters in Toronto

Journal of Urban Affairs
Journal article East Asia

Capacity of multimodal public transport systems to mitigate urban heritage island effect: Insights from Wuhan, China

Journal of Transport Geography
Journal article North America Open

Advancing Climate and Equity Goals in Regional Transportation Planning: Learning from California

Journal of the American Planning Association
Journal article Europe

Instituting civics: the Spanish social mobilization for housing justice

European Planning Studies
Journal article Middle East & North Africa

Virtual steps, real impacts: evaluating micro-scale streetscape design on walkability using immersive virtual reality in Tehran, Iran

Cities & Health
Journal article Europe Open

Urban heat mitigation assessment based on surface unsealing potential and microclimate modelling

Building and Environment
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“Spatial dynamics of urban expansion in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area: A fixed-zone analysis of land use change and polycentric growth”

Applied Geography
Journal article South Asia

Does urban agriculture make us healthier and happier? Examining self-reported wellbeing outcomes of home gardening in India

Urban Studies (SAGE) · Urban Studies
Journal article Europe Open

Assessing Urban Environmental Performance of European Cities Through Citizens’ Perceptions

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

Transportation Infrastructure and Sustainable Regional Development: Evidence from Transport Professionals in Greece and Implications for European Urban Policy

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Greening Public Infrastructure for Local Climate Resilience: A Case Study of the Mount Vernon District in Virginia

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Designing for Social Fitness: A Relational Model Linking Urban Environments to Social Wellbeing

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Urban expansion and the collapse of tropical stream ecosystems

Nature Cities
Journal article East Asia Open

Waterlogging tolerance of Rhododendron × pulchrum ‘Oomurasaki’ as a candidate shrub for roadside stormwater management in Japan

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

Evaluating urban heat adaptation strategies for extreme heatwaves in complex terrain: A case study of Grenoble, France

Urban Climate
Journal article Europe Open

Evaluating ERA5-Land air temperature and dew point biases in built-up environments in the UK

Urban Climate
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The uneven distribution of risks and rewards in multi-level mission-oriented green industrial policies

Regional Studies
Journal article East Asia

The effect of polycentric urban spatial structure on individual housing affordability in China

Regional Studies
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City of All Sizes: Zootopia as a Blueprint for Inclusive Design and Accessibility

Journal of Planning Education and Research
Journal article East Asia Open

Institutionalizing informal conversions: how industrial buildings became rental apartments in post-industrial Shanghai

Housing Studies
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From pilot to paradigm: a call for entrepreneurial strategies to scale up the implementation of nature-based solutions

European Planning Studies
Journal article East Asia Open

Mechanisms and spatial spillover effects of artificial intelligence industrial agglomeration on regional innovation level

Applied Geography
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Community-Engaged Methods in the Coastal City: Combining Participant Observation, Archival Research, and Interviews for a Qualitative Multi-Method Approach

Urban Science (MDPI) · Urban Science
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Urban Heat as a Development-Health Risk: Built-Environment Drivers of Physical Disease, Mental Well-Being and Climate-Responsive Planning

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

“Wanted” vs “Unwanted”: Different Faces of Suburbanisation in Polish Cities—The Case of Gdańsk

Urban Planning (Cogitatio) · Urban Planning
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
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Green infrastructure and housing prices: Heterogeneous effects and sensitivity to modeling choices

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · Urban forestry & urban greening
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What’s it worth? Willingness-to-pay for urban green spaces for urban year-round green exercise

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

Amphibian and reptile diversity and landscape connectivity in the Central Andes of Colombia: a Local Climate Zones approach

Urban Ecosystems
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Municipal Issue Publics

Urban Affairs Review
Journal article North America Open

Private vs social costs of vehicle adoption and ownership: a sales-weighted analysis

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
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Public transport availability, delayed learning to drive and later life car dependence

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
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From global benchmarking to local policy readiness: Assessing governance capacity for multipurpose cadastre implementation

Land Use Policy
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A methodological framework for integrated climate adaptation and mitigation assessment in urban design

Land Use Policy
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Sense of caring environment: reimagining cities as atmospheres of care

Cities & Health