Private cooling, urban heat, and the limits of collective climate action in tropical cities
Sustainable Cities and Society
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
Exploring the impact of POI cores accessibility on urban vitality in TODs and Emerging TODs: A novel Node-Place model across three TOD-ness typologies
Sustainable Cities and Society
Toward sustainable urban freight: A two-stage station-network design framework for metro-based underground logistics system
Sustainable Cities and Society
Uncertainty-aware life cycle assessment of alternative urban water supply strategies with a case study of Hong Kong
Sustainable Cities and Society
Urban slum vulnerability in informal settlements: A case study of indoor overheating in Ghana
Sustainable Cities and Society
Technical barriers to circular economy implementation in the built environment: A problem-based multi-level review
Sustainable Cities and Society
Urban metabolism as a pathway to advance Nature-based Solutions for climate-resilient cities
Landscape and Urban Planning
The green gap framework: Understanding non and low use of urban greenspaces
Landscape and Urban Planning
Densification in European city-regions: From observed patterns to actors and policy constellations
Landscape and Urban Planning
Deterministic processes result in clustered functional and phylogenetic river insect biodiversity along urbanization gradients in a (sub)tropical megacity
Landscape and Urban Planning
Assessing the potential to scale-up urban agriculture in the Global North
Landscape and Urban Planning
Socio-economic and urban form characteristics driving urban agriculture development: A spatial analysis across 11 large European cities
Landscape and Urban Planning
Second-hand gentrification: Theory and evidence from high-speed rail extensions
Journal of Urban Economics
Housing market congestion: The effects of new for-sale supply on home prices and sale hazards
Journal of Urban Economics
JUE insight: City size, monopsony, and the employment effects of minimum wages
Journal of Urban Economics
Fracking ghost towns: How neighborhood exposure drives population decline
Journal of Urban Economics
Development approval times and new housing supply: Evidence from Los Angeles
Journal of Urban Economics
An integrated influence of transport connectivity on rural development in Qinling Mountainous Area, China:Based on interpretable spatial machine learning
Habitat International
From classification to decoding: machine learning unveils traditional village spatial patterns rooted in environmental domestication—a case from the Northwestern Sichuan Tibetan–Qiang region
Habitat International
Synergistic urbanization via the population–land–quality triad: Assessment and interpretable nonlinear mechanisms for Yangtze River Economic Belt
Habitat International
Predicting multi-scenario land use changes and its carbon emission implications under shared socioeconomic pathways
Habitat International
Cultural clustering, changing peripherality, and culture-led peri-urban transformation in post-reform China: Insights from Songzhuang, Beijing
Habitat International
Unequal utilisation of 15-minute city: Evidence from human mobility data mining
Habitat International
Gender–age inequalities in public service facility demand: Spatiotemporal evidence from Tokyo
Habitat International
Evaluating urban accessibility barriers to walking for people with physical–motor and visual disabilities: A FAHP-based approach
Habitat International
Double-scale driving mechanisms in the evolution of bird ecological network function: A case study of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration
Habitat International
Unravelling the dual displacement risks of urban renewal: A causal inference framework integrating double machine learning and XAI
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Data-driven bike-sharing rebalancing for smart cities: Reinforcement learning, operational constraints, and service-cost trade-offs
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Measuring overlapping suburbanization and peri-urbanization processes in Warsaw Metropolitan Area
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Optimizing 2D/3D urban form for cooling and jogging support across local climate zones in Shanghai: A machine learning and multi-objective approach
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Managing curb space in smart cities: Opportunities and challenges for emerging urban mobility
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
From the ground(water) up: How households are reshaping post-drought urban resilience in Cape Town
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Evaluating the differential impacts of formal and informal environmental regulation on urban wellbeing
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Assessing urban heatwave vulnerability through a multiscale and multicriteria GIS-based approach: Evidence from three Spanish cities
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Exploring the role of built environment and regional context in promoting bicycle commuting: A neighborhood-level analysis in the United States
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Do local politicians share their constituents' attitudes on housing policy?
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
The spatiality of informal settlement displacement: Insights from Mumbai, Ho Chi Minh City and Manila
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Nonlinear relationships between public space recreational services and mental well-being: Mediating roles of passive and active exposure
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Anthropization or naturalization? Distance-dependent patterns of waterfront land use and land cover change in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Housing wealth and mental health in urban China: Evidence from 10 years of longitudinal data
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
A multi-agent large language model workflow for analyzing perceived cultural values from social media: A study of 141 Chinese cities
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Does the 15-min city design and related factors reduce tourists' overtourism strains? The moderating role of social density
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Three-dimensional urban planning drivers for carbon reduction: Insights from machine learning analysis of functional zones in the Greater Bay Area
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Well-being amidst population decline: Contextual effects of population change on life satisfaction in shrinking small and medium-sized cities in Japan
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
The impact of digital infrastructure development on residents' mental health: Evidence from the UK's working-age population
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Green gaps in the Garden City: Ecosystem-based adaptation and the unfinished promise of urban resilience in Kumasi, Ghana
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Understanding changes in residential water consumption during the covid-19 pandemic: A sociodemographic analysis in Southern Brazil
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Socioeconomic and spatial determinants of dynamic inductive power transfer energy system for charging electric vehicles: Evidence from New Zealand
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Brokerage in the sanctuary city: Managing migration at the urban scale
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities
Effects of rapid urbanization on living satisfaction: Insights from a Black Sea city
Cities (Elsevier) · Cities