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Development of a spatial vulnerability index for day–night compound heatwaves and exploration of mechanisms underlying heterogeneity: Township-scale evidence from Anhui Province, China

Nonlinear and heterogeneous effects of 2D/3D factors on global urban heat island using explainable spatial machine learning

Hazardous below-ground housing in transition: environmental inequality, residential flows, and residualization in Korea

Urban Flood Risk Prediction Based on the Hybrid Sampling of Imbalanced Data and Deep Learning Model

Digital inequalities and multidimensional deprivation among marginalised communities in emerging Chinese smart cities: Evidence from ICT-driven public service transformation in Jiangan District, Wuhan

The Future of World Heritage Cities: Heritage Governance and New Urban Commons

Discusses how World Heritage cities are governed and how heritage could be approached as a new form of urban commons.

Refugees as Urban Stakeholders: Lessons From Reception of Ukrainians in German Cities

Draws lessons from how German cities received Ukrainian refugees, framing refugees as stakeholders in urban development rather than only as recipients of aid.

Aleppo After War: The Municipal Vision Before 2011 and Why Urban Recovery Should Not Start from Scratch

Revisits Aleppo's pre-2011 municipal planning vision and argues that post-war recovery should build on it rather than start from a blank slate.

Navigating Urban Futures: Canal Istanbul and Contested Visions of Governance in Turkey

Uses the Canal Istanbul megaproject to examine competing visions of urban governance and the future of the city.

(Food) Justice in the Interim? Temporary Urban Gardening, Welfare Activation, and Plural Valuation

Explores temporary urban gardening projects at the intersection of food justice, welfare activation policies and the plural ways such spaces are valued.

Global patterns of urban heat shaped by climate and morphology

Separates the heat-island contribution of background climate from that of surrounding urban form across 2,213 cities and projects how each will change.

Trees halve urban heat island effect globally but unequal benefits only modestly mitigate climate-change warming

A global estimate of how much existing urban tree canopy lowers air temperature in 8,919 large cities, and how far trees can offset future climate warming.

Urban transport as a social construct: Theory, evidence, and analytical threads

A conceptual piece that treats urban transport as socially constructed, reviewing theory and evidence and setting out analytical threads for research.

Understanding variation in neighbourhood environmental inequalities: The influence of residential segregation, gentrification, and other city-level factors

Asks why neighbourhood exposure to environmental burdens such as air and noise pollution or missing green space differs between cities, testing segregation, gentrification and other city-level factors.

Urban Amenities in Chinese Cities: A Geographical Analysis of Social Group Disparities

A geographical analysis of how access to urban amenities differs between social groups in Chinese cities.

Large-scale measurement of street interface transparency based on street view data and deep learning: A study of first-tier cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou)

Proposes a method to measure how transparent street-level building frontages are, at scale, using open street view images and deep learning in three Chinese megacities.

Street View Imagery Analysis in a Computational Notebook

A hands-on methods chapter showing how to download street view images and apply deep convolutional networks to detect and measure features of the built environment, in a reproducible notebook.

Learning street view representations based on a spatiotemporal contrastive learning framework

Benchmarks representation-learning strategies for street view imagery and introduces a spatiotemporal contrastive framework to learn features useful for perception and socioeconomic prediction tasks.