Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Caregivers’ Perceived Spatial Vulnerability to Child Disappearance in Children’s Routine Activity Spaces: Evidence from Four Communities in Xi’an, China

Spatial Segregation and Socioeconomic Inequality in Loja, Ecuador: A Comparative Analysis Between 2010 and 2022

Bridging critical knowledge and action gaps in urban health: A call for transdisciplinary approaches in urban studies in the era of global population aging and climate change

Decomposition and spatial transfer of green infrastructure benefits in high-density aging urban areas using water tracer model

Relational vulnerability in China's mountainous desakota: Co-residence between left-behind elderly and migrant workers

Asymmetric decoupling of income inequality and residential segregation in South Korea

Universal Design in Urban Heritage Tourism: A Review and Framework for Inclusive Environments with a Focus on Older Adults

Managing platform-mediated night-time urban economies: temporal-spatial disequilibrium and governance responses in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

Assessment of the capacity of active ageing policies in Türkiye to adapt to age-friendly cities

Making and governing a cross-boundary migrant settlement: State entrepreneurialism and migrant agency in Yanjiao, China

Urban transport governance in Accra: Integrative approaches and hybrid modalities of reform

Aspirations and expectations of participation in age-friendly cities: Perspectives from across four European case studies

Governance as obstacle: The reproduction of urban path dependencies in Kuwait

Beyond ‘staying put’? Ageing in place through a relocation-based housing project in Singapore

Two-wheelers and bicycles: Comparing mobility, meaningful activities and well-being among urban-dwelling older adults in Bengaluru and the Northern Netherlands

Social isolation in motion: How socioeconomic segregation in everyday mobility varies by neighborhood racial-ethnic composition in U.S. cities

A Comparative Study of Land Use Change in Historic Metropolises in China and Italy: The Cases of Xi’an and Rome

Exacerbating spatial inequity: Coupling physical barriers and social response in elderly accessibility under extreme floods in Shanghai

Governing the margins: Refugee-led informal governance in Peshawar urban marketplaces

Sequential spatial decoupling for street-level crime: An explainable GeoAI framework

Welfare or divide? The impact of smart city construction on life satisfaction among middle-aged and older adults: A quasi-natural experiment from China

From Thirdspace-making to networked Thirdspace: Micro spatial negotiations among Chinese female marriage migrants in Japan

Circular Management of Urban Packaging Waste: A Qualitative System Dynamics Framework for Reverse Logistics and Sustainable Cities

Ageing, identity and place: Extending intersectional perspectives in age-friendly urbanism through the lived experiences of mid-older adults with intellectual disabilities and LGBT+ identities

Werewolf to Rudolph: Urban disciplining in public space and bubble acculturation of migrants

An Integrative Theoretical Model of Institutional Trust, Risk Communication and Credibility, Risk Perception, and Disaster Preparedness

Crowd Management in Africa: A Systematic Review of Context-Specific Strategies and Gaps

A Place-Based Methodology to Support Sustainable Mobility Transitions in Italian Cities

Predicting U.S. migration flows with online search data

Spatial Differentiation of Population Aging in a Rapidly Aging Latin American Region: Evidence from the Maule Region, Chile, 1992–2024

The Virtual Embodied Experience: Virtual Reality as a Medium for Computing, Analysing, and Representing the Cityscape

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

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.

Metro Monitor 2026: The relationship between immigration and regional economic performance over the past decade

Brookings compares how the 196 largest US metro areas performed from 2014 to 2024 and relates growth, prosperity and inclusion outcomes to changes in the foreign-born share of the workforce.

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.

Cities Outlook 2026

The 19th annual health check of 63 UK cities covers productivity, housing, skills and employment, with a 2026 focus on how disposable incomes and deprivation vary across urban Britain.

Governing a Green Urban Growth Machine: The Case of Kitakyushu Eco-Town, Japan

Urban form typologies in Seoul since 1960: A framework for block-level classification and their changing prevalence over time

Running in summer: spatiotemporal associations of thermal exposure, built environment, and age vulnerability

Coupling urban morphology with non-geometric building-stock attributes for joint optimization of building energy and rooftop–facade photovoltaic potential: A Helsinki urban-block case study

How three-dimensional urban morphology shapes economic-ecological trade-offs: Adjusted effects and spatial heterogeneity in the Pearl River Delta

Unmasking the compact city paradox: Luminous-thermal decoupling reveals financialized carbon hotspots

Scale-dependent associations between 2D/3D urban morphology and land surface temperature from both bird’s-eye view and human-eye view

Spatial heterogeneity and nonlinear threshold effects of the subdistrict-level built environment on respiratory infectious disease incidence: evidence from Hangzhou

Generative AI for urban planning: Designing streetscapes from street-view imagery using diffusion models

Inequality in experienced subjective built environment exposure: A capability approach perspective

Assessing the influence of urban morphology, vegetation, and topography on land surface temperature: A planning-support tool

A Review of Rebuilding Urban Complexity: A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities (2024) by Francesca Froy

Denser housing, more commodified? Comparing the relationship between densification and the production of (de-)commodified housing in Milan, Oslo and Vienna

Extending Urban Thermal Signal Downscaling Across Europe

Regulating thermal comfort via 2D and 3D urban morphology heterogeneity: Evidence from Beijing's local climate zones

Affordable housing vs. unaffordable location: A national investigation on the impacts of urban sprawl on housing, transportation and energy affordability in the United States

Exploring the interplay of sustainability and cultural values in urban design: Analyzing contemporary landscapes through machine learning (ML) insights modeling

Toward evidence-based zoning: A machine learning framework for land use compatibility assessment

Vitality-oriented urban forms are associated with poorer indoor window views in Hong Kong

Exploring the nonlinear impacts of the intra-urban built environment on carbon emissions using an interpretable ensemble machine learning framework

Does Where We Live Influence Life Satisfaction? Exploring Different Territorial Contexts in Murcia

Navigating the multifunctional transition of peri-urban agriculture: The role of adaptive governance in Guangzhou, China

Suburban Development and City Extensions

A Multicriteria Framework for Evaluating Urban Morphology and Spatial Quality Using Landscape Units and Fuzzy-DEMATEL: Evidence from Maringá, Brazil

Winning the double war: Urbicide, informality, and reconstruction in Syrian cities after 2011

Walking With and Walking Through: Assessing Urban Design From Streets to Virtual Reality

Governing Green-Line Transport for Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Traffic Modeling and Urban Mobility Analysis

Interpreting mobility reform through care: Ambivalent authority in Taiwan

What shapes heavy-duty vehicle regulations? A computational case study of stakeholder participation, agency responsiveness, and urban freight decarbonization

Public transit trip purpose inference via cross-attention fusion of dynamic spatiotemporal and static functional semantics

Social Housing and the 15-Minute City: Project-Level Accessibility to Urban Services in Serbia

Neighborhood Park Quality Satisfaction and Perceived Barriers to Use: Evidence from Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

What defines the linear city? Examining accessibility premises with novel flow-based linearity indices

From proximity to access: Childcare enrollment and accessibility in Brazil

Reaffirming Textile Heritage Through 3D Technologies: Scaled Models of a Traditional Embroidered Blouse from Bihor County, Romania, and Their Potential for Inclusive Urban Cultural Tourism, Museum Management and Community Engagement

AgentAccess: Agent-Based Model for Place-Based Spatial Accessibility

Making Complex Environmental Data Accessible Through a Multi‐User Perspective: Learnings From the COUP System

Mapping the relationship between accessibility and resilience in transportation: A systematic literature review

Why don't we walk? Exploring the environmental determinants of walking behaviour in Auckland

Does AI see what we see? Evaluating large multimodal models for perceived urban walkability

A cross-level diagnostic framework for spatial equity of public transportation services: Supply-demand mismatch and influencing factors in the Pearl River Delta

Selecting Sustainability Indicators for Urban Freight Transport: A Framework for Local Authorities

Research on the Construction of a Blast Resilience Evaluation Index System and Quantitative Assessment Model for Metro Systems

Grid-Based Walkability Screening with Publicly Available Data: Robustness of Spatial Priorities in Suwon, South Korea

From spatial accessibility to perceived healthcare opportunity: Diagnosing mismatches for affordable housing residents in Shenzhen

Commute duration, out-of-home discretionary activities and social inclusion as a multifaceted experience: Evidence from Beijing

Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from Public Transport in Urban Environments: A Systematic Review of Quantification Methods, Technologies, and Decarbonization Pathways

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.

An integrated urban heat island metric combining surface and canopy signals: evidence from 13 Japanese cities

Explainable AI for targeted green infrastructure allocation: A predictive framework for urban heat island mitigation

Can improving ecological quality of existing blue-green space mitigate population heat exposure? Evidence from causal inference in a humid coastal subtropical area

Quality-of-life impacts of urban climate mitigation policies: A cost-opportunity DEMATEL-ANP framework

Monitoring and forecasting of urban air pollution and exceedance events: implications for environmental risk assessment and early warning communication using machine learning in sustainable cities

Assessing the role of green infrastructure inequality in heat exposure mitigation across urban–rural gradients

Smart-city pilot vs. non-pilot cities: Long-term trends in urban resilience in China

Forecasting Urban Heat Island hotspots using spatially aware machine learning: Explainable multi-model prediction with spatial validation and uncertainty analysis

Quantifying the nonlinear interactions between low-carbon development and urban resilience for urban renewal: An LV–ML–Vivid analysis

A comparative machine learning assessment for urban flood susceptibility modeling and future flood susceptibility projections in Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA), Bangladesh

Can urban green space equitably regulate flood risk? a risk-adjusted spatial availability and multi-objective optimization framework for high-density cities

Pricing urban flood risk: Evidence from the housing market in Beijing

Carbon emission and health impacts of remote working: A case study of the Helsinki capital region

Impacts of high-speed railway on carbon emission: A comparative study between China and Japan during 21st century

Morecambe Area Gaming Environment (MAGE): An Applied Case Study for Coastal Futures and Adaptations

The Role of Understory Vegetation in Addressing Urban Heat Island Effects in Kansas City, MO

Vegetation Mitigation of Surface Urban Heat Islands in Three South American Cities: A Multi-Method Analysis

Utilizing citizen science data to understand air pollution exposure disparities in three Irish cities

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

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

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.

Platform-mediated food delivery and the spatiotemporal restructuring of urban food systems: An infrastructural perspective

Three-dimensional thermal optimization of green infrastructure at an urban open space in Changsha, China: A design-stage evaluation framework using numerical simulation

Integrating life cycle assessment and spatial evolution modeling to evaluate the carbon reduction potential of urban agriculture

Operationalising a territorial nature-based solutions model: an indicator-based case study of URBAN GreenUP Valladolid

Space, sentiment, and social comparison: Decoding urban park satisfaction with Large Language Models

Mapping social health in community green spaces: A Q-methodology and grounded theory exploration

Integrating Computer Vision and Geospatial Analysis to Understand Group Behavior Dynamics in Urban Parks

A multimodal framework for Linking perceived Affordances, Emotions, and behavioral Rhythms in urban parks

Biodiversity is a key motivation for European urban green space planning and management

Urban–rural gradient effects on greenspace exposure equality based on an area–structure assessment framework: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta

Assessment of the Effect of Urban Street Canyon Morphology and Thermal Conditions on Outdoor Occupancy and Use: Case Study of “Ben Bou Laïd” Avenue, Setif (Algeria)

Do non-governmental organizations contribute to urban green space equity? A systematic review of impacts and pathways

Beyond proximity: Green space visitation patterns and physical health outcomes

Does urban blue-green space rejuvenate residents' mental well-being in megacity? An empirical analysis of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Microclimate Control for Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Apartment Residential Green Spaces: A Systematic Review of Climate-Responsive Design Strategies and Assessment Methods

Analyzing perceptions of urban agriculture's contributions to sustainable city development

Uncovering stakeholder preferences for urban blue-green infrastructure siting: Insights from online swing weights elicitation

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

(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.

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.

Evaluating urban street views through collective emotional perception from multimodal social media cityscape posts: An R-ECoT-based interpretable framework

A geospatial decision support system for infrastructure planning: a GIS-machine learning-MCDM framework with an application to EV charging station planning

Urban digital twins as spatiotemporal synchronization systems: a four-layer framework for sustainable and resilient cities

Modeling urban perception with large language models: A systematic review

Mapping vitality in Xi'an: Integrating Jacobs' criteria with machine learning for urban regeneration

The Prediction Optimization Bridge (POB): A Surrogate Assisted Random Forest–NSGA-II Framework for Energy Efficient Vehicle Routing

From Smart Tourism to Metatourism: A Systematized Integrative Review of Simulation-Based Governance in Urban Cultural Tourism

Assessing the association between street view–derived perceived liveliness and street thefts

Understanding Leapfrog Development for Better Urban Governance: Agent-Based Modeling and Parcel-Level Evidence

Urban Road Crash Severity Prediction Using Explainable Machine Learning and Spatial Hotspot Analysis: Evidence from Loja, Ecuador

Regional Innovation Disparities in Kazakhstan: Input–Output Misalignment in an Official Panel, 2014–2025

Adapting large language models for urban trip purpose inference: A domain-informed textual representation and fine-tuning framework

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.

Beyond the perimeter walls: Negotiated porosity and the governance of megaproject edges in Metro Manila

Heat health risk assessment of major Chinese urban agglomerations considering inter-city interactions

Integrating Warsaw's Metro and Tram systems for spatial inclusion: Synergies in job accessibility

Nested economies of scale in global city mass

A national dataset of downtown business district boundaries for pre-automobile U.S. cities and towns

Evolving landscapes of division: Industrial bias and the core–periphery employment dynamics in China’s urban agglomerations

Governing street vendors, assembling differentiated Chinese statehood: The case of Guanting Street, Hefei

Investment Networks and Resilience Evolution in Urban Agglomerations from the Perspective of Enterprise Investment: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China

Beyond spillovers: Constructing an efficient synergy network to balance ecological surplus-deficit in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

Global Cities Index 2026

Oxford Economics ranks the world's 1,000 largest cities on economics, human capital, quality of life, environment and governance, combining historical data with its own forecasts.

EIU Global Liveability Index 2026

The annual EIU ranking scores 173 cities on 30 indicators across stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, based on a May 2026 survey.

Big Cities Outlook 2026

Building on Cities Outlook 2026, this report examines the economic performance of the UK's big cities outside London and how growth, jobs and housing could raise living standards.

Global Power City Index 2025

The Mori Memorial Foundation evaluates 48 major cities on 72 indicators across economy, R&D, cultural interaction, liveability, environment and accessibility, and adds a new startup-ecosystem index.

2025 Global Cities Report

Kearney's annual report pairs the Global Cities Index (158 cities, 31 metrics) with a forward-looking Outlook, framing city competitiveness around readiness for the "intelligence age".

Build for whom? Contested state entrepreneurialism and the governance of affordable rental housing in Shanghai, China

Spatiotemporal dynamics of informal settlements across argentine cities: A national-scale analysis

Unveiling episodes of everyday informal politics in internationally funded slum upgrading programs

Selective responsibility: Environmental, social and governance frameworks and the containment of environmental and social harm in urban real estate

Estimating the causal effect of extreme flooding on urban property markets: A case study of Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Complex Value of Temporary Communities

Economies of Collective Temporary Occupations in Brussels

Investigating the Links Between Air Pollution, Arnona Property Taxation and Housing Prices: A Hedonic Analysis of the Haifa Housing Market

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Mechanisms of Cultural Facilities in Nanjing: A POI-Based Analysis

Resisting gentrification: Density of belonging in strangled kampung of BSD City, Indonesia

From diagnosis to action: A phased in-situ upgrade framework for informal settlements in Taiz, Yemen

GOVERNING OR MANIPULATING LEVERAGE TO BUILD MORE CITIES? Borrowing in the Shadows by Local Governments and Real Estate Developers in China

World Cities Report 2026: The Global Housing Crisis – Pathways to Action

UN-Habitat's flagship biennial report, launched at the 13th World Urban Forum in Baku, is devoted to the worldwide housing crisis and how planning, governance and finance can respond.

How does urbanization shape regime shifts in social–ecological systems? Evidence from China

The need for a robust policy framework for governing the urban transition toward climate neutrality: A comparative analysis of nine Italian cities

From planetary urbanization to global scenarios of depopulation. A geographical perspective

Urbanization, historical connectivity and socioeconomic status shape multispecies grassland diversity in a metropolitan region

Urbanization through the eyes of a spreading semi-aquatic mammal: contributions of multi-scale analysis to management decisions

Beyond the Mega-City Narrative in Urban Informality: Informality and Water Precarity in Jaipur, India

South Sudan Urbanization Review: Cities as Anchors of Recovery and Resilience

Launched with the Government of South Sudan, the review argues that rapid urbanisation should be harnessed as a driver of stability, jobs and inclusive growth in a post-conflict setting.

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.

Agentic generation for urban building energy services: from resources to executable services

An integrated agent-based and system dynamics framework for sustainable urban water metabolism management: Linking individual behavioral responses with system-level evolution

Coordinating urban energy resilience and high-quality development: Toward sustainable transition in Yellow River Basin cities

Remote work and circular economy goals in municipal administration: paradoxical resource flows in Polish cities

The Opportunities and Limitations of Citizen Participation in Positive Energy Districts-Strategies for Just PED Governance

Fate of Post-Harvest Fungicides and Microbial Dynamics in a Household Bokashi-Based Fermentation System: Implications for Urban Organic Waste Management

Temporary appropriation: A comparative conceptual review of emergent urbanisms in public space

AI-Enabled Heritage Storytelling and Sustainable Visitor Behavior in Urban Heritage Destinations: The Roles of Heritage Connectedness and Stewardship Intention

Temporality in urban heritage studies: A systematic thematic review of conceptual themes and research gaps

Digital Access to Restricted Sacred Heritage: Implications for Urban Tourism Planning

Bridging the Gap Between Data and Action: Stakeholder Use of Tourism Observatory Information for Urban Governance, the Case of A Coruña

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.

Maternal mental health liveability shaped by composite residential environmental profiles

Structural imbalance in urban transition: spatial misalignment characteristics and driving mechanisms of low-carbon resilience and residents’ well-being

Pandemic shifts in urban place use and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from Stockholm

Towards healthy homes: Exploring the effects of housing typologies on mental health in Australian capital cities

Voices from the city: Sentiment across public open space types in Hong Kong before and during COVID-19

Digitalisation and regional inequality

Smart city performance in suburbanizing contexts: A configurational and exploratory analysis of Chinese cities

Junk Maps: How Urban Mobility Apps (Re)Produce Digital Waste and Infrastructural Overload in Milan and Amsterdam

How Digital Infrastructure Drives Urban Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Human–AI Co-Production: Normative Challenges in Public Space Design

SDG 11 Global Synthesis Report 2026

UN-Habitat's periodic review of progress on Sustainable Development Goal 11 (sustainable cities), presented in July 2026; it records some gains but warns the housing crisis threatens overall progress.

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.

From Frankenstein to Gulliver urbanism: Reframing AI and scale in urban theory

Polishing the perfect: The ambitions of smart urbanism