Cities

Papers
(The median citation count of Cities is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development: A critical review513
Editorial Board300
Parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric models of urban growth284
Determinants of the level of informality amongst female street food vendors in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from two regions in Ghana280
Exploring the role of the counties in preventing financial exclusion in population shrinking territories211
Green impact of climate resilient city development: New evidence from China194
The effects of overwork on rural-to-urban migrant workers' intention to settle in cities: The evidence from China169
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs139
Denser habitats: A longitudinal study of the impacts of residential density on objective and perceived neighbourhood amenity in Brisbane, Australia133
Transmission pattern and city-based network of COVID-19 during sporadic outbreaks125
Public acceptability of electric vehicle chargepoint installation in neighbourhoods: A psychometric approach to assess resident reaction119
After moving back to the nest: The heterogeneous effect of returning to parental home on the employment outcomes by income group119
Intra-urban relocation patterns and correlation with built environment factors of population by age groups: A case study of Wuhan114
Kunz and post-communist geographies of urban poverty in Romania106
Understanding Addis Ababa's urban transition and slum clearance through gentrification theory105
Times and spaces of crime in the Historic Centre of Porto: Evidence from official data104
Political and cultural memory in urban space: Public naming practices in Northern Cyprus103
Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case103
The theory and praxis of mixed-use development - An integrative literature review102
An investigation into the health related quality of life (HRQoL) of older women living in nursing homes in Iran with particular reference to physical activity101
Pedaling through the cityscape: Unveiling the association of urban environment and cycling volume through street view imagery analysis101
Exploring the linkage between the neighbourhood environment and mental well-being: Mediating roles of stress, physical activity, and neighbourhood satisfaction99
Measuring urban shrinkage in India using night-light data from DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-NPP satellite sensors97
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China92
Revealing the impact patterns of urban morphology on land surface temperature in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China92
Urban food shopping trends: An analysis of Istanbul's grocery preferences via multi group structural equation model91
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities88
Climate and socio-economic drivers of urban tree abundance, richness and composition in Australian cities87
Does compact city shape matter to residents' happiness?86
Unveiling the dynamics and determinants of world city network: Insights from global airline data86
Barcelona as a case study for the effectiveness of short-term rental market regulations86
Pandemic urban citizenship: Cities, migrants, and Covid-19 crisis. Introduction to the special issue86
Cork City, Ireland: A blueprint for transformation in second-tier urban centres81
Darker nights, happier lives? The impact of urban green space night-time accessibility on residents' subjective happiness: A case study of the main urban area of Hangzhou81
The attraction gradient of urban functions: How does functional mix at multiple scales predict urban vitality80
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China80
Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends79
Who are the gig workers? Evidence from mapping the residential locations of ride-hailing drivers by a big data approach78
Urban quantum leap: A comprehensive review and analysis of quantum technologies for smart cities78
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul77
Deep learning meets urban design: Assessing streetscape aesthetic and design quality through AI and cluster analysis76
Local responses to climate change: Navigating mainstreaming and transformative adaptation75
How does commuting influence time use and domain and life satisfaction? Evidence from dual-earner couples with school-age children in a small Chinese city75
Evolution of China's intercity venture capital network: Preferential attachment vs. path dependence75
Unveiling citizen-government interactions in urban renewal in China: Spontaneous online opinions, reginal characteristics, and government responsiveness75
From complaints to insights: A geographical analysis of illegal dumping by citizen sensor data74
Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities74
A pathway towards resilient cities: National resilience knowledge networks70
Older adults' capability to use community facilities and the associations with neighborhood satisfaction and well-being in high-density urban environments70
Do citizens in Spanish municipalities have the same perception of the solution to depopulation? Influence of population size69
ICT usage and perceived walkability of older adults: A walk-along study in Singapore69
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities68
A key to urban economic growth or an unnecessary burden? Opening airports in small and medium-sized cities68
Effects of meteorology on bike-sharing: Cases of 13 cities using non-linear analyses68
Comparison of the distributions of centrality indices: Using spatial big data to understand urban spatial structure68
Multi-scenario urban growth boundaries and trade-offs among land use functions68
US cities' permitting or restriction of housing development68
Revealing non-work travel patterns under the influence of multiple actors: An integrated geospatial agent-based approach67
City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’67
The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach67
Block clubs and crime in Chicago: The transplant hypothesis67
Public preferences for government supply of public open space: A neo-institutional economic and lifecycle governance perspective67
Reconciling data-driven crime analysis with human-centered algorithms66
Joint optimal pricing strategy of shared autonomous vehicles and road congestion pricing: A regional accessibility perspective65
Decoding the built environment-behavior nexus at residential boundaries: A multi-dimensional analysis of 85 street segments in Dalian65
Spatial concentration of gambling opportunities: An urban scale perspective65
Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi64
How do urban function and development level effect construction level of green infrastructure? A case study of 110 built-up areas of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Zone64
Assessing energy efficiency at urban scale through the use of energy performance certificates: An application in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy63
Railway diplomacy: China's infrastructure investments and Africa's global connectivity63
Do immigrants build regional resilience? An analysis of U.S. regions from 1980 to 201063
Young workers, jobs-housing balance, and commute distance: Findings from two high-housing-cost U.S. regions62
Investigating the socio-spatial relations of the built environment using the Space Syntax analysis – A case study of Tirana City60
Pleasant walking environments enhance emotional experiences and reduce brain activation - an application of fNIRS in urban studies60
Does COVID-19 lockdown restriction reduce graduate mobility intentions in China? Learning from high frequency job searching behaviors60
Flow-based fractal dimensions of urban road networks: Insights from 135 global cities59
The effect of a multi-school zoning policy on the capitalization of educational resources: A quasi-natural experiment in Beijing59
The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities59
Does low carbon city pilot promote urban carbon unlocking?—— A heterogeneity analysis based on machine learning59
The uneven power of the platform: Variations in E-commerce entrepreneurial behaviours in urban, suburban, and rural contexts58
The synergistic effect between highway traffic flow and potential economic connectivity under network space in the megacity region58
Distance decay as a measure of city attractiveness: Insights from migration flows in China58
Examining the non-linear association between the built environment around residence and the risk of obesity among children and adolescents at different school stages in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China57
Key predictors of greenhouse gas emissions for cities committing to mitigate and adapt to climate change57
Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being56
Relationship between POI configurations and environmental benefits of dockless bike-sharing system: A case study of Shenzhen56
Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development across Taiwan Strait since the 21st century54
Use of machine learning in understanding transport dynamics of land use and public transportation in a developing city54
Municipal experimentation in times of crises: (Re-)defining Melbourne's innovation district54
Three circuits of capital and urbanization transformation from the perspective of capital in China54
Beyond urban parks: Integrating residential greenspaces to address greenspace inequality54
Green gentrification and who will benefit from green infrastructure regeneration? A quasi-experimental study in China54
Are Barcelona's climate shelters accessible to vulnerable residents? A mobility justice analysis54
Health workers' housing and moral geographies of citizenship in Papua New Guinea53
Mapping informal/formal morphologies over time: Exploring urban transformations in Vietnam53
Understanding interdependencies in urban pluvial flood risk management: Insights from Amsterdam and Rotterdam53
Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions53
The promise and pitfalls of early project notification meetings; illuminating Santa Ana's sunshine ordinance53
How does geographical environment affect residents' perception of social justice: An empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing53
Creating livable cities for healthy ageing: Cognitive health in older adults and their 15-minute walkable neighbourhoods52
Urban expansion in South Tangerang: Analyzing Bintaro Jaya as a private city52
E-commerce empowers urban entrepreneurial activity—Empirical evidence from the construction of national e-commerce demonstration cities52
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand51
Untangling our checkered past: Investigating the link between local historic district designation and spatial segregation history51
Urban poverty patterns in Pyongyang (North Korea): A deep-learning-based spatial analysis51
Urban management professions through a gendered lens: Women’s participation in Saudi Arabia’s urban planning sector51
Assessing the multidimensional structuring of quality of life. Evidence from a French city51
Retreat from flood zones: Simulating land use changes in response to compound flood risk in coastal communities51
The changes in job-housing balance during the Covid-19 period in China51
Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city51
Leveraging connected-vehicle data to identify and analyze park service areas50
From industrial heartland to urban tourism destination: Balancing growth and community well-being in Amsterdam Noord50
Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles50
Structural preconditions for adaptive urban areas: Framework rules, several property and the range of possible actions49
The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts49
Tech firm births and agglomeration economies: (un)related variety, specialization, and spatial externalities49
Disaster-induced disruption of policies for informal urban settlements49
Walkability and colonialism: The divergent impact of colonial planning practices on spatial segregation in East Africa48
Editorial Board48
Factors contributing to urban isolation: A mixed-methods analysis of three new towns in Tehran48
Circularity on what grounds? Advancing learning for circular area development at the interface of proximity and precarity48
Planning for everyone? An examination of state bike plans for equity related content48
Corrigendum to ‘urbanization under extreme climate events leads to synchronized decreases in flood protection and increases in vulnerability’ cities volume 160 (2025) 1–11/10582747
Do airports create jobs? Evidence from online job sites47
Gendered space: Women's presence and use of space in Sabzeh-meydan of Tehran Bazaar47
Lifestyle centers, the next boom and bust after shopping malls? Governance, public-private partnerships, and Guy Debord's spectacle in Dallas-Fort Worth46
Planning data center locations in Swedish municipalities. A comparative case study of Luleå and Stockholm46
Effect of crime on housing tenure: Evidence from longitudinal data in Australia46
Digital (un)sustainability at an urban university in Sydney, Australia46
Planning policies for the driverless city using backcasting and the participatory Q-Methodology46
How to evaluate urban emotions using twitter social media?45
(Un)making space for manufacturing in the city: The double edge of pro-makers urban policies in Brussels45
Hidden gems: The potential of places and social innovation for circular territories in Bogotá45
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance: Unveiling innovative strategies of self-organization in Istanbul45
Identifying individual priorities for walking infrastructure investments: A Best-Worst Scaling approach44
The influence mechanism of rural physical environment on the mental health of older adults in Sichuan, China: A multi-level and multi-dimensional comparative study44
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques44
Space–society dynamics of residential differentiation: An integrated big data and interview study of migrants and locals in Hangzhou44
Analysing the social practice of urban commons-oriented coproduction: The case of Sant Cugat del Vallès in Spain44
Travel flow patterns of diverse population groups and influencing built environment factors: A case study of Beijing44
Co-evolution of skill structure and labor market processes in US regions, 2003–202343
Revisiting urban environmental amenities: A review of housing price impacts and policy perspectives for equitable amenity provision43
Governing the urban commons: Lessons from Ostrom's work and commoning practice in cities43
Does flood risk matter in shaping climate gentrification? Evidence from Brisbane (2006–2021)43
Role of remote working center in a hybrid work culture43
Urban green recovery was insufficient to increase human greenspace exposure equality: Long-term evidence from megacity Shanghai, China43
Competitive or complementary role of bike-sharing to public transport: Budapest case study43
A multidimensional investigation on spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China's urban-rural income gap (URIG) since the 21st century43
When do homeowners feel the same as renters? Housing price appreciation and subjective well-being in South Korea43
Privatization of play: Opening gated playgrounds improves access but deepens inequalities43
The impact of COVID-19 on the short-term rental market in Spain: Towards flexibilization?43
Impact of comparative advantages in origin and destination cities on return migrant workers' entrepreneurship: An induced network analysis43
Barriers to car-free streets: Identifying opponents of pedestrianization in Montreal42
The impact of age on people's use and perception of urban green spaces and their effect on personal health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic—A case study of the metropolitan area of Vienna, A42
Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment42
Women's walking behavior: Investigating contributing factors in urban contexts42
The impact of the global 100 resilient cities strategy on urban resilience under climate change42
Characterizing the temporally stable structure of community evolution in intra-urban origin-destination networks42
The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness42
A novel methodological approach for analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of residential segregation: The case of Berlin42
Housing estates' trajectories in post-socialist countries: Similarities and differences of Estonian and Czech cities42
Investigating the effect of industry-specific economic distance on the prediction of intercity population movement42
International academic or citizen scholar?: Singaporean returnees in the global city42
Social entrepreneurship as a driver for social inclusion and sustainable tourism: The case of Herculaneum, Italy42
Evaluating the public acceptance of sustainable mobility interventions responding to Covid-19: The case of the Great Walk of Athens and the importance of citizen engagement41
Beyond displacement: Gentrification, misrecognition and resistance in Rotterdam's Tweebosbuurt41
Exploring the drivers of urban renewal through comparative modeling of multiple types in Shenzhen, China41
Segregation within segregation: Informal settlements beyond socially homogenous areas41
Implication of institutional informality in the historical urban evolution of Morocco: Case studies of Fes and Oujda41
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam41
Exploring hidden qualities of public spaces that contribute to shaping urban nightlife in a Metropolis41
Proximity-centred accessibility – A conceptual debate involving planning practitioners worldwide41
Assessing drivers for managing knowledge in the context of smart cities40
The alternate infrastructures that support digital counter publics: Digital inequality in an Australian public housing estate40
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms40
Men's fear in public places: A Stockholm case study40
Neighborhood environment, socioeconomic conditions, and intergenerational mobility40
Exploring the many housing elasticities of supply: The case of Australia40
Disparities in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year analysis39
Assessing the perception of urban landscape from the perspective of residents of multi-storey buildings39
How do mini-parks serve in groups? A visit analysis of mini-park groups in the neighbourhoods of Nanjing39
Chrono-urbanism and liveable urban forms: A morphological analysis of alternative x-minute city models in Rosetta City39
Exploring the impacts of topography on characteristics of urban road network: A global empirical analysis39
Disentangling metropolis-city relationships in the governance of sustainability transitions: An in-depth exploration of the case of Rouen, France39
Food sharing in a pandemic: Urban infrastructures, prefigurative practices and lessons for the future39
Corrigendum to “Aligning nature-based solutions and housing policy: A study on stakeholders' perceptions of nature within informal settlement upgrading projects” [Cities 153 (2024) 105264]39
Exploring informal vexillgeographies: Flags, urban place names, and local identities in Minsk, Belarus38
The right to the city in American metropolises: An assessment for Honduran migrants38
Decision-making processes for parkification: Developing an evaluation framework through the transformation of post-industrial sites into urban parks38
Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities: A case study of Amsterdam38
Time and distance matter: Study on the public sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a mega-city38
Co-designing the urban energy transition: A resident-based approach38
“We can all contribute in our own way”: Knowledge mobilization tools to promote best practices in universal accessibility38
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute37
A multilevel, multidimensional scale for measuring housing insecurity in slums and informal settlements37
Farmers to urban citizens? Understanding resettled households' adaptation to urban life in Shaanxi, China37
Digital governance in future communities: Typological analysis and scenario-based strategies37
Integrating ecosystem service bundles and scenario predicting for win-win sustainable urban management: A case study of typical arid cities in China37
Lower suicidal ideation linked to easier access to urban green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide study in Japan37
Smartphone, startup, laboratory - What ambitions and visions do local government officials express by their smart city stories? Case study of Polish cities37
Perceived built environment characteristics associated with walking and cycling across 355 communities in 21 countries36
The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)36
Teleworking, social capital, and subjective well-being: Evidence from US county-level data36
Why don't children study outside? Limitation of Polish schools to use green spaces in the educational process before and during COVID-1936
How do remaining residents react to urban vacancy in shrinking city: A KAP model analysis of Yichun, China36
Morphological dynamics of cost-efficient urban areas: Expansion and shrinkage in greater Tokyo from 2003 to 202036
Exploring the potential impact of smart urban technologies on urban sustainability using structural topic modelling: Evidence from Belgium35
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications35
The new town square: Twitter discourses about balconies during the 2020 lockdown in Spain35
Unpacking World Heritage cultural clusters through the interplay of urban tourism and gentrification35
Urban suburbia: Gentrification and spatial inequality in workers' communities in Tokyo35
Energy citizens – Conveyors of changing democratic institutions?35
Uncovering nonlinear threshold effects of urban morphology on carbon emissions: Toward optimal low-carbon urban spatial planning34
From neoliberal urban green space production and consumption to urban greening as part of a degrowth agenda34
Examining the roles of perceived neighbourhood environments in shaping social capital and the happiness of older adults in a super-aged Asian City34
Measuring the impact of slow zones on street life using social media34
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities34
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran34
Exploring the association of urbanisation and subjective well-being in India34
Revisiting the neighborhood definition in view of the 15-minute neighborhood and sustainable neighborhood concepts34
Does activity context and its temporality matter in the stress-relieving effect of greenspace? Evidence based on individual mobile sensing34
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility34
Situational differences, migratory duration, and social integration of internal migrants in urban China34
Urban living labs: Sustainability transitions toward circular cities34
From “access to housing” to “access to decent housing”: A systematic literature review of China’s housing security system34
Heterogeneous residential location effects: Variations in how suburban communities shape older adults' active travel—A case study from Xiamen34
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic loss and resource conservation of China's tourism industry from the supply chain perspective34
Participation development in responsive city with self-organizing approach (the case of Tehran city)33
Quantifying the spatiotemporal mismatches between energy consumption and population: A comparative study in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China33
Commercial urban agriculture for sustainable cities33
Are East Asian “shrinking cities” falling into a loop? Insights from the interplay between population decline and metropolitan concentration in Japan32
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques32
China's new age floating population: Talent workers and drifting elders32
Gauging urban resilience in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic via social network analysis32
Critical debates on the 15-minute city: A systematic content analysis of the literature32
Urban growth rates, trajectories, and multi-dimensional disparities in China32
Average social and territorial innovation impacts of industrial heritage regeneration32
Word of mouth and behavioural intentions of the automated bus service31
Modeling self-organized urban growth by incorporating stakeholders' interactions into the neighborhood of cellular automata31
Two relocation strategies: Preserving erstwhile neighbourhood relationships in Shenzhen31
How care infrastructures support distance and connection in community welfare organisations: Learning from COVID-19 lockdowns31
Editorial Board31
Re-examining the informal housing problem in Delhi: A wicked problem perspective31
Improving the catchment area identification for suburban railway stations by incorporating whole-journey-based mode choices and unevenly distributed population31
Non-business services performance forecasting for small urban areas using a spatiotemporal deep learning model31
Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of street vending from the social sensing perspective: A comparison between law-enforcement reported and residents complain events31
Changes in public attitudes toward CCTV installations in residential areas between 2008 and 201931
Urban transformation and Indigenous-settler reconciliation: Discursive (dis)connections between municipal reconciliation strategies and area redevelopment plans in five Canadian cities31
Impact of particulate matter and urban spatial characteristics on urban vitality using spatiotemporal big data31
The methods used to identify urban, rural, and intermediate territories at European level: A comparison of the methods developed in the framework of TERCET and ESPON31
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