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Papers
(The TQCC of Cities is 12. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban planning and quality of life: A review of pathways linking the built environment to subjective well-being268
Future smart cities: requirements, emerging technologies, applications, challenges, and future aspects262
A digital twin smart city for citizen feedback253
Determinants of broadband access and affordability: An analysis of a community survey on the digital divide186
Environmental justice in the context of urban green space availability, accessibility, and attractiveness in postsocialist cities178
Expansion of city scale, traffic modes, traffic congestion, and air pollution174
Smart cities, big data and urban policy: Towards urban analytics for the long run148
Evaluation of low carbon city pilot policy effect on carbon abatement in China: An empirical evidence based on time-varying DID model134
Changes in local travel behaviour before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong124
Measuring human perceptions of streetscapes to better inform urban renewal: A perspective of scene semantic parsing122
Barriers and risks of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) adoption in cities: A systematic review of the literature118
What matters for regional economic resilience amid COVID-19? Evidence from cities in Northeast China112
Industrial structure or agency: What affects regional economic resilience? Evidence from resource-based cities in China109
The x-minute city: Measuring the 10, 15, 20-minute city and an evaluation of its use for sustainable urban design99
Quality of life in the urban environment and primary health services for the elderly during the Covid-19 pandemic: An application to the city of Milan (Italy)98
Can autonomous vehicles enable sustainable mobility in future cities? Insights and policy challenges from user preferences over different urban transport options97
Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance97
Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China97
Urban network externalities, agglomeration economies and urban economic growth96
Smart city for sustainable environment: A comparison of participatory strategies from Helsinki, Singapore and London96
Smart city research: A holistic and state-of-the-art literature review95
Urbanization, transportation infrastructure, ICT, and economic growth: A temporal causal analysis95
The impact of land urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China: A multiscale perspective95
City resilience and recovery from COVID-19: The case of Macao94
Assessment methods of urban system resilience: From the perspective of complex adaptive system theory93
COVID-19 and urban planning: Built environment, health, and well-being in Greek cities before and during the pandemic91
The 15-minute city: Urban planning and design efforts toward creating sustainable neighborhoods91
The six dimensions of built environment on urban vitality: Fusion evidence from multi-source data90
The impacts of open data initiatives on smart cities: A framework for evaluation and monitoring83
Urban blue spaces and human health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative studies81
Why garden? – Attitudes and the perceived health benefits of home gardening81
Smart assessment and forecasting framework for healthy development index in urban cities79
Pandemic and the planning of resilient cities and regions77
Government-driven urbanisation and its impact on regional economic growth in China76
Adapting cities for climate change through urban green infrastructure planning75
The spatial analysis of digital economy and urban development: A case study in Hangzhou, China75
Impact of continuous Jakarta megacity urban expansion on the formation of the Jakarta-Bandung conurbation over the rice farm regions74
Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China74
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications69
Smart city trends: A focus on 5 countries and 15 companies68
Smart City strategies and new urban development policies in the Polish context68
Spread of COVID-19 in China: analysis from a city-based epidemic and mobility model66
The sense of community revisited in Hankow, China: Combining the impacts of perceptual factors and built environment attributes63
Examining the association between the built environment and pedestrian volume using street view images63
Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of shrinking cities in urbanizing China: A novel approach based on time-series nighttime light data62
Evaluating the disparity between supply and demand of park green space using a multi-dimensional spatial equity evaluation framework59
Autonomous vehicles and employment: An urban futures revolution or catastrophe?59
Study of COVID-19 pandemic in London (UK) from urban context57
The adoption of urban digital twins57
Spatial distribution of ride-hailing trip demand and its association with walkability and neighborhood characteristics56
The impact of land urbanization on ecosystem health in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomerations, China55
Dockless bike sharing alleviates road congestion by complementing subway travel: Evidence from Beijing55
Understanding the relationship between neighbourhood green space and mental wellbeing: A case study of Beijing, China54
Human settlement value assessment from a place perspective: Considering human dynamics and perceptions in house price modeling53
Identifying different types of urban land use dynamics using Point-of-interest (POI) and Random Forest algorithm: The case of Huizhou, China52
China urbanization process induced vegetation degradation and improvement in recent 20 years51
What influenced the vitality of the waterfront open space? A case study of Huangpu River in Shanghai, China51
On the absurdity of rapid urbanization: Spatio-temporal analysis of land-use changes in Morogoro, Tanzania50
Jane Jacobs reloaded: A contemporary operationalization of urban vitality in a district in Barcelona50
Simulating urban expansion by incorporating an integrated gravitational field model into a demand-driven random forest-cellular automata model50
Urban community regeneration and community vitality revitalization through participatory planning in China49
Urban greenery mitigates the negative effect of urban density on older adults' life satisfaction: Evidence from Shanghai, China49
Recent developments in smart city assessment: A bibliometric and content analysis-based literature review48
Sustainability-oriented innovations in smart cities: A systematic review and emerging themes48
Will smart cities enhance the social capital of residents? The importance of smart neighborhood management47
Jakarta: A city of cities47
Role of urban planning characteristics in forming pandemic resilient cities – Case study of Covid-19 impacts on European cities within England, Germany and Italy47
Why do cities adopt smart technologies? Contingency theory and evidence from the United States47
One size does not fit all: Framing smart city policy narratives within regional socio-economic contexts in Brussels and Wallonia47
The effects of built environment spatial variation on bike-sharing usage: A case study of Suzhou, China47
Blockchain: The operating system of smart cities46
Macroeconomic determinants of high-tech migration in China: The case of Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration46
Assessing the social equity of urban parks: An improved index integrating multiple quality dimensions and service accessibility46
Understanding architecture age and style through deep learning46
How smart is mobility in smart cities? An analysis of citizens' value perceptions through ICT applications46
Factors driving the regrowth of European cities and the role of local and contextual impacts: A contrasting analysis of regrowing and shrinking cities46
The societal dimension of the automated vehicles transition: Towards a research agenda45
The extraordinary Zhengzhou flood of 7/20, 2021: How extreme weather and human response compounding to the disaster45
Examining the associations between perceived built environment and active travel, before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in Shiraz city, Iran45
Exploring mobility pattern changes between before, during and after COVID-19 lockdown periods for young adults44
Governing urban redevelopment: A case study of Yongqingfang in Guangzhou, China44
Consumer behavior of rural migrant workers in urban China44
Politics of urban renewal: An anatomy of the conflicting discourses on the renovation of China's urban village44
What are the key factors affecting smart city transformation readiness? Evidence from Australian cities44
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban human mobility - A multiscale geospatial network analysis using New York bike-sharing data44
Identification of urban shrinkage using NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data at the county level in China43
Impacts of partial to complete COVID-19 lockdown on NO2 and PM2.5 levels in major urban cities of Europe and USA43
A value of civic voices for smart city: A big data analysis of civic queries posed by Seoul citizens43
Green building, pro-environmental behavior and well-being: Evidence from Singapore43
Types and determinants of migrants' settlement intention in China's new phase of urbanization: A multi-dimensional perspective42
Digital divide or dividend? The impact of digital finance on the migrants' entrepreneurship in less developed regions of China42
Smart cities, the digital divide, and people with disabilities42
Modeling urban land-use changes using a landscape-driven patch-based cellular automaton (LP-CA)42
Re-orienting nature-based solutions with more-than-human thinking42
Analysis of citizens' motivation and participation intention in urban planning41
Tales of a city: Sentiment analysis of urban green space in Dublin41
The advantages of and barriers to being smart in a smart city: The perceptions of project managers within a smart city cluster project in Greater Copenhagen41
The governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity41
Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs): A systematic literature review of co-benefits and trade-offs41
Examining non-linear associations between population density and waist-hip ratio: An application of gradient boosting decision trees40
An environmental benefit analysis of bike sharing in New York City40
Roles of locational factors in the rise and fall of restaurants: A case study of Beijing with POI data40
The role of urban resilience in research and its contribution to sustainability40
Revitalizing historic districts: Identifying built environment predictors for street vibrancy based on urban sensor data40
“You become one with the place”: Social mixing, social capital, and the lived experience of urban desegregation in the Roma community39
Understanding the transport and CO2 impacts of on-demand meal deliveries: A London case study39
Bricks or clicks? Consumer channel choice and its transport and environmental implications for the grocery market in Norway39
Incorporating polycentric development and neighborhood life-circle planning for reducing driving in Beijing: Nonlinear and threshold analysis39
Promoting or inhibiting? New-type urbanization and urban carbon emissions efficiency in China39
Expansion in the shrinking cities: Does place-based policy help to curb urban shrinkage in China?39
Relationship between the dynamics of social capital and the dynamics of residential satisfaction under the impact of urban renewal39
Mobility and healthy ageing in the city: Exploring opportunities and challenges of autonomous vehicles for older adults' outdoor mobility38
Urban resilience: Analyzing the policies of U.S. cities38
Blockchain-based smart contracts as new governance tools for the sharing economy38
Sustainable adaptation: Social equity and local climate adaptation planning in U.S. cities38
Does digital inclusive finance affect urban carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 285 cities in China38
Modeling and evaluating economic and ecological operation efficiency of smart city pilots37
Subjective and objective measures of streetscape perceptions: Relationships with property value in Shanghai37
A conceptual framework and implementation tool for land use planning for corridor transit oriented development37
Evaluating the effect of city lock-down on controlling COVID-19 propagation through deep learning and network science models37
From city promotion via city marketing to city branding: Examining urban strategies in 23 Chinese cities37
Effects of open space accessibility and quality on older adults' visit: Planning towards equal right to the city36
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing36
Spatial heterogeneity in spillover effect of air pollution on housing prices: Evidence from China36
Climate change adaptation policy and practice: The role of agents, institutions and systems36
Resolving urban mobility networks from individual travel graphs using massive-scale mobile phone tracking data36
Driving as a commuting travel mode choice of car owners in urban China: Roles of the built environment36
Identifying sources of innovation: Building a conceptual framework of the Smart City through a social innovation perspective36
Spatio-temporal variations of traffic congestion under work from home (WFH) arrangements: Lessons learned from COVID-1935
Detecting the true urban polycentric pattern of Chinese cities in morphological dimensions: A multiscale analysis based on geospatial big data35
Why do government policy and environmental awareness matter in predicting NEVs purchase intention? Moderating role of education level35
Understandings of urban resilience meanings and principles across Europe35
The many faces of the smart city: Differing value propositions in the activity portfolios of nine cities35
Co-production of urban climate planning: Insights from the Barcelona Climate Plan34
What attracts young talents? Understanding the migration intention of university students to first-tier cities in China34
Estimating building-scale population using multi-source spatial data34
Measuring polycentric urban development: The importance of accurately determining the ‘balance’ between ‘centers’34
Integration of migrants in poverty alleviation resettlement to urban China34
Housing price prediction incorporating spatio-temporal dependency into machine learning algorithms34
Accommodating green spaces in cities: Perceptions and attitudes in slums34
Water pollution reduction for sustainable urban development using machine learning techniques34
Implementing smart city strategies in Greece: Appetite for success33
Revisiting car dependency: A worldwide analysis of car travel in global metropolitan areas33
Sustainability reporting in smart cities: A multidimensional performance measures33
Critical factors influencing the comfort evaluation for recreational walking in urban street environments33
Citizens' readiness to crowdsource smart city services: A developing country perspective33
Determinants of transit-oriented development efficiency focusing on an integrated subway, bus and shared-bicycle system: Application of Simar-Wilson's two-stage approach33
Spatiotemporal pattern evolution and influencing factors of shrinking cities: Evidence from China33
Towards a hybrid model for the management of smart city initiatives33
Building community heat action plans story by story: A three neighborhood case study32
Amenity, firm agglomeration, and local creativity of producer services in Shanghai32
Inequalities in transit accessibility: Contributions from a comparative study between Global South and North metropolitan regions32
Has high-speed railway promoted spatial equity at different levels? A case study of inland mountainous area of China32
The dynamics of poor urban areas - analyzing morphologic transformations across the globe using Earth observation data32
Characterizing the polycentric spatial structure of Beijing Metropolitan Region using carpooling big data32
Street pedestrianization in urban districts: Economic impacts in Spanish cities32
Factors affecting public transport performance due to the COVID-19 outbreak: A worldwide analysis32
The lockdown, mobility, and spatial health disparities in COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of New York City31
Neighbourhood greenspace quantity, quality and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health31
Land consumption in cities: A comparative study across the globe31
Network analysis of population flow among major cities and its influence on COVID-19 transmission in China31
The influence of COVID-19 on the societal mobility of urban spaces31
A framework to simplify pre-processing location-based social media big data for sustainable urban planning and management31
Job-housing distance, neighborhood environment, and mental health in suburban Shanghai: A gender difference perspective31
Mining Daily Activity Chains from Large-Scale Mobile Phone Location Data31
Evolutionary trends of urban expansion and its sustainable development: Evidence from 80 representative cities in the belt and road initiative region31
Individuals' perception of walkability: Results of a conjoint experiment using videos of virtual environments31
Behaviors of seniors and impact of spatial form in small-scale public spaces in Chinese old city zones31
Economic opportunities for creating smart cities in Poland. Does wealth matter?31
Smart urban governance in the ‘smart’ era: Why is it urgently needed?31
Ecosystem services of urban agriculture and prospects for scaling up production: A study of Detroit31
Towards balanced development stage: Regulating the spatial pattern of agglomeration with collaborative optimal allocation of urban land31
Planning the transition to autonomous driving: A policy pathway towards urban liveability31
Impacts of COVID-19 on bike-sharing usages in Seoul, South Korea31
Collaborative neighborhood governance and its effectiveness in community mitigation to COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of community workers in six Chinese cities31
Urban nexus and transformative pathways towards a resilient Gauteng City-Region, South Africa31
Pedestrianised streets in the global neoliberal city: A battleground between hegemonic strategies of commodification and informal tactics of commoning30
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) in smart cities: A systematic review on technological advancements and application cases30
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning: Insights from two contrasting planning systems in Germany and Iran30
The spatial heterogeneity of urban green space inequity from a perspective of the vulnerable: A case study of Guangzhou, China30
Measuring social resilience in cities: An exploratory spatio-temporal analysis of activity routines in urban spaces during Covid-1930
Ambient population and surveillance cameras: The guardianship role in street robbers' crime location choice30
The evolutionary mechanism of China's urban network from 1997 to 2015: An analysis of air passenger flows30
Data-driven analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Madrid's public transport during each phase of the pandemic30
In pursuit of sustainability – Spatio-temporal pathways of urban growth patterns in the world's largest megacities30
Rethinking urban density, vitality and healthy environment in the post-pandemic city: The case of Istanbul30
Drivers of depopulation and spatial interdependence in a regional context29
The role of planning policy in the evolution of the spatial structure of the Guangzhou metropolitan area in China29
Removing spatial autocorrelation in urban scaling analysis29
Urban resilience under the COVID-19 pandemic: A quantitative assessment framework based on system dynamics29
Analyzing spatiotemporal accessibility patterns to tertiary healthcare services by integrating total travel cost into an improved E3SFCA method in Changsha, China29
Key stakeholders and operation processes in the regeneration of historical urban fabrics in Iran29
Analysing the impact of smart city service quality on citizen engagement in a public emergency29
Asia's largest urban slum-Dharavi: A global model for management of COVID-1929
Government responsiveness and public acceptance of big-data technology in urban governance: Evidence from China during the COVID-19 pandemic29
Epidemic versus economic performances of the COVID-19 lockdown: A big data driven analysis28
How does innovative city policy break carbon lock-in? A spatial difference-in-differences analysis for China28
Urban sprawl and fiscal stress: Evidence from urbanizing China28
Contested urban spaces in unplanned urbanization: Wetlands under siege28
Is the green inequality overestimated? Quality reevaluation of green space accessibility28
Are UN SDGs useful for capturing multiple values of smart city?28
Measuring urban ecological network resilience: A disturbance scenario simulation method28
Structural conditions for the wider uptake of urban nature-based solutions – A conceptual framework28
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 engagement28
Managing public space – A blind spot of urban planning and design27
Valuing recreational ecosystem services in developing cities: The case of urban parks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania27
Place attachment in Nigerian urban slums: Evidence from inner-city Ibadan27
Promoting livability through urban planning: A comprehensive framework based on the “theory of human needs”27
Getting through COVID-19 together: Understanding local governments' social media communication27
Pathways to a resilient future: A review of policy agendas and governance practices in shrinking cities27
COVID-19 pandemic is challenging some dogmas of modern urbanism27
Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities27
Social media for collaborative planning: A typology of support functions and challenges27
Discovering the evolution of urban structure using smart card data: The case of London27
Return migration and in situ urbanization of migrant sending areas: Insights from a survey of seven provinces in China27
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-being27
Public participation and consensus-building in urban planning from the lens of heritage planning: A systematic literature review26
Urban forest and per capita income in the mega-city of Sao Paulo, Brazil: A spatial pattern analysis26
“To them, we're just kids from the hood”: Citizen-based policing of youth of color, “white space,” and environmental gentrification26
Meaning of age-friendly neighbourhood: An exploratory study with older adults and key informants in Singapore26
A cellular automata-based approach for spatio-temporal modeling of the city center as a complex system: The case of Kastamonu, Türkiye26
Using a resilience scorecard to improve local planning for vulnerability to hazards and climate change: An application in two cities26
Building obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and abandonment in the light of urban dynamics and complexity26
Are global cities homogenizing? An assessment of urban form and heat island implications25
Modelling and evaluating the economy-resource-ecological environment system of a third-polar city using system dynamics and ranked weights-based coupling coordination degree model25
Location patterns of advanced producer service firms in Warsaw: A tale of agglomeration in the era of creativity25
Breaking the land monopoly: Can collective land reform alleviate the housing shortage in China's mega-cities?25
Spatial and social inequities for educational services accessibility - A case study for schools in Greater Mumbai25
When students are house-poor: Urban universities, student marginality, and the hidden curriculum of student housing25
How effective are drainage systems in mitigating flood losses?25
Measuring sustainability, resilience and livability performance of European smart cities: A novel fuzzy expert-based multi-criteria decision support model25
Under pressure: Factors shaping urban greenspace provision in a mid-sized city25
Tracking the impact of COVID-19 in Victoria, Australia: Shocks, vulnerability and insurances among residents of share houses25
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions25
How about water? Urban blue infrastructure management in Romania25
Contrasting migrants' sense of belonging to the city in selected peri-urban neighbourhoods in Beijing25
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy25
Circle of paradigms? Or ‘15-minute’ neighbourhoods from the 1950s25
Multiple transformations of post-socialist cities: Multiple outcomes?25
How older people experience the age-friendliness of The Hague: A quantitative study24
Reimagining urban destinations: Adaptive and transformative city brand attributes and values in the pandemic crisis24
Access, density and mix of informal settlement: Comparing urban villages in China and India24
Shrinkage of regional cities in Japan: Analysis of changes in densely inhabited districts24
Influential factors of age-friendly neighborhood open space under high-density high-rise housing context in hot weather: A case study of public housing in Hong Kong24
The evolution of urban competitiveness studies over the past 30 years. A bibliometric analysis24
Financial development and human capital thresholds for the infrastructure development-industrialization nexus in Africa24
Integrating ecosystem services conservation into the optimization of urban planning policies in eco-fragile areas: A scenario-based case study24
Assessment of interactions between influencing factors on city shrinkage based on geographical detector: A case study in Kitakyushu, Japan24
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities23
Measuring emergency medical service (EMS) accessibility with the effect of city dynamics in a 100-year pluvial flood scenario23
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