Sustainable Cities and Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Sustainable Cities and Society is 28. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hesitant fuzzy for conflicting criteria in multi-objective deployment of electric vehicle charging stations396
Assessing the electric demand-side management potential of Helsinki's public service building stock in ancillary markets377
Modeling dynamic competition among urban taxis and the impact on carbon emissions372
Measuring heat transfer index (HTI): A new method to quantify the spatial influence of land surface temperature between adjacent urban spaces338
An event-based model and a map visualization approach for spatiotemporal association relations discovery of diseases diffusion259
Rethinking Japanese public libraries from the perspective of time246
Estimating casualties from urban fires: A focus on building and urban environment information214
Exploring the complex relationship between metro and shared bikes in the built environment: Competition, connection, and complementation208
Nature's hand in megacity cluster progress: Integrating SDG11 with ecosystem service dynamics203
Deep change feature analysis network for observing changes of land use or natural environment199
Data-driven assessment framework of health cities for elderly individuals in China198
The impact of dynamic traffic conditions on the sustainability of urban fire service197
Finding unrevealed landslide hazard area induced by climate change and topography - Case study for Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, ROK -190
How do time-bound practices initiate local sustainability pathways?187
Coupled simulation of urban water networks and interconnected critical urban infrastructure systems: A systematic review and multi-sector research agenda182
Analysing urban local cold air dynamics and climate functional zones using interpretable machine learning: A case study of Tianhe district, Guangzhou179
Spatial development indicators as a tool to determine thermal conditions in an urban environment176
Exploration of non-linear influence mechanisms of traditional courtyard forms on thermal comfort in winter and summer: A case study of Beijing, China174
Traffic noise assessment in urban Bulgaria using explainable machine learning166
Multi-agent-based optimal power scheduling of shipboard power systems164
FPGA control system technology for integrating the PV/wave/FC hybrid system using ANN optimized by MFO techniques160
Sequential action-based dynamic decision-support model for urban ecological planning159
Wildfire-resilient mechanical ventilation systems for single-detached homes in cities of Western Canada158
Leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze the COVID-19 distribution pattern based on socio-economic determinants158
Identifying up-to-date urban land-use patterns with visual and semantic features based on multisource geospatial data157
Urban form centrality and thermal environment: An empirical study of Chinese megacities152
A mixed method evaluation of economic and environmental considerations in construction transport planning: The case of Ostlänken152
An energy consumption model for the Algerian residential building's stock, based on a triangular approach: Geographic Information System (GIS), regression analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis151
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy)149
Assessment of European cities from a smartness perspective: An integrated grey MCDM approach148
Enhancing water management and urban flood resilience using Hazard Capacity Factor Design (HCFD) model: Case study of Eco-Delta city, Busan146
Effects of sea-land breeze on air pollutant dispersion in street networks with different distances from coast using WRF-CFD coupling method146
Fuzzy Q-learning-based approach for real-time energy management of home microgrids using cooperative multi-agent system144
Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters143
Projects as game changers for navigating sustainability transitions in societies: Multi-level effects from micro-level decisions143
Modeling NO2 concentrations in real urban areas using computational fluid dynamics: A comparative analysis of methods to assess NO2 concentrations from NOx dispersion results140
Fault detection and diagnosis for chiller based on feature-recognition model and Kernel Discriminant Analysis140
Towards urban energy sustainability and resiliency through smart agriculture and effective renewable resource allocation139
Enabling effective climate action plans at city level: Insights from India's metropolitan cities136
Commercial urban agriculture: A review for sustainable development134
Renewable energy technology innovation and urbanization: Insights from China132
Riding smooth: A cost-benefit assessment of surface quality on Copenhagen’s bicycle network132
Unveiling fine-scale urban third places for remote work using mobile phone big data132
Individual responsibility towards providing water and wastewater public goods for displaced persons: How much and how long is the public willing to pay?130
Energy efficient behavior modeling for demand side recommender system in solar microgrid applications using multi-agent reinforcement learning model128
Sustainable design of running friendly streets: Environmental exposures predict runnability by Volunteered Geographic Information and multilevel model approaches125
Dynamics of human speech as aerosol transmission sources: Implications for sustainable urban health based on impulsive jet theory125
Dynamic impacts of vegetation growth and urban development on microclimate and building energy consumption124
Evaluating the association between morphological characteristics of urban land and pluvial floods using machine learning methods122
Activity space compactness index from the viewpoint of trip arrival point by lifestyle activity purpose in a mature conurbation122
Evaluating the potential for conserving water and energy in the water supply system of Bangkok120
Exploring the nexus between social vulnerability, built environment, and the prevalence of COVID-19: A case study of Chicago120
Assessment of the food-water-energy nexus suitability of rooftops. A methodological remote sensing approach in an urban Mediterranean area119
UBEM-SER: Role of sufficiency, efficiency and renewable in the decarbonization of commercial building stock at city scale118
Uncovering key components of semi-public spaces in multi-unit residences for enhancing social sustainability117
Strengthening individual preparedness for extreme cold weather through enhanced messaging, risk perception, and trust117
Parametric analysis of planting strategies and environmental factors for the thermal and aerodynamic effects of indirect green façades116
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China115
Integrating morphology and vitality to quantify seasonal contributions of urban functional zones to thermal environment115
Assessing Nature-based solutions in the face of urban vulnerabilities: A multi-criteria decision approach115
Exploring opportunities of using the sharing economy in sustainable urban freight transport114
A comprehensive and comparative study of an innovative constant-pressure compressed air energy storage (CP-CAES) system112
Synergies or trade-offs between surface urban heat island and hot extreme: Distinct responses in urban environments112
Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s112
Towards flood risk mapping based on multi-tiered decision making in a densely urbanized metropolitan city of Istanbul111
Evaluation of resources and environmental carrying capacity and its spatial-temporal dynamic evolution: A case study in Shandong Province, China111
A clustering method for measuring accessibility and equity in public transportation service: Case study of Melbourne110
Urban-Rural Disparity in Community Resilience: A Multilevel Analysis of the Relief Progress after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake108
A tactical transactive energy scheduling for the electric vehicle-integrated networked microgrids107
Topological and functional vulnerability analysis and mitigation for single-source heating networks based on tree models106
Assessing the impact of normative messages in encouraging the use of sustainable mobility. An experimental study105
A cost-effective and high-efficient EV shared fast charging scheme with hierarchical coordinated operation strategy for addressing difficult-to-charge issue in old residential communities104
Model predictive control based optimal operation of smart city104
Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China103
Data-driven prediction of energy consumption of district cooling systems (DCS) based on the weather forecast data103
Dynamics of cool surface performance on urban microclimate: A full-scale experimental study in Singapore102
A multi-objective probabilistic approach for smart voltage control in wind-energy integrated networks considering correlated parameters102
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in urban road dust from Tianjin, China: pollution characteristics, sources and health risk assessment102
Dynamic effects of frequent step changes in outdoor microclimate environments on thermal sensation and dissatisfaction of pedestrian during summer100
Impacts of digital economy agglomeration on carbon emission: A two-tier stochastic frontier and spatial decomposition analysis of China100
Morphological and functional polycentric structure assessment of megacity: An integrated approach with spatial distribution and interaction100
Socially sustainable mobility: Strategic analysis to identify accessibility barriers100
Passive over active: How low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity100
Spatially resolved air quality index prediction in megacities with a CNN-Bi-LSTM hybrid framework100
Influence of the built environment on social capital and physical activity in Singapore: A structural equation modelling analysis99
Rethinking disaster resilience in high-density cities: Towards an urban resilience knowledge system99
Challenges, drivers, and benefits to integrated infrastructure management of water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation systems98
Experimental investigations of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy pile with groundwater seepage98
Developing indicators for sustainable urban regeneration in historic urban areas: Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)98
Toward a societal smart city: Clarifying the social justice dimension of smart cities98
The joint health risks of PM2.5 pollution wave and cold spell in eastern China97
Street vitality and built environment features: A data-informed approach from fourteen Chinese cities96
CFD simulations of wind flow and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon with traffic flow: Comparison between RANS and LES96
A new electro-biomembrane integrated renewable-based system to produce power, fresh water and hydrogen for sustainable communities95
Investigating the spatial distribution of resident’s outdoor heat exposure across neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania using urban microclimate modeling95
Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research95
Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning95
How to optimize the 2D/3D urban thermal environment: Insights derived from UAV LiDAR/multispectral data and multi-source remote sensing data95
Sustainability-oriented maintenance management of highway bridge networks based on Q-learning94
Strategies and scenarios to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission in the urban, rural and sustainable neighbourhoods93
Effective ventilation and air disinfection system for reducing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection risk in office buildings93
Embodied energy in existing buildings as a tool for sustainable intervention on urban heritage92
Are New Towns Prone to Urban Heat Island Effect? Implications for Planning Form and Function91
Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nanjing, China90
Analyzing the cooling effect, thermal comfort, and energy consumption of integrated arrangement of high-rise buildings and green spaces on urban heat island89
An innovative sustainable multi-energy management framework for full renewable grid-tied microgrids under the transactive energy paradigm89
Comprehensively assessing seasonal variations in the impact of urban greenspace morphology on urban heat island effects: A multidimensional analysis89
Modeling ride-hailing and carsharing adoption & use patterns: deciphering the substitutive and complementary impacts of built environment, transit accessibility, & active travel88
Carbon emission reduction model for sewage heat recovery and utilization in a northern Chinese city88
A LoRaWAN-based environmental sensing network for urban green space monitoring with demonstrated application for stormwater management87
Historical changes and driving factors of food-water-energy footprint consumption: A Case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city agglomeration87
Multi-factor dynamic correlation prediction and analysis of carbon peaking for building sector: A case study of Shaanxi province87
Exploring intra-urban thermal stress vulnerability within 15-minute city concept: Example of heat waves 2021 in Moscow87
Ensemble intelligent systems for predicting water network condition index87
Turbulent transport mechanism in the roughness sublayers over idealized urban areas and its implication to street-level ventilation86
Investigation of a green energy storage system based on liquid air energy storage (LAES) and high-temperature concentrated solar power (CSP): Energy, exergy, economic, and environmental (4E) assessmen86
The association of apparent temperature with fetal growth: A birth cohort study in Beijing, China85
The application of reweighted Markov chains in water-sediment prediction in inland river basins—A case study of the Shiyang River Basin84
Passenger spatiotemporal distribution prediction in airport terminals based on physics-guided spatio-temporal graph convolutional network and its effect on indoor environment prediction84
Investigating the effect of lower body local radiant warming on occupant thermal comfort in battery electric vehicles during cold conditions84
Can turbo-roundabouts and restricted crossing U-Turn be effective solutions for urban three-leg intersections?84
Revealing the injustice and factors that affect the resilience responses of residents in the full period of heat waves84
Last-mile-as-a-service (LMaaS): An innovative concept for the disruption of the supply chain83
The impacts of the built environment on the incidence rate of COVID-19: A case study of King County, Washington83
Cybersecurity vulnerability and resilience of cooperative driving automation for energy efficiency and flow stability in smart cities83
Turning peril into opportunity: Construction and validation of a resilience assessment system for China's coastal megacities83
Quantifying resilient urban energy systems: Statistical analysis of climate adaptation, renewable integration, and socioeconomic dynamics83
Is compulsory home quarantine less effective than centralized quarantine in controlling the COVID-19 outbreak? Evidence from Hong Kong82
Assessing the sustainability related concepts of urban development plans in Eastern Europe: A case study of Romania82
Artificial intelligence and internet of things in screening and management of autism spectrum disorder82
InfraRisk: An open-source simulation platform for resilience analysis in interconnected power–water–transport networks81
Density pattern of functional facilities and its responses to urban development, especially in polycentric cities80
Spatial assessment of cooling demand and district cooling potential utilizing public data80
The Impact of Urbanization on the Delivery of Public Service–Related SDGs in China80
A taxonomy of green governance: A qualitative and quantitative analysis towards sustainable development80
Quantifying transportation energy vulnerability and its spatial patterns in the United States80
Household energy vulnerability evaluation in southern Spain through parametric energy simulation models and socio-economic data80
Critical evaluation of the spatiotemporal behavior of UHI, through correlation analyses based on multi-city heterogeneous dataset80
Individual-level activity-based modeling and indicators for assessing construction sites noise exposure in urban areas79
Resilience-oriented adaptable microgrid formation in integrated electricity-gas system with deployment of multiple energy hubs79
How to build an eco-efficient city? Cases studies in Chinese urbanization over the past 20 years79
Combined compromise solution and blockchain-based structure for optimal scheduling of renewable-based microgrids: Stochastic information approach79
Modeling the low-carbon behaviors’ development paths of freight enterprises based on a survey in Zhejiang, China78
Turning points of the relationship between human activity and environmental quality in China77
A cloud fog intelligent approach based on modified algorithm in application of reinforced Smart Microgrid management77
Generation of heat and electricity load profiles with high temporal resolution for Urban Energy Units using open geodata77
The influence of companion factors on soundscape evaluations in urban public spaces76
Retraction Notice to “Risk-based energy management of industrial buildings in smart cities and peer-to-peer electricity trading using second-order stochastic dominance procedure” [Sustainable Cities a76
A Thirty-Year Record of PTE Pollution in Mangrove Sediments: Implications for Human Activities in Two Major Chinese Metropolises, Shenzhen and Hong Kong76
Retraction Notice to “Pumped hydro energy storage arbitrage in the day-ahead market in smart grid using stochastic p-robust optimization method” [Sustainable Cities and Society 75 (2021) 103274]76
A robust metamodel-based optimization design method for improving pedestrian wind comfort in an infill development project75
Quantifying energy flexibility potential of ground electric vehicles in an airport with real behavior data74
Sustainable society via complexity analysis of the relationship between virtual game reward mechanism and addiction74
Can urban shrinkage contribute to mitigating surface air temperature warming?74
Thermal and humidification effects of a swimming pool in Hong Kong's humid-subtropical summer74
Political and community logics jointly affect ‘social distancing’ compliance74
Indoors ventilation in times of confinement by SARS-CoV-2 epidemic: A comparative approach between Spain and Italy74
Innovation-driven cities: Reconciling economic growth and ecological sustainability73
Corrigendum to “Exploring temporal and spatial patterns and nonlinear driving mechanism of park perceptions: A multi-source big data study” [Sustainable Cities and Society 119 (2025) 106083]73
How low-carbon transition enables corporate sustainability: A corporate risk-taking perspective73
Natural or balanced? The physiological and psychological benefits of window views with different proportions of sky, green space, and buildings73
Enhancing the unbalanced distribution network’s hosting capacity for DERs via optimal load re-phasing73
Identifying the integrated visual characteristics of greenway landscape: A focus on human perception73
Thermal comfort characteristics of preschool children in kindergartens: A field study during summer in the hot summer and cold winter zone of China73
Unveiling the nonlinear relationships and co-mitigation effects of green and blue space landscapes on PM2.5 exposure through explainable machine learning73
A bi-level reinforcement learning model for optimal scheduling and planning of battery energy storage considering uncertainty in the energy-sharing community72
Carbon dioxide reduction from an intensive green roof through carbon flux observations and energy consumption simulations72
Study on the impact of smart energy on carbon emissions in smart cities from single and holistic perspectives – Empirical evidence from China72
Evaluation of effectiveness and resources consumption of water mist spray systems in Mediterranean areas by predictions based on LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks72
Pool trading model within a local energy community considering flexible loads, photovoltaic generation and energy storage systems71
Occupant-centric dynamic heating and cooling loads simplified prediction model for urban community at energy planning stage71
Thermal effects of cool roofs and urban vegetation during extreme heat events in three Canadian regions71
Multi-objective IGDT-based scheduling of low-carbon multi-energy microgrids integrated with hydrogen refueling stations and electric vehicle parking lots71
Quantifying contributions of geographical features to urban GDP outputs via interpretable machine learning70
Quantitative attribution framework for urban air pollutant: Investigating policy impact on NO2 emissions of megacities in China and Japan70
Downwind Warming of Cities? Inequal Heat Distribution Attributed to Winds70
Optimizing renewable energy portfolios with a human development approach by fuzzy interval goal programming70
Determining critical success factors for residential reconstruction in the urban city from the perspective of developers70
Impact of urban street geometry on outdoor pedestrian thermal comfort during heatwave in Nagpur city69
Characteristics of gaseous and particulate air pollutants at four different urban hotspots in Tehran, Iran69
Asymmetric Nash bargaining model for operation optimization of multi-integrated energy systems considering peer-to-peer energy trading69
The effect of extremely low sky view factor on land surface temperatures in urban residential areas69
Exploring environmental, economic and social aspects of rainwater harvesting systems: A review69
Evaluation of fast fluid dynamics with different turbulence models for predicting outdoor airflow and pollutant dispersion68
Evaluating the accessibility and equity of urban health resources based on multi-source big data in high-density city68
Towards climate-responsive net zero energy rural schools: A multi-objective passive design optimization with bio-based insulations, shading, and roof vegetation68
Spatiotemporal assessment of carbon emission reduction by shared bikes in Shenzhen, China68
Rapid prediction of urban flood based on disaster-breeding environment clustering and Bayesian optimized deep learning model in the coastal city68
Discovering spatial-temporal patterns via complex networks in investigating COVID-19 pandemic in the United States68
Identifying building function using multisource data: A case study of China's three major urban agglomerations68
Research on spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors of county-level urban shrinkage in urbanizing China68
Influence of urban morphological characteristics on thermal environment68
COVID-19 and campus users: A longitudinal and place-based study of university mobilities in Texas68
Understanding spatial-temporal travel demand of free-floating bike sharing connecting with metro stations68
A thorough examination of smart city applications: Exploring challenges and solutions throughout the life cycle with emphasis on safeguarding citizen privacy68
High-speed railway development and its impact on urban economy and population: A case study of nine provinces along the Yellow River, China68
Smart and sustainable logistics of Port cities: A framework for comprehending enabling factors, domains and goals68
Multi-parameter cooperative optimization and solution method for regional integrated energy system67
Early Warning Scheme of COVID-19 related Internet Public Opinion based on RVM-L Model67
A novel parametric workflow for simulating urban heat island effects on residential building energy use: Coupling local climate zones with the urban weather generator a case study of seven U.S. cities67
How can cities achieve accelerated systemic decarbonization? Analysis of six frontrunner cities67
Variations in outdoor thermal comfort in an urban park in the hot-summer and cold-winter region of China67
Spatial correlation network of pollution and carbon emission reductions coupled with high-quality economic development in three Chinese urban agglomerations67
A sustainable mobility strategy based on electric vehicles and photovoltaic panels for shopping centers67
Acceptance of IoT-based and sustainability-oriented smart city services: A mixed methods study67
Spatiotemporal characteristics and robustness analysis of the thermal network in Beijing, China66
Tuning urban microclimate: A morpho-patch approach for multi-scale building group energy simulation66
The mediating effect of air pollution in the impacts of urban form on nighttime urban heat island intensity65
Flexibility operation for integrated energy system considering hydrogen energy under inertia characteristics and stepped carbon trading mechanism65
Knowledge graph based trajectory outlier detection in sustainable smart cities64
Disparities of compound exposure of particulate matter (PM2.5) and heat index using citywide monitoring networks64
Resilience of urban social-ecological-technological systems (SETS): A review64
Experimental and numerical investigation on the heating performance of a novel multi-functional heat pump system with solar-air composite heat source64
Revealing urban greenspace accessibility inequity using the carrying capacity-based 3SFCA method and location big data64
The impact of energy efficiency on carbon emissions: Evidence from the transportation sector in Chinese 30 provinces64
Seismic vulnerability and resilience assessment of urban telecommunication networks64
Improved urban heat island mitigation using bioclimatic redevelopment along an urban waterfront at Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong64
Relationship between land surface temperature and air quality in urban and suburban areas: Dynamic changes and interaction effects63
Evaluating temporal variations in access to multi-tier hospitals using personal vehicles and public transit: Implications for healthcare equity63
Improving the suitability of selected thermal indices for predicting outdoor thermal sensation in Tehran62
Economic valuation of allotment gardens in peri-urban degraded agroecosystems: The role of citizens’ preferences in spatial planning62
Spatiotemporal heterogeneity analysis of air quality in the Yangtze River Delta, China62
Energy signature approach for retrofit prioritization: A proposal for building identification methodology62
Urban shrinkage in the regional multiscale context: Spatial divergence and interaction61
Economic Transformations in Urban Industries during Energy Transition: Novel Tradeoff Technique for Balancing Energy Consumption61
Wintertime outdoor thermal sensations and comfort in cold-humid environments of Chongqing China61
WRF-CFD coupling method to investigate the effect of sea-land breeze on dispersion of time-dependent traffic pollutant at street scales61
Research on the coupling of ecological environment and socio-economic development in resource-based cities: Based on scenario simulation method61
The impact of green finance policy on land ecological security: City-level evidence from China61
Assessment on embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions in urban water system from life cycle perspective: A typical case of India61
Predicting the ammonia nitrogen of wastewater treatment plant influent via integrated model based on rolling decomposition method and deep learning algorithm60
Unraveling the association between the urban polycentric structure and urban surface thermal environment in urbanizing China60
“Run air-conditioning all day”: Adaptation pathways to increasing heat in the Northern Territory of Australia60
Are cities genuinely healthy? Diagnosis of urban development from the perspective of adaptive capacity60
Autonomous drone charging station planning through solar energy harnessing for zero-emission operations60
The confrontation and symbiosis of green and development: Coupling coordination analysis between carbon emissions and spatial development in urban agglomerations of China60
A novel probabilistic regression model for electrical peak demand estimate of commercial and manufacturing buildings60
Urban design strategies for summer and winter outdoor thermal comfort in arid regions: The case of historical, contemporary and modern urban areas in Mashhad, Iran60
Street-level solar radiation mapping and patterns profiling using Baidu Street View images60
Risk-based Peer-to-peer Energy Trading with Info-Gap Approach in the Presence of Electric Vehicles60
A comprehensive study of a green hybrid multi-generation compressed air energy storage (CAES) system for sustainable cities: Energy, exergy, economic, exergoeconomic, and advanced exergy analysis59
Enhancing urban thermal comfort during heat waves: Exploring hierarchical optimization strategies through integration of network and patch morphology59
Future urban ecological land transition and its implications for high-heat exposure in China59
Towards regenerative neighbourhoods: An international survey on urban strategies promoting the production of ecosystem services59
Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management59
Towards Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings: Smart Energy Management of Vehicle-to-Building (V2B) Strategy and Renewable Energy Sources59
Strategic bidding of virtual power plants in integrated electricity-carbon-green certificate market with renewable energy uncertainties59
Determining behavioural-based risk to SLODs of urban public open spaces: Key performance indicators definition and application on established built environment typological scenarios59
Interval-thresholding effect of cooling and recreational services of urban parks in metropolises59
Ecological environment health assessment of lake water ecosystem system based on simulated annealing-projection pursuit: A case study of plateau lake59
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