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{"title":"The spatio-temporal evolution of social inequalities in cities: a multidimensional, multiscalar and longitudinal approach for neighbourhood classification","authors":"Ignacio Urria ,&nbsp;Ana Petrović ,&nbsp;Maarten van Ham ,&nbsp;David Manley","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the spatial patterns of social inequalities has been a longstanding concern in urban studies. Geodemographic classifications, which group neighbourhoods based on multiple social and physical dimensions, offer a useful tool for this purpose. However, most classifications rely on fixed single-scale administrative boundaries, while studies that adopt multiscale approaches often focus on a single dimension and cover only limited time periods. This limits our understanding of how urban social inequalities evolve over time and across spatial scales. In this study, we extend the geodemographic approach to incorporate multiple dimensions, time periods, and geographical scales, enabling a more comprehensive analysis of the spatio-temporal configuration of urban change. We develop multidimensional, multiscale, and longitudinal spatial profiles of residential contexts in the Metropolitan Agglomeration of Amsterdam (MAA) using bespoke neighbourhoods constructed from detailed population register data (1999–2022). Our results show that the interaction of socioeconomic status, migration background, life-course stages, and housing tenure provides a richer understanding of urban stratification than traditional models based solely on income or ethnicity. The longitudinal perspective reveals distinct timing differences in urban reconfigurations, such as gentrification and displacement, which emerge locally and consolidate more broadly over time. The multiscale approach highlights how patterns of urban change are scale-dependent, with large-scale dynamics, such as poverty suburbanisation and inner-city gentrification, coexisting with the formation of smaller enclaves in areas undergoing or at risk of change. These findings highlight the need for integrated multidimensional, temporal, and multiscale frameworks to better capture the evolving nature of sociospatial inequalities in cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106089"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What contributes to the sustainability performance of urban collaboration for metropolitan governance? A qualitative comparative analysis of 45 cases in China","authors":"Minwang Lin,&nbsp;Jing Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban collaboration serves as a potentially efficient policy tool in advancing metropolitan governance. However, few empirical evidences have been devoted to illustrate why some urban collaborations can persist over a longer term. In this article, we draw upon the institutional collective action framework and hypothesize that actor heterogeneity, political institutions, and community characteristic will jointly affect the sustainability performance of urban collaboration. The combined effect is examined by using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis with 45 intra-provincial Urban Agglomeration Arrangements from China. The results indicate that vertical government intervention plays as a vital political factor within the Chinese context, and four configuration paths can illustrate the persistence of collaboration: exchange effect by homogeneous actors, substitutive effect by geographical proximity and vertical government intervention, complement effect by vertical government intervention, and covariant effect by city hierarchy heterogeneity and group size. The findings contribute to bridging the knowledge gap between urban collaboration and its sustainability performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106081"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interrogating multi-level government power dynamics and cooperation in Zimbabwe: Evidence from Harare City Council","authors":"Sylvester Marumahoko ,&nbsp;T. Norman Nhede ,&nbsp;Jephias Mapuva","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the relationship between Zimbabwe's national government and the Harare City Council (HCC) in managing the city's public affairs. It explores how this interaction influences governance in Harare, drawing on the theory of intergovernmental relations. Through document analysis, the study dissects the structure and nature of the system between the two spheres of government. The findings reveal a strained relationship, largely due to power imbalances, with instances where the national government has encroached on local government responsibilities. Despite these challenges, the paper concludes with an optimistic outlook, suggesting that both levels of government can achieve their shared goals by fostering trust, cooperation, and collaboration, and by nurturing a more effective intergovernmental framework.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 106038"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144155019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who suffers the most? Wild boars, perceived harm, and local politics: Governance challenges in urban human-wildlife conflicts","authors":"Itai Beeri","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Do wild animals play a role in political dynamics? As urbanization progresses, interactions between humans and wild animals in cities are becoming more frequent, shaping public perceptions, local politics, and urban governance. These encounters can generate tensions, influencing residents' sense of harm, political attitudes, and policy debates. The existing research about these issues is deeply rooted in the fields of ecology and wildlife management, biology and medicine, conservation, sociology, geography, and law. However, empirical research on the personal and political factors that affect the encounters between people and wild animals in cities and the political consequences of such encounters is rare. Therefore, we conducted an empirical longitudinal study using the presence of wild boars in Haifa, Israel. We explored the dynamics between wild animals, humans, the municipality, local politics, and public opinion. In particular, we investigated the personal, cultural, environmental, and political factors that affect the extent to which Haifa's residents felt harmed by the presence of wild animals in the city. Our findings about the personal, cultural, environmental, and political price of encounters with wild boars in urban area adds to current theory in the fields of local government, governance, and politics, as well as urbanism, crisis management, and human interactions with nature. The findings show that some residents perceive wild boars as harmful, highlighting the complex ways in which human-wildlife interactions intersect with urban governance and political attitudes. Recognizing these interconnections may help policymakers, politicians, and civil society activists better understand the challenges of managing urban wildlife conflicts in ways that reflect diverse public concerns and governance considerations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106083"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Residential mobility, housing market dynamics and metropolitan inequalities in Rome and Milan in the 2000s: Changes in suburbanisation among Italians and foreigners","authors":"Massimiliano Crisci ,&nbsp;Stefania M.L. Rimoldi ,&nbsp;Michele Santurro ,&nbsp;Eleonora Trappolini","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the dynamics of suburbanisation in Rome and Milan, Italy's two largest metropolitan areas, during the 2000s. It aims to shed light on changes in residential mobility patterns and their implications for spatial urban inequalities, focusing on the role of socioeconomic inequalities and the differing effects on Italians and foreigners. As two of the largest urban regions in the European Union, Rome and Milan represent distinct contexts with contrasting economic trajectories: Milan experienced growth during the period, while Rome faced stagnation. These cases highlight how macroeconomic shocks, particularly the 2008 Great Recession, differentially affected real estate and residential dynamics, highlighting spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in these cities. We use cross-sectional individual data from population registers on intra-urban residential mobility between 2003 and 2019, a rarely available dataset in Southern European countries. The methodological approach includes descriptive analyses using migration rates as well as multivariate analyses with logistic regression models to examine residential relocations from urban cores to surrounding rings, contextualised by trends in property values across three time periods: before, during and after the 2008 Great Recession. Our findings reveal a significant decline in suburbanisation among both Italians and foreigners in both metropolitan cities during the 2008 crisis, primarily due to reduced outflows from urban cores. In the post-crisis period, suburbanisation trends diverged, stabilising at low levels in Rome and increasing again in Milan. The study further identifies a higher propensity for suburbanisation in core neighbourhoods with low socioeconomic status, highlighting the role of socioeconomic disparities in shaping these patterns. Additionally, we explore heterogeneous residential mobility patterns among different foreign subgroups, illustrating how immigrant populations are differently impacted by urban and suburban dynamics, contributing to metropolitan inequalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106088"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban design requirements promoting the behaviours of children and parents in school squares with different spatial characteristics","authors":"Nurdan Çağla Çamaş ,&nbsp;Yeliz Duygu Erçek ,&nbsp;Raluca - Ioana Dumitrescu ,&nbsp;İlgi Atay Kaya","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The design of school streets and squares plays a critical role in enhancing the liveability and overall quality of life in urban environments, particularly for children and families. These spaces not only influence the physical safety and accessibility but also affect social interactions and well-being. This study aims to investigate the behaviours of children and parents in school squares with varying spatial characteristics and to identify urban design requirements that promote more liveable and inclusive environments. Conducted in three phases, the study begins by evaluating all 27 public primary school streets in Karşıyaka (İzmir, Türkiye) using an inspection tool, street view images, and spatial mapping. Based on this analysis, two school squares with the highest and lowest spatial quality scores were selected for the further study. The second phase employed on-site observations and behavioural mapping techniques in these two schools to examine the behaviours of parents and children during school entrance and exit times. The final phase includes the interpretation of the behavioural maps and the development of spatial design recommendations for school squares. The findings highlight the importance of urban design in promoting diverse behaviours among parents and children in school streets and squares, emphasizing the need for inclusive and well-structured spaces. This study offers urban planners and designers a set of spatial requirements for school squares, contributing to an underexplored area of research by showing the importance of school squares and incorporating the diverse needs and behaviours of parents and children into the design process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106084"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysing the dynamics of urban functional areas in a rapidly changing spatial structure: Using points of interest data","authors":"Haifeng Niu ,&nbsp;Ling Li ,&nbsp;Pengjun Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the process of rapid urbanisation, the functionalities of urban areas undergo dynamic changes that extend beyond their spatial structures, but these changes have not been sufficiently captured and understood. This study demonstrates how analysing points of interest (POI) data from mapping services reveals the evolution of Beijing's urban functional areas at fine spatial scales. Using POI data from 2013 to 2019, we identify changes in these areas through traditional measures like POI density and diversity, as well as a novel measure—representative POI category—developed through term analysis. The results show that significant changes have taken place in the function of Beijing's urban environment. Particularly, we find significant patterns of decentralisation of urban functions as evidenced by the cluster of decreasing density of POIs in the urban core and increasing density and diversity of POIs in the outer area. We also discover that the importance of urban functions is changing dramatically as the representative POI category in the central area has evolved from dining services to retail stores and living and entertainment services, and that sports and business activities have emerged in the suburbs. Based on the housing market analysis, we find that higher POI density and the functional areas of sports, education, dining and business units are associated with higher housing prices. By utilising low-cost and ubiquitous POI datasets, this study reveals nuanced dynamics of urban functional areas within a rapidly changing spatial structure as well as associated changes in the urban housing market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106079"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The discourse of planning as a power tool: What we can learn from the case study of Mashhad's master plan, Iran","authors":"Maryam Daneshvar","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the past two centuries, researchers have proposed numerous solutions to urban issues, but most have adopted a static approach. Mashhad's Master Plan highlights a gap between contemporary urban planning practices and traditional theories, which has emerged through a discursive transformation driven by shifts in power between national and local authorities. This research aims to uncover the planning rationality behind Mashhad City's development and examine the influence of power. It explores the interplay between power dynamics and planning discourse using qualitative, case study, and longitudinal methods. Data collection included 15 years of participatory observation, a review of 29 planning documents, 211 published interviews, 41 semi-structured interviews (conducted in 2014 and 2021), and four focus group sessions (conducted in 2021 and 2024). The study utilized stakeholder analysis tools and Foucault's genealogical method to analyze the data. The research identified two key power groups in Mashhad City: local and national powers. The genealogy of the plan preparation process reveals a discursive shift from instrumental to substantial rationality. By integrating power and planning discourse through adaptive rationality, the panarchy model, and the interest-power matrix, a new planning model for Mashhad City emerges. This model demonstrates that planning discourse is fundamentally shaped by power dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106117"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the effect of regional intergenerational mobility on household energy poverty in China","authors":"Changfu Luo ,&nbsp;Yanfang Dong ,&nbsp;Zhida Jin ,&nbsp;Hongyang Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Eliminating energy poverty and promoting household energy transitions are crucial components of achieving sustainable development goals. While numerous studies have affirmed the importance of energy affordability and accessibility, the factors of regional intergenerational mobility and local social opportunity structures have not been adequately explored. This paper utilizes data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) to quantitatively measure city-level intergenerational mobility, and empirically examine its relationship with household energy poverty. Our baseline results indicate that higher regional intergenerational mobility significantly alleviates energy poverty. This positive effect remains robust after addressing potential endogeneity issues through various methods and conducting a series of robustness tests. Further mechanism analysis reveals that social trust and the degree of incentives are important influence channels. Additionally, the impact of intergenerational mobility on energy poverty is more pronounced in rural areas, central-western regions, and among high human capital groups. Based on these findings, we provide several policy implications for China and other developing countries to jointly address the energy crisis and promote sustainable human development. Urban practitioners should make concerted efforts to formulate distribution policies, educational policies, and employment policies to improve local social opportunity structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 106069"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is the digital government achieving its sustainability goals? The impact of urban mobile government apps on the urban-rural income gap","authors":"Yongzhou Chen ,&nbsp;Qiuzhi Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital governments play a crucial role in advancing sustainable development. This paper focuses on mobile government apps (MGApps) emerging in Chinese cities, and develops a dynamic framework for digital government transformation to investigate the impact of MGApps on the urban-rural income gap (URIG). This study examines this framework by utilizing data spanning 2010 to 2021 from 283 cities and the China Family Panel Studies. In addition, we employ a combination of double machine learning techniques and heterogeneity-robust difference-in-differences methods. The study's results indicate that the URIG significantly decreased after introducing MGApps. This narrowing is primarily attributed to MGApps' more significant impact on rural residents' income growth. The mechanistic analysis revealed that MGApps enhance public service efficiency, reduce transaction costs, and simultaneously decrease corruption and inequitable treatment by public officials. These improvements lead to quantitative and qualitative enhancements in rural public services, narrowing the URIG. Qualitatively, the impact of MGApps is more pronounced for rural low-income groups. Heterogeneity analyses reveal that MGApps demonstrate more efficacy to the reduction of URIG in cities with specific characteristics: substantial population influx, resource-dependent economies, robust comprehensive capacity, midwestern geographic distribution, and administrative barriers. This study advances our understanding of the impact of digital government on income inequality and provides empirical evidence from China. The findings also offer valuable insights that can inform policy decisions in other developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 106073"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}