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A multidimensional urban transport equity assessment framework: A case of Mumbai 多维城市交通公平性评估框架：以孟买为例

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106503

K.T. Sarath , Trupti Mishra , Rangan Banerjee

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Roads to opportunities? The effect of highways on intercity commuting in Brazil 通往机遇之路？高速公路对巴西城际通勤的影响

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106512

Rubens Lopes Pereira da Silva , Raul da Mota Silveira Neto , Diego Firmino Costa da Silva

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Transforming spaces: The role of adaptive reuse in strengthening urban resilience in Auckland, New Zealand 改造空间：适应性再利用在加强新西兰奥克兰城市韧性中的作用

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106472

Itohan Esther Aigwi , Lisandro Mendoza , Tharaya Poorisat , Amarachukwu Nnadozie Nwadike

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Artificial Intelligence in urban design: A systematic review 城市设计中的人工智能：系统回顾

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106527

Tianchen Huang , Xinyue Ye , Tan Yigitcanlar , Boqian Xu , Galen Newman , Bo Zhao , Benjamin Ennemoser , Dayong Wu , Junghwan Kim , Dongjie Wang

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Is microtransit a cost-effective alternative or a costly competitor to public transit? 对于公共交通来说，微型交通是一种成本效益高的选择，还是成本高的竞争对手？

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106490

Miriam Pinski , Anne Brown , Nicholas Perloff-Giles

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Reframing affordable housing in Latin America through public health and climate resilience 通过公共卫生和气候适应能力重建拉丁美洲经济适用房

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106541

Rodrigo Siqueira Reis , Ana Luiza Favarao Leão , Milena Franco Silva , Paulo Nascimento Neto , Alexandre de Paula da Silva , Yi Wang , Alex Antonio Florindo

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Analyzing rhythms of intercity mobility within and between mega-city regions: Evidence from China 超大城市区域内部和之间的城际流动节奏分析：来自中国的证据

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106507

Jun Chu , Jianfa Shen , Hengyu Gu , Haoyu Hu , Junwei Zhang

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Who moves where—and what housing choices do they make? uncovering spatial polarization through life-course migration in a shrinking megacity 谁会搬到哪里？他们会选择什么样的住房？通过不断缩小的特大城市的生命历程迁移揭示空间极化

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106508

Qing Wang , Chika Takatori , Kenjiro Kito

{"title":"Who moves where—and what housing choices do they make? uncovering spatial polarization through life-course migration in a shrinking megacity","authors":"Qing Wang , Chika Takatori , Kenjiro Kito","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spatial polarization is a bottom-up process embedded in life-course trajectories rather than arising solely from macro-scale demographic decline. This study examines how life-course migration and housing choices shape spatial polarization in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (TMA), a prototypical shrinking megacity. Using an integrated framework—combining survivorship-based cohort estimation, robust multiple linear regression, random forests, and geographically weighted regression—this research links micro-level residential decisions to broader demographic and structural transformations.</div><div>Results identify three life-course migration cohorts whose divergent housing choices reinforce a polarized geography of youthful cores, family-oriented inner suburbs, and ageing peripheries. Young adults cluster in central Tokyo’s high-density rentals near transit hubs; young families pursue homeownership and educational access in western Tokyo and inner suburbs; while older seniors relocate to eastern Tokyo and peripheral municipalities, shaped by low-cost rentals and rural attachments. Across cohorts, housing tenure emerges as the strongest determinant of Migration Pattern Intensity (MPI), outweighing land prices, neighborhood characteristic, and accessibility.</div><div>These findings advance the concept of a “polarized life-course housing trajectory” to explain how housing choices across life stages accumulate into multiscale polarization, intensified by intergenerational transfers. The study introduces this novel lens to bridge macro-structural shrinkage with micro-level residential practices to understand spatial polarization. Policy insights stress integrating foreign labor and multicultural inclusion at the regional scale and promoting multi-generational housing locally to mitigate suburban shrinkage and ageing. These strategies resonate with the SDGs and global sustainability agendas, offering lessons for urban governance in megacities confronting demographic contraction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106508"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223041","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}

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Unpacking temporal trends in U.S. road injury mortality by mode of transportation and sex: An age–period–cohort analysis 按交通方式和性别划分的美国道路伤害死亡率的时间趋势：一项年龄期队列分析

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106492

Cheng-Kai Hsu

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Does activity context and its temporality matter in the stress-relieving effect of greenspace? Evidence based on individual mobile sensing 活动环境及其时间性对绿色空间的减压效果有影响吗？基于个人移动传感的证据

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Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106526

Changda Yu , Mei-Po Kwan , Yang Liu

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