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{"title":"Unpacking the public acceptance of autonomous electric buses: Insights from a medium-sized Brazilian city","authors":"Gilberto Miller Devós Ganga ,&nbsp;Roberta Dell Avanzi ,&nbsp;Guilherme Ramos ,&nbsp;Mario Henrique Callefi ,&nbsp;Moacir Godinho Filho ,&nbsp;Fabiane Letícia Lizarelli ,&nbsp;Glauco Henrique de Souza Mendes","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105817","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105817","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Electric autonomous vehicles, including Autonomous Electric Buses (AEBs), offer significant societal benefits such as fewer accidents, reduced pollution, and enhanced driving efficiency, presenting a promising alternative to public transportation. While research on this subject exists in developed countries like Europe, China, and Germany, there remains a significant gap in our understanding of the acceptance of AEBs in emerging economies. Our study investigated the adoption factors of AEBs in a medium-sized Brazilian city by surveying 554 respondents. In our structural model, we adopted a hybrid approach that integrates elements from the modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The study's findings indicate that a positive attitude, perceived usefulness, initial trust, and subjective norm significantly influence Brazilian consumers' intention to use AEBs. The theoretical implications of this study involve the creation of a model that intricately merges elements from multiple existing frameworks (TAM, TPB, and UTAUT). This proposed model synthesizes key factors influencing the acceptance of AEBs in emerging economies, providing a foundation for developing effective public policies for urban logistics automation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105817"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143480156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing circular cities in emerging economies: Investigating circular economy initiatives in the urban food system of two Indonesian cities","authors":"Didit Okta Pribadi ,&nbsp;Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta ,&nbsp;Subkhi Abdul Aziz ,&nbsp;Alan Ray Farandy ,&nbsp;Achsanah Hidayatina ,&nbsp;Vely Brian Rosandi","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105816","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105816","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cities have become the epicenter of global population and economic agglomerations that significantly consume resources, produce global waste, and release greenhouse gas emissions. Linear economy practices constrain efforts to reach urban sustainability; therefore, a circular city concept has emerged. The question of whether to confine circularity within the city limits or to extend it across diverse territorial boundaries is a subject of ongoing debate. This study aims to contribute to this discourse by examining circular economy initiatives in the urban food system in two Indonesian cities, namely Semarang and Surabaya. Policy documents, networks of actors, motives of circular economy initiatives, and profiles of circular economy businesses were analyzed. The results show that Semarang has a more supportive regulatory framework and a compact network of actors than Surabaya. The paper posits that the territorialization of food circularity cannot be confined to the city limits, as it involves transboundary actors. Still, the city government plays an instrumental role in facilitating the flourishing circular food system, including a conducive environment for community and economic actors to engage with networks beyond the city's jurisdiction. In both cities, circular food initiatives were mainly driven by social and environmental considerations; however, ensuring financial sustainability remained crucial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105816"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143465407","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":"Correlating urban spatial form and crowd spatiotemporal behavior: A case study of Lhasa, China","authors":"Zhengzheng Luo ,&nbsp;Lia Marchi ,&nbsp;Fangyu Chen ,&nbsp;Yingzi Zhang ,&nbsp;Jacopo Gaspari","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105812","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105812","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding crowd behavior aids policymaking to foster livability and sustainability in cities. Spatial forms of the built environment can influence the way people use urban areas, thus exploring the correlation between them is increasingly deemed a useful support to address new city development or existing neighborhood regeneration. The study goal is to investigate the dynamic relationship between urban spatial morphology and crowd's spatiotemporal behavior, exploiting the potential of multi-source big data collection and integration. Hierarchical clustering and geographic distribution measurement are used to this end, and geographically weighted regression models are used to test their dynamic relationship, adopting Lhasa, China, as test-bed site.</div><div>Findings show that in Lhasa both the intensity and fluctuation level of crowd activities follow the “core agglomeration to peripheral weakening” pattern in the spatial distribution. The spatial form index can explain a large portion of the spatial heterogeneity of crowd spatiotemporal behavior, showing minimal temporal variation but significant spatial variation. Building density, building height, functional density, and functional mix positively impact crowd behavior, while plot ratio exerts a negative effect. Outcomes of this methodology could be highly relevant to understand how people behave in cities according to spatial forms, and lesson-learned can be derived accordingly to act as strategic guidance in urban growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105812"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143471674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Planning for dispossession: the continuing legacy of settler-colonialism in contemporary urban planning practices","authors":"Rachel Gallagher","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105793","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on a case study of Brisbane, Australia, this paper explores the parallels between the historical formation of settler-colonial cities and contemporary urban renewal schemes. Focusing on the development of a penal settlement (1825-) and largescale waterfront redevelopment (1988-), this study demonstrates how use of overt, top-down state power and a degree of authoritarianism is necessary to facilitate both forms of urban restructuring. Archival materials are used to track the transformation of the study areas at a street, lot and building scale, as well as the legislative framework and social and cultural context, to 2024. Findings develop an understanding of the legacy of colonial approaches to land management and property delineation, and how they continue to permeate throughout contemporary planning practices, including the ongoing effects of dispossession and historical revisionism. Like colonial land use planning, largescale urban renewal programs assume a blank slate exists for the transformations envisioned by decision makers, which can be at odds with the reality of peoples' connection to the land, community identity, property rights and history.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105793"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143465405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of bicycle infrastructure and long-term exposure to PM2.5 on cycling","authors":"Eun-Hye Yoo ,&nbsp;Youngseob Eum ,&nbsp;Taegyu Lee ,&nbsp;Bumjoon Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105813","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105813","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cycling behavior is affected by various factors, including infrastructural and environmental factors. While bike infrastructure and air quality may have effects on cycling, their joint impacts were less known. The present study examined yearly changes in public bike-sharing (PBS) usage across 423 neighborhoods in Seoul, South Korea between 2018 and 2021. We quantified how concurrent changes in the number of PBS rental stations and ambient PM_2.5 concentration levels influenced PBS usage patterns using a statistical method, namely, a variant of difference-in-difference method. The results showed that the relative rates of changes in the PBS usage (i.e., rental frequencies) for 1 μg/m³ increase of PM_2<em>.</em>5 and one bike station expansion are −0.168 (95 % CI; −0.188, −0.149) and 0.024 (95 % CI; 0.019, 0.029), respectively. We also found that adult cyclists aged over 50 years old are more sensitive to poor air quality than younger age groups. Our analysis suggests that improvements of PBS infrastructure and cleaner air quality are both positively associated with increased PBS usage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105813"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143465406","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":"Institutional features driving socially sustainable urban mobility: Contributions from the Northern Central American Triangle","authors":"Carlos Ernesto Grande-Ayala ,&nbsp;Luis Manuel Navas-Gracias","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105807","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105807","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multiple areas of innovation are contributing to making urban mobility sustainable, but these transformations are only implemented after an arrangement resulting from the exercise of power between agents and participants within the institutional framework. This paper aims to identify the characteristics that transportation management institutions should pursue to promote social sustainability in urban mobility projects. The methodological design is based on a comparative analysis of the cases of transportation regulatory institutions in the countries of the Northern Central American Triangle (NCAT) during the implementation period of their Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system projects, using a qualitative method of thematic analysis of institutional narratives. This analysis focuses on two competencies related to the social dimension of sustainability, namely citizen participation and integration of transport planning and land use. The main outcomes are threefold: firstly, a methodological proposal for institutional analysis; secondly, three key characteristics that are interrelated in institutional processes to promote projects and policies for socially sustainable mobility; and finally, it provides information about the management of these transportation projects in the first two decades of this century in a region with limited available information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105807"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling farmers' perspectives on urban food policies: The case of farmers' markets in Bologna (Italy)","authors":"Francesca Monticone,&nbsp;Antonella Samoggia","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Farmers' Markets (FMs) are increasingly recognised for their transformative potential in the food system, as they represent a viable alternative to large-scale food distribution in urban areas. Given their increasing importance at city level, ad hoc urban food policies to regulate FMs have been implemented by several Italian municipalities. However, both policymakers and academia tend to focus on consumers' opinions and needs, while farmers' perspectives on urban food policies regulating FMs have been overlooked, as well as the relationship between various levels of governance involved in FMs. The present research aims to fill this gap by delving into farmers' drivers for selling at FMs, as well as their perceptions on FMs Regulation in Bologna (Italy). The research adopts a Multi-Level Governance (MLG) theoretical approach to show the relationships between the three levels of governance involved in FMs (macro, <em>meso</em>, micro) and provide recommendations on how the governance dynamics can be improved. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach, analysing questionnaire answers with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to gather comprehensive insights from FMs farmers. In terms of quantitative methods, the answers of 140 FMs participants are analysed through an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and a Multinomial Logistic regression model (MNL).</div><div>Key findings maintain that farmers' drivers for selling at FMs in Bologna are aligned with the value proposition of Bologna FMs Regulation. Thus, the relationship with consumers, which allows for direct exchange and increased consumers awareness, is the main driver. However, farmers believe the Municipality (the macro level) could further address FMs farmers' needs and drivers (the micro level). The <em>meso</em> level of governance, namely FMs organising associations, should be an intermediary between the macro and the micro levels, that better informs and processes the flow of information and decisions between the two. By analysing farmers' perspectives, this study offers significant insights into the dynamics of local food systems and the role of urban policies in shaping these systems. It highlights the need for harmonising regulatory frameworks with the needs of FMs farmers to improve urban food policies. The findings from Bologna can be helpful for other cities facing similar challenges in urban food system governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105806"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public emotions and the built environment in hazards: A case study of the Shenzhen catastrophic landslide","authors":"Shuang Ma ,&nbsp;Yifei Wang ,&nbsp;Mo Chen ,&nbsp;Tao Ma ,&nbsp;Wanshi Li ,&nbsp;Yunmin Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Capturing spatiotemporal changes in public emotions is an important component of urban human-oriented resilience. Built environment has the potential to conserve the negative effects of hazards. By relying on massive Weibo tweets, this study captures the spatiotemporal patterns of public negative emotions (sadness, fear, and anger) at both the individual and public levels after a landslide. The influence of the built environment on the change rate of public emotion was explored through geographically weighted random forest (GWRF). This study revealed that individuals with a pre-hazard intensity of negative emotions &lt;25 % are more likely to experience heightened negative emotions. The impact of the landslide on the average intensity of public negative emotions is strongest within 3 days after and within a 10 km radius of the landslide. Moreover, townships to the south of the city, farther from the hazard, experienced more pronounced fluctuations in negative emotions, potentially leading to additional social management challenges. Furthermore, in 57.14 % of the townships, the most significant factors were either the built-up area or the industrial land ratio. This study expands the current understanding of public emotions and the influence mechanism of the built environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105814"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437579","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":"Urbanization, housing, and inclusive design for all? A community-based participatory research investigation of the health implications of high-rise environments for adolescents","authors":"Adrian Buttazzoni ,&nbsp;Lindsey Smith ,&nbsp;Ryan Lo ,&nbsp;A.J. Wray ,&nbsp;Jason Gilliland ,&nbsp;Leia Minaker","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing numbers of families are living in high-rise residences and densified areas of urban centres due to ongoing urbanization. A better understanding of how these environments impact the health of residents is of growing importance for planners and public health practitioners alike. Yet knowledge of the links between high-rise living and specific cohorts like adolescents is lacking. Moreover, youth perspectives are typically ignored in urban planning and building design practices. To address these issues, the present paper employs a community-based participatory research (CBRP) approach that is paired with the Theory of Affordances to investigate how adolescents (<em>n</em> = 22) in two Canadian cities perceive high-rise living and dense environments to impact their mental and physical health. Data was collected between July and December 2023 through geo-tracked, participant-led ‘go-along’ (i.e., walking) interviews (40–120 min) roughly 1 km in length. Inductive thematic analyses supported by an analysis of the captured photos were completed. Noted positive affordances related to high local activity density, rich pedestrian social landscapes, restorative designs, and linkages between built and social environments. Negative affordance themes included poor social control and vitality, risky design legibility, signs of decay, and passive or limited active use designs. Future study is recommended to explore relational, or culturally/socially important public places or designs, and length of residence aspects of the relationship between high-rise living and adolescent health. Implications for design and health practitioners are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105809"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The mechanism for the intra-city employment growth: The role of employment centers","authors":"Tinglin Zhang ,&nbsp;Wenwen Chen ,&nbsp;Bindong Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105810","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105810","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Employment centers serve as crucial drivers of intra-city development, especially in the ubiquitous polycentric transformation. Clarifying the role and impact mechanisms of centers in intra-city growth echoes both theoretical basis and actual needs. However, the empirical understanding is surprisingly limited. Thus, this paper proposes and examines a novel systematical framework with a particular and new focus on the centers' influence. Instead of focusing only on developed regions, both areas outside centers and two types of sub-centers are investigated in this research. The empirical results using Shanghai as a study case show that the effects of agglomeration of centers are mostly insignificant on average but conditioned by three types of proximities to centers. Geographic proximity strengthens the positive role of agglomeration of centers on areas outside centers within the city and developing sub-centers within a certain distance to main-center, but intensifies the siphonic effects for the case of stabilized sub-centers. The industrial proximity only positively moderates the effect of agglomeration of centers on developing sub-centers, while the moderating role of proximity of agglomeration scale to main-center is significantly negative in all areas. These discoveries provide valuable insights for urban spatial and development planning, especially in polycentric cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 105810"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437580","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}