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{"title":"Darker nights, happier lives? The impact of urban green space night-time accessibility on residents' subjective happiness: A case study of the main urban area of Hangzhou","authors":"Yanyu Zheng ,&nbsp;Xi Chen ,&nbsp;Mingkan Zhang ,&nbsp;Runze Zhu ,&nbsp;Yang Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The impact of night-time service functions in urban green spaces on residents' happiness has long been overlooked. This study explores the concept of ‘darkness well-being’ to examine the relationship between the night-time accessibility of urban green spaces and residents' subjective happiness, thereby providing a scientific basis for night-time-friendly urban planning. Using Hangzhou's main urban area as a case study, a night-time accessibility index for urban green spaces is constructed by integrating night sky quality and accessibility models based on multi-source data. A spatial map of night-time urban happiness is generated using natural language processing techniques. A multi-scale (150/300/450/600/750 m) spatial radius analysis framework is constructed, incorporating spatial autocorrelation analysis, key factor evaluation and multi-scale spatial modelling. Three time-threshold scenarios (5/15/30 min) are considered for both walking and cycling modes. Systematic analysis reveals that the spatial distribution of the residents' happiness index and night-time accessibility of urban green spaces is highly heterogeneous across the study area under varying temporal and spatial conditions. The relationship between the night-time accessibility of urban green spaces and residents' subjective happiness is subject to scale effects. Night-time accessibility is a key determinant of happiness, exhibiting a significant positive spatial correlation at the 30-min walking and 5-min cycling thresholds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106510"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270331","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":"Social inclusion of urban villages: A systematic review of global urban planning practices","authors":"Pranavi Kasula ,&nbsp;Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes ,&nbsp;Heather Shearer ,&nbsp;Scott Baum","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban villages, erstwhile rural areas absorbed by expanding cities due to unprecedented urbanization, are a growing phenomenon in many developing nations. These villages are often ignored by the policymakers, despite their economic contributions. Today, integration of urban villages into formal city planning persists as a substantial challenge, especially in the Global South. The lack of specific village planning strategies has aggravated their marginalization from the broader urban environment. To better understand this challenge, this study uses a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review (SQLR) methodology to explore global urban planning practices contributing to the social inclusion and exclusion of urban villages. By using a thematic framework, the research reveals how dynamics like urbanization and migration drive emergence of high-density, mixed-use urban villages, enduring substandard built-environment and socio-spatial segregation. The review identifies demolition-led redevelopment, incremental upgradation, and self-help mechanisms, as exclusionary paradigms hindering villages' inclusion. Five inclusive approaches: urban design and placemaking; in-situ redevelopment; community-driven incrementalism; responsive governance; and socio-economic support emerge as effective mechanisms towards urban villages' integration. The review calls for a paradigm shift towards inclusive, context-specific participatory planning approaches, prioritizing residents' needs over economic benefits. There are also significant geographic gaps in the existing scholarly literature in relation to inclusive urban village planning and governance globally. Hence, the paper calls for a more geographically inclusive research agenda, exploring cross-context comparative case studies of urban villages particularly from underrepresented geographies, utilizing a multi-lingual approach to deepen understanding. The findings inform policymakers and practitioners in formulating just and socially inclusive urban village development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106509"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269826","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":"Alternate infrastructures of care: Restoring people's abilities to care in a city of thresholds","authors":"María José Zapata Campos ,&nbsp;Patrik Zapata ,&nbsp;Ulrika Holmberg ,&nbsp;Bruno Chies","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106531","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106531","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Circular grassroots initiatives worldwide—such as repair movements, libraries of things, and community composting—are experimenting with innovative practices to address the intertwined waste, climate, and broader socio-ecological crises. Challenges related to space and to the construction of alternative infrastructures of care are emergent strands of research in the circular grassroots literature that require further exploration. Informed by a food-saving initiative in Gothenburg and drawing on the concepts of infrastructures of care and threshold spatiality, this article examines how such infrastructures expand and restore our ability to provide and receive care. The study is based on three years of ethnographic research, focus groups, interviews, and participatory visual methods with volunteers and participants in one of the initiative's hubs at the University of Gothenburg.</div><div>The paper shows how this infrastructure intervenes in large-scale waste management systems by redirecting surplus food from waste treams. Through theatricality, it inverts the invisibility of food waste by ‘turning the inside out’, exposing the end of the loop to users and raising awareness of systemic challenges within unsustainable global food regimes. These infrastructures also carve thresholds, mediating encounters between people with differing life courses, and nurturing a sense of the self that restores individual's capacity to care collectively. Theatricality further inverts the stigma associated with care-receiving, transforming ‘care-receivers’ into active providers of care, embodying Tronto's notion of homines curans. Although small in scale, such infrastructures demonstrate the potential to scale through interlocking with the infrastructures of highly legitimate organisations, such as universities and business schools.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106531"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270333","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":"Impacts of local institutions on land development around high-speed rail stations in China","authors":"Xueli Liu ,&nbsp;Mi Diao","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapidly expanding high-speed rail (HSR) network in China is widely regarded as a catalyst for land development in host cities. While numerous studies have explored the impact of non-institutional factors, such as transportation infrastructure and socioeconomic characteristics, on land development around HSR stations, the role of institutional factors remain insufficiently examined. This study investigates how local institutions shape land development outcomes around 384 HSR stations in China from 2006 to 2020. We measure land development outcomes using 5 station-level metrics capturing development scale, intensity, and capitalization effects, and quantify institutional factors through 3 metrics derived from local government documents: development goals for HSR station areas, regulations for regulatory planning, and presence of national new zones. Employing two-way fixed effect models, we find that institutional factors play a crucial role in land development around HSR stations. More specifically, development goals promote larger-scale, more leapfrogging development; planning regulations restrict development scale and boost land prices; and national new zones encourage larger-scale, low-density development with reduced leapfrogging. The institutional effects vary significantly across city size and station type. Mechanism analysis reveals that development goals affect land development through both market-driven and government-led channels. Our study provides valuable insights for planning practices in HSR station areas, supporting local governments in optimizing the performance of HSR new towns to achieve sustainable HSR-induced urbanization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106525"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269823","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":"Vertical 15-minute city: Modeling urban density and functional mix with multi-source geospatial data","authors":"Yang Chen ,&nbsp;Xin Yang ,&nbsp;Xin Li ,&nbsp;Ling Yang ,&nbsp;Sifan Cheng ,&nbsp;Guoan Tang ,&nbsp;Filip Biljecki","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106516","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106516","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 15-minute city concept emphasizes accessible urban living by ensuring essential services are reachable within walking or biking distance. However, most evaluations rely on two-dimensional (2D) analyses, neglecting the vertical complexity of high-density cities. This study introduces a 3D framework for assessing 15-minute accessibility in Nanjing, China. Using natural language processing and rule-based methods, we construct a 3D functional composition dataset from multi-source data. We then develop floor-level proximity indices that account for both horizontal travel time and vertical circulation (e.g., stairs, elevators). Analyzing over 90 million simulated trips, we find that accessibility generally declines with building height, though access to offices and commercial facilities improves at 20th or higher floors. Spatial inequalities emerge not only between central and peripheral zones but also across building levels and regional GDP levels, with a U-shaped disparity tied to distance from downtown. Notably, 11%–17% of trips considered accessible in 2D analyses exceed the 15-minute threshold when vertical travel is included. Our findings highlight the need to incorporate vertical space in 15-minute city evaluations and offer a scalable method to support inclusive, fair, and livable 3D urban planning with the background of 15-minute city.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106516"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270211","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":"Estimating the impacts of climate change risk perception on local housing market: A case study in Miami-Dade, Florida","authors":"David Kim ,&nbsp;Emre Tepe","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106517","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106517","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coastal amenities, services, and ecosystems attract people to live in coastal areas. However, coastal residents face exacerbated natural hazard risks due to recent climate change dynamics. Concerns about future climate change could disrupt residential property valuations in coastal communities, leading to relocations from high-risk coastal areas to inland locations. Such dynamics can cause climate gentrification in higher-elevation regions, displacing vulnerable communities. Despite these risks, many coastal residents are reluctant to leave the coast. The main goal of this study is to examine climate change's effect on the residential market in Miami-Dade County, one of the most vulnerable urban areas to climate change. This study offers insights into the impact of climate change by examining both proximity to the coastline as a factor influencing residential preferences and elevation as a proxy for risk perception. Additionally, this research explores changes over 41 years through parcel-level analysis, providing a unique perspective on long-term trends and micro-geographic details in property evaluations. A hedonic pricing approach is applied to the residential property market using sales data spanning over four decades. Findings suggest that the preference for higher-elevation properties has turned positive since the late 1990s and generally increased, but the preference for areas closer to the coast still exists, despite growing risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106517"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270330","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":"How to bridge the older adults' digital divide in using digital travel services? A comparative analysis between ride-hailing and train E-ticket services in China","authors":"Huiqian Sun ,&nbsp;Peng Jing ,&nbsp;Xuemei Fu ,&nbsp;Jiaxin Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The integration of intelligent systems in travel services presents a dual-edged sword for older adults, enhancing mobility and safety while potentially excluding those with limited digital literacy. Ride-hailing and train e-ticket services represent two pivotal digital transportation solutions catering to older adults' short-distance urban and long-distance intercity travel needs. In this paper, we use two cross-sectional datasets to comprehensively examine and compare the digital divide of older adults using ride-hailing and train e-ticket services by dividing the complete service into multiple operating steps. The Concentration index values are 0.0978 and 0.1367 for the ride-hailing and train e-ticket services, suggesting a more severe digital divide in using train e-tickets. Furthermore, propensity score match results reveal that the more pronounced digital divide observed in train e-ticket than in ride-hailing services stems from significant operational challenges encountered in destination input (steps 3–4), seat information verification (step 6), and online payment (step 8). We also identify the influence of demographic characteristics on the digital divide of travel service usage among older adults, especially for different digital divide groups. Our finding provides targeted recommendations for operational procedures for different travel services, enabling software companies to develop user-friendly interfaces that bridge the digital divide among digital travel services for older Chinese adults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106536"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270388","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":"Mapping the field of urban infrastructuring — A scoping review","authors":"Carl-Philipp Bodenstein ,&nbsp;Karin Pfeffer","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106529","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106529","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Infrastructuring denotes the processual nature of infrastructure development and the dynamic relationship between infrastructures, actors, and the environment in specific local contexts. In this scoping review, we aim to map the existing academic literature on processes and practices of co-developing urban infrastructures through collaborative knowledge production and geospatial methods. Our main research question is: What trends and directions can be identified in research on the sociotechnical processes and relational system of urban infrastructuring, and how are methods of participation and knowledge building conceptualized and realized in infrastructuring processes? We are approaching these questions both qualitatively and quantitatively. We will show that there are three aspects where urban infrastructuring needs more attention. First, there is a lack in long-term or longitudinal research on infrastructuring processes. Secondly, while innovative work is being done in Majority World countries, there is scope for theory building that considers local context as well more interdisciplinary work. Thirdly, a stronger focus on prototyping is needed in order to create links between conceptual and practical as well as processual aspects of infrastructuring. This review will help to better understand the complexities of urban infrastructuring and provide insights for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106529"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269824","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":"A multidimensional urban transport equity assessment framework: A case of Mumbai","authors":"K.T. Sarath ,&nbsp;Trupti Mishra ,&nbsp;Rangan Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban transport appraisals in emerging economies rely on cost-benefit analysis frameworks that exclude equity and distributional considerations. This approach could exacerbate inequalities in access and opportunities, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Existing literature lacks holistic transport equity assessment frameworks tailored for emerging economies. This study develops and applies a novel framework, grounded in Rawlsian Justice theory and the Capability Approach. The framework adopts a multidimensional evaluation of distributive justice and individual capability perspectives and employs a mixed-method approach incorporating spatial, economic, and qualitative dimensions.</div><div>Applying the framework to Mumbai reveals notable inequities. 27 % of the slum population lives in areas with severe transit supply-demand deficits. Metro and suburban rail service coverage spatially excludes many slum settlements, and affordability analysis indicates Metro and Suburban AC fares are largely unaffordable for minimum wage earners. The policy analysis reveals limited inclusion of vulnerable groups in planning documents, and budget analysis highlights disproportionate resource allocation: 87 % of the transport budget is directed towards private vehicle-oriented investments that serve only 9 % of the population(private vehicle users), while non-motorised transport and bus service receive a negligible share. Stakeholder perspectives further underscore the fragmented institutional arrangements and technocratic planning that limit consideration of vulnerable groups.</div><div>The findings indicate a lack of distributive justice principles in the current transport policy, with minimal prioritisation of the least advantaged groups. This study contributes a practical framework for city-level transport equity assessment, offering a valuable tool for policymakers and institutions in emerging economy contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106503"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223124","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":"Roads to opportunities? The effect of highways on intercity commuting in Brazil","authors":"Rubens Lopes Pereira da Silva ,&nbsp;Raul da Mota Silveira Neto ,&nbsp;Diego Firmino Costa da Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine how access to a highway impacts the growth of daily commuting between cities in Brazil. Using data from the Demographic Census and applying an instrumental variable strategy, we discovered a significant and positive causal relationship between proximity to highways and growth in daily commuting to another municipality for work. Our findings indicate that improved highway access leads to a 64.2% rise in intercity outgoing commuting growth between 2000 and 2010. This effect is observed solely among men and individuals with primary and secondary education levels. Our research supports the notion that better transportation infrastructure can expand job opportunities by providing workers with access to a wider labor market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 106512"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223125","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}