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{"title":"Patterns that divide and endure","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00435-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00435-x","url":null,"abstract":"Socioeconomic and spatial segregation informs who benefits from urban growth and who bears its environmental and social costs. In this issue, we explore how infrastructure, labor markets and global policies actively reshape these divides.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"295-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00435-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A city behind closed windows","authors":"Aqsa Talpur","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00400-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00400-8","url":null,"abstract":"Pressed between heat that radiates from concrete and smog that settles like dust on memory, I lived in Lahore from behind closed windows — a vivid glimpse of a city whose climate now redraws the map of everyday life.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"380-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Visible expressions of Islam in public space affect Muslim immigrants’ place integration","authors":"Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Amit Birenboim, Nonna Mayer, Gizem Arikan","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00419-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00419-x","url":null,"abstract":"Western societies are divided over whether public expressions of Islam should be permitted in urban spaces. Some argue such displays prompt withdrawal among Muslim immigrants and undermine their sense of belonging, yet rigorous empirical testing remains limited. Given this empirical gap, this study provides a causal test of the effect of in situ exposure to embedded Islamic symbols on Muslim immigrants’ place-based integration. We conceptualize place integration as a proximal, cue-driven person–environment process, reflected in approach-oriented behavior and attitudinal–perceptual attachment to place. We then evaluate the effect of public Islam using naturalistic field experiments and original surveys with Muslim immigrants in Paris and London. Using a purpose-built augmented reality mobile app, our experiments tracked participants’ movement along identical urban routes, randomly assigning exposure to either Islamic symbols (treatment) or non-religious cues (control) (NParis = 151, NLondon = 147). GPS-based behavioral data comprising walking pace, acceleration and brief remaining near the location, show that exposure to Islamic symbols increased approach-oriented behavior (dParis = 0.51, dLondon = 0.63, P < 0.05), accompanied by a parallel increase in self-reported place attachment. Corroborating survey evidence (NParis = 403, NLondon = 400) further indicates that everyday visibility of Islamic symbols in one’s neighborhood is positively associated with place attachment. The patterns hold in both Paris and London, despite their contrasting approaches to religious visibility, indicating that the effect extends beyond a single policy context. These findings have implications for the governance of religious diversity in urban public spaces in the context of immigration. Religious expressions in public urban spaces can be contentious, with competing policies reflecting different expectations about whether such expressions support or undermine immigrant integration. Field experiments and surveys among Muslim immigrants show that exposure to Islamic symbols increases place integration in both Paris and London, despite their contrasting regulatory approaches to religious visibility.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"359-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of tech workers in ethnicity- and class-based urban segregation","authors":"Jānis Zālīte, Kadi Kalm, Kadri Leetmaa, Tiit Tammaru","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00420-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00420-4","url":null,"abstract":"Large cities are often segregated by both ethnicity and class, and these dimensions frequently overlap because minorities are over-represented in lower-paid occupations. We examine how these patterns shift during the course of digital-transition-driven professionalization by focusing on tech workers, a fast-growing professional group. Higher earnings and broad scope for remote work expand minority tech workers’ residential options relative to other minorities facing tighter housing constraints. What remains unclear is whether their residential sorting is driven primarily by ethnicity or by class. Our empirical evidence comes from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia—a country known for its digital advancement. On the basis of population-wide register data, we find that the residential outcomes of minority tech workers align with class position, paralleled by the increasing spatial isolation of non-tech minorities as upward occupational mobility draws minority professionals out of lower-income co-ethnic areas. These results underscore the need to design urban policy for digitally transforming and professionalizing cities, with explicit attention to class-based segregation risks among minority communities who gain less from new opportunities. Cities are often segregated by class and ethnicity, with work often playing a key role. Focusing on digitally advanced Tallinn, Estonia, this study finds that minority tech workers are less segregated from the majority whereas non-tech workers are more isolated, deepening class-based segregation.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"371-379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00420-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new paradigm for resilient and equitable post-war recovery of cities","authors":"Nadiia Kopiika, Sotirios Argyroudis \u0000 (, ), Min Ouyang, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis \u0000 (, )","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00424-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00424-0","url":null,"abstract":"Rebuilding cities after conflict often prioritizes political or economic interests at the expense of long-term resilience, equity and inclusion. Post-war recovery must break away from traditional, interest-driven patterns. Instead, reconstruction should be redefined through a science-driven, multidisciplinary lens that has people and communities, social justice, and sustainability at its heart.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"304-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding kampungs as critical urban infrastructures","authors":"Xuanyi Nie, Kristanti Dewi Paramita, Rini Suryantini, Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Yandi Andri Yatmo, Longfeng Wu","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00428-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00428-w","url":null,"abstract":"Urban kampungs in Indonesia are more than ‘informal settlements’. They function as critical urban infrastructures that sustain climate resilience through distributed domesticity and enable inclusive governance through everyday social cooperation. This framing broadens the understanding of urban infrastructure beyond technical systems.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"308-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Datacenters as core infrastructure of urban AI","authors":"Alok Tiwari","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00421-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00421-3","url":null,"abstract":"We imagine artificial intelligence (AI) in the glow of smart screens, self-adjusting traffic lights and seamless digital services. However, the true engines of this new urban age sit in vast, windowless buildings, humming at the edge of our cities. These datacenters consume enormous amounts of energy, shape where investment flows, and quietly determine who holds power in the digital city. If we care about fairness, sustainability and democratic control, we must stop treating the ‘cloud’ as intangible. The future of our cities depends on confronting the hidden infrastructure that makes urban intelligence possible. As datacenters enable urban AI, this Perspective argues that datacenters must be understood as core infrastructures, whose spatial distribution, governance arrangements, computational labor and economic logics reorganize urban space, redistribute power and externalize material costs, raising key challenges of energy justice, data sovereignty and civic accountability.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"311-317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"City borders as thresholds, not edges","authors":"Dandan Peng","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00359-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00359-y","url":null,"abstract":"Each day, among the thousands who cross Luohu Port between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Dandan Peng finds traces of a city’s soul in the places where people rush through. From here, borders reveal themselves not as barriers but as thresholds.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 3","pages":"294-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Living with invisible power in Guangzhou","authors":"Jie Guo \u0000 (, )","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00429-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00429-9","url":null,"abstract":"Living in Guangzhou shows how data governs not through commands but by shaping what can be seen, reported and acted upon. Although smart governance promises efficiency, everyday encounters reveal the limits of digital systems that make some urban problems visible while leaving others beyond view.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 4","pages":"296-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seen and unseen infrastructures","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00418-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00418-y","url":null,"abstract":"Urban infrastructure — above and below ground, physical and social — shapes how we experience life in cities. This issue of Nature Cities brings these layers together and underscores that all infrastructures, seen and unseen, matters to making and sustaining urban spaces and places.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 3","pages":"191-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00418-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}