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Coding and decoding urban nature 对城市自然进行编码和解码

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-16 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00521-0

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Depression risk associated with idealized sentiment toward urban places on social media 抑郁风险与社交媒体上对城市场所的理想化情绪有关

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-09 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00516-x

Cunyu Yuan, Xia Zhang, Luliang Tang, Danning Xu, Hong Yang

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Reduced flood-related bacillary dysentery risk with sponge city development in China 中国海绵城市发展降低了与洪水相关的细菌性痢疾风险

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-08 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00514-z

Ling Zhang, Qunwu Zha, Hao Zhao, Ce Liu, Yanxia Wang, John S. Ji, Cunrui Huang, Bin Luo

{"title":"Reduced flood-related bacillary dysentery risk with sponge city development in China","authors":"Ling Zhang, Qunwu Zha, Hao Zhao, Ce Liu, Yanxia Wang, John S. Ji, Cunrui Huang, Bin Luo","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00514-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00514-z","url":null,"abstract":"Flooding heightens waterborne disease risks, yet evidence on whether nature-based urban adaptation reduces these burdens is limited. Here we analyzed 4.2 million bacillary dysentery (BD) cases across China (2005–2020). We employed a case-crossover design to estimate the acute effect of flood exposure on BD risk, coupled with a quasi-experimental approach to compare changes in flood-related BD risk between cities with and without the sponge city development initiative. Flood exposure, especially severe floods, increased BD risk over a 28-day lag period. School-aged children and elders were most vulnerable to overall and severe floods, respectively. Cities with sponge city development showed lower flood-related BD risk, with the greatest reduction (12.2%) by the third year after the initiative. Protective effects were stronger where pre-existing infrastructure was weaker (for example, fewer public toilets, lower water pipeline density and less favorable industry). These findings suggest that nature-based urban adaptation could yield health co-benefits, particularly in less-developed settings. Flooding exacerbates bacillary dysentery risks, particularly among vulnerable groups. Analysis of 4.2 million cases in China utilized case-crossover and quasi-experimental methods, revealing a 12.2% risk reduction post-sponge city development, especially in areas with weaker infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 10","pages":"957-964"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177764","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}

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Urban design interventions reduce fear of crime in public spaces in gender-sensitive ways 城市设计干预以性别敏感的方式减少对公共场所犯罪的恐惧

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00494-0

Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Tom Schlesser, Davide Luca

{"title":"Urban design interventions reduce fear of crime in public spaces in gender-sensitive ways","authors":"Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Tom Schlesser, Davide Luca","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00494-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00494-0","url":null,"abstract":"Fear of crime in public spaces is a major policy problem worldwide. Environmental Crime Prevention proposes that modifying the built environment can reduce the fear of crime, but key questions remain: are these interventions equally effective across genders, and what intensity maximizes safety perceptions while optimizing costs? Here we evaluated three interventions: ‘Eyes on the Street’ (adding windows to blind walls), neutral stimuli (removing graffiti by repainting walls) and ‘Nature-Based Solutions’ (integrating tidy vegetation into urban infrastructure) in the context of ‘Broken Windows’ disorder. Interventions were applied at varying intensities across four types of public spaces. Using a randomized experiment in Chile with photo simulations and an adapted Positive and Negative Affective Schedule, we collected 18,150 perception ratings from 2,028 respondents. The results show that perceived safety improvements are positive but nonlinear, indicating diminishing returns beyond a certain intervention intensity. Critically, responses were highly gender specific: interventions were more effective for men, suggesting that environmental changes alone do not fully address women’s perceived insecurity. Crime is a continuing urban challenge. This study, based in Chile, finds that design interventions are effective but less so as new ones are added and that interventions are more effective at reducing the fear of crime in men than women.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 9","pages":"863-874"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00494-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975004","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}

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Art as inquiry in the microbiome-informed city 艺术作为一个在微生物信息化的城市里的探究

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00512-1

Diedre Brown, Elizabeth Hénaff

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Cities beyond freshwater 淡水以外的城市

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00513-0

Masoud Irannezhad

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Underestimated methane emissions from natural gas consumption in the Yangtze River Delta cities of China 低估了中国长江三角洲城市天然气消费产生的甲烷排放量

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00504-1

Yujia Zhao, Yuzhong Zhang, Yanli Zhang, Zhengning Xu, Xiangyu Pei, Zhibin Wang, Bingye Xu, Zheng Xia, Qiaoli Zou, Wenlong Zhao, Youwen Sun, Qian Wang, Yaqin Gao, Hongli Wang, Cheng Huang, Xinlu Wang, Rui Wang, Botian Qiu, Shuang Zhao, Xiaobo Wang, Ying Zhou, Huizhong Shen, Guofeng Shen

{"title":"Underestimated methane emissions from natural gas consumption in the Yangtze River Delta cities of China","authors":"Yujia Zhao, Yuzhong Zhang, Yanli Zhang, Zhengning Xu, Xiangyu Pei, Zhibin Wang, Bingye Xu, Zheng Xia, Qiaoli Zou, Wenlong Zhao, Youwen Sun, Qian Wang, Yaqin Gao, Hongli Wang, Cheng Huang, Xinlu Wang, Rui Wang, Botian Qiu, Shuang Zhao, Xiaobo Wang, Ying Zhou, Huizhong Shen, Guofeng Shen","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00504-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00504-1","url":null,"abstract":"Natural gas consumption in Chinese cities has nearly tripled over the past decade, improving air quality but leaving its climate impacts uncertain due to poorly quantified supply-chain leakage. Here we quantify methane emissions from natural gas consumption in the Yangtze River Delta metropolitan cluster using a decade (2012–2021) of atmospheric ethane (C2H6) observations, a tracer unique to fossil fuel sources. By combining observations with model simulations, we find that a leakage rate of 3.5% (2.5–4.3%) is required to reproduce the observed seasonal variability and long-term trends in C2H6, far exceeding China’s commonly assumed 0.2% inventory value. This estimated leakage rate also implies average methane emission of 0.68 (0.48–0.83) Tg yr−1 over 2012–2021, vastly underestimated or entirely omitted in existing inventories. Our results reveal a substantial underestimation of methane emissions from natural gas consumption and underscore the urgent need to reassess sector-specific methane budgets in rapidly urbanizing regions of China. Rapid growth in urban natural gas use in China has improved air quality but may carry a larger climate cost than previously recognized. Using atmospheric ethane as a tracer, this study reveals that methane emissions from natural gas consumption in the Yangtze River Delta metropolitan regions are substantially underestimated.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 9","pages":"854-862"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975024","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}

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Information scattering during acute urban stressors 急性城市压力下的信息散射

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00500-5

Pranavesh Panakkal, Jamie Ellen Padgett

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Wildlife disease occurrence increases with changes to urban density, habitat connectivity and climate 野生动物疾病发病率随城市密度、栖息地连通性和气候的变化而增加

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00501-4

Tiziana A. Gelmi-Candusso, Maureen H. Murray, Peter Rodriguez, Julia Angstmann, Summer Fink, Marie-Josee Fortin, Travis Gallo, Patrick Gentry, Daniela Guerrero, Jeffrey D. Haight, Sophia Hara, Mark Jordan, Michel T. Kohl, Jesse S. Lewis, Robert Long, Péter K. Molnár, Maia Mortimer, Brent R. Patterson, Sage Raymond, Katie Remine, Travis Ryan, Carmen Salsbury, Christopher J. Schell, Catherine Shier, Colleen C. St. Clair, Cassondra J. Stevenson, Juan S. Vargas Soto, Lisa Wayne, Tyler Wheeldon, Seth Magle, Mason Fidino

{"title":"Wildlife disease occurrence increases with changes to urban density, habitat connectivity and climate","authors":"Tiziana A. Gelmi-Candusso, Maureen H. Murray, Peter Rodriguez, Julia Angstmann, Summer Fink, Marie-Josee Fortin, Travis Gallo, Patrick Gentry, Daniela Guerrero, Jeffrey D. Haight, Sophia Hara, Mark Jordan, Michel T. Kohl, Jesse S. Lewis, Robert Long, Péter K. Molnár, Maia Mortimer, Brent R. Patterson, Sage Raymond, Katie Remine, Travis Ryan, Carmen Salsbury, Christopher J. Schell, Catherine Shier, Colleen C. St. Clair, Cassondra J. Stevenson, Juan S. Vargas Soto, Lisa Wayne, Tyler Wheeldon, Seth Magle, Mason Fidino","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00501-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00501-4","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing wildlife disease has been identified in urban areas, but the drivers of this increase remain unknown. Here, leveraging multi-city biomonitoring efforts across North America, we assessed whether greater occurrence of disease was correlated with urban characteristics, habitat connectivity loss and climate change. We focused on sarcoptic mange (Sarcoptes scabiei), an emerging panzootic disease, in coyotes (Canis latrans) using camera-trap images. Locally, disease occurrence was greater at sites with a higher urban intensity and in proximity to connectivity corridors. At the continental scale, disease occurrence was greater in cities with a higher human population density and fewer connectivity corridors. Following projected urban growth and climate change, we forecast an increase in mange occurrence across cities by 2050, most prominently at northern latitudes driven by a combined effect of urban densification and milder winters affecting host space-use overlap and host and mite survival. Urban planning for greater habitat connectivity and proactive disease management policies can improve wildlife welfare and limit the economic effects of zoonoses. Wildlife disease in urban areas is expanding but with unclear causes. Using camera-trap images, this study finds that sarcoptic mange in coyotes is increasing with greater urban density and milder winters across North America.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 9","pages":"802-813"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975014","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}

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Connecting application behavior to undermatching in New York City school choice 将申请行为与纽约市学校选择中的不匹配联系起来

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-08-18 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00486-0

Kenny Peng, Emily Ryu, Jon Kleinberg, Eva Tardos, Nikhil Garg

{"title":"Connecting application behavior to undermatching in New York City school choice","authors":"Kenny Peng, Emily Ryu, Jon Kleinberg, Eva Tardos, Nikhil Garg","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00486-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00486-0","url":null,"abstract":"Cities must efficiently and equitably allocate scarce resources. A major example is centralized school assignment, where cities combine admissions policies and student-submitted preference rankings to make assignments. Although both factors are understood to contribute to outcome inequities (the latter through introducing ‘administrative burden’), it is difficult to disentangle the two, limiting intervention design. Here, using data from 58,901 New York City students, modeling optimal application strategy and calculating admissions counterfactuals, we study how individual ranking behavior translates to undermatching: the school quality difference between where a student matched and where they could have matched. We find Black and Hispanic students undermatch 1.5× more than their Asian and white peers and 2× more among the most competitive students. Within our framework, making changes to a single list position with ex ante information could reduce undermatching by 24%. Our results suggest that individualized interventions targeting disadvantaged students with competitive applications to apply to ‘reach’ programs would be most effective in reducing undermatching in New York City. However, large-scale adoption could lead to more nonmatching, suggesting a limit to naive behavioral interventions. Cities are challenged to allocate educational resources efficiently and equitably. This study of the 2022–2023 New York City High School Match program finds that Black and Hispanic students undermatch 1.5 times more than peers, especially among competitive applicants, and that behavioral nudges can help.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 9","pages":"875-884"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975020","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}

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