Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00255-5
Nicholas N. Ferenchak, Wesley E. Marshall
{"title":"The link between low-stress bicycle facilities and bicycle commuting","authors":"Nicholas N. Ferenchak, Wesley E. Marshall","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00255-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00255-5","url":null,"abstract":"Existing research links standard bicycle lanes with increased levels of bicyclist commuting. Here we question how newer facility types fare relative to standard bicycle lanes. Using 6 years of longitudinal data across 14,011 block groups in 28 US cities, we find that block groups that installed protected bicycle lanes experienced bicycle commuter increases 1.8 times larger than standard bicycle lane block groups, 1.6 times larger than shared-lane marking block groups and 4.3 times larger than block groups that did not install bicycle facilities. Focusing on mileage, protected bicycle lane mileage installed was significantly associated with bicycle commuter increases 52.5% stronger than standard bicycle lane mileage and 281.2% stronger than shared-lane marking mileage. The results suggest that lower-stress bicycle facilities—such as protected bicycle lanes—are significantly associated with larger increases in ridership at the block-group level compared with higher-stress facilities such as standard bicycle lanes and shared-lane markings. Bicycling offers a range of benefits for urban commuters, but the facilities that best facilitate bicycle lane use are still unclear. Using data from 28 US cities, this study found that bicycle lanes and similar low-stress facilities increase ridership markedly.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 6","pages":"555-559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00255-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123516","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00256-4
Xiangyu Li, Anrong Dang
{"title":"The disruptive effect of AI on urban planning","authors":"Xiangyu Li, Anrong Dang","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00256-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00256-4","url":null,"abstract":"Urban planning is encountering a new wave of disruption from artificial intelligence (AI), which is prompting planners to reconsider the profession’s core values. Harnessing AI responsibly demands critical engagement with its ethical, democratic and equity implications.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 7","pages":"568-570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123500","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00257-3
Bangxiao Zheng
{"title":"The city microorganisms we miss","authors":"Bangxiao Zheng","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00257-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00257-3","url":null,"abstract":"Cities teem with life, yet urban isolation grows. Microbiologist and urban ecologist Bangxiao Zheng proposes that embracing invisible microbial companions through probiotic urban design and smart technology can help to restore our lost connections — with nature, and with each other.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 7","pages":"566-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123398","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00253-7
Andreina Seijas
{"title":"Embracing a 24-hour cycle in urban governance","authors":"Andreina Seijas","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00253-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00253-7","url":null,"abstract":"As cities adapt to new rhythms of work, climate and culture, time itself is emerging as a critical dimension of urban governance. Andreina Seijas argues that urban policy must embrace the full 24-hour cycle to meet the demands of a changing world.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 6","pages":"472-473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123595","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00248-4
Lei Song
{"title":"The oxymoron of coloniality in Qingdao","authors":"Lei Song","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00248-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00248-4","url":null,"abstract":"Colonial-era urban planning gave Qingdao its uniqueness and modernity, but exclusivity and zoning were all part of the plan. Lei Song, a PhD researcher exploring the city’s layered past and personal reflections, grapples with how its colonial legacies resonate still and shape both identity and memory.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 7","pages":"671-671"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123498","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00246-6
{"title":"Echoes of art in urban spaces","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00246-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00246-6","url":null,"abstract":"Art echoes through the complex fabric of urban spaces, and leaves a subtle yet transformative imprint. From line and color to scale and the frontier of emerging technology, artistic elements echo through the contents of our May issue, and offer profound insights into the dynamics of the urban realm.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 5","pages":"359-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00246-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123609","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00238-6
Junfeng Yin
{"title":"The soul of a city by a giant mine","authors":"Junfeng Yin","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00238-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00238-6","url":null,"abstract":"Fuxin — once a thriving coal city — now grapples with the echoes of its industrial past. Urban researcher Junfeng Yin reflects on the city’s transformation, and weaves personal memories with the fading legacy of the Haizhou Mine.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 5","pages":"470-470"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123600","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00241-x
{"title":"Land subsidence threatens infrastructure in US cities","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00241-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00241-x","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive radar satellite analysis of 28 major cities in the USA reveals that more than 20% of the land area in each city is sinking, which affects 34 million residents. Driven by natural processes and groundwater extraction, these sinking areas threaten approximately 29,000 buildings and exacerbate flood risks.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 6","pages":"477-478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123519","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00237-7
Daniel T. O’Brien
{"title":"The pointillistic city and geographic scale in urban science","authors":"Daniel T. O’Brien","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00237-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00237-7","url":null,"abstract":"Cities can be organized into properties, streets, ‘neighborhoods’ and more, posing a challenge for urban science. The pointillistic perspective on cities integrates multiple geographic scales in theory, research and policy by emphasizing the distinct processes that operate at each scale and their interactions. My goal is partially to rectify an overreliance on neighborhoods, revealing underappreciated microspatial inequities. I apply it to two topics with neighborhood-centric histories and burgeoning place-based literatures—crime and environmental justice—and explore how it can generalize to other scales (for example, cities), guide work with novel data fueling urban informatics, and inform equitable policymaking. Cities can be organized and viewed many ways, as by neighborhoods, streets and so on. This Perspective argues for integrating multiple scales into urban science through a pointillistic approach.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 5","pages":"379-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123606","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}
Nature CitiesPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00240-y
Leonard O. Ohenhen, Guang Zhai, Jonathan Lucy, Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson, Mohammad Khorrami, Florence Onyike, Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Ashutosh Tiwari, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Sonam F. Sherpa, Jui-Chi Lee, Sonia Zehsaz, Manoochehr Shirzaei
{"title":"Land subsidence risk to infrastructure in US metropolises","authors":"Leonard O. Ohenhen, Guang Zhai, Jonathan Lucy, Susanna Werth, Grace Carlson, Mohammad Khorrami, Florence Onyike, Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam, Ashutosh Tiwari, Khosro Ghobadi-Far, Sonam F. Sherpa, Jui-Chi Lee, Sonia Zehsaz, Manoochehr Shirzaei","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00240-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00240-y","url":null,"abstract":"Land subsidence is a slow-moving hazard with adverse environmental and socioeconomic consequences worldwide. While often considered solely a coastal hazard due to relative sea-level rise, subsidence also threatens inland urban areas, causing increased flood risks, structural damage and transportation disruptions. However, spatially dense subsidence rates that capture granular variations at high spatial density are often lacking, hindering assessment of associated infrastructure risks. Here we use space geodetic measurements from 2015 to 2021 to create high-resolution maps of subsidence rates for the 28 most populous US cities. We estimate that at least 20% of the urban area is sinking in all cities, mainly due to groundwater extraction, affecting ~34 million people. Additionally, more than 29,000 buildings are located in high and very high damage risk areas, indicating a greater likelihood of infrastructure damage. These datasets and information are crucial for developing ad hoc policies to adapt urban centers to these complex environmental challenges. Ohenhen et al. used space geodetic measurements to rigorously quantify land subsidence in the 28 most populous US cities. They find that over 20% of the area in each city is sinking, affecting approximately 34 million people and placing more than 29,000 buildings at high risk of damage.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 6","pages":"543-554"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00240-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123596","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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