[HTML][HTML] Sidewalk networks: Review and outlook

D Rhoads, C Rames, A Solé-Ribalta… - … Environment and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
From a transport perspective, increasing active travel–and walking in particular–is crucial for
the future of sustainable cities, as reflected in global decarbonisation policies and agendas …

The scales of human mobility

L Alessandretti, U Aslak, S Lehmann - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
There is a contradiction at the heart of our current understanding of individual and collective
mobility patterns. On the one hand, a highly influential body of literature on human mobility …

[HTML][HTML] The inclusive 15-minute city: Walkability analysis with sidewalk networks

D Rhoads, A Solé-Ribalta… - … , Environment and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the design (and re-design) of cities to encourage walkability has taken on
new urgency as part of a wider campaign for sustainable urban development …

A framework for integrating ecosystem service provision and connectivity in ecological spatial networks: A case study of the Shanghai metropolitan area

H Chen, W Yan, Z Li, W Wende, S Xiao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecological spatial networks (ESNs) that integrate ecosystem service (ES) provision and
connectivity can address the challenges of fragmented ecological space and declining ES …

Defining a city—delineating urban areas using cell-phone data

L Dong, F Duarte, G Duranton, P Santi, M Barthelemy… - Nature Cities, 2024 - nature.com
What is a city? Researchers use different criteria and datasets to define it—from population
density to traffic flows. We argue there is one dataset that could serve as a proxy of the …

Small cities face greater impact from automation

MR Frank, L Sun, M Cebrian… - Journal of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The city has proved to be the most successful form of human agglomeration and provides
wide employment opportunities for its dwellers. As advances in robotics and artificial …

Measuring the topological robustness of transportation networks to disaster-induced failures: A percolation approach

S Dong, A Mostafizi, H Wang, J Gao… - Journal of Infrastructure …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
This paper presents a framework that integrates network theory methods into infrastructure
network assessment in order to investigate transportation network robustness from a …

Does China-Pakistan Economic Corridor improve connectivity in Pakistan? A protocol assessing the planned transport network infrastructure

J Zhao, G Sun, C Webster - Journal of Transport Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
China invested vastly in overseas infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI), which aims at improving international connectivity through collaboration with partner …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping hierarchical urban boundaries for global urban settlements

Z Xu, L Jiao, T Lan, Z Zhou, H Cui, C Li, G Xu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban boundary is the spatial basis for urban statistics and urban planning. However, the
city definition by which the urban boundary is determined is not comparable among different …

Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions

W Cao, L Dong, Y Cheng, L Wu, Q Guo, Y Liu - … , Environment and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
A city (or an urban cluster) is not an isolated spatial unit, but a combination of areas with
closely linked socio-economic activities. However, so far, we lack a consistent and …