Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving
local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator …

Free and open source tools present numerous opportunities to support current urban
planning practice. However, their overview is fragmented, and the uptake among planning …

OpenStreetMap (OSM) has evolved as a popular dataset for global urban analyses, such as
assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. However, many analyses …

This paper aims to engage with the ongoing debates on the role of planning in future smart
cities, to make a case for a reconceptualization of the technocentric notion of the smart city …

The Barcelona superblock has been proposed as a sustainable urban neighbourhood
transformation strategy in cities. Superblock design reduces space assigned to cars to …

Citizen science (CS), that is, the involvement of citizens in data collection or analysis for
research projects, is becoming more widespread. This is due to the increasing digitalization …

There is a prevailing trend to study urban morphology quantitatively thanks to the growing
accessibility to various forms of spatial big data, increasing computing power, and use cases …

This systematic review aimed to provide a comprehensive view of (1) the purposes of
research studies using smart city infrastructures to promote citizen participation in the cities' …

Along with environmental pollution, urban planning has been connected to public health.
The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in …

Despite the significant role of alleyways in urban spatial configuration and accessibility as
critical structures of urban infrastructure, there remains a noticeable gap in understanding …