The growing threat of urban heating has attracted considerable scholarly attention to their
modeling and prediction. To improve the urban land surface temperature (LST) …

Considering the constraints on urban land expansion, improving the efficiency of existing
urban land becomes a key factor in promoting resource sustainability and environmental …

In this article, we make the case for the existence of global macro-patterns of urban change
and urban growth, in particular, which may be recognized across metropolitan systems …

Timely and scientific investigation into the complex relationship between urban expansion
and carbon emissions is imperative to support urban decarbonization efforts. However, the …

Governing the future growth of the world's megacities towards higher land use efficiency is
important for achieving global sustainability. We have computed statistics of the urban …

The rapid development of urban agglomerations faces a series of resource and
environmental problems. Exploring the coupling relationship and coordination effect of the …

Increasing urban land use eco-efficiency (ULUEE) is conducive to alleviating the human-
land conflict in cities, especially in densely populated and ecologically sensitive areas …

The looming challenge of global land scarcity entails shaping urban structure towards more
efficient land use. To figure out how urban structure affects urban land-use efficiency …

Unplanned urban expansion poses grand social and environmental challenges worldwide.
The concept of Natural-based solutions (NbS) has been recently proposed as new guidance …

This research examines the spatial transformations of postsocialist cities in the context of the
polarized national urban system. Focusing on two different periods (1990–2000 and 2000 …