2026-08-22

7 arXiv categories· 96 journals· 1929 candidates — 6 worth your time· 83 without an open abstract

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Adaptive reuse potential, personality traits from street-view imagery, and green facade perceptions

Today, together

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no foundation work was cited by four of the day's papers counted over the 84 of this day's 89 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences; Istanbul Technical University; and 4 more none of them on a paper we published in the 71 days before this issue

Two counts, not one counted twice: every row here but “on the same shoulders” counts the papers published above, and that one counts every paper this day named — those and the ones under Also published today, whose abstracts we could not read.

published: Computational Urban Science

Esma Selen Aksoy, Birgül Çolakoğlu
Computational Urban Science

Istanbul Technical University

Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Urban Planning and Governance · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · clustering · Istanbul · Istanbul Technical University

PARS: an urban context framework for residential adaptive reuse

The study introduces the Potential Adaptive Reuse Score (PARS), a computational framework that evaluates the residential conversion potential of non-residential buildings based on their surrounding urban context. Using 2024 municipal building inventory data from Istanbul, the researchers analyzed 1,454 office, shopping mall, and commercial buildings across four spatial indicators: Population-Amenity Balance, Amenity Diversity, metro-based Connectivity, and Amenity-Rent Alignment. These indicators, grounded in 15-minute city principles, were aggregated using both equal-weight and Random Forest-derived weighting schemes to rank each building's readiness for residential life.

Why it matters — It shifts the evaluation of adaptive reuse from purely structural, building-level characteristics to the surrounding neighborhood's capacity to support daily residential needs. This provides urban planners with a transferable, data-driven method to identify and prioritize viable conversion candidates during early-stage planning.

Caveat: The framework evaluates suitability based entirely on external urban context and accessibility, without integrating internal building-level structural or architectural feasibility constraints.

Computational Urban Science · pdf · doi

published: Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Koichi Ito, Yuhao Kang, Samuel D. Gosling, et al.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers · was arXiv

National University of Singapore

Personality Traits and Psychology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · spatial clustering · regression · street view imagery

Uncovering the Associations between Human Big Five Personality Traits and Built Environment Characteristics from Street View Imagery

This study analyzed the relationships between self-reported Big Five personality traits and built environment features extracted via computer vision from street-view imagery across four cities in Texas. Aggregating data at the ZIP code level, the researchers identified significant spatial clustering of personality traits and used regression models to show that built environment and socioeconomic factors explain substantial variance in these distributions, with Openness yielding the strongest model fit (R2 = 0.47).

Why it matters — It demonstrates that human psychological traits are systematically associated with physical urban characteristics at a much finer geographic scale than the regional or national levels examined in prior research.

Caveat: The study's cross-sectional design describes associations rather than establishing whether the built environment shapes personality or if individuals self-select into neighborhoods that match their traits.

Annals of the American Association of Geographers · doi

published: GeoJournal

Grace West, Mark Alan Rhodes, Ila Swier, et al.
GeoJournal

Michigan Technological University

Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Animal and Plant Science Education · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · text analysis · United States · Michigan Technological University

Gendered ecologies—gendered eponyms: absence, presence, and representation of women within living memorials

This study analyzed a database of 310 plant-based food varieties (fruits, vegetables, and grains) named after people uninvolved in their development, focusing on the 80 varieties named after women. Using online archival methods and content analysis, the research examined how these women are represented and how these living memorials are commercialized.

Why it matters — It extends the study of gendered commemoration from static monuments and street names into the everyday agricultural landscape, demonstrating that while women are slightly better represented in crop names than in traditional statuary, they remain subject to similar patterns of narrative silencing.

Caveat: The analysis is restricted to a specific database of 310 varieties and focuses primarily on gender norms within the United States.

GeoJournal · pdf · doi

published: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Heinrich Zozmann, Raphael Karutz, Sophia Dietrich, et al.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Sustainable Building Design and Assessment · Urban Green Space and Health · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization · survey · Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Resident perceptions of green facades: the role of firsthand experience

This study analyzed survey responses from residents living in buildings with and without green facades in Leipzig, Germany, using exploratory factor analysis and Bayesian linear regression. It found that residents with firsthand experience of green facades hold significantly more favorable views of them, while concerns about maintenance-related rent increases were primarily confined to those without direct exposure.

Why it matters — It demonstrates that direct, daily exposure to nature-based solutions can actively mitigate specific public anxieties like cost-driven displacement, shifting the focus of urban greening policy from general public relations to physical, experiential exposure.

Caveat: The findings are based on a survey within a single German city, which may limit how well these specific perceptions generalize to different housing markets and cultural contexts.

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment · pdf · doi

published: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Chamara Panakaduwa, Paul Coates, Mustapha Munir
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Heriot-Watt University

Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · interview · Heriot-Watt University · University of Salford

A homeowner-centred approach to housing retrofit: aligning consumption logic and neighbourhood context for retrofit at scale

This study identifies barriers to residential energy retrofits and strategies for homeowner engagement by conducting semi-structured interviews with 40 retrofit industry stakeholders. The findings outline a shift from investment-focused to consumption-focused marketing, a transition from property-centred to homeowner-centred delivery models, and the implementation of socially contextualised neighbourhood-scale approaches.

Why it matters — It reframes retrofit delivery from a top-down, technical-rational model to one aligned with homeowner behaviour and local social contexts, offering empirical strategies to overcome the stagnation of residential decarbonisation programs.

Caveat: The findings are based on interviews with industry stakeholders rather than direct engagement with homeowners themselves.

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment · pdf · doi

published: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

Jarosław Stańczak, Jan W. Owsiński, Przemysław Śleszyński, et al.
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

Systems Research Institute

Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis · Systems Research Institute · Polish Academy of Sciences · Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences

Modelling Internal Migrations in Poland at the Municipality Level and Their Relationship to Unemployment (2004–2023): Results, Implications and Potential Use

This study modeled annual internal migration flows across approximately 2,500 Polish municipalities over a 20-year period from 2004 to 2023. By constructing 20 separate annual models, the analysis evaluated how local unemployment rates influence migration patterns and compared a baseline model against several extended formulations.

Why it matters — It provides empirical confirmation of the link between local unemployment and migration at a highly granular spatial scale, revealing a distinct geographic pattern in model errors that can guide regional development policies.

Caveat: The study establishes a strong relationship but notes that the positive correlation between unemployment and migration does not apply uniformly to all analyzed municipal units.

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy · pdf · doi

Still cited

Carlos Moreno, Zaheer Allam (2021), Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities 1 of today's items cite it · 62 of 3240 in the archive stand on it

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