2026-09-16

7 arXiv categories· 96 journals· 2493 candidates — 5 worth your time· 89 without an open abstract

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Anti-displacement greening governance, cycling network synergies, and transport resilience to rainfall

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Classifying bicycle sharing station roles using temporal imbalance profiles in Tokyo shares 3 references with Nonlinear and interaction effects of the built environment on public bicycle usage: a case study of Taipei City非线性及建筑环境对公共自行车使用的影响：台北市的案例研究 (2026-07-08)
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  • Built environment and public bike usage for metro access: A comparison of neighborhoods in Beijing, Taipei, and Tokyo
  • Associations of built environments with spatiotemporal patterns of public bicycle use
  • Built environment effects on the integration of dockless bike-sharing and the metro
; Assessing equity indicators and anti-displacement governance for urban green spaces as social infrastructure shares 3 references with Urban green credits: Capturing ecosystem service value in housing markets for redistributive urban planning (2026-07-15)
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  • Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
  • Just green enough: contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
  • “We're not in the business of housing:” Environmental gentrification and the nonprofitization of green infrastructure projects
; Assessing equity indicators and anti-displacement governance for urban green spaces as social infrastructure shares 3 references with The intention-behavior gap in urban green space co-governance: The role of spatial conditions in high-density settlements (2026-07-25)
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  • Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
  • Green gentrification or ‘just green enough’: Do park location, size and function affect whether a place gentrifies or not?
  • Green gentrification in European and North American cities
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Assam University none of them on a paper we published in the 96 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.

This study classified the functional roles of 3,207 bicycle sharing stations in Tokyo using 15-minute interval availability data across three seasons between autumn 2023 and spring 2024. Another paper presents a comparative narrative review of literature published between 2000 and 2025 on land-use/land-cover changes and urban heat dynamics in Jaipur and Ahmedabad, India. Finally, a comparative analysis of two European greening projects in Malmö, Sweden, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, evaluates how institutional governance, policy frameworks, and ex-ante equity indicators affect green gentrification.

published: Discover Cities

Laura Ricci, Carmela Mariano, Marsia Marino
Discover Cities

Sapienza University of Rome

Urban Planning and Governance · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Rotterdam · Netherlands · Sapienza University of Rome

Assessing equity indicators and anti-displacement governance for urban green spaces as social infrastructure

This study conducts a comparative analysis of two European greening projects—Ekostaden Augustenborg in Malmö, Sweden, and DakPark in Rotterdam, the Netherlands—to evaluate how institutional governance, policy frameworks, and ex-ante equity indicators affect green gentrification. The research finds that Malmö's integration of green-space management with social housing authorities, guided by binding indicators like residential turnover and local employment, maintained community stability, whereas Rotterdam's market-oriented approach resulted in demographic displacement.

Why it matters — It demonstrates that preventing green gentrification requires treating social housing as an intrinsic component of green infrastructure planning, rather than managing ecological regeneration and housing policy in isolation.

Caveat: The findings are based on a comparative analysis of only two European case studies, which may limit their direct applicability to different institutional and housing market contexts.

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published: Discover Cities

Muhammad Hakim Khan, Fumiko Ito
Discover Cities

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Urban Transport and Accessibility · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Transportation and Mobility Innovations · dimensionality reduction · Tokyo · Tokyo Metropolitan University

Classifying bicycle sharing station roles using temporal imbalance profiles in Tokyo

This study classified the functional roles of 3,207 bicycle sharing stations in Tokyo using 15-minute interval availability data across three seasons between autumn 2023 and spring 2024. By applying Principal Component Analysis and Ward's hierarchical clustering to net bike changes, the researchers identified a stable three-cluster typology consisting of commuter-destination, commuter-origin, and balanced stations.

Why it matters — It demonstrates that station roles can be classified using high-frequency temporal imbalance profiles rather than aggregate trip counts, revealing how closely bicycle sharing dynamics are tied to rail transit proximity and weekday commuting routines in a transit-oriented metropolis.

Caveat: The classification is based on Tokyo's highly rail-oriented urban structure and dock-based systems, which may limit its direct applicability to cities with different transit densities or dockless bike-sharing models.

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published: Discover Cities

Parag Jyoti Kashyap
Discover Cities

Assam University

Urban Heat Island Mitigation · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Assam University

Land use transformation and urban heat dynamics in India’s world heritage cities Jaipur and Ahmedabad

This study presents a comparative narrative review of literature published between 2000 and 2025 on land-use/land-cover changes and urban heat dynamics in Jaipur and Ahmedabad, India. The synthesis reveals that Ahmedabad's built-up area expanded by more than 130% between 1990 and 2019 at the expense of vegetation and agricultural land, while Jaipur experienced significant directional expansion and rising land surface temperatures. Methodologically, research on Ahmedabad relied more on predictive CA-Markov and artificial neural network models, whereas Jaipur studies were predominantly retrospective analyses using Landsat and IRS datasets.

Why it matters — It establishes a direct link between rapid urban expansion and increased thermal stress in UNESCO World Heritage Cities located in semi-arid regions, highlighting a dual threat to both environmental sustainability and cultural heritage preservation.

Caveat: The findings are based on a synthesis of existing literature rather than new primary empirical measurements or direct climate modeling.

Discover Cities · pdf · doi

preprint

Wei Bi, David Alvarez Castro, Yimeng Liu, et al.
arXiv physics.soc-ph

Assessing transport resilience to heavy rainfall: An integrated modelling framework with metrics

The study presents an integrated modeling framework that combines rainfall, surface water flood, and agent-based transport models to simulate asset-level disruptions and commuter behavioral responses. It evaluates a 1-in-30-year rainfall event in Tyne and Wear, North East England, across three behavioral scenarios: a worst-case, an ideal-response, and an early-warning scenario. The framework measures disruption impacts across physical, operational, environmental, social, and economic dimensions.

Why it matters — It establishes a transferable method to quantify how behavioral adaptation and early warning systems can directly mitigate journey delays, trip cancellations, and economic losses during extreme weather, moving beyond purely physical vulnerability assessments.

Caveat: The framework's transport component relies on simulated behavioral scenarios rather than observed empirical data of commuter decisions during actual flood events.

arXiv · pdf

preprint

Christoph Steinacker, Henrik Wolf, Marc Timme, et al.
arXiv physics.soc-ph

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Higher-order interactions reveal synergistic backbones of cycling infrastructure networks

The study introduces a computational framework to evaluate the joint impact of upgrading multiple infrastructure links simultaneously, treating these relationships as higher-order interactions. By calculating synergies as second-order derivatives of overall network performance, the method identifies complementary links along paths and filters out redundant parallel links. The framework was tested using empirical street network and cycling demand data from Hamburg, Germany, integrated with a perturbed utility route choice model.

Why it matters — It provides a method to identify connected network backbones for cycling infrastructure based on multi-link corridors rather than evaluating links in isolation, preventing fragmented planning that fails to generate continuous routes.

Caveat: The empirical application is demonstrated on a single city and relies on a simulated route choice model rather than observed post-upgrade cycling behavior.

arXiv · pdf

Still cited

Jennifer Wolch, Jason Byrne (2014), Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’ 1 of today's items cite it · 46 of 3240 in the archive stand on it

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