2026-09-23

96 journals· 282 candidates — 4 worth your time· 64 without an open abstract

no arXiv arXiv answered and returned nothing this day, so this issue covers the rest. The papers below are real — what is missing is the other half of the scope, not the reading.

Headline

Energy poverty and territorial energy vulnerability, assessed in Valdivia, Chile

Today, together

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no tag ran above its 30-day average
shares references
no items share references today counted over the 4 papers published above
on the same shoulders
no foundation work was cited by four of the day's papers counted over the 66 of this day's 68 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
first appearance
Center for Climate and Resilience Research; University of Warsaw none of them on a paper we published in the 103 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.

"Spatial Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Post-Socialist Urban Geographies" analyzed the spatial distribution of traffic noise exposure across different socio-spatial neighborhoods in Warsaw, Poland. "The urban innovation paradox emerges when infrastructure maintenance is underrecognized" conceptualized a condition where cities invest in highly visible digital initiatives while neglecting the essential maintenance and renewal capabilities required to sustain them.

published: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

Piotr Szumski, Jakub Rok
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

University of Warsaw

Noise Effects and Management · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Urban Planning and Governance · spatial econometrics · University of Warsaw

Spatial Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Post-Socialist Urban Geographies: Evidence from Traffic Noise Analysis in Warsaw

This study analyzes the spatial distribution of traffic noise exposure across different socio-spatial neighborhoods in Warsaw, Poland. By combining spatial regression models with neighborhood segmentation analysis, the research maps how post-socialist urban legacies and modern development patterns interact to shape environmental inequalities.

Why it matters — It extends environmental justice research beyond its typical North American and Western European focus into the Central and Eastern European context, demonstrating how a city's specific post-socialist transition influences modern exposure to environmental hazards.

Caveat: The empirical findings are limited to a single case study of Warsaw, which may not fully represent the diverse urban trajectories of other post-socialist cities in the region.

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy · doi

published: Discover Cities

Tianheng Shu
Discover Cities

University of Hong Kong

Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis · Urban Transport and Accessibility · University of Hong Kong

The urban innovation paradox emerges when infrastructure maintenance is underrecognized

This paper conceptualizes the 'urban innovation paradox,' a condition where cities invest in highly visible digital initiatives while neglecting the essential maintenance and renewal capabilities required to sustain them. It identifies four specific pathways driving this paradox—programme eligibility, political visibility, organisational attention, and lifecycle responsibility—and introduces two heuristic frameworks that map institutional recognition against innovation types and policy scope against infrastructure conditions.

Why it matters — It establishes a theoretical foundation for recognizing maintenance as a form of process innovation, shifting the urban policy focus from merely deploying new smart technologies to managing their long-term survival and lifecycle costs.

Caveat: The paper relies on conceptual frameworks and illustrative examples of maintenance technologies rather than a systematic empirical dataset.

Discover Cities · doi

published: Applied Geography

Kun Lyu, Ping Lyu, Yinghao Pan
Applied Geography

Renmin University of China

Urban Transport and Accessibility · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · regression · spatial analysis · census data

Commuting inequality in urban China: Social stratification, hukou gaps, and city-level variation in estimated peak-hour commutes

The study analyzed morning peak-hour commuting times for workers across 290 Chinese cities by linking the 2015 China 1% Population Sample Survey with Baidu Maps API route queries. It modeled driving, walking, cycling, and public transit travel times between residential and workplace subdistrict centroids during the 7:00–9:00 weekday window. The analysis revealed that workers holding local hukou status have estimated one-way commutes that are 11.8 minutes shorter than non-local workers, with this institutional gap being narrower in denser, more spatially compact cities.

Why it matters — It establishes that institutional hukou status is a stronger determinant of commuting inequality in urban China than education or occupation, and demonstrates that compact urban form and population concentration can actively mitigate these institutional disparities.

Caveat: Commute times are estimated using travel times between subdistrict centroids rather than precise individual addresses.

Applied Geography · doi

Still cited

Karen Lucas (2012), Transport and social exclusion: Where are we now? 1 of today's items cite it · 59 of 3240 in the archive stand on it

Also published today

These appeared today in journals we track. Their abstracts are not openly available, so we cannot summarise them.