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Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science is the leading journal for the publication of high-quality articles that present cutting-edge research in analytical methods for urban planning and design. The journal focuses on smart cities, urban analytics, GIS, and urban simulation models. It also deals with visualisation, computation, and formal design-based methods applicable to morphological processes and structures in cities and regions. View full journal description

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Multihazard exposure and environmental injustice: The correlation between air pollution and heat drives socioeconomic inequities

  • Daniel T. O’Brien
  • Joshua Rosen
  • Mai Waziry
  • Takahiro Yabe
  • Esteban Moro
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Automated versus hybrid street network modelling for centrality and accessibility analysis

  • Walid Samir Abdeldayem
  • Ilaria Geddes
  • Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky
  • Ioanna Stavroulaki
  • Gareth Simons
  • Meta Berghauser Pont
  • Nadia Charalambous
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Measuring urban mixed land use based on multi-source geospatial data and its application in urban functional zoning

  • Xin Li
  • Manli Hu
  • Xiaodong Ma
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MobilityHexVis: Analyzing socioeconomic urban mobility patterns through small multiples visualization

  • Alan Acevedo
  • Eduardo Graells-Garrido
  • Horacio Samaniego
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Digital twins

  • Michael Batty
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Disadvantaged communities have lower access to urban infrastructure

  • Leonardo Nicoletti
  • Mikhail Sirenko
  • Trivik Verma
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What is civic participation in artificial intelligence?

  • Renée Sieber
  • Ana Brandusescu
  • Suthee Sangiambut
  • Abigail Adu-Daako
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A sidewalk-level urban heat risk assessment framework using pedestrian mobility and urban microclimate modeling

  • Nicola Colaninno
  • Rounaq Basu
  • Maryam Hosseini
  • Abdulaziz Alhassan
  • Liu Liu
  • Andres Sevtsuk
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Explainable spatially explicit geospatial artificial intelligence in urban analytics

  • Pengyuan Liu
  • Yan Zhang
  • Filip Biljecki
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The nonlinear relationships between built environment features and urban street vitality: A data-driven exploration

  • Yun Han
  • Chunpeng Qin
  • Longzhu Xiao
  • Yu Ye
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Exploring changes in residential preference during COVID-19: Implications to contemporary urban planning

  • Fitwi Wolday
  • Lars Böcker
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The effects of street environment features on road running: An analysis using crowdsourced fitness tracker data and machine learning

  • Shuyang Zhang
  • Nianxiong Liu
  • Beini Ma
  • Shurui Yan
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