Optimizing Urban Stock Space through District Boundary Reorganization: Hangzhou’s Administrative Adjustment by Fei Chao, Chen You, Wen Jin

“…From the perspective of scalar reorganization and regional reconstruction, the adjustment of urban administrative divisions can be regarded as a regional construction strategy initiated by city governments to reshape the spatial structure, improve the governance relationship, and enhance the cities’ competitiveness. …”
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Utilizing participatory mapping and PPGIS to examine the activities of local communities by Dina M. Saadallah

“…Ensuring the city resiliency, inclusiveness, sustainability, and enhancing the quality of urban living, can be promoted through engaging communities and encouraging civic-led initiatives. As cities need to foster environments that encourage collective community voices in order to be adaptable and resilient, as a result of rapid Urbanization process, the growing communities suffers from a declining sense of community. …”
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The Impact of China’s New Infrastructure Development on Urban Innovation Quality—A Quasi-Natural Experiment of Smart City Pilots by Ziyan Li, Shasha Xie, Zhe Wei

“…This study, based on balanced panel data from China’s initial smart city pilot projects from 2008 to 2018, employs both two-way fixed effects and mediation effect models to empirically examine the impact of new infrastructure construction on urban innovation quality, considering endogeneity issues. …”
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Digital Twins for cities: Analyzing the gap between concepts and current implementations with a specific focus on data integration by Imane Jeddoub, Gilles-Antoine Nys, Rafika Hajji, Roland Billen

“…As our study highlights the most documented DTs initiatives for cities according to 9 comprehensive categories, a new approach assessing the initiatives is proposed to evaluate the data integration methods used in the current realizations. …”
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Community engagement and public awareness on safe city program based on road safety initiatives by Mazlan, Ain Naadia, Nor Lizan, Mohd. Hanif, Aminuddin, Eeydzah, Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah, Warid, Naqiuddin, Mohd., Azman, Mohamed, Mohd. Firdaus

“…The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) initiated Safe City Program in August 2004 as a move towards creating a safe communities and environment in urban areas to improve public quality of life. …”
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State Murals, Protest Murals, Conflict Murals: Evolving Politics of Public Art in Ukraine by Emma Louise Leahy

“…From the mid-2000s, spraypaint graffiti underwent a gradual process of professionalisation and reconciliation with mainstream culture as Ukrainian municipalities pursued urban beautification initiatives and city-branding strategies to mitigate the socioeconomic challenges of postsocialism. …”
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The Demographic Implication for Promoting Sponge City Initiatives in the Chinese Megacities: A Case of Wuhan by Shan Zheng, Yuting Tang, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Liyong Cao, Ruixiang Song

“…In 2013, the Chinese government proposed a nationwide initiative, Sponge City, for managing the flood risk using the nature-based solution (NBS) approach. …”
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A Methodology for Planning City Logistics Concepts Based on City-Dry Port Micro-Consolidation Centres by Milovan Kovač, Snežana Tadić, Mladen Krstić, Miloš Veljović

“…The theoretical contribution of this study is in demonstrating how a wide set of potentially viable city logistics concepts can be defined, starting from an initial idea (city-DP MCC). The practical contribution lies in developing a robust methodology that considers all relevant tactical and operational-level planning questions and takes into account qualitative and quantitative criteria in evaluating different concept variants.…”
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A call to action: Unpacking the challenges to implementing social sustainability initiatives in a developing country city by Sultana Razia, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah

“…This study investigates the challenges of implementing social sustainability initiatives for cities in developing countries, focusing on Dhaka as a representative city. …”
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Behavioral control by depolarized and hyperpolarized states of an integrating neuron by Aylesse Sordillo, Cornelia I Bargmann

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Super Resolution Deduction: Inferring Fine-Grained Capacity for Urban Signal Station Deployment by Yongjian Yang, Jufeng Hou, Yuanbo Xu

“…To this end, we propose the Super Resolution Deduction (SRD) model for solving the signal station selection problem. SRD first initializes the city map as a coarse-grained heat map representing the capacity of the signal stations. …”
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Creative Clusters and City Growth by Bagwell, Sue

“…This paper draws on the work of an on-going evaluation of one of the initial pilot City Growth areas - the City Fringe area of London where six different creative clusters are being targeted as a means of stimulating economic development and social inclusion in the area. …”
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Weaving seams with data: Conceptualizing City APIs as elements of infrastructures by Christoph Raetzsch, Gabriel Pereira, Lasse S Vestergaard, Martin Brynskov

“…In the third part, we present recent urban data innovation initiatives, especially CitySDK and OrganiCity, to underline the centrality of API design and governance for new kinds of civic and commercial services developed within and for cities. …”
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Managing urban infrastructure assets in the digital era: challenges of municipal digital transformation by Nawel Lafioune, Erik Andrew Poirier, Michèle St-Jacques

“…The use of technology, digital processes and initiatives helps cities to improve planning, optimize works and provide better services to citizens. …”
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Local Governments and civil society lead breakthrough for tobacco control: Lessons from Chandigarh and Chennai by Mina Kashiwabara, Rathinum Arul, Hemant Goswami, Jai P Narain, Francisco Armada

“…In an effort to enforce the Act at the local level, a civil society organization in Chandigarh initiated activities urging the city to support the implementation of the provisions of the Act which led to the initiation of city-wide law enforcement. After the smoke-free declaration of Chandigarh in 2007, Chennai also initiated a smoke-free intervention led by civil society in 2008, following the strategies used in Chandigarh. …”
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Access audit on universal design: the case of Kota Kinabalu water front by Abdul Rahim, Asiah, Abdullah, Fadzidah

“…Nevertheless, in many developing countries, the awareness and inclusion of Universal Design is still in its initial stage. Cities’ authorities have not fully enforced the requirement of providing access to people with disability in their built environment; neither in public nor private spaces. …”
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Re-viewing the role of culture in architecture for sustainable development by Neslihan Dostoğlu

“…However, it is important that different solutions are produced in a consistent and meaningful integrity, and not as independent initiatives of cities that share the same geography and culture in regional scale. …”
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Holistic wild bee management in urban spaces by Julie A. Weissmann, Sandra Rader, Rasmus Ritz, Iris R. M. Walldorf, Juliane Probst, Kristin R. Szydlik, Hanno Schaefer

“…Projects promoting bees in urban areas are initiated in cities around the world but evidence-based conservation concepts at a city-wide scale are scarce. …”
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Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Kylie E. C. Ainslie, Caroline E. Walters, Han Fu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Haowei Wang, Xiaoyue Xi, Marc Baguelin, Samir Bhatt, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Olivia Boyd, Lorenzo Cattarino, Constanze Ciavarella, Zulma Cucunuba, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Sabine L van Elsland, Rich FitzJohn, Katy Gaythorpe, Azra C Ghani, Will Green, Arran Hamlet, Wes Hinsley, Natsuko Imai, David Jorgensen, Edward Knock, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Lucy C Okell, Igor Siveroni, Hayley A Thompson, H. Juliette T. Unwin, Robert Verity, Michaela Vollmer, Patrick G T Walker, Yuanrong Wang, Oliver J Watson, Charles Whittaker, Peter Winskill, Christl A Donnelly, Neil M Ferguson, Steven Riley

“…Methods: Using daily reported cases from mainland China and Hong Kong SAR, we estimated transmissibility over time and compared it to daily within-city movement, as a proxy for economic activity. Results: Initially, within-city movement and transmission were very strongly correlated in the five mainland provinces most affected by the epidemic and Beijing. …”
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Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Kylie E C Ainslie, Caroline E. Walters, Han Fu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Haowei Wang, Xiaoyue Xi, Marc Baguelin, Samir Bhatt, Adhiratha Boonyasiri, Olivia Boyd, Lorenzo Cattarino, Constanze Ciavarella, Zulma Cucunuba, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Amy Dighe, Ilaria Dorigatti, Sabine L van Elsland, Rich FitzJohn, Katy Gaythorpe, Azra C Ghani, Will Green, Arran Hamlet, Wes Hinsley, Natsuko Imai, David Jorgensen, Edward Knock, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Lucy C Okell, Igor Siveroni, Hayley A Thompson, H Juliette T Unwin, Robert Verity, Michaela Vollmer, Patrick G T Walker, Yuanrong Wang, Oliver J Watson, Charles Whittaker, Peter Winskill, Christl A Donnelly, Neil M Ferguson, Steven Riley

“…Methods: Using daily reported cases from mainland China and Hong Kong SAR, we estimated transmissibility over time and compared it to daily within-city movement, as a proxy for economic activity. Results: Initially, within-city movement and transmission were very strongly correlated in the five mainland provinces most affected by the epidemic and Beijing. …”
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