Cities need volumetric monitoring as underground development expands
A 2026 Perspective proposes a volumetric monitoring framework to detect underground urban expansion, connect it to environmental and infrastructure evidence, ...
Tag: urban governance
Why Harare’s Bus Rapid Transit Dream Stalled: The Hidden Institutional and Spatial Barriers
A new study reveals that Harare's stalled bus rapid transit initiative was blocked not by technology or funding alone but ...
Equity by Design Emerges as a Hidden Multiplier for Sustainable Smart Cities
A first-of-its-kind quantitative analysis of 44 UN-documented smart-city use cases finds that equity design quality independently predicts sustainability performance, functioning ...
Cities Are Planting Green Infrastructure They Cannot Afford to Keep Alive
A synthesis of 62 studies reveals that urban greening projects worldwide are undermined by a structural divide between upfront capital ...
Fuzzy Bayesian Network Model Weighs the Odds of Urban Public Health Crises
Researchers have developed an improved fuzzy Bayesian network that quantifies the likelihood of major urban public health emergencies, using the ...
AI Learns to Rank City Emergencies Without Any Labels, New Study Shows
Researchers in China have developed a self-supervised graph neural network that classifies the urgency of urban patrol cases without any ...
Robots Are Leaving the Factory and Reshaping the City, Scientists Warn
A Nature Cities Perspective argues that the spread of urban robots, from delivery pods to humanoid platforms, is governed by ...
Mapping the Smart City: Researchers Turn Urban Governance Into a Network of 14 Connected Parts
Researchers have combined input–output modeling, social network analysis, and a bibliometric study of more than 214,000 articles to map the ...
Two Cities, Two Playbooks: How Shenzhen and Darebin Tackle Carbon From the Top Down and the Bottom Up
A comparative study of Shenzhen in China and Darebin in Australia reveals how contrasting multi-level governance arrangements shape the pace ...
When No One Is to Blame: How AI Is Breaking Urban Responsibility
A new theoretical study argues that AI-driven urban complexity disperses responsibility across many hands, many things and many tasks, and ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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