Journal of Urban Planning and Development: Recent submissions
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Impact of Urban Waterfront Green Spaces on Public Health and Well-Being Based on User Perspectives
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban waterfront green spaces (UWGSs) boost economic and cultural activities as an iconic urban landscape element. They impact public health and well-being (PHW) with the aesthetic landscape, open spaces, historical ... -
Impact of Accessibility on Residential Location Choice: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study examines the factors that influence households’ location choice in the context of rapid urbanization in Hangzhou, China, where new housing and transportation infrastructure are expanding. A conditional logit ... -
From Neighborhood Life Circles to Commuting Life Circles: Insights into the Job–Housing Imbalance in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Global disparities in housing and job availability pose a serious threat to urban sustainable development. This study presents a new concept of a 15-min commuting life circle, which is based on four job categories and four ... -
Flood Risk Assessment through Spatial Planning Approach: Study of Bhoj Wetland Catchment within the Zone of Influence, India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urbanization has increased drastically in recent years, endangering the biodiversity of wetlands. Wetland health is directly influenced by the type of development in its catchment area and zone of influence (ZOI). To ... -
Exploring the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from the Alteration of Spatial Structures in Central Cities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The economic performance of a metropolitan area is a crucial indicator of its economic health. Changes to the spatial organization of the central city will unavoidably affect the functioning of the metropolitan area's ... -
Exploring Combinations of Landscape Features in Urban Green Spaces and Their Recovery Effects on Minor Depression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)While increasing scholarly research from various perspectives has affirmed the therapeutic role of urban green spaces for individuals with depression, there is a notable gap in understanding how different landscape features ... -
Effects of Superblocks on Travel Demand: A Cost–Benefit and System Dynamics Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Car-oriented urban development has led to congested and polluted cities. Wide use of private vehicles reduces the public space for other transport modes, pedestrians, and other activities. So, there is a need to reorganize ... -
Different Travel Behavior between Self-Employed and Salaried Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study highlights the different travel behavior between self-employed (SE) and salaried (S) workers based on 8,174 individuals in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Planning Area, NM, that employed Tobit and multinomial logit ... -
Diachronic Analysis of Urban Regeneration Policies in Shanghai: Instruments, Modes, and Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With growing concern toward sustainable urban regeneration (UR) and the inability of existing UR policy instrument frequency studies to distinguish the blurring content in policies, a systematic framework quantitatively ... -
Developing and Applying a Multidimensional Sustainability Model for Periurban Areas
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Despite having vast periurban areas (PUAs) with natural, ecological, and spatial characteristics, many Iranian cities have experienced rapid population growth and urban sprawl. In most of these areas, unplanned or unmanaged ... -
Defining Service Areas and Establishing a Multidimensional Evaluation Framework for High-Density City Parks: A Perspective on the Lifeworld of Older People
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Parks play a crucial role as venues for daily activities for older individuals, making fairness and justice in their services a paramount concern for policymakers. This study developed a multidimensional assessment framework ... -
Crowdsourced Insights: Shaping Origin–Destination Matrix Estimation Utilizing Transportation Data on Demand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In transportation system modeling, the origin–destination matrix estimation (ODME) is a critical facet that relies on traffic assignment. Extracting origin–destination (O–D) demand matrices from regional travel demand ... -
Classifying Urban Functional Zones by Integrating the Homogeneity and Structural Similarity of POIs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The classification of urban functional zones helps to understand the spatial structure of urban functions. However, achieving high classification accuracy is challenging, because of the complexity and randomness of urban ... -
Classifying Urban Functional Zones by Integrating Place2Vec and GCN
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urban functional zones play a crucial role in urban management and planning. The study on urban functional zone classification has become a current hotspot. In these studies, point of interest (POI) is an important data ... -
Unraveling the Impact of Development Zones on Industrial Land-Use Efficiency: Empirical Analysis in Kunshan, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Development zones (DZs) have long been regarded as an important engine of economic growth. Nevertheless, the booming of DZs in China has also brought about land-use issues in cities and across the country. Although extant ... -
Unlocking the Ecological Blueprint: Strategic Zoning and Policy Guidelines for Ecosystem Services in Guangdong Province, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Ecosystem services (ESs) exhibit significant spatial heterogeneity due to various environmental and human-related factors. Understanding these spatial patterns and their drivers is crucial for zoning and managing ESs, ... -
Toward a More Integrated Approach to Planning and Implementing Local Development Policies to Tackle Rural Depopulation in Empty Spain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study explores depopulation in municipalities with a very low population density in rural Spain. This issue has risen up the political and social agendas recently and represents one of the greatest challenges that ... -
Assessment of the Relationship between Land Surface Temperature and Air Pollutants in Visakhapatnam Urban Area, India: A Geospatial Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Urbanization requires human comfort that leads to industrial growth that alters existing physical and atmospheric conditions and pollutes the environment. This study area covers 200 km2 located in the northeast of the ... -
Assessment of Influential Factors on Commute and Life Satisfaction in a Historic Campus-Adjacent Environment: Evidence from a Comparison Study of Twin Cities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The prevailing social-spatial disorder within urban settings has become pervasive, particularly in the misalignment between policy formulation and social perception. This underscores the potential for effectively promoting ... -
Study on Spatial Difference and Its Convergence of Urban Assessment: Based on 286 Cities in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Urban assessment is an important basis for judging the sustainable development capability of cities. This study constructs an urban assessment index system from six aspects: health and comfort, ecological livability, ...