Environment and Planning B

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Volume 53, issue 7, 2026

Towards a planetary city science pp. 1421-1425

Levi John Wolf and Sean Fox

Commentary: Inspecting Zipf’s last works pp. 1426-1430

Diego Rybski

Exploring the impact of urban morphology on heat stress: A high-resolution microclimate simulation study pp. 1431-1448

Cuiling Liu, Xinyue Ye, Yangyang Xu, Quan Sun and Yong Xu

Impacts of bus rapid transit (BRT) on income-segmented housing markets in El Paso, Texas: A spatial hedonic and difference-in-differences analysis pp. 1449-1466

Youngre Noh, Hanwool Lee, Yang Song, Chanam Lee and Wei Li

Housing cost burden, affordable housing, and migration intentions: Evidence from urban residents in China pp. 1467-1483

Chenghua Jin, Zhonggao Chen and In Kwon Park

Does polycentric development narrow intra-urban income inequality? An empirical examination based on mediation and threshold effects pp. 1484-1502

Zheng Xiaohui and Zheng Tao

Characterizing manufactured home parks in North Carolina: A computer vision based approach pp. 1503-1518

Kshitiz Khanal, Nikhil Kaza, Miyuki Hino and Antonia Sebastian

Street walkability inference with street view imagery through fine-tuning and prompting pre-trained large models pp. 1519-1535

Shijia Lin, Xinyi Niu, Siwei Zhou, Yeyoumin Tian, Chenyi Wang and Mingqi Shu

Big data from online debates to urban design and planning actions: Visualizing large-scale human-centric data for post-participation pp. 1536-1564

Cem Ataman, Simon Perrault and Bige Tunçer

Assessing equitable access in X-minute cities through open spatial data pp. 1565-1584

Vasileios Milias, Stefanos Tsigdinos, Panagiotis G. Tzouras and Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou

Diverse dynamics of urban sprawl: Examining changes in urban form, forest landscapes, and demographics across the Metropolitan Detroit region pp. 1585-1600

Robert Goodspeed, Ziwen Tan, Kat Conedera and Tilahun Mulatu

Perceptual hashing meets Hilbert curves: An innovative dimensionality reduction method for intercity morphological complexity comparison pp. 1601-1616

Zuo Zhang, Yukun Jiang, Meixu Chen and Zhe Wang

A multi-source and multi-perspective imagery method for assessing the physical appearance of gated communities pp. 1617-1636

Qiyuan Hong, Huimin Zhao and Ying Long

Modeling the impact of street-level built environment on cyclists’ route choice using street view images and GPS data pp. 1637-1653

Chaoru Lu, Daniel Piatkowski, John Östh, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

A unified dataset of UK census variables for small areas: Harmonised data tables from the 2021 England, Wales, and Northern Ireland censuses and the 2022 Scotland census pp. 1654-1666

Owen Goodwin and Alex Singleton

Volume 53, issue 6, 2026

Editorial Announcement pp. 1187-1188

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Environment and Planning B: Collaborations and topics over decades pp. 1189-1199

Andrew Crooks, Na Jiang, Joana Barros, Seraphim Alvanides and Jinlin Wu

After AI pp. 1200-1204

Michael Batty

Proximity walks: Multimetric evaluation of the walkability network efficiency in Barcelona pp. 1205-1223

à lvaro Clua Uceda and Francesc Valls Dalmau

How would AI define neighborhood boundaries? A comparison with human-crowdsourced data pp. 1224-1241

Yue Lin, Crystal J. Bae and Emily Talen

What drives you to relocate your home? Investigating preferences and residential mismatching of recent (prior to COVID and during-after COVID) movers in the Greater Toronto Area pp. 1242-1258

Yicong Liu, Saeed Shakib, Christopher D. Higgins, Steven Farber, Eric J. Miller and Khandker Nurul Habib

The development differences of districts and the boundary effect of housing prices in Hangzhou, China pp. 1259-1275

Ling Zhang, Sijie Chen and Lifei Zhu

Automating urban policy extraction: A large language model-based framework for extracting local heat policies from planning documents pp. 1276-1292

Zeyun Deng, Xinyu Fu and Chaosu Li

Unveiling the environmental accommodation with cultural identity in vernacular houses through knowledge-fused explainable AI pp. 1293-1310

Yu Gu, Xun Li, Yeting Bu, Weihuan Deng, Dongsheng Chen, Hailong Zhao and Weipan Xu

Urban complexity: Izmir’s adaptive capacity through sub-fractal difference analysis pp. 1311-1329

Mustafa Raşit Şahin, Sıla Özdemir and Emine Yetiskul

The syntactic structure of the isovist: Thresholds, depth, and distributedness pp. 1330-1343

John Peponis, Gonzalo Vegas and Evita Periklaki

Urban expansion and densification analysis of large Moroccan cities from 1994 to 2024: A case study of Rabat, Casablanca, and Marrakech pp. 1344-1360

David Hidalgo García, Hamed Rezapouraghdam, Mounia Tahiri, Jesús M. Rodríguez Bulnes and Rubén López Cantero

Delineating school attendance boundaries to improve diversity and community integrity pp. 1361-1377

Ran Wei, Xin Feng and Sergio Rey

Sensing lakeplace: Interactions between lakes and human activities pp. 1378-1397

Meicheng Xiong and Di Zhu

spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data pp. 1398-1410

Egor Kotov, Eugeni Vidal-Tortosa, Oliva G. Cantú-Ros, Javier Burrieza-Galán, Ricardo Herranz, Tania Gullón Muñoz-Repiso and Robin Lovelace

Visualizing spatiotemporal flows of on-demand deliveries: A 3D interactive animation of path-reconstructed rider trajectories in Beijing pp. 1411-1414

Chengbo Zhang

Spatial inequalities in local carbon balance across South Korea pp. 1415-1418

Seho Oh and Meen Chel Jung

Volume 53, issue 5, 2026

Visual analytics: Advancing scientific visualisation in Environment and Planning B pp. 959-962

Benjamin D. Hennig and Seraphim Alvanides

Satellite Salvation? Why satellite imagery is (part of) the answer to our urban data needs pp. 963-966

Daniel Arribas-Bel and Rachel Franklin

Urban metabolisms in context: A socio-material comparison of American and French urban and suburban communities pp. 967-985

Claire Doussard, Priyanka Kar, Pauline Detavernier and Peter G Rowe

Does urban renewal enhance urban vitality? A case study of Nanjing, China, using multidimensional data pp. 986-1001

Fan Chenjing, Gu Yueying, Jin Chenxi, Yao Zhihao and Liu Runhan

One-dimensional urban scaling pp. 1002-1014

Fabiano L Ribeiro, Renan L Fagundes and Diego Rybski

Assessing street vitality using functional density as a proxy pp. 1015-1030

Anastasiia Galaktionova and Aura-Luciana Istrate

Random walk-based accessibility to urban services: An analysis using mobile phone data and through the lens of age, gender, and migration pp. 1031-1046

Yongping Zhang, Hongzeng Zhang and Weiwen Zhang

Spatiotemporal patterns of accessibility and inequality in Hong Kong’s public and private healthcare system: A ten-year longitudinal study pp. 1047-1063

Xinyi Zou, Ying Zhou, Yuxuan Zhou and Yi Lu

Generative models of scale-invariant systems of cities: Do they agree with or contradict theoretical and empirical expectations? pp. 1064-1078

Cécile Tannier

Building energy consumption and urban form: A multi-temporal empirical investigation pp. 1079-1094

Chi On Ho, Marco Miotti and Rishee K. Jain

Connecting park access and use data for equitable environmental planning pp. 1095-1110

Yushim Kim, Jieun Kim, Youngjae Won, Jake Nelson and Michelle Stuhlmacher

Estimating an e-scooter origin-destination model leveraging Yelp POI data for enhanced urban mobility insights pp. 1111-1128

Abolfazl Karimpour, Sajjad Karimi and Robert Kluger

A novel approach for estimating sidewalk width from street view images and computer vision pp. 1129-1144

Seung Jae Lieu and Subhrajit Guhathakurta

Small scale analysis of urban air quality and public health in London, UK, provides insights for targeted interventions pp. 1145-1162

Alan Smith and Tim Daley

Mobility and destination exposure differences: Mapping tourist–resident encounter potential in Jeju, South Korea pp. 1163-1167

Yingqi Yuan and Sangwon Park

Hour-of-day population variation across different functional zones of Beijing pp. 1168-1171

Shuaijie Zhang and Naizhuo Zhao

Mapping workplace-based greenhouse gas emissions and urban form across U.S. counties, highlighting high-emitting metropolitan areas pp. 1172-1175

Jongho Won, Yewon Lee, Jinhee Park and Chan Ho Jang

Mapping the interprovincial freight circulation networks and carbon emissions in China pp. 1176-1180

Yankai Wang, Binbin Sun and Tengxiao Xie

Beyond trip counts: Women’s care trips in Santiago form denser networks than men’s pp. 1181-1184

Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Natalia Meza and Mónica Humeres

Volume 53, issue 4, 2026

Exploring urban science pp. 729-732

Michael Batty

Digital twins for cities – The rise of the socio-technical system pp. 733-739

Claudia van der Laag, Wendy Tan, John Östh and Itzhak Benenson

From urban modelling to city digital twins – Reflections from the applied urban modelling (AUM) symposia pp. 740-747

Li Wan, Ying Jin, Marcial Echenique, Michael Batty and Michael Wegener

Redefining urban digital twins for the federated data spaces ecosystem: A perspective pp. 748-764

Jorge Gil, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova and Graham JL Kemp

Participation matters: The social construction of digital twins for cities pp. 765-777

Timea Nochta and Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong

Do urban digital twins need agents? pp. 778-803

Letícia Marçal Russo, Gamze Dane, Marco Helbich, Arend Ligtenberg, Gabriele Filomena, Christian P Janssen, Mila Koeva, Pirouz Nourian, Agnès Patuano, Paulo Raposo, Kristina Thompson, Senqi Yang and Judith A Verstegen

Formalizing-modelling-utilizing ontology: A semantic framework for adaptive stakeholder-specific urban digital twins in urban planning processes pp. 804-830

Shervin Azadi, Dena Kasraian, Pirouz Nourian and Pieter van Wesemael

Digital twin for supporting decision-making and stakeholder collaboration in urban decarbonization processes. A participatory development in Gothenburg pp. 831-855

Daniela Maiullari, Claudio Nageli, Andreas Rudena, Ã…sa Isacson, Giliam Dokter, Ilse Ellenbroek, Holger Wallbaum and Liane Thuvander

Digital twins versus simulation models and planning concepts: Increasing the resemblance between a digital twin and the modeled territory to facilitate the construction and evaluation of urban scenarios pp. 856-871

Olivier Bonin and Pierre Frankhauser

Enhancing digital twin technology with community-led, science-driven participatory modeling: A case in green infrastructure planning pp. 872-896

Moira L Zellner, Dean Massey, Michelle Laboy, Daniel T O’Brien, Amy Mueller and Daniel Engelberg

Low-cost sensor desert and equity across US cities pp. 897-914

Wei Zhai, Xueyin Bai, Yijun Shi, Junqing Tang and Yu Shi

Building Volume per Capita: A Crowding Metric of Housing Disparities in Gauteng, South Africa pp. 915-931

Laven Naidoo, Richard Ballard, Yashena Naidoo, Gillian Maree, Samkelisiwe Khanyile, Daniela Palacios-Lopez and Thomas Esch

The effect of policy regulations in the short-term rental platform market on long-term rental prices: A case study of Airbnb in Sydney pp. 932-955

Alexei Roudnitski and Somwrita Sarkar

Volume 53, issue 3, 2026

Editorial Announcement pp. 481-481

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Open spatial science as routine practice: Urban Data/Code contributions from GISRUK 2024 pp. 482-486

Roger Beecham and Dani Arribas-Bel

gridmappr: An R package for creating small multiple gridmap layouts pp. 487-493

Roger Beecham, Martijn Tennekes and Jo Wood

The Walkable Accessibility Score (WAS): A spatially granular open-source measure of walkability for the continental US from 1997 to 2019 pp. 494-506

Kevin Credit, Irene Farah, Emily Talen, Luc Anselin and Hassan Ghomrawi

The QGIS Polygon Divider: Polygon partition into an irregular equal area grid pp. 507-515

Jonathan Huck

MAP: Mapping accessibility for ethically informed urban planning pp. 516-524

Ruth Nelson, Martijn Warnier and Trivik Verma

Route network simplification for transport planning pp. 525-537

Will Deakin, Zhao Wang, Josiah Parry and Robin Lovelace

Carbon & Place: Data and tools to understand the spatial variation in carbon footprints pp. 538-554

Malcolm Morgan

Delineating rigid and elastic coupled urban growth boundaries to constrain spatial sprawl: A case study in central urban area of Zhengzhou, China pp. 555-570

Jingeng Huo, Zhenqin Shi, Wenbo Zhu, Yanhui Yan and Hua Xue

Integrating activity-based transport and building occupancy models for campus-scale energy management pp. 571-591

Huiqiao Hou, Jacek Pawlak and Aruna Sivakumar

Identification and analysis of urban fabric considering external space: Taking Shanghai as an example pp. 592-608

Kaike Li and Ruiqi Shan

Understanding the impact of building morphology on building energy consumption: A spatial econometric analysis pp. 609-625

Xiao Zhou, Tian Xia and Guoqing Zhou

The allometry of housing prices in urban scaling laws and an equalised dwellers’ utility across settlement sizes pp. 626-646

Luca S. D’Acci

Revealing emotional responses to urban environmental elements through street view data and deep learning pp. 647-672

Li-Chih Ho, Yin-Ting Wei, Dongying Li and Yen-Cheng Chiang

Profile and theoretical advances in urban big data studies: A systematic review of 57 representative journals (2013–2023) pp. 673-688

Tangqi Tu, Enjia Zhang and Ying Long

Understanding urban health equity through the study of activity spaces using big data: A case study of Southeast Michigan pp. 689-709

Meixin Yuan

Indoor air quality vulnerability along the urban-rural continuum: A neighbourhood classification of exposure for England and Wales pp. 710-725

Lenka Hasova, Caitlin Robinson and Lin Zhang

Volume 53, issue 2, 2026

Urban AI for a sustainable built environment: Progress and future directions pp. 255-262

Steffen Knoblauch, Hao Li, Filip Biljecki, Wenwen Li and Alexander Zipf

Large-scale measurement of street interface transparency based on street view data and deep learning: A study of first-tier cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou) pp. 263-283

Kun Yuan, Chengcheng Huang and Yu Ye

Using a machine learning framework for natural language processing to create a high-resolution carbon emission map for urban manufacturing pp. 284-302

Tianyu Wang, Fengying Yan, Jian Ma, Xiaoping Zhang and Liang Dong

Spatiotemporal dynamics of violence in social unrest events based on geo-social media data pp. 303-318

Huanying Chen, Xintao Liu, Songnian Li, Asher Yair Grinberger, Hangbin Wu, Chun Liu and Wei Huang

Perceived distance to greenery affects psychological restoration pp. 319-335

Haoran Ma, Yan Zhang, Qinyu Cui, Mei-Po Kwan and Jiannan Cai

Understanding the influence of urban characteristics on cyclists’ stress measured through wearable sensors: A quantitative open data approach pp. 336-362

Martin Karl Moser, Sebastian Schmidt, David Ruben Max Graf, Merve Keskin, Shaily Gandhi, Winston Yap, Peter Zeile, Maximilian Heinke and Bernd Resch

Spatiotemporal analysis for travel patterns of the personal mobility using an explainable machine learning approach: A case of Seoul, South Korea pp. 363-376

Sooyoung Lim and Gunhak Lee

TravelAgent: Generative agents in the built environment pp. 377-397

Ariel Noyman, Kai Hu and Kent Larson

Assessing preservation boundaries for historic districts: An integrated framework of explainable AI and game theory pp. 398-417

Yueyang Huang, Heping Li and Xiangcheng Zeng

Deep reinforcement learning for spatial resource allocation: A case study of school districting pp. 418-434

Di Zhang, Senlin Mu, Joseph Mango and Xiang Li

Enhancing people’s walking preferences in street design through generative artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing surveys: The case of Tokyo pp. 435-452

Lu Huang and Takuya Oki

Living upon networks: A heterogeneous graph neural embedding integrating waterway and street systems for urban form understanding pp. 453-469

Pengyuan Liu, Yuan Wang, Stef De Sabbata, Binyu Lei, Filip Biljecki, Jing Tang and Rudi Stouffs

Urban shrinkage or urban growth in Europe? pp. 470-472

Géza Tóth

Spatial visualisation of internal migration flows in Slovakia pp. 473-475

Loránt Pregi and Ladislav Novotný

A bivariate Wurman Dot approach to mapping job density and commuting inflows pp. 476-478

Štefan Gábor

Volume 53, issue 1, 2026

Not just numbers: Understanding cities through their words pp. 3-10

Xinyu Fu, Thomas W Sanchez, Catherine Brinkley, Chaosu Li and Andrew Crooks

Transforming urban planning through machine learning: A study on planning application classification using natural language processing pp. 11-31

Yang Lin, William Thackway, Balamurugan Soundararaj, Serryn Eagleson, Hoon Han and Christopher Pettit

Revealing the amenity-perception connection: Integrating social sensing with generative AI pp. 32-48

Mingyi Ma, Anni Hu, Koei Enomoto, Yuan Zhou and Yuan Lai

Unveiling the meaning in the image of the city: A novel approach using place reviews and large language models pp. 49-67

Yihan Zhu, Markus Brenken, Filip Biljecki and Ye Zhang

Not so ‘placeless’ after all. Understanding the spatial implications of the digital economy pp. 68-89

Giulia Occhini, Levi John Wolf and Emmanouil Tranos

Exploring the potential of large language models (LLMs) in analyzing passengers’ perceptions of transit service quality pp. 90-106

Shuli Luo, Sylvia Y. He, Linqi Song, Sisi Jian and Yepeng Yao

Natural language processing for planning policy identification: A benchmarking study using 113 Chinese cities between 2011 and 2019 pp. 107-124

Tianyuan Wang, Jerry Chen, Zhenyun Deng and Li Wan

Decoding urban policies: NLP-driven concise explanations pp. 125-142

Zhengyang Lu, Weifan Wang, Tianhao Guo, Yifan Li and Feng Wang

Revisiting Gehl’s urban design principles with computer vision and webcam data: Associations between public space and public life pp. 143-162

Kanxuan He, Haoxuan Li, Huanjia Zhang, Qinru Hu, Yaoze Yu and Waishan Qiu

Detecting cross-boundary regional collaboration in China by network community scanning with human mobility data pp. 163-179

Lingbo Liu and Fahui Wang

The social stratification of homeowners’ housing wealth: Bringing a dynamic approach through the price gap index pp. 180-197

Jean-Sauveur Ay and Thibault Le Corre

Uncovering nonlinear urban factors of homelessness: Evidence from New York City using interpretable machine learning pp. 198-227

Shengao Yi, Wei Tu, Tianhong Zhao, Xiaojiang Li, Yatao Zhang, Donghang Li, Joseph Rodriguez and Yifei Sun

OSM land use data quality and its association with city-level socioeconomic conditions in China pp. 228-243

Huiyan Shang, Yang Ju, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jiangang Xu, Xuecao Li and Xavier Delclòs-Alió

An Academy of Nations? The enduring Eurocentrism of the Best International Feature Film Award pp. 244-246

Sam McMillan, Xinyi Yuan and Mingshu Wang

Revealing urban–rural migration corridors through edge-path bundling of historical census data in Bulgaria pp. 247-251

Petrus J. Gerrits, Guy Solomon, Ana Basiri and M. Erdem Kabadayı