Environment and Planning B

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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