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A study covering more than 11,000 cities worldwide over 45 years reveals the deep links between urban compactness and carbon emissions, as well as the spatial strategic choices facing cities in the Global South amid accelerating urbanization.
A systematic review based on 630 publications shows that over 90% of urban social-ecological system studies treat the built environment as a passive backdrop. This paper comments on this "spatial blind spot" and its profound implications for urban sustainability governance, and analyzes why a spatial systems framework is a necessary theoretical evolution for the urban age.
A study covering 140 cities worldwide reveals a profound structural link between urban growth patterns and cooling demand. In an era when climate adaptation has become a core mission for cities, urban planning must be repositioned as a long-term strategic tool.
Research in Gondar, Ethiopia, reveals that urban water supply is quietly shifting from surface water to groundwater. This change is not merely a local case but also reflects the infrastructure dilemmas faced by cities in the Global South under climate change and rapid urbanization. This article analyzes the long-term implications of this transformation from a strategic perspective.
A new study covering 140 cities has revealed the profound impact of urban three-dimensional growth patterns on cooling demand. At the intersection of global warming and urbanization, urban form is becoming a strategic variable that determines future energy burden, economic resilience, and global competitiveness.
Brookings Institution's latest research points out that public safety and economic development are inseparable. This article, from the perspective of global urban governance, analyzes the limitations of law enforcement-first strategies and proposes a new path for public safety centered on economic opportunities.
Based on long-term air quality observation data from 64 cities in India during 1987–2024, this paper reveals how the traditional AQI average calculation method systematically masks the true exposure disparities within cities, and uses this as a point of departure to explore the structural challenges faced by rapidly urbanizing regions worldwide in terms of environmental information governance, spatial justice, and long-term urban competitiveness.
Traditional urban heat risk assessment methods can no longer cope with increasingly complex heat risks. Based on a recent Nature comment article, this paper proposes five key shifts to move cities from static vulnerability maps toward dynamic, context-sensitive assessment and action frameworks.
In a warming world, enhancing local adaptive capacity to reduce health hazards related to extreme weather is crucial. A study focusing on China highlights the key roles of institutions, infrastructure, and cities in building climate resilience.
A study on dynamic monitoring of urban land surface in developing countries based on remote sensing and machine learning, using Karachi as an example, reveals how technology changes the logic of urban governance and provides a new paradigm for sustainable development of cities in the Global South.
An empirical study covering 6,638 protected areas in China found that stricter protection policies are associated with higher rates of enterprise entry and exit, and bring higher ecosystem service values. This reveals how ecological governance reshapes regional economies through industrial transfer, providing a new perspective for urban strategies in China and the Global South.
Decoupling urbanization from concrete consumption is a core challenge for sustainable development in the 21st century. Rapidly developing economies' reliance on concrete is depleting the Earth's resources, yet technological advances have only brought marginal improvements.