Urban agglomerations are constantly and rapidly evolving ecosystems, with globalization
and increasing urbanization posing new challenges in sustainable urban development well …

Urban planners and policymakers have long relied on quantitative studies of city patterns
and processes to predict and plan for future development. But in recent years, a new field of …

As a research direction, big data analytics has recently attracted scholars and scientists from
diverse disciplines, as well as practitioners from a variety of professional fields, given their …

As more and more aspects of contemporary urban society are tracked and quantified, the
emerging cloud of so-called 'big data'is widely considered to represent a fundamental …

Urban safety and security play a crucial role in improving life quality of citizen and the
sustainable development of urban. Traditional urban crime research focused on leveraging …

This editorial introduces a Special Issue on Big Data in the City. Collectively, six research
articles and two commentaries explore the roles that Big Data can and might play in …

The study of dynamic spatial and social phenomena in cities has evolved rapidly in the
recent years, yielding new insights into urban dynamics. This evolution is strongly related to …

The past two decades have seen rapid advances in sensors, database technologies, search
engines, data mining, machine learning, statistics, distributed computing, visualization, and …

With the emergence of new forms of geospatial/urban big data and advanced spatial
analytics and machine learning methods, new patterns and phenomena can be explored …

The field of urban analytics and city science has seen significant growth and development in
the past 20 years. The rise of data science, both in industry and academia, has put new …