This article examines whether the patterns of urbanization in China over the past twenty
years have resulted in a more balanced or increasingly polarized city size distribution. China …

What is a city? Researchers use different criteria and datasets to define it—from population
density to traffic flows. We argue there is one dataset that could serve as a proxy of the …

Abstract Targets towards “Sustainable Cities and Communities” are formulated under the
11th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). In parallel, recent city science suggests that …

During the last years, the new science of cities has been established as a fertile quantitative
approach to systematically understand the urban phenomena. One of its main pillars is the …

The increasing number of mega-cities and their dramatic growth accompanied by the
prevailing urbanization processes raise concerns about the polarization of urban …

Do you drink water, take showers, water your garden? Do you live in a city? Have you
considered whether your water consumption impacts the volume of available water, quality …

We argue that there is no one-fits-all “smart city” recipe to address the sustainability and
socio-economic challenges of our ever-urbanizing world. If smartness is the ability to deliver …

In this paper we present the methodological issues and choices related to the construction of
the TRADEVE database, which allows following the population of European urban areas …

Cities are facing many sustainability issues in the context of the current global
interdependency characterized by an economic uncertainty coupled to climate changes …

How urban characteristics change with total population, their scaling behavior, has become
an important research field since one needs to better understand the challenges of urban …