Environmental Justice in the 15-Minute City: Assessing Air Pollution Exposure Inequalities Through Machine Learning and Spatial Network Analysis DOI Creative Commons
Feifeng Jiang, Jun Ma

Smart Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8(2), P. 53 - 53

Published: March 18, 2025

The intersection of environmental justice and urban accessibility presents a critical challenge in sustainable city planning. While the “15-minute city” concept has emerged as prominent framework for promoting walkable neighborhoods, its implications exposure inequalities remain underexplored. This study introduces an innovative methodology assessing air pollution disparities within context 15-minute activity zones New York City. By integrating street-level PM2.5 predictions with spatial network analysis, this research evaluates patterns that more accurately reflect residents’ daily mobility experiences. results reveal significant socioeconomic racial exposure, lower-income areas Black communities experiencing consistently higher levels their walking ranges. A borough-level analysis further underscores influence localized development demographic distributions on outcomes. comparative demonstrates traditional census tract-based approaches may underestimate these by failing to account actual pedestrian patterns. These findings highlight necessity high-resolution assessments into planning initiatives foster equitable development.

Language: Английский

Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs): A systematic literature review of co-benefits and trade-offs DOI Creative Commons
Ayyoob Sharifi, Zaheer Allam, Simon Elias Bibri

et al.

Cities, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 146, P. 104659 - 104659

Published: Dec. 19, 2023

Despite the wealth of research on smart cities, there is a lack studies examining interlinkages between cities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, limited how implementing city solutions can lead to co-benefits and/or trade-offs for achieving SDGs. This systematic literature review was conducted fill this gap. Results show that responsible development/implementation technologies could contribute progress toward The mainly focused SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities Communities), 12 (Responsible Consumption Production), 7 (Affordable Clean Energy), 6 (Clean Water Sanitation). More work SDGs needed. There bias reporting benefits cities. These include accelerating economic growth, improving efficiency, strengthening innovation, raising citizen awareness. indicate catalyze transition sustainable development address climate change challenges. However, requires addressing related issues such as privacy cyber security, costs infrastructure upgrading, rebound effects associated with efficiency improvements, biased decision-making, reproduction social biases, digital divide skills, misuse AI, legal setup. elaborates these offers minimize them. COVID-19 pandemic has increased attention interactions SDGs, particularly those health action. it also cemented many new unethical practices. highlights governance/policy challenges should be addressed ensure better It concludes multi-scale transparent governance mechanisms regulatory frameworks are crucial ensuring support resilient

Language: Английский

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Progress and prospects in planning: A bibliometric review of literature in Urban Studies and Regional and Urban Planning, 1956–2022 DOI
Ayyoob Sharifi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Zaheer Allam

et al.

Progress in Planning, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 173, P. 100740 - 100740

Published: Jan. 20, 2023

Language: Английский

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Supply-demand matching assessment of the public service facilities in 15-minute community life circle based on residents' behaviors DOI

Lu Song,

Xuesong Kong, Peng Cheng

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Cities, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 144, P. 104637 - 104637

Published: Oct. 29, 2023

Language: Английский

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Measuring compliance with the 15-minute city concept: State-of-the-art, major components and further requirements DOI
Efthymis Papadopoulos, Alexandros Sdoukopoulos, Ioannis Politis

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 99, P. 104875 - 104875

Published: Aug. 18, 2023

Language: Английский

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Assessing spatial equity in urban park accessibility: an improve two-step catchment area method from the perspective of 15-mintue city concept DOI

Dailuo Zhang,

Shifa Ma, Jianhong Fan

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 98, P. 104824 - 104824

Published: July 27, 2023

Language: Английский

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Unraveling nonlinear and interaction effects of multilevel built environment features on outdoor jogging with explainable machine learning DOI
Wei Yang, Jun Fei, Yingpeng Li

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Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 147, P. 104813 - 104813

Published: Feb. 3, 2024

Language: Английский

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Smart Cities and Urban Energy Planning: An Advanced Review of Promises and Challenges DOI Creative Commons
Saeed Esfandi, Safiyeh Tayebi, John Byrne

et al.

Smart Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(1), P. 414 - 444

Published: Jan. 31, 2024

This review explores the relationship between urban energy planning and smart city evolution, addressing three primary questions: How has research on cities evolved in past thirty years? What promises hurdles do initiatives introduce to planning? And why some projects surpass efficiency emission reduction targets while others fall short? Based a bibliometric analysis of 9320 papers published January 1992 May 2023, five dimensions were identified by researchers trying address these (1) use at building scale, (2) design integration, (3) transportation mobility, (4) grid modernization grids, (5) policy regulatory frameworks. A comprehensive 193 discovered that previous prioritized technological advancements first four dimensions. However, there was notable gap adequately inherent challenges. often led endeavors underperforming relative their intended objectives. Overcoming requires better understanding broader issues such as environmental impacts, social justice, resilience, safety security, affordability initiatives.

Language: Английский

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Developing a 15-minute city: A comparative study of four Italian Cities-Cagliari, Perugia, Pisa, and Trieste DOI Creative Commons
Beniamino Murgante,

Lucia Patimisco,

Alfonso Annunziata

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Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 146, P. 104765 - 104765

Published: Jan. 2, 2024

The pandemic and the environmental crisis raise question of a radical transformation cities to foster inclusion, sustainability, participation, quality life. 15-minute city concept prefigures reorganization urban spaces, structures, functions aimed at increasing residents' access essential services, favoring sustainable modes transportation, transforming public spaces into multifunctional places. proposed study develops set indicators derived from spatial configurational analysis evaluate compliance systems with concept. selected areas are Cagliari, Perugia, Pisa, Trieste, in Italy. investigates four issues: i) defining relevant, reproducible, comparable for measuring density, proximity, diversity; ii) investigating influence distinct planning concepts, manifested by configurations, on iii) scale metrics measure levels injustice terms unequal conditions services iv) correlation between factors services. underlines gap among central compact districts dispersed outer areas, thus enabling identification inequalities distribution capital. Moreover, relationship environment structure location functions. As result, emphasizes that is instrumental understanding environment's potential meet populations' needs facilitating informed decisions planning.

Language: Английский

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Time to challenge the 15-minute city: Seven pitfalls for sustainability, equity, livability, and spatial analysis DOI Creative Commons
Kostas Mouratidis

Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 153, P. 105274 - 105274

Published: July 15, 2024

The "15-minute city" concept has been receiving an increasing amount of attention as a model for urban policy well tool spatial analysis. is often considered planning ideal that can effectively contribute to improved accessibility and more sustainable mobility. Through sustainability, equity, livability lens, this paper examines pitfalls the 15-minute city from theoretical analysis perspective proposes alternative methodological directions. seven in current literature are summarized as: (1) overstatement city's originality, (2) strong decentralization proposed by theory unrealistic unsustainable, (3) focusing on quantity destinations instead sufficiency, (4) improperly aggregating facilities, (5) neglecting diverse forms nature their characteristics, (6) disregarding public transport or analysis, (7) ignoring interpersonal differences walking cycling when conducting analyses based city. A set strategies address these reorient towards environmental societal outcomes.

Language: Английский

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A systematic review of the 15-minute city framework: implications for environmental heritage preservation in the Anthropocene DOI
Madiha Bencekri, Juhyeon Kwak, Doyun Lee

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International Journal of Urban Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 30

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

The 15-minute city model proposes a transformative urban planning framework aimed at reducing car dependency, enhancing accessibility, and promoting sustainability. Despite its alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), empirical quantitative validations of environmental benefits remain scarce. This study employs hybrid methodology that combines systematic literature review, topic modelling, sentiment analysis to examine capacity mitigate challenges. review identified three main thematic areas in literature: (1) decarbonization impacts, (2) sustainability resilience, (3) accessibility. While has been widely discussed, only 10.2% focuses on outcomes, revealing significant research gap. Topic modelling further uncovers five core themes mostly related mobility, where critical terms like 'emissions', 'sustainability', 'decarbonization' are notably absent, reinforcing lack focus model's ecological contributions. Sentiment reveals cautiously optimistic tone scholarly discourse, researchers recognizing theoretical promise but expressing reservations about real-world efficacy addressing climate change. Therefore, this highlights urgent need for context-specific investigations quantify city's contribution emissions resilience long term. provides data-driven insights guide policymakers planners making informed decisions regarding sustainable development Anthropocene epoch.

Language: Английский

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