In recent years, urban agriculture (UA) projects have bloomed throughout the world, finding
large applications also in the developed economies of the so-called Global North. As …

This article reviews existing literature on spatial metrics, presenting a portfolio of metrics
addressing the spatial patterns of growing and shrinking cities and discussing their potential …

The integration of urban natural resources and smart city technologies as a means to
promote sustainability is investigated in this study using a descriptive-analytical literature …

The digital economy spatial distribution (DESD) analysis and urban development differ from
the traditional pattern of a core-edge spatial model, highlighting the importance of a policy …

At the beginning of the 21st century, the phenomenon of shrinking cities was widely
discussed across Europe. Most European countries saw an increasingly ageing population …

This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly
links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes …

Place attachment regulates people-environment transactions across various relevant
environmental–psychological processes. However, there is no consensus about its role in …

Prolonged urbanisation has many negative environmental impacts, such as air pollution,
noise, and reduced space for recreation. Urban green spaces counteract those impacts and …

Because we have entered the 'millennium of the cities', urban ecological research needs to
account for the provisions ecosystem services provide to urban regions. In urban areas …

Recently, an international debate on urban shrinkage has brought together national strands
of research on those cities that have experienced considerable population loss over a …