# UrbanStudy

> UrbanStudy is a radar for new urban research. It tracks journal articles, preprints, think-tank, international-organisation, government and industry reports about cities, and structures each item by topic, place, method, data and time. It currently holds 203 items published between 2025-10-21 and 2026-11-04. Every entry links to the original source; summaries are written by UrbanStudy.

Notes for language models:
- Cite the original publication (DOI or source URL shown on each item page) for factual claims; cite UrbanStudy item pages for discovery, classification and summaries.
- Dates: "published" is the original publication date; "added" is when the item entered the radar.
- Taxonomy is stable: 15 domains and 70 topics; machine-readable at https://urbanstudy.org/api/taxonomy.

## Key pages
- [Daily briefing](https://urbanstudy.org/daily): everything added to the radar each day, grouped by research domain
- [Browse research](https://urbanstudy.org/browse): filter by domain, source type, region and period
- [Reports](https://urbanstudy.org/reports): think-tank, international-organisation, government and commercial reports and city indices
- [Topics](https://urbanstudy.org/topics): the full taxonomy with monthly trend lines
- [Timeline](https://urbanstudy.org/archive): items by publication month
- [Sources](https://urbanstudy.org/institutions): journals, preprint servers, research centres, think tanks, international organisations and publishers tracked
- [About & method](https://urbanstudy.org/about)
- [Full text index for LLMs](https://urbanstudy.org/llms-full.txt): recent items with summaries

## Urban & Regional Economy
Agglomeration, productivity, labour markets, innovation and the competitiveness of cities.
- [Urban & Regional Economy — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-economy)
- [Agglomeration & productivity](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/agglomeration): 8 items
- [Urban labour markets](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/labour-markets): 7 items
- [Innovation & clusters](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/innovation): 2 items
- [City competitiveness & rankings](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/competitiveness): 7 items
- [Informal economy](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/informal-economy): 1 item

## Housing & Real Estate
Affordability, displacement, housing policy and property markets.
- [Housing & Real Estate — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/housing)
- [Housing affordability](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/affordability): 3 items
- [Gentrification & displacement](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/gentrification): 4 items
- [Informal settlements & slums](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/informal-settlements): 6 items
- [Housing policy & social housing](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/housing-policy): 6 items
- [Real estate & property markets](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/real-estate): 8 items

## Urban Society & Demography
Migration, inequality, segregation, ageing and everyday urban life.
- [Urban Society & Demography — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/society)
- [Migration & mobility of people](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/migration): 9 items
- [Inequality & segregation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/inequality): 9 items
- [Demographic change & ageing](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/demography): 22 items
- [Gender & the city](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/gender): 4 items
- [Crime & safety](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/safety): 5 items

## Transport & Mobility
Transit, active travel, accessibility and emerging mobility.
- [Transport & Mobility — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/mobility)
- [Public transport](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/public-transit): 8 items
- [Walking & cycling](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/active-mobility): 13 items
- [Accessibility & 15-minute city](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/accessibility): 14 items
- [Freight & urban logistics](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/freight): 3 items
- [Autonomous, shared & micromobility](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/emerging-mobility): 1 item

## Land Use & Urban Form
Urban growth, density, morphology, design and land policy.
- [Land Use & Urban Form — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/land-form)
- [Urban growth & sprawl](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-growth): 6 items
- [Density & compactness](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/density): 4 items
- [Urban morphology](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/morphology): 13 items
- [Urban design & built environment](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-design): 17 items
- [Land policy & value capture](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/land-policy): 2 items
- [Shrinking cities & vacancy](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/shrinking-cities)

## Climate, Environment & Resilience
Heat, emissions, floods, air quality and disaster resilience.
- [Climate, Environment & Resilience — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/climate)
- [Urban heat](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-heat): 12 items
- [Emissions & decarbonisation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/decarbonisation): 6 items
- [Flooding & water risk](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/flooding): 6 items
- [Disaster risk & resilience](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/resilience): 7 items
- [Air & noise pollution](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/air-quality): 4 items

## Urban Ecology & Green Space
Green and blue space, biodiversity, nature-based solutions and environmental justice.
- [Urban Ecology & Green Space — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/ecology)
- [Green space & tree canopy](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/green-space): 15 items
- [Urban biodiversity](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/biodiversity): 1 item
- [Nature-based solutions](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/nature-based-solutions): 10 items
- [Urban agriculture & food systems](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-agriculture): 5 items
- [Environmental justice](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/environmental-justice): 4 items

## Health & Wellbeing
How cities shape physical and mental health.
- [Health & Wellbeing — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/health)
- [Built environment & health](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/built-environment-health): 2 items
- [Mental health & wellbeing](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/mental-health): 9 items
- [Infectious disease & epidemics](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/epidemics): 3 items
- [Food environments](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/food-environment)

## Governance, Policy & Finance
Municipal finance, metropolitan governance, participation and urban politics.
- [Governance, Policy & Finance — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/governance)
- [Municipal finance & investment](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/municipal-finance)
- [Metropolitan & multilevel governance](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/metropolitan-governance): 2 items
- [Participation & co-production](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/participation): 2 items
- [Urban policy evaluation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-policy): 4 items
- [Urban politics & power](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-politics): 4 items

## Urban Data Science & Methods
Remote sensing, street view, mobility data, AI and simulation for urban research.
- [Urban Data Science & Methods — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/data-science)
- [Remote sensing & Earth observation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/remote-sensing)
- [Street view & computer vision](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/street-view): 6 items
- [Mobile phone & mobility big data](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/mobility-data): 1 item
- [AI & foundation models for cities](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-ai): 21 items
- [Digital twins](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/digital-twins): 2 items
- [Modelling & simulation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/simulation): 2 items

## Smart Cities & Digital Urbanism
Smart city programmes, platforms, surveillance and digital infrastructure.
- [Smart Cities & Digital Urbanism — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/smart-tech)
- [Smart city programmes](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/smart-city): 3 items
- [Platform urbanism & gig economy](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/platform-urbanism)
- [Surveillance, privacy & data governance](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/surveillance): 1 item
- [Digital infrastructure & connectivity](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/digital-infrastructure): 3 items

## Infrastructure, Energy & Services
Energy, water, waste and infrastructure investment.
- [Infrastructure, Energy & Services — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/infrastructure)
- [Urban energy systems](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/energy): 6 items
- [Water & sanitation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/water-sanitation): 1 item
- [Waste & circular economy](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/waste-circular): 3 items
- [Infrastructure investment](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/infrastructure-investment): 2 items

## Culture, Heritage & Public Space
Heritage, public space, culture and placemaking.
- [Culture, Heritage & Public Space — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/culture)
- [Urban heritage & conservation](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/heritage): 6 items
- [Public space](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/public-space): 8 items
- [Culture & creative economy](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/creative-economy)
- [Urban tourism](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/tourism): 3 items

## Urbanisation & the Global South
Urbanisation trends, informality, secondary cities and post-conflict recovery.
- [Urbanisation & the Global South — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/global-south)
- [Urbanisation trends](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urbanisation-trends): 13 items
- [Informality & self-built cities](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/informality): 2 items
- [Secondary & small cities](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/secondary-cities): 1 item
- [Conflict, displacement & recovery](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/conflict-recovery): 4 items

## Urban Theory & History
Concepts, comparative urbanism and the history of cities and planning.
- [Urban Theory & History — all research](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/theory)
- [Urban theory](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-theory): 7 items
- [Comparative urbanism](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/comparative-urbanism)
- [Urban & planning history](https://urbanstudy.org/topic/urban-history): 1 item

## Recent daily briefings
- [4 November 2026](https://urbanstudy.org/daily/2026-11-04): 203 new items

## Feeds & data
- [RSS: new items](https://urbanstudy.org/feed.xml)
- [RSS: daily briefing](https://urbanstudy.org/daily.xml)
- [Taxonomy (JSON)](https://urbanstudy.org/api/taxonomy)
- [Sources (JSON)](https://urbanstudy.org/api/institutions)
- [Sitemap](https://urbanstudy.org/sitemap.xml)

## Optional
- [Pricing](https://urbanstudy.org/pricing): Pro adds structured research questions, findings, methods and data, personal digests and CSV export