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Urban AI for a sustainable built environment: Progress and future directions
Urban areas stand at the forefront of the climate crisis, facing escalating environmental pressures, growing social inequalities, and …
Steffen Knoblauch
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Hao Li
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Filip Biljecki
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Wenwen Li
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Alexander Zipf
January 2026
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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BuildingMultiView: Powering multi-scale building characterization with large language models and Multi-perspective imagery
Buildings play a crucial role in shaping urban environments, influencing their physical, functional, and aesthetic characteristics. …
Zongrong Li
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Yunlei Su
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Filip Biljecki
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Wufan Zhao
January 2026
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
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A graph neural network for small-area estimation: integrating spatial regularisation, heterogeneous spatial units, and Bayesian inference
Fine-resolution spatial analytics are essential for urban planning and policy-making, yet traditional small-area estimation often …
Pengyuan Liu
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Yang Chen
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Xiucheng Liang
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Hao Li
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Filip Biljecki
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Rudi Stouffs
December 2025
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
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GeoAI: Beyond mapping earth and cities through explainability, adaptability, and sustainability
Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) is reshaping our understanding of Earth and urban systems by integrating advanced artificial …
Yongze Song
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Filip Biljecki
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Gustau Camps-Valls
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Peter M. Atkinson
December 2025
iScience
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Enhancing urban digital twin interfaces to support thermal comfort planning
Urban Digital Twins (UDTs) integrate multilayered spatial data to support urban planning and climate adaptation efforts. Although UDTs …
D Wang
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J Lim
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Marcel Ignatius
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Kunihiko Fujiwara
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B G Gottkehaskamp
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Filip Biljecki
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N H Wong
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C Miller
November 2025
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (International Conference CISBAT)
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The Cool, Quiet City machine learning competition: Overview and results
The prediction of thermal and noise-based preferences in the urban context is valuable in characterizing interventions to mitigate the …
C Miller
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M Ibrahim
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I S Akbar
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B Picchetti
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Y X Chua
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Mario Frei
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Filip Biljecki
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A Chong
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Matias Quintana
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C Fu
November 2025
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (International Conference CISBAT)
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Walking the heat: why thermal walks matter for high resolution microclimate mapping
High-resolution microclimate maps are critical for advancing urban climate resilience strategies by providing detailed spatial insights …
B G Gottkehaskamp
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Marcel Ignatius
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J Lim
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Kunihiko Fujiwara
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C Hepf
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Filip Biljecki
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C Miller
November 2025
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (International Conference CISBAT)
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Drivers of day-night intra-surface urban heat island variations under local extreme heat: A case study of Singapore
Urban areas face significant challenges from extreme heat and urban heat islands (UHIs), which often interact and intensify each other …
Siyu Li
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Filip Biljecki
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Pengyuan Liu
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Rudi Stouffs
November 2025
Sustainable Cities and Society
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A methodological review of the assessment of urban greenery exposure
Greenery plays a vital role in urban environments, providing numerous benefits through diverse pathways. Various metrics and …
Dongwei Liu
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Yi Lu
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Filip Biljecki
November 2025
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
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VoxCity: A seamless framework for open geospatial data integration, grid-based semantic 3D city model generation, and urban environment simulation
Three-dimensional urban environment simulation is a powerful tool for informed urban planning. However, the intensive manual effort …
Kunihiko Fujiwara
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Ryuta Tsurumi
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Tomoki Kiyono
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Zicheng Fan
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Xiucheng Liang
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Binyu Lei
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Winston Yap
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Koichi Ito
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Filip Biljecki
November 2025
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
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