Pub Date : 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00353-4
Tao Fang, Weiting Hu, Chunhua Yan, Chao Zhang, Bei Wang, Muhammad Hayat, Guo Yu Qiu
Heatwaves are an increasing threat to urban health and comfort, and evapotranspiration by urban lawns and trees offers a potential solution. However, their distinct effects and mechanisms remain unclear. Using ten years of observations, we investigate the evapotranspiration responses of urban lawns and trees to 54 heatwave events in a subtropical city. We hypothesize that urban trees and lawns exhibit distinct evapotranspiration response patterns during heatwaves due to different water-use strategies and stomatal regulations. Our results show that (1) lawns, with high canopy stomatal conductance, rapidly increase evapotranspiration (+ 37.65%), providing significant cooling (7.05 °C m−2 per day), but at the cost of rapid surface water depletion. (2) Although trees provide a lower cooling effect of 3.5 °C m−2 per day, they stabilize transpiration during heatwaves by closing their canopy stomata (−35.06%) and accessing deeper soil moisture. This strategy results in a slight decrease in transpiration rates (from 1.77 to 1.66 mm per day), ensuring more stable water use and cooling despite the extreme conditions. These findings highlight the different water-use strategies and cooling capacities of lawns and trees, offering critical insights for optimizing urban vegetation design in regions facing diverse climatic and water-availability challenges. Heatwaves pose a growing threat to cities, and vegetation is often touted as a mitigation option. This study finds that while lawns provide a burst of intense cooling, trees access deeper water and provide moderate but more prolonged relief.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00351-6
Zhenhua Chen, Alexis Litvine, Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Understanding the long-term relationship between rail infrastructure and urban growth provides an insight into how transport systems and cities have evolved together over time. Using historical census and railway network data for England and Wales (1831–2021), we analyze how population, infrastructure provision and accessibility have scaled with one another. We find that the scaling relationships of infrastructure supply (stations and track length) and quality (accessibility) with city population, which initially differed, gradually converged toward linear proportionality. This convergence suggests that, over time, rail provision and accessibility became more proportionally aligned with population size. Periods of railway expansion coincided with the growth of small- and mid-sized cities and rising regional connectivity, whereas subsequent contractions coincided with declining accessibility and a tendency toward greater concentration in larger centers. These results highlight a long-term process of scale-dependent co-evolution between transport networks and urban systems, offering historical evidence of the enduring association of infrastructure and urban structure. Railway infrastructure and urban population evolved together in England and Wales from 1831–2021, with scaling relationships gradually converging toward proportionality. Expansion periods supported smaller cities whereas contractions concentrated growth in larger centers.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00354-3
Maria Loroño-Leturiondo, Marta Olazabal, William Lewis, Ana Terra Amorim-Maia, Aiora Zabala
Standardized approaches to urban climate adaptation often overlook the diverse needs, priorities and power dynamics embedded in local contexts, thereby risking the reinforcement of existing vulnerabilities. Here we use Q methodology and artist-produced illustrations to explore how 79 local adaptation actors across 37 countries envision climate adaptation in their cities. We identify four distinct and occasionally conflicting imaginaries: Green City, Sustainable Lifestyles, Climate Preparedness, and Top Down and Technology Driven. These imaginaries reflect the variability in adaptation conceptions across individuals and contexts. While some align with dominant Western paradigms, others advocate for transformative system change. These findings underscore the limitations of one-size-fits-all solutions and emphasize the importance of centering local communities and embracing pluralistic epistemologies. Furthermore, the study demonstrates the potential of artistic collaboration to surface tacit knowledge and reimagine urban climate futures, and calls for inclusive engagement across scales and timelines. Urban climate adaptation is inherently context dependent, shaped by local experiences and realities. Through an art–science collaboration, this study explores how local climate adaptation actors around the world imagine their cities adapting to climate change.
{"title":"Unlocking urban climate adaptation imaginaries","authors":"Maria Loroño-Leturiondo, Marta Olazabal, William Lewis, Ana Terra Amorim-Maia, Aiora Zabala","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00354-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00354-3","url":null,"abstract":"Standardized approaches to urban climate adaptation often overlook the diverse needs, priorities and power dynamics embedded in local contexts, thereby risking the reinforcement of existing vulnerabilities. Here we use Q methodology and artist-produced illustrations to explore how 79 local adaptation actors across 37 countries envision climate adaptation in their cities. We identify four distinct and occasionally conflicting imaginaries: Green City, Sustainable Lifestyles, Climate Preparedness, and Top Down and Technology Driven. These imaginaries reflect the variability in adaptation conceptions across individuals and contexts. While some align with dominant Western paradigms, others advocate for transformative system change. These findings underscore the limitations of one-size-fits-all solutions and emphasize the importance of centering local communities and embracing pluralistic epistemologies. Furthermore, the study demonstrates the potential of artistic collaboration to surface tacit knowledge and reimagine urban climate futures, and calls for inclusive engagement across scales and timelines. Urban climate adaptation is inherently context dependent, shaped by local experiences and realities. Through an art–science collaboration, this study explores how local climate adaptation actors around the world imagine their cities adapting to climate change.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 12","pages":"1217-1225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00354-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145761513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-02DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00338-3
Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Pavel Luengas-Sierra, Christian Borja-Vega
Many cities are expanding into areas with scarce rainfall and limited water retention capacity, and are also becoming elongated and sprawled, making it harder to deliver services. Here we quantify the impact of urban form on access to water. We craft comparable urban forms for over 100 cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. For each city, we analyze the distance to the center, one of the most critical features of cities. We introduce two metrics: remoteness, which quantifies the distance of any location to the city center, and sparseness, a population-weighted average of all locations. We find that less remote areas have higher average income, are closer to critical infrastructure and have higher access to sewage and piped water. Sparser cities have higher water tariffs, lower proximity to critical infrastructure and lower access to sewage and piped water. Finally, we model urban expansion under three scenarios: compact, persistent and horizontal growth. When cities expand through compact growth rather than horizontal expansion, 220 million more people could gain access to piped water, and 190 million to sewage services. Urban sprawl reduces water access and increases costs by distancing populations from infrastructure. An analysis of over 100 cities shows that, by 2050, compact growth could provide piped water to 220 million more people than horizontal expansion.
{"title":"Urban sprawl is associated with reduced access and increased costs of water and sanitation","authors":"Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Pavel Luengas-Sierra, Christian Borja-Vega","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00338-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00338-3","url":null,"abstract":"Many cities are expanding into areas with scarce rainfall and limited water retention capacity, and are also becoming elongated and sprawled, making it harder to deliver services. Here we quantify the impact of urban form on access to water. We craft comparable urban forms for over 100 cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. For each city, we analyze the distance to the center, one of the most critical features of cities. We introduce two metrics: remoteness, which quantifies the distance of any location to the city center, and sparseness, a population-weighted average of all locations. We find that less remote areas have higher average income, are closer to critical infrastructure and have higher access to sewage and piped water. Sparser cities have higher water tariffs, lower proximity to critical infrastructure and lower access to sewage and piped water. Finally, we model urban expansion under three scenarios: compact, persistent and horizontal growth. When cities expand through compact growth rather than horizontal expansion, 220 million more people could gain access to piped water, and 190 million to sewage services. Urban sprawl reduces water access and increases costs by distancing populations from infrastructure. An analysis of over 100 cities shows that, by 2050, compact growth could provide piped water to 220 million more people than horizontal expansion.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 12","pages":"1148-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145761506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-02DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00337-4
Sukanya Basu, Brenda Maria Zoderer, Harini Nagendra, Peter H. Verburg, Tobias Plieninger
Urban blue spaces, such as lakes and rivers, are increasingly recognized for their ecological and social roles, yet their contributions to sustainable food systems remain understudied. Here we examine the extent and benefits of foraging in urban blue spaces across four major Indian cities through a survey of 1,200 users. We identify three forager groups, that is, ‘rare’, ‘occasional’ and ‘frequent’ foragers, whose behaviors differ in frequency and practice. Women, the elderly and marginalized communities most frequently collect, share, cook and sell edibles. Access to home or community gardens strongly motivates occasional foragers. Frequent foragers emphasize benefits relating to nutrition and income, as well as culture and social capital, whereas occasional foragers appreciate nature- and culture-related benefits. Our findings challenge conventional perspectives on urban food provisioning, highlighting urban blue spaces as vital yet overlooked spaces for food access and resilience. Integrating foraging into urban planning can enhance equitable food systems, fostering transformative change toward sustainable urban landscapes. Urban blue spaces, such as lakes and rivers, play growing roles in cities but are historically vital for providing food. Focusing on four Indian cities, this study finds diverse blue foraging practices most practiced by elderly women, especially among the most disadvantaged groups.
{"title":"Widespread practices and sustainability benefits of foraging in urban blue spaces of India","authors":"Sukanya Basu, Brenda Maria Zoderer, Harini Nagendra, Peter H. Verburg, Tobias Plieninger","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00337-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00337-4","url":null,"abstract":"Urban blue spaces, such as lakes and rivers, are increasingly recognized for their ecological and social roles, yet their contributions to sustainable food systems remain understudied. Here we examine the extent and benefits of foraging in urban blue spaces across four major Indian cities through a survey of 1,200 users. We identify three forager groups, that is, ‘rare’, ‘occasional’ and ‘frequent’ foragers, whose behaviors differ in frequency and practice. Women, the elderly and marginalized communities most frequently collect, share, cook and sell edibles. Access to home or community gardens strongly motivates occasional foragers. Frequent foragers emphasize benefits relating to nutrition and income, as well as culture and social capital, whereas occasional foragers appreciate nature- and culture-related benefits. Our findings challenge conventional perspectives on urban food provisioning, highlighting urban blue spaces as vital yet overlooked spaces for food access and resilience. Integrating foraging into urban planning can enhance equitable food systems, fostering transformative change toward sustainable urban landscapes. Urban blue spaces, such as lakes and rivers, play growing roles in cities but are historically vital for providing food. Focusing on four Indian cities, this study finds diverse blue foraging practices most practiced by elderly women, especially among the most disadvantaged groups.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 12","pages":"1128-1139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00337-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145761516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00345-4
Linus W. Dietz, Sanja Šćepanović, Ke Zhou, André Felipe Zanella, Daniele Quercia
Urban parks are important for public health, but the role of specific spaces, such as playgrounds or lakes, and elements, such as benches or sports equipment, in supporting well-being is not well understood. Here, based on expert input and a review of the literature, we defined six types of health-related activity: physical, mindfulness, nature appreciation, environmental, social and cultural. We built a lexicon that links each activity to specific elements and spaces within parks present in OpenStreetMap. Using these data, we scored 23,477 parks across 35 cities worldwide on the basis of their ability to support these activities. We found clear patterns: parks in North America focus more on physical activity, while those in Europe offer more chances to enjoy nature. Parks near city centers support health-promoting activities better than those farther out. Suburban parks in many cities lack the spaces and equipment needed for nature-based, social and cultural activities. We also found large gaps in park quality between cities. Tokyo and Paris provide more equal access, while Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro show sharp contrasts. These results can help cities create fairer parks that better support public health. City parks clearly promote health, but understanding the distribution of healthful park elements and spaces is challenging. This study scored thousands of parks across 35 major cities worldwide and found that North American parks emphasize physical activity, European parks more often promote nature appreciation and centrally located parks tend to better support health-promoting activities.
{"title":"Understanding the potential of urban parks to promote well-being","authors":"Linus W. Dietz, Sanja Šćepanović, Ke Zhou, André Felipe Zanella, Daniele Quercia","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00345-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00345-4","url":null,"abstract":"Urban parks are important for public health, but the role of specific spaces, such as playgrounds or lakes, and elements, such as benches or sports equipment, in supporting well-being is not well understood. Here, based on expert input and a review of the literature, we defined six types of health-related activity: physical, mindfulness, nature appreciation, environmental, social and cultural. We built a lexicon that links each activity to specific elements and spaces within parks present in OpenStreetMap. Using these data, we scored 23,477 parks across 35 cities worldwide on the basis of their ability to support these activities. We found clear patterns: parks in North America focus more on physical activity, while those in Europe offer more chances to enjoy nature. Parks near city centers support health-promoting activities better than those farther out. Suburban parks in many cities lack the spaces and equipment needed for nature-based, social and cultural activities. We also found large gaps in park quality between cities. Tokyo and Paris provide more equal access, while Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro show sharp contrasts. These results can help cities create fairer parks that better support public health. City parks clearly promote health, but understanding the distribution of healthful park elements and spaces is challenging. This study scored thousands of parks across 35 major cities worldwide and found that North American parks emphasize physical activity, European parks more often promote nature appreciation and centrally located parks tend to better support health-promoting activities.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 12","pages":"1205-1216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00345-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145761504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00348-1
Yujie Zhang, Yanchuan Yin, Yingqiang Hu, Guodong Sun
Urban digital twins have emerged as transformative tools for modern city management, offering unprecedented capabilities to monitor, simulate and optimize urban systems and services. However, current implementations often rely on static sensing infrastructures, limiting their ability to capture the dynamic, human-centric and socioeconomic aspects of urban environments. Mobile crowd data—real-time, high-resolution, context-rich information generated through citizen-carried mobile devices—comprise a game-changing resource for addressing these limitations. By integrating anonymized and aggregated mobile crowd data, urban digital twins can gain richer insights into urban environments and changes, citizen behavior and socioeconomic dynamics, enabling smarter, more adaptive urban planning and decision-making. Here we discuss the role of mobile crowd data in advancing urban digital twins, emphasizing the potential of such data to construct more accurate digital representations, enhance real-time responsiveness and foster mutual adaption between citizens and cities. Urban digital twins rely on static sensors and miss dynamic human and socioeconomic dimensions. Integrating anonymized mobile crowd data provides real-time, context-rich insights that improve accuracy, responsiveness and citizen co-creation.
{"title":"Fueling urban digital twins with mobile crowd data","authors":"Yujie Zhang, Yanchuan Yin, Yingqiang Hu, Guodong Sun","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00348-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00348-1","url":null,"abstract":"Urban digital twins have emerged as transformative tools for modern city management, offering unprecedented capabilities to monitor, simulate and optimize urban systems and services. However, current implementations often rely on static sensing infrastructures, limiting their ability to capture the dynamic, human-centric and socioeconomic aspects of urban environments. Mobile crowd data—real-time, high-resolution, context-rich information generated through citizen-carried mobile devices—comprise a game-changing resource for addressing these limitations. By integrating anonymized and aggregated mobile crowd data, urban digital twins can gain richer insights into urban environments and changes, citizen behavior and socioeconomic dynamics, enabling smarter, more adaptive urban planning and decision-making. Here we discuss the role of mobile crowd data in advancing urban digital twins, emphasizing the potential of such data to construct more accurate digital representations, enhance real-time responsiveness and foster mutual adaption between citizens and cities. Urban digital twins rely on static sensors and miss dynamic human and socioeconomic dimensions. Integrating anonymized mobile crowd data provides real-time, context-rich insights that improve accuracy, responsiveness and citizen co-creation.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 12","pages":"1120-1127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145761498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00356-1
Urbanization stands as a key megatrend that is shaping Africa’s future, while many cities across the continent continue to struggle with the challenges of informal settlements. At a time when COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, is rallying a global ‘mutirão’ — a collective effort — against climate change, this issue’s Focus spotlights the vital importance of elevating local voices and perspectives to drive a parallel mutirão against the unequal conditions of urban informality across African cities.
{"title":"Understanding and improving informal settlements in African cities","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00356-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00356-1","url":null,"abstract":"Urbanization stands as a key megatrend that is shaping Africa’s future, while many cities across the continent continue to struggle with the challenges of informal settlements. At a time when COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, is rallying a global ‘mutirão’ — a collective effort — against climate change, this issue’s Focus spotlights the vital importance of elevating local voices and perspectives to drive a parallel mutirão against the unequal conditions of urban informality across African cities.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 11","pages":"1001-1002"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00356-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145533775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00327-6
Sarah Sabry
A growing proportion of children are facing the challenges of growing up in slums. Drawing on her experience in cities with Save the Children and Cities4Children, Sarah Sabry argues that urban policy and planning must urgently prioritize the specific needs and rights of children in urban contexts, especially those living in slums.
{"title":"Putting children in slums at the heart of urban futures","authors":"Sarah Sabry","doi":"10.1038/s44284-025-00327-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-025-00327-6","url":null,"abstract":"A growing proportion of children are facing the challenges of growing up in slums. Drawing on her experience in cities with Save the Children and Cities4Children, Sarah Sabry argues that urban policy and planning must urgently prioritize the specific needs and rights of children in urban contexts, especially those living in slums.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"2 11","pages":"1009-1010"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145533781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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