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Establishing the nexus between urban walkability and thermal comfort in a changing climate 在不断变化的气候中建立城市步行性和热舒适性之间的联系
Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00315-w
Nisreen Abuwaer, Safi Ullah, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
The urban walking experience is undergoing profound challenges as it grapples with increased threats of climate change. Effectively understanding walkability in this context requires a detailed examination of how climatic and weather extremes disrupt outdoor walking. Here the authors offer insights into the nexus between climate change and walkability, emphasizing how this connection can be examined through the lens of thermal comfort in urban environments. This nexus is explored by examining various methodologies and climatic zones to evaluate how various weather conditions—particularly extreme heat—affect walkability in cities. The assessment of thermal comfort, adaptation strategies and relevant indices enables a deeper understanding of how outdoor thermal stress impedes walkability. Overall, the walkability‒climate change nexus not only reveals the challenges to walkability, but also presents opportunities to explore climate adaptation strategies that enhance the urban pedestrian experience. Climate change is making walking in cities more difficult. This Review examines the connection between climate change and walkability, focusing on thermal comfort in complex urban environments.
随着气候变化威胁的加剧,城市步行体验正面临着深刻的挑战。在这种情况下,有效地理解步行性需要详细研究气候和极端天气是如何破坏户外步行的。在这里,作者提供了对气候变化和步行性之间联系的见解,强调如何通过城市环境中的热舒适来检查这种联系。这种联系是通过研究各种方法和气候带来评估不同的天气条件——特别是极端高温对城市步行能力的影响。热舒适、适应策略和相关指标的评估可以更深入地了解室外热应力如何影响步行性。总体而言,可步行性与气候变化的关系不仅揭示了可步行性面临的挑战,也为探索气候适应策略提供了机会,从而增强城市行人的体验。气候变化使得在城市中行走变得更加困难。本综述探讨了气候变化与步行性之间的关系,重点关注复杂城市环境中的热舒适。
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The city as text 作为文本的城市
Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00314-x
Jonathan Reades, Yingjie Hu, Emmanouil Tranos, Elizabeth Delmelle
Urban researchers now have access to vast amounts of textual data—from social media and news to planning documents and property listings. These textual data provide important information about the activities of people and organizations in urban environments. Meanwhile, recent advancements in computational tools, including large language models, have expanded our ability to analyze textual data. Here we explore how these tools are reshaping the ways we analyze, understand and theorize the city through text. By outlining key developments, applications and challenges, it argues that text is no longer a ‘fringe resource’ but a central component in urban analytics with the potential to connect quantitative and qualitative researchers. Text has traditionally been used as a qualitative resource in urban research, but new tools enable large-scale quantitative analysis. This Review explores the opportunities and challenges of using text data to generate insights into cities.
城市研究人员现在可以访问大量的文本数据——从社交媒体和新闻到规划文件和房产清单。这些文本数据提供了关于人和组织在城市环境中的活动的重要信息。同时,最近计算工具的进步,包括大型语言模型,扩展了我们分析文本数据的能力。在这里,我们将探讨这些工具如何重塑我们通过文本分析、理解和理论化城市的方式。通过概述关键的发展、应用和挑战,它认为文本不再是“边缘资源”,而是城市分析的核心组成部分,具有连接定量和定性研究人员的潜力。传统上,文本被用作城市研究中的定性资源,但新的工具使大规模的定量分析成为可能。本报告探讨了利用文本数据来洞察城市的机遇和挑战。
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Synergistic action on mitigation and adaptation pilot policies to enhance low-carbon resilience of Chinese cities 减缓和适应试点政策协同行动,增强中国城市低碳韧性
Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00303-0
Di Wang, Shiwei Chen
Mitigation and adaptation strategies are recognized as effective means to enhance urban resilience against climate change; however, their combined effects at the urban level are less studied. Here we investigate the synergistic impacts of low-carbon and climate-resilient pilot policies on urban resilience, using panel data from 286 Chinese cities (2005–2022). The findings indicate that dual-pilot policies significantly enhance the low-carbon resilience of pilot cities, outperforming single-pilot policies. The effectiveness of these policies exhibits variation across different city categories: cities subjected to extreme weather and high disaster risks demonstrate more pronounced benefits, whereas medium ecological and economic low-carbon resilience, high social low-carbon resilience and medium institutional low-carbon resilience (MMHM) cities show consistent effects and low ecological, economic, social and institutional low-carbon resilience (LLLL) cities exhibit varied responses. Furthermore, green technology innovation, human capital development and communication infrastructure are critical to improving policy effectiveness. The diversity and integration of policy instruments, along with the multidimensionality and synergy of policy objectives, are essential for effective climate action. It is recommended that cities integrate both mitigation and adaptation strategies to optimize synergies and bolster urban resilience. Dual implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation policies in Chinese cities significantly enhances low-carbon resilience, particularly under extreme weather, through green innovation, human capital and infrastructure. This integrated approach offers a model for urban climate governance, emphasizing co-benefits and tailored strategies for diverse city types.
减缓和适应战略被认为是增强城市抵御气候变化能力的有效手段;然而,它们在城市层面的综合效应研究较少。本文利用2005-2022年286个中国城市的面板数据,研究了低碳和气候适应型试点政策对城市适应力的协同效应。研究结果表明,双试点政策显著增强了试点城市的低碳韧性,优于单试点政策。这些政策的效果在不同的城市类别中表现出差异:遭受极端天气和高灾害风险的城市表现出更明显的效益,中等生态和经济低碳弹性、高社会低碳弹性和中等制度低碳弹性(MMHM)的城市表现出一致的效果,而低生态、经济、社会和制度低碳弹性(LLLL)的城市表现出不同的效果。此外,绿色技术创新、人力资本开发和通信基础设施对提高政策有效性至关重要。政策工具的多样性和一体化,以及政策目标的多维性和协同性,对于有效的气候行动至关重要。建议城市将减缓和适应战略结合起来,优化协同效应,增强城市韧性。中国城市通过绿色创新、人力资本和基础设施双重实施气候减缓和适应政策,显著增强了低碳抵御能力,特别是在极端天气下。这种综合方法为城市气候治理提供了一种模式,强调协同效益和针对不同城市类型的量身定制战略。
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Urban planning decisions expose Traveller sites to disproportionate environmental burdens 城市规划决策使游民场所面临不成比例的环境负担
Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00307-w
Nicolas Mondolfo, Antoine Leblois, Philippe Delacote, Léa Tardieu
Ethnic minorities often face environmental inequalities, as they are more likely to be exposed to hazardous and polluting facilities. Yet the role of urban planning on shaping these inequalities, particularly in Europe, remains understudied. The siting of Traveller sites offers a clear example of how repeated urban planning decisions can produce systemic discrimination, as local representatives determine where Travellers are allowed to stay, thereby directly influencing their exposure to environmental disamenities. Here by linking Traveller sites in France with socioeconomic and environmental data, we provide statistical evidence that Traveller sites are more likely to be implemented in cities with more disamenities and that sites are more exposed than any other residential areas within these cities (even other disadvantaged households). On the basis of our findings, we discuss two potential mechanisms that may underpin this discrimination: cost minimization and discriminatory preferences of local representatives and residents. The Travellers case illustrates the need for more thorough examinations of how urban planning decisions contribute to socio-spatial inequalities, particularly in the European context. French planning decisions systematically locate Traveller sites near environmental disamenities. This study reveals disproportionate exposure to waste facilities and highways compared to other residential areas.
少数民族往往面临环境不平等,因为他们更有可能接触到危险和污染的设施。然而,城市规划在形成这些不平等方面的作用,特别是在欧洲,仍未得到充分研究。“旅行者”住宿点的选址清楚地表明,重复的城市规划决定如何产生系统性歧视,因为地方代表决定“旅行者”的住宿地点,从而直接影响他们对环境不利因素的暴露。通过将法国的“旅行者”站点与社会经济和环境数据联系起来,我们提供了统计证据,表明“旅行者”站点更有可能在更不舒适的城市中实施,并且与这些城市中的任何其他居民区(甚至其他弱势家庭)相比,这些站点的暴露程度更高。基于我们的研究结果,我们讨论了可能支持这种歧视的两种潜在机制:成本最小化和地方代表和居民的歧视性偏好。旅行者的案例说明,需要更彻底地检查城市规划决策如何导致社会空间不平等,特别是在欧洲背景下。法国的规划决策系统地将旅行者的地点定位在环境不利的地方。这项研究表明,与其他居民区相比,该地区对废物处理设施和高速公路的暴露程度不成比例。
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Comparative analysis of smart city scientific research trends in the USA and China 中美智慧城市科研趋势对比分析
Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00305-y
Yuan Lai, Haoxiang Zhao
The integrated concept of ‘smart cities’ has emerged as a key focus of contemporary research, yet efforts remain fragmented, split between technology-driven and human-centered approaches. Here we leverage open data and large language models to analyze smart city research proposals funded by the National Science Foundation in the USA and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Our findings reveal common scientific inquiries alongside divergent research trajectories shaped by national contexts, exposing a persistent tension between techno-centric priorities and human-oriented imperatives. This comparative analysis of two leading global economies provides insights into the evolution of smart city research, highlighting both shared challenges and distinct pathways. Our results reveal common ground, divergent national priorities and funding mechanisms that risk dividing the field further. Smart city research remains fragmented between technology-driven and human-centered approaches, despite growing interest. This analysis of research proposals from the USA and China reveals common ground, divergent priorities and funding mechanisms that risk dividing the field further.
“智慧城市”的综合概念已经成为当代研究的一个关键焦点,但努力仍然分散,在技术驱动和以人为中心的方法之间存在分歧。在这里,我们利用开放数据和大型语言模型来分析由美国国家科学基金会和中国国家自然科学基金资助的智慧城市研究提案。我们的研究结果揭示了共同的科学探究以及由国家背景形成的不同研究轨迹,揭示了以技术为中心的优先事项和以人为本的必要性之间的持续紧张关系。这份对全球两个主要经济体的比较分析提供了对智慧城市研究演变的见解,突出了共同的挑战和不同的路径。我们的研究结果揭示了共同的基础、不同的国家优先事项和资助机制,这些都有可能进一步分化这一领域。尽管人们对智慧城市的兴趣日益浓厚,但智能城市的研究仍然分散在技术驱动和以人为中心的方法之间。对美国和中国的研究提案的分析揭示了共同的基础、不同的优先事项和资助机制,这些都有可能进一步分裂这一领域。
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Author Correction: A generalized relationship between dose of greenness and mental health response 作者更正:绿色剂量与心理健康反应之间的广义关系
Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00325-8
Bin Jiang, Jiali Li, Peng Gong, Chris Webster, Gunter Schumann, Xueming Liu, Pongsakorn Suppakittpaisarn
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Order and chaos in urban life 城市生活中的秩序与混乱
Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00252-8
Yin Long
Urban residents navigate the delicate balance between order and chaos in urban life. Cities reflect this interplay, which shapes their identity and livability through the rules that cities establish and the freedoms they allow. From Tokyo’s precise order to Cairo’s spontaneous vibrancy, these contrasts illuminate fundamental questions about what makes a city thrive.
城市居民在城市生活的秩序与混乱之间保持着微妙的平衡。城市反映了这种相互作用,通过城市建立的规则和他们允许的自由塑造了他们的身份和宜居性。从东京的精确秩序到开罗的自发活力,这些对比阐明了什么使城市繁荣的基本问题。
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Green dose to resilient and equitable urban health 绿色剂量促进有弹性和公平的城市卫生
Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00306-x
Urban health stands as one of the defining challenges and opportunities of our century. As cities continue to expand and densify, the well-being of their inhabitants is shaped not only by the bricks and mortar of urban form but also by the green and blue spaces that thread through our daily lives, the shifting patterns of infectious disease, and the social and economic structures that govern access and equity. This issue of Nature Cities brings together a set of manuscripts that collectively shed light on these interwoven pathways through which urban environments influence human health.
城市卫生是本世纪的决定性挑战和机遇之一。随着城市的不断扩大和密集,居民的福祉不仅受到城市形式的砖瓦和砂浆的影响,还受到贯穿我们日常生活的绿色和蓝色空间、传染病的变化模式以及管理准入和公平的社会和经济结构的影响。本期《自然城市》汇集了一系列手稿,这些手稿共同揭示了城市环境影响人类健康的这些相互交织的途径。
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Urban gas infrastructure meets hydrogen ambitions 城市燃气基础设施满足氢能源的雄心
Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00308-9
Hongfang Lu
Blending hydrogen into existing urban gas networks presents promising pathways for urban decarbonization, yet numerous challenges persist. On this path, Hongfang Lu calls for collaborative action from industry, policymakers, community representatives and researchers to address technical barriers, management complexities and gaps in public awareness.
将氢混合到现有的城市燃气网络中为城市脱碳提供了有希望的途径,但仍存在许多挑战。在这条道路上,卢红芳呼吁行业、政策制定者、社区代表和研究人员共同采取行动,解决技术障碍、管理复杂性和公众意识的差距。
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Urban meteorology–chemistry coupling in compound heat–ozone extremes 复合热-臭氧极值的城市气象-化学耦合
Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-025-00302-1
Xueyu Zhou, Mengmeng Li, Xin Huang, Tengyu Liu, Haoran Zhang, Ximeng Qi, Zilin Wang, Yue Qin, Guannan Geng, Jiaping Wang, Xuguang Chi, Aijun Ding
Heatwaves and ozone (O3) pollution threaten human and ecosystem health, with their compounding effects particularly severe in cities. While ground-based observations are indicative of urban O3 pollution during heatwaves, limited vertical insights into the intensified and prolonged O3 pollution hinder a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms and mitigation strategies. Here, leveraging airship vertical measurements and meteorology–chemistry coupled modeling, we reveal that heatwave-reinforced turbulence redistributes precursors vertically, altering photochemical stratification and accelerating O3 production both at the surface and aloft over megacities in China. Stringent emission controls targeting nitrogen oxides could mitigate the heatwave-exacerbated O3 extremes by narrowing the vertical disparity of photochemical sensitivity. Although heatwaves are projected to intensify, emission reductions due to China’s carbon neutrality pledge could alleviate urban O3 pollution by 41–47% during heatwaves and help tackle the dual challenges of air pollution and global warming while enhancing the climate resilience of city clusters. Heatwaves and ozone pollution pose compounded risks to urban health, but limited vertical insights have hindered understanding of their interaction. Using airship observations and model simulations, this study reveals that heatwaves worsen urban ozone pollution by vertically redistributing precursors, while emission reductions could mitigate heat–ozone extremes in a warming climate.
热浪和臭氧污染威胁着人类和生态系统的健康,其复合效应在城市尤为严重。虽然地面观测表明热浪期间存在城市臭氧污染,但对臭氧污染加剧和持续时间有限的垂直洞察妨碍了对潜在机制和缓解战略的全面了解。利用飞艇垂直测量和气象-化学耦合模型,我们揭示了热浪增强的湍流在垂直方向上重新分配了前体,改变了光化学分层,加速了中国大城市地面和高空的O3生产。严格的氮氧化物排放控制可以通过缩小光化学敏感性的垂直差异来缓解热浪加剧的O3极端。尽管预计热浪将加剧,但中国碳中和承诺所带来的减排可使热浪期间的城市臭氧污染减少41-47%,有助于应对空气污染和全球变暖的双重挑战,同时增强城市群的气候适应能力。热浪和臭氧污染对城市健康构成了复杂的风险,但有限的垂直视角阻碍了对它们相互作用的理解。利用飞艇观测和模式模拟,本研究揭示了热浪通过垂直重新分配前体而加剧城市臭氧污染,而减排可以缓解气候变暖中的热臭氧极端现象。
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