2026-10-19

96 journals· 301 candidates — 4 worth your time· 51 without an open abstract

no arXiv arXiv answered and returned nothing this day, so this issue covers the rest. The papers below are real — what is missing is the other half of the scope, not the reading.

Headline

Urban agriculture perceptions, water hardship vulnerability, cultural engagement, and housing hierarchy

Today, together

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no tag ran above its 30-day average
shares references
From housing prices to depressive symptoms: Serial mediating roles of subjective social status and status anxiety shares 5 references with Shelter in crisis: housing stratification and mental health trajectories among urban residents in Shanghai during and after the COVID-19 lockdown (2026-09-08)
3 of them
  • Housing and inequalities in health: a study of socioeconomic dimensions of housing and self reported health from a survey of Vancouver residents
  • Housing and Public Health
  • Association Between Housing Affordability and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Nationally Representative Household Survey in Australia
counted over the 4 papers published above
on the same shoulders
no foundation work was cited by four of the day's papers counted over the 51 of this day's 55 named papers whose reference lists we have — standing on the same older work is not the same as being about the same thing
first appearance
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad; Yonsei University none of them on a paper we published in the 129 days before this issue

Two counts, not one counted twice: every row here but “on the same shoulders” counts the papers published above, and that one counts every paper this day named — those and the ones under Also published today, whose abstracts we could not read.

A dasymetric mapping workflow transformed street-address Boil Water Notice records from 2016 to 2024 in Jackson, Mississippi, into census block-level data to evaluate spatial exposure to water service disruptions. Cultural participation patterns across Valencia's districts were analyzed using individual and neighborhood-level data from the 2024 Municipal Public Opinion Barometer. Additionally, serial mediation analysis of 539 homeowners across seven South Korean metropolitan cities demonstrated that higher neighborhood housing price rank reduces depressive symptoms by elevating subjective social status and lowering status anxiety.

published: Cities

Simona Gavrilaş, Eugenia Țigan, Radu Lucian Blaga, et al.
Cities

Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad

Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Sustainable Design and Development · Urban Heat Island Mitigation · survey · Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad

Analyzing perceptions of urban agriculture's contributions to sustainable city development

A survey of residents across three major cities in western Romania evaluated public perceptions of urban agriculture using ANOVA, Tukey range tests, and exploratory factor analysis. Over 80% of respondents agreed that urban farming delivers significant health and therapeutic benefits, while views on its role in reducing poverty, expanding employment, and mitigating social exclusion varied significantly by employment status and age group.

Why it matters — It documents a disconnect where urban residents widely accept the personal health and local food security benefits of urban farming, but remain divided on its broader macroeconomic and social equity impacts.

Caveat: Findings rely entirely on self-reported survey data regarding perceptions rather than direct physical or economic measurements of urban agricultural output.

Cities · doi

published: Discover Cities

Tanmoy Malaker, Qingmin Meng
Discover Cities

Mississippi State University

Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water Systems and Optimization · census data · building footprints · Mississippi State University

Spatiotemporal analytics of demographic vulnerability to urban water hardship

A dasymetric mapping workflow transformed street-address Boil Water Notice (BWN) records from 2016 to 2024 in Jackson, Mississippi, into census block-level data to evaluate spatial exposure to water service disruptions. Using Getis–Ord Gi* hot spot analysis, the study found that recurring BWN hot spots consistently overlapped with areas having higher concentrations of older adults, lower-income residents, Black residents, populations with lower educational attainment, and young children. Older adults demonstrated the strongest spatial coincidence with persistent notices over time.

Why it matters — The study provides a transferable geospatial framework that converts raw administrative water notices into fine-grained census-level datasets to empirical quantify social inequality in urban water infrastructure failures.

Caveat: The empirical analysis relies on a single-city case study of Jackson, Mississippi, which may limit the direct generalizability of specific spatial demographic patterns to other municipal water systems.

Discover Cities · doi

published: City Culture and Society

Joaquim Rius-Ulldemolins
City Culture and Society

Universitat de València

Social and Cultural Dynamics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Urban and sociocultural dynamics · regression · dimensionality reduction · Universitat de València

Cultural consumption, cultural inequality and urban factors: cultural participation in the districts of Valencia (2024)

The authors analyzed cultural participation patterns across Valencia's districts using individual and neighborhood-level data from the 2024 Municipal Public Opinion Barometer. The study integrated multiple correspondence analysis, regression, principal component analysis, and cluster analysis to generate a district-level cultural typology. Results demonstrate that traditional cultural capital alone fails to account for participation rates, as several neighborhoods exhibit elevated involvement driven by local community networks, historic sociability, and place-based identity.

Why it matters — It introduces the concept of an urban factor to cultural field theory, proving that geographic district dynamics independently shape cultural engagement beyond individual socioeconomic status.

Caveat: Findings rely on data from a single city and public survey, which may reflect local institutional contexts that do not generalize directly to other urban areas.

City Culture and Society · doi

published: Cities

Minji Ryu, Jooyoung Kim, Minah Kim, et al.
Cities

Yonsei University

Health disparities and outcomes · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Housing Market and Economics · Yonsei University

From housing prices to depressive symptoms: Serial mediating roles of subjective social status and status anxiety

Serial mediation analysis of 539 homeowners across seven South Korean metropolitan cities shows that higher neighborhood housing price rank reduces depressive symptoms by elevating subjective social status and lowering status anxiety. Absolute housing prices exhibit no statistically significant direct or indirect association with depressive symptoms.

Why it matters — Mental well-being relates to relative position within a citywide housing hierarchy rather than absolute housing wealth, establishing positional status as a distinct psychosocial driver of urban health inequality.

Caveat: The dataset is restricted to 539 homeowners, excluding renters who may experience different psychosocial dynamics regarding housing market status.

Cities · doi

Still cited

J. Keith Ord, Arthur Getis (1995), Local Spatial Autocorrelation Statistics: Distributional Issues and an Application 1 of today's items cite it · 11 of 3384 in the archive stand on it

Also published today

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