Fire outbreaks have become a recurrent urban disaster undermining the Right to the City - understood here as the collective right to safe, inclusive, and participatory urban spaces-in Ghana’s rapidly urbanising centres. Despite policy commitments to inclusive and sustainable cities, repeated fires in markets and informal settlements revealed persistent structural vulnerabilities and governance breakdowns. This study examined the structural vulnerabilities through which spatial configurations, socio-economic inequalities, and institutional practices perpetuate urban fire risk in Accra and Kumasi. Using a mixed-methods approach combining geospatial analysis, household surveys, key informant interviews, and policy review, the study identified market-level fire risk patterns and traced how inadequate infrastructure, weak regulatory enforcement, and fragmented governance systems translated into heightened exposure and unequal losses. Results demonstrated clear pathways linking poor spatial planning and limited fire safety provision to recurrent fire incidents, particularly among informal traders and low-income households. It further showed that urban fire governance remained largely reactive, with minimal integration of preventive, community-led resilience practices. Grounded in the Right to the City and urban resilience frameworks, the study advanced a context-specific Fire Resilience Framework that integrated spatial planning reform, participatory governance, and low-cost technological support. It concluded that strengthening these structural pathways is critical not only for reducing fire risk, but also for advancing equitable, inclusive, and sustainable urban development in Ghana and comparable Sub-Saharan African contexts.

Fujian Province’s Quanzhou stands out primarily due to its profound cultural heritage. The city has implemented a suite of measures, including developing diverse business models and strengthening brand marketing, to vigorously advance the preservation and dissemination of its World Heritage culture. These efforts have injected new vitality into the heritage in the contemporary context, propelling the integrated development of culture and tourism. Research findings revealed that introducing the “humanistic innovation” concept carries practical significance and tangible benefits for the revitalization of historic districts. Integrating humanistic innovation into current cultural tourism service experiences is crucial, with key innovations focusing on three dimensions: Utilizing digital platforms, emphasizing interpersonal network construction, and vigorously advancing cultural tourism development; all aimed at realizing sustainable core value propositions. This approach facilitates the continuous enhancement and growth of the local economy. These findings offer practical value to practitioners, managers, and stakeholders engaged in tourism operations, service innovation, and experiential innovation within Quanzhou’s historic districts.

The daily commute to work and other purposes is becoming difficult and costly in metro cities in developing and developed countries. Sustainable and environmentally friendly vehicles, such as smart or electric vehicles, are gaining increased interest. However, the power source to run electric vehicles is still a big concern. Human-powered vehicles (HPVs) help people travel short distances. Though HPVs are environmentally friendly, they are not always time-efficient and feasible for all road conditions. A better method for road infrastructure construction, where gravity could help HPVs run smoothly and faster, might be an effective way to empower sustainable daily commutes in metro cities, as it would save fuel and reduce environmental pollution. This paper highlights the necessity of specialized road construction for HPVs for daily commuting. The study results show how smooth road construction and gravity could help provide a better experience for daily HPV commuters. This study’s findings can help urban planners and policymakers develop sustainable, energy-efficient road networks that improve commuter safety and encourage human-powered transport.

Background: Urban resilience scholarship is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift, moving beyond anthropocentric frameworks that position human welfare as the sole measure of success and technology as a neutral instrument. Conventional resilience models remain anchored in anthropocentric assumptions that treat non-human ecological agents and artificial intelligence (AI) as passive instruments rather than co-constitutive participants in urban adaptive capacity. In this conceptual paper, I advance the theoretical understanding of post-anthropocentric co-resilience by reconceptualizing cities as hybrid assemblages where humans, non-human species, ecological processes, and AI function as interconnected agents within a unified system. Drawing on a synthesis of Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS) theory, complexity science, posthumanist philosophy, and emerging scholarship on algorithmic governance, I developed a novel Triadic Co-Resilience Framework that identifies three mutually constitutive dimensions of urban adaptive capacity: biophysical, sociotechnical, and cybernetic. Methods: A thematic literature synthesis was conducted across Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar, covering publications from 2015 to 2024. Sources were selected through systematic searching and citation tracking, with inclusion criteria requiring direct engagement with at least two of the three framework dimensions. Thirty-seven sources were retained for detailed coding and thematic analysis, organized around four analytic themes: Paradigm shifts, distributed agency, ethics and governance, and systemic fragility. Results: The analysis revealed that conventional resilience approaches systematically underestimate the contributions and vulnerabilities introduced by non-human actors, particularly as AI systems assume increasingly autonomous roles in urban sensing, decision-making, and resource allocation. Rather than enhancing resilience uniformly, AI integration can amplify systemic fragility when divorced from ecological and ethical co-resilience principles. I identified a paradox of artificial resilience, in which AI integration can simultaneously enhance and undermine urban adaptive capacity depending on whether ecological and ethical co-resilience principles are maintained. Conclusions: In this paper, I articulate a prioritized research agenda focused on operationalizing distributed agency, developing systemic accountability mechanisms for hybrid systems, and integrating multispecies justice into urban governance. Key priorities include empirical case studies in diverse urban contexts (including cities in the Global South with limited technological infrastructure), experimental governance pilots, and the development of measurable co-resilience indicators. This work contributes to sustainability science by providing conceptual tools for designing urban systems that can adapt, transform, and thrive as genuinely collaborative human-nonhuman-artificial endeavors.