Peter Nijkamp

Biographic Data

ID270341
NAMEPeter Nijkamp
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMENijkamp
SIGNATURENIJKAMP P
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0002-4068-8132
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS266
TOTAL CITATIONS761
AUTHOR COUNT252
EDITOR COUNT14
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX15

  • Housing choice determinants of rural-urban migrants modeling impacts of gender and rural properties in China

    Open AccessHengWei Wang, Xiaoyi Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Management2026

    Cities serve as key engines of economic growth and social vitality, with rural-urban migrants playing a crucial role in urban expansion and complex internal structural transformation. As a core domain of urban resource allocation, the accessibility and the choice of housing are influenced not only by individual user-oriented characteristics, but also act as important indicators for the growing socio-economic complexity within urban systems. Parti…

  • Design of a wellbeing-based framework for territorial appraisal and circular cultural economies

    Open AccessKarima Kourtit, Peter NijkampARTICLEAestimum2026

    This paper explores how the field of place-based appraisal and land economics is shifting from focusing mainly on market-based values of places with high human and activity densities to a broader and multi-faceted approach that explicitly considers human and territorial wellbeing. Traditional welfare assessment measures like GDP reflect economic growth, but neglect important environmental, cultural, and social factors that shape the quality of pl…

  • Rural Feet Voting of Leisure Explorers

    Open AccessUmut Türk, Marina Toger et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Tourism…2025

    In the COVID‐19 period, spatial leisure behavior, often driven by the desire to escape urban life, reflected health and environmental concerns. This study examines how pandemic‐induced spatial motives and changes impacted disparities in leisure mobility, specifically urban‐to‐rural tourism, in Sweden. Analyzing pre‐pandemic, during pandemic, and post‐pandemic periods, using anonymized mobile phone and socioeconomic data, the paper explores urban–…

  • Modeling the impact of street-level built environment on cyclists’ route choice using street view images and GPS data

    Open AccessChaoru Lu, Daniel Piatkowski et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2025

    Understanding how cyclists select their routes is crucial for designing infrastructure that promotes sustainable urban mobility. This study investigates the impact of street-level built environment features on cyclists’ route choices by integrating GPS trajectory data with Google Street View imagery. Using data collected in Utrecht, the Netherlands, we develop a comprehensive cycling network and employ deep learning-based image segmentation to qu…

  • Infrastructure reconstruction planning in post-conflict areas – a multidimensional resilience assessment for Iraq

    Open AccessPeter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2025

    This paper aims to evaluate the internal consistency of reconstruction strategies in post-conflict regions. Various planning tools have been developed to formulate fair allocation rules to finance development projects. What is missing in the research is an actionable analysis of the consistency between geographically oriented reconstruction needs and spatially differentiated actions. To address this link, this paper presents an actor-oriented Gen…

  • A community-based assessment of the intrinsic value of architectural heritage

    Open AccessMarco Rossitti, Peter Nijkamp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage…2025

    Purpose The article aims to contribute to the research challenge of providing appropriate knowledge and operational methods to move the heritage-community relationship from a theoretical discussion to an actionable strategy and provide clear value bases for participatory decision-making in heritage management and conservation. Design/methodology/approach It proposes an integrated methodological framework to guide local communities in assessing th…

  • Actionable policy responses to disaster threats – A comparative study on resilience and sustainability in global cities

    Open AccessAlexandru Bănică, Ema Corodescu-Rosca et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025References: 89

    This paper examines the hypothesis that preventive urban policy responses to disaster threats are likely to play a positive role in the resilient development of cities, not only by strengthening disaster mitigation and response-related adjustment mechanisms, but also by enhancing sustainability and liveability in urban areas. The study aims to test whether pressing disaster challenges for large cities prompt responses that lead to more positive o…

  • Hedonic price models, social media data and AI – An application to the AIRBNB sector in us cities

    Open AccessJohn Östh, Umut Türk et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2025References: 49

    The Airbnb sector has experienced exponential growth over the past decade and has led to extensive research in fields such as hospitality sciences, urban geography, tourism economics, and information management. This paper contributes to quantitative research in the Airbnb sector by focusing on the integration of digital platform data at the neighborhood level. It explores innovative methodologies for analyzing urban attractiveness by combining i…

  • The principle of cascadic prosilience—Assessment of territorial recovery strategies after disrupted regional infrastructure systems in Iraq

    Open AccessKarima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Infrastructure Policy…2024

    This paper presents an assessment approach to fostering socioeconomic re-development and resilience in Iraqi regions emerging from the destruction and instability, in the aftermath of the war conflict in Iraq. Focusing on the intricate interplay of logistics infrastructure and economic recovery, the present study proposes a novel framework that integrates general resilience insights, data analytics, infrastructure systems, and decision support fr…

  • Rural footprints of leisure choice—Exploring spatial complementarities in ‘Happy Feet’ and ‘Green Beauty’ tourism

    Open AccessKarima Kourtit, Jaewon Lim et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Tourism…2024

    The ‘ Happy Feet ’–‘ Green Beauty ’ tourism nexus represents the functional spatial interplay between entertainment‐centered tourism and nature‐based visitors' choices. This paper seeks to explain rural (non‐urban) tourism patterns emerging from the interaction between the two forms of tourism in the context of sustainable destination development, using Las Vegas and its hinterland as a case study. The analysis addresses important key concepts re…

  • FDI and industrial development in a mega-city region

    Open AccessYuyuan Wen, Karima Kourtit et al.ARTICLEArea Development and Policy2024References: 17

    Foreign direct investment (FDI) and regional development are mutually interwoven phenomena. This paper introduces an analytical framework to investigate the interaction mechanism between FDI and regional industrial structure. This framework posits first that FDI generally has a significant influence on the industrial structure in the region concerned, specifically through intervening mechanisms such as capital supply, active selection, passive co…

  • Bullying Among Pupils at School and a Country’s Educational System

    Open AccessKouhei Kikuchi, Soushi Suzuki et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2024References: 4

  • Villages in the City – Urban Planning for Neighbourhood Love

    Open AccessKarima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp et al.ARTICLETijdschrift voor Economische en…2024References: 64

    The city comprises of a wide variety of heterogeneous territorial units (e.g. districts or neighbourhoods). In many – especially larger – cities, social capital assets (like community bonds) are mirrored at the level of neighbourhoods which form the home for many sociocultural communities or distinct socio‐economic classes. We postulate in this study that the big city is essentially an ‘archipelago’ made up of ‘ urban villages ’. We analyse the r…

  • Political competition, fiscal policy, and economic performance in techno-creative places

    Open AccessAmitrajeet A Batabyal, Karima Kourtit et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2024References: 7

  • A novel Spatio-temporal principal component analysis based on Geary's contiguity ratio

    Open AccessMirosław Krzyśko, Peter Nijkamp et al.ARTICLEComputers Environment and Urban…2023

    Multivariate statistics have gained a respectable place in quantitative research, especially in the economic geography, socio-economic development, urban and regional planning and spatio-temporal analysis. The main goal is to reduce multidimensional data to simple, but meaningful representative information. One of the powerful methods in multivariate statistics is Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The aim of this paper is to define a novel Spat…

  • Tourism in common

    João Romão, Antoni Domènech et al.ARTICLEUrban Research & Practice2023

    This study aims to conceptualise the organisational framing of tourism management in touristified cities, focusing on the assessment of participatory processes of tourism planning. A grounded theory approach is used to analyse and discuss the role of the newly created consultive Tourism Council of Barcelona. An analysis of in-depth interviews undertaken with representatives of local stakeholders led to Common Pool Resources and policy cycle theor…

  • Cyclists as Intelligent Carriers of Space-Time Environmental Information

    Open AccessKarima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2023

    In recent years, slow travel modes (walking, cycling) have gained much interest in the context of urban air quality management. This article presents the findings from a novel air quality measurement experiment in the Netherlands, by regarding cyclists as carriers and transmitters of real-world information on fine-grained air quality conditions. Using individual sensors on bicycles—connected to a GPS positioning system—online local pollution info…

  • Smart Cities in Europe” Revisited

    Andrea Caragliu, Chiara Del Bo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2023

    Following up on a two decades-long debate on Smart Cities, this article provides quantitative evidence regarding the impact on urban economic outcomes of the adoption of Smart City strategies in planning and managing modern cities. In order to achieve this aim, a meta-analysis of quantitative and modeling studies is presented as a systematic synthesis tool, based on a keyword search on Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus data bases. Our me…

  • Region-specific turning points in territorial economic resilience

    Hasan Engìn Duran, Zeynep Elburz et al.ARTICLEArea Development and Policy2023Cited by: 1References: 16

    Almost all regional economic resilience studies measure resilience by referring to national time patterns of recessions. This study of region-specific patterns of resilience of 81 Turkish regions in the period 2009–20 and their underlying economic/demographic determinants in regions in Turkey shows that ignoring the different timings of regional and national economy recessions leads to misleading/biased results. The study shows first that provinc…

  • The influence of individual authenticity experience on tourists’ behavioral intentions

    Jingjing Liu, Yahui Su et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Tourism…2023Cited by: 1References: 10

    This paper introduces the concept of individual authenticity from psychology into tourism research, aiming to develop and test the intricate mechanisms of individual authenticity, place attachment, and the behavioral intentions of tourists. Several relevant hypotheses are formulated and empirically tested using a structural equation model (SEM), with data from China. Results demonstrate that individual authenticity experience is an important ante…

  • Inequality in leisure mobility

    Open AccessMarina Toger, Umut Türk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2023Cited by: 2References: 12

    Leisure mobility forms an important part of people's spatial activity and mobility spectrum. This study aims to analyse the inequality dimensions of spatial mobility of individuals who seek to move to recreational and leisure destinations (often ‘green’ and ‘blue’) on designated days. The study traces – through the use of spatially dependent multilevel models – the mobility patterns of people from the greater Stockholm area, using individual pseu…

  • Nurse migration

    Open AccessAlina Botezat, Cristian Incaltarau et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023References: 3

  • Creative Knowledge Cities

    M S Van Geenhuizen, Peter Nijkamp

    This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city alignment for campus planning, labour market conditions, social capital and proximity, tripl…

  • Sustainable City and Creativity

    Luigi Fusco Girard, Tuzin Baycan et al.

    Contents: Editorial preface Introduction: Creative and sustainable cities: a new perspective, Tuzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard and Peter Nijkamp Part I Creative and Sustainable Cities: Principles and Perspectives: Creative cities: context and perspectives, Tuzin Baycan Creativity and the human sustainable city: principles and approaches for nurturing city resilience, Luigi Fusco Girard A systems view of urban sustainability and creativity: vulner…

  • Handbook of Regional Science

    Manfréd M Fischer, Peter NijkampBOOKHandbook of Regional Science